I'm an iPerson

[rknapp]

Apple? No thanks. Overpriced proprietary garbage that provides less of an experience compared to its competitors. I have loved every Android phone I have had (Droid 2, Droid RAZR, Droid RAZR Maxx HD), while every iPhone and iPad I've toyed with left me wishing it could do this/that/the other thing that my Android devices can do. I much prefer my Nexus 7 to the iPad/Mini for the same reasons. Once I purchase a DSP (digital sound processor), my Nexus 7 will replace the double-sized Kenwood SatNav in my 300M, giving me all the wonders of Android and Google on the road without having to use my phone (which is illegal in most places).

 

Where OSX is concerned, I prefer Windows 7 over OSX (I tried using a Mac Mini for a few months after my PC was hit by one power surge too many, and thought the user interface was positively horrendous), however I'm not sure Windows 8 is any better. My custom-built desktop has 7, and I prefer it to my laptop, My laptop (Samsung Series 7 Chronos Touch) has 8, and I'm getting used to it.

 

Apple products are far too expensive for what they give you, and Apple is to focused on filing lawsuits against everyone and their grandmother to bother improving and updating their products. People can say "Oh they want to perfect new technologies first" all they want, but that is a cop out, and a lie (Apple Maps? try to find a coffee house, and you wind up at a church... or a bank... or a grocery store...). LTE and NFC were perfected long before Apple adopted them. It's fine if they don't want follow Samsung and throw a crapload of gimmicks into their phones (waving your hand to answer a call? What's wrong with sliding your finger over the appropriate action?), but the least they could do is try to keep up.

[Thorn Wilde]

I agree that Apple Maps is stupid, and all the lawsuits are ridiculous. I don't really care about their devices and have no experience with iOS, but I maintain that OSX is the most stable and user friendly operating system I have ever used. It does what it says on the tin. I like that. It took me a little while to get used to the UI, but once I did going back just felt wrong. And the fact remains that as a musician, Mac has all the best software.

Edited June 24, 2013 by Thorn Wilde

[hh5]

u can put it another way ... since osx came out 2001 ... ppl saved 12x50 => 600 dollars compared to windows

I agree that Apple Maps is stupid, and all the lawsuits are ridiculous. I don't really care about their devices and have no experience with iOS, but I maintain that OSX is the most stable and user friendly operating system I have ever used. It does what it says on the tin. I like that. It took me a little while to get used to the UI, but once I did going back just felt wrong. And the fact remains that as a musician, Mac has all the best software.

[hh5]

so u never experience a slow down on yer nexus 7 after putting lots of music n videos or any other inconvenient experience?

Apple? No thanks. Overpriced proprietary garbage that provides less of an experience compared to its competitors. I have loved every Android phone I have had (Droid 2, Droid RAZR, Droid RAZR Maxx HD), while every iPhone and iPad I've toyed with left me wishing it could do this/that/the other thing that my Android devices can do. I much prefer my Nexus 7 to the iPad/Mini for the same reasons. Once I purchase a DSP (digital sound processor), my Nexus 7 will replace the double-sized Kenwood SatNav in my 300M, giving me all the wonders of Android and Google on the road without having to use my phone (which is illegal in most places).

 

Where OSX is concerned, I prefer Windows 7 over OSX (I tried using a Mac Mini for a few months after my PC was hit by one power surge too many, and thought the user interface was positively horrendous), however I'm not sure Windows 8 is any better. My custom-built desktop has 7, and I prefer it to my laptop, My laptop (Samsung Series 7 Chronos Touch) has 8, and I'm getting used to it.

 

Apple products are far too expensive for what they give you, and Apple is to focused on filing lawsuits against everyone and their grandmother to bother improving and updating their products. People can say "Oh they want to perfect new technologies first" all they want, but that is a cop out, and a lie (Apple Maps? try to find a coffee house, and you wind up at a church... or a bank... or a grocery store...). LTE and NFC were perfected long before Apple adopted them. It's fine if they don't want follow Samsung and throw a crapload of gimmicks into their phones (waving your hand to answer a call? What's wrong with sliding your finger over the appropriate action?), but the least they could do is try to keep up.

[hh5]

leaked images ... "A7" processor

i'm confused ... A6 costs 17.50 ,,, so how does this A7 help make a 100 iphone

As a standalone processor, the Cortex-A7 will enable entry level smartphones at below $100 price point in the 2013-2014 timeframe that are equivalent to a $500 high-end smartphone in 2010. These entry-level smartphones will redefine connectivity and internet usage in the developing world.

 

[hh5]

more mac pro jokes

 

currently shows a 10% gain, i presume it will run more programs well (parallelism) 

but the bottleneck is the hard drive ... I read a humorous point ... 

one would need a 30m thunderbolt 2 cable made in japan 

because the hard drives need to be AC cooled like a server hard drive rack

I wonder how much power it takes to run this ... aren't server\workstations run at 750Watts?

the benchmarks are early ... intel will release by Q4-2013 n we can hope apple will optimized the osx by then

[hh5]

 

Is the new Mac Pro the Cube all over again?

Summary: Both are tiny and pretty. The Mac Cube was also expensive and dead in a year. Why should the new Mac Pro succeed where the Cube failed?

 

 

I found an interesting article ... the mac cube g4 vs the new mac pro

I looked at the cube and it seem to be just like a desktop case but compact

initially fanless ... its been said that users added their own fans because it gets hot inside the case

other users found other uses for their mac cube outer case

the new design of the mac pro with a central cooling heat sink is a great idea to combat the issues of traditional desktops

lol, I hope the pc case maker and motherboard designers will come up with their own ideas

perhaps its better to just encase the gpu, cpu, memory in their own heat sink casing inside a pc design 

I always did feel that the design of the traditional pc cases is shows its age due to the lack of market innovation

however since the sales of pc's is declining ... innovation doesn't have encouragement without sales to support it

portability is preferred by most but that doesn't mean the pc market is dead

I think it means the market is lean and mean for the real power users that can afford the high electric bill

the article is sort of comparing apple n oranges ... since they don't have some parts in common

the cube has an external power supply which is a great idea to keep the heat out

but why did they add a power supply inside the new mac pro?

perhaps the issue is the power requirements of the cpu, gpu is higher in the new mac pro while the cube had lower

I have not bothered to google if the cube power supply had any issues or flaws

 

oh I did bother to google haswell n xeon ... so it looks like the power efficient technology will come to the xeon e5 n e7 around the time the mac pro comes out ... it means the mac pro can have a lower wattage power supply and can be contained inside the cylinder rather than being external like the cube has.

Edited June 25, 2013 by hh5

[hh5]

[hh5]

first casualty of the tablet wars

 

Barnes & Noble retreats from tablet wars as Nook sales plummet

 

[hh5]

Apple is seeking to trademark "iWatch"

 

[Slytherin]

I'm an iPerson - I don't know what I did before I got  my iPhone 

[hh5]

latest news

Apple Inc iPhone 5, iPad, and MacBook Air to be Taken off the Shelves Because of Boston University Lawsuit?

Boston University is suing Apple for patent infringement, saying that the electronics company is using a semiconductor that they had received the rights to in 1997.

In the claim, Boston University says that the iPhone 5, iPad, and MacBook Air use the exact same semiconductor that they created, and they are asking that the devices are no longer sold in stores or by Apple until they see profit.

 

iOS 7 has already been jailbroken

While it certainly appears as though jailbreak solutions are already working for iOS 7, it is likely that no new tools will be supplied to the public even if a releasable jailbreak solution emerges in the coming weeks. This is because jailbreakers will do their best to keep any holes they may have exploited secret so that Apple does not patch them ahead of iOS 7′s public release this coming fall.

 

iOS 7: Apple’s new design is no longer about making it work, and that’s too bad

I have been trying to like iOS 7. Really. I watched the videos, played with it on several iPhones, and last night I even installed it on my iPad (which was released yesterday). But I just can’t do it. It has to be said; iOS 7 is just not an improvement over iOS 6.

 

That’s a bold claim, but give me a few minutes to explain. (And yes, I am aware that iOS 7 is still in beta and not for public release right now.)

 

It isn’t the first time that Apple has launched something I didn’t immediately like. When I first saw the iPad I thought the spacing of the home screen icons was off and I also remember not liking the black bezels on the MacBook Pro when they were first shown. Of course, once I played around with an iPad or MacBook Pro I pretty soon realized that they just worked, or I simply got used to it.

 

Unfortunately, iOS 7 is not something you will just get used to.

Inconsistent

 

So is it really ugly? Yes, it is.

 

But besides ugly it is also inconsistent. And just not as intuitive as you would expect. It is flatter, yes, and that isn’t a good thing. Flatter design is the hip thing right now, but Apple has always looked beyond hype and ignored what is hip or hot, instead opting for what is useful and intuitive.

 

So why is it so bad that the new interface is flatter?

Overly focused on design

 

Steve Jobs once said ”Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

 

iOS 7 is well designed, but it is overly focused on how it looks, and less on how it works. It almost seems like more effort went into making sure it didn’t look like anything we had before, than making it look natural and intuitive to the user. In an effort to get as far away from the over-realistic designs of previous version Apple has sacrificed elements that actually helped us users find our way around.

 

With iOS, design is no longer just how it works, and that’s too bad.

 

 

Edited July 4, 2013 by hh5

[hh5]

forgot to update about this

 

 

How Amusing: Now Boston University's Suing Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung

 

The amusement is that it was also Boston University which released the report in which they claimed that patent trolling was costing the US economy as much as $29 billion a year.

 

Boston University, which last year assessed the cost of “patent trolling” in the American economy at $US29 billion, has fired its litigation gun at a slew of tech companies – including Apple AAPL -0.83%.

 

Since October 2012 – incidentally the month in which its cost-of-trolling research was released – the university has been filing lawsuits centred around the semiconductor technology used to make LEDs.

 

Among its targets are Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite and Fire, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 2 and Chromebook.

 

Anyway, amusement over, the University is actually asking for a ban on the importation of all offending products:

 

How do college students feel about this one? The powers that be at Boston University want a federal court to ban the sale of a wide range of Apple products — including the iPhone 5, the iPad and the MacBook Air — because they allegedly infringe a patent issued to one of its professors in 1997.

 

In a complaint filed this week in the Massachusetts federal court, the trustees of BU say the Apple products contain a “gallium nitride thin film semiconductor device” that is still under patent protection. Professor Theodore Moustakas applied for the patent in 1995, which means it is set to expire in 2015. Here’s an image from the patent, which describes the use of nitrogen to prepare a type of film that is “a potential source of inexpensive and compact solid-state blue lasers:”

 

 

[hh5]

Edited July 8, 2013 by hh5

[hh5]

Judge rules Apple conspired to raise prices on e-books 

Apple, Amazon End 'App Store' Lawsuit

Original Apple-1 Computer Auctioned for $387,750

First Apple Computer Sells for $390,000 in Christie’s Technology Auction

 

Apple Inc. (AAPL) Sued By A Florida Lawyer

[hh5]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0yoTarZR-0

[hh5]

yey iPorn, lol

Man sues Apple for allowing him to become addicted to PORN

A self-confessed porn addict is sueing Apple after he claims he became so hooked on watching rude videos that his wife left him.

 

Tennessee man Chris Sevier, 36, has filed a 50-page complaint with the state's supreme court in which he slams the fruity firm for failing to install a blue movie filter on new devices.

 

He wants Apple to make sure customers aren't automatically allowed to watch pornography, which he brands a "silent poisoner" and blames for everything from sex trafficking to the exploding number of late night commercials for Viagra. He is seeking damages from the company.

 

Sevier claimed his problem began when he opened the Safari browser and made a few mistakes when typing Facebook into the URL bar. Sadly, he ended up at a site called Fuckbook which blatantly "appealed to his biological sensibilities as a male", the complaint read.

 

The filing said: "The Plaintiff began to prefer the cyber beauties over his wife, which caused his marriage to fail. His wife [left him], which was a subsequent consequence of Apple's decision to to sell its computers not on 'safe mode'."

 

He is also seeking damages because of becoming so "depressed and despondent" that he was unable to work.

 

Worse yet, Apple is putting "brick and mortar or 'mom and pop' porn shops" out of business, claimed the plaintiff, although it is unrelated to his complaint and he does not seem to be seeking damages for this infraction.

 

 

Edited July 15, 2013 by hh5

[hh5]

wow iElectrocution

Apple investigates electrocution-by-iPhone report

Apple launched the iPhone 5 in China in December

Cause of battery fire identified

'Exploding' iPhones investigated

Apple has said it will "fully investigate" reports that a woman was electrocuted in China while trying to use an iPhone while it was recharging.

 

 

[hh5]

here's a nudge for apple to inNoVate

http://www.androidauthority.com/nexus-7-2013-review-video-250654/

Edited August 4, 2013 by hh5

[hh5]

lol the iTerminator

 

Apple May Have Finally Figured Out How to Make a Liquidmetal iPhone

 

Giz Explains: What Is Liquidmetal?

Apple has a new toy. It's a materials company called Liquidmetal, and everybody's talking! Problem is, nobody seems too sure what… Read…

The incredibly promising metal alloy from Liquidmetal has been around for a while, but no one's really been able to figure out how to put the difficult-to-manufacture material to good use–until now. According to a new patent uncovered by Electronista, Apple seems to think it's figured out the key. One day soon, you may very well find yourself tapping away on an iPhone made of cool, beautiful Liquidmetal.

 

The problem with the alloy is that, although it's easier to make (no quick cooling required), churning out large sheets of the stuff in a controllable thickness is a little more tricky. Prized as a stronger alternative to plastic and more flexible alternative to metal, Liquidmetal doesn't fit into any of our current methods of manufacturing; stretching and molding the sheets like we do now just snaps them in half.

 

 

[hh5]

apple iCondolences

 

now iShock
 

I guess in a country that makes knockoffs should spend the extra bucks to buy the real deal charger

iKnockoff

 

I heard before china had official apple stores there were knockoff apple stores

apple could not prosecute because the crooks left

 

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/25/4555674/apple-china-official-power-adapter-information-page

Another one was shocked today in Australia.

 

http://www.news.com.au/technology/sydney-woman-taken-to-hospital-after-iphone-shock/story-e6frfro0-1226684860458

using a dangerous charger while wet from the shower is wrong. Do you disagree?

Which is why you should have GFCI outlets in your bathroom and Kitchen and even Garage. Plus outside. or at least GFCI Circuit breakers for those outlets. These are the ones with the Test/Reset buttons on them. These things will protect YOU from getting shocked and maybe dying!!!

 

Picking up a iphone that’s plugged into the wall while in the shower and using a non-Apple Charger is just outright asking for trouble!!! Even IF it was a Apple charger, you should never do that. Not with any device plugged into a power outlet. Worse yet in China where it’s 240 Volts, not the 120 here we use for most everything except for maybe your Stove/Oven or Dryer.

 

'Fake' iPhone charger cited in electrocution death probe

New details reveal victim may have been using an unauthorised charger for her iPhone 4

 

wow iElectrocution

 

 

Edited August 6, 2013 by hh5

[huktaunluv]

I always said I would never ever get an iPod because I was happy with my Creative MP3 player, but after doing much research and asking other's who had an iPod, I chose the 3rd generation iPod Touch. I loved it immediately. It was an adjustment because things I could do before on my other machine I couldn't do on this one. This was the only pain about having an iPod vs. another MP3 player. I recently had to upgrade to the 5th generation after my other one had an unfortunate run in with black bean soup. I like it but it sucks having to buy extra attachments, just so I can use products I'd bought prior to Apple changing to the lightning charge design.

[iSimba]

It sucks but I'm glad they made the change. Superior in every way, from ease of application to size to charging rate and allows for a better device.

Edited August 9, 2013 by iSimba

[hh5]

iCheapPhone5 

 

iPhone5C(heap)

In one of the images, the iPhone 5C's back cover shows the camera and flash lenses on the top left corner while the Apple logo on the upper-middle portion of the shell. The iPhone name is printed on the lower-middle back cover but doesn't specify that it is the "5C."

A second angle of the iPhone 5C shows the alleged low-cost device's bottom components. An earphone jack, speakers, and Lightning port is seen on the iPhone 5C.

 

 

[hh5]

Apple’s Ultimate Sin: It’s Boring

According to published reports Apple's Board of Directors has grown frustrated at the company's lack of visible innovation.