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Lemons have to get here somehow, right? Probably by truck. More trucks = more cars on the road = more highway fatalities. 95% R value = proof to me; it has to be true, look at that curve fit!

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wait, what? You don’t need everything in an app drawer. You put what you want on your homescreen (or screens), or in folders, or link widgets to the apps you want. It’s almost unlimited in flexibility and options. The stuff you don’t use often, you leave in the drawer out of the way. Takes all but one second to scroll from top to bottom with a flick. Or if you like 3d page effects you can do all that nonsense too. Don’t want to scroll or flip through screens? Just search. Having options isn’t clunky or slow. Sorting through pages or folders of icons on the same background is.

8 days ago on The design of iOS 7: simply confusing 1 reply 13 recommends

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wait, do you find iOS7 graphically cohesive?

8 days ago on Apple announces iOS 7, 'biggest change' since the introduction of the iPhone, coming this fall

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Not a kid, it was the Easter Bunny.

8 days ago on Apple announces iOS 7, 'biggest change' since the introduction of the iPhone, coming this fall

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China doesn’t really have the money to pay Apple’s entry fee on a wide scale. Huge population, but the vast majority can’t afford iPhones. Perhaps if Apple releases that cheaper iPhone there are always rumors about.

Android has 90% market share in China right now, probably due to the cost.

8 days ago on Apple debuts iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, and new Macs: everything you need to know 1 reply

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You shouldn’t really love inanimate objects and corporations. Especially when they funnel our private data to the NSA. I like most Google products… but love?

8 days ago on Apple debuts iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, and new Macs: everything you need to know 1 reply 2 recommends

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Well, lets be honest, the original iPhone was fairly innovative. At least to the extent that it popularized the entire touchscreen market through some great marketing and fluid UI interaction. Since then, it seems like Apple has just moved too slow.

8 days ago on Apple debuts iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, and new Macs: everything you need to know 1 reply

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lol, no…

I am a huge Android fan and love the platform, and owned the original Droid, and there is no way GB was as attractive as the new iOS, even if it lacks consistency and looks like the easter bunny puked on it. I think iOS7 is an improvement, but I hate the glassy look that was all over previous versions.

8 days ago on Apple debuts iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, and new Macs: everything you need to know

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You are confusing a user interface, and more specifically a launcher, with an operating system. Android had a launcher that was similar to blackberry, but also had an app drawer that was icons on a black background. If you are going to continue to make that claim, at least be intellectually honest about it. The primary difference between android at launch and android in early dev is the software keyboard vs hardware. The launcher menu changed a little, but they both had an app drawer and apps. In fact, Google had a public preview SDK released while Steve Jobs was still telling the world that they weren’t going to open up the iPhone to outside developers.

They have both taken stuff from each-other and inspired each-other. Both are just companies comprised of people, some of whom have great ideas, others who are good at recognizing great ideas and adapting them. No reason to take this stuff personally.

8 days ago on Apple debuts iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, and new Macs: everything you need to know 1 reply 1 recommend

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I actually like it more than iOS6. I can’t stand the glossy crap they have done for too long. I don’t think it looks great (still prefer my own modded Android) but I think it’s an improvement. They just need to make it a lot more unified. Seems kind of all over now. iOS6 was ugly in my opinion, but it was rather consistent. 7, doesn’t look so much.

8 days ago on Apple debuts iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, and new Macs: everything you need to know

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That would be pretty funny, almost UI inception. MIUI ripping off iOS, which in turn makes something that looks a lot like MIUI, who takes Apple’s new look.

8 days ago on Apple debuts iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, and new Macs: everything you need to know 1 reply

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Wait, what? Console piracy is so low it’s inconsequential to developers. Beyond that, you are crazy if you think that the once-a-day checkins on the Xbox One won’t have a work-around. If the publishers make more money on the One, it’s only because they will kill the used game market and force you to pay more for everything, and that is nothing to be supporting/trumpeting.

8 days ago on Xbox One launching in November for $499 in 21 countries, pre-orders start now

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Not really so low, but average household income and purchasing power are both dropping as costs are going up.

8 days ago on Xbox One launching in November for $499 in 21 countries, pre-orders start now

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You can’t turn it off. At least, the Xbone won’t function without it plugged in.

8 days ago on Xbox One launching in November for $499 in 21 countries, pre-orders start now

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They won’t due to MAP pricing schemes (which should be illegal, but that is a whole different issue).

8 days ago on Xbox One launching in November for $499 in 21 countries, pre-orders start now

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Except for the fact that apps that are closed out of memory are removed from the list, and swiping cards from the list closes apps.

It’s recently used AND running, because there is little distinction on Android. Some of them will have background processes running, others not.

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Wouldn’t their mobile devices need to be, umm, popular in order to popularize something?

8 days ago on Apple announces iOS 7, 'biggest change' since the introduction of the iPhone, coming this fall 1 reply 2 recommends

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Apple didn’t have ANY public SDK until 2008, so wtf are you on about?

8 days ago on Apple announces iOS 7, 'biggest change' since the introduction of the iPhone, coming this fall 1 recommend

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Oh, we’re still living in the past. Fair enough. I was salutatorian in the 8th grade and also scored the winning touchdown in the championship intramural football game. NOW CELEBRATE ME.

That was you?! Wow, I am humbled by your existence. All those posers after you who scored 3 game winning touchdowns in High School 5 years later are just poseurs who are stealing your style from the 8th grade!

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Well, seems you are right. Did some looking and it looks like more recent polls show that people don’t really care. Disappointing, but I will admit when I am wrong.

10 days ago on Director of National Intelligence issues fact sheet on PRISM in response to leaks

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The Guardian actually reported the Microsoft was the first company to agree to the backdoor server access, so they can deny all they want, but I am not buying it. Especially when you take things like Stuxnet into account – how many zero day vulnerabilities did it use that were extremely difficult to find, so much so that it’s almost impossible that Microsoft didn’t put them there on purpose?

MS and the government have been in bed for a long time. As have most other tech companies/telecoms.

10 days ago on New slide from leaked PRISM presentation promotes directly collecting data from servers 1 recommend

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getting way off topic, but there is zero question that US imperialism is what caused anti-US sentiment among radical Jihadists and caused them to target it.

10 days ago on Director of National Intelligence issues fact sheet on PRISM in response to leaks

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There is a point a which the rights of the many supersede the lives of the few. That is society, it’s a compromise, and it’s one you should be willing to make. The illusion of safety through programs like this are far less valuable than our need for privacy, particularly when history has shown time and time again that when power is centralized in this fashion, it is inevitably abused and used to accumulate more power. Eventually, it has a detrimental effect on society that is hard to overcome without outright revolution.

The laws of the constitution were created to specifically curtail this sort of thing and avoid the need for future revolutions.

There is a big difference between some jackass at a phone provider looking at my data, and the governnment storing and eventually classifying in detailed searchable format everything I do in perpetuity.

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Ya, and the government funds the postal office, which is why they can open and read letters all they want without a warrant. OH WAIT, NO THEY CAN’T!

It’s called unwarranted search, and it’s illegal. Period.

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