RobotPi

It not being specific is the whole point.

Very true. As for:

Both demand that you enunciate studiously

If you don’t speak clearly the software is going to struggle, but having use Dragon, and now Siri, for some time my experience is that Nuance’s technology gets much better the more you use it. I can now speak way faster and more fluently than I could when I first gotten iPhone 4S. Samsungs solution may be the same.

It’s like you didn’t red my previous response. Apple and Microsoft have an unprecedented cross-patent licensing arrangement with regards to their technology. Don’t write “I doubt..”, READ! ;)

The fortunes of the company may have nothing to do with it. Ron Johnson, senior VP of Retail of Operations, left Apple in November to join J.C. Penney. Sometimes people just want a change.

The Apple Microsoft licensing deal was enduring, that is it covered patents not only valid at the time but also subsequent patents in the same fields, which includes mobile devices. So this includes the patent packages Microsoft are licensing to Android handset makers like HTC and Samsung.

Yes. Because taking out somebody who was a terrorist mastermind, with huge influence over similar likeminded individuals and wants to kill you and everybody who believes what you do, does not in anyway reduce the risk against you.

How is this baseless speculation?

Samsung’s standards essential patents are, by their definition, essential for Apple’s products to interoperate with other devices using industry standards. Apple’s record on being a patent licensee is extensive and things have only ever gone to court when there is a disagreement about ‘fair and reasonable’. I’d say it’s a certainty that Apple do indeed want to licence Samsung’s standards essentials FRAND patents.

As to Apple’s position, that’s been made fairly clear. Apple have cross-licensed many of their patents with Nokia and Microsoft, buts its a means of payment for what they, in turn, need, not their proposed business model.

Yeah, hardly an unexpected outcome. I presume Apple want to licence Samsung’s standard essential FRAND patents – at a reasonable rate, but I doubt very much if Apple are willing to licence their non-standards essential patents to Samsung.

I thought we got Bin Laden!?!

Good luck, Dennis :)

We know what they released, what we don’t know is what other designs they produced and disregarded – for whatever reasons.

I reckon that is coming and I’ll glad enable it as long as there is an option to rollback an app to the previous version in the event of snafu.

Retro-style isn’t the same thing. And to every else who responded, I didnt say “no kids” I said “many kids”. Interest will be niche as best.

I think it would be difficult to get many kids to get interested in computer games from yesteryear. When you grow up surrounded by modern technology something decades old just looks primitive and basic – despite the skill required to play it well. It’s the same reason that skittles and spinning tops don’t sell like they used too. The world, technology and entertainment moved on. The best hope is HD refreshes but that’s something else entirely

Likewise. If it gets wider I think it will be marginal, a few millimetres.

I call bullshit. Just because the carriers back one proposal after another, if serious technical flaws are identified with it, don’t expect the carriers to endorse it. It is they who will have to deal with irate customers with jammed phones and, if the design is flawed, have to replace them free under warranty.

The same message trickled from Apple after Jobs passing last year. According to reports SJ was working on this years iPhone model the day before he died.

Bigger screen yes, bigger phone? I’ll believe it when a see it. Taller screen, thinner bezels will do it, others have already worked out how this will work.

Really? I had a Vaio GRT715M and it developed a problem. I walked into a UK Sony store, expecting little, and they sorted it’s return of me and loaned a good replacement. The repair only took 3 days.

Great customer service.

Depends how they do it. New initiative: everybody who works at Foxxcon will be joining our fitness programme. The treadmills, that will also power our data centres, will be installed next Monday ;-)

Yes, this trend is getting silly now. I can’t think of any instance in tech patent litigation where this was proved fruitful so all it’s doing is drawing out the inevitable court case.

This is what Apple call ‘HiDPI’ and they’ve been deploying high DPI icons and other graphics assets since the introduction of 10.7 Lion, more icons were tweaked last week in 10.7.4

It’s not an ideal solution but it is simple to implement and easy to predict the output.

That’s the kinda thing a fed would say!!

What demographic are you thinking of? The UK has has constant terrorist attacks from the IRA all through my childhood and they never needed to resort to these measures.

As a UK citizen, your right to communications privacy was likely more under threat in heyday of the IRA because the UK’s intelligence agencies, principally GCHQ who are responsible for gathering signals intelligence (communications intercepts) were largely unregulated. It was only with the introduction of the Interception of Communications Act (or IOCA) which came into force in 1986 that little things like warrants started to become an issue.

I’m not sure “these measures” have any equivalent back then, certainly not collecting mobile device data.

I had the same problem with my 17" Dell XPS2 which also had a 1920×1200 screen and running Windows XP presented the odd difficulty with things being small. But since it’s primary use was for gaming, it wasn’t too much of a problem.

Apple has been gradually introducing resolution independence into OSX for years, I think it started back with 10.4 Tiger and it’s certainly not viable yet so I’m not expecting to see Retina Display Macs until OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion, which will need to solve this problem, and solve it well, if 4-5 million pixel MacBook screens are going to work. They also need a solution for Windows for boot camp.