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It was. The S3 was a full departure, and if the S1 hadn’t set the trend I don’t think anyone would have pointed to the S2 as being that egregious.

1 day ago on Boring! Can you post some funny images of Apple copycats? 1 recommend

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Gold has no real intrinsic value, and in no way relates to currency. They’re welcome to all they can have.

1 day ago on ZTE and Huawei face EU investigation over predatory pricing

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Restore from backup. Never had an issue with a corrupted backup or anything of that nature, no.

1 day ago on Could Apple take iMessage to the next level at WWDC?

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So what we have is:

1. Keyboard with concave keys and a bit more travel with device thickness, leading to an experience that is slight different.

1. As it seems that you’ve never had real experience with an OSX laptop with gestures, we’ll just discount your experience here and move on.

1. A huge extra battery for more life.

Not really sold here. But it was a great try :).

2 days ago on Do you buy Apple products because they are new and cool?

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iOS feels like it’s connected physically to your finger and Android doesn’t. That’s not lag – I’m not sure what it is – but it’s definitely different.

This is the very definition of input lag.

2 days ago on Android amazes me

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Zoom without moving glass is useless. Take the full frame, crop it later. Same effect.

2 days ago on Dedicated shutter button for iPhone 5S

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You consider all laptop keyboards bad enough that you are very accepting to the bad MBA keyboard compared to better keyboards.

I’ve compared other keyboards. Everything on a laptop is much the same. I’m very fast on my MBA. Until you get something that gives you real travel, there’s nothing substantially better. Sure, the IBM Thinkpad’s were great. But not better in any objective way.

Fix’d.

Get back to me when you can multiouch action your OS from it.

X220

I couldn’t find the model to look up specs; what kind of battery Wh are we looking at? That’s a pretty tall claim for a portable that’s not monstrous to get life like that…

2 days ago on Do you buy Apple products because they are new and cool? 1 reply

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One huge advantage to staying iOS for me has been that I have all of my text messages from Nov 09, when I got my 3GS. Searchable, right on my cell phone. It’s nice.

2 days ago on Could Apple take iMessage to the next level at WWDC? 1 reply

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SMS integration is hard. No one else even tries it. There’s a tradeoff you have to make when a message is undeliverable; how long do you wait to drop to text? You’re going to piss people off on either side.

2 days ago on Could Apple take iMessage to the next level at WWDC?

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Android is plenty snappy. with all the horsepower, and benchmarks extremely well. There’s just a little bit of input lag, where the OS doesn’t seem to quite follow your finger. It’s subtle, but completely aggravating for some people. I can’t stand it. Android also feels to me like there’s no one person in charge of design. Things feel cluttered and unoptimized in terms of UI and navigation. I’m sure a lot of that is that I’m very used to my iPhone workflow, but there’s a lot of stuff I do on my iPhone that I can’t replicate for Android. Reader mode in Safari is the best by far that I’ve ever used (doesn’t bork up pictures), and the apps I use for news consumption are all easy to open my view in browser.

2 days ago on Android amazes me 1 reply 4 recommends

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In the US, where there is complete price parity between flagship devices on the 3 largest carriers, the iPhone makes up 60/70/80% of new activations (last I saw a breakdown, late winter sometime) on Sprint/Verizon/AT&T. Internationally, the flagship Android devices are cheaper than the iPhone. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. And remember that Samsung moves a LOT of units in Korea, as it’s their home turf.

2 days ago on Android amazes me

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Now never gives me anything interesting. I know there’s a Five Guys and a Nando’s near my work, you’ve shown me that several times now.

2 days ago on Siri and Google Now: Are you refusing to choose?

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I have 3 pair of Nike shorts that are going on 11.

2 days ago on Do you buy Apple products because they are new and cool?

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Thinkpad X1 Carbon keyboard is better by far (even if it isn’t quite as good as even the the chiclets found on thicker Thinkpads).

No it’s not. See how easy that was? Until you move to a real keyboard, with buckling springs or real switches, they’re all just laptops.

And no Macs with trackpoints…

I’ll never understand you clit-mouse people. Useless little bugger, especially compared to my huge glass multitouch trackpad.

For example, the battery life and performance on the Air (and pretty much every other ultrabook) is a huge compromise for me, since I do things that peg even the SV CPU in my X220 to near max for extended periods of time, and all day battery life is something you really can’t give up when you get used to it.

You don’t need a laptop, you need a portable desktop. The rest of us are just fine with 8 hours of regular use between charges.

3 days ago on Do you buy Apple products because they are new and cool? 1 reply 1 recommend

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See, the nicks on my black iP5 are just cosmetic battle scars. The glass is fine, so the device is fine. Much better than… plastic.

3 days ago on Is this cnet review editor out of line? 5 recommends

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It was a software bug that caused the issue (not the 4 year old twins)

Care to elaborate on that?

I was surprised the Genius Bar couldn’t hook the device up to a computer and force a restore.

They can… except when the device is locked out. Deliberate design decision.

3 days ago on Is this cnet review editor out of line? 1 recommend

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There aren’t any ultrabooks with keyboards that are objectively better than the Air. And nothing on the market that’s not a Mac has a trackpad worth a damn. Yeah, there are compromises, but you make a lot more with any other ultrabook.

3 days ago on Do you buy Apple products because they are new and cool? 1 reply

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A web app is not support. Google is a big boy company, they can have someone make a real app.

3 days ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service 1 reply 3 recommends

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I can personally, but I’m like that.

3 days ago on Samsung CEO claims Galaxy S4 will hit 10 million sales in under a month

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Then… don’t use one? I think a native app isn’t too much to ask for.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in

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It’s shoddy coding, and there’s really no excuse.

4 days ago on Questions about iOS Notifications?

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You’re not thinking this through.

If I have an iPhone, and just disable iMessage, why would you automatically assume that I want it unlinked forever? Wouldn’t it make more sense to just, you know, turn off iMessage? I could have a dozen reasons to disable it, and then want to re-enable it.

There is a clean, easy way to disable the phone number link. Log out of your iMessage account in iMessage and FaceTime (both of which use the phone number link), and everything is fine.

4 days ago on Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google's big fix for its messaging mess

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Anyways, I think I and my circles represent a good portion of the market.

You don’t.

4 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 recommend

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You don’t buy anything on what it costs to produce and get it to you, you pay for whatever it’s worth to you. You might not feel that SMS access is important, and that’s your right as a consumer. But most people thing it’s ok to pay for it. And since the market realities of the US dictate different setups than Europe, it’s kinda where we’re at.

4 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in

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You’re a fraction of a fraction, and everyone thinks you’re weird.

4 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply 7 recommends

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It’s funny that people say that, but T-Mo plans are only marginally cheaper once you include the device subsidy, and they’re having trouble staying afloat. It seems that the little bit more money you pay AT&T or Verizon goes towards some nice things, like a larger more robust network, and paying a large employee base a fairly decent salary.

4 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in