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I don’t understand this either. I am assuming most info, saved games etc. would be either in a database or a similar file (say XML for arguments sake). So how can a kernel upgrade mean the OS can’t read XML any more?

So I think it is a case of backup apps and files, flash the OS, restore – which is how I seem to remember every iOS update on my old 3GS until I switched.

Unless Jobs picked someone he knew wouldn’t work so when Apple fails he gets even more credit for the initial success.

Cook was the supply chain guy, so he was the one making the deals with the suppliers – Foxconn, Samsung etc. I doubt that side of things will change, and I think Apple will keep making money.

I am not a fan of Jobs but history has shown us that he at least had taste, and more importantly I think he had good timing. I am sure we’ve all read the stories about what led Jobs to decide to make the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and they all seem to have arrived just when the market was ready for them. So timing. If Ive showed him 3-4 prototypes we can only assume he picked the ones we all eventually saw, so I will say taste (not wanting to really get in an argument about that though).

With Cook we don’t really know what product/design decisions he’s making – for all we know he might just be rubber stamping everything Ive wants and questioning nothing, he might be sending everything back. He might have some great ideas of his own in the pipeline, or he might have no ideas at all. He may not even be with Apple for life – he could be CEO of McDonalds 5 years from now when the ideas Jobs had all run out and he’s got nothing!

Or maybe 2.5% of the price of Media Centre, unbundled from Windows 8?

What if they removed H264 from Windows 8 completely, and then Media Player was a free app with H264 support? Do they then have to pay 2.5% of nothing?

I wonder is there something similar for Bing? Obviously Microsoft would monitor that themselves, but I mean for other things, e.g. music/videos/other software.

Apple knows if they tried a patent dispute with Nokia they couldn’t compete with the patent portfolio, they already tried.

Lumia 800 = 3.7 inch and 800 × 480 resolution = 252 PPI.

3rd. gen iPad? 264 PPI.

You could use the Vista bootloader rather than the Win8 one, and get back your old black screen/white text. I think it is as simple as booting to Vista and changing the bootloader settings from there (google it I guess).

I’ll stick with my Zune Pass for now I reckon – costs about the same and has been pretty good so far.

It works in the same way as the current start menu – you can delete stuff in the start menu and it doesn’t uninstall the programs.

So you have a page of tiles you can do pretty much whatever you want with, and you have a list of all installed apps as well (right click the desktop in the start screen and click ‘all apps’).

Delete everything from your start screen other than the tiles for those apps, or put them at the very left in a group of their own (so Word, Excel etc). So it would go like this:
- mouse to bottom left, click
- mouse up to icon, double click
- program is running

Removing a tile is not the same as deleting a program so you can have as many or as few as you want. Mine is pretty sparse, just a few columns (one for Office and Adobe apps for example).

Works well.

If it can be run on the desktop right click in the start screen to pin it, or if you already have it running just right click the icon that is already in the taskbar.

So do you also oppose Microsoft getting payments for any patents they likely also spent billions on? Nokia?

My wife had to use an iPhone the other day after two months with her Lumia. She couldn’t believe the case of the keys don’t change case on the keyboard as you type.

iOS is always uppercase, WP changes from upper to lower on the keyboard itself.

Again, just so obvious.

Reading the Nokia one.

Nokia’s legendary chief executive Jorma Ollila had handed over power to his successor Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, a corporate lawyer who had spent his formative years working in, and then running, Nokia’s finance department. Asked how the company had changed when he returned in 2009, Ahtisaari thinks silently for 12 seconds before replying. “I could feel it in my bones that there was a great degree of complexity in how things were getting done,” he says. “I also didn’t feel that design was at the core of the decision-making process.”

This makes me think of Jobs handing Apple over to Cook. I think Jobs was a visionary who could see technology transformed into products (small hard drives become music players, touch screens become phones), not sure about Cook. I guess we’ll find out in the coming years.

Interesting article.

I am not ashamed to admit I just pushed my laptop screen all the way back and pretended to type on it. Interesting.

Nokia might.

I can see some sort of technology where a flat surface could be made stiff by running a current through it or something? Batman’s cape!

Sorry I just noticed this – I know it’s a month late. It’s just a table with a bunch of CSS and a little bit of jquery to help line things up in some browsers.

The site itself is custom written, but the CMS for the calendar is basically just a date/title and some text.

The day I found Command Prompt (Admin) in there I was happy.

Reminded me of an Apple user I know who kept blowing up her iPhones. Eventually the people at the Apple store realised she had a faulty USB port in her macbook that was slowly frying them all every time she plugged them in.

My wife tells everyone she loves her Lumia 800, and from what I can tell reading this forum so do a lot of other Windows Phone users. She tries to convince people not to buy iPhones.

way to know if your products are good: If people are talking it and telling their friends about it.

If you’ve used Windows for any amount of time then any version of Windows will be more intuitive than OSX. I am the same as you – I’ve used Windows since 3.1, so maybe 20 years, I can’t use a mac at all. Apple people will think you’re mad because you can’t work it out, but in the reverse (a mac user using Windows) they blame Windows for not being intuitive.

Exactly the same thing happens for Windows Phone – it’s different from iOS and therefore criticised for being not intuitive, but in fact once you use it for a few months it all makes good sense.

I have said in the past when Apple products go wrong the user blames themselves, when Windows products go wrong the user blames the computer. Do your think your wife will tell her friends or co-workers her new MacBook is difficult to use, or do you think she will just blame herself for not finding it easy?

Well if it works like Windows Phone then as soon as I log in I can look at the tiles to see appointments, emails to read, whatever other notifications there might be. Even something as boring as the weather. If it’s hooked into my liveID maybe anything else that is also hooked in there; XBox even?

I don’t need to open to the desktop, open my email client, open my calendar – which is exactly what I do now.

Improved task manager?

Better folders (I love the new copy/paste for example)?

Live ID logins and (I assume) eventual integration with Skydrive and other online services?

Built in virus/malware?

Whatever else they come up with between Consumer Preview and release?

I am in Australia as well – maybe that has something to do with it? My kids got our old iPhones, I’m kind of glad they use those and not the new ones.

I agree – folders basically!

I suppose over to the right under the arrow they could have a little plus icon like there is in the people hub?

Like a Windows 8 charms bar!