[QUOTE=Jsm;32277457]Because Apple are patent trolls now obviously.[/QUOTE]
All the companies in silicon valley are patent trolls. They are all doing it to each other, some of them more blatantly than others. Its nothing new.
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;32282767]Windows recreated a lot of technology for their computers because they were tired of foreign tech companies giving them shitty hardware, which is why BSOD's are rarer in Windows 7.
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And the 97% of other humans and trained monkeys will not give a shit.[/QUOTE]
Except that you probably make use of computers running linux every day, multiple times a day, and just don't know it.
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;32287808]No doubt, good points, but losing its educational contracts, especially saying that exclusively losing them for the US is bullshit, they aren't going to trip there, and Google sure is in no position to take over home computing. Other than that, i agree.[/QUOTE]
It's already happening, dude. My city is already seriously considering it, as well as several neighboring cities. My dad's the technological coordinator for the city school district and he's told me that Google's ChromeOS is receiving a [i]lot[/i] of attention among the Midwestern school districts. They've had several conventions on the subject already, and some schools are already giving Chromebooks limited trials runs.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;32292854]It's already happening, dude. My city is already seriously considering it, as well as several neighboring cities. My dad's the technological coordinator for the city school district and he's told me that, and Google's ChromeOS is receiving a [i]lot[/i] of attention among the Midwestern school districts. They've had several conventions on the subject already, and some schools are already giving Chromebooks limited trials runs.[/QUOTE]
In my school we were apparently the first school to try out Windows 7 for every computer, though it's still running on shitty Vista and XP laptops and desktops back from 2003-2005
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;32287438]guys i think you are all forgetting the apple has invented most things we have today, for example:
touchscreens
phones with touchscreens
mp3 players
mp3s
the mouse
running multiple apps on phones at the same time
apps in general
steve jobs
tablet computers
so if they are patenting kinect, they most likely are the ones who invented it. they were just kind enough to first give the design details to microsoft, because they always think of the people first, not the profits
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to be honest most of you cheap unstylish simpletons don't even deserve to be graced by apple's superior technology, but apple will let you anyway because of how kind they are.[/QUOTE]
the even invented microsoft but then that fucking bastard commie bill gates stole it and trolled them!!!
JUST LOOK AT HIS SMUG FACE
[img]http://assets.cio.com/documents/cache/images/slideshows/2010/02/5gates_evil.jpg[/img]
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i mean fuck
[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;32291446]Apple's Innovation: Tablet computers, MP3 players and Touchscreen Phones.
Google's Innovation: Cars that drive themselves, worlds biggest and most used search engine.
Yep, Apple are leading innovation![/QUOTE]
actually WINDOWS did that [url]http://www.ehow.com/facts_5813990_invented-first-tablet-pc_.html[/url]
[quote]Portable Tablet PCs
Though the first models were desktop-based, tablet PCs became portable almost immediately after Microsoft coined the term in 2002. Early portable tablets were bulky and had limited battery life, but smaller tablets were soon produced.[/quote]
Touchscreen has been around longer than I have, I'm about 17, and tablets aren't new at all, nor are MP3 players.
Google should team with IBM, they would globally dominate the world, more than they already do.
Cars that drive themselves with all the collective knowledge humans have... and it'll have a British accent to top it off
British accent's are cool
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;32279061]Let's face it though, a future with Apple is the stuff you probably dream about. Sharp, sleek surfaces, concealed cables, huge, epic, artistic, well-designed buildings, sliding doors everywhere with touch pads to control everything, fast software, efficient, error and hassle free.
A future like this:
This is the sort of stuff I can see Apple looking at strongly as soon as it becomes viable for development. Yeah so what if the buildings cost a bit more? They'll not just be hunks of concrete blocks built with low costing in mind, but things of beauty that you'll want to visit, explore and be fascinated by time and time again.
Basically, an apple future is one of technological innovation, very artistic, spending billions of dollars on a sweet futuristic building for shits + giggles and generally making things look aesthetically pleasing and uniform, so you might spend a bit extra on materials and innovation, but at least it'll look great and stand the test of time.
A Microsoft future though..?
[img]http://fixmywin.com/pictures/2011/03/Win-blue-screen.jpg[/img]
Recycling the same technologies year-by-year, not really progressing anywhere, squeezing money out of people year-after-year whilst not really offering any new features or innovation (apart from a slightly better interface).[/QUOTE]
And yet, 99% of their hardware's created by other manufactures, such as Samsung and Foxtronn.
Your post had a point, that apple uses a whole dollar fifty extra on using glass instead of plastic in their screens, however;
Microsoft's done a great job of keeping their system's compatible with older applications, settings, basically anything old-tec, as they know that not everyone's got the money for a new $2,000 computer every 2-3 years.
Your opinion's stereotypical with lack of knowledge about what you're trying to run an argument about. You sir, is :downs:
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;32285923]Monopoly building. To be honest I suppose PCs have been the only viable option for a long time (>10 years, before macs started becoming decent).
I'd put that down to their own financial management skills. You can make £20,000 a year and live comfortably with many luxuries and not be in debt. Alternatively you can make £70,000 a year but be flatline broke most of the time and in debt, with lots of useless things.
Or BMW's? or Bose Speakers? or Sennheiser headphones? Or Ralph Lauren polo shirts? What's your point here? People buy commodities they can afford and want to buy/wear/drive/use, no one else can dictate that for them.
A page full of different solutions, none of which fix the majority of people's problems.
No, but anything optimized and fast is better in my books for general purpose.
Most people don't know that downloading and installing random toolbars, games for their kids, or porn video codec's is an unsafe thing to do. All of these things aren't an issue on the mac because of the way that software is packaged.
You should probably look at the original android phones, totally dump compared to the now decent ones available today.
Uh huh. But from the perspective of me, a professional PC user, who's always been anti-mac, they're a wise investment as a laptop for portability/use in bed when you wanna watch a movie, etc.
Buy a USB pen or use some third-party software that lets you do it.
They bought the land, they can do what they like with it, in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
On my phone so I'll make it quick:
Paying for quality is different from paying for style.
A third party application? Now look at that.
Yes they can do what they want but that is no counterpoint to it being criticised as a waste of space, style oriented design.
Watch Microsoft come back and just patent all of apples stuff.
Didn't sony made the first MP3, the walkman?
I thought they used PCM on early music players, like the minidisk players?
[QUOTE=J!NX;32297712]Google should team with IBM, they would globally dominate the world, more than they already do.
Cars that drive themselves with all the collective knowledge humans have... and it'll have a British accent to top it off
British accent's are cool[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=SCopE5000;32279061]Let's face it though, a future with Apple is the stuff you probably dream about. Sharp, sleek surfaces, concealed cables, huge, epic, artistic, well-designed buildings, sliding doors everywhere with touch pads to control everything, fast software, efficient, error and hassle free.
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A future like this:
This is the sort of stuff I can see Apple looking at strongly as soon as it becomes viable for development. Yeah so what if the buildings cost a bit more? They'll not just be hunks of concrete blocks built with low costing in mind, but things of beauty that you'll want to visit, explore and be fascinated by time and time again.
Basically, an apple future is one of technological innovation, very artistic, spending billions of dollars on a sweet futuristic building for shits + giggles and generally making things look aesthetically pleasing and uniform, so you might spend a bit extra on materials and innovation, but at least it'll look great and stand the test of time.
A Microsoft future though...?
*hurr durr funny BSOD*
Recycling the same technologies year-by-year, not really progressing anywhere, squeezing money out of people year-after-year whilst not really offering any new features or innovation (apart from a slightly better interface).[/QUOTE]
The fuck are you smoking?
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