Comment Sweet Headline... (Score 0) 129
"In today's news, auction house and penny saver owners brawl...story at 11."
Comment This is what iPhone got right... (Score 1, Interesting) 102
IMO, the iPhone app store is probably the single biggest innovation of the iPhone...and it's not even a technological innovation so much as an assertion that things should be done the right way for a change. Here in the states as well as abroad, Apple used its power to strong arm their cellular partners into acting the way they should act - as an INFRASTRUCTURE provider.
Cellular companies have always been very short sighted about their role with respect to applications at the end point. They would push crappy applications (cellular companies don't know how to develop mobile applications!) to the device via tightly regulated network access and the result was a horrible customer experience. Thanks to the iPhone app store, those days are coming to and end. The fact that Verizon (historically one of the WORST culprits) here in the U.S. is allowing unfettered access to Android Market is indicative of this fact.
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Cellular companies have always been very short sighted about their role with respect to applications at the end point. They would push crappy applications (cellular companies don't know how to develop mobile applications!) to the device via tightly regulated network access and the result was a horrible customer experience. Thanks to the iPhone app store, those days are coming to and end. The fact that Verizon (historically one of the WORST culprits) here in the U.S. is allowing unfettered access to Android Market is indicative of this fact.
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Comment Re:Newton Users Can Run Their Choice of Apps (Score 0) 203
The App Store was the only innovative thing iPhone brought to the table!
Any phone can run crap that you dig up from god knows where that may or may not run reliably and you install in some arcane way. The innovation of the iPhone was that Apple used it's cache to strong-arm the wireless provider and be the first platform to provide an organized and easy way to deliver/deploy REAL applications to the device that leverage wireless bandwidth. Prior to iPhone, applications were either UTTER CRAP developed by the wireless provider in an effort to scrounge supplemental income or fringe hack stuff that you had to be an expert on the underlying hardware and software to install and use.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Comment I'd rather... (Score 0) 660
...see somewhat verbose comments than none at all. However, a good developer should be able to provide very clear and concise comments and let the code say the rest. I think this is what the original post's point is - of the code is not concise and clear, the comments won't be either.
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iPod Shuffle Finds Its Voice 379
theodp writes "Steve Jobs wasn't around to convince you that you should be impressed, but on Wednesday Apple unveiled a 4GB Shuffle that's half the size of its predecessor. Holding up to 1,000 songs, the pre-shrunk Shuffle sports a 10-hour battery life and also adds a new VoiceOver feature that can recite song titles, artists, and playlist names, as well as provide status information. Even without a show from Steve, the new player is generally leaving folks dazzled, although there are some complaints."
Update: 3/14 at 14:10 by SS: Reader Mike points out some disturbing news that the new Shuffle contains DRM which, according to a review at iLounge, prevents it from fully working with any headphones that don't have an Apple "authentication chip."
Comment Re:Things were better a few years ago... (Score -1, Troll) 199
I agree with the above poster...if anything, modern media and political correctness (ESPECIALLY here in the U.S.) have been pushing misandry more than anything...it is a big part of our culture now.
Look at the lineup at any major television network...at *least* one show with a fat, lazy, jerk husband hooked up with a beautiful wife who puts up with his uselessness for no apparent reason. If you see any males portrayed in a positive light they are usually gay.
End of off-topic (sort of) rant...
