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Comment Re:I read this as (Score 1) 572

by BACPro (#30462466) Attached to: Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service

Please explain this to me.
The phone is less than perfect, you dislike Apple as a company, yet you still purchase the iPhone.

If you don't support a position a company takes, don't give them your money. Money is all they have to guage their success.

I purchased an iPod Touch Gen 1 then discovered how poorly they treat their customers, and won't get bitten again. $10 upgrade for cut and paste? 10$ upgrade for slower response? No thanks. Nice device, good UI, but the company sucks. iTunes is a bloated, slow, buggy piece of software (on the PC, unsure on Apple hardware)

Ditto for Sony. Proprietary and expensive gear, rootkits on audio disks, and so on.
They make some nice looking and performing gear, but I won't give them a dime because I disagree with their corporate tactics. /rant off.
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Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative 164

Posted by Soulskill from the off-to-a-great-start dept.
Techdirt makes note of some problems cropping up already for early voters in the presidential election. CNN covers some of the issues, including machines in a West Virginia county which recorded some votes incorrectly because of an alignment error. A lengthy discussion of the problems was also featured on NPR. Reader Rooked_One points out a related story at NPR about a voting program called PVOTE, written in Python and only 500 lines long. "Pvote is not a complete voting system. It is just the software program that interacts with the voter. Other necessary functions, such as voter registration, ballot preparation, and canvassing, are not part of Pvote. It is especially important that the voter interaction be correct because it is the only part of an election that must take place in private, whereas all other parts of an election can and should be subjected to public oversight and verification."

New Cellphone Sized "Computer" Takes Aim at Sub-Notebooks 256

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the no-nomad-comparisons dept.
IMOVIO has launched a new cellphone-sized computer that is aimed at something similar to the subnotebook market. While it doesn't have 3G of its own, it does have a QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, and a $175 price point. "It can connect to the Internet using a standard Wi-Fi connection, or it can use your cell phone's mobile broadband connection via Bluetooth. The company is currently pitching it to mobile network operators and retail stores. It's being compared to the ill-fated Palm Foleo. But the comparison doesn't work because the Foleo was Palm-phone only, didn't fit in a pocket and cost well over three times the price of the iKIT.
Cellphones

Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android 384

Posted by kdawson from the open-in-its-bones dept.
Technologizer writes "It came out this week that Google's Android phone OS, like the iPhone, has a kill switch that lets Android Market applications be disabled remotely. But it's a mistake to lump Google's implementation and Apple's together — the Google version is a smart, pro-consumer move that avoids all the things that make Apple's version a bad idea."

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