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Comment Re:Better to just charge the fees to the user (Score 1) 158

yes. This is fair, to some extent. (as long as the customer can pay with an option that doesn't allow fees) In the UK the did this, you are no longer allowed to be charged the fees, at least they can't be described as such and or must be hidden in the price of the goods.

Comment they wont do this, but (Score 2) 50

I can still hope that they decide to make an email client that is actually decent and makes me want to use it. Making it work properly with standard IMAP servers would be a great start.

Also, last I checked it didn't integrate with your contacts on the Mac, so this meant you had to maintain 2 contact lists if you were a mac user. Absolutely retarded.

Comment Re: Gotta have something to complain about, I supp (Score 1) 36

> canâ(TM)t call it fibre

What do you mean by 'it'?

Sounds like you would have FTTP in your scenario.

And the story has FTTC. Common in the UK. Virgin media (cable compay) for example bang on about their Fibre network constantly. But most people are on coax. FTTP is a thing here too now that mostly POTS and DSL are not really such a thing here anymorr.

Comment Re: But why? (Score 2) 23

Apples iphone will be about the size of a blackberry (so pocketable) and when unfolded the size between a pro max and a ipad mini.

This solves the problem with the big screen phones which are much better* to use but awkward to carry.

I will be interested to see what they do.

I still wish they had went to a folded size between watch and half an iphone. Which opened to iphone size. This could be the apple pocket watch or similar.

Comment Re:Touchscreen mostly for the technically challeng (Score 0) 40

I think adding another input method, is in general a good thing. Especially if it's essentially an invisible, optionally usable input device.

personally in my experience of touch screen laptops, the main uses of it have been :

1. google maps/maps . It's way nicer being able to touch the map, drag it around and pinch to zoom, instead of abstracted mouse and even worse on track pad.

2. excel / spreadsheet / pdf reading, it's nice to be able to just reach and drag the sheet around or scroll the document, . You can do this with your thumb, resting your arm . You literally extend your arm a further 2 inch then when its on the keyboard. no gorilla arm stuff.

3. music controls, or volume control. Waaaaaaay nicer to be able to hit play pause / stop next swipe the volume, than firstly waggling the pointer to find the cursor then moving and clicking and pause or whatever.

the mac drop down control centre at top right is top candidate for touch interaction.

particulary in the excel/text editor/ word / pdf example, being able to move the document around, at the same time as moving the mouse around is really nice for lots of reasons. I really wish computers would accept multiple mice and have multiple pointers for lots of things and this is a similar thing.

And, on the mac, being able to mirror iphone, but interact with touch will be really nice. Hopefully they can do a decent job and have multitouch etc

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