* Posts by Alan Denman

1078 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Apr 2008

Apple, HTC kiss and make up

Alan Denman

HTC = safer Microsoft from now on.

Obviously they are semi-dropping Android and concentrating on Microsoft.

HTC surely did not have the money to do anything else.

Steady Antarctic ice growth 'limits confidence in climate predictions'

Alan Denman

A miss mass of data?

Obviously the total mass of ice is important as are the implications for future weather fronts from these Arctic/Antarctic ice changes.

I'm sure if we have one more Sandy type disaster in the next 12 months and panic will ensue, at least amongst the investment community.

Apple-v-Samsung $1bn iPhone fine: 'Jury foreman was biased'

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Bias training.

Considering the public had been trained on this by an emotional media and fans egged on by Apple's words, how could the jury not be biased?

The jury surely had already been near enough rounded up into a corner.

Apple screen maker preps 'retina' iPad Mini panel, pants reporter

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..........thinking about it I'm not to sure about cheap

cause they reckon that the extra thinness of the screen costs big bucks.

A strange choice of where to spend the money if you ask me.

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Current Ipad Mini has a cheap mirror like display.............

but only for the XMAS cash cow I bet.

There are far worse screens around, but the Nexus and Fire HD screens are not of that breed..

ARM Holdings licenses big chunk of MIPS patents

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A way to differentiate

I'm sure Intel has a stake in Imagination so I Imagine Apple gadgets may eventually go that way.

They prefer not to compete but differentiate. An Intel Apple Imagination strategy for the future?

Microsoft: TypeScript isn't a JavaScript killer

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Walled garden for suckers

Java and Flash worked.

apps are just the corporate walled garden easier profit future.

New iPad's innards: Good news for recent fondleslab buyers

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Ipad 2 is better

I cant see the point of this.

They have simply removed the usable iPad 2 from sale and left a hotch potch halfway house in its place.

Its obviously not meant to be portable as the Nexus.

Making it a portable without the GPS simply makes for a 2nd rate item.

Mexico to Apple: You WILL NOT use the name 'iPhone' here

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Re: Geography

IOS maps bites again?

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Are they real?

So trampling all over everyone does not work all the time.

From the limited info given justice looks served though reality might actually differ.

UK iPad Mini FRENZY: Queues stretch SEVERAL FEET from till

Alan Denman

They removed a useful iPad for a smaller less useful one.

Surely without the maps GPS etc it now has less appeal than the older bigger and easier to use one?

iPad Mini's quite a handful

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Apple are thinking of existing users on this one.

If you consider that iPad 2 and even iPad 1 are a more usable size then obviously 2nd hand values will hold.

Heck, even the lousy dated and ultra cheap SOC in the Mini helps keep value.

A touch of brilliance by Apple.

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This is bollocks just copying bollocks

In a couple of years time we will hopefully get back to reality rather than all this airy fairy marketing crap.

How it feels in the hand, plasticy, too big, too small talk surely means the damn things are quite basic toys.

British judge: Say you're sorry Apple... this time like you MEAN it

Alan Denman

They are simply putting up a show.

Obviously, putting up a show as part of that powerful Apple image.

Known as bull*hit to some.

Analyst slams Apple innovation FAIL

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When fishing, if the suckers keep biting only a fool change the bait

Well at least he is not desperate for big advertising money like the rest of them appear to be.

Asus: we ship a million Google's Nexus 7s monthly

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Walled gardens don't need no maps

Fondling £449 versus the £200 32GB wit GPS NExus it is wise to forget that maps exist and instead plump for the £349 GPS free 32GB iPad Mini.

Fools and their money ............

Fans' loyalty questioned as iPhone popularity plummets

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Media loyalty is still extra strong

With even the inquirer's "Ipad Mini vs Nexus 7 vs Kindle Fire HD" review failing to mention GPS I'm finding it hard to find 'fair minded press'.

Forget loyalty, how about proper real user useful reporting?

More real reporting can improve things for everyone including Apple users.

We don't need successful dumbed down gadgets winning via very limited reporting.

iPhone owners sue Apple for locking Jesus mobe to AT&T

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A post contract brick

Seems it was A T & T or nothing in the US when your contract ran out.

Locking works different country by country but A T & T would not unlock end of contract phones so they just became an iPod if you did not stay with them.

Android, heal thyself

Alan Denman

" is now on a par with other.................

...........Then there's webkit, which permeates the operating system but is developed independently of Android."

It is a near bog standard computer system designed to compete with OS/X and Windows.

No one owns us there which is as much its own problem.

And there is nothing wrong with dated OS.

Why get your smartphone multi crippled by the latest updates?

Half the time it is as if the update is designed to kill your phone.

GooPad's eight-incher gives Apple fans cheap relief

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Old hat and cheap. like the iPAd

The 8" version has been on Android almost since time began.

Apple is the one doing the copying.

APPLE: SCREW YOU, BRITS, everyone else says Samsung copied us

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Exactly as I read it too

It is blatantly disagreeing with the verdict and showing contempt for the judgement.

When in Rome one does what Romans do so inferring the judgement is wrong surely has to be contempt.

No GPS in the iPad Mini Wi-Fi: People are right to criticise

Alan Denman

GPS is justfeature!

Like NFC, HDMI, SD cards, DLNA , USB drag and drop.

Just features which some have, some don't have.

Apple slips bomb into ITC filing: Samsung being PROBED by US gov

Alan Denman

and the rest of the world looks at Apple .........

and sees protectionism so they can spend only a few cents whilst charging users fat dollars.

$6 for near actual technology versus $30 for Apple's finger swipes sounds very much akin to Apple's perception of playing fair

Apple unveils iPad mini, upgrades its big brother

Alan Denman

Re: Market adage:

It has been going down markedly for the last month or so.

So rumours made it fall and so did yesterdays fact.

The stark business reality here is that this starkly looks like Apple's last great cash grab before that seismic perception shift.

Alan Denman

Off a cliff at a drag,

It is such base technology one should really just drag and drop it off a cliff.

But of course it can't even do that.

Apple's iPad Mini mishap: scratching out the retina screen

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What others buy, people buy

It is why we have shrills in the press etc.

As long as people think its good, because others have it, they will then buy it. And maybe even the GPS version too if they want it for the car.

LG Vu 5in Android phone-tablet review

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Squintings at text links is fine though.

"That's not how it works.

An button that's 0.5 cm across on iPad 1 is still 0.5 cm across on iPad 3."

But there is no squinty text on the iPad 1, not to mention that your exisiting iPhone apps are purposely limited to make you need a separate new tablet app.

What gadget an app runs on, it should really just adapt.

Alan Denman

Lower PPI = usability

There was never too much wrong with the cheaper iPads using 1024X768 too.

It means that things are naturally more finger friendly so in fact cheap and cheerful can in fact be better.

There was always some truth in the cheap and cheerful features of the iPad been praised alongside the high tech bits of it. That old iPad screen was one, 1024 X 768 is finger friendly cool.

So at 5" 1024x768 is a good and very web friendly compromise

iPad Mini: Why is Apple SO SCARED of the Kindle?

Alan Denman

7" Kindle = last years chippery

The new HD Kindle surely should retail at near $99 to be competitive with the GPS enabled and high tech Nexus tablet.

But maybe the Mini will not be as feeble as some expect

Argos flyer confirms incoming 32GB Nexus 7

Alan Denman

Kindle HD - pitifully dated.

You can't really compare these two at all.

The Kindle has old kit inside so dont expect it to be fast.

As a smaller travel device lack of GPS don't help. HDMI though is useful.

A lesser-known new feature in iOS 6: It's tracking you everywhere

Alan Denman

Its OK if its controlled by Apple.

Not exactly hard to guess why apple makes it harder for businesses to make a living on the web and easier in their apps.

Use the web while you can!

Microsoft Surface: Designed to win, priced to fail

Alan Denman

No victims left!

Apple gets all the trendy downsizers so why would anyone buy another system which strait jackets app buyers to only the Microsoft's app store?

So by making Windows RT as crippled as the iPad who will buy?

Why Google and Amazon could end up cooking their own chips

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Samsung - designed to fail.

Samsung's biggest mistake was allowing Apple to take part in the slightly modified designs of the Samsung Exynos range of ARM Socs. Add to that the creative lazy hysteria of the media and one would think they were all Apple designs.

It is only in version A6 where Apple has been the main instigator.

Luckily for Apple buyers , competition from experts like Samsung will eventually drive forward Apple ARM takeup.

So whilst Apple tread water in using Coretex A9 chips, Samsung and others have already moved onto using Cortex A15 chips.

Woz labels Apple 'arrogant' over iPhone size inadequacy

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Never the twain' with Apple

Obviously with a middle size sensible people will manage with only need one tablety device.

So they think small and sell more bigger iPads.

Crumbs, we the public are meant to be thankful.

Six months under water and iPhone 4 STILL WORKS

Alan Denman

Le Jog

Quite incredible really, especially considering one solitary jog is often enough to invalidate the warranty.

Schmidt: Google deathmatch with Apple is 'defining' for the tech biz

Alan Denman

Shareholders say 'Never give a sucker like Google a dime?'

Apple even have web apps crippled. It is a major reason Facebook has gone the app route on IOS.

IOS users are surely already being marketed into eventually losing google search.

There is more shareholder cash being lost there.

Alan Denman

Apple's new policy already forming as exterminate and germinate.

Seems they closed down Authentec for business last month so they can revolutionary bring fingerprint readers to their devices.

No competition wanted here!

German ebook firm aims low with cheap 'n' simple €10 ereader

Alan Denman

Re: Which battery life?

You're obviously still holding it all wrong.

Read the book!

Alan Denman

The smartphone hub.

Quite obviously your average smartphone will eventually become your whole PC hub, connecting to a myriad of other smart devices.

Obviously you average walled garden smartphone ain't going anywhere near this.

ARM upstart Calxeda pours $55m into server chip war chest

Alan Denman

a bitty article.

"32-bit processors have limited appeal to programmers".

Programmers do not give a stuff. 64 bit actually has many pros and cons so is not that important.

If we ever get to 128 bit it will be a bit of a case of 'the dial goes up to 11'

ZTE slams Congress spying claims, doubles down on sales ban

Alan Denman

Having your cake and eating it.

What goes round comes round and the US are now looking a bunch of protectionist fools.

Congress have a habit of looking complete hypocrites yet it is sad to see that they are steering us into possible global protectionism.

Recession, you ain't seen nothing yet!

HTC profits lobbed off a cliff by rivals Samsung and Apple

Alan Denman

Samsung and Apple sheep buyer syndrome.

Seems to me that everyone is emotionally very weak and so just thus buys what others buy.

Lazyness obviously comes into it too.

Apple files 'Shake to Print' iOS patent application

Alan Denman

Anyone got the shake to have a crap patent yet?

Obviously not spending a penny become quite sterling if you have eaten a bad apple.

And obviously the Andorid lot are the constipated bunch.

Apple: Blue-shirts can fix iOS Maps in their spare time

Alan Denman

Surely the blue shirt buyers will buy into it to.

Just think of it as a luxury health spa as you look for errors.

You are on the Apple tread mill.

Intel launches ARM battery life Windows 8 Atom chip

Alan Denman

All a bit strange coming from the guys who undermined the netbook.

It is all about choice on their terms.

Choose them for your smartphone at your peril.

ARM in full blown Linux is probably what will expand user choice

Apple and MS are happy with cheap ARM and a cheaper bit of Intel for selectively crippled gadgets.

That way they also get to sell real expensive stuff to the lesser victims of fashion.

Top admen beg Microsoft to switch off 'Do Not Track' in IE 10

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Losing the advertising war, turn off the internet to compete.

With Google leading the way in web advertising it is obvious that by removing internet function. web developers will be forced to choose Metro apps for its newly manicured advertising walled garden.

Open is surely only fine if you have the bigger stake in it.

Googorola mysteriously pulls plug on ITC Apple patent probe

Alan Denman

Evil breeds evil

The dog gods beg to differ.

Rolling over with your legs stuck in the air is only a reciprocation of friendliness.

Dogs also have teeth.

Sharp punches out über-retina phone screen

Alan Denman

Lowering standards to bigger profits?

So is this another compromise to give multi supplier sameness to Apple?

You obviously get best profits using multi suppliers.

Good for Apple, but not so good for those with the best quality goods.

Tim Cook: 'So sorry for Apple's crap maps app - try Bing or Nokia'

Alan Denman

No piper at the gates?

First it was all A T & T 's fault.

The users then held it all wrong.

Apple then found an old episode of Lost in space.

How long is that route map to Sucker Gate?