Posts by jsk

Woz says wearables – even Apple Watch – aren't 'compelling'

Um, Woz, you do realize that if you don't have a network connection, you can't "call John" anyway, right?

Surface Hub: A Howard Hughes folly, or a cunning Post It Note killer?

Utterly Pointless as a Presentation Device

This thing doesn't make any sense as a presentation device.

The screen is huge, but it has to be mounted low so that anyone using can reach all areas of the screen. And, most importantly, unlike a projection screen or video presentation display, the speaker/presenter, by definition, is alway standing in front of it, blocking the view for everyone else (well, those, close enough to the front see past the crowd) trying to see the screen.

Apple stalls iWatch, 12.9-inch iPad from Quanta rumored for mid-2014

Allow me to correct your headline:

"Apple iWatch Delayed" --> "Apple iWatch rumor proves to be false!"

Magpie Apple plunders the competition for cosmetics, as egos run wild

Copy Protection?

Well, they won't have to worry about anyone copying them now!

Mm, Silverlight, what's that smell? Yes, it's death

Never Used It

I can honestly say that in all the years Silverlight has exists I have NEVER encountered a web site that used it. Not one.

BTW, Netflix only relies on Silverlight for DRM on Windows. It doesn't use it on other platforms like OS X and iOS.

Intel swallows McAfee: Why?

Chip OS before Software OS?!?!?

I don't get it. So, what, Itel rigs will have a chip OS between the BIOS and the full blown OS for virus detection??? For which OS? Windows (which version for which hardware), Unix, MacOS, iOS, Linux (which distro), etc, etc, etc. Yeah. That'll work.

Or did they just blow over $7 Billion for a mediocre anti-virus vendor to help them "think" about security?

Office for Mac steps closer to Windows version of software

Couldn't agree more.

If you have a Mac, you have iPhoto. Why would you need yet another mediocre photo editor? Are they bringing something new to the table, or just trying to squeeze out the competition with more bloat.

Indesign and Express users: Time to add yet another item to your ever growing list of headache inducing things from the horror that is Word and Excel.

Microsoft digs Macs in back-to-school ads

Memory Stick? Sony still makes those?

Average kid going back to school:

"What's a memory stick? Did they work in 8-Track players or something?"

Apple lays claim to expired patents

False Labeling?!?!?

I'm guessing that Apple will simply argue that none of its products are "labeled" with any patents, if the claimed patents are only listed in the fine print in the printed manual. My iPods only mention trademarks and copyrights on their cases and nothing specific at that.

Microsoft's .NET at ten: big hits, strange misses

"Mac" Version?!?

Each new version of Silverlight runs on fewer and fewer Mac models and no version of Silverlight supports all of the stuff Silverlight on Windows supports, especially any WM file v10 or above (Macs are limited to v9 and earlier). So, absolutely no multimedia with any kind of DRM on anything but Windows. I'm pretty sure Mono is in the same boat.

Strange logic on M$'s part. Create a plug-in that brings the "windows experience" to the internet, then limit to Windows machines. (Don't they already have the "windows experience?")

Finger crossing won't lure iPhone coders to Windows Mobile

Oooohhh Kaaayyyy

@ Anonymous Coward & @ Hugh_Pym & @ karakalWitchOfTheWest:

Truly amazing how people will post a reply after only reading half of the first sentence of a comment. If you had bothered to read the second half: Yes, the US is only a small part of the total world cell phone market, but it is the biggest in the Western World (and with AT&T's current exclusive and TWO year contract, selling a new iPhone to existing customers isn't a reliable once a year sale). If Apple maintains its 15 to 20% market share of smart phones, it will have to have a very successful rollout in China to get to 82 million units a year (India's been a dud so far). (And the global economy is going to have to pull out of its current slump to afford a larger percentage of expensive smart phones.) Remember for the vast majority of people in the western world, smart phones are a luxury; for the third world, beyond expensive.

I think you're being a little too fanboyish if you think that something as expensive as an iPhone (and as network dependent as it is for good service in each area) is going to be as big a seller as the iPod has proven to be (which is cheaper, has no contract, nor network dependence).

P.S. Just why is it that fanboys take any criticism of their favorite product of the week as a personal insult?!?

82 million/year?

Since AT&T only has, what, 79 million subscribers total in the US, can I assume that this 82 million iPhones a year must include what, a massive rollout in China?!?