Posts by Jerome 28 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Sep 2007
So the EU decides that Apple has to adopt the Android model.
Because it's obviously better in terms of security, business opportunities for developers, ease of use etc.?
Let the users choose.
Buy a Windows PC and an Android phone if you prefer their model - but why should bureaucrats force me to the Android model (which, as a user, I really do not want)?
... yes; And if someone could also find the price of VMWare Fusion for 1 user/Mac, if you very occasionally do some work with it?
I have tried and all I could find was a "Get in touch with our sales team" link.
Although I had previous paid for licenses, I will not take the risk of using any of their product if I am at risk of owing them a lot of money because I opened a document in Word for Windows on my Mac.
The M3 MacBook Pro 14" has a few additional advantages:
- better "high-fildelity" speakers (same as the M3 Pro one) and "studio-quality" 3-mic array,
- much brighter screen (up to 1600 nits in HDR), which is mini LED with many zones ("XDR") - that is a much bigger difference than the slightly higher resolution.
It's IMHO much closer to a Pro than to an Air.
Right clicking gives you the option to open anyway.
It has for several years now, since the arrival of GateKeeper, been the way to install and launch unsigned apps.
And it worked for libreOffice on my Catalina running Mac seconds ago.
Now it certainly would be much better if a properly notarized app didn't have those issues.
As far as I understand, there is no trace of a £20 limit, there is for example a screenshot with a £75 Topshop bag ready to be paid by Pay on Apple's website.
There seems however to be such a £20 limit in most software used by retailers to handle contactless payments (and Pay) in the UK.
It'd be nice for thereg to check their facts before publishing.
Correcting this would be a start :-)
"There’s a problem for users with Firewire peripherals too: Apple has dropped the Firewire 800 port it had placed on the back of the 2012 model. In its place is a second Thunderbolt port".
That "problem" should easily be fixed with 25£, which is the cost of an Apple Thunderbolt-to-Firewire adapter :-)
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD464ZM/A/thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapter?fnode=51
"TLC flash remains relegated to thumb drives, camera flash cards and the like."
I believe that is not true.
Samsung 840 EVO SSDs (as well as their predecessors 840), use TLC.
Since they are the best value currently on the market for non-pro SSDs, I believe they might have quite a chunk of the consumer SSD market.
(and I would be surprised if the Samsung supplied 1TB SSDs in current MacBook Pros had anything else than TLC)
I'd be happy to have access to the "Google Play Services" source. Unfortunately, there is nothing open about them. So I have to wonder what idea you have of what is going on with it!
And, you might not have noticed, Google's business is about making money from your personal data (through ads).
Regarding iOS, you do not have to sync your contacts/ calendar data with anything.
But most people want to (and there are may good reasons for that).
I was just using Google as an example. iOS supports contacts/calendar syncing with iCloud, Gmail, Exchange, Yahoo, Outlook.com ...as well as ldap and CardDav/CalDAV.
While the move is really annoying (although zero impact to me, I already used iCloud), Apple forces you to sync your contacts with any online service, not only iCloud.
Google is one such service. So you can very well sync your iPhone's contacts with Google.
Which is not half as bad as syncing your whole life with Google, as you do when you sign in on an Android phone :-)
The crap is the author of this article not making the distinction between:
- location services (which can be turned off globally or by app on iOS)
- the new "help Apple improve maps" setting in iOS 7, only activated if you answer "yes" during iOS 7 setup, and which you can diable in the settings.
All seems very clear and OK with me.
WTF is the fuss in this article and its comments about ???
I do not see how different it is from the Apple TV.
The one thing seemingly different is that Chromecast handles URLs directly (or answers to commands, as stated in the article).
I believe this is the standard way the Apple TV does it.
For local files (from your computer, iPhone or iPad), since the URL is local, generated with the Bonjour protocol, it seems as if the device its pushing to the Apple TV. I believe it is actually the opposite.
For files on the internet, the Apple TV accesses the URLs directly without going through the other device.
You can see this with the excellent Clicktoflash Safari extension (which, among many other things gives you popup menus to push YouTube or other internet videos to the AppleTV) or with the unsupported Airflick app, which allows you to send a URL to the Apple TV.
And, one other thing, it is possible to "send" content from an iPhone or iPad to an AppleTV and do something else on the iPad.
So, I think Chromecast has its chance, and that its price is a very important part of it, but I cannot see what it can do that I cannot do with my iPad and Apple TV.
Apart from that, I quite agree with the arguments in the article, and I really love my iPad (as well as Safari) with Apple TV as a Smart TV interface. (but I prefer to use the Apple Remote for a lot of things, like movie rentals and TV shows)
And I believe that for this part the Chromecast experience can be excellent too.
However, the article title should be "Apple TV (and now Chromecast) Why it's the most important smart TV tech ever"
There is now a Palm Pré Plus.
But only on Verizon.
But I can still buy last year's model at full price to use it on a GSM network.
Yes, last year's non-plus Pré is available on AT&T, and coming to France in a few months!
This is so totally ridiculous !
Will anyone making phones ever duplicate Apple's iPhone+iPod model of "one global hardware", more or less per year ?
Please check your info before writing.
"Official" support of Windows 7 is missing in Boot Camp and is late indeed.
However, WIndows 7 in Boot Camp works.
It has been possible to install WIndows 7 in Boot Camp before Windows 7 was available at retail.
Boot Camp drivers for Vista work for Windows 7.
There are many reports of people who have been using WIndows 7 in Boot Camp for a long time.
If you want to have some fun, please check Paut Thurrot's "Winsupersite" article about exactly the same topic (is it where El Reg gets its pristine quality info?) here : http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2010/01/02/shame-on-apple-for-not-providing-windows-7-drivers-by-now.aspx
Then check his December 4, 2009 article about WIndows 7 on the Mac here: http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7_on_mac.asp
This part is particularly fun :
"As of this writing, Apple has yet to ship Windows 7-specific Boot Camp drivers, but the driver versions found on the Snow Leopard Setup disc, which are designed for Windows Vista, will at least work"
Does anyone really think Apple would introduce product editions a la MS Vista/Seven?
Software differentiation has advantages, but does not make any sense for Apple in such a form.
Hardware differentiation has drawbacks too, but having 2 or 3 globally available hardware products could make sense if their differentiation does.
Maybe Apple should have thought about hardware differentiation for the iPod(s) ;-)
How can anyone say 30 000 French sales in 5 days are disappointing?
This is ridiculous ; what predictions do 30 000 get compared to?
As for German numbers, I have not seen an official numbers yet ...
And for UK, I haven't heard that sales have stopped. So maybe the ElRegSuperSecretAgent allsonecessarilytrue evaluation of less 26K iPhone activations from 10 days ago might be even less true now.
We have at least a quite good panorama of the different ways the human mind can relate to a new and trendy phenomenon ...
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