* Posts by JTMILLER

5 publicly visible posts • joined 3 May 2013

Windows 10 S: Good, bad, and how this could get ugly for PC makers

JTMILLER

"Which kind of makes you wonder why the Surface team was here, at this education-friendly event, in the first place."

You clearly haven't seen many schools in Australia, even the budget to midrange private schools often supply $1400 laptops for all students, I'd happily take a Surface Laptop (Upgraded to the full Edu edition) over these Acer's I currently have to support!

JTMILLER
Gimp

There's a market for it

"Which kind of makes you wonder why the Surface team was here, at this education-friendly event, in the first place."

You clearly haven't seen many schools in Australia, even the budget to midrange private schools often supply $1400 laptops for all students, I'd happily take a Surface Laptop (Upgraded to the full Edu edition) over these Acer's I currently have to support!

Apple extends bulk buy app shopping plan to Macs

JTMILLER
Meh

How old is this announcement?

We've been using the VPP here since March this year, how is this any different? We're an educational institute and if we purchased 20+ of an app we got 50% off the price. Or have they changed the way it works with iOS7? Can't see anything different from the article though.

Watch out, Nokia: Global mobile phone sales slowing

JTMILLER
Paris Hilton

Re: Nokia is not a top 10 smartphone OEM any more

Ermmm they're top 4 in smartphone markets according to numerous sources, so while it is fun to play the nokia's dead bandwagon and yes their market share is tiny compared to the big two, they're still a player.

US Ambassador plays Game of Thrones with pirates

JTMILLER
Devil

The show doesn't air "mere" hours after the US, it airs 10.30am on Monday in my local time but it's not usualy available to download from iTunes till Tuesday evening. Plus the playback through iTunes is terrible, if they want people to stop pirating they have to make a platform that is better than what people can get for free in terms of automated downloads (without having to give your password every 5 minutes to apple till it locks your account for logging in too often!) and video quality, plus playing in iTunes has annoying audio/visual syncing issues so you have to pause the episode every 15 minutes so the video can catch up.