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WSJ Wrongly Blames AT&T for Google Voice iPhone App Rejection

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Nothing but conjecture.

It is absolutely IRRESPONSIBLE to post the current headline stating as fact what is nothing more than opinion!!!

Apple's iPhone Still the Gold Standard - RBC

@ Techtrader10

I think you raise some good points here. But I also think that it is a little more complex than you have presented.

Before answering that - however - I find it interesting that the list of iPhone grievances by BB-ophiles has been reduced to the two you mention from the long laundry list of year and a half ago.

What I am saying is this: IF a company needs to write a complex custom application, especially if this uses graphics, then the iPhone becomes a more compelling solution than probably any other. The SDK for the developers is so phenomenal that it really eases the development process. Not only is this desirable in and of itself, but an important result of this is that it allows many more production turns in a given time frame. So software can quickly "evolve".

Finally, if ATT and battery life are truly what is keeping business users from adopting, Apple will change these.

I do have to agree that Jobs' obsession with small and light sometimes works to the detriment of the product. One more half-once of battery would probably give 20 or 30 percent more life.

What Will the Next iPod Touch Offer?

It is hard for me to imagine the iPT NOT having the camera. Now that the iPhone cam is of sufficient quality to replace the simple point & shoot, it is too compelling to avoid. Besides, it is
1- not that expensive to add
2- something (above processor speed) is needed to differentiate from the previous model.

(Voice control is just software - though it may rely on higher processor speed).

There is a possibility that the camera will bring GPS along with given the importance of geo-tagging these days. (I hope I hope)

Blackberry’s 26 Advantages over iPhone

"Helps while driving, " Anyone who posts has a logic that is definitely suspect!

#26 - See:
www.belfasttelegraph.c...

#22 - TiVo to go
To resort to availability of specific applications (possible exception of Skype) is to play a loosing game for BB. Should I list all the apps that are available on iPhone and not BB? Sure, most of them are irrelevant, but many are not. Perhaps I will start with Bento - the worlds coolest database.

Cash for Clunkers May Cost Up to $45,354 Per Vehicle

When Bush gave a tax rebate you all applauded like crazy. Now when Obama does it - it is Socialism. Just like the Cap and trade. I believe that the Reagan admin started that with pollution controls and the Bushes followed through with the concept. Dems were skeptical at first but admitted that to some extent it worked.

But now - as soon as Obama want to use Cap and trade - the "conservatives" are all against it!

It just goes to show that the Republicans have no real point of view - they just want to criticize the Dems no matter what.

Just Nattering nabobs of negativism!

Cash for Clunkers May Cost Up to $45,354 Per Vehicle

this is the most absurd insane piece of logic I have ever seen!

The Govt pays 3,500 - 4,500 $ per care. Somewhere you lost a 0 - or added one in. But the logic is totally flawed.

It shows what happens when someone wants so badly to be negative that they loose all sense of reason. If you had been more critical of the WMD stupidity then you could have saved this country over 4,000 lives and more than $1 TRILLION!

LMAO

Should the FCC Force Apple to Stock Competitive Products in Its Own Store?

@ Vincent Fer...

You have thoughtful comments here, but I do not really agree.

Apple is trying to say that when you buy an iPhone, you really never own it, they continue to own it by virtue of the fact that they can control what you can access.

The point of the App Store is to provide a simple, secure method of accessing apps and to facilitate the whole process to the benefit of all. Outside of security, legality, and reasonable contractual issues, they should not be rejecting apps.

They have marketed an "open mobile computing platform" This implies - i.e. forms a kind of contract with the buyer - that the buyer will have access to anything that the creative developer community will devise. Apple should fulfill this promise.

Should the FCC Force Apple to Stock Competitive Products in Its Own Store?

A lot of good comments here - esp jack dee and Wil.

I am certainly no friend of ATT, and I do think some of their practices verge on monopolistic. I also feel that Apple should reject apps only for security purposes.

But it seems to me inherently unfair that ATT should have to support VOIP on their cell phone network. It really is a case of freeloading. As has been pointed out, ATT has expenses in building a network. I think they should have the option of disallowing Google or Skype usage which circumvents their own services. No matter how much I may think ATT is a rip-off, I still feel this way.

I should add - I think that ATT should have NO say over what apps can be used via Wifi connections, only what can be used over their cell network and only if it can circumvent their own services.

(Disclosures: Long Apple, wife and daughter have ATT but not iPhones, I do not own a cell phone, but I am a huge fan of Skype.)

Should the FCC Force Apple to Stock Competitive Products in Its Own Store?

@ BobD

That statement makes you look like a real fool. Get a grip and leave the ridiculous propaganda points behind.

Roger McNamee - Judgment Day on Pre vs. iPhone

I think this article supports what I have been saying for some time - that iPhone will dominate its market segment almost as much as it does the music player segment, with all the other players competing amongst themselves for a share in the "other" category.

Even RIMM does not seem to have a strong player in this category. Most of their smartphones are really just email readers. Still, the competition is good as it keeps Apple on their toes. In this highly competitive market there are only two ways to compete:
1- on price - and we all know how Apple hates to do that,
2- by innovation- Apple owns this realm.

Roger McNamee - Judgment Day on Pre vs. iPhone

You write:
"So how did McNamee’s claim turn out? Well, let’s put it this way: If there was a foot-in-the-mouth award given every year, no one else would need to apply this year. "

Not really. His statement created such a buzz that you are still writing about it 4 months later. That is a hell of a lot of free publicity. I bet it helped to sell at least 20% of those Pres.

Pretty good one-liner if you ask me.

Why Apple's iTouch Tablet Will Become Its Flagship Product

@ jabalong

Don't forget that the iPhone already costs about $600 - it is just that the carriers subsidize them. Perhaps these will also be carrier subsidized.


"I agree, $800 is way too expensive for a portable e-reader device. If Apple wants to take over the space from Kindle, it needs to improve on it technologically, but compete in the same $200-300 range. $800 is the cost of an almost high-end laptop these days and not what consumers are going to be willing to pay for an e-reader-plus."

Why Apple's iTouch Tablet Will Become Its Flagship Product

@vloscomp
This is hilarious! The major anti-Apple argument that Windows users have been using for years is that there are 6 million programs for Windows and only 136 for the Mac (albeit most of the ones for Windows are crappy and buggy). Now you are arguing against the very same situation for the app store! What a joke!

Come on - who cares what YOU think of the apps? Clearly most people DO like the app store since 1.5 B downloads is a true phenomenon. If people don't like certain ones of the 50,000 then these apps will not get download or bought, and will fall by the wayside. SO WHAT? There still are thousands of useful and entertaining apps that people do enjoy.

I think you post silly comments like these just to see people's reaction.

On Jul 24 04:49 PM vloscomp wrote:

> I don't get the significant of the apps store: there are 50,000 crappy
> apps that i do not want, and as far as 1.5 billions download, how
> many of those are profitable or useful? This must be year 2000 again
> because traffic is king regardless of generating profit.

Why Apple's iTouch Tablet Will Become Its Flagship Product

@ LuMoS

This is not necessarily so or not necessarily to the extent you think.

Text based apps should scale without too much trouble. Other apps, if they are well designed, should already have facilities for dealing with with the issue of screen size. Programs should use global constants to determine display size that can be reset with a simple re-compile or even automatically set at startup as the program queries the device. One of the hallmarks of OSX is built in scaling.

Of course, real graphics programs might need to update the graphic base of its images to higher resolutions in order to achieve higher quality and save compute power of rescaling. But this is still not a major re-write as only the resources will be updated and the basic logic/computation part of the code will remain unchanged.

So there will be some costs, but not overwhelming.


On Jul 24 08:32 AM LuMoS wrote:

> Great article, but as far as the App-Store running on the tablet
> I believe you might be mistaken. Every app in the App-Store is currently
> developed to fit on the typical 3.5 inch touch-screen, not a 10 in.
> So in order for apps to run natively they'd have to be re-done or
> fixed to run on both versions. Which I doubt deva will have the time
> or patience to create apps for more than 1 device. Although it also
> opens up speculation as to wheather Apple will implement a Premium
> App-Store. In which case you might see those
> better more expensive App. Running natively on a 10 in screen.

Why Apple's iTouch Tablet Will Become Its Flagship Product

The big question in my mind (after "Is this real or fantasy") is this:
Will it run apps only or will it run OSX (Snow Leopard).

+ Apple "Many owners of netbooks will not be happy with their experience"
+ One of the objectives of Snow Leopard was to pare down the size as well as increase efficiency.

The next question is what chipset.
It is possible that the long delay is was to allow the development of their new in-house chipset. Couple this with a rocking GPU to make a "handset" that is almost as powerful as a MacBook (white model) and you will have a pretty incredible device.

I suppose they will start at $799. Hopefully they will go down a bit after 6 months.