So what do you think about the new iPhone? Enough new stuff to make you get a new phone?
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Not at this time. We have iPhone 3s and they work just fine, probably make the jump next year. The integration of the Siri technology is interesting.maddog5150 said:So what do you think about the new iPhone? Enough new stuff to make you get a new phone?
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Exactly, Apple and their proprietary systems is just wrong these days. If they (Apple) come out with a NEW iPhone (not just an upgrade to the existing unit) that supported Flash, had a user replaceable battery, and sd memory card support I might think about going over to the dark side of Apple. But until then, stuck with my Droid2 Global ::010::Venture said:I went to Apple's site, clicked on "Watch the iPhone 4S Video," and was treated to a "You need Quicktime!" message. Nope, not bothering. The rest of the web knows to use Flash, so I'll stick with the rest of the web.
Hooray for Apple, still making things easy after all these years. :
(I guess you know where I stand as far as being an Apple fan)
Channeling Steve Jobs:JHKolb said:Exactly, Apple and their proprietary systems is just wrong these days. If they (Apple) come out with a NEW iPhone (not just an upgrade to the existing unit) that supported Flash, had a user replaceable battery, and sd memory card support I might think about going over to the dark side of Apple. But until then, stuck with my Droid2 Global ::010::
You might think I have a less than positive opinion of Apple and there dead leader. Petty tyrants and ideologues filled with blind devotion are not my thing. It all smacks of idolatry. Fanatics are always a problem regardless of the topic: religion, politics, cell phones, or user interface designs.But all of those things destroy the hardware design! We'd have to use screws and have gaping holes in our otherwise smooth and sleek chassis. No. No. No! Speaking of which, we can't have users opening up their phones! If they need a new battery, we want them to come into the store and buy a new phone. Same for memory. Why ever would we stoop so low as to load Flash onto our already near perfect iPhones? That's something Microsoft would do (under court orders)! Adobe is fine, but we would never do anything to undermine our own media player... or the iTunes Store. We're #1 in market capitalization for a reason!
Well I spent years on a Mac, and it was a great productivity tool. It;s just made it easy to get things done. Only problem I had of course was the PC, where you had to do it their way or piss off. The "open architecture" didn't hekp at all with MAc compatibility. It was PC or piss off.Venture said:I went to Apple's site, clicked on "Watch the iPhone 4S Video," and was treated to a "You need Quicktime!" message. Nope, not bothering. The rest of the web knows to use Flash, so I'll stick with the rest of the web.
Hooray for Apple, still making things easy after all these years. :
(I guess you know where I stand as far as being an Apple fan)
I am with you Graham! Been playing with Linux Distros for exactly a year now. Still a relative noob and some things are still better supported in the PC/Mac world but I's say that 95% of what I do I do in Linux now. I have settled on Linus Mint 11 on the desktop and Mint 10 KDE on the laptop. Great experience on both accounts.GrahamD said:I now use Linux for it's Openness, PC for the desktop.
If you want Open you will be talking Linux not M$ or Apple.
Any one of the 100 or so Linux variants will generally talk to each other. It's only two Os's that have problems with Linux. Linux operates with them generally well, despite the best attempts of said OS vendors to stop that.
Let's see how the Android Ecosystem goes without the reality distortion field around.
Cheers
Graham
Every few years I download a Linux distro and mess around. That's all it ever amounts to - messing around. I worked on Solaris pretty heavily for a number of a years so I know my way around Unix pretty well, and for server apps it's fine, but as a desktop replacement I just don't see it happening for the vast majority. There is just no real reason to go with it over a Windows 7 installation. Cost maybe, but really, the cost of a Windows license is pretty negligible when you break it down on a per year basis over the life of the license.digitalmoto said:Last but not least, Linux. They have a huge barrier for users. It's too damn difficult to get one running if you aren't a geek. I've built Beowulf clusters with Red Hat/Fedora and Debian. And it took me years to reach that level of skill.
Programming and computer science need a lot more growth before we will have truely user friendly systems. After all this entire field has only existed since the 40s. 60 years. Civil engineering and architecture have been around for over 4,000 years as a formal disipline. Just something to keep in mind.
You are just afraid you might enjoy using it and go over to the dark side!!Venture said:I still haven't turned on that iPad...maybe tonight.
ColoRider said:Maybe not the place to ask, but since we are talking Apple here, does anyone know how to attach a photo to a post here on an iPad?
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Rod
Since I now possess a shiny new iPad, I decided to fire it up and see what you were referring to. Indeed, it seems the option to select a file to attach is not available (grayed out) on the iPad!ColoRider said:Maybe not the place to ask, but since we are talking Apple here, does anyone know how to attach a photo to a post here on an iPad?
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Thanks for checking Chris! Actually, I'm growing more and more fond of the tablet - so much so I'm thinking about buying a second one for travel to replace my netbook. This time though I'm looking at the ASUS Transformer which uses the Android system, so I'm guessing the photo upload issue will be a non-issue on it.Venture said:Since I now possess a shiny new iPad, I decided to fire it up and see what you were referring to. Indeed, it seems the option to select a file to attach is not available (grayed out) on the iPad!
i took it upon myself to search the SMF support site to see what the story is, and apparently the Safari browser doesn't support the "file" input type that is required. You could try installing a different browser. Maybe they make Firefox for iPad?
So, sadly, another Apple "win."
EDIT: Out of curiosity I checked to see if the option was available on my Android phone and it is. Clicking on it brings up a box which let's me pick a file from my gallery, and a few other places. So this is definitely an Apple iOS thing.