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  1. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    Hi I’m an iPhone. And I’m a Smartphone. :)
  2. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    That't not exactly a revelation. The one thing Microsoft has always been really good at is copying other people's ideas, and that doesn't just apply to Apple's ieas (as some people like to think), but tons of companies.
  3. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    Beautiful :howler:
  4. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    Bandwidth exceeded. Is this the "What do you recommend?" "Mac OS X" comic from reddit? That one rocks :D
  5. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    Norway declares Apple’s iTunes illegal By David Ibison in Stockholm, Emiko Terazono in London and Richard Waters in San Francisco Published: January 24 2007 20:39 | Last updated: January 24 2007 23:47 Apple was dealt a blow in Europe on Wednesday when Norway’s powerful consumer...
  6. Martin

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    Yes, you can. That's not what these restrictions are about. Once you have the song in mp3, you're a free man, it will play anywhere. DRM is about selling music in non-mp3 formats with further restrictions. Notably, iTunes store which is a 2bn/year turnover for Apple. If you buy music/movies...
  7. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    I haven't posted anything here in 24 hours...
  8. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs STEVE JOBS, Apple’s showman nonpareil, provided the first public glimpse of the iPhone last week — gorgeous, feature-laden and pricey. While following the master magician’s gestures, it was easy to overlook a most disappointing aspect: like its...
  9. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    Apple is DRM's Biggest Backer parvenu74 writes "Arstechnica is running an article pointing out that while some pockets of the entertainment industry are experimenting with DRM-free distribution, Apple Inc, which announced that they have now sold over 2,000,000,000 songs on iTunes, is now the...
  10. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    so much for Majed's grand scheme :cry: No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs wyldeone writes "In an interview with the New York Times, Steve Jobs confirms reports that the recently-announced iPhone will not allow third party applications to be installed. According to Jobs, 'These are...
  11. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    Like what? People talk about programming phones like it's some big revelation, but it's been done for years and I've still to see a single killer app. What are these amazing new applications you expect to see? What a phone does is pretty much provided by the hardware capabilities anyway.
  12. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    Wow, revolutionary phone indeed. It does everything that current phones do. Where do I buy a cheesy Che Guevarra t-shirt?
  13. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    you're anti ipod??? :eek: :biggrin:
  14. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    Sorry, I'm not at liberty to disclose :D
  15. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    No, but he is the man to see about anything Apple-related.
  16. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    Call Majed, he will hook you up :D
  17. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    You are correct :)
  18. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    I wouldn't lump it all together like that. FOSS is a pretty huge and complicated landscape. On one hand there's stuff targeted directly at entry level users like Firefox and Openoffice, which requires no knowledge. It depends a lot on how you want to use it. I agree it's still hard to...
  19. Martin

    The Apple Thread

    You're good at these :D To hijack your thread at the first opportunity, I've come to generally dislike the commercial software world for the way it is. FOSS is a completely different way of living, whether or not the products are the same or better/worse, it's just so much nicer the very...