The unwashed masses will always be ignorant. Having a beef with them
will be counter productive.
Monikers help sell things. A retina screen is no big deal to us, but to
the unwashed masses it makes sure they get the high-resolution screen
without having to remember all of the details. And I do give apple the
credit for realizing that WE needed this in everything and starting to
bring it out. But they certainly didn't invent high-resolution screens,
but they are the main reason they are ubiquitous on tablets. If the
touch-ID thing pans out, they won't (and shouldn't) get credit for a
fingerprint reader but making is a thing we can use and depend on, they
should get credit for, if it works, which remains to be seen. Still to
this day no one has made NFC into a useful product. So who invented
that is not really so important.
On 9/20/2013 5:02 AM, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:
My beef in general is with people who don't understand the technology
and believe the advertising that companies do.
And let's not forget that Apple is the master of masking the
underlying technology with a moniker that they call their own and
making people believe that they were the ones who either invented it
or are the first one to do it.
But as I mentioned it really doesn't make a big difference in the end
as long as the steady march of progress is being made but what really
bothers me is the uneducated people out there.
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On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:20 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <amar...@charter.net> wrote:
So your beef is with fanboys. Nobody likes fanboys. :)
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On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad <z00...@gmail.com> wrote:
What annoys me is when Apple fanboys see something and say apple
invented it. Good example is iCloud.
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On Sep 20, 2013, at 4:10 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <amar...@charter.net> wrote:
Why is it a problem to give them credit for making it all work?
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On Sep 19, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad <z00...@gmail.com> wrote:
So, I updated my phone to iOS 7 and it looks pretty decent so far.
The new layout is a bit jarring but I'm sure I will get used to it.
It's funny how Apple has taken the best bits from different operating
systems but somehow have managed to improve them and give them a name.
And that's what I don't like about Apple it makes people think that
Apple has invented this feature while that is not necessarily the
case.
Either way it really doesn't matter in the end I think that what Apple
is doing pushes the mobile industry forward regardless of how they may
copy other people.
Indian the real winner is the consumer and that's what matters the most.
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