> What is the most common practice in Europe? I am curious, how much does an
> iPhone sell for in Scandinavia? How about an equivalent Android Phone (like
> a Nexus S or Galaxy)?
According to my county's leading price index:
- Samsung i5500 (Galaxy 5) is $206.
- Samsung i5700 (Galaxy Spica) is $
Debunking some FUDs here
On Friday, March 4, 2011 2:35:49 PM UTC+5:30, Karsten Silz wrote:
>
> This is coming
> from a company that knows so much more about you than Big Brother ever
> did - all your phone calls, emails, contacts, friends, appointments,
> tasks,
mobile me does the same thing
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Casper Bang wrote:
>A sweeping statement that's not true. Where I live (Scandinavia) by
>law you can only tie a consumer down 6 months, and many phones are
>sold entirely "Uden håndjern" (without cuffs).
What is the most common practice in Europe? I am curious, ho
> 1. Smartphones are (in the U.S. and Europe) sold subsidized by
> carriers with multi-year contracts where the carriers pick which phone
> models they push through subsidies and promotions.
A sweeping statement that's not true. Where I live (Scandinavia) by
law you can only tie a consumer down 6
On Mar 3, 7:06 pm, Casper Bang wrote:
> I see no reason for why Android tablets wouldn't be able to compete,
> when you look at what happened in the smartphone segment.
I can see three reasons:
1. Smartphones are (in the U.S. and Europe) sold subsidized by
carriers with multi-year contracts wher
On Mar 4, 6:43 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Karsten Silz wrote:
>
> > I agree that the competition is good for both sides. My point is that
> > when Google bought Android, they didn't do that to save the world from
> > Apple because they didn't know it was in danger
For me apple presentations jumped the shark back when Zynga (borderline
criminals and more morally reprehensible than drug dealers) took the stage
to present farmville for the iPhone. Their presence on stage along with
calling facetime 'revolutionary' (don't get me wrong, its certainly the
nice
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Karsten Silz wrote:
>
> I agree that the competition is good for both sides. My point is that
> when Google bought Android, they didn't do that to save the world from
> Apple because they didn't know it was in danger yet, they just wanted
> to build a mobile OS.
>
On Mar 4, 5:34 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Karsten Silz wrote:
> > This smells like history rewriting to me: Google bought Android in
> > 2005, and I doubt they knew about the iPhone then. With Android,
> > Google has been a "fast follower" for the most part, copy
Christian is completely blind. As part of his talk, he demo'ed the
Major League Baseball app for iPhone by swiping through the available
UI elements (with VoiceOver on, it reads the name of each widget
aloud), selecting a news item, and having it read aloud. He then
pointed out that MLB did absolu
On Mar 4, 5:37 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
> I wonder what kind of accessibility he is referring to, because in terms of
> making their OS usable by handicapped people, Mac OS is dead last. They are
> constantly being dinged for not offering enough keyboard shortcuts and voice
> support. It's never
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Chris Adamson wrote:
> I went to a conference session last October by Chris Hofstader (http://
> iphonefall2010.crowdvine.com/speakers/10842), who heads up GNU
> accessibility for the FSF. He said that in his opinion, Apple was
> "years ahead of everyone else" when
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Karsten Silz wrote:
> This smells like history rewriting to me: Google bought Android in
> 2005, and I doubt they knew about the iPhone then. With Android,
> Google has been a "fast follower" for the most part, copying the
> leading smartphone.
>
You're contradic
On Mar 4, 10:20 am, Karsten Silz wrote:
> And the next Tab is the Galaxy Tab 10.1, with the screen size matching
> its name.
Gotta love competition: Because of the iPad 2, the Galaxy Tab 10.1
will be probably both thinner and cheaper, according to Samsung's
(http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/techsc
On Mar 3, 5:55 pm, Fabrizio Giudici
wrote:
> I think that Android needs a few (I'm saying a few, not a lot of)
> high-profile apps in this area that probably aren't the ones that single
> developers or small companies can do. I think that Google is doing that,
> see some recent job ads. But for co
Press "Send to My TV?" that does not seem Apple stylised enough to me.
How about dragging the video with your finger and flicking it in the
direction of the TV. The video will stylistically fold up into a paper
aeroplane and fly off the edge of the edge of the tablet screen and be
seen flying onto
On Mar 3, 7:06 pm, Casper Bang wrote:
> I already envision me sitting in my
> office in a few years, watching TV on a tablet, being able to pick it
> up, walk to my 50" and press "Send to TV".
Wasn't that already demonstrated with Google TV and an Android phone
last year at Google I/O? iOS 4.2 (
I went to a conference session last October by Chris Hofstader (http://
iphonefall2010.crowdvine.com/speakers/10842), who heads up GNU
accessibility for the FSF. He said that in his opinion, Apple was
"years ahead of everyone else" when it comes to accessibility.
Not sure if I'd attribute it to PR
On 4 March 2011 09:56, Carl Jokl wrote:
> Retina display could not be used due to physics i.e. energy
> consumption and economics i.e. the number of screens which could be
> produced? I don't see how this is relevant! This is a "Magical" device
> and since when do "Magical" devices have to care a
Sorry that last post didn't all make sense. Edit out the "and
relevant".
I wonder how much manna someone has to have in order to experience the
full 10 hour battery life an one month standby time. It would also be
embarrassing if you ran out of manna in the middle of a iPad based
presentation. Bet
Retina display could not be used due to physics i.e. energy
consumption and economics i.e. the number of screens which could be
produced? I don't see how this is relevant! This is a "Magical" device
and since when do "Magical" devices have to care about physics and
economics? Granted sometimes they
On Mar 4, 6:02 am, Casper Bang wrote:
> As I mentioned earlier, Steve Jobs
> directly put words in Samsung CEO's mouth at the iPad2 launch, which
> is just distasteful.
Yeah, that was stupid. That lady from Samsung (not the CEO) on the
earnings call was widely misquoted as saying sales were "qui
On Mar 4, 1:21 am, Augusto Sellhorn
wrote:
> So because he worked at Microsoft and now is at Google, the conference
> is going to be full of such nonsense?
At last year's Google I/O, Vic and other Google executives laid
heavily into Apple (http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100521/viral-video-
googles-
> Then you should probably stay away from the next Google I/O.
Right, because Google IO is littered with holy priests rather than
smart engineers, and not popular at all! ;)
> Those ex-
> Microsofties (Vic Gundotra) are vicious - it must be a Microsoft
> culture thing. Hell, they staged a buri
On Mar 3, 6:03 pm, Karsten Silz wrote:
>
> Then you should probably stay away from the next Google I/O. Those ex-
> Microsofties (Vic Gundotra) are vicious - it must be a Microsoft
> culture thing. Hell, they staged a burial of Apple and RIM when they
> finished Windows Phone 7 (http://leemn.wo
On Mar 3, 6:25 pm, Carl Jokl wrote:
> The one where the Woman
> started saying "I define a miracle as being". I felt just a tad
> uncomfortable with any piece of electronics being hailed as a miracle
> but I may be being oversensitive about it.
Of course, stories about the iPad helping autistic c
On Mar 3, 6:49 pm, Carl Jokl wrote:
> I can't fault the iPad but the general Apple keynote smugness gets
> quite irritating.
Then you should probably stay away from the next Google I/O. Those ex-
Microsofties (Vic Gundotra) are vicious - it must be a Microsoft
culture thing. Hell, they staged a
On 03/03/2011 06:49 PM, Carl Jokl wrote:
I suppose I can't argue with that.
Well, supporting autistic children is great of course, but I don't think
it's the thing that makes the market (I could add: unfortunately). But
the point about apps is good. While it's not as useful to mankind as the
On Mar 3, 6:25 pm, Carl Jokl wrote:
> If the argument was that the iPad could
> not support retina display because it would take too much graphics
> power to push that many pixels then with a 9x increase in graphics
> power could it have coped with higher res?
The problem is not the graphics powe
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Casper Bang wrote:
> I see no reason for why Android tablets wouldn't be able to compete,
Agreed. The iPad 2 certainly sets the bar very high, but no higher than when
the first iPhone came out. Jobs was using the same smug and disparaging
rhetoric when the first
The hardware looks awesome, apart from the screen which could do with
a bit higher DPI. Would I buy an iPad if I was able to load up
Android? Absolutely, but I have no interest in Mac, or iTunes, or
Objective-C.
I see no reason for why Android tablets wouldn't be able to compete,
when you look at
I suppose I can't argue with that.
It is interesting that given Apple is is normally known for having the
premium more expensive device that Apple at the moment does seems to
have the most cost effective tablet for equivalent specs. The
competition does genuinely seem to have a hard time beating A
Its effectiveness with autistic kids is truly extraordinary. The tools
for these kids have previously been expensive and limited -- one hard-
core autistic kid in my son's class communicates primarily with an
electronic board decked out with a few dozen physical buttons labelled
with icons. These d
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