Like I said Apple paid for use there technology. They didn't pull a Samsung (stealing there technology without asking)
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Apple 'Blown Away' by iPhone 5 Pre-Orders
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Like I said Apple paid for use there technology. They didn't pull a Samsung (stealing there technology without asking)
What about when Apple did "steal technology" ?
- Visual Voice mail settlement with Klausner
- Multiple PMP UI concepts settlement with Creative Labs
Seriously, it's not "stealing". Patent infringement is not theft, it's patent infringement. It doesn't require direct or indirect copying either. You can infringe a patent without even knowing about it or the product built from that patent.
Apple is also leading they way in where the personal computer goes such as abandoning CD/DVD drive in there laptops. Just like how they abandoned the floppy drive in late 90s.
If 90% of Android devices did not work, Android would have disappeared ages ago from the market. Android devices work just fine, hyperbole is not really a useful debating tactic, it just makes your argument sound too weak to stand on their own.
Err... no, they aren't. Apple aren't the first company to ship a laptop without an optical drive. They won't be the last either.
Why do you refuse to see the whole industry is basically pretty much neck and neck ? What is so wrong with simply admitting is running in the pack ? It changes nothing to their successes and failures, why do you refuse to see reality and try to keep making up bland excuses ?
I just don't understand what you would lose from facing up to reality here...
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Actually - I've bought iPhone 3 -> 4S (every model) on day #1.
The only reason I'm going to wait this year is to wait until all the funky new (camera, DVI, charger etc) connectors are in stock.
Not being able to buy third party adapters may have me waiting a long time
Nit picking tech specs is pointless.
Which one is better: the Galaxy S3 or the iPhone 5? its really all about personal preference! Two Great phones, roll with the one that puts a smile on your face
Ironically, the new cable is one of the features I anticipate the most. Plugging in your iPhone to a car USB adapter while driving was so difficult to do. Now this problem is solved.
What I'm trying to say is whatever Apple does the industry tends to follow Apple. They might be up there with Apple par for par but you got to remember Apple paid the way for the online music store industry. Then portable MP3 player(ipod) Then the portable tablet (iPad) and I can go on and on. It's this simple, before the iPad did Samsung, Asus have a tablet? No. When iPad came out it change the whole game for computer makers. Now everyone has a tablet. And you can say I like the Asus tablet over the iPad but you gotta remember if the iPad never came out Asus would of never came out with a tablet
but.... this is macrumors... and a new Iphone was just announced! Its a long long tradition we have enjoyed. If you expect us to grow up and be rationale.... HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Wrong bit of cyberspace
I know it's an attempt at a humor but Samsung Android phones are actually the ones less alike to the iPhone 5's longer display than other Android makers'. It's because Samsung's Android phones tend to be less oblong than others in the aspect ratio. HTC and Motorola have many qHD phones that are 16:9 in ratio. Sometimes the fact gets in the way of (bad) humor.
Now imagine if only Apple and AT&T's sites weren't unresponsive for the first 10 minutes or so.
The shipping times on Apple's site got pushed back to 2 weeks within the 1st hour - not after a few hours as some have suggested. I was up and was going to pre-order two that would have been "guaranteed" to receive on the 21st, but when the in-store pickup option was greyed out and unavailable, I canceled the order. I hate getting stuff shipped to me, I'm either never home for the shipments and constantly miss them, or the item never comes on time (I have the worst luck).
I am not going to be waiting on lines, that's just ridiculous. Why can't any tech company get their sh
t together and actually have a decent supply whenever there is a release to at least come close to meeting demand... Xbox360, every single iPhone release, etc. I just hope that because I want a 64GB black model, that the demand is low enough for me to snag one launch day without camping out.
The shipping times on Apple's site got pushed back to 2 weeks within the 1st hour - not after a few hours as some have suggested. I was up and was going to pre-order two that would have been "guaranteed" to receive on the 21st, but when the in-store pickup option was greyed out and unavailable, I canceled the order. I hate getting stuff shipped to me, I'm either never home for the shipments and constantly miss them, or the item never comes on time (I have the worst luck).
I am not going to be waiting on lines, that's just ridiculous. Why can't any tech company get their sh
t together and actually have a decent supply whenever there is a release to at least come close to meeting demand... Xbox360, every single iPhone release, etc. I just hope that because I want a 64GB black model, that the demand is low enough for me to snag one launch day without camping out.
I agree, if it were not for Apple people would still be using Motorola Razr flip phones.
"Let's wait next until Apple releases something new so that we can follow"- the computer industry
Hang on, one end is lightning and the other end is USB. How it that easier? of did you mean plugging your phone into the old 30 pin connector? Then yeah the lighting would be easier.
Either way, I would recommend not plugging in anything, easy or hard while driving. Do it at the lights
