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From Steve Jobs' Biography: "I'm going to destroy Android"
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Which is hardly the first phone using the "slab" form factor. Meet the SE P800 :
If our requirement of a slab phone is a brick with a screen on it, then there's probably an older example.
I don't know about destroying something, Steve. That's a pretty bad thing to think of doing to another company when there was a time your company was also in dire need.
Although I want to ask Apple enthusiasts about this: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html
This was in February 2006. Some features are like of the Iphone too.
Although I want to ask Apple enthusiasts about this: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html
This was in February 2006. Some features are like of the Iphone too.
Thanks for that entertainment, I needed a good laugh; like getting reactions out of creationists.
I could waste my time responding to worthless parts of the lowest common denominator, or I could do something useful. I think I'll do the latter.
I never thought I'd find a forum with the same types I'd find on youtube; I was wrong. Have a nice existence.
Typed on my Windows PC (Apple fanatic).
I could waste my time responding to worthless parts of the lowest common denominator, or I could do something useful. I think I'll do the latter.
I never thought I'd find a forum with the same types I'd find on youtube; I was wrong. Have a nice existence.
Typed on my Windows PC (Apple fanatic).
you first say you don't have time to make a lengthy post but you do it anyway.
but alas! you simply dodge the questions!
anyways, do share your knowledge master. enlighten us with your insights.
That's the first smartphone.Glad you brought it up :
So kids, Apple did not invent the smartphone.
Glad you brought it up :
Did that phone actually exist, because it looks like a CAD render.
If it was real, it needs to be burnt.
Glad you brought it up :
Oooh, the first ever smart phone. It does look smart and sharp during those days.
Gotta give props to IBM. We wouldn't have many inventions today without them. They hold the most patents of any tech company. Respect the tech pioneers that dominated a generation.
If Apple is big brother to Google, IBM was big brother to Apple.
Listen, I admire Steve Jobs and his competitiveness. But for all his brilliance, he had FAULTS too. Him getting exiled in 1985 was probably the best thing to happen to him and to Apple in the longer run. Then SJ went through some hard times with NeXT (financial flop). By selling Pixar to Disney was the turning point. Then the older and wiser Steve changed Apple for the better.
When I see stages of Steve Jobs, I see the long-haired SJ from the 1970's with the beard. Then in the 1980's, he still had long hair but still had his boyish good looks. By that 1996 interview where he said Microsoft had no taste or how he was inspired by Xerox's GUI, he looked different and no longer had the fresh face from the mid-80's. He even got chubby at some point. Then by the iMac/iPod era with the black turtle neck and short, balding hair, that was the image we remembered for a younger generation and made his keynotes even more anticipated and epic. Of course he got skinnier by 2008.
Google is sorta portraying the Microsoft role. SJ is gone now. This is like when Michael Jordan retired for that 2nd and 3rd time in the NBA. We knew we couldn't replace someone like MJ, but we all moved on and there some fantastic players out there now even with this current lock-out. And there were players like David Thompson and Dr. J that INSPIRED MJ just like Bob Dylan and The Beatles inspired SJ. We can't dwell so much in the past or live on nostalgia. We have to move on. There are 200M Android phones sold all over the world. Android is not dying anytime soon. There is a new era of geniuses out there. Google is only 13-years old. They can't beat a computer/software vet like Apple right now that has been around the game for 36 years. But in time, who knows? We move from one generation to the next. Just like when IBM and Sony passed the torch to Apple with computers and multimedia devices. Apple is now the elderstateman and Google is the young buck.
If Apple is big brother to Google, IBM was big brother to Apple.
Listen, I admire Steve Jobs and his competitiveness. But for all his brilliance, he had FAULTS too. Him getting exiled in 1985 was probably the best thing to happen to him and to Apple in the longer run. Then SJ went through some hard times with NeXT (financial flop). By selling Pixar to Disney was the turning point. Then the older and wiser Steve changed Apple for the better.
When I see stages of Steve Jobs, I see the long-haired SJ from the 1970's with the beard. Then in the 1980's, he still had long hair but still had his boyish good looks. By that 1996 interview where he said Microsoft had no taste or how he was inspired by Xerox's GUI, he looked different and no longer had the fresh face from the mid-80's. He even got chubby at some point. Then by the iMac/iPod era with the black turtle neck and short, balding hair, that was the image we remembered for a younger generation and made his keynotes even more anticipated and epic. Of course he got skinnier by 2008.
Google is sorta portraying the Microsoft role. SJ is gone now. This is like when Michael Jordan retired for that 2nd and 3rd time in the NBA. We knew we couldn't replace someone like MJ, but we all moved on and there some fantastic players out there now even with this current lock-out. And there were players like David Thompson and Dr. J that INSPIRED MJ just like Bob Dylan and The Beatles inspired SJ. We can't dwell so much in the past or live on nostalgia. We have to move on. There are 200M Android phones sold all over the world. Android is not dying anytime soon. There is a new era of geniuses out there. Google is only 13-years old. They can't beat a computer/software vet like Apple right now that has been around the game for 36 years. But in time, who knows? We move from one generation to the next. Just like when IBM and Sony passed the torch to Apple with computers and multimedia devices. Apple is now the elderstateman and Google is the young buck.
You should learn the difference between a PHONE and an OS. Then get back to us
You should learn to be less condescending when hiding behind a keyboard and mouse.
I know exactly what the difference is, and the OS is a rip-off of iOS. You'd have to be blind not to see that.
You should learn to communicate better instead of spending time on forums.
You referred to a phone and compared it with an OS. So while you may KNOW what the difference is - you didn't COMMUNICATE it well at all.
You'd have to be blind not to see that.
You honestly didn't realize I was referring to the blatant ripoffs in the software, when the topic is the OS?
Much apologies. Next time I'll refer to it as "the OS residing on the piece of hardware, so as not to confuse other forum members".
ANDROID with its various derivative skins, is a rip-off of iOS, particularly the Samsung stuff with the Touchwiz overlay. Some may be very good phones, but having a few Android devices at work as well as an iPhone, they're very, very similar. Contrast that with the deceased WebOS or Windows Phone 7, which manage to offer the same ease of use while at least trying to be different.
And at less than half your posts, I don't think I'm spending too much time on Internet forums.
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Hey, that looks just like my Droid X2.... well maybe not
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Very true. That explains the longevity and excellence of the ThinkPad T series.
Every bit as good as a MacBook Pro, they are excellent Windows laptops. It took a short while after the transition to Lenovo, but they are now back strong as ever. The iconic style that many call "business black" is very tough, very classic and very easy to care for.
They had IPS displays long before and after anyone else did, and the ultrabay on the side assured that one could easily insert a second hard drive, an optical drive, or battery in a matter of seconds. A very versatile laptop.
Hey, that looks just like my Droid X2.... well maybe not
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Very true. That explains the longevity and excellence of the ThinkPad T series.
Every bit as good as a MacBook Pro, they are excellent Windows laptops. It took a short while after the transition to Lenovo, but they are now back strong as ever. The iconic style that many call "business black" is very tough, very classic and very easy to care for.
They had IPS displays long before and after anyone else did, and the ultrabay on the side assured that one could easily insert a second hard drive, an optical drive, or battery in a matter of seconds. A very versatile laptop.
Kind of OT, but I used to love Thinkpads, but lately they've been having a lot higher of a failure rate than the MacBook Pros have, for us anyway.
As for Android, I still really quite like pure Android, but I still think it's easy to see there probably wouldn't be an Android without iOS. Then again iOS isn't exactly original in a lot of ways either. Like so much else, Apple took here and there and put it together into one good product.
Oh come on, not this again. Android the OS is a rip-off of iOS ? Why are both so completely different then ?
You honestly didn't realize I was referring to the blatant ripoffs in the software, when the topic is the OS?
Much apologies. Next time I'll refer to it as "the OS residing on the piece of hardware, so as not to confuse other forum members".
ANDROID with its various derivative skins, is a rip-off of iOS, particularly the Samsung stuff with the Touchwiz overlay. Some may be very good phones, but having a few Android devices at work as well as an iPhone, they're very, very similar. Contrast that with the deceased WebOS or Windows Phone 7, which manage to offer the same ease of use while at least trying to be different.
And at less than half your posts, I don't think I'm spending too much time on Internet forums.
But that's Samsung's problem, their third-party theme/UI - and Apple did take the matter to EU court with ONLY Samsung and no one else. Android just provides a very flexible approach when it's come to User Interface. Just like the freak'n Linux does with KDE, GNOME, fluxbox...the GNU/Linux kernel has absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft Windows even if some of the more popular GUI - KDE and GNOME look quite like Windows UI. The default UI of Android - the stuff Google provides and recommends (but not mandated) - looks nothing like iOS, at all. Except the pulldown notify bar which first appreared in iOS v5
.With several from the army of third-party Launchers in Android Market, any Android phone can look very much like a Windows Phone 7 - a platform not successful nor released earlier - so following your logic then Android also rips off WP7, Google steals the UI of Microsoft's late and failed project, right?
As for GNOME, it resembles OS X more than Windows. In fact, the current iterations of the GNOME desktop environment is clearly inspired by OS X.But that's Samsung's problem, their third-party theme/UI - and Apple did take the matter to EU court with ONLY Samsung and no one else. Android just provides a very flexible approach when it's come to User Interface. Just like the freak'n Linux does with KDE, GNOME, fluxbox...the GNU/Linux kernel has absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft Windows even if some of the more popular GUI - KDE and GNOME look quite like Windows UI. The default UI of Android - the stuff Google provides and recommends (but not mandated) - looks nothing like iOS, at all. Except the pulldown notify bar which first appreared in iOS v5
With several from the army of third-party Launchers in Android Market, any Android phone can look very much like a Windows Phone 7 - a platform not successful nor released earlier - so following your logic then Android also rips off WP7, Google steals the UI of Microsoft's late and failed project, right?
In fact, I almost seamlessly adapt in OS X due to my previous experience on Ubuntu.