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HTC 10 is the First Android Smartphone to Support Apple AirPlay Out of the Box

So much hate from so many for a product that supports an Apple protocol. Amazing. I only wish Apple would support other protocols and standards than just their own. I should be able to use any phone with any video attached device instead of Apple purposely sabotaging their protocols so things like Kodi can't use it anymore.
 
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GFLPraxis said:
I'll be really curious to see if Apple switched to USB-C with future iPhones. It seems to cover all of the reasons they developed lightening (reversible, small) while being faster and a standard, but it's likely frustrate existing buyers to change the port again and invalidate all accessories.
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With the Mac, Apple wants to be standards compliant because they aren't the dominant player. If they create their own unique ports for the Mac, nobody would make accessories for it. With a standard part, anything compatible with PCs can be compatible with Macs. Apple benefits from this.

With iOS, Apple is the dominant player. They can create their own unique ports, and accessories will be made for it which will only be compatible with it.
 
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Isn't AirPlay proprietary? Wouldn't this be an unofficial solution that could be broken by Apple?

Reminds me of the iTunes palm pre mess years ago
 
gaximus said:
You are correct, but not about Apple never allowing that. When FaceTime was first announced it was going to be open standard, I just didn't realize it never happened.
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/facetime-open-standard-never-happened/2012-12-06
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That website exists in 1997, but we're seeing it here in 2016?? But how! Did they invent time travel?

lol

But yeah, I was excited about FT going open. Sucks that it didn't. Imagine if all Android phones had FT today. Video calling would be seamless for everyone, regardless of platform.
 
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When FaceTime and AirPlay were originally announced they were going to be open standards, but Apple backtracked on FaceTime at least. Pretty much assumed they did with AirPlay too since we never saw any compatible devices and Apple tried to shutdown some of the early Mac "apps" that supported play back with AirPlay.
 
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Love the focus group of hipsters that give their $0.02 at the end. I can see what they were trying to do, but it seems so pretentious. The third party feature is cool, but it is still running a horrid OS.
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mantan said:
If iMessage ever moved to another platform, I'd be gone. Tired of shoddy hardware from Apple.
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Which hardware do you speak of? What models iPhone did you have issues with?
 
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BMcCoy said:
Shame Mr. Nigel Newby-House is reading from a script/autocue in that video.
Undermines any "enthusiasm" for the product, when he can't memorise what he wants to say..
It makes the tone of what he is saying sound quite insincere.

At least the Apple boys go out on the keynote stage having memorised all the adjectives they want to use regarding the latest iDevice.. OK, so memorising "magical" "incredible" and "our customers are loving..." doesn't take too much time, but at least they're not reading an autocue on stage!
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Especially when he read out the lie that they pioneered the all-aluminium enclosure.
 
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Don't think Apple would ever make Apple Pay available to other platforms. Presumably it would make it very difficult to stay secure, seeing as the no.1 selling feature is that Apple keeps every transaction as secure and tough as nails with their hardware and software.
 
Planey28 said:
Isn't AirPlay proprietary? Wouldn't this be an unofficial solution that could be broken by Apple?

Reminds me of the iTunes palm pre mess years ago
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AirPlay is open. Apple licenses it. Any vendor can pay the licensing fee.

gaximus said:
You are correct, but not about Apple never allowing that. When FaceTime was first announced it was going to be open standard, I just didn't realize it never happened.
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/facetime-open-standard-never-happened/2012-12-06
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I'm confuse by your answer. Post said Apple wouldn't allow it. To date, Apple has never allowed it to be an open standard. Saying it's going to be open and making it open are two different things.

As a consumer, I particularly like one thing said in the article: ""You wouldn't want credit card companies to determine what you can put in your wallet," Sng points out, "so why would you want a particular vendor to decide what payment you put in your phone?"
 
It's a shame they can't get Facetime out there. Maybe iMessage as well. There aren't a ton of software services that Apple runs that people love and those are two of them.
 
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BMcCoy said:
Shame Mr. Nigel Newby-House is reading from a script/autocue in that video.
Undermines any "enthusiasm" for the product, when he can't memorise what he wants to say..
It makes the tone of what he is saying sound quite insincere.

At least the Apple boys go out on the keynote stage having memorised all the adjectives they want to use regarding the latest iDevice.. OK, so memorising "magical" "incredible" and "our customers are loving..." doesn't take too much time, but at least they're not reading an autocue on stage!
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You're kidding, right?!

There are auto-cues all across the stage!
 
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BeefCake 15 said:
They're one of the best Android phones if not the best from experience...
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Muwhahaha, that's probably why AT&T doesn't even want to sell the HTC 10. They have been **** for years: ****** battery, ****** camera, processor throttling problems, slow software-updates and the list goes on.
 
BMcCoy said:
Shame Mr. Nigel Newby-House is reading from a script/autocue in that video.
Undermines any "enthusiasm" for the product, when he can't memorise what he wants to say..
It makes the tone of what he is saying sound quite insincere.

At least the Apple boys go out on the keynote stage having memorised all the adjectives they want to use regarding the latest iDevice.. OK, so memorising "magical" "incredible" and "our customers are loving..." doesn't take too much time, but at least they're not reading an autocue on stage!
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Eddy is always Cued up
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BMcCoy said:
Shame Mr. Nigel Newby-House is reading from a script/autocue in that video.
Undermines any "enthusiasm" for the product, when he can't memorise what he wants to say..
It makes the tone of what he is saying sound quite insincere.

At least the Apple boys go out on the keynote stage having memorised all the adjectives they want to use regarding the latest iDevice.. OK, so memorising "magical" "incredible" and "our customers are loving..." doesn't take too much time, but at least they're not reading an autocue on stage!
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You probably forgot about the teleprompter that Apple is using.
 
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Only phone I would ever buy with Android would be from HTC. The One was an incredible phone and this looks amazing. AirPlay is one of the things that ties me down to Apple and Spotify killed Apple music for me. This is welcome competition. Apple just hasn't brought anything relevant to the table lately in terms of functionality FOR ME, calm down guys, opinion only. iTunes match was Spotify before Spotify, and airplay and Apple TV is my bread and butter. But man, its hard to keep them around for nothing more than iOS. Removable battery, extra storage, EVEN TO SAVE A VIDEO FROM SAFARI, cmon guys.
 
I'm happy for Apple to keep ALL their technology, processes and innovation proprietary; they're the only company that has enough passion and competence to deliver products that implement these things PROPERLY. If you want your own AirPlay and FaceTime equivalents, go and design your own. Apple have wholly earnt their admiration from customers through REAL man hours and innovative, cunning engineering feats. Want your own party? Buy your own cake and invite your own friends.
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Jakexb said:
It's a shame they can't get Facetime out there. Maybe iMessage as well. There aren't a ton of software services that Apple runs that people love and those are two of them.
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And there are a ton of reasons to go with iOS, these being just 2 of them. It's like asking Heinz to licence their ketchup recipe to any old sauce vendor - why would they do that? They want it closed sauce :p
 
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69Mustang said:
I'm confuse by your answer. Post said Apple wouldn't allow it. To date, Apple has never allowed it to be an open standard. Saying it's going to be open and making it open are two different things.
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Apple was originally going to allow it. The reason they didn't was do to the fact they lost a patent trial that would of allowed them to make FaceTime work p2p, but since they can't do it that way, all FT calls go through their servers, and thats when they decided to make it not open. I'm sure they didn't want to have there servers serving android to android calls.
 
12vElectronics said:
People still buy HTC?
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They're the only brand that I've ever legitimately considered switching to. The HTC One tempted me, it was Touch ID that pulled me back to Apple with the release of the 5S. It's a pity that they've had a couple of bad releases, because I'd far rather see them do better than Samsung.
 
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I'm very set in my apple ways but I can respect a company for going outside of their comfort zone to try and bridge competitive technological gaps, while still being a worthy adversary. Apple has done this and so has Microsoft. Though to Google's credit I feel like they've always done it.
 
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