Forum: The Other Half
2014-06-22, 21:11
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Forum: The Other Half
2014-06-17, 14:45
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Replies: 121
Views: 35,338
DIP_TOH -- lots of toggles! -- sold out!
Chronological path of activities
1. Jolla updates Sailfish OS, toggles in lock-screen customizable
2. Software tutorial (http://www.itbackstage.de/2014/06/14/jolla-toggle-bluetooth-kind-of/) is...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-06-02, 09:10
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
Well, Mixcrosoft has tried. Only they approached it from the opposite side. Instead of making their mobiles looks like desktop, they made the destop look like a mobile. With catastrophic consequences...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-06-01, 22:17
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
What do you mean here? To my mind, there's not much difference between the top cellphone companies. (And this includes Nokia.) The only significant achievement in the last decade or so was made by...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-06-01, 19:03
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
:) In a subtle way, this statement right here is the issue at hand: "I think that everyone can fundamentally agree that X is important. However, I think that most people will agree that Y is not...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-06-01, 18:36
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
The majority of cars in the world is built pre-2010.
Collecting friends in a capital airport in a 3rd world country by late 90's Toyota Camry while streaming their homeland radio over 3G and...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-31, 23:56
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
juiceme has already said it but the problem with this comparison is that you're comparing a jailbroken device with a stock device.
As soon as you jailbreak an iPhone, bang goes your warranty, OS...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-31, 22:01
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
Whole "smartphone" industry is built with the only purpose: feeding consumers with crap they actually don't need. Hmm...I've just realized one thing: some time ago I would use a word "customer", but...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-31, 19:19
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
Hmm. You know, I haven't thought about that much, but the "rural area" consideration is interesting. Here in Ohio, cell tower coverage is pretty miserable (all the providers other than Verizon only...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-31, 06:48
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
nope. it came with the unit.
my personal reason for not going with apple products:
1. it is very expensive compared to other products that can do the same thing, sometimes even better.
2. it has...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-31, 06:33
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-30, 22:44
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
You really have a washed up brain. Enjoy being the clueless majority. The majority happens to be idiots which politicians and said businesses love so much and use to screw with the normal people and...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-30, 22:33
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
Are you freaking kidding me with those adapters? I should spend 2000EUR on an iPhone and all its gimmicky adapters (iR, TV-out, keyboard case, You_Name_It...) in order to have the same out of box...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-30, 22:11
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
@szopin iOS and Mac OS X is Darwin underneath so BSD based.
Unlike OS X, iOS doesn't have Terminal, doesn't have user accounts, no sshd, no access to the filesystem. Apps and their data are...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-30, 21:37
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
Well, there it is, just as you sad it; You wish that there'd be similar community for apple as exists for Maemo (& derivatives...)
But there isn't. And won't be.
It just does not work that way,...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-30, 17:36
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-30, 10:03
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-30, 07:43
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
Dude, with Apple, you're not in a pool, you're in a freaking tight and deep water well with metal doors locked at the top. You can't even see the light as if having those old school wooden doors on...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-30, 07:37
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
Oh, you really are a stubborn one. Does everyone have a TV capable of emitting a wireless signal? N900 can be connected to any TV, old or new, you are excluding my usage of TV out on any TV. iPhone...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-28, 17:28
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
unwillingness to put all your eggs in one basket
There. Fixed it for ya.
I've noticed exactly the same pattern as marxian. His point was not to avoid corporations but to avoid a lock-in to a...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-28, 16:51
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
Progressing technology =/= beneficial technology for all. "Smart TVs", Netflix et al may be beneficial for some but for those not willing to have their viewing habits on NSA servers are a bane.
We...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-28, 16:21
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
I've noticed a running theme throughout your posts in this thread. The theme is one of dependency: You can access $SERVICE_CONTROLLED_BY_CORPORATION or control $PRODUCT_MANUFACTURED_BY_CORPORATION...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-28, 15:11
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
They are not worthy successors. The apple (excuse the pun) has fallen too far from the tree, with even those claiming to be 'unlike' falling over themselves to repeat the success of the iPhone. It's...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-28, 08:29
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
Or even something as advanced as the backwards apostrophe. My other half's friend (who, by the way, has been an iPhone user since day 1 and has never had another "smartphone", so I assume she was a...
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Forum: Competitors
2014-05-28, 06:36
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Replies: 86
Views: 27,684
Re: iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1): The Journey Continues
Just this weekend some relatives'-in-law' were over at the place my partner and I are moving out of. We couldn't find the TV remote to an old large TV, but wanted to watch some show on it. Besides...
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