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by x9200 » Sat, 01 Sep 2012 8:36 pm
sensei_ wrote:excuse my lack of unix knowledge. ive tried and successfully failed using any of the linux distros, tried to install red hat a few years back, but to no avail.
personally, i switch between windows and osx on a daily basis.
Actually OS X is a full blown Unix. iOS is derived from OS X. Samsung devices run on Android that is also a Unix like system. Both the systems include part of free, open-source code so all together the IP situation is IMHO pretty complex.
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by zzm9980 » Sat, 01 Sep 2012 9:34 pm
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zzm9980 wrote:They actually hired the lockinfo (and I think Wifi sync) developer(s) to make those features for them.
please go and do some research. the lockinfo developer (david ashman) was not hired by apple. but instead another person who developed a similar app.
as for wifisync not only was the app outright rejected, and then released in the next version with no credit to the original pommy developer.
i dare anyone to say with a straight face that they did not get at least some aspiration from the jailbreak community.
apparently some other people think the same way too.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/06/10 ... y-apology/
Sorry I don't spend my time researching the jailbreak community. I was close enough.
So is there a point to this thread, or is it just another trendy 'let's bash on Apple while we ignore or make excuses for all of the flaws in Android' thread? Honestly there are hundreds of forums with thousands of threads on just this topic. Do we really need to talk about it here? I think I'd actually prefer some more 'I've got my masters and want to know the percentage chance of getting a PR' threads.
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by sundaymorningstaple » Sat, 01 Sep 2012 10:18 pm
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SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
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by offshoreoildude » Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:22 pm
I just enjoyed the 'you'll pry my gun from cold, dead hands' yankee analogy. That's all is was for.
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by nakatago » Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:46 pm
offshoreoildude wrote:I just enjoyed the 'you'll pry my gun from cold, dead hands' yankee analogy. That's all is was for.
You brought the holy wars to our shores!
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by sensei_ » Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:03 am
zzm9980 wrote:So is there a point to this thread, or is it just another trendy 'let's bash on Apple while we ignore or make excuses for all of the flaws in Android' thread? Honestly there are hundreds of forums with thousands of threads on just this topic. Do we really need to talk about it here? I think I'd actually prefer some more 'I've got my masters and want to know the percentage chance of getting a PR' threads.
its not an apple bashing thread, more of a lets not take everything at face value.
as for not liking this topic, you could always not click. geez do we need to think of everything for you.
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by scarbowl » Mon, 03 Sep 2012 3:57 pm
sensei_ wrote:zzm9980 wrote:So is there a point to this thread, or is it just another trendy 'let's bash on Apple while we ignore or make excuses for all of the flaws in Android' thread? Honestly there are hundreds of forums with thousands of threads on just this topic. Do we really need to talk about it here? I think I'd actually prefer some more 'I've got my masters and want to know the percentage chance of getting a PR' threads.
its not an apple bashing thread, more of a lets not take everything at face value.
as for not liking this topic, you could always not click. geez do we need to think of everything for you.
Certainly sounded like an "apple bashing thread" to me!
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by sensei_ » Mon, 03 Sep 2012 4:43 pm
scarbowl wrote:Certainly sounded like an "apple bashing thread" to me!
could've gone the other way too with people bashing samsung.
there is always two sides to the coin. make sure we look at both sides before we draw conclusions.
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by zzm9980 » Mon, 03 Sep 2012 5:09 pm
sensei_ wrote:
as for not liking this topic, you could always not click. geez do we need to think of everything for you.
Or I could come here and whine. I didn't actually expect anyone to kill the thread for me, but just wanted to make myself heard like all of the people in here with extremely low expectations for their smart phone to do as long as they win the penis measurement competition. (There, an anti-Samsung jab
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