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• Prior art: Placing a piece of tape on a door to see if the person inside opened it.
  
  REJECTED!
  
  How much money did some lawyer make preparing this? In reply to: "Apple patent shows tamper-resistant label"

  December 10, 2009

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• Wow, what a lame list (and Apple biased). Here are a few that you missed...
  
  Bluetooth headsets (pick one)
  GPS in a phone (pick one)
  XBOX Live (how did you miss this when you added the PS2???)
  Remote Desktop (and any of the derivatives)
  Laser Mice
  Internet Banking
  OnStar In reply to: "The 20 most innovative consumer electronics products of the decade"

  December 10, 2009

  4 replies

• I cannot help but notice that for someone who has presumably switched to a Mac, you certainly spend a lot of time reading and responding to news articles about Windows.
  
  Please explain how trolling Windows articles benefits you as a Mac user. Perhaps you miss Windows and this is the way you express it? Or maybe you are just bored?
  
  There must be some Mac enthusiasts forum or site that you can focus your energy on in a positive manner. In reply to: "Microsoft reposts Windows 7 download tool"

  December 9, 2009

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• Agreed, just in time for the holidays too. (scratches head) In reply to: "Windows 7 family pack starting to sell out"

  December 4, 2009

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• I hope this was a rhetorical question. Of course it is consumers. Who cares how good/easy the development platform is if no one buys the phone?
  
  The key is in effectively marketing why your OS + Device is better; something Apple does extremely well and Microsoft sucks at in comparison. The Driod campaign is showing signs of life. Think back to the iPhone launch and all the buzz Apple created for an overpriced, feature lacking (compared to WinMo) phone tied to a single network. That had little to do with the development platform. It was mostly about the device and OS (multi-touch); something no one had done before. It also helped that they nailed the browser story.
  
  Today, there is relative parity between all of the major vendors in terms of cool devices and development platforms. IMO what will tip the scales next is the newest killer 'feature' that make consumers want to jump ship. What will the next groundbreaking mobile innovation be? Will the company that creates it be able to market it effectively?
  
  Lower level details like app development will not matter much. Once developers see a target that is widely used, they will flock to it regardless; after all, it is just code and as I mentioned earlier, the gap between WinCE, .Net, Objective C, Anriod, is pretty narrow from the perspective of a developer looking to cash in on apps. They will adapt.
  
  If you ask me, the next innovation is pretty obvious... stop concentrating on the 'smart' and focus on the 'phone'. That is the main reason I carry the device around, not to browse the web, use GPS, make Super Mario sounds; to communicate with another human being. Try improving that for a change. In reply to: "In mobile, do developers or consumers matter most?"

  December 4, 2009

  1 reply

• Makes me remember a line from Star Trek II:
  
  "Every time we have dealings with Star Fleet I get nervous. We are dealing with something here that can be perverted into a dreadful weapon."
  
  Not hard to imagine this being used to vaporize people, things. Everytime your lights blink, you know somebody just got fried. In reply to: "California gives green light for space-based solar"

  December 3, 2009

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• Printers are just the tip of the iceberg. What is going to happen when you plug your iPod into one of these machines? What about your phone? Devices are a big piece of the pie when it comes to OS adoption.
  
  It will be interesting to see what they come up with for printer drivers. The Windows model has not changed for some time, perhaps for a good reason? Maybe they will release a new version of PostScript :-) In reply to: "One of Google Chrome OS's hardest tasks? Printing"

  December 1, 2009

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• Can't we all just get along? In reply to: "Eclipse tells ex-community director to 'go away'"

  November 30, 2009

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• Extremely cool. The applications will go beyond cars I hope. In reply to: "Dead battery? Just refill it"

  November 10, 2009

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• I do not have time to educate you on the complete feature set of Exchange Server and SharePoint Server. Suffice to say that Google's offering is not in the same league. They are for mom and pop. The big boys go to Microsoft because they have products that scale to corporate level needs.
  
  But just for grins, go find a Google equivalent of these things:
  - Global address books
  - Integrated security, security groups, remote management.
  - customizable SPAM filtering
  - CSS compliant web authoring
  - support for .Net web parts
  - ActiveSync support
  - web presence
  - IP phone integration
  
  Happy hunting. Dress warm though because you will be out for awhile. In reply to: "Microsoft chops price of its hosted software"

  November 2, 2009

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