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areitz — Thu, 12 May 2016 19:52:04 -0000

You just gotta hold your phone _real_ close to your face. Then it will be big enough for TV watching! (some sort of Android tablet would also work).

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areitz — Wed, 11 May 2016 02:15:29 -0000

Did you try watching on your Android phone? I believe that has a Netflix client...

Re: Apple Watch for Left Handed People

areitz — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 02:12:39 -0000

This is not actually true -- the Apple Watch is reversible. Simply turn it upside down (and swap the straps around), and it will work fine for lefties.

Re: Weird Email from Dropbox saying my Dropbox app is out of date

areitz — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 01:47:36 -0000

The app that you downloaded is the Dropbox installer, which isn't the same as Dropbox itself. My understanding is that the installer downloads the actual dropbox app, which it then proceeds to install. It might be confusing, but it's legit (and common) for the version of the installer to differ from the version of the app installed.

Re: Apple TV and gaming

areitz — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 01:56:48 -0000

I don't think graphical processing is what would keep the price high (I think the A7 is fairly cheap to make, and it's a real powerhouse). Tons of SSD storage and RAM, however, required for 1080p gaming, still aren't cheap enough, however.

Re: Apple TV and gaming

areitz — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 01:55:28 -0000

This is an interesting thought, but I still think it's pretty expensive. Because you'll not only need the $100 Apple TV, but also an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Of those, the iPod is the cheapest, starting at $200. So you're already at $300, for a Wii-ish experience... and that's for one controller.

I think Apple is doing a bang-up job going after casual gaming, but only on-device. I think that to be serious about casual gaming on the TV, Apple will have to come up with something that is cheap for multiple players (<$200 for at least 4 simultaneous people). I'm not sure that they can make the iPod touch cheaply enough to hit this.

Re: My HP Veer Review

areitz — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:13:53 -0000

I used HandBrake to encode some video files in the h.264 format, using the iPhone preset. I was then able to sync these movies to the Veer and play them. Videos that you download from the iTunes store won't work, because they are wrapped in Apple's FairPlay DRM. You would need to strip off the DRM layer in order to attempt to get the videos to play on a non-Apple device.

Re: Amazon's Kindle Fire

areitz — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:25:40 -0000

Acer only released the Kernel source:
http://www.theinquirer.net/...
Which while that could be helpful to Amazon, I wouldn't consider this to be the full "Honeycomb" source. All of the frameworks, UI code, etc. is still under Google's lock and key.

I think the lesson of Apple is that you have to innovate *and* execute. If you just execute, you'll eventually get left behind by innovations (think: Dell). If you just innovate, customers will stay away due to poor execution (think: Palm in the webOS era).

-Andy.

Re: I apologize in advance

areitz — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:23:18 -0000

Heading to the Jersey Shore next summer?

Re: HP’s 7-inch TouchPad Go leaks out on Chinese forum

areitz — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:28:41 -0000

Isn't NFC needed for touch to share?

Re: Engadget's back to school 2011 sweepstakes: we're giving away $3,000 worth of gear... 15 times!

areitz — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:49:05 -0000

That Sony NEX-C3 camera looks interesting...

Re: Links for Monday June 13^th, 2011

areitz — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:51:13 -0000

But how can a 64-bit app link against a 32-bit library? Isn't this the main reason that Safari on Snow Leopard has to run Flash in a separate process, because the Flash plugin is 32-bit?

Unless Apple eliminated every single reference to Carbon from iTunes in Lion, I think that they must have brought a 64-bit subset of Carbon APIs into Lion?

Re: WWDC 2011, before the keynote

areitz — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:55:32 -0000

Sorry, I'm not at the event, so I don't feel right liveblogging based upon the liveblogs of others.

I'm not a Lion expert, but maybe it looks like an older, more established Lion?

Re: Google Chromebooks coming this June from Samsung and Acer

areitz — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:35:06 -0000

It's pretty common these days to find AIO boxes that do print, scan, fax, and have Ethernet (or Wifi) so that they can scan to e-mail. You end up with a PDF in your inbox, which assuming you can read PDFs on ChromeOS, would work perfectly well.

Re: The Talk Show #38: Episode 38 - 5by5

areitz — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:55:18 -0000

The SoC chips (i.e. A4, A5) that Apple uses in it's iOS devices don't have a PCI-E bus. Thunderbolt is essentially external PCI-E. So that is a bunch of silicon that has to be dropped into the SoC. I would guess that if we are extremely lucky, we'll see this in next year's A6 chip, but it's more likely to be 2013's A7 (assuming that Apple keeps up the yearly pace of SoC revisions).

Note that even if iOS devices had Thunderbolt, syncing still might not be super fast, as this might expose other bottlenecks. For example, I doubt that the Flash memory that Apple uses is as highly performant as a good SSD drive. So along with the Thunderbolt upgrade, Apple may have to upgrade other parts of their devices, further increasing cost.

Re: The Talk Show #38: Episode 38 - 5by5

areitz — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:16:09 -0000

Any chance that Verizon is blocking the iOS 4.3.x update for the Verizon iPhone 4? I ask because the CDMA iPad 2 shares the same chipset as the CDMA iPhone 4 [1], yet the former has iOS 4.3.1 and the latter doesn't.

It could be different forks of code -- the CDMA iPad doesn't do voice, so maybe that chunk of code hasn't moved into iOS trunk yet. But it does seem somewhat odd to me that these branches aren't unified yet.

[1]: http://www.ifixit.com/Teard...

Re: The Talk Show #38: Episode 38 - 5by5

areitz — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:12:54 -0000

Even though the iPad can be used to produce content, it seems like it is mostly used for consumption:

http://gigaom.com/apple/adm...

If the iPad is truly the leading edge of the "post PC" revolution, that could mean on of two things:

- Some future iOS/iPad combo will shift usage so that people produce more content with their devices, or
- Once the "post PC" era takes hold, consumption will utterly dominate production.

And again, this link is a good way to frame the "post PC" debate:

http://www.macworld.com/art...

Re: Andy Reitz (blog)

areitz — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:22:05 -0000

Yes of course, this is fixed.

Re: Andy Reitz (blog)

areitz — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:24:01 -0000

I used airplane mode extensively while I was in India. The great thing about it is you can still enable WiFi. So, while WiFi hotspots weren't prevalent in Delhi, I was able to make my own on occasion, and get Internet on my phone.

When I was in Japan, I was surprised to find that public WiFi was basically nonexistent. I'm hoping you had better luck on your trip.

Re: Palm Pixi Plus vs. HP Veer: what's changed?

areitz — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:33:05 -0000

Apple was able to cram a headphone jack into a much thinner device
(the new Nano). I think if Palm didn't put the slide-out keyboard on
the Veer, they definitely could have accommodated a headphone jack.
But without seeing one in person, I don't know if they could have put
a headphone jack on the existing design.

Re: Palm Pixi Plus vs. HP Veer: what's changed?

areitz — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:38:51 -0000

Having an adapter isn't the same as having the headphone jack built-in to the phone itself. What if you leave the house without the adapter? What if you lose it?

Adapters really suck.

Re: Palm Pixi Plus vs. HP Veer: what's changed?

areitz — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:19:48 -0000

Apparently, the Veer doesn't have a headphone jack. Which, in my book, means that this isn't a good phone for people who like to listen to music.

Re: Links for Wednesday November 17^th, 2010

areitz — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:54:49 -0000

Congrats on finding a place in NYC -- I've heard that can be quite challenging.

And good luck with the flight.

-Andy

Re: Running MySQL at Scale

areitz — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:18:38 -0000

Yeah, I think there is some of that. They definitely had really great monitoring -- if any sort of bad query gets into production, they are on top of it, and can track it back to the code that introduced the issue.

Re: Engadget's back to school giveaway, part three: win an HP Envy 14 and much, much more!

areitz — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:11:48 -0000

I thought laptops were totally over? No matter, I would still like to win.

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