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Re: Intelligent Editorial: Apple Secrets They Don’t Want You To Know

Thomas — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:54:26 -0000

Here are some secrets for you.

1. Mac-users do not think Jobs is god. They do however think he is extraordinary businessman on par with other legendary/visionary industrialists such as Thomas Edison, Howard Hugh, etc. Quite an amazing man, really.

2. stevejobs@apple.com gets results. I have emailed this address 3 times in the past 3 years and gotten a response twice. Once directly from Jobs. The other time I was just recently when I complained about the trashed out condition of a Mac display at Best Buy. The only contact I made was to this address and the next day, I was contacted by both the regional manager at Best Buy and the Apple head in charge of the Best Buy initiative. They were very apologetic and seemed to be shaken by someone above them.

3. Apple does care very much about their customers as evidenced by several satisfaction ratings for both products and service. Their record is not perfect, but it is a huge company.

4. You will find people think they are special for knowing Windows minutia as well as owning a Mac. But those are just individuals. But do not blanket the entire userbase with this affliction just because they have enthusiasm for the product.

5. Wha?

6. Conjecture on your part. Do you know him personally?

7. Meaningless.

8. See #3.

9. True. So what.

10. True again. Columnists are always trying find things out because Apple is so secretive. It is annoying but entertaining.

Mac enthusiasts are always branded as crazed zealots but I think for the most part they are merely enthusiastic. Certainly less bad and annoying than the haters. So back at you on the CHILL.

Re: Microsoft aims to steal Apple’s flame in mobile music biz

Thomas — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:35:48 -0000

Why exactly would you want this?

Re: Cubicle Muses - A Community of Rockstars

Thomas — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:54:59 -0000

I don't use rails because I have issues about ruby, but I can attest that the rails framework was a blow of fresh air in the web-development scene,.My two favorite frameworks django and grails are greatly influenced by it. But being a brilliant developer, a smart businessman and a great marketer doesn't excuse him from being an asshole, which I have conclude just by reading his blog posts and watching his presentations.

Maybe it's all part of his marketting strategy, maybe it isn't. Only people that really know him can attest to that buy from the image he projects, he is a horrible person.

Re: 2008/03/05/apple-flash/

Thomas — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:13:08 -0000

"Itâ€™s very noticeable absence on the iPhone and iPod touch is akin to a fast sore thumb - only, well, precisely the opposite."

1) I don't get this statement. "It's" means "it is" or "it has" maybe you meant "Its".

2) What is a "fast sore thumb"? Did you mean a "fat sore thumb"? Either way, what is the "opposite" of a fat or fast sore thumb and how does it relate to the absence of Flash on the iPhone?

I just don't get it.

Re: 2008/03/05/apple-flash/

Thomas — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:45:08 -0000

"This determination comes about despite Mr Jobsâ€™s insistence in 2007 that his companyâ€™s pocket-sized browser can be declared the essential equivalent of its larger and more expandable inspiration."

Jobs never said this.

What he said was that that iPhone's Safari provided a real web browsing experience on a phone as opposed to the compromised scaled-down browsers provided on most other internet enabled handsets.

He was showing that most standard web pages were fully rendered as one would see on a computer. And this was indeed delivered and this was indeed a huge advancement in handset browsing.

So huge, in fact, that the browsing presence on the internet is 50 times greater for the iPhone than all other handset browsing combined. I would not call that misleading.

You continue in your following paragraphs to characterize Job's statements as though he were emphasizing that Safari on the iPhone was identical to Safari on a computer.

Clearly that is not what Job's was communicating. In fact, he was demonstrating many differences between the two Safaris. The iPhone Safari is manipulated by finger gestures: tapping, sliding, expanding, pinching, etc. Selecting from a list produces a spinning barrel selector. Obviously many things are different. No cacheing, no tabs, etc.

Safari on the iPhone is a compromise, but it is hugely less compromised than browsers found on other handsets.

Just because the iPhone does not support a proprietary plug-in for the reasons clearly stated by Jobs, does not mean that anyone has been mislead or is up in arms about it.

Re: 2008/03/05/apple-flash/

Thomas — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:09:19 -0000

It's seems to me that your sole purpose for writing this article is simply to sensationalize the issue.

Examples:

"Jobs mockery of Flash..." Jobs did not mock Flash, he just explained why he felt Flash, in it's two current forms would not work on the iPhone. Flash Lite is inadequate for a full-rendering browser and standard Flash is too bloated (which is okay for it to be on a computer with comparatively huge memory and processing muscle) for this compact device. Where is the mockery?

"the coming backlash" - What coming backlash? the iPhone has an unprecedented satisfaction rating. Most people who use it, love it. Lack of Flash is a minor point.

"...behoove its designers to volley a few insults..."

"... it is the public that will no longer accept..."

"...get ready for another public upset of the kind not seen since the infamous..."

"I even suspect claims of deception..."

"...a situation that appears thick with tension and reserved anger."

Sounds like you are trying to incite a backlash instead of reporting on an existing one.

Re: Din mening: Hvad mener du om skatteaftalen? - Debat

Thomas — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:29:15 -0000

Jeg synes det er for dårligt at pensionister stadig skal betale den høje marginalskat. selv om der er en grænse på 284000 betyder det jo at jeg der har 375000 og min kone der har 125000 skal betale den høje marginalskat. Det er 8% mere end direktøren der tjener en million. Vi slipper jo ikke for forhøjelsen af grønne og andre afgifter, men får ingen skattereduktion. Argumentet med at vi tjente pengene da der var høj marginalskat skal vel nærmest bruges omvendt, så er det vel på tide vi slipper i den sidste del af vores liv. det ligner alderdiskrimination og mobning af en lille gruppe, der ellers har tjent deres egne penge og ikke ligget nogen til last. det er for dårligt.

Re: 16 Free Search Engines For Finding Music Online – Start Listening Now !

Thomas — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:42:53 -0000

Nice!
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