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      • he new UI though is great. This is the reason I so much want webOS to stay around. Them and Microsoft are innovating, thinking out of the box, not just imitating Apple. 
        Some things I like much better than on iOS like the tiles that update themselves. the Metro version of IE looks fantastic.
        I wish there was a windows tablet just with that UI...but I suppose that would create even more confusion in the market

      • It's a business strategy for them, a good once for them if you ask me. It's obvious they are catering to the business market here...

        Can you blame them? They gave up on the windows-like OS on the phones and built a beautiful one and gained nothing. Too late I would give as the main reason for their failure.

        Now they are coming even later to the tablet world, the corporate market cares and relies a lot more on tablets than phones, hence backward compatibility is even more important...why should they scrap the old platform completely?

        It's obviously horrible for users.

    • If we’re going to be totally honest though, we’d describe Windows 8 right now as incoherent and contradictory

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    • According to Jensen Harris, for example, Metro apps will get “about five seconds” after they’re no longer on-screen before the system puts them into a suspended state. There’s no file manager. Users no longer quit (or, in Windows parlance, exit) apps explicitly.
      • So, it's not only a UI thing...they are really looking at what made the iPad the success that it is: light, ease of use and beautiful experience both in what you can see and in what goes on in the background.
        Why then did they have to couple them both.

      • So, it's not only a UI thing...they are really looking at what made the iPad the success that it is: light, ease of use and beautiful experience both in what you can see and in what goes on in the background.
        Why then did they have to couple them both.
        Well, they are splitting them...

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    • Microsoft executive said x86 applications built to run on the desktop version of Windows 8 won't be compatible with the tablet version of the operating system. The executive also said that the tablet version won't be able run any applications built for previous versions of Windows.
      • Great decision, but then why did they have to put this metro UI on the tradition desktop machines than run Windows 8?

        It makes no sense to have a metro UI on a desktop. I expect a lot of people to be very upset because it's not only there, but it is compulsory and intrusive. For example, the start menu is now gone.

        Maybe they think this will have a halo effect into the mobile business, but I think Apple's idea hear is the right one. Who uses launchpad?

      • I was thinking after this that maybe after all Apple shouldn't have allowed this type of porting into iOS. When I download an app that's bad (and not ported), I wish Apple would have stopped it.  

        But, if you know that flash ported apps are gonna have huge flaws like this, than I say, force the developers to build a native one. They loose revenue from the 30% of that app sales, but ultimately build charisma for the platform. 

        It's a hard road to go into (trying to draw the line). And after all the Mac is doing fine with all the freeness developers enjoy. That's not to say it couldn't be better.

        Still think these apps should be banned.

    • You have to have it running around 80-90 to keep it stable
      • MB of RAM

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    • "We’re just weeks away from the announcement of the new Apple iPhone 5, according to an Apple employee who asked not to be named because he was not allowed to speak publicly for the company," Nick Bilton wrote in a report for The New York Times.
    • According to an Apple engineer "familiar with the new iPhone," the company's next handset will be "fairly different"
    • 9to5Mac claims
    • It appears that the tear-drop shaped iPhone 5 with larger screen and thinner, rounder body is seeing continued design and production delays, at least on one assembly line
    • listing on the website for U.K. carrier Vodafone
    • The product page for the Vodafone Sure Signal, which works as a signal booster for the carrier's network, offers a list of phones compatible with the device. The carrier's site makes mention of four "iPhone 5" models, with capacities of 16GB and 32GB and colors of black and white.
      • Probably not a typo, as they also mention in the list the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4.

    • BGR reports
    • Apple is planning to release the eighth beta version of iOS 5 to developers this Friday, September 16th. A golden master version is planned to follow about a week later "on or around" September 23rd.
      • coincides with another rumour that said Apple is planning to send the finalised firmware to chine between the 23rd and the 30th of September.

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    • one person familiar with the matter said his local AppleCare call center has been told to expect an eightfold increase in customer calls on that day
    • ncrease in call volume is related to iOS

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    • According to HardMac, Stéphane Richard, CEO of wireless carrier France Telecom-Orange, confirmed during an interview that the iPhone 5 will launch in France on October 15th
    • Orange has received information from Apple about the handset launch
    • The developer, who created a "very successful" iPad app but wished to remain unnamed, told BusinessInsider in an interview that he was "probably the sixth person to get an iPad.
    • the use of a room with no windows and new locks.
       
       The iPad maker also took down the names and social security numbers of the four developers allowed in the room. In order to secure the device, Apple drilled a hole in a desk and chained the prototype to it using bicycle cables. It also used custom frames to disguise the appearance of the device. Apple even went so far as to take pictures of the wood grain of the desk so that any leaked pictures could be traced back to the developer.

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    • Apple is reportedly preparing a refresh of its professional notebook line ahead of the holiday shopping
    • the late-2011 MacBook Pro refresh will deliver marginal speed bumps to the notebooks' Core i-Series of Sandy Bridge processors but will otherwise introduce no material changes over the existing models. 

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    • AppleInsider reports that Apple is preparing to release an updated version of its compact AirPort Express wireless base station.
    • authorized resellers like DataVision report that the same model (MB321LL/A) is discontinued, while Amazon estimates it will have new stock sometime in the next "2 to 5 weeks."

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    • One developer has revealed to MacRumors that there is evidence that Apple has already started building in iMessage support into OS X Lion's iChat instant messaging software.
    • The "timeDelivered" and "timeRead' fields indicate the tracking of delivery and read receipts for instant messages. These features, however, are not supported in any of iChat's native messaging protocols, while the same features are offered in Apple's iMessage protocol. These properties were also not present in previous versions of iChat prior to OS X Lio
      • Some are saying that webOS is no longer for sale...I would say, if that was the case, they would not have gotten rid of all the hardware. They are a corporate based company for all effects. 

        For the right money, webOS will go.

    • "We have given it thought and we have discussed it internally, but we will not do it on impulse," Wang reportedly said of buying webOS from HP.

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      • Braehead store in Glasgow, Scotland.

      •  Via Rizzoli (Bologna, Italy)

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    • store opening will take place tomorrow as the Stratford City store opens up in the new Westfield Stratford City shopping center in the northeastern portion of London.

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    • Apple's marketing of its 9.3mm iPhone 4 as the "world's thinnest smartphone" in the UK was challenged by Samsung after it released its Galaxy S II, with a body that is mostly 8.71mm thick.
    • UK's Advertising Standards Authority stepped into arbitrate, it determined that Apple's device was indeed thinner, noting "that the Galaxy S II had prominent bulges at the top of the device," according to a report by the Guardian

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    • MacBook Pro firmware update released today brings another interesting addition to the company's current models: Lion Recovery over the Internet.
    • The system works using a minimal bootable install on the machine's firmware that then passes off the full Lion install to the usual recovery mechanism, which downloads the operating system over the Internet.
      • previously only available on new machines

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