Re: Anyone else eager to LAUGH at what apple has to offer Sept 12
I am waiting to see what Samsung releases AFTER the legal issues are done, and I bet there will be zero leaks until it comes out. The S4 (or whatever they decide to call it... sPhone for all I care).
And the mobile community would be far more advanced now if people didn't have to look over their shoulders for a subpoena serving from apple. Developers would release more content and more freely than they do now without fear of being sued. I do not hate apple for their hardware, some of it looks great (excepting the iPhone, which looks like crap) like their monitors and such (which also cost $3000 each). Other manufacturers have finally started releasing laptops that are better than the macbooks after carefully tiptoeing through the tulips with designs that were wary of being sued. Look at the progression of ASUS, Samsung, HP, and Dell laptops (minus the gaming series) - they have all become super thin and non-geometrical, which has progressed beyond apple, but was slow to start because of the risk of lawsuits. apple has done nothing but burden the software game by taking open source developments and closing them, just like their UNIX base with a fake GUI over it and a false flat file system, all of which were open source circa Windows 95 and STARTX/XFREE, some of the first GOS's (graphical operating systems).
The problem I have with apple software (as I have mentioned before) is I have "non-technical" friends and they always bring me their stuff when it has a problem. In fact, the other night (about 3 ago) my neighbor brought me their iphone and asked me to look at it since a bunch of apps were not working. This was true indeed, except the only thing I could get out of it was "An error occurred." and the choice of "OK" and "Cancel," both of which did the same thing. My personal favorites are the sad face on the gray background and the sick/radiation symbol on older models. They are completely helpless to be repaired and have to be sent in - a genius busniess tactic for the "non-techies" with too much money and not enough know-how.
When people bring apple products to me now, I refer them to the apple store, where they may pay for a repair or get a refund (unlikely).