I HATE APPLE

you mean so you DO miss calls?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:35 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

q.v. Answering the Door thread

Fuck paying > $1000/year for a phone. Hell, fuck paying for a phone at all when work will pick up the tab!

Sorry to hijack this thread, but...

New question: Should I buy a BlackBerry Curve or a BlackBerry Storm or an iPhone?

I don't care at all about cost (my work is paying for it, yay). I also don't care about iTunes or iPods or any of that. YouTube would be nice to look at I guess, and Shazam sounds cool. What about the touch screens? Are they as big of a pain in the ass as I fear? Like, I was at a Verizon store a couple weeks ago and the sales guy was giving me a demonstration and even he was having trouble typing in stuff. And I thought, "Yikes! If this guy's a professional and even he can't type a destination into the GPS navigation system with hitting backspace five times, how the hell am I gonna be able to do this?" And I guess what I really want to know is what can a BlackBerry do that an iPhone can't and vice-versa?

i was calculating one years worth of bills--so where is this iphone alternative where you don't pay monthly fees?

― cutty, Monday, December 29, 2008 9:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I pay only $25 every three months for my cheapass Virgin Mobile USA phone. It's great!

I've had a Blackberry 8900 for a year now and it sucks. Get one iPhone.

I don't think that the iPhone does YouTube yet, does it? I mean, it doesn't support Flash?

The Storm's touchscreen is weird and the GUI is fugly. The iPhone smokes it in every conceivable way. Don't get a Storm if you are going BB, get one with real keys.

the iPhone touchscreen is a bit of a pain in the ass, and you will have trouble at the beginning, but you will get over it, for the most part, as you get used to it and as you recognize the various other operational advantages it has over the blackberry

iphone has done youtube out of the box since day one!

if you get a blackberry, get the bold.

What major thing is it missing, then? I thought it was flash.

when you have an iphone, people are like "oh cool, an iphone", or they get all creepy and hater-ish about it: "oh an iphone, any other status symbols you want to show us?". if you have a blackberry nobody cares.

that's my experience, anyway.

i know a *lot* of people with blackberries and treos and whatnot (no storms, yet, though) and they all look sad when they talk about iphones

What major thing is it missing, then? I thought it was flash.

― яσσʍ♭ⱥȵℹҁᔔ ᴗȵȴℹʍℹȶ∊∂ (libcrypt), Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:28 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the browser doesnt do flash, but there is a separate youtube app.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/ipod-touch-was.html

I don't know if it's a testament to Apple's marketing or the thought process of your average non-geek American but my mother-in-law's husband's niece got an ipod touch for christmas despite the fact that nobody in the family owns a computer and had no idea you need one to get music onto it.

well technically I'm pretty sure you could just go to a mcdonalds' and use the free wifi to buy things off the itunes store.

It's a testament to how fearful people are of asking questions that might be perceived as stupid. E.g., "if I get this for my girl, can she listen to music on it?"

Blackberry is better for email.

(I have heard)

i know a *lot* of people with blackberries and treos and whatnot (no storms, yet, though) and they all look sad when they talk about iphones

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 03:48 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sad for the iphone not having a keyboard, teh snappy, copy and paste and multitasking we have no iFart either.

when does AT&T's exclusive deal with iPhone expire?

NEVAR

http://www.itechnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/peek-handheld-email-device.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3126/3155574190_17dde58837_o.jpg

Fucking iTunes just deleted half my iPhone applications without even asking me. Ropey cunt.

does itunes post to ilx?

does anyone here have one of those email-only jammies? what's the point?

Mac Trojan Horse OSX.Trojan.iServices.A Found
in Pirated Apple iWork 09

http://www.intego.com/news/ism0901.asp

^^ speaking of iwork i just found out that numbers can't even do a fucking HISTOGRAM, for gods sake!

Numbers is an embarrassment of an app. I was hoping that 09 would have ODBC/JDBC, but I saw no indications thus.

get outta here

does anyone here have one of those email-only jammies? what's the point?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, January 13, 2009 7:52 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

my grandmother did

the point is that youre old

purported to be fake, that company apparently didn't exist in 2004.

bizarre new macbook pro problem

pressing "eject" key doesn't eject CDs. they start to eject, stop, and then go back into the machine.

using the "eject" button on various applications, or dragging the CD into the dock for ejecting gets the CD to eject cleanly.

this is most pronounced when using itunes. 100% of the time it won't eject with the eject key, but will eject if i hit the eject button.

WTF is that?

Why can't things I drag onto the desktop appear where they are dragged? Why???

For every problem I have with Linux I have at least three with Microsoft/Apple. This time itunes has decided to ignore my iphone. Reinstalling itunes AGAIN now.

I checked on amazon for two games I hadn't played in awhile (Sims 2 + The Movies). The PC versions of the games cost about $14 new. The Mac versions? $40. Wtf?

Yeah, Mac gaming is awful like that. Really annoying, you look for what's available and they're like 75% three-year-old ports are full retail price, and those prices NEVER come down!

Why can't things I drag onto the desktop appear where they are dragged? Why???

Do you have "Arrange By Name" set to some value in the Desktop view options?

(sorry, I mean "Arrange By" )

No, I have no arrangement options set. I don't see the problem on single-display Macs, generally, but drag-to-desktop has pretty much always sucked on multiple-head configurations: Dragging from display 2 to display 1's desktop often results in an icon on desktop 2; dragging 2 -> 2 may result in an icon on display 1. Even if I can get it to land in the right desktop, it's usually placed there as if a new file were created w/o drag-&-drop.

bizarre new macbook pro problem

pressing "eject" key doesn't eject CDs. they start to eject, stop, and then go back into the machine.

using the "eject" button on various applications, or dragging the CD into the dock for ejecting gets the CD to eject cleanly.

this is most pronounced when using itunes. 100% of the time it won't eject with the eject key, but will eject if i hit the eject button.

WTF is that?

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 27 February 2009 02:32 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

How abused is your mac book pro? I have this issue and I put this down to the dents and bangs mine has received.

okay.

$29.99 for a new ipod shuffle dock. a new ipod shuffle costs $49.99.

with the design of the dock, it is almost impossible to use the fucker without it breaking-- it got bent and then broke after being in my bag for a mere evening.

seriously.

You know, I can buy a fucking car and if it breaks, it usually doesn't cost the fucking cost of the car to fix it.

i think i might just go to the store sometime this week and start yelling. does anyone know if this works?

A refurbished shuffle costs about as much as the dock itself. Worth a look?