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Sep 24, 2015, 12:03 pm

#256

nkedel

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Originally Posted by ou81two

The difference being, you pull Apple out of the mix and mobile devices are 5-10 years behind where they are now. You pull Samsung out and nothing is different. That's the difference that the America hating Samsung loving ubernerds don't get.

You pull Samsung out, and there's no iPad Mini, and iPhones are probably still a single 3.5" size.

FTM, if you pull Samsung out, Android probably still is mostly phones with keyboards, which would be a plus in my book but not most people's.

Sep 24, 2015, 12:28 pm

#257

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Originally Posted by nkedel

You pull Samsung out, and there's no iPad Mini, and iPhones are probably still a single 3.5" size...

Jobs worked on the iPhone 5 and was already mandating options for larger. Galaxy Note really was Samsung's signature step up. It's a shame they hard-bake Touchwiz in when few care for its gunky additions.

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FTM, if you pull Samsung out, Android probably still is mostly phones with keyboards, which would be a plus in my book but not most people's.

I wish Apple or Blackberry would innovate a better hybrid screen/keypad UI that doesn't involve a flip-down or slide-out panel. Miss my old Treo's physical console but not PalmOS so much.

Sep 24, 2015, 12:30 pm

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Originally Posted by ou81two

The difference being, you pull Apple out of the mix and mobile devices are 5-10 years behind where they are now.

Perhaps, or maybe not. Having two rival behemoths can be better for consumers than having just one behemoth that ends up being a complete monopoly and a monopsony too.

Oct 14, 2015, 5:26 am

#259

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So, another Apple launch yesterday.

New 21.5 inch 4K iMac... but still with Broadwell processors, and a maximum 512GB SSD. Marvellous. Wallet-back-in-pocket.

But, you can buy a new Trackpad for £109

Oct 14, 2015, 6:08 am

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I didn't even hear of an Apple launch!

Oct 14, 2015, 9:57 am

#261

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Originally Posted by nkedel

Apple does still sell the Nano and Shuffle, but who the heck has bought one?

I did last year when the old nano I rescued from the kids' drawer finally gave up. Feather light, cheap, larger music capacity than the iphone, saving the iphone's battery, etc, etc. Use it at the gym, jogging, plane (I shove my iphone in the handluggage)

FWIW I still use the ipod classic 120GB - all my music fits on it.