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fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


HIERARCHY OF WEEDZ posted:

we'll see what happens when the veriZIon iphone gets released

from what i understand in other countries iphone wipes out android because of its availability. having it on the two biggest telecom companies will theoretically decimate android sales

you don't "understand" then.

it used to be that symbian did that but no more.


also countdown until applefans start saying "well iphone could come out ahead if it was on t-mo too!!!"

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fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


here u go btw. see all them symbians?

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Chajusong posted:

This chart makes me angry irl.

congrats on your sperg then


maniacdevnull posted:

loooooooool what day did winpho7 launch and their still down in Q4 2010 vs Q4 2009

yeeeeeeeorp (it was like october btw)

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Janin posted:

who cares, anyone who buys a tablet (aka: wireless tv) for more than like $250 is a moron

i conditionally agree, as ipads are for tards

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


FMguru posted:

The IYG tablet thread is a thing of beauty. Pretty much pure Lucy-pulls-away-the-football over and over again. A tablet in announced, everyone gets all psyched for it, it's revealed to be $900, everybody rends their garments and wonders how tech companies could be so STUPID, another tablet is announced, and the whole cycle repeats. Here's a great example:
Welp, vaporware tablet #7 turned out to be a turd, just like tablets #1-6. Only one thing to do - put all my chips on vaporware tablet #8!
Stupid, lazy consumers who buy tablets without carefully considering what kind of graphics chip it has or whether they can flash it with third-party ROMs!
Maybe, just maybe, Apple has figured something out about manufacturing consumer electronics that no one else has? No, everyone knows that Apple products are always overpriced and underpowered, 1996 never ended, at any moment now there will be a flood of $200 tablets that will run circles around the iPad, just you wait and see!

iPad has less power than the iphone 4. lmao


cry more nerd

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


also you literally have no idea what vaporware means

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Godzilla07 posted:

vaporware |ˈvāpərˌwer| - software or hardware that has been advertised but is not yet available to buy, either because it is only a concept or because it is still being written or designed.

Then the iPad 2 is vaporware and the term is useless. Good job!

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


multigl posted:

Who gives a poo poo

all them crybabies up in here

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Godzilla07 posted:

apple hasn't actually shown the ipad 2 and i'll be able to buy the ipad 2 within a month of its announcement

gj fishmech

by your definition the iphone 4 on verizon was vaporware on february 1st

also literally every product that's been announced and hasn't hit street date yet

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


krylex posted:

p sure it had a firm price point and people knew exactly what they were going to get

p sure that describes all the "vaporware" tablets he was talking about too!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuIL9UAWvK4

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Eegah posted:

seriously fishmech if you wanted to call out apple faggots for lmao vaporware all you had to say was "white iphone 4"

or "a working finder"

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


we were promised that like what 1987 right

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


echinopsis posted:

i think youll find that the screen is much bigger on an ipad

less processing power and RAM (?) + driving a bigger screen

thats not good

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


multigl posted:

I actually think the a4 in the iPad is faster clocked or spends more time at 1GHz. Definitely has less ram.

Again, who really cares? One of the nicest things about iPad and what apple is doing is that specs dont matter anymore.

you in about 2 months:

"man the increased performance in this ipad 2 is so awesome!!!!!!"

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


krylex posted:

and it will carry the exact same price point as the current one and will continue to outshine anything the competition throws at it

nope.

they'll leave the current lowest end ipad for sale at 499 tho

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Amethyst posted:

who gives a gently caress how much ram or processing power a tablet has? if it can scroll the web smoothly and play hd video it doesn't matter even in the slightest bit jesus christ hardware fetishists can be ultra dumbs

ipad can't playback hd video tardo

its a 4:3 sub-hd screen and can't output any higher than that if you hooked it up to a monitor (which would be dumb as hell anyway)

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


krylex posted:

lol how wrong can one person be

i'm too lazy to go digging but im p sure you were also saying that jobs was going to announce a 7" ipad in iyg forever ago

that was before steve jobs died.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


KNEELB4ZOll posted:

haveblue are you arguing with fishmech because lolé

THC you too?



i know it rules

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


got dat wmd posted:

tbh i really want to see legit wireless handheld hdtv that isn't a slingbox on a mobile device. none of this on demand or hulu poo poo eiher

if you just want a wireless hdtv thing they sell them shits but of course it ota hd only

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Janin posted:

dunno, but you can get one with a gyroscope

tons of stuff comes with gyroscopes cuz they cheap

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


what is this posted:

from a comment about the already-announced $800+ successor to the samsung galaxy tab


Bah! You're suppose to put your own firmware on these things. No true geek runs the stock OS. The development teams over at the XDA Devs site know how to make great, fast, slick, awesome roms for these devices. I don't use Samsung's lovely touch whizzzz for my launcher. People complaining about the software don't realize how insanely easy it is to customize the OS to your liking. We have even gotten rid of Samsung's lovely file system for these devices and run a true ext4 file system. The read/write numbers are awesome for a device like this which fixes all of that nasty lag. Samsung's own software is lovely but the hardware is super powerful (most powerful android devices so far I think?) & all the hacker/devs know how to take advantage of that power.

For the record I'm using a Galaxy S (Vibrant) w/Voodoo & the Bionix-V 1.2.1 rom.

*edit: I'd like to anyone even thinking about an android device to look here first.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/

lol that retard doesn't even understand what YAFFS is or why it was being used.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Janin posted:

Check out this sweet gaming rig I just bought; gonna replace the stock os and it'll really fly

*replaces win7 w/ nt4*

oh yeah we ballin' now

more like running win7 beta instead of vista or xp like a lot of yospos did in the first half of '09

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Janin posted:

dude's installing 2.1, which is currently 2 versions behind the current release for his phone model (2.3); all the sweet bling in the world isn't going to compensate for the missing performance fixes

oh yea then i guess he is one of those idiots who builds a gaming rig in 2011 and puts win 2000 on it

it threw me because he said he was replacing YAFFS with ext4 which usually only works under 2.2 or 2.3

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Janin posted:

Bionix uses some sort of weird, highly-patched kernel, so they support ext4 even in older versions. because it's vitally important that a phone support filesystems larger than 4 TB

don't worry though, they'll release a modern version Real Soon Now


e: when my car breaks down in the desert 100 miles from any gas station, I totally want my phone running software written by "Team Whiskey"

ext4 is actually a decent performing file system tho, yaffs was basically just some random open source file system for the internal flash memory that google was using as basically an interim matter.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Ryouga Inverse posted:

arent there actual good filesystems designed for flash storage that they could be using instead of ext4, a hack on top of a hack on top of a lovely fs

no ext4 actually works very well on modern flash storage. ext3 and ext2 were terrile for it but ext4 is awesome

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Atasi posted:

The only way I see it is by building off of an existing business the way Blackberry is trying to do, the hard part is delivering an iPad comparable experience.

blackberry is going to be an android-only manufacturer in a few years. they've already decided to allow android apps to run on their tablet lol.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


multigl posted:

is this legit?

all the typical sites are reporting it and a rim engineer friend of mine says it's gonna happen


it's already not running blackberry OS since it's QNX. any existing blackberry apps will run on it only if provided with a compatibility layer, so it makes sense that they'd also include a dalvik vm and poo poo.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


z0ratio posted:

this is why i want jobs to stay alive

apple's cash reserves are for when jobs dies in 5 months so they can ride out the next 10 years acting like 1994 apple

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Autism Sundae posted:

hardware keyboard is like a pocket protector+braces on your phone

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Binary Badger posted:

i type faster on my iplod douche than on my bluckberry but i sees tons of people on the subway with chocophones with flip out keyboards, it's like SideKicks still rule some subcultural segment of society

"people who like to text and facebook but bought into a 2 year contract before cheap android phones were out"

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


FMguru posted:

I'd love to someday see Apple's Graveyard of Rejected Prototypes.

paint their released products from the 90s silver and make them out of aluminum

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


ipod hifi

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


what is this posted:

I've been reading too many fishmech posts recently. Those would fit right in with his other stuff.

im an htc fanboy not a smsung fanboy. hope this helps.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


what is this posted:

its like if there's an elephant walking around all the time, and suddenly a giraffe shows up, you're like oh zoo animals, that must be a thing here

whereas if its all normal and you see a giraffe you assume it was carted in from somewhere else because it is very out of place



it is a giraffe analogy

a zebra in a field of horses

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


KNEELB4ZOll posted:

yes but the stripes are poo

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


KNEELB4ZOll posted:

anyone actually buying things for specs instead of usability and user experience deserves what they get

speaking of which is there is an alienware tablet with glowing led highlights yet

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


what is this posted:

go out fishmech

u mad

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


haveblue posted:

apple cannot be allowed to win because

uh

freedom

android really pisses off RMS because it's "not free enough" its pretty awesome

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


Janin posted:

don't forget that the xoom is a dual-core cpu, but the ipad is only one core

the xoom has literally twice the gigahurts

and 10 gajlliion percent more barometers!!!!!

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fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today


haveblue posted:

consumers have stopped feeling constrained by their devices' physical qualities. they don't wish their computer had more megahertz or more rams or more internets per second any more

instead they just feel vaguely annoyed and it's becoming harder and harder for them to explain why because it's due to abstract issues like interface design or "polish" that they don't even know are processes, let alone how they can be done well or poorly

apple is the only one trying to address this

of course "costs under $5oo" still sells computers better than "polish"

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