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Notorious b.s.d. posted:is he quebecois hen hen hen
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Rex-Goliath posted:a language being 'romantic' doesn't mean it makes panties drop you nincompoop the world doesn’t stop at the rubicon
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Sagebrush posted:Apple computers have never been very popular in Canada bc they always jack their prices up well beyond the exchange rate. Like the dollar would be worth 80 cents but the nominal price would be 50% more. the base level cheap MacBook Real America: 1,299 America bucks Canada: 1,729 queen pictures 1299 USD = 1,637.19 CAD so, more expensive but not that far off, consistent with a higher corporate tax rate.
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Apr 11, 2018 07:08
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same MacBook in denmark: 11499 DKK equivalent to 1909 American dollars and 75 cents. eagerly awaiting what a MacBook is priced at in Latvia and how insane the pricing is
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eschaton posted:you don’t need to do browser fingerprinting because just sending HTML and resources to a browser doesn’t need to distinguish them webapps and the standardization of mobile apis are the best thing to happen to the mobile landscape since forever do you really want to download an app from the app store for Every Little Thing (c)? my company creates tiny interactive apps for events and are often one-off use. forcing people to download a native app for 5 minutes would discourage so many. i fuckin love webapps. go play outside Skyler fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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Apr 11, 2018 07:56
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the way things are going you won't be able to access anything unless you have the ___ app oh you wanna read reviews for this place before you go? better have the fuckin yelp app.
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Boiled Water posted:same MacBook in denmark: 11499 DKK equivalent to 1909 American dollars and 75 cents. MacBook Rose Gold 12" Retina DC-M3 1.2GHZ/ 8GB/ 256GB flash/ Intel HD - this one? 1549 euro, $1916.96
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OldAlias posted:
all I see is the silhouette of a young Homer, when he still had some hair.
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The Management posted:the base level cheap MacBook Ok but what about sales tax in the US? If you lived in vancouver and smuggled in a macbook from seattle you’d still need to pay 10.1% sales tax outside of the money spent on travel/logistics lol
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Apr 11, 2018 11:44
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i don't know about canada-US, but in the UK you can claim back the VAT that you've been charged in the country in full, provided you have the receipt and the purchase is recent enough and is intended to not be brought back to the UK ever, at the airport departures
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Wild EEPROM posted:the way things are going you won't be able to access anything unless you have the ___ app yup. seems almost every site of reasonable size is working hard to kneecap the mobile web version and force you to use the app for some strange reason. i'm sure ios safari having ad blocking has nothing at all to do with that.
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Apr 11, 2018 13:09
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Boiled Water posted:same MacBook in denmark: 11499 DKK equivalent to 1909 American dollars and 75 cents. 1299 + 25% VAT = $1624 add the cost of the mandatory extended 4 year warranty, $249 in the us (or did you think that was free?) = $1873. seems like the math works out.
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Wild EEPROM posted:the way things are going you won't be able to access anything unless you have the ___ app maybe in 2013
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theres a reason why popular apps like instagram and tinder made webapps relatively recently: stebe was right.
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THC posted:there was a minor news story in Canada because treasured national fast food chain Tim Hortons fell from 4th to 48th place in a yearly survey ranking Canadians' favourability to brands, after a number of franchise owners including the heirs to Horton himself went on the news and complained very entitledly about having to pay their peons slightly more money and retaliated by cutting their already meagre benefits Yeah they're still salty about apple killing RIM, Samsung was never a real threat
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Phoenixan posted:i once owned a samsung monitor that had a very loose power plug. my parents bought a samsung tv that developed a weird green blob in the corner of the screen. after those 2 experiences, i swore off samsung products I have two of their washing machines and have to get the spider arm powder coated at an auto shop because they refused to stop making that part with untreated aluminum which falls apart when exposed to detergent and bleach water
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Apr 11, 2018 16:39
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i made some people pretty mad, pointing out that rim was an unmitigated trash fire and they were circling the drain back in ~2010 or so. somehow, even after nortel, they couldn't see it coming
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Apr 11, 2018 16:41
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yeah i have three or four friends in canada who stuck with their blackberries until the bitter end and still periodically complain that they can't get a phone with a physical keyboard any more
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10.13.4 silently breaks communications with the SEP client to the management server which should be touted as more of a feature than a bug
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my friend's first smartphone is a blackberry, purchased last year. I assume that's the one that runs android
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infernal machines posted:i made some people pretty mad, pointing out that rim was an unmitigated trash fire and they were circling the drain back in ~2010 or so. blackberry was still growing in 2010. internally it was a disaster, but to outside observers it wasn’t obvious that they would not be able to compete.
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The Management posted:blackberry was still growing in 2010. internally it was a disaster, but to outside observers it wasn’t obvious that they would not be able to compete. the writing was 100% on the wall the day Apple released iOS with exchange security policy support
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:the writing was 100% on the wall the day Apple released iOS with exchange security policy support no one but sadomaschist BOFH greybeards and middle managers getting RIM jobs from the sales force wanted anything to do with BES and the moment there was another viable option they were done. also, people getting personal smartphones wanted something slick and easy to use and absolutely not a loving blackberry curve
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:the writing was 100% on the wall the day Apple released iOS with exchange security policy support agreed. to you and I it was obvious. to Jonny Maplesyrup, it was a rousing Canadian success story in the face of American tech giants.
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Sagebrush posted:yeah i have three or four friends in canada who stuck with their blackberries until the bitter end and still periodically complain that they can't get a phone with a physical keyboard any more samsung makes a snap-on keyboard for their phones that works astoundingly well of course then you have to use android
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:the writing was 100% on the wall the day Apple released iOS with exchange security policy support my office at the time had one super beardlord apple user, one rich guy who used his OG iphone as an overpriced ipod, and dozens of windows or blackberry users 3 months after iOS 2.0 beta came out, with the exchange support, there was one windows user left and no blackberries folks didn't even wait for phone contracts to come up. that's how fast the stampede was. folks were paying hundreds of dollars out of their own pocket to change carriers to get iphones with exchange support the OG iphone was a cute toy but only a toy. adding calendar/email support made it instantly the obvious best-choice for a business phone
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good's exchange-friendly email killed blackberry more thoroughly than anything apple did, people were so ready to get away from bes
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qirex posted:goog's exchange-friendly email killed blackberry more thoroughly than anything apple did, people were so ready to get away from bes we didn't even have BES, which is why windows phones even stood a chance
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infernal machines posted:also, people getting personal smartphones wanted something slick and easy to use and absolutely not a loving blackberry curve personal smartphones were not really a market when the iphone was first released remember at the time the iphone was $700 up front and $100+ per month, with early termination fees and caps on data usage AND special roaming fees in addition to the normal roaming fees in 2007, if you didn't have a job-related reason to buy a smartphone, you just didn't
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the iPhone would have died on the vine if at&t didn't acquire Cingular and forcing them to obey the contract language apple signed with them. cell phones would have sucked complete rear end if Steve didn't luck out there
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it turns out people hated being forced to use garbage phones bought by their company’s computer janitors
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i hate when i have to use the company-issued iphone se
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:personal smartphones were not really a market when the iphone was first released yes... i was there, and in canada the market was changing* around the launch of the 3gs and iphone 4, at a time when your choice from rim was a bb curve *changing in the sense that it was no longer unheard of for someone to have a smartphone that wasn't from their work.
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:the iPhone would have died on the vine if at&t didn't acquire Cingular and forcing them to obey the contract language apple signed with them. cell phones would have sucked complete rear end if Steve didn't luck out there i just think it’s funny that mighty telecom colossus at&t failed so massively at the transition to wireless that they needed fuckin’ cingular to save their keister.
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butt dickus posted:i hate when i have to use the company-issued iphone se yeah having to use company issued phones sucks, but at least it’s the stebe edition (the best smart phone ever made)
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qirex posted:good's exchange-friendly email killed blackberry more thoroughly than anything apple did, people were so ready to get away from bes A company using Good as a solution for BYOD is universally a sign that they are a lazy, lovely company.
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Jimmy Carter posted:A company using Good as a solution for BYOD is universally a sign that they are a lazy, lovely company. yeah but 10 years ago it was the best solution
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go figure, the speaker that costs more and does less isn't selling that wellquote:By late March, Apple had lowered sales forecasts and cut some orders with Inventec Corp., one of the manufacturers that builds the HomePod for Apple, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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... but the sound quality, it's like a symphony in my living room!
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infernal machines posted:... but the sound quality, it's like a symphony in my living room! that sounds cramped
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