Re: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK

2007-07-05 Thread James Cox
On 5 Jul 2007, at 19:34, Christopher Woods wrote: Granted they do have a 3G network now, but O2, as usual, were horrendously late to the party - they're forever playing catchup (and when everybody thought they were going to introduce flat-rate data tariffs last month, what did they do? No

Re: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK

2007-07-05 Thread James Cox
On 5 Jul 2007, at 08:33, Christopher Woods wrote: Pfft. Good things and bad things will come from this: Good: O2 won't be able to knacker the phone by slapping their custom memory-hogging interface onto it (like they did with my lovely XDA 2i, it took me ages to clear out the crap they put

Re: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK

2007-07-05 Thread Mr I Forrester
Geez who would have thought it... I was sure Vodafone and Tmobile had this one covered, even 3 came above O2 in my list. I certainly won't be switching back to O2. Generally what does everyone think about the lack of a SDK and Apple forcing developers to build web applications? Is this a good

RE: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK

2007-07-05 Thread Christopher Woods
Granted they do have a 3G network now, but O2, as usual, were horrendously late to the party - they're forever playing catchup (and when everybody thought they were going to introduce flat-rate data tariffs last month, what did they do? Noo, just a lame Blackberry tariff!) As a former customer

Re: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK

2007-07-05 Thread Ben O'Neill
Christopher Woods wrote: Pfft. Good things and bad things will come from this: Good: O2 won't be able to knacker the phone by slapping their custom memory-hogging interface onto it (like they did with my lovely XDA 2i, it took me ages to clear out the crap they put on it!) O2 won't be able to

Re: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Butterworth
I suspect that the device probalby won't get much support from backstage apps if it exclusive to one network? On 05/07/07, Michael Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 05 July 2007 08:28, Brian Butterworth wrote: > And I thought that we were supposed to have a free market in the UK? I

RE: [backstage] Worried about your music being pirated?

2007-07-05 Thread Christopher Woods
Ah yes, can't beat the sound of analogue, all that warmth and body to the sound every time. Of course, that statement only applies for outboard studio hardware, I have no idea what I'm doing posting that in this conversation. I'm firmly in the "emu-and-rip" camp on this one ;) ... but all it ta

Re: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK

2007-07-05 Thread Michael Sparks
On Thursday 05 July 2007 08:28, Brian Butterworth wrote: > And I thought that we were supposed to have a free market in the UK? In a free market different companies are free to make whatever deals they like with other companies, like, for example, companies being the exclusive supplier of a prod

Re: [backstage] Worried about your music being pirated?

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Butterworth
There is also the amazing "what you here" input channel you have on Audigy cards... On 05/07/07, Martin Belam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I love the fact that it takes quite a few comments before someone says the equivalent of "or stick a lead in the headphone socket" rather than running some co

Re: [backstage] iFiddlingDetails

2007-07-05 Thread Martin Belam
why would Apple prevent users installing another browser? Surely not - I thought there was only one big computer company in the world who ever used restrictive anti-competitive practices? Well, at least only one who regularly gets called out for it anyway :-) all the best, martin On 05/07/07

Re: [backstage] Worried about your music being pirated?

2007-07-05 Thread Martin Belam
I love the fact that it takes quite a few comments before someone says the equivalent of "or stick a lead in the headphone socket" rather than running some complicated set of emulators and software and hardware to get the music into a different format. Stick the lead in the headphone socket every

RE: [backstage] BBC TV and Radio 7-day listing

2007-07-05 Thread Flynn, Terry
Mario, Thanks, I know about the API but prefer the files if their going to be maintained... its been a couple of weeks now, so suppose I better accept the change :( I'm an old, old UNIX programmer and my tools of choice are C and shell script - have a high level of inertia with these new java and

RE: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK

2007-07-05 Thread Christopher Woods
Pfft. Good things and bad things will come from this: Good: O2 won't be able to knacker the phone by slapping their custom memory-hogging interface onto it (like they did with my lovely XDA 2i, it took me ages to clear out the crap they put on it!) O2 won't be able to slap their branding on it

Re: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Butterworth
And I thought that we were supposed to have a free market in the UK? On 05/07/07, Adam Burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It looks like O2 have the iPhone in deal in the bag for the UK... http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article2028678.ece Cheers Adam - Se

Re: [backstage] iFiddlingDetails

2007-07-05 Thread ~:'' ありがとうございました 。
Ian, It does seem sad that SVG isn't supported, given that developers weren't thrilled by wwdc this may be par. Opera's nose is also out, why would Apple prevent users installing another browser? would this be legal in Europe? the keyboard video smacks of Newton, but sales are high, so.