On Aug 25, 2011, at 12:00 AM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
These examples are the best reasons to NEVER buy software at an app
store where it's automatically installed, overwriting the last version.
The worst bugs are always in the automatic installs, and they're harder
to clean up,
For any app store purchase, including purchases from inside an
app, you have to enter in your password the first time you make
a purchase, but your password activation only remains good for a
little while afterwards, and in particular will expire after the idevice
goes to sleep. So Thurrott
You are way off base here. First, every manufacturer and not just
Apple is increasingly moving in the direction of computers as appliances.
To a certain extent, that has been the case for a while. You've had
the gaming computer, the video editing computer, the basic work computer
for
Whoops, the last post should have had this subject line. Sorry.
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That would be a great idea. I've read about fast boot computers
that would launch a minimal version of Linux for basic use while
WIndows continues to launch in the background. I don't know if
anyone ever got past the concept phase into a commercial product
though.
You'd think that it
Heaven forbid they compete on even ground...
Beware what you wish for, they _aren't_ competing on even ground.
These sales figures are US only, Apple is still well ahead worldwide,
and their sales grew in a quarter where they usually stay flat. Also,
those figures include all Android OS
Not quite sure what your point is here, 1 suicide in a population of
300 is a suicide rate of 1/300 and 3 suicides in a population of
900 is still a rate of 1/300, etc. We were talking about suicide
_rates_, not raw numbers, and as I said, densely populated areas
have lower suicide rates than
.
On May 3, 2010, at 9:47 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote:
From:David K Watson davidkirkwat...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: illegal search warrant?
Not quite sure what your point is here, etc., etc
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Furthermore, it's something I
should have known, since my son was very fond of the Tak
video games and Nickelodeon series, Tak and the power of Juju.
Just about all the jujus in the series were ridiculous in pretty
gross ways, that can't help the JooJoo's
Rick Perry is an embarrassment to the state educational system.
He said when Texas entered the union in 1845, it was with the
understanding it could later pull out. In fact, as the historical
website points out (and Texas Monthly reminds its readers
quite often), the agreement was that Texas
MS aren't the only ones killing their prototype if this rumor bears
out:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/hewlett-packard-to-kill-windows-7-tablet-project/
HP is apparently killing its Slate tablet. It really isn't surprising,
given that it was supposed to have more ports and memory than
the
I don't think you have the facts quite straight here. Here is
Gizmodo's own account of how they got the phone:
http://gizmodo.com/5520438/how-apple-lost-the-next-iphone
According to this account, the phone was picked up at the bar
by the person who was sitting next to Powell (the one who
That is not a fair or accurate comparison.
How is it not a fair comparison? A running car in a convenience
store parking lot has the presumption that the owner will return
to it very quickly, while a phone that has been left unclaimed for a few
hours does not, but that has no bearing on
Additionally, there is a difference between the police denying
that Apple had any part in the raid and their simply being silent
on the matter until they made an official statement, which appears
to be what actually happened.
As to Apple's involvement, it looks like Apple didn't file the
OK, so supposedly Apple sent folks over to the guy's house to
demand he give them back the phone, but he wasn't there, so
he didn't. Then presumably having heard about this from his
roommate who was there, he nonetheless sells the iPhone to
Gizmodo.
It still looks wrong to me. PC World
You can personally feel that Apple was foolish in how they let the
phone be stolen, but that has absolutely no legal bearing on its
theft.
There are still people who are foolish enough to leave their car
running and unlocked when they go into a convenience store,
but if the car gets stolen,
issue
(#2010-71)
Google sky.
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On Apr 8, 2010, at 17:04, David K Watson davidkirkwat...@gmail.com
wrote:
Really? Can you tell me where you got it so that I can suggest it
to my nephew? I don't know why, but android apps aren't mentioned
on Vito Technology's website
The next time you see an iPad, see if it has the Star Walk app
and give it a try. It's like Google Earth but for constellations.
You can see representations of the night sky from various
locations with or without various overlays. If you turn the iPad
upside down, it shows the live sky map
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/live-from-apples-iphone-os-4-event/
All of our arguments over multitasking will soon be moot.
At the iPhone OS 4 preview today, Steve Jobs has announced
that the next iPhone OS will allow multitasking:
Now we weren't the first to this party, but we're
android phone.
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On Apr 8, 2010, at 10:42, David K Watson davidkirkwat...@gmail.com
wrote:
The next time you see an iPad, see if it has the Star Walk app
and give it a try. It's like Google Earth but for constellations.
You can see representations of the night sky from
:Mike xha...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Why I won't buy an Ipad...
Very cool app, I have it on my android phone.
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On Apr 8, 2010, at 10:42, David K Watson davidkirkwat...@gmail.com
wrote:
The next time you see an iPad, see if it has the Star Walk app
and give it a try
Geez, give a little consideration to the context why don't you?
The iPad is obviously a computer in the sense of being a device
with a processor whose primary purpose is to manipulate data.
Sometimes though, when we say computer we specifically mean
a desktop or laptop, and not the more
Safari has always worked pretty well on my Touch, it's only
crashed once that I can remember. On my laptop the flash
plugin will crash sometimes, but I almost never need it and
will continue to surf on with a lot fewer annoying ads. Could
you give us some examples of some sites that crash
I haven't heard about Pith Helmet for a while. The last time
I paid it any attention, a Safari update had come out, and the
two wouldn't work together very well until Pith Helmet made
a series of fixes. Looking at the website, I see that they
say that the most recent version is compatible
Nice article, but I don't entirely buy it. First, just because the
iPad has plenty of processing power and battery capacity and
Apple may add more multitasking in a future OS release, this
doesn't make a straw man out of Apple's argument that third
party multitasking is a hamper to stability
Two things: first, as has already been pointed out, email creates a
record and can act as a reminder. Productivity experts generally
recommend the use of emails over verbal requests. Knowing
that there is an electronic record that can be forwarded to the
boss is a big incentive to taking
I got a kick from this item on the article Mike linked to:
Typing accurately and quickly on the iPad’s wide on-screen keyboard
was ** perectly ** comfortable and fast. [emphasis mine]
I guess the review wasn't typed on an iPad then.
Here is another review roundup
Very good, except that looking something up while talking on the
phone is one of the kinds of multitasking that iPhones do.
Apparently Woz hasn't seen the commercials. Of course he
says
I have two iPhones, a [Google] Nexus One, a [Motorola] Droid,
plus a Garmin [GPS] and TomTom [GPS]. I
recommend putting requests for jobs up on facebook?
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 AM, David K Watson
davidkirkwat...@gmail.comwrote:
Two things: first, as has already been pointed out, email creates a
record and can act as a reminder. Productivity experts generally
recommend the use
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From:katan ka...@his.com
Subject: Re: Wozniak solves two iPhone problems
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:25:31 -0400, David K Watson wrote:
Very good, except that looking something up while talking on the
phone is one of the kinds of multitasking that iPhones do.
Apparently
?
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:39 AM, David K Watson
davidkirkwat...@gmail.comwrote:
No, I haven't changed the parameters, you are artificially limiting them.
Anyone who does a substantial fraction of those activities will have
their email running as well, and will compulsively check emails
Speaking of intellectual honesty, facts and stuff, here is some more
things Charlie Miller said:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pwn2own-mac-hack,2254-6.html
I usually work on a pretty old MacBook that I've upgraded the hard drive on.
and
For now, I'd still recommend Macs for typical
It's already here:
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/battery/
The battery improvements come in part from: using lithium
polymer instead of lithium ion or nickel-cadmium, better chemical
composition, and making the battery smart with a chip that controls
how individual cells are discharged and
While long naked URLs are broken in Thunderbird, the link will be
preserved if the URL is wrapped in , and this is the case for every
email program I've heard of. Example:
with
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031203974.html?hpid=sec-tech
without
Whoops, forgot to change the subject line. Sorry, here it is again
for those of you who like your messages threaded properly:
You CAN combine PDFs with Preview.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071114191806624
Basically, you open the PDFs in Preview, make sure that the sidebar
You're not the only one confused, Rev. Reid started this thread with
this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo
which is a video of a woman on Ukraine's Got Talent creating some
amazing sand art USING ONLY HER HANDS. Then Steve goes on a
tangent saying that the iPad is not suitable
I think that publisher had its fight with Amazon over the issue of
who controls the pricing. Apple isn't locking out any other e-book
vendors. Their books will use the open ePub format, so just like
you can do now with non-DRMed MPG and AAC files, you
probably will be able to buy books from
Page with links to the Real Audio or Windows Media Player
formats for that show:
http://wamu.org/programs/dr/10/02/03.php?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=twitterutm_campaign=Feed%3A+WAMU885DianeRehm+(WAMU%3A+The+Diane+Rehm+Show)
Podcast link:
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510071
One of those later SNL skits had the Will Ferrell character come
out with a big 80s style cell phone, and when teased about it by
the girls, insisted that 'big' is the new 'small' . Insert your own
iPad jokes here.
As to why the micro SIM has to be smaller than the mini SIM, if it is
to be
Just to put it in concrete terms, the micro SIM is actually slightly
larger than a microSD card, and I can certainly see why my phone
uses that for storage rather than a SD card. It probably has to be
swapped as often as a SIM, so it is equally deserving of complaints
due to its size, yet I
From:Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?
David, sorry, but I have plenty of experience with multitouch devices. Of the
two I have now, the SMALL one is 12 (and they're both 16:9, by the way, not
4:3 like iPad). The iPad's touchscreen is
, at that.
From:phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:21 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Jan 30, 2010, at 5:30 PM, David K Watson wrote:
While price was probably an issue, I don't myself think
Chris, you're wrong or misleading on many of your criticisms of the
iPad. First, it's not a midsize touchscreen, it's a large size
multitouch screen, one of the largest to be readily available. You
have to have some experience with multitouch devices, particularly
Apple's, to really have the
While price was probably an issue, I don't myself think that it was
the main one in Apple's decision to keep the physical interfaces
to a minimum. Apple likes to promote itself as the company whose
devices just work, and if they had USB ports on the iPad then there
would immediately be
According to what I read, Fujitsu had a trademark on a 2003
product they called an iPad. In 2009, that trademark was
either declared invalid or was in the process of being declared
abandoned, and Fujitsu started making some weak efforts to
revive it. Also, the Fujitsu iPad was some kind of
Why is everyone making a big fuss about this? The most likely
explanation is that this is a production error, and Apple will have
to fix it soon or get sued. It isn't surprising if this is the case,
because Apple's well-known secrecy concerning upcoming
product means that Marketing probably
These are good suggestions, and OS X does have a built in
emacs, just type in emacs in Terminal. If you haven't used
it before, it is important to remember that you have to type
^x^c (x and c with the control key held down) to exit emacs.
However, sidestepping the more technical unix hacks
Small screen?? A 1024 x 768 pixels, 9.7 diagonal screen that
you typically are going to view much nearer to your face than you
would a laptop or netbook is small?
A custom-designed, well-tuned 1 GHz mobile processor is slow?
Weren't you one of the people singing the praises of the tegra
I think that they were congratulating themselves that in referring
to the whole group of products they could just type iP*d instead of
(for example) iPod/iTablet if that had been its name.
From:Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?
In order to get the court to grant him an injunction, he would first have
to prove that he is in fact suffering from electromagnetic sensitivity and
that he is suffering from his neighbor's wifi connection. Good luck with
that.
If he wants to indulge his delusions, he should wallpaper his
In addition to the other suggestions, you can look at switch audio
converter:
http://www.nch.com.au/switch/
It comes in a free and a paid version, and the free version
will do batch conversions to MP3 I think, while the paid one
gives you a number of additional conversion options.
On Dec
OK, if you want it harder, go to Accounts in System Preferences,
select your user account, click on the Login Items tab, and add
your application there.
This is also how you can remove login items if you want to (and the
real reason I'm telling you this).
From:Reid Katan
Mike, the statement was that an Apple machine is not much different
in cost from an equally spec'd PC. Your example does not refute
this by being a substantially cheaper PC that is also substantially
different from the Mac you are comparing it to.
Also, I have to dispute most of the implied
I got a Magic Mouse as soon as I could, because my mighty
mouse's scrollball would get clogged up and need cleaning
annoyingly often. I agree that the Magic Mouse works much
better than the Mighty Mouse (now just Apple Mouse), and
I'd go so far as to say that it's the best mouse I've ever
According to what I've read, part of the impression that Win7 is
faster than XP and Vista is a hangover from the fact that many
of the Win7 betas really were faster because they were more
streamlined. That stopped being the case as Win7 moved
closer to RC status and MS started adding back more
Your overall point is true, but Leopard was slower than Tiger.
Exposé, Spaces and the Spotlight improvements in Leopard
put some overhead on the OS. Still, it's quite a record,
10.0 - 10.1- 10.2- 10.3- 10.4, each with more features
but also faster than their predecessor, then a slowdown
in the
.
From:John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 7 Nov 2009 - Special issue
(#2009-996)
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:17 AM, David K Watson
davidkirkwat...@gmail.comwrote:
I am not going to argue any general claims, but in this case go
back and read Tom's
Rather than just bickering about it, tell us a little about these
people.
I, for one am curious about who is running Win7and why. Like: are
they putting it on work machines or personal machines? Is it mostly
preinstalls on new machines or upgrades on old machines, and if the
latter, was it
What kind of multitasking is it that you want to do on a small
handheld that is so crucial? I don't have have an iPhone, but
I do have an iPod Touch, and I can surf the web or compose
an email, etc. while listening to music, and you can do more
than one thing at a time of this sort with the
Actually, according to what I read, it is a hybrid UMTS/CDMA
iPhone made possible by a new hybrid chip from Qualcomm,
so Apple can continue to make a single global iPhone that
will work with all major carriers. The evidence for the phone
is pretty skimpy, I haven't seen any evidence at all that
Let's take the report at face value and do the math. Microsoft
is also charging less than half for Win7 than they were for
Vista, so they are grossing at about the same rate. If you
consider that they plainly didn't realize the revenue they
expected on Vista and they had to pay out some heavy
That is the kind of answer I've been looking for, that I haven't
seen at all anywhere else. Whatever works for you, fine. You
make a good case for your phone. (Was all that on your phone,
or was it at your computer and you are giving an example of
what you'd like your phone to do?) However, do
I am not going to argue any general claims, but in this case go
back and read Tom's posts when MobileMe was having all its
service problems the first times Apple tried to put in Exchange
support. Tom was at least as unhappy with Apple over that as
he was over MS's recent problems with Sidekick
Don't be so hard on her, Tom.
She has a brother to do all her computer service for her, for free.
At least that's the way it seems to work in my family.
From:tjpa t...@tjpa.com
Subject: Re: Real Windows 7 Reviews Start to Appear
On Nov 7, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Chris Dunford wrote:
The other
I have washed and dried flash drives before, usually my son's
when he left it in his pants and I didn't find it. I've also done
the same with DS game cartridges. They've always survived
the wash, but perhaps that is because we have a front loader,
so they don't spend much time being completely
Besides making sure that the drive is sturdy, another thing to
consider is the protection for the USB tip. If the drive has a
separate cap for the tip, it inevitably will get lost. Jeff should
consider getting a drive with a USB tip that slides or folds out
from a built-in cover.
Another thing
I had read that some android phones other than the
Droid don't have the 256MB application limit. Perhaps it's
just that they have more hardwired memory.
I don't really buy your argument for memory expansion. With
the iPod, you plug it into your computer and swap files between
it and your
Since Mike is so desperate to find out what the Droid can't do
that the iPhone can, here's two:
Because the Droid is built for Verizon's mostly CDMA network, you
don't have simultaneous data and voice. So you can't for example
do a web search for restaurants while making dinner plans with your
So, he's saying
iPhone::iPod Touch::iPhone OS=father::son::holy ghost ?
On a topic more related to the article, remember the YouTube
Droid commercial
(at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPYM-
XTqcecfeature=player_embedded)
that was discussed here last week? I saw it on live TV
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Date:Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:10:00 -0400
From:b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es
Subject: New Apple Ad -- doesn't play on iPod Touch
http://tinyurl.com/yjtwgwn
Does this
Betty, I have OS 3.1 on my iPod, and it won't play the newest videos
(the top 3) either.
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Date:Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:10:00 -0400
From:b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es
Tom, you probably know this and just mistyped, but guest accounts
aren't new to Snow Leopard. Leopard has guest account functionality
too. The bug seems to be new to Snow Leopard though.
From:Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com
Not to be outdone by M$, Apple has got its own catastrophic bug...
The day Snow Leopard came out, I looked at the compatibility
list, didn't see any deal-breakers for me, and upgraded that day.
Of course, I made very sure that my Time Machine was working
and updated a clone of my hard drive just before upgrading
just to be on the safe side. It was cheap, easy
The Touches are all microphone-capable. In the most recent
generation, the larger capacity Touches come with Apple
earphones that have the built-in microphone, but the entry-level
8GB Touch comes with regular earphones. For my previous
generation Touch, I bought and use a microphone by Monster
Late to the party here, but:
First of all, it's a tiny little application, and is practically an
iTunes
plugin. Future versions of iTunes will likely have it built in and
you'd
never notice it unless you needed it. Do you complain this much
every time Firefox updates itself unnecessarily?
From:Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com
Wow! is right. You pick out the single most damning line in a
generally positive review and hold it up as proof that the Zune
Sucks.
The only thing wrong with this statement is that the review isn't
generally positive, it's overwhelmingly positive.
As others have pointed out, no one is being forced to buy new hardware.
Our older computers haven't lost any of their capabilities because
Snow Leopard has come out.
It makes just as much sense to rail about being made to buy a new
computer because you want to use 4GB of ram and your old one
According to Elgato, the latest version should run but have a
few issues with exporting, etc. My own experience with
it in Snow Leopard is that it would take a long time to start
up and then would get as far as showing the controller, but
then I would get a spinning beach ball and no TV viewer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7w64fbqYQY
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From:Jeff Morris jmor...@clarkswb.net
Subject: Re: COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 28 Aug 2009 to 29 Aug 2009 -
Special issue (#2009-814)
Yes you can, at least on an intel mac running Leopard, and I'm
not so sure you even need Leopard. The OS has no serial
numbers or activation keys. This has always been the case
for OS X as far as I can remember. Most Mac users are honest
and buy the extra licenses, and Apple makes it easy for
(sorry for forgetting to fix the subject line in the previous post)
Well, I'm certainly happy so far. Everything I use works in the 32 bit
kernel although EyeTV has a few issues and Office 2004 and some
older games still need Rosetta to be installed. In the 64 bit kernel,
EyeTV and Parallels
Well, in the past you've linked to John Siracusa's critiques when
discussing your problems with the finder. One of his big criticisms
(which has always seemed very silly to me) is that the finder is
a bad analogy or a mixed metaphor, in that it is not consistently
spatial. Since the finder is
The NY Times has David Pogue's review of Snow Leopard. It
looks like it is a review of the actual release and not the developer
preview like I've seen elsewhere.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue.html?ref=global-homepagewanted=all
There is a video of Snow
From the ars technica article that your battery numbers come
from:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/08/zune-hd-specs-reveal-battery-life-estimates-format-support.ars
Battery life is cited as up to 24 hours (wireless off) for music
and up to four hours for video, but this seemed a
Well, you could set up an insecure Drupal website if you didn't
really know what you were doing. But given that the list of Drupal's
users includes many really big names in IT (including the security
company Symantec), e-commerce sites, etc., it would seem
that it can't be too hard to set up a
Screen size:
Remember size is roughly the square of the diagonal. Taking
second digit rounding into account that could be as much as 18%
difference. That is a worst case number, but it agrees pretty
closely with the computation in pixels: 480x320 vs. 480x272
(17.6% more for the Touch). Yes, I
From:mike xha...@gmail.com
Where is the zune HD behind on the touch?
Well, there's:
Screen size
advertised battery life
bluetooth
apps (by about 64,000 or so)
and of course, availability
Because of that last one, the jury is still out on things like actual
usability issues, reliability,
Walt Mossberg requested and got from MS an official Windows 7
upgrade chart.
http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20090804/deciphering-windows-7-upgrades-the-official-chart/
It has *only* 66 upgrade scenarios in it, as it merely considers half
of the versions of Win7 that MS will be offering. The
I haven't read anything about how aged the iPod has become, can
you point me to one of those blogs? On the other hand, every day
I see several articles about a new or updated iPhone/iPod app.
And you CAN customize your iPhone home screen, that came with
version 2 of the OS.
From:mike
Yes, but Apple wasn't first in either the music player or smart phone
markets. Both markets were considered to be fairly stable and
buttoned down until Apple came along and churned them up again.
Remember this review of the first iPod: No wireless. Less space than
a nomad. Lame.? Of course it
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From:mike xha...@gmail.com
More in reference to the iphone. Most of these references are in
the middle
of reviews of phones such as the palm or the hero coming out in the
US soon.
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:10 AM, David K Watson davidkirkwat...@gmail.com
wrote
This sounds too much like the children's argument,
I know you are, but what am I?. Rather than waiting for the
No you are from Tom, and a No YOU are back from
you, I beg you: Please, one of you make an actual point instead
of going around in circles like this, or let it drop.
Of course, that
It is interesting that in your mind interface is at worst just fine
translates into matches iPod touch. To me though, it says that
the interface is manageable with a connotation that it is not great,
which matches the impressions I've gathered. But you are right
that I should've let Mike speak
Safari does use site-specific hacks that you can turn off or on under
the Develop menu (which you can show or hide in the advanced
preferences). Is it possible that you have these hacks turned off?
If not, can you give us an example of a site that Safari doesn't
render very well? I view a
I'm feeling pedantic today:
If 90% had 100 and 10% had 0, then the average is 90.
Result: 90% are above average.
Math alone isn't sufficient justification.
From:Mike xha...@gmail.com
Math.
Sent from my iPod
On Aug 6, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
Ninety
I will grant that you can argue this both ways. The way I remember
it, version 5.0 was never more than a developer preview, 5.2 was
the first true OS X version, and there were big differences in the
rendering engine between versions. IE for mac was named the
way it was because MS didn't want
(Damn it, I didn't fix the subject: tag again. Sorry.)
I will grant that you can argue this both ways. The way I remember
it, version 5.0 was never more than a developer preview, 5.2 was
the first true OS X version, and there were big differences in the
rendering engine between versions. IE
Microsoft EOLed Office 2004 this year (i.e., after only 5 years),
so your example isn't particularly strong one, especially since
you are comparing an application to an entire OS.
But if applications are fair game, MS released Internet Explorer
5.2 for OS X in 2002, stopped updating it in 2003,
Since they are Microsoft, they really ought to call them Wizard bars.
Black robes and pointy hats with astral symbols would help too.
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From:t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com
...
A leaked presentation has exposed
What was I saying?! Microsoft stores shouldn't have guru bars
at all, they should have windows! They should still be populated
with wizards though, rather than gurus. And wizard attire
would be just the kind of branding they need to set themselves
apart from Apple.
Since they are Microsoft,
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