b23avfc Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 To be honest, it's business.. would you let your competitors in? It's the whole ibm vs the world crap. Businesses monopolise for a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Oh we all know Apple are amazing innovators and have really outdone themselves with the creation of the iPhone. But they outright refuse to make their world open. Do we all know that? Everything I see is stuff that other providers have had earlier, in many cases, things they make a huge song and dance about have been used on other devices for years (C&P, multi-tasking, voice dialing, MMS). The iPhone has been constantly behind the curve, they're just about catching up, and people can barely prise their lips away from Apple's collective cock. Still, it is shiny. No doubt they leave these features out deliberately so people buy the new one in 12 months, which all manufacturers seem to do (as well as building them to die just outside of the warranty period). I don't particularly dislike Apple, it just pisses me off that people seem to think it's such a fantastic ground-breaking phone. Where have they been? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 It's like Live Nation merging with ticketmaster and now they are buying up venues around the world. So they own the acts music and touring rights, they also sell the tickets and own the venues. Thank god Barack Obama drew attention to this and an antitrust case will be taken against the company. It may be business but we should not stand for it. Microsoft were taking things too far with the mission to buy out any rival and they were stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 I cannot be arsed with this thread any more, just wish that it could be about apps and iphone things we used to talk about :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 26, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted July 26, 2010 I cannot be arsed with this thread any more, just wish that it could be about apps and iphone things we used to talk about :-( This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b23avfc Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 I cannot be arsed with this thread any more, just wish that it could be about apps and iphone things we used to talk about :-( this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 26, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted July 26, 2010 In an attempt to get this back on track. Couple of cool apps I downloaded recently. Modern Combat: Sandstorm - pretty cool FPS, especially for a phone. Dump-o-meter - input your salary and hours per week you work, and start the stopwatch when you go for a shit at work and this works out how much you're getting paid to have a shit. Flick Football (not flick kick football) - fun little free kick game. Pretty addictive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaztonVilla Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Dragon dictation.. and its free. Just download it, now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 26, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted July 26, 2010 I downloaded that. Didn't think it was that good. I spent more time correcting what it had writte than I would have if I'd just written it from scratch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Dump-o-meter - input your salary and hours per week you work, and start the stopwatch when you go for a shit at work and this works out how much you're getting paid to have a shit. ! So how much do you make defecating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted July 26, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted July 26, 2010 I care because people keep buying apple products and so feed this controlling machine that is all about extracting money from their customers. It has a negative effect on the whole industry. Do you think Samsung, Sony, HTC, Nokia or even Microsoft are any different? Yes (to all but Microsoft). Even Microsoft is nowhere near as psychotic about platform control as Apple have [more or less always, post-Woz] been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDon Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 I care because people keep buying apple products and so feed this controlling machine that is all about extracting money from their customers. It has a negative effect on the whole industry. Do you think Samsung, Sony, HTC, Nokia or even Microsoft are any different? Yes (to all but Microsoft). Even Microsoft is nowhere near as psychotic about platform control as Apple have [more or less always, post-Woz] been.Aye, but I was excluding microsoft because they're not solely a phone maker and also own the OS it runs on (although I don't really class their crappy kin phone as a phone worthy to call them one) so for the purposes of the explanation as to why they were different it was easier to exclude microsoft and focus solely on the phone only manufactures who operate on entirely different business models to apple (who are also the only phone manufacturer to convince networks to ass rape you on both phone and contract costs!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 27, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted July 27, 2010 Dump-o-meter - input your salary and hours per week you work, and start the stopwatch when you go for a shit at work and this works out how much you're getting paid to have a shit. ! So how much do you make defecating? I've only just started so it's hard to put a good figure on it. but yesterday I made about 4 quid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Yay, welcome back thread :-) I downloaded Toy Story Mania for my niece, I had a go and Buzz congratulated me on my Exceptional tossing! Currently addicted to;Plants V Zombies, Guitar Hero and Angry Birds. A good none gaming app is Flashlight :-) for IP4 users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 27, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted July 27, 2010 Angry Birds is amazing. I completed 3 stars on every level the other day (I played it a lot!!). Now I have nothing to do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 I'm still working through it, nothing like 3 stars for me lol. Class game though, AB2 out soon as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b23avfc Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Got angry birds lite last night.. grrr I'm gonna end up buying it and paying for in with serious lost sleep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Lmao same happened to me mate! Very addictive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Flick kick football is good to while away some time and very addictive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 27, 2010 Moderator Share Posted July 27, 2010 I've asked this before ... But which is the best free twitter app? Preferably with ability to link into fb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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