http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/ Engadget Comments for Apple makes it official, acquires Quattro Wireless http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
I'd say: "That's nothing you should see his other posts" but they've all been downranked out of existence. ]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
He's worse than Paul Chapel, Ocean, Clak, Quix, Jack, and iKurk Mark III put together.]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
Haha! Reminds me of Pac-Man though!!]]>Jan 5th 2010 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
More like "we're crushing our competition senseless, might as well steal their lunch too!"]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
Unless you pay any attention at what company they have been aiming to compete with most over the last 2 years. i'll give you a hint, its not Microsoft anymore.]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
I think Apple is setting up the back end of their mobile devices very nicely with their recent acquisitions. Probably be a year or so before we see this new stuff, but I think the end result is going to be quite nice.]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
I really dont see how a company taking as much of the profits for itself is in any way good for the customer or developers for the platform. i mean, at least google allows pretty much any app onto their store and lets other phone manufacturers use its development kit. Apple is controlling every single part of the product so they get a chunk of money out of every little bit of what goes on on their platform. This is why i'll be trading in my iPhone 3Gs the day Multi touch comes to Android.]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
So Apple handing over your personal information to businesses wanting to better target you with more advertising is OK with you?
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Apple's privacy policy states (very abbreviated):

"We collect your personal information because it helps us deliver a superior level of customer service.

When you interact with Apple, we may collect personal information relevant to the situation, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, and contact preferences; your credit card information and information about the Apple products you own...

We collect information regarding customer activities on our websites, MobileMe, and the iTunes Store.

Apple and its partners and licensors may provide certain features or services through the Service that rely upon device-based location information. To provide such features or services, where available, Apple and its partners and licensors may collect, use, transmit, process and maintain your location data, including the real-time geographic location of your device...

WHEN WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

With our service providers, vendors, and strategic partners

There are also times when it may be advantageous for Apple to make certain personal information about you available to companies that Apple has a strategic relationship with or that perform work for Apple to provide products and services to you on our behalf."
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For someone like myself who uses a lot of Apple products, the idea that that information is now 100% in the hands of a company like Quattro Wireless makes me uncomfortable. Targeting me with 3rd party ads tailored to my Apple device habits isn't the kind of innovation and end-user experience I expect from Apple.]]>Jan 5th 2010 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
Yewp. Dont forget all of the meltdown when you had ads in ZuneHD games.

HOW DARE THEY SULLY MY GAMING EXPERIENCE WITH MESSAGES TO INDUCE PROFIT!!!!!

All of the little Apple fanatics were just howling at how MS just screwed it up again!

Now the possibly of ads in apps for an Apple product?

"this is good news if (and only if) it either makes life easier on devs that want to offer awesome free apps or finally ushers in the era of free, non-carrier-subsidized, ad-supported smartphones that don't suck. "

Uh huh. So in other words it's stupid unless the phones run ads instead of you getting a carrier-subsidized device that does not. A completely absurd hope to pad Apple's rear so Engadget wont have to be critical of them.]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
Yewp. Dont forget all of the meltdown when you had ads in ZuneHD games.

HOW DARE THEY SULLY MY GAMING EXPERIENCE WITH MESSAGES TO INDUCE PROFIT!!!!!

All of the little Apple fanatics were just howling at how MS just screwed it up again!

Now the possibly of ads in apps for an Apple product?

"this is good news if (and only if) it either makes life easier on devs that want to offer awesome free apps or finally ushers in the era of free, non-carrier-subsidized, ad-supported smartphones that don't suck. "

Uh huh. So in other words it's stupid unless the phones run ads instead of you getting a carrier-subsidized device that does not. A completely absurd hope to pad Apple's rear so Engadget wont have to be critical of them.]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
And you cant see the difference? Engadget has the dumbest and most inane seething worthless brain dead commenters of any site ever. Even worse than techCrunch.]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
What's the difference?

You get ads EITHER WAY.

You just have to pick you poison.

]]>Jan 5th 2010 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
No, dumbass. In the ad-supported free apps or games on the iPhone, you can still play the game while the ads are onscreen or docked. On the Zune, guess what? The ad loads and sits on your screen BEFORE YOU CAN GET INTO THE GAME.

Still can't see the difference? That's because you're an Apple-hating idiot, as I've pointed out before, and as you seem to want to prove even further with every comment you make.]]>Jan 5th 2010 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Either way it's still an ad. Just because Apple is doing it differently, doesn't make it less annoying. Ad's on this site don't load before I read an article, yet thousands of visitors use AdBlock. They don't want to see ad's. Douche.]]>Jan 5th 2010 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
Apple has nothing to do with it. These are third party apps, and their developers are choosing to put ads in the free versions. The difference is that you don't have to WAIT and stare at your screen while an ad PLAYS LIKE A MOVIE, FULL SCREEN, before you can actually play the damn game.

Why don't you make more excuses for Microsoft, you jackass.The only way this would in any way be comparable to loading this site is if an ad took over your entire monitor and played for 30 seconds before you could see the site. Oh, and adblock isn't an option because the ad running beforehand is the only way the site will load.

See the problem now? Or are you going to keep making excuses for something that should be completely unacceptable?]]>Jan 5th 2010 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
It's still an ad.

you just decided because Apple did it that it's ok, and different.

If you just admit it, you will feel better. :)]]>Jan 5th 2010 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
I don't know! But, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, there is one thing I do know... If a company wants to be purchased by another company for $275 million, there is no reason that they should float at least a little of that cash my way.]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
Is it me or has the quality of the Apple ass-kissers gone downhill as of late?]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
The massive amount of jackassery on this site is embarrassing.]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
I'm waiting for those 6 Apple announcements of iPhone stats or buyouts, or rumors to be posted on Engadget. Yeah, we know it.]]>Jan 5th 2010 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
#1 Thank you for calling my 14. That actually would be nice if I was.

#2 "I imagine anyone with 1/2 a fucking useable brain probably comments infrequently on this ridiculous day care blog,"

Mr. Pot, care to meet Mr. Kettle?

Why yes, Mr. Pot! Indeed he is black!]]>Jan 5th 2010 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 5th 2010 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/apple-patent-application-reveals-ad-supported-os-armageddon/]]>Jan 5th 2010 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/No, it's not you. These iDiots will suck Apples cock, no matter how greasy it is. ]]>Jan 5th 2010 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 6th 2010 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://qandil.ca/techblog/2010/01/06/apple-acquires-quattro-wireless/]]>Jan 6th 2010 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/
As far as giving devs greater freedom and capabilities with in game ads, I'm all for it. I love having free games that I can decide are really worth my money or not- I don't want to drop .99+ for something that really sucks. And if you have a problem with the ads- support the freaking dev and buy it if you like it so much or just stop playing the game...]]>Jan 6th 2010 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/apple-makes-it-official-acquires-quattro-wireless/Jan 8th 2010 6:46PM