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iPhone 3G review supplemental: battery life and MobileMe tests {Engadget}
Jul 16th 2008 2:48PM Engadget should start enforcing some comment moderation against uselessness already. Hell, it's not that hard to write an algorithm to auto-detect posts containing only "first" and optional punctuation marks and an optional "post" or "comment", and simply not publish said comment.
Shuts up both the idiots who think it's anything other than stupid to post comments like that, but also the people who feel the need to complain every time someone does so and push actual comments even further down the screen away from initial view.
Video: Meet Hasbro's Ampbot, the mother of all Rollys {Engadget}
Jun 20th 2008 11:06AM This totally makes me think of the waiter robot from Star Wars Episode II. No? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
The iPhone patent: Steven P. Jobs, inventor {Engadget}
May 30th 2008 11:13AM "Who knows what the future holds? Imagine user-replaceable batteries and memory cards!"
The truly visionary thing is not having those; what may seem like a much-desired feature to you hasn't been much of an issue at all to the tens of millions of people that actually bought these devices.
Vote for the 2007 Engadget Awards! {Engadget}
Feb 21st 2008 1:46AM "What, specifically can the iMac do better than the Blackbird?"
Run OS X.
The $20 iPod touch upgrade: really for legal reasons or no? {Engadget}
Jan 21st 2008 3:48PM Dear Josh,
"I don't care what Apple has to say about this, there is no way the AppleTV can be considered a subscription service if the iPod Touch is left out of that classification."
You clearly don't know much about business if you think so. Subscription-based accounting is not inherently linked to subscription-based selling. In other words, a company has every right to accrue revenue over 24 months from a one-time sale; it may not make sense to you, but it can make sense to the company doing so and in the case of Apple, it clearly does.
Also, the iPod Touch never had an upgrade to get the iTunes WiFi Music Store; it was released together with it. Only the iPhone had the WiFi Music Store become available as an upgrade (the Touch wasn't sold until the WiFi Music Store was released).
As for the whole "how will this go with the SDK in February" thing, my guess would be that the SDK release changes the definition of both iPod Touch and iPhone from "closed product" to "open product" — open being just like any personal computer where you have full legal control over what applications you do and don't put on there, and closed being exactly what the iPod Touch is right now: a product you own, but have no legal control over per the features/applications running on it.
iTunes and Apple TV rentals and purchases: what you can (and can't) do {Engadget}
Jan 16th 2008 9:33PM Ty,
"Fair enough. Well I'll save my QQing for a year or so, by when many more people will have a 1080p TV and the Apple TV will still be hardware limited to 720p."
Apple TV is not hardware limited to 720p at all. That's merely the resolution of downloadable content from the iTunes Store; you can put your 1080p content on there (though not by buying it on iTS) and it'll work just fine.
Apple's sold 4 million iPhones since launch {Engadget}
Jan 16th 2008 2:29AM That 20 million figure is Worldwide. The iPhone was available in exactly ONE country for the entire 3rd quarter: the United States.
That's why the iPhone's 19% market share grab _in the US_ (for Q3) is a perfectly fine and true figure. Besides, it wasn't Apple's figure, it was Gartner's.
New Zune review (part 2): upgrade, hardware, software and Social {Engadget}
Nov 18th 2007 7:11PM "And why shouldn't Microsoft make the Xbox, it's incredibly successful."
By what standard do you consider the Xbox "incredibly successful"? Because from a business perspective (you know, that whole "making money" thing) the Xbox is one of the biggest failures in the digital world. Aside of a quarter or two, it has been nothing but a financial black hole that MS have pumped billions in and have yet to make any money on.
Popular (mostly) among the people using it? Oh yes, very successful at that. But as a business model, the whole Xbox operation is a $5 billion dollar failure thus far…
(not to say I disagree with the general point that competition for the iPod is a good thing. It is, no matter who it comes from)
Microsoft exec rekindles iPhone rival rumors, gives Zune a B- {Engadget}
Sep 5th 2007 10:56AM John,
"(it doesn't have significant market share)"
(it outsold all of Microsoft's Windows Mobile phones in the first month of its release, though. What's that then say about WM?)
Recycle bin hard drive stores your deletions, mimics a trash can {Engadget}
Aug 26th 2007 9:46AM "Intended to protect the user from accidentally deleting files, it can also be used as an external storage device."
In other words, you don't HAVE to use it for deleted files, you can just use it as any other external storage drive if you want (and given the LED buildup as it fills up, I think that's what most people would use it for).
I do hope that Bluetooth isn't the only connectivity option if they end up making this. If not too expensive compared to "normal" 250GB drives, I'd definitely buy this for the style factor. My iomega 250GB drive looks fugly as hell compared to this.
