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Re: GIT Makes Linux Tablets

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____/ Sneaky Weasel on Monday 19 Sep 2011 06:20 : \____

> On 09/18/2011 01:44 AM, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Sneaky Weasel on Sunday 18 Sep 2011 04:56 : \____
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>>> On 09/17/2011 12:36 AM, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> ____/ Sneaky Weasel on Friday 16 Sep 2011 23:42 : \____
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>>>>> On 09/16/2011 12:22 AM, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>>> ____/ Sneaky Weasel on Friday 16 Sep 2011 04:23 : \____
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>>>>>>> On 09/15/2011 05:31 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I'll stick with 7" models because they're my idea of the perfect size.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>     If they made one like that in my perfect size,_AND_  I could swap
>>>>>>>>>>     out the hard drive, I'd consider it. But I'm sure those are good
>>>>>>>>>>     specs for somebody or they wouldn't make them.
>>>>>>>> This seems like a special tablet for a certain market. Frankly, those
>>>>>>>> small screen tablets with lack of storage capacity seem pretty useless
>>>>>>>> to me. They seem like accessories.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For a tablet to be of any use to me it needs a keyboard.
>>>>>>> They call those note books.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> People think that "tablets" are "cool" now. Apple did a lot of the needed
>>>>>> advertising. I find them impractical, I type faster on my Palm than on
>>>>>> any of these "chic" accessories.
>>>>>
>>>>> More Apple crap.  Figures.  Is there anything they don't screw up?
>>>>
>>>> Not a matter of screwing up, just lack of innovation.
>>>
>>> Even as they use other people's work they screw it up. Why make BSD so
>>> closed? Why make limit Xerox's interface to use just one mouse button?
>>> The core of the iPhone is pretty much BSD. It could be as open as
>>> Android. Why have it where developers have to give 30% of their hard
>>> earned income to Apple. Ever. Single. Developer. What do they ever get
>>> right?
>>
>> Perception management.
> 
> Apple has their whacked out cult following and some deluded onlookers
> who think they must be missing something.  The rest of us are not
> fooled. They can't change the perception of them to be anything other
> than it is. Apple is a corrupt company of thieves who do a piss poor job
> of repackaging what they steal and then they cry when others make
> devices with rounded corners.  To hell with the idiots.  They can't do
> anything right.

Apple popularised the idea of not buying based on merit. Microsoft makes you 
lose choice (OEM).

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