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    Mendor81
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    Hi everyone, i've just been back from vacation (3 weeks disconnect from everything, no news no i-net no nothing...awesome) when i came back i saw that apple won the lawsuit against Samsung and Samsung has to pay the ammount of 1.000 millione US$ due to patent infringement? WTF? I ,personally owning the S3 which appel would love to ban from the market, (sincerly i hope they don't succeed, s3 is so much better then iphone) am worried how far apple will go to preserve their idea to get the monopoly on smartphones. Other question that bargles occupies my mind is why is apple so successfull? to much fanboys? or people with to much money? Discuss!

    Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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      Hi everyone, i've just been back from vacation (3 weeks disconnect from everything, no news no i-net no nothing...awesome) when i came back i saw that apple won the lawsuit against Samsung and Samsung has to pay the ammount of 1.000 millione US$ due to patent infringement? WTF? I ,personally owning the S3 which appel would love to ban from the market, (sincerly i hope they don't succeed, s3 is so much better then iphone) am worried how far apple will go to preserve their idea to get the monopoly on smartphones. Other question that bargles occupies my mind is why is apple so successfull? to much fanboys? or people with to much money? Discuss!

      Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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      Andrei Straut
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      Mendor81 wrote:

      why is apple so successful?

      Son, I know people who went mad, rolling on the floor drooling with their brains burnt out trying to find an answer to this question. Some things are best not known EDIT: Dunno why, but I keep pressing "Post Message" instead of "Quote Text"

      Mendor81 wrote:

      Samsung has to pay the ammount of 1.000 millione US$ due to patent infringement?
      WTF?

      Oh yes, WTF indeed. Maybe Samsung aren't really inventing anything these days, but neither did Apple. Ever!

      Full-fledged Java/.NET lover, full-fledged PHP hater. Full-fledged Google/Microsoft lover, full-fledged Apple hater. Full-fledged Skype lover, full-fledged YM hater.

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        Hi everyone, i've just been back from vacation (3 weeks disconnect from everything, no news no i-net no nothing...awesome) when i came back i saw that apple won the lawsuit against Samsung and Samsung has to pay the ammount of 1.000 millione US$ due to patent infringement? WTF? I ,personally owning the S3 which appel would love to ban from the market, (sincerly i hope they don't succeed, s3 is so much better then iphone) am worried how far apple will go to preserve their idea to get the monopoly on smartphones. Other question that bargles occupies my mind is why is apple so successfull? to much fanboys? or people with to much money? Discuss!

        Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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        Dalek Dave
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        1.000 Million? That is very precise. And about 1000th the actual figure. The fine was about $1.05 Billion!

        --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]

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          Mendor81 wrote:

          why is apple so successful?

          Son, I know people who went mad, rolling on the floor drooling with their brains burnt out trying to find an answer to this question. Some things are best not known EDIT: Dunno why, but I keep pressing "Post Message" instead of "Quote Text"

          Mendor81 wrote:

          Samsung has to pay the ammount of 1.000 millione US$ due to patent infringement?
          WTF?

          Oh yes, WTF indeed. Maybe Samsung aren't really inventing anything these days, but neither did Apple. Ever!

          Full-fledged Java/.NET lover, full-fledged PHP hater. Full-fledged Google/Microsoft lover, full-fledged Apple hater. Full-fledged Skype lover, full-fledged YM hater.

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          Andrei Straut wrote:

          ...inventing anything these days, but neither did Apple. Ever!

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            1.000 Million? That is very precise. And about 1000th the actual figure. The fine was about $1.05 Billion!

            --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]

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            OriginalGriff
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            He is Spanish - the thousands and decimal separator are reversed. 1,2324.56 in English becomes 1.234,56 in Spanish locale numbering. (I was very tempted to say "He's from Barcelona"...) [edit]"Spanish", not "spannish" :doh:[/edit]

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              1.000 Million? That is very precise. And about 1000th the actual figure. The fine was about $1.05 Billion!

              --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]

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              Lost User
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              I think the period here represents the thousands separator, as in many cultures. So OP actually means 1 thousand million - maybe.

              One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.

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                Hi everyone, i've just been back from vacation (3 weeks disconnect from everything, no news no i-net no nothing...awesome) when i came back i saw that apple won the lawsuit against Samsung and Samsung has to pay the ammount of 1.000 millione US$ due to patent infringement? WTF? I ,personally owning the S3 which appel would love to ban from the market, (sincerly i hope they don't succeed, s3 is so much better then iphone) am worried how far apple will go to preserve their idea to get the monopoly on smartphones. Other question that bargles occupies my mind is why is apple so successfull? to much fanboys? or people with to much money? Discuss!

                Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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                Pete OHanlon
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                Mendor81 wrote:

                Other question that bargles my mind

                Bargles. What a great word. Apple are successful because they make products that people want to buy.

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                  He is Spanish - the thousands and decimal separator are reversed. 1,2324.56 in English becomes 1.234,56 in Spanish locale numbering. (I was very tempted to say "He's from Barcelona"...) [edit]"Spanish", not "spannish" :doh:[/edit]

                  Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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                  Mendor81
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                  Thanks, and almost geographicly correct :D just some km away from Barcelona And yes i appologize, we here say 1.000 million, not billion.. sorry for that linguistic lapsus :P

                  Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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                    Mendor81 wrote:

                    Other question that bargles my mind

                    Bargles. What a great word. Apple are successful because they make products that people want to buy.

                    *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                    "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

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                    Mendor81
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                    Yes but why spend 30-60% more for a same product( talking about same or sometimes even better specifications and functionality) just because there's a biten apple on the box/product?

                    Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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                      Andrei Straut wrote:

                      ...inventing anything these days, but neither did Apple. Ever!

                      FOLLOWERS: An unbeliever! ARTHUR: Persecute! Kill the heretic! FOLLOWERS: Kill the heretic! Kill him! Persecute! Kill!...

                      Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

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                      Andrei Straut
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                      I am ready to be persecuted, hanged, stoned to death or skinned alive if it causes Apple to go bankrupt. Until then, I will happily bear the Wrath of the Univoter for my post And also, let's not forget that there are other people, not only followers and Arthur. Now, there's all the Apple haters here too (off the top of my head, PO'H comes to mind)

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                        Yes but why spend 30-60% more for a same product( talking about same or sometimes even better specifications and functionality) just because there's a biten apple on the box/product?

                        Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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                        Andrei Straut
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                        Mendor81 wrote:

                        just because there's a biten rotten apple on the box/product

                        FTFY

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                          Yes but why spend 30-60% more for a same product( talking about same or sometimes even better specifications and functionality) just because there's a biten apple on the box/product?

                          Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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                          Pete OHanlon
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                          It's a lot more complex than that. There's brand awareness to take into account, availability of Apps (one of Androids biggest problems is the lack of a central app store in my opinion; well, that and the fact that early versions were prone to crashing). Plus, Apple products appear to be innovators to the consumer. Given the simplicity and perceived reliability of Apple products, and it's easy to see why it's such a success. The iPhone is the phone you give to someone non technical when they just want something that works.

                          *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                          "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                          CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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                            Thanks, and almost geographicly correct :D just some km away from Barcelona And yes i appologize, we here say 1.000 million, not billion.. sorry for that linguistic lapsus :P

                            Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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                            Dalek Dave
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                            My mistake! Apologies.

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                              Hi everyone, i've just been back from vacation (3 weeks disconnect from everything, no news no i-net no nothing...awesome) when i came back i saw that apple won the lawsuit against Samsung and Samsung has to pay the ammount of 1.000 millione US$ due to patent infringement? WTF? I ,personally owning the S3 which appel would love to ban from the market, (sincerly i hope they don't succeed, s3 is so much better then iphone) am worried how far apple will go to preserve their idea to get the monopoly on smartphones. Other question that bargles occupies my mind is why is apple so successfull? to much fanboys? or people with to much money? Discuss!

                              Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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                              Keith Barrow
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                              Mendor81 wrote:

                              Other question that bargles my mind is why is apple so successfull?

                              Easy: Way back in the day the average user had two choices: IBM/Clone + MS or Apple. Other than the OS, MS focussed more or less on business apps (Word, Excel etc) and still dominate in this market now. Apple's main selling point was it was very good at DTP*, it had a WYSIWYG (not an initialisation that is needed anymore) interface way before MS. This meant the media-types used Mac over MS. Whenever the mediaists tried to use Windows stuff like double-clicking was hard for their little brains, so they stuck with Mac claiming MS was too hard (two buttons, WTF!). Naturally MS overtook Apple (more businesses than Journos) so Apple became the underdog favourite with Media types and hipsters against the "evil empire". Despite Apple (even then) being way more fascist (int the Jargon File sense[^] rather than the Godwin one). These people are still carrying forward and promote the idea the Apple is the personification of all that is good in the world. It's interesting to watch the fanboys justify Apple's recent actions. Only a couple of years ago they were criticising MS as the big bad bull boy, now Apple is just protecting while its IP whilst somehow remaining ice-cool. </rant> * It was also historically more stable than MS, but it enjoyed the advantage of only needing to support Apple hardware.

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                                It's a lot more complex than that. There's brand awareness to take into account, availability of Apps (one of Androids biggest problems is the lack of a central app store in my opinion; well, that and the fact that early versions were prone to crashing). Plus, Apple products appear to be innovators to the consumer. Given the simplicity and perceived reliability of Apple products, and it's easy to see why it's such a success. The iPhone is the phone you give to someone non technical when they just want something that works.

                                *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

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                                Mendor81
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                                (one of Androids biggest problems is the lack of a central app store in my opinion

                                What about Google Play?

                                Plus, Apple products appear to be innovators to the consumer. Given the simplicity and perceived reliability of Apple products, and it's easy to see why it's such a success. The iPhone is the phone you give to someone non technical when they just want something that works.

                                S3 vs Iphone is in my opinion a comparison Apple lost everything thats on the Iphone is on the S3 as well and sometimes even better, Camera for example. Iphone isn't innovative in my opinion because on the earlier version it wasn't capable of Flash, or save video when in the same timespan other products of the competidors where ahead in these features with Video conference for example

                                Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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                                  (one of Androids biggest problems is the lack of a central app store in my opinion

                                  What about Google Play?

                                  Plus, Apple products appear to be innovators to the consumer. Given the simplicity and perceived reliability of Apple products, and it's easy to see why it's such a success. The iPhone is the phone you give to someone non technical when they just want something that works.

                                  S3 vs Iphone is in my opinion a comparison Apple lost everything thats on the Iphone is on the S3 as well and sometimes even better, Camera for example. Iphone isn't innovative in my opinion because on the earlier version it wasn't capable of Flash, or save video when in the same timespan other products of the competidors where ahead in these features with Video conference for example

                                  Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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                                  Pete OHanlon
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                                  Mendor81 wrote:

                                  What about Google Play?

                                  What about it? Users aren't locked into that marketplace, so vendors are free to link to their own marketplaces instead.

                                  Mendor81 wrote:

                                  Iphone isn't innovative in my opinion because on the earlier version it wasn't capable of Flash, or save video when in the same timespan other products of the competidors where ahead in these features with Video conference for example

                                  Given that Flash has been killed off for mobile devices, it looks to people like Apple were right. Remember that I said that Apple appear to be innovative (whether or not this is true is a different matter), but the appearance to the consumer is that other phones play catch up with the iPhone. And I say all of this as one of the Apple "haters".

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                                    My mistake! Apologies.

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                                    accepted!

                                    Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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                                      Thanks, and almost geographicly correct :D just some km away from Barcelona And yes i appologize, we here say 1.000 million, not billion.. sorry for that linguistic lapsus :P

                                      Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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                                      <envy>That's a seriously cool town. And I don't mean that in a meteorological point of view.</envy>

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                                        Hi everyone, i've just been back from vacation (3 weeks disconnect from everything, no news no i-net no nothing...awesome) when i came back i saw that apple won the lawsuit against Samsung and Samsung has to pay the ammount of 1.000 millione US$ due to patent infringement? WTF? I ,personally owning the S3 which appel would love to ban from the market, (sincerly i hope they don't succeed, s3 is so much better then iphone) am worried how far apple will go to preserve their idea to get the monopoly on smartphones. Other question that bargles occupies my mind is why is apple so successfull? to much fanboys? or people with to much money? Discuss!

                                        Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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                                        Lost User
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                                        Mendor81 wrote:

                                        Other question that bargles occupies my mind is why is apple so successfull?

                                        It copied the successful elements of "Religion". ..and there's a flight of capital going on. Now, if you took your money out of Spanish bonds, where would you reinvest it? Not in American bonds. Not in something barbaric as gold, as that does not yield income. No, it gets invested in the most-trustworthy looking stock. There's your rotten Apple :)

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                                          <envy>That's a seriously cool town. And I don't mean that in a meteorological point of view.</envy>

                                          Light moves faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak. List of common misconceptions

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                                          I know ;) But since my actual goverment isn't inspiring much confidence i'll try to leave country in the next year,...but thats another story....

                                          Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!

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