I was one of those that quit Netflix. Couldn’t find any movies of interest. After the Stieg Larsson “The Girl …” series there was a vacuum. I’ve used Fanhatten on my iPad to verify that iTunes has almost all of them, but the price is still too high for me. If they lowered rentals to $1 each I’d use it everyday. Too bad the movie moguls can’t see the forest for the trees.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/311178-amazon-netflix-profitability-in-peril
Once you become an insider and get a chance to see Ali-Baba’s cave, the magic pipeline and the enormity of future numbers like sales, EPS, growth, that’s the first human reaction possible : rise some cash and buy AAPL.
Android is definitely w(h)inning.
SOURCE:
http://allthingsd.com/20111130/early-termination-fee-be-damned-i-want-my-iphone/
Appears Android devices run a super privileged unstoppable agent that logs everything (button presses, dialing, keystrokes, sms messages, unencrypted https traffic, location even if you have it turned off, etc). This is even done in Airplane mode. So when a good or bad guy uploads the log guess what’s going to happen to you. And you better not lose your phone or let it fall into the hands of our benevolent police force.
This isn’t just some blogger, it comes with a video showing all of it. But, Google wants Android to be OPEN.
To put this in the holiday spirit!
It sees you when you’re sleeping
It knows when you’re awake
It knows if you’ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!
This is actually a totally new item from Ars. It’s regrettable that the two stories coincides. But this one indicates that Android does not properly enforce it’s own security policy allowing untrusted apps to do all sorts of nasty things.
Researchers find big leaks in pre-installed Android apps
Quoting Daring Fireball
“Imagine if it were Apple”, or RIM for that matter – Apple got crucified for cell tower index that got copied to your own machine. All the other opentards get a free pass on any shit, no mater how deep it is (stolen credit cards, virus, pay SMS sent in the background, complete logs etc.)
Yeah, this makes sense. Ask Apple, not the other manufacturers whose phones (well, US phones at least) have already been demonstrated to have it.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57335715-281/how-carrier-iq-was-wrongly-accused-of-keylogging/
“The only problem, which is always a risk when a public lynching takes place, is that Carrier IQ appears to be not guilty of the charges lodged against it.
The most serious charge against Carrier IQ, a venture capital-funded startup in Mountain View, Calif. that makes diagnostic software for carriers, has been that it records keystrokes and transmits them to carriers. One article on a Mac Web site breathlessly reported that “Carrier IQ Probably Violated Federal Wiretap Laws In Millions Of Cases.”
Well, no. There’s zero evidence that Carrier IQ captured, recorded, or transmitted any keystrokes. But that didn’t stop the self-appointed lynch mob on blogs and on Twitter (#OccupyCarriers, that would be you).
Dan Rosenberg, an exceptionally talented security consultant who has discovered over 100 vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, FreeBSD, and GNU utilities, extracted a copy of Carrier IQ’s software from his own Android phones. He then analyzed the assembly language code with a debugger that allowed him to look under the hood.
“The application does not record and transmit keystroke data back to carriers,” Rosenberg told CNET. His reverse-engineering showed that “there is no code in Carrier IQ that actually records keystrokes for data collection purposes.”"
http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/05/apple-samsung-and-six-more-companies-sued-over-carrier-iq-scandal/
“Apple, Samsung and six more companies sued over Carrier IQ scandal”
Heh – the feeding frenzy is actually becoming a bit entertaining.
Yeah, especially for the sheep. Their smooth cortex does not allow for discrimination (tip: on iOS one has to explicitly enable stats to be shared, the kind of they send is explained etc. – compare that – if you can – with an invisible bot that comes installed with no way to check what is doing, if it is present and of course no way to turn it off).
kind of data they send … but of course you got that by yourself
Estylo 1.1 is the first and ONLY wooden stylus to work on capacitive touch screens such as that of the iPad. At Plai our goal was to create a completely eco friendly product that would inspire the imagination. Designed for artists seeking greater accuracy over their work, it can also be used for writing or simply navigating the web. Inside Estylo we use high quality conductive materials so that no extra pressure is needed for it to be detected. In other words, Estylo is the pencil of NOW.
I use DAGi styluses with my iPad, but this look like a nice idea worth trying and supporting.
Interesting. I’ve never used a capacitive stylus on my iStuff. What do you use it for? And why do you like it?
I can see that it might be especially good for drawing or writing. I like my Wacom which I use for graphics applications on my Mac.
Sketching and jotting down handwritten notes. DAGi was the only one I could find that allows for little more precise positioning and finer lines. It’s still not perfect. I think Apple needs to build into iOS more functionality for styluses. Kind of similar to what they did for magic mouse. To communicate pressure, size and such from stylus to the iPad. It would be nice to have magnetic brushes of different sizes and similar tools for drawing and painting.
This is a very big deal. From what I’ve read (sorry can’t find link, but will keep looking), Unicom has almost as many viable potential iPhone customers as China Mobile whose numbers are bloated by state sponsered for the masses dumb phones.
If I could delete this post I would. Mix up my Unicoms and Telecoms.
Use this old info instead.
China’s Mobile, Telecom, Unicom to sell Apple’s iPhone 5 this year
Am I the only one here who — at first glance — thought this said “Unicorn” instead of “Unicom”?
I’m curious to see how Apple responds. One could guess what SJ would say and do. A true gut check.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/29/intel.ultrabook.subsidy.atom.delay.may.be.exposed/
So sick and tired of news outlets hyping Europe’s doom. There is 30% problem and 70% media escalation of that problem. As a result rational beings start behaving like crazy monkeys hyping prices into insanity. Self feeding mechanism that makes problems worse.
And to think there are still some dinosaurs out there who roll their eyes when they hear “post-PC era” …
“DRAM makers invested too much, and they bet heavily that growth of the computer industry would always continue,” said Chen Liway, an industry analyst at Polaris Securities Co. in Taipei. “That would have been OK if the iPad had never come along.”
“Elpida is using the state-of-the-art production technology, yet the finished products are sold for half the price of a rice ball,” Yukio Sakamoto, chief executive officer of the Tokyo-based company, told investors last month.
“Winbond Electronics Corp., (2344) a Taiwanese memory maker that posted losses in seven of 10 years through 2009, exited the computer DRAM business last year in favor of specialty DRAM for TVs and mobile phones. That helped the company post its largest annual profit since 2000.”
Wow. This is a candid report from the upstream players that aren’t necessarily beholden to the US stock market. Could be a rough year ahead for PC makers and they clearly aren’t talking about it.
Here is one for you Siri affectionados!
SOURCE:
http://jalopnik.com/5863005/siri-hacked-to-start-a-car
Kit 2:04 am on December 1, 2011 67 days ago Reply
>> 71 percent of the iPhone purchasers surveyed upgraded from an earlier iPhone; 18 percent switched from another smartphone
Does that mean that only 11% upgraded from a feature phone? That strikes me as a little disappointing. Anyone care to comment?
Nicu 11:03 am on December 1, 2011 67 days ago Reply
This is only for those who got an iPhone 4S I think. Maybe the ratio is higher for cheaper iPhones (coming from a feature phone or some smart brick®, 3Gs or 4 are more than good enough). Also, we are still in e period when 4S is out of stock so mostly those that know what they want and cannot wait do fight to get it. Non-iPhone owners do not see why one should pay extra for the differences 4S brings compared to 4. Just my 2c.
rastard 10:11 am on December 1, 2011 67 days ago Reply
Since the article doesn’t actually mention Android *at all*, is it accurate to assume that you’re just trolling?
Nicu 10:29 am on December 1, 2011 67 days ago Reply
Yes, if you want to feel smart.
If you are smart, you need to climb just one more logic step.
rastard 1:52 pm on December 1, 2011 66 days ago Reply
Really? The logic step that shows:
A) “37 percent of respondents switched carriers to purchase an iPhone”, while only
B) “18 percent switched from another smartphone”, hence
C) of the people incurring ETFs, there were actually more iPhone customers (who were switching carriers) than there were owners of “other smartphones” (where other = not only Android, but also RIM, Nokia, Windows phone).
But since here YOU have framed “who-is-buying-what” as defining whether iPhone or Android is “w(h)inning”, perhaps you can explain:
http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/8279-android-doubles-market-share-to-take-52-5-of-smartphone-market
http://www.businessinsider.com/android-vs-iphone-units-sold-in-first-11-quarters-since-iphone-launch
Note: You’re not nearly as smart as you like to think you are, but clearly are far more of a pretentious, arrogant and supercilious ass than you realize.
Nicu 2:30 pm on December 1, 2011 66 days ago Reply
Yep, the only place where Android is winning is market share. No mater if BOGO is used extensively, that users are disappointed and feel taken advantage of or that phone makers lose money – and lose their investor’s money too. That was the whole point all along, for years already. One of the biggest winners from Android is Microsoft, another loser in the smartphone race.
As for helping you with your logic, I’m sorry toddler, that is a step you have to learn to do by yourself.
It seems I was right about all the whining, too.
JPWatkins 8:24 pm on December 1, 2011 66 days ago Reply
I suppose the early termination fee doesn’t really hurt iPhone users like it would users of other phones. iPhones have an excellent resale value whereas other phones (if they still work) are comparatively worthless after a year or so.
rastard 4:44 pm on December 2, 2011 65 days ago Reply
Well, apparently all other phones are either given away free or purchased in a BOGO deal, so their users aren’t really hurt either if when their phones become worthless.
JPWatkins 1:25 am on December 3, 2011 65 days ago Reply
Whatever phone your prefer, the highest cost is having, every day, to use a phone you don’t really like.
rastard 3:42 am on December 3, 2011 65 days ago Reply
Very wise!