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Xatrei wrote:To be clear, I wasn't saying that Android is necessarily better with regard to how it handles ad delivery in ad-supported apps. I was just saying that I won't be affected by Apple's iAds because I'm an Android user. That said, getting booted out of your app by clicking an ad isn't really a big deal in Android because it already multitasks and you can just switch back to your app. I don't use ad-supported apps when I have an alternative. I'd rather pay a few bucks through the Android market for a good app without ads - when they're available. Ads in apps like Pandora, Soccer Livescores, are text based and reasonably non-obtrusive. Yelp, facebook, and most other apps that I use frequently don't (yet) have ads.

As for iAd... Sure, if you're going to have ads, this might be better than the alternative on iPhone OS, but nothing about iAd is that magical, it's just HTML5 documents delivered by the OS on top of whatever you're currently doing. A fully compliant HTML5 browser could just as easily deliver the same "rich content" ads as what Jobs demoed, as could Flash or Java. If the iPhone had already had multitasking available, this wouldn't even be an issue. Don't buy into Jobs' marketing hype and lose sight of the fact that this isn't a fabulous new feature for users. It's awesome for 3 groups: developers, advertisers and Apple. For end users, it's just more consumer-bait that Jobs is trying to spin as a super-awesome-happy-fun-time-change-your-life feature. It's not.

Fairweather Pure wrote:I plan on waiting for a ZooGue smartcase.

masteen wrote:How are your screens holding up so far? Scratches, nicks, cracks, jizz stains?

Sargeras wrote:http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone

Do want.

Winnow wrote:It will be interesting to see if any lawsuits fly from Apple at Gizmodo.

miir wrote:

Winnow wrote:It will be interesting to see if any lawsuits fly from Apple at Gizmodo.

Oh I'm pretty sure this 'leak' was premeditated.
Apple are very good at manufacturing hype.

masteen wrote:Wow, the iPad is the ultimate student accessory. If you can get your textbooks in electronic format, this just replaced about 100 pounds of paper every semester, and integrated all learning media into one device.

miir wrote:

masteen wrote:Wow, the iPad is the ultimate student accessory. If you can get your textbooks in electronic format, this just replaced about 100 pounds of paper every semester, and integrated all learning media into one device.

Uhhh, all students these days are pretty much required to have laptops which are a fuckton more useful and versatile than an ipad.

Fairweather Pure wrote:I would've agreed with this statement before having owned and used an iPad daily since launch. Now... Let's just say I disagree with you.

Winnow wrote:
http://www.quirky.com/products/30-Cloak







What's ZooGue look like?

Police Seize Jason Chen's Computers

Last Friday night, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers. They did so using a warrant by Judge of Superior Court of San Mateo. According to Gaby Darbyshire, COO of Gawker Media LLC, the search warrant to remove these computers was invalid under section 1524(g) of the California Penal Code.

Fairweather Pure wrote:Shit just got real.

shit just got real-

An expression that explains how a joking or friendly conversation suddenly took a turn for the worse and is escalating towards a hostel situation and/or a physical scuffle.

Fairweather Pure wrote:

shit just got real-

An expression that explains how a joking or friendly conversation suddenly took a turn for the worse and is escalating towards a hostel situation and/or a physical scuffle.

Animalor wrote:

Fairweather Pure wrote:

shit just got real-

An expression that explains how a joking or friendly conversation suddenly took a turn for the worse and is escalating towards a hostel situation and/or a physical scuffle.

I've never been in a hostel situation. I hear that you have to watch your bag pretty closely in Europe when you're in one of those.

Sylvus wrote:Are you guys really not familiar with the phrase "shit just got real", or are you taking issue with the use of it in this context?

Just curious.

Data hogs, rejoice: The 3G iPad’s unlimited data plan appears to be truly unlimited. A tech blogger put AT&T’s network through a “torture test” by downloading a huge amount of data, and he faced zero obstacles.

Know Your Cell blogger Zach Epstein used an app called Download Lite to download test files to suck up a whopping 31GB of data in just two days with the iPad over AT&T’s 3G connection.

“Unlimited is obviously a word that carriers have tossed around for a long time without actually meaning unlimited,” Epstein told Wired.com. “My first thought was that if this iPad 3G data plan was actually going to be unlimited, it was something I definitely needed to publicly trial.”

Many internet users have questioned the definition of “unlimited” with regard to data usage for quite some time. In the past, Comcast advertised its broadband package as “unlimited,” but some customers reported that their service was cut off after exceeding a limit. Later, Comcast informed customers that it was imposing a 250-GB bandwidth cap to mitigate network overload.

AT&T’s smartphone plans are advertised as unlimited, and the company has not officially imposed a limit to the amount of data that can be downloaded. However, any carrier that offers an unlimited plan bakes in restrictions to its terms-of-service in regard to how data can be used. For example, with the iPhone and the iPad, users can only download files as large as 20 MB while connected to the 3G network. (The cap was previously 10 MB.) Files larger than 20 MB must be downloaded over Wi-Fi. So the definition of “unlimited” is still up for debate.

In response to Epstein’s test, an AT&T spokesman said AT&T smartphones plans are already unlimited, and the story is no different with the iPad.

AT&T offers two data plans for 3G iPad customers: $15 a month for 250 MB and $30 per month for unlimited data usage. The plans do not require commitment to a contract.

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Fairweather Pure wrote:Who needs a 3G iPad when you can simply tether your iPhone?

Fairweather Pure wrote:I'm in the same boat as you when it comes to netflix. I only got it as an iPad app, and now I love it and use it on both of my 360s. It's really great for kids movies! The Air Video app has converted over 200 movies for me now. It's currently finishing up the last of 22 Bond movies. After that, I'm down to my TV series. Seasons 1-10 of South Park should take awhile to encode...