Poor Mr Jobs

[blue_h3x]

No, it's all in Dutch anyways. But my epenis would be thankful!

I don't want anything to do with that thank you very much

[Mincus]

Twitter has it's uses, they're just not many and the way the service works is too restrictive.

Being able to receive all twits on certain hashtags is something I'm surprised it doesn't do.
Likewise being able to filter out hashtags from people you otherwise want to follow would be nice. I don't care about the darts, thank you Stephen Fry.

Were those added, especially the first, it would be a far more powerful platform. As it stands these are only possible with custom twit clients, many of which are fundamentally broken in other ways, try to do too much of everything (i.e. other social networks as well) or run very slow. Often all 3.

So, it's an amusement I use on my phone mostly. I got involved in some of the UK election stuff on there, but otherwise I'm a twit very rarely. Sometimes do updates on my game dev stuff... That's pretty much it.

[blue_h3x]

The new obsession with making phones post your life to every social network under the sun is somewhat tiring.

[Passerby]

The new obsession with making phones post your life to every social network under the sun is somewhat tiring.

+1

[Mincus]

The new obsession with making phones post your life to every social network under the sun is somewhat tiring.

Haven't we come full circle? Apple pretty much pushed that off.
I see my phone more as a computing device than anything else tbh, that is the point of smartphones. That it can use social networks just comes with that territory.

[blue_h3x]

The new obsession with making phones post your life to every social network under the sun is somewhat tiring.

Haven't we come full circle? Apple pretty much pushed that off.
I see my phone more as a computing device than anything else tbh, that is the point of smartphones. That it can use social networks just comes with that territory.

All I want is a phone, it calls, it texts and the rest is a waste of space and money.

[Uupis]

It's a nice way to find out local news very fast.

Can notice things that you are interested in but somehow missed.

Quick way to get opinions from people.

But mainly it's the fast exchange of information that I like.

All I want is a phone, it calls, it texts and the rest is a waste of space and money.

Well, I used to be like that. But the past few years I've been spending way more time away from home (more than 12 hours as opposed to the earlier 5 - 7.. 8 or so). It's been nice to be able to listen to music, have basic internet on the go. Email, RSS. Especially before I had drivers licence, while waiting long hours at the bus stop or train station.

The access to a social networking site has proved useful at times when friends put up info on going somewhere which would be along my home, so I could get a ride home. That has happened a number of times actually.

[Mincus]

All I want is a phone, it calls, it texts and the rest is a waste of space and money.

I would have been happy with a phone that just did texts tbh.
But I'm a gadget fiend and I wanted to try Android, and I wasn't disappointed.
What I am disappointed in is HTC's updates service. Due to get 2.1 on the Hero just as the Nexus One is getting 2.2.
Still running 1.5 at the moment (I think the Sprint Hero in the US has an update, but I'm not in a patent-riddled madland, so it's not much use to me ).

[blue_h3x]

I would have been happy with a phone that just did texts tbh.

Kinda like a pager then?

I mostly text, probably 95% of my credit goes on texts. Though I sometimes call, or get calls so I'd keep the calling ability Though as for a camera... I have my DSLR, internet... I have my netbook, which I pretty much have with me all the time on campus. Music, I used to listen to, till my Zen died, though I don't mind about that so much now.

I was tempted to get a new phone a few times, though got put off by the price

[blue_h3x]

Jobs has decided he doesn't like GPL and is now banning apps from his iproducts if they are under GPL.

GPLv2 forbids imposing restrictions on the distribution of an applications though itunes is such a restriction. So instead of altering how they do things, Apple just ban anything that goes against them. Kinda like the browser issue with the iproduct.

[Mincus]

Tbf, the FSF did kind of say "Your ridiculously restrictive store policy violates the GPL, so you should change it or remove GPL-ed apps".

And being anti-freedom of any sort, Apple removed the GPL-ed apps. Well, one anyway.

[Passerby]

Tbf, the FSF did kind of say "Your ridiculously restrictive store policy violates the GPL, so you should change it or remove GPL-ed apps".

And being anti-freedom of any sort, Apple removed the GPL-ed apps. Well, one anyway.

ah let them do it they will eventually piss off app developers enough to stop making apps for it and after that they lose there iproducts have more apps than an other device argument.

[Mincus]

Whilst I think Apple's appstore policies are disgusting, this app should never have been submitted to it in the first place really. The author knew it was GPL-ed and the appstore isn't compatible with such a licence.
Oddly, Apple are actually doing the right thing here in a roundabout fashion. Their only other choice would be to change some parts of the appstore, like, removing the 5 device limit per account from free apps, which makes no sense anyway.

[Mincus]

Lukewarm BBC response to the iPad release in the UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10181144.stm
Now with 10 squid a month crashing The Times app!

[Passerby]

Lukewarm BBC response to the iPad release in the UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10181144.stm
Now with 10 squid a month crashing The Times app!

love it

that they compard it to a asus eee which is much cheaper and much more porwfull and runs a full OS