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+ - iphone4/ipad2 US import ban->

Submitted by Bent Spoke
Bent Spoke writes "The US trade agency has banned the import of older Apple models due to violating a patent held by Samsung. It's getting so complicated, we need a score card to keep track of who's winning these offensive patent battles in the smartphone colosseum."
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Comment: Its simple really (Score 1) 1010

by Bent Spoke (#43419145) Attached to: Windows 8 Killing PC Sales

People use Windows not because they love MS, or because it's great, but rather because it provides a product that is good enough. Not the best, nor the cheapest, but a familiar, relatively convenient, and easily customized product.

Suddenly MS sees Apple/Android eating its lunch. So it reacts by opening an App-Store, pushing the Surface tablet, and changing the OS to make the PC look like a tablet.

The result: Windows is now unfamiliar, inconvenient, and frustratingly inflexible. So people are unimpressed and businesses are saying no. It's like MS is trying to make everyone believe "see, we're really just a tablet now, so you see, you don't really need that Apple/Android after all..."

Give me a break.


+ - Microsoft says Google trying to undermine Windows Phone->

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Comment: good luck (Score 1) 708

by Bent Spoke (#37864474) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: GNU/Linux Laptops?

After nearly 19 years of near exclusively using Linux, I'm finally giving up on it. Why?
Chronic and ongoing problems with:

    - Sound
    - Video
    - Wifi
    - Power mgmt (suspend/hibernate/battery life)
    - Hardware support in general
    - Endless application problems (eg. no iTunes)
    - A million applications that only partially work.

And all the distributions seem to be going sideways instead of forward.

Do yourself a favor, just go with Mac or Windows and run Linux in Virtualbox.
