09-12-2011, 06:21 PM | #46 |
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Yes, companies buy other companies all the time, but that says nothing about it being sinister or not. I know. I had a great job until my company was bought by a larger firm who cherry-picked a few engineers, fired everyone else, and dissolved the corporation. They only did it to get rid of competition so they could sell inferior equipment at higher prices. It was entirely sinister.
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09-12-2011, 06:26 PM | #47 | |
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Unethical or sinister does not mean is illegal. So when keeping that in perspective and thinking in business terms, it is perfectly fine. All companies now do that all the time. There is no "good or bad" guy here. They need to survive in this competitive business world. Not saying is sad when people got fired after merge. It happened to me that people had knowledge transfer with me about a particular project or database, knowing that they were going to lose their jobs later, but again, is business. Big companies are not here to make us a "favor". Those companies want our money and they want us to buy ** their ** devices. You can call that device whatever you want. I'm one of those who are really happy that AT&T merge did not occur, I like Tmobile as is. But that's business too. Last edited by jocampo; 09-12-2011 at 06:32 PM. |
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09-12-2011, 06:37 PM | #48 | |
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Also a device without a slot is limited in functionality to a far, far greater extent than those with SD slots because programs as well as data reside on SD cards and even with the fastest wifi swapping out programs takes a lot of time. No defense of the lack of SD cards holds up well because in the end it comes down to arguing that the device is really better with less memory. |
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09-12-2011, 06:55 PM | #49 | |
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09-12-2011, 07:01 PM | #50 | |
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Gov't security was not the reason Apple left off the SD slot. At least, until there's some evidence to back that up, I'm extremely confident that gov't security wasn't the reason. Last edited by djulian; 09-13-2011 at 01:58 AM. Reason: Confusing phrasing |
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09-12-2011, 07:14 PM | #51 | ||
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Well, I guess you missed this sentence in my post : Quote:
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09-12-2011, 07:18 PM | #52 | |
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I recall there is an adapter that allows you to connect SD card to iSomethings. But note that it is an ADAPTER, obviously it has some sort of hacker protection built in. Have you heard about "flying dutch SD cards"? They are very hard to spot. Fly real fast. Can track up to 20000 devices with unprotected SD card slot. Need only 0.42 milliseconds to hack devices. Unless it's an Apple device, protected with SD Card protection adapter. |
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09-12-2011, 07:44 PM | #53 | |
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Meanwhile, here on Earth Prime, the average consumer doesn't give a damn about SD card slots for Ios devices. The iPhone was recently voted #1 in consumer satisfaction and the iPad has been obliterating competing tablets that have both SD card AND USB slots. RETURNING TO THE TOPIC AT HAND, I can't see why Apple would even WANT to buy Dropbox at this stage. The time to buy Dropbox would be at the time Apple began to build its new cloud service, so that it could be fully integrated in Apple's new system. Another reason why this rumor is probably false. |
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09-12-2011, 07:48 PM | #54 |
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I thought exactly the same. $800m is a ridiculously low sum if Dropbox have already been able to drum up $4bn of VC investment (though much of that will no doubt be spread out over several years).
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09-12-2011, 09:19 PM | #57 | |
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09-12-2011, 09:32 PM | #58 | |
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09-12-2011, 09:35 PM | #59 | |
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I’m an IT Project Manager working for the US Army, and I can tell you unequivocally, that the only security concern that led to the banning of removable media was the introduction of viruses into Government networks via USB drives. Whether or not a phone or tablet has an SD slot is a completely different issue, but I’m pretty well convinced that the reason iDevices don’t have SD slots is the same reason they can’t be mounted as external drives on desktop/laptop computers; just another brick in the wall. |
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09-12-2011, 09:39 PM | #60 |
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You'd be laughing out of the other side of your face if as a system administrator you allowed the average user to just plug any old removable storage device into your system computers , mate. In any case this wankery about SD cards is irrelevant to the thread topic.
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