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I have a lot of respect for webos and palm. But in terms of strategy they messed it up, what the heck was the foleo about? Unsurprisingly a lot of fomer employees at apple, and of course the chief exec for it, worked on it. I hope some of the talent there is salvaged by hp and a product does arise. Of course I don't trust hp at all, but it's a good sign they ditched ms for their tablet, shows that some people are finally thinking with their heads.
--- they did mess up and that's what I am speaking of also
btw, get icab or (ahhhh) I don't recall the other browsers name, instead of safari, both great browsers with so many excellent features. I esp. like icab. Look if you want to keep your jb, just don't upgrade. What can apple do? Cater for both those who want to hack the heck out of the device (and I respect that) and those who want it to be functional with minimum time invested in tweaking it? Surely you understand they can't do both. Give them at least some credit for allowing you to jb. Could you jb ms office or ms windows and hack the heck out of it? Of course you couldn't.
--- that's like saying you want to JB OSX. Also the proximity sensor was screwed up. You are asking me not to upgrade? I could literally not use the phone without it being on speaker or the crappy earphone apple provides (sorry this is the one thing I really hate apple for. I hate ms for more than one reason. If only multimedia was to work on any gnu based system, I would have moved so long ago. That why I prefer Os x)
So why don't you complain about that? Apple could have instigated ms type checks and activation codes and all that jazz and bricked your jailbroken phone/ipad as ms do with software that is tampered with. Yet they don't. They don't even delete apps that somehow passed from the app store (tethering app) and were later withdrawn, although they could.
--- I thought we were discussing jailbreak and since you are involving discussion on piracy, I am going to assume you have no clue on this topic at all.
The average laptop/tablet sold comes with a layer of manufacturers crapware, bloatware, adware, antiviruses etc. etc. I know I 've had a few. Yet apple doesn't have any of that, so how is forcing junk on users? Mobile carriers and companies take android, and soon, mobile 7, and force on top of them all sorts of junkware and restrictions (that's why skype only runs on verizon android phones...) by their brand, be it sony, motorolla, etc. Apple, again, doesn't do any of that.
---- yes, androids policy sucks.. Agreed that apple was the first one. To popularize this. But so is the official google phone (the one that sucked and is not available anymore)
You still don't get the point. We are here to discuss the merits and demerits of what this Slate is about. You cannot discount a product just because it runs something you do not like. Think of how many like it. Let me give you a simple example of what you can not do with iOS. Say I use google search. I cannot use the AJAX functionality of suggestions based on what I just typed because the keyboard does not have arrow keys. Don't even bring up the magnifier thing. It does not cut it. The win7 ms kb sucks as well. But i can replace it without with something else when I becomes available and no one is going to release a patch to fix it.
Another example is for you to try typing this with the iPad as I am doing right now. I don't even want to talk about the scrolling part when I don't have a scrollbar available.
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