What, you mean Apple won't let him push his scareware on a platform with no legitimate security threat (well, other than from Apple itself)? They won't let him browbeat people into buying something which is functionally useless?

Shame on them.

'You’ve launched a handset or two with a new operating system and they’ve gone down quite well.'

Really? Really? I suppose they've gone down quite well if you assume 'going down quite well' does not include 'any large number of people actually paying money for them'.

I've had more WD drives fail on me than every other manufacturer put together. Meh.

'Apple may be considering an end to the production of 17in desktop-replacement laptops, but Samsung isn't. '

Of course not, it's got to wait for Apple to do it first, prove it actually makes money to do so and then Samsung can do it while claiming it was their idea all along.

Jon

Some of us who are now in the 'have you tried switching it off and on again' brigade probably started down that path by making some pocket money on the side fixing friend's spectrum keyboard when the contacts underneath the rubber failed, as they did quite often (especially wasz, for obvious reasons). Pop the top off, replace the weird membraney thing with all the switches in. IIRC you could get them for a quid or so, and I used to charge a fiver for the job...

Jon

'With such high demand,"

For 26" TV? AT £449? You sure about that?

"Whether these options are available, and the details of how they work, may vary by retailer and by title."

In other words, it's a nice idea which the content providers will then do everything possible to f!ck up.

'Fail' because there isn't an 'almost certainly going to be fail' tag.

'The same daily routine that sees my Desire HD need a top-up every 12 hours saw the One X needing the same,'

Having to charge every day = fail, regardless of anything else a phone can do or who makes it.

And, as an observation, if HTC's problem is 2011 was releasing too many phones, I don't see how carrying on doing the same thing in 2012 just this time giving them really really similar names is going to make help.

Nice to see El Reg forums maintaining their usual standards...

For anyone interested, instructions on checking for and removing the malware are here :-

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_osx_flashback_i.shtml

The only observation I would make is that, of the number of active OSX computers in use (given the sales of OS updates & etc), 500,000 is actually quite a small percentage. So they've got off lightly, basically.

It's not really 'the only game in town' at all. Lacie do a thunderbolt SSD external drive as well (which has two ports, although I'm not sure how much juice it can pass on) and, although not officially on sale in the UK yet, you can grab Seagate's Thunderbolt adapter for it's goflex mobile drives on Amazon, although IIRC there isn't an SSD goflex drive yet. But you can get a 7200 1TB drive and I suspect that'll be quick enough for most people.

Plenty of choice to be had and, frankly, Elgato's offering is far from the best. Wish they'd give up faffing about with iPhone gadgets and external drives and fix some of the age-old problems with their EyeTV kit, tbh.

A lot of hotels I've been in with ethernet require some sort of web-based auth by the connecting device before they will route any traffic. How does this device deal with that? I've tried the same 'job' with an Apple airport express and it failed due to the device not being able to auth to the hotels service. I assume if you had a laptop to do the auth you could do some level of MAC address spoofing maybe but that's hardly 'plug and play' is it?

Lazy?Yeah, I suppose so. After all, all they've changed is the touchscreen, the CPU, the GPU, the camera, the cellular modem and the battery. Imagine what else they could have changed if they hadn't been so lazy eh?

All in a 'what have the Romans ever done for us' voice, of course.

This is the same iTV/Apple TV that the same analysts have already told everyone would absolutely, certainly have been announced by now, yes?

IMO, analysts should have to wear a uniform. A clown's uniform.

Bloody hell.. first world problems or what? 'Look, look, the tiny indicator on my phone is saying a different sort of data connection that I've actually got. Oh the humanity!'

Seriously, this was worth a news story??

SO let me get this straight.. they gave you the NHS Direct self-diagnosis app to review and the first thing you thought is 'how can I get a turn-on out of this'? Seriously? What are you, 13?

I kind of don't mind this - look, at least they'll have something in common. That's always a good thing, even if what they've got in common is a bit.. unusual.

Good luck to them I say. I'd rather the world was filled with people who want to get on, to whatever degree, than being filled with people whose main kick in life seems to be hurling insults at another group of people on the likes of the El Reg forums.

Would it be amiss to ask why this file was 'released'? Are the FBI in the habit of giving out a detailed history of investigations into prominent figures shortly after their death?

'We doubt that the same treatment will be extended to Apple's hundreds of thousands of contracted employees in China and Asia, who work long hours making devices for manufacturers such as Foxconn or Pegatron.'

Er... that would possibly be because they're not contracted to Apple, they're contracted to Foxconn or Pegatron?

Seriously Reg, is this the best you can do?

small difference

The PS3 setup isn't freeview HD. Unless they finally got around to making a mark 2 playTV anyway. It's anice setup - the interface is way ahead of most PVRs - but without DVB-T2 decoding, it's old tech in the UK.

" interviewed over a hundred developers globally"

Representiative sampling : They've heard of it.

Um..

I think it's somewhat unlikely punters are going to jump at 802.11ac routers unless/until there's a sufficient groundswell of products which would connect to them. And we're not just talking about laptops with dongles any more - phones, tablets, media streamers, consoles, remote controls even. All stuff that uses B/G and or N, which isn't easily upgradeable like your average PC.

It's a bit chicken and the egg though - nobody will buy the routers without the clients and nobody will make clients until there's an established demand through people having routers.

As a bare minimum, the routers have to be backwards compatible and even then you're talking about several years of natural wastage of equipment before the new .ac compatible kit achieves critical mass. By which point of course home broadband will have moved on again...

Basically put, there needs to be something more than the 'ooh, shiny' about it for it to get adopted in anything less than geological time. I don't really hear a lot of people complaining about how their home wifi isn't speedy enough, and most people right now are too skint to think about upgrading their entire wifi setup for what may not immediately be an obvious benefit.

It strikes me a bit like 3D telly. Yes, at a technical level there is a USP there. But I think they're going to have a hard time convincing people their current kit isn't 'good enough'.

"Assuming they can get that right - and it's trustworthy"

Bahahahahahhahaha...

Oh I'm really sorry, but that's a good one.

Just to clarify a point - the AppleTV is not and never has been a 'tv tuner'. If it's anything, it's a rather minimalist 'content relay device' between a Mac/'the cloud' and your TV.

Jon

""We particularly urge Apple to take responsibility, as there are more than 300 workers working on the Apple keyboard assembly line," it added."

'But we apparently give much less of shit about the 700 who don't' it didn't add.

WTF as some of you people on? Seriously? You'd have to assume Jingmo had some hand in negotiating how many items were supplied at what price. Apple just don't drop out of the sky and say 'you will give us 10 million bodgers for three dollars each, or our wrath be upon you!' Presumably the management at Jingmo assured Apple they could supply that number of widgets and this price per unit over that period. You'd also have to assume they knew how many widgets their factory could produce per man hour of work, and what that would cost in wages.

So they either lied to Apple to get the contract and then found out they had to slave drive their workers to keep the promises they had made (which is bad enough) or they deliberately calculated the output they could manage assumingg they could force their staff to work completely unacceptable hours to fulfil the contract, which in any civilised place should be criminal.

As the oft quoted IT mantra goes 'Failure in your planning does not constitute a failure on my part'. Apple and Jingmo made a deal, and Jingmo said they could hold to that deal. They did so to terms, either knowingly or unknowingly, they could not fulfill without frankly awful working practices being imposed on their staff. All Apple have done in this is make a deal with a company to pay them to do something they said they could do.

If I was Apple, I'd be doing what I could to alleviate this, within the terms of the contract signed. But the idea that this is in any sense Apple's 'fault'? What?