Posts by Ed 11

Re: Worthless tokens

Onecoin owner? I'm so sorry for your loss.

Re: Meh

Keep telling yourself that.

Re: 3rd party browsers

I think all browsers have access to the faster JavaScript engines now, and I feel like they have done for a while.

I consider TransferWise to be part of Britain's retail banking sector, and haven't encountered significant hoops or eye-watering fees when transferring money overseas for many moons now. Innovation is alive and well, you just have to see beyond your legacy bank and it's bundled current account services if you want to find it.

Re: Will it apply to other technology too?

What happens the day that the safe manufactures are able to build a safe which, when locked, not even they are able to get into? Will said safe manufacturer we asked to stop building said safe?

Re: The 1970s...

You, Sir, are a complete and utter tool.

Re: Genuinely upset

I've switched to Inbox given Mailbox are closing their doors, but might not be any good for you if you are a non-Gmail user.

Re: I wonder if any can be programmed to short out the battery and explode

Something Android manufacturers know plenty about

http://www.komando.com/happening-now/319082/88000-android-tablets-recalled-after-batteries-explode-in-flames

Re: Spot on

Yup. My girlfriend has a iPhone 5S on contract from O2 which stopped charging on Monday. She took it to O2 who said they'd need to post it off for repairs and she might get it back in a week. She took it to the Apple shop in Covent Garden and they gave her a new one on the spot.

The phone was supplied by O2 and was over 12 months old. O2 couldn't have given less of a shit and were happy to leave her high and dry. Apple demonstrated a considerably higher regard for her custom.

Re: Next Case...

iMessage works over wifi or cellular data.

Re: Convenience?

Apple Pay:

1- Phone out pocket

2 - Phone against card reader

3 - Phone back into pocket

Contactless card:

1 - Wallet out of pocket

2 - Contactless card out of wallet

3 - Contactless card against card reader

4 - Contactless card back into wallet

5 - Wallet back into pocket

So I make that a 40% reduction in terms of the number of steps needed to pay, and a slight bump in security too. What's not to like?

And before someone suggests leaving my intended payment card in my wallet and holding my wallet to the reader, I am not the only person with more than one card in my wallet.

Re: Maybe iPads just have a longer life?

I agree with much of what you say... I have the same generation iPad that you do and it serves it's purpose brilliantly as a casual sofa surfing device, a Netflix viewer for my girlfriend when she is getting ready in the morning and a very occasional gaming device. A few games stutter slightly, but it's the smallest of niggles, and I do quite frequently momentarily wish it had Touch ID when I absent mindedly leave my finger on the home button waiting for it to unlock like my iPhone. I hand off to my mid-2010 MacBook Pro when I need a proper home computer which is maybe a couple of times a week, a device which increasingly shows it's age but continues to serve it's purpose. Both are devices I fully expect to upgrade, but both only on a 5/6 yearly basis unless technical failure happens first or unexpected incredible technical innovation occurs.

My iPhone though, perhaps due to it being used much more than either of these devices and the limited life of lithium ion batteries being more obvious on a device that is outside the home far more frequently, has always been one a 1/2 yearly upgrade cycle and I imagine this will continue. I don't know how typical a customer I am, but I would hazard a guess there are many of me about.

Re: meh...

Presumably it was enough of a shit to decide that you had to tell the rest of us how little shit you give? Marble sized perhaps, like a rabbit dropping?

Re: Not smart.

"Eventually one works" - The thief better hope it is one of the first three.

Re: So what happen to Peak Apple?

The market was created when the first supplier sold to the first customer. Again, this pre-dates Apple's involvement in the tablet, MP3 player and smart phone markets.

Re: Prices?

But you'd presumably agree that paying say £15 a month for service 95% of the time was preferable to paying €50 a month for service 96% of the time? So price is a factor - no one is saying the networks are perfect overseas.

Re: Netflix.....Nah

Are you sure the quality of the streaming isn't more a factor of your lack of bandwidth? Streaming quality is absolutely exemplary on our setup.

Re: Evidence please

You were sold down the swanny my friend - £15 from Three buys me unlimited data.

Re: And once again, gift cards are not being honoured

In their defense, I can't think of many people who will do their job without being paid.

Re: Meh

I'm not sure they've ever had 'loads' available on Google Play. Stock availability has been limited from the beginning.

Re: 5th Nov

What have PwC got to do with things?

Re: Waste of time

Did you also spot the word 'theoretical' in the article?

Re: Why no VoLTE?

You can use VoIP apps fine, as in the US. However VoLTE relates to how the phone handles calls with the inbuilt phone dialler, e.g. the type of calls which show up on your phone bill and which can be billed for (depending on your tariff).

A quick Google suggests AT&T doesn't have a VoLTE service and won't until some stage in 2013.

Re: @Ledswinger - not just data

Your dongle has a screen, keyboard, and an appropriately well stocked app store? I'm sold!

Personally, I assign practically nil value to bundled text messages or minutes. Just give me a big, fat, fast data pipe and I'll route my own calls and mesages.

Re: And I saw it all

It evidently wasn't a "good old TV" given the analogue service in London was switched off just a few short months ago.

Re: Unsuprising that Apple are rushing out an iPhone5

Yes that's right, it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that an update in the next few months would fit with an annual update.

Here's something else that might interest you... the Samsung Galaxy S4 will probably be announced in 10 months.