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Another developer reports insane iPhone piracy rates {Joystiq}
Oct 27th 2009 11:06PM Oh please. 99% of iPhone users don't even know what jail-breaking is, let alone would be able to do it, or would want to do it. Saying your app experienced 95% piracy just means no one actually bought it. if 1900 people download a pirated copy and 100 people buy it, that's 95% piracy. In the scale of the millions who have iPhones, 1900 people is tiny.
Do I think they need to shut down pirates? Yes. Do I think the sky is falling? No way. I know 10 people with iPhones, and none of them have jailbroken it, even though 6 or 7 have way more technical capability that your average iPhone user and would certainly be able to if they felt like it.
Vaio P with updated 1.6GHz Atom and 128GB SSD is still weak-sauce {Engadget}
Jun 22nd 2009 11:54AM Do I want it? Hell yeah. Do I want to pay for it? Hell no.
AT&T's free hotspot access finally useful with auto-connection in iPhone OS 3.0 {Engadget}
Jun 18th 2009 9:02AM Why does everyone only ever use the unlimited voice and texting options for rate comparisons? Oh yeah, because that's the only place where there's actually a difference.
How about this - 450 anytime minutes + unlimited nights and weekends + unlimited data:
AT&T - $70
Sprint - $70
Verizon - $70
T-Mobile - ($60 or $80 for 300 or 600 minutes)
I wager a LOT of people who read engadget are not 14 year old girls and therefore do not need unlimited voice and text messages.
Sager NP9280 with Core i7 and triple SSDs is world's most powerful laptop, anchor {Engadget}
Jun 8th 2009 7:57AM Uh, my 4 year old Inspiron 9300 has DVI out. You just haven't been looking at big enough laptops. For some reason, the smaller laptops only come with VGA (why is that? VGA is only good for CRTs... it's an analog signal, for god's sake)
Sager NP9280 with Core i7 and triple SSDs is world's most powerful laptop, anchor {Engadget}
Jun 8th 2009 7:54AM Yeah, because how it looks really friggin' matters. It holds three hard drives, up to 12 gigs of RAM, a 1 gig video card, and a desktop core i7 processor. It's a beast. It's like comparing Ving Rhames and Orlando Bloom. One can cave in your face with a single punch. The other one's just going to steal your girlfriend.
Corsair's blistering P256 SSD reviewed: look out, X25-M {Engadget}
Jun 6th 2009 11:23AM Exactly. The random writes are what make the damn things stutter. Check out the graph the article has here:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2009/06/05/corsair-p256-256gb-ssd-review/7
4.5 megabytes per second versus the intel's 39. It's no contest. Yes, this drive is maybe 3rd place (4th if you count the X25-E), but it's a distant third place.
Belkin shows first iPhone 3.0 accessory, mashes up GPS and FM data to pick the best TuneCast frequency {Engadget}
Jun 4th 2009 2:50PM Wow, talk about over-engineering... and on top of that, for a really crappy old-tech way of getting tunes to your car. Seriously, FM transmitting is absolute CRAP. If you can spend $80 on this, you can spend $80 getting an auxiliary input added to your current car stereo, and you'll be so much happier with it.
Miyamoto: Super Mario Bros. Wii could be better, but the Wii's too weak {Engadget}
Jun 4th 2009 1:52PM They won't. My in-laws have a Wii. They'll never buy a PS3 or 360. The Wii has been touted since its inception as a family-friendly console. Neither of the other consoles was ever effectively marketed that way, and they're too entrenched in their current markets to break out.
Wii is socially acceptable for non-gamers to own, almost "cool".
360 is cool for gamers to own, and people who want to feel "hardcore"
PS3 is... well, I don't know. The other console. Supposedly more powerful, but somehow without ever realizing its potential. Best for people who want both a console and a blu-ray player. Good for those who don't feel the need to buy the console "everyone" else says is the best.
Miyamoto: Super Mario Bros. Wii could be better, but the Wii's too weak {Engadget}
Jun 4th 2009 1:44PM It is really too bad that Nintendo decided to skimp so much on the hardware this time around. I really don't understand it. I get that it's all about gameplay.... but why can't it be about gameplay *and* have decent graphics? If they'd debuted the Wii at $299 and had some modern hardware in there and maybe a slightly slimmer profit margin, does anyone doubt it would have been any less successful? I don't.
Graphics aren't everything, but come on... a 2D platformer tasks the hardware enough to not allow voice communication? That's some seriously weak sauce.
E3 2009's crown jewel of trailers: Uncharted 2 {Joystiq}
Jun 4th 2009 11:04AM You obviously haven't played the first game. The claim to fame is not that it has great graphics (though it does). It's that it has a great story, really great gameplay, and more than anything else, fantastic dialogue and acting (not just voice acting, but also facial expressions and body language during voice acting).
Is it superficially similar to Tomb Raider? Absolutely. And a Model T is superficially similar to a Ferrari.
