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• RE: Gadgetell Giveaway: Pantech Matrix Pro [Gamertell]
  Because I want to scrap my crappy iPhone and move to the glorious world of Windows Mobile (not!) - it would be "fun and interesting" to have a WinMobile phone, having owned every other smartphone OS on the planet (Symbian, S60, iPhone, Palm, Blackberry), but no WinMo
• RE: UnPirate: Find your alternative to Microsoft Outlook [Gadgetell]
  You missed the Chandler project, Mitch Kapor's newly released product, which looks like it contains similar features to Outlook, and is Windows, Mac and Linux compatible. http://chandlerproject.org/
• RE: Is Apple immune to the economic downturn? [Appletell]
  Another is that people may be starting to realize that cost is a far bigger picture than acquisition costs alone. The support and feeding of a Windows machine is expensive, typically running 5-6 times more time and effort than an OS X machine (from data on over 500,000 machines). Just defending against virus and spyware attacks alone is a big resource ($$$ & time) consumer ( Windows > 1,000,000 virus; OS X = 0 ). Some say market share makes this number; my experience indicates it is fundamental operating system architecture issues that plague Windows. Apple products are less expensive to buy, compared to the corporate quality machines from Sony, Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. Yes, you can buy a less expensive (and cheaply built) Windows machine, but the quality products from any vendor are all priced comparably, and an Apple box can run Windows as well, albeit with the same problems as any other Windows machine. When money gets tight, some people start a more objective look at what is costs, beyond pure purchase price. What you save in boot and shutdown time, OS stability, security, and rich applications with consistent, low-cost-of-training interfaces, provided by OS X offsets any perceived cost difference. ... unless your time is not worth anything.
• RE: Sure we miss FireWire, but do we really need it? [Appletell]
  "as long as we get Target Disk Mode via some other format (Ethernet would be nice, if you’re up to it, Mr. Jobs), the list of reasons to keep FireWire around seems to be growing shorter and shorter." And this is one key point - target disk mode. Get this running over gigabit ethernet, and THE major argument in retaining FW is mute. The other is the intelligence of FW, vs. the "dumb" USB interface. This impact is most felt on camcorders, and the ability to control their actions without unique USB drivers for each and every device. I guess with camcorders now moving to direct to digital, this is less of an issue, but if you prefer tape, finding a miniDV camcorder without FW AND with USB drivers for OS X is a serious challenge and greatly limits your selections.

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