by wwarren | Oct 1, 2014 | Apple, Cloud Computing, General, Hardware, Smartphone
If Samsung buys the company behind Siri Apple is going to either loose Siri altogether or will be paying some serious licensing rights to Samsung. Unbeknownst to many, Apple does not own the technology behind Siri. The technology is provided by Nuance...
by wwarren | Sep 21, 2014 | Apple, Cloud Computing, General, Hardware, Security
I have an entire section of this blog devoted to the cloud. I has gotten so bad it’s impossible to post quickly enough to keep up. Icloud as soon as it launched I figured was going to be a disaster, especially with how little Apple has really valued security....
by wwarren | Nov 29, 2013 | Apple, Hardware
I’ve been working on hardware for quite a while. I’ve seen my fair share of companies trying to keep folks out of their products. Apple is at the top of this list in terms of difficulty in computer repair now. I’ve had to accumulate quite a...
by wwarren | Oct 7, 2013 | Apple, Hardware
I’ve noticed that both on the Internet and in my own experience IOS 7 is quote the battery hog. After some research I did the following to my wife’s Iphone 5: 1. Disabled Airdrop 2. Removed as many of the animations as possible 3. Reduced the apps...
by wwarren | Nov 13, 2012 | Apple, Hardware
So Apple got a billion or two from Samsung in court and Apple just effectively paid half that back due to Samsung jacking up component prices to Apple. Sweet justice. Market-Ticker – MarketTicker Forums.
by wwarren | Sep 19, 2012 | Apple, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Internet, Microsoft, Tablets, Windows, Windows 8
If Microsoft really plans to get into the mobile space(and Win8 is all about tablets) this is not the way to do it. $600 bucks for a tablet isn’t going to fly when Andriod and Ipads are already established with superior featuresets already. For a while...
