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Article #461Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem
From: SMS
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:08
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:08
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On 15/07/10 6:40 PM, David Kaye wrote: > DevilsPGD<Still-Just-A-Rat-In-A-Cage@crazyhat.net> wrote: > >> Sure it was. Most of Vista's crashes were Nvidia driver related, and >> most of the rest was bad PR and perception. > > Microsoft has been in the terrible position of having to fix other people's > messes. The security holes brought on by Adobe products is a perfect example. > People don't scream at Adobe, they scream at Microsoft. So, MS does what it > can to fix the damage to its reputation that really wasn't its fault. Microsoft's been in the position of being blamed for other people's hardware and software problems for years if not decades. They have taken steps to try to impose some discipline. Systems must now pass WHQL certification if the manufacturer wants the lowest price on the OS. Drivers need to be signed (though the user has the option of allowing unsigned drivers). Microsoft made a big push for the elimination of legacy interfaces on hardware (parallel/serial/game/MIDI/PS2 KB & Mouse) because of the problems these can cause, though there was push back because of the huge installed base of peripherals, especially in businesses like retail and banking. Apple has an easier time of it, with total control of the OS and hardware, and fewer applications to worry about.
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X-Google-Thread: 110038,b1140feb57b2493a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: fa874,b1140feb57b2493a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gidd668eef4dc,gidaa617e85ca,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!posts.news.sonic.net!nnrp0.nntp.sonic.net!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:08:05 -0700 From: SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.cellular.attws,ba.internet Subject: Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem References: <i1nf5g$hbq$1@news.eternal-september.org> <i1nqs6$4i8$2@news.eternal-september.org> <150720101636232021%nospam@nospam.invalid> <pgav365phrbumf3efmn6244vmlgv21bi4s@4ax.com> <i1odag$kdp$1@news.eternal-september.org> In-Reply-To: <i1odag$kdp$1@news.eternal-september.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4c4083dd$0$22152$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> Organization: Sonic.Net NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Jul 2010 16:07:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 673eeaf5.news.sonic.net X-Trace: DXC=@OL[`7KXd3BOdFF3EH5`WCm4K\QM1CV^@1OYf0H`?;XAQiBHQ]VoBTG@C@@_`9Z^QH9S27O8h2h<F X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net