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    02:17 PM

    In reply to Apple's Phil Schiller and I Have Something In Common
    Bill Gates and I have something in common, we both use the operating system, Windows 7

    Who's Phil Shiller though? I think you can't always assume everyone knows who every employee at Apple is.
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    Image of back_at_it back_at_it
    05:23 PM

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: I'm not sure I'd group Phil Schiller and 'every employee' in the same category. And I think it's pretty safe to say that most Giz readers do know who the top honchos are at Apple.
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    05:29 PM

    @back_at_it: I'd like to hope that not every single Giz reader is such a hardcore Apple fan where they know all these names otherwise that's pretty sad. I mean, can you name the Senior VP of marketing at Dell or Microsoft?
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    05:36 PM

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: In fact, I cannot name the Senior Vp of Marketing at Dell off the top of my head. But I'd argue that Apple puts more of their higher-ups in the limelight than does Microsoft or Dell. Also, I don't find it sad when someone takes an interest in something, be it Apple or otherwise.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    12/03/09

    In reply to Intel Developing App Store for Netbooks
    Is this whole app store thing doomed to fail?

    It seems like we're getting so many its a step back not a step forward.
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    12/03/09

    @tande04: I'm waiting to see if the porn industry gets into it. They could launch one and call it the fapp store..
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    12/03/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: They've got one for android.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to Intel Developing App Store for Netbooks
    Great plan. Except for the niggling little fact that Moblin kinda sucks. It's completely counterintuitive to the average person who has spent two decades on Windows and/or Mac systems.
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    12/02/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs Approves Knocking Live Video App Personally
    I grabbed this app immediately, before it's not free anymore or before AT&T throws such a fit that Apple pulls it. I know the app is buggy and the servers overloaded right now but I don't care. I'm sure they will get it to work soon enough, and then it will be tons and tons of awesome. Visit the company's website - they are serious about this tech. Think about it: true video chat on the iPhone!!! We all wanted this for bloody ages. I know we don't have a front facing cam but I will take this over nothing in a heartbeat.

    What a surprise to log onto Giz this morning and find out about this app. This is the last thing I expected Apple to approve. I'm still trying to figure out why.
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    12/02/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs Approves Knocking Live Video App Personally
    "Okay I'll stick it in the App Store. Not that big of a deal.

    Steve
    Sent from my iPhone"
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    BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 promoted this comment James Marino was starred James Marino was unstarred
    Image of Segador Segador
    12/02/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs Approves Knocking Live Video App Personally
    The level of influence that one man wields at that company is beautiful and terrifying. It's rare and heartening that a CEO takes this much personal interest in the small, daily goings on at the bottom.
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    Edited by Segador at 12/02/09 9:18 AM Segador was starred Segador was unstarred
    Image of mmmiles mmmiles
    12/02/09

    @Segador: Well when a small daily going on can multiply into 10 million product sales and new useability for millions of users, it pays to keep your eyes on some details. Literally pays.
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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/30/09

    In reply to Apple Rejects iDroid App (Thankfully)
    To be fair this is the work of a couple of morons with an SDK and is (I hope) nothing to do with Motorola or Google.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    11/30/09

    In reply to Apple Rejects iDroid App (Thankfully)
    So wait, they are rejecting an app simply because it advertises a competitors product? How is this a good or noble thing?
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    Image of thatsmrpotatohead2U thatsmrpotatohead2U
    11/30/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: It's advertising something that (apparently) replicates features on the iPhone.

    This is why apps that advertise beer & loose women do get approved, since the iPhone doesn't have those features built in yet.
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    Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach promoted this comment thatsmrpotatohead2U was starred thatsmrpotatohead2U was unstarred
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    11/30/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: It isn't, but it just speaks so shitty of the Droid.
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    TheSonOfKrypton promoted this comment fUnKiE was starred fUnKiE was unstarred
    Image of Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach
    11/30/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Huh that's funny. If I promote a non-star reply to a star comment, it says I also promoted the star comment.
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    Image of Traveshamockery Traveshamockery
    11/30/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Their app store, their rules. Honestly, the app store is full enough of worthless crap...the last thing I need is an advertising app getting in the way of finding something useful.
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    Image of comrade_leviathan comrade_leviathan
    11/30/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Why would you intentionally allow a competitor to advertise on your product?

    iPhone apps are intended to boost sales of iPhones. To allow advertising on that platform which directs sales AWAY from iPhones is antithetical.

    How is this a difficult concept?
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    11/30/09

    @comrade_leviathan: Wow. The fact that you're attempting to rationalize this blows my mind. You're likely the kind who thinks mobile phone operators should disallow google voice/Skype use on their networks, huh?
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    Image of comrade_leviathan comrade_leviathan
    11/30/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Wow, +1 for a completely unrelated comparison.

    No, I don't think cell companies should disallow VOIP on their networks. In fact, cell carriers will soon have to acknowledge that voice plans are dead as dead, and the only thing anyone needs is data.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    11/30/09

    @comrade_leviathan: You just don't get it do you? This type of restrictions is not one Apple originally said they'd hold over the App Store. Proof? There it is.

    What are you going to say? God Forbid they disallow apps that compete with them? Is that why they approved Rhapsody, Spotify, and the plethora of other apps that compete with them?
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    Edited by TheSonOfKrypton at 11/30/09 11:09 AM TheSonOfKrypton was starred TheSonOfKrypton was unstarred
    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    11/30/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton:
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    Image of comrade_leviathan comrade_leviathan
    11/30/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Do you honestly expect ANY company to allow something like that? So should NBC have to advertise American Idol on their network if Fox pays them? You have some seriously ludicrous expectations of the free market system, my friend! Apple, like any other company, is completely within their rights to deny an app (or any other form of advertisement) with no functional purpose other than to promote their competition.

    Don't like it? Use Android. Apple owns their app store, and reserves the right to refuse any app they see fit. A lot of their decisions to revoke apps I don't agree with because they are more based on AT&T's requirements, and not a valid flaw with the app (Google Voice, for one), but that argument in this scenario is completely nonsensical.
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    11/30/09

    @comrade_leviathan: And you've just perfectly expressed why I think the AppStore is one of the worst creations in the past 15 years of high-tech.
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    Image of comrade_leviathan comrade_leviathan
    11/30/09

    @jepzilla: Haha, an opinion to which you are certainly entitled.

    Although the billions of dollars in app sales, along with a hugely popular phone on arguably the worst cell network in the history of verbal communication might beg to differ.
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    Image of TheAxMan TheAxMan
    11/30/09

    @Traveshamockery: So don't use it. Even if it gets zero downloads (quite likely considering how useless the app is) Apple has no right to tell users what they can/cannot run on their phones.
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    jepzilla promoted this comment TheAxMan was starred TheAxMan was unstarred
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    11/30/09

    @comrade_leviathan: By that argument, Twilight is one of the finest examples of English-language literature.
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    Image of comrade_leviathan comrade_leviathan
    11/30/09

    @jepzilla: Hardly. Twilight has *maybe* been a best-seller in the US for the last 5 years. English-language literature has been around for 500+ years.

    Try comparing Twilight book sales to Shakespeare.

    The Apple App Store was the first smartphone application store on the market and has sold thousands of times as many apps as all other app stores combined. [en.wikipedia.org]

    I'm may be an Apple fanboy, but you've got to at least pose some reasonably rational comparisons.
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    Edited by comrade_leviathan at 11/30/09 1:16 PM comrade_leviathan was starred comrade_leviathan was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/29/09

    In reply to I Am T-Pain App Version 1.1 Lets You Sing Over Your iTunes Library
    Is there an I Am Lil John app? You can ruin classic songs, such as these!

    don't listen if you're one of those unfortunate shlubs stuck at work on a Sunday night
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    Image of macpatrik macpatrik
    11/29/09

    In reply to I Am T-Pain App Version 1.1 Lets You Sing Over Your iTunes Library
    The new slogan should read:

    99 cents. hours of drunken karaoke.
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    Image of Zack Fostaty Zack Fostaty
    11/29/09

    In reply to I Am T-Pain App Version 1.1 Lets You Sing Over Your iTunes Library
    is it just me or does this update break recording capability???
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    macpatrik approved this comment Zack Fostaty was starred Zack Fostaty was unstarred
    Image of macpatrik macpatrik
    11/29/09

    @Zack Fostaty: Still working fine for me.
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    Image of Zack Fostaty Zack Fostaty
    11/29/09

    @macpatrik: anything to suggest doing?
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    Zack Fostaty was starred Zack Fostaty was unstarred
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    11/29/09

    @macpatrik: k well all of the old songs work while recording.. but songs from my itunes library definetly dont work. it says recording but when i click on play, it doesnt play and it says cannot share and cannot publish. am i the only one?
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    11/29/09

    In reply to I Am T-Pain App Version 1.1 Lets You Sing Over Your iTunes Library
    Man, my audiobooks just got a lot more interesting.
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    Image of Benguin Benguin
    11/29/09

    In reply to I Am T-Pain App Version 1.1 Lets You Sing Over Your iTunes Library
    Time to bless the internets with my rousing rendition of Gay Fish.
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    11/29/09

    In reply to I Am T-Pain App Version 1.1 Lets You Sing Over Your iTunes Library
    Never have I wanted an iPhone more. Imagine all the random people I could piss off in public. The friends I could embarrass in public. The list goes on of all other annoying activities I could do in public...
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    Image of PotteryBarnClearanceSale PotteryBarnClearanceSale
    11/28/09

    In reply to Apple Rejected Me, a Site for Scorned App Developers
    FLAME WAR!!!!!!
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