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From: Todd Allcock on 12 Aug 2010 01:35 At 11 Aug 2010 09:39:38 -0700 John Navas wrote: > >> >But name a category...... > >> > >> Already did. > > > >I missed where you named a *category* in the Android Market..... > > You don't consider "sailboat racing" a category? We racers sure do. I'm sure apple farmers might consider a bushel to peck calculator a vertical market app for fruit farming, but most of us would consider it a calculator or conversion utility. How many sailboat racing apps are there to justify a category? > Where is the official list of approved categories posted? Presumably in the Market's "Category" view? I'm guessing sailboat racing apps would be under "sports" or maybe "lifestyle?"
From: ed on 12 Aug 2010 02:26 On Aug 11, 7:16 pm, Todd Allcock <eleccon...(a)AnoOspamL.com> wrote: > At 11 Aug 2010 09:59:52 -0700 ed wrote: > > > On Aug 11, 4:50 am, Todd Allcock <eleccon...(a)AnoOspamL.com> wrote: > > > At 10 Aug 2010 16:20:19 -0700 ed wrote: > > <snip> > > > > verizon, iirc, required a data plan for blackberries before the > > > > iphone- winmo devices on verizon started requiring data around the > > > > time of the iphone. > > > > IIRC, BB and WinMo devices required data on VZW at about the same > time- > > > November, 2007, a few months after the iPhone launch. > > > vz, had a weird thing going for a while where some winmo phones > > required contracts and some didn't... we were cross shopping > > iphones / bb / winmo right at that time. ;D > > Yeah, there as a cut-off date- phones released after the cut-off required > data, older/discontinued phones didn't. For some reason Nov. 17, 2007 > sticks in my head as that date, but I certainly could be wrong. later than that- i got my last vz phone (winmo) in summer '08, and there were still phones available w/o a data plan at that time. maybe phones *released* after nov '07 had to have a data plan?
From: John Navas on 12 Aug 2010 10:43 On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:35:33 -0400, in <qNL8o.75233$xZ2.22213(a)newsfe07.iad>, Todd Allcock <elecconnec(a)AnoOspamL.com> wrote: >At 11 Aug 2010 09:39:38 -0700 John Navas wrote: > >> >> >But name a category...... >> >> >> >> Already did. >> > >> >I missed where you named a *category* in the Android Market..... >> >> You don't consider "sailboat racing" a category? We racers sure do. > >I'm sure apple farmers might consider a bushel to peck calculator a >vertical market app for fruit farming, but most of us would consider it a >calculator or conversion utility. > >How many sailboat racing apps are there to justify a category? > >> Where is the official list of approved categories posted? > >Presumably in the Market's "Category" view? I'm guessing sailboat racing >apps would be under "sports" or maybe "lifestyle?" It's in Travel. How useful is that? ;) -- John "Assumption is the mother of all screw ups." [Wethern�s Law of Suspended Judgement]
From: John Navas on 12 Aug 2010 10:52 On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:50:34 -0700 (PDT), in <05678529-b268-4344-9b0e-a1f8a01a79d5(a)h32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, KDT <scarface_74(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On Aug 11, 6:47�pm, John Navas <spamfilt...(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: >> Yes, because I back them up to SD card (which iPhone lacks) and computer >> and then to the cloud, where I keep backups of all important files. >> Plus I can just download them again from the Market. > >What about the apps you *buy*. That answer applies. >BTW, you sure are using a lot of >programs to do what you could do with a single click of a button with >the iPhone. Similar capability on the iPhone takes as many apps. >> >What about your text messages? >> >> Yes, Google Voice. �You should try it. > >So now you have to use *five* programs to do what you can do with >*one* and just clicking a button? You must not understand how seamlessly Google Voice works. You should try it. >> >Not only that, if you transfer >> >contacts from an old phone (like I did) they are not stored as Google >> >contacts. �Only new contacts are stored as Google contacts. >> >> *All* my contacts, old and new, are stored as Google Contacts in the >> cloud, because I *merge* contacts from other sources. �You should try >> it. > >So exactly how do you get contacts off of your phone that were >transferred from another phone into your Google contact list -- yes I >know you can do it --- with yet another program. SyncML >iTunes is sounding >better and better the more you post. Suit yourself. "Different strokes for different folks." >> >What >> >about the placement of your icons, bookmarks, passwords? >> >> MyBackup preserves the Home screen and bookmarks. >> My passwords are managed with KeePass, and also saved in the cloud. >> >> Anything else? > >Wow just the duplicate the functionality of iTunes, you need *six* >different programs? How's the iTunes password generator working for you? Does it use Twofish or AES encryption? -- John "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you will see every problem as a nail." -Abraham Maslow
From: Todd Allcock on 12 Aug 2010 10:47
At 11 Aug 2010 23:26:58 -0700 ed wrote: > On Aug 11, 7:16 pm, Todd Allcock <eleccon...(a)AnoOspamL.com> wrote: > > At 11 Aug 2010 09:59:52 -0700 ed wrote: > > > > > On Aug 11, 4:50 am, Todd Allcock <eleccon...(a)AnoOspamL.com> wrote: > > > > At 10 Aug 2010 16:20:19 -0700 ed wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > > verizon, iirc, required a data plan for blackberries before the > > > > > iphone- winmo devices on verizon started requiring data around the > > > > > time of the iphone. > > > > > > IIRC, BB and WinMo devices required data on VZW at about the same > > time- > > > > November, 2007, a few months after the iPhone launch. > > > > > vz, had a weird thing going for a while where some winmo phones > > > required contracts and some didn't... we were cross shopping > > > iphones / bb / winmo right at that time. ;D > > > > Yeah, there as a cut-off date- phones released after the cut-off required > > data, older/discontinued phones didn't. For some reason Nov. 17, 2007 > > sticks in my head as that date, but I certainly could be wrong. > > later than that- i got my last vz phone (winmo) in summer '08, and > there were still phones available w/o a data plan at that time. maybe > phones *released* after nov '07 had to have a data plan? Yes- according to folks at HowardForums, that's how it worked, at least on the WinMo side- I didn't follow the Blackberry "rules" much at the time. |