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From: Steven Fisher on 5 Feb 2010 01:57 On 2010-02-04 11:23:43 -0800, Michelle Steiner said: > Actually, I'm the one who has said that. You're the one who is adamantly > insisting that a computer will be required. Not blaming just you, Michelle, but... Lamest. Thread. Ever. :)
From: Wes Groleau on 5 Feb 2010 18:32 Doc O'Leary wrote: > That makes about as much sense as saying a car doesn't *need* gas There's a heck of a difference between saying a car can run without gas and saying an iPod can run without a desktop computer. The first one is false, the second one is true. -- Wes Groleau Obama Changing “Latin” Policies http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1515
From: Wes Groleau on 5 Feb 2010 18:34 Michelle Steiner wrote: > connect it to the computer. Your only rationale is "That's the way they've > always done it." Which is no rationale at all. Apple has never made anything resembling an iPad that _needs_ a computer. -- Wes Groleau ¡Qué quiero realmente hacer es comer un perrito caliente! 私が実際にしたいと思う何をホットドッグを食べることである! http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=463
From: Wes Groleau on 5 Feb 2010 18:39 Michelle Steiner wrote: > In his presentation, Jobs said that you can establish data service for the > iPad right from the iPad, right out of the box. So all that leaves is > upgrading firmware, and what with the all the advances made, it is entirely > possible that you will be able to be able to download the upgrade directly. Most cellphones get upgrades via the cell network. iPhone and iPod can upgrade apps the same way, and Apple could have had them do O.S. upgrades that way. -- Wes Groleau Hillary Insults Virgen de Guadalupe? http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1531
From: Wes Groleau on 5 Feb 2010 18:43
Doc O'Leary wrote: > And? How many times do I have to repeat that it is, of *course*, quite > possible for an iPad to *rarely* be connected to a computer, just like How many times do we have to repeat that it is quite possible for the other devices (that you claim to be extrapolating from) to _never_ be connected to a computer? How does the iPad's similarity to the iPhone force teh conclusion that it _has_ to be different on that particular point? -- Wes Groleau Standards--a parable http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=145 |