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Still a ton of Apple reality-distortion field spin going on around here I see. The 5c was going to "crush Android at the low end"... A year later it's effectively dropped. The Galaxy S3 of 2.5 years ago has almost exactly the same size, shape, weight, screen, RAM, battery as the iPhone 6. iPad sales are falling. Not just market share, actual numbers of units. Outside of English speaking countries and Japan, iOS has bugger all market share. Interest in iPhone launches (measured by Google searches and market share) peaked in 2011/2012. Apple is going revolutionise payments? Hmmm, less than 1 in 6 people in the UK/US own iPhones and market share is drifting down. Are retailers going to spend a fortune upgrading all their tills just for Apple's proprietary system (from which they naturally take a cut)? Apple can't even design cables that last more than 3 weeks... If people want to buy their stuff that's fine, it's just they still insist on telling everyone about it ad nauseam as if the majority of the population give a monkey's.

Was said with tongue firmly in cheek Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone already get trashed plenty on Apple threads... Their users just don't take it soooo personally. Thank god my Apple-owning friends don't take their products too seriously and happy to acknowledge their flaws and Apple's often farcical marketing spin.

Where's the iPad Mini thread so I can trash that? Waiting to see how Apple spin a 7-8" tablet as their invention despite trashing the form factor for 2 years.

No wonder it doesn't work in iOS, they want to flog you suckers an app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ips-communities/id521920635?mt=8

Back then manuals would have been paper-only so someone would have to have found one and scanned it in. Even most 90s manuals have been scanned in as there were no PDF versions. Would check out some Australian forums as the Bluebird was also made/sold down there.

That engine was also fitted to loads of other cars around the world, like the S12 Silvia: http://club-s12.org/retro4/index.php?topic=17058.0 http://www.antrx.com/smf/index.php/topic,7177.0.html http://www.antrx.com/smf/index.php?topic=14248.0

http://gizmodo.com/5947972/apple-acknowledges-iphone-5-camera-problem-says-youre-holding-it-wrong

Haha, benchmarks are meaningless except when the iPhone comes top 2nd placed here is a £200 phone with a 4 year old single-core Intel Atom running a 2 year old version of Android The 5 screen still cracks if it lands face down:

Ooops, Apple ripped off the trademarked Swiss railway clock design... Who slavishly copies stuff again? http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/apple-apes-trademarked-swiss-railway-clock-for-ipads-new-clock-app/

Or if you've been using Android since 2008

Trouble is, despite having £100+ billion in the bank Apple has done maps on the cheap buying up ancient data that's 10+ years old. Great if you want to find out where Our Price or Woolworths used to be on your high street Apple will either have to invest a ton very quickly (even then it could take years to get anywhere near Google) or back down and bring back Google Maps. I think if the new dock/adaptor causes loads of problems and the 5 has any suspected hardware flaws, it's Twitter's servers that will be having the meltdown

It wouldn't be an Apple launch without the now traditional PR disaster

£85 and 3 hours in Hampshire. At least it wasn't the dull lecture I was expecting. Interestingly most of the people on it were middle-aged or older and had never been nicked before or had an accident. At the end of the day road policing is a very blunt instrument, especially now it's mostly speed and camera-based. Only a tiny fraction of genuinely (and delibrately) bad drivers are punished. A copper working a camera could just as easily be out in the road, flagging people down to have a quiet word. Instead they let you commit the offence anyway and hope points/cash will make you a safer driver.

That's why I posted mostly postive reviews of it Questioning if it's really all that great and worthy of £500-700 isn't being a massive hater or fanboy for something else. I've used a Blackberry in the past as much as Android, have a WebOS tablet, and I'm interested to see what Microsoft/Blackberry/Mozilla/Intel bring to the party in the next year. If Apple made a device that did exactly what I need I'd suck it up and lay my money down but they're a million miles from that and getting further away by the day. If someone was pimping a mod to the Z that cost £500-700 would questioning its effectiveness and value cause such offence?