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Dear Blackberry, **** you! Attn: Syadisti

BurlyShirley

BurlyShirley

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Well, I had a pretty satisfying afternoon. Last week I got an iphone as a replacement for the hell that was the Blackberry Storm. The iphone is an amazing device. I mean it, seriously. The blackberry, well... it was its time I guess.



I scored a non-fatal shot on a big tom Turkey at 40 yards on saturday. Shot low with the new (to me) Mossberg 500, so I decided to get a little practice in. Taped the Storm up at around turkey head height.




Loaded up the 3" Remington Nitro Turkey shells.



**** YOU! Killshot!



Man, that felt good.
I cannot explain how much I hated that phone...
 
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BurlyShirley

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Nick said:
I'm replacing my blackberry with an iphone this weekend.

I hadn't thought about shooting my old phone.




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If your experience with the goddamned blackberry was as bad as mine, Id highly recommend destroying in satisfying fashion. Don't have a gun? Maybe set it on fire and hit it with a sledge hammer?
 
kazlx

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I don't think I have met one person with a Storm that likes it....

I'm perfectly happy with my iPhone. There are so many haters, but it does everything I need it to.
 
AngryMetalsmith

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I approve of this thread and violence directed at in animate objects. Of course, being a smith, I can do some serious damage with a hammer.

And welcome to the club, the iTime Waster is indeed an amazing device.
 
sstalder5

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I also picked up the iPhone this weekend. Being forced into AT&T service has been a deal breaker for me since it first came out. I was holding out for the iPhone 5 but I was in need of a new phone. My droid with half a working screen is sitting in my desk drawer waiting for the next time I go shooting ;)
 
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jdcamb

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Do you realize how many dangerous chemicals you have just released willy nilly into the enviroment? The mercury alone is probably going to kill a 100 owls, 1500 turkeys, and 12 pigeons. The lead is going to finish everything else off. You bastard!

I'm going to have to by a road bike now as the woods are ruined! Thanks a lot douchebag...
 
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syadasti

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I haven't had a BB for a few months and the only thing I've noted in the past few years is their marketshare. They lost their way years ago.

Latest news not good for RIM or Apple:

Android Is Destroying Everyone, Especially RIM -- iPhone Dead In Water

Google's Android OS has gained an astonishing 7 points of market share in the US smartphone market in the past three months, Comscore says.

RIM's market share over the same period collapsed, dropping almost 5 points.

Apple's iPhone share increased slightly, but is dead in the water and has now fallen way behind Android (in smartphones).

(If you include iPod touches in the calculation, Apple's share has actually fallen).

Android now has a third of the US market (33%). RIM's share has plummeted to 29%. Apple is holding at 25%.

In the "also ran" category, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 did nothing to stop its decline, which fell from 9% to 7.7%. And Palm, which is barely worth mentioning anymore, fell another point to 2.8%.

Why do the Android gains matter? Are Apple bulls right that Apple has an insurmountable hold on the "premium" segment of the market and that it doesn't matter who has the other 75%?

The Android gains matter because technology platform markets tend to standardize around a single dominant platform (see Windows in PCs, Facebook in social, Google in search). And the more dominant the platform becomes, the more valuable it becomes and the harder it becomes to dislodge. The network effect kicks in, and developers building products designed to work with the platform devote more and more of their energy to the platform. The reward for building and working with other platforms, meanwhile, drops, and gradually developers stop developing for them.

Importantly, it's not a question of which platform is "better." (This is irrelevant.) It's a question of which platform everyone else uses. And increasingly, in the smartphone market, barring a radical change in trend, that's Android.

So that's why Android's gains matter. And, yes, Apple fans should be scared to death about them.

Apple is fighting a very similar war to the one it fought--and lost--in the 1990s. It is trying to build the best integrated products, hardware and software, and maintain complete control over the ecosystem around them. This end-to-end control makes it easier for Apple to build products that are "better," but it makes it much harder for the company to compete against a software platform that is standard across many hardware manufacturers (Windows in the 1990s, Android now).

As we explain here, two important things are different about the current Android - iPhone battle than the Mac - Windows war in the 1990s. First, Apple is maintaining price parity (or better) with the leading Android phones. (Macs always cost more than PCs). Second, Android is still a fragmented platform, which significantly reduces the benefits of "interoperability" across multiple manufacturers.

Google is working to fix the second problem, though--enacting much tighter rules about how Android can be used. And if the platform is to become dominant and ubiquitous, it will likely continue to tighten these rules.

And Apple's price parity certainly does not appear to have stopped the Android juggernaut.

The unit and platform numbers below, which show the change in market share from November to February, are not unit sales in the month. They are total usage stats, showing how the platform usage shifted over the period.

So these Android gains should scare the bejeezus out of Apple bulls -- and Apple itself. And Apple's decision to not release the iPhone 5 in June will likely exacerbate rather than slow this trend.

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Syadasti's fetish for all things anti-mac can only rival that of my school's IT guy. He really hates that mac computers skip the network's print que, so when everyone is stressing out because 30 people are waiting for presentation boards to print, I can just go onto my mac, click print and go grab my stuff.
 
jonKranked

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????? said:
Syadasti's fetish for all things anti-mac can only rival that of my school's IT guy. He really hates that mac computers skip the network's print que, so when everyone is stressing out because 30 people are waiting for presentation boards to print, I can just go onto my mac, click print and go grab my stuff.
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if that's happening, then your school has the worst IT guy in history
 
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jonKranked said:
if that's happening, then your school has the worst IT guy in history
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He was cool when I first started here and we had a few mac computers in the lab, but ever since they have been pushing them out... hello, it's a design school! (2/3 - 3/4 of the students use mac laptops)

If you walk into his office with a mac laptop in your hand he is immediately grumpy. I have been pestering him about getting the mac computers to connect to the print network for the past 4 years and still no progress (yet when I first started school I could log onto the network with my mac and print no problem). Well finally I had enough and searched for the printer ip numbers and voila... I don't need to connect to any print servers with my mac.
 
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IH8Rice

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syadasti said:
Latest news not good for RIM or Apple:
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pointless article. even for a apple hater like yourself.....comparing all of the Android phones to Apple's two, maybe three (3GS is still being sold) phones, is pointless. if anything, it makes the Iphone look even stronger in the market
 
syadasti

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IH8Rice said:
pointless article. even for a apple hater like yourself.....comparing all of the Android phones to Apple's two, maybe three (3GS is still being sold) phones, is pointless. if anything, it makes the Iphone look even stronger in the market
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Yeah that worked out well for Apple in the PC market:rofl:
 
sstalder5

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????? said:
He was cool when I first started here and we had a few mac computers in the lab, but ever since they have been pushing them out... hello, it's a design school! (2/3 - 3/4 of the students use mac laptops)

If you walk into his office with a mac laptop in your hand he is immediately grumpy. I have been pestering him about getting the mac computers to connect to the print network for the past 4 years and still no progress (yet when I first started school I could log onto the network with my mac and print no problem). Well finally I had enough and searched for the printer ip numbers and voila... I don't need to connect to any print servers with my mac.
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Our IT guys hate Apple too. But the president just got us a Mac lab at the beginning this year with 30 fully loaded iMacs to match our first one that is 2 years old. They hate maintaining them. I'm not looking forward to going to get them to register my phone on the network tomorrow
 
Da Peach

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IH8Rice said:
pointless article. even for a apple hater like yourself.....comparing all of the Android phones to Apple's two, maybe three (3GS is still being sold) phones, is pointless. if anything, it makes the Iphone look even stronger in the market
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syadasti said:
Yeah that worked out well for Apple in the PC market:rofl:
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IH8Rice said:
meh, another bad comparison. macs never dominated the market with two models. hell, they never dominated the market



Burley- no video??
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syadasti

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IH8Rice said:
meh, another bad comparison. macs never dominated the market with two models. hell, they never dominated the market
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The author's comparison is just fine, its obvious. Like in PCs (other than the brief clone licensing period which could have saved them), Apple has a very limited number of models in form factor markets for their iOS devices with many competitors - iPhones, iPod, iPad. Android and RIM have devices in several forms - they are way behind in tablets and media players (none for RIM) but technology and use may phase out redundancy - smartphones are the biggest/most important market. At the very least media players should be shrinking fast.

Apple is fighting a very similar war to the one it fought--and lost--in the 1990s. It is trying to build the best integrated products, hardware and software, and maintain complete control over the ecosystem around them. This end-to-end control makes it easier for Apple to build products that are "better," but it makes it much harder for the company to compete against a software platform that is standard across many hardware manufacturers (Windows in the 1990s, Android now).
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ricod

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why cant macs and pcs get along? The only thing that deserves that much hate was my old old old LG Chocolate, it got real friendly with a pick axe, a paintball gun and a sledge hammer...the sim card was fine though
 
binary visions

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????? said:
This is like telling someone to have fun breathing air. Sure you have to do it... but is there anything less than ideal about it? iTunes is simple and effective.
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iTunes is bloated and overbearing, and I hated having to use it. I think that was my least favorite part about owning an iPhone. It would always do stuff without me asking, it was slow, requesting to cancel rarely resulted in an immediate cancel... One day it was pulled up in the background and I noticed my hard drive going nuts. So I check and it's modifying the volume level of all of my songs. I did not ask for it to change every piece of music on my computer. Worse, my music is all synced to a backup service, so I had to re-sync ALL of my music because the stupid volume level was changed.

Ugh.

Not to mention I have a 150mb program installed (not including its large libraries/user settings) whose sole function, for me, is to sync playlists to my phone. Yeah, that's efficient.

Screw iTunes. What a piece of sh*t.
 
MMike

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binary visions said:
iTunes is bloated and overbearing, and I hated having to use it. I think that was my least favorite part about owning an iPhone. It would always do stuff without me asking, it was slow, requesting to cancel rarely resulted in an immediate cancel... One day it was pulled up in the background and I noticed my hard drive going nuts. So I check and it's modifying the volume level of all of my songs. I did not ask for it to change every piece of music on my computer. Worse, my music is all synced to a backup service, so I had to re-sync ALL of my music because the stupid volume level was changed.

Ugh.

Not to mention I have a 150mb program installed (not including its large libraries/user settings) whose sole function, for me, is to sync playlists to my phone. Yeah, that's efficient.

Screw iTunes. What a piece of sh*t.
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Yup. itunes sucks. I love the actual iphone device, but I dare say that the Blackberry desktop manager was better.

And I still don't understand why an iphone can't just take any mp3 and say "set as ringtone". or add an attachment to an email that you are replying to.
 
BurlyShirley

BurlyShirley

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With regard to itunes, I don't really have a lot of experience with other similar programs, but I've already been using it for quite some time so it's not like I was forced into it.

To the guy who is whining about killing a hickory tree with a few lead shot... :rofl:
 
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