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flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

skype messenger dot net business

also https://twitter.com/D_Shariatmadari/status/775488250223947776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

not as funny as the blurred fire hydrant

Maximum Leader
Dec 5, 2014
skype for business is actually the worst IM

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


lync is inexcusable garbage

mlmp

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
sametime is basically the messaging equivalent of the holodomor

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 11 minutes!

FMguru posted:

sametime is basically the messaging equivalent of the holodomor

lol

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope

Mr Dog posted:

Microsoft Let'sChill

microsoft's names are overly descriptive

so like

Microsoft® LIVE! Message Sender and Receiver.NET

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
Microsoft's names are all designed to make you say the Microsoft part in front of them

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

The Management posted:

Microsoft's names are all designed to make you say the Microsoft part in front of them
The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i don't know if it's still the case, but when i used to work for a company that made ipod-compatible products, apple's marketing guidelines forbade you from using articles with their product names

"this speaker is compatible with iPhone", not "compatible with the iPhone"

"plug the headphone amplifier into iPod", not "into your iPod"

etc

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

Sagebrush posted:

i don't know if it's still the case, but when i used to work for a company that made ipod-compatible products, apple's marketing guidelines forbade you from using articles with their product names

"this speaker is compatible with iPhone", not "compatible with the iPhone"

"plug the headphone amplifier into iPod", not "into your iPod"

etc

that's pretty common for companies with marquee brands. microsoft's guideliens for the surface and the xbox follow the same pattern

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 11 minutes!

Sagebrush posted:

i don't know if it's still the case, but when i used to work for a company that made ipod-compatible products, apple's marketing guidelines forbade you from using articles with their product names

"this speaker is compatible with iPhone", not "compatible with the iPhone"

"plug the headphone amplifier into iPod", not "into your iPod"

etc

I think this is to try and avoid making the trademark generic

THE BIG DOG DADDY
Oct 16, 2013

Rasheed was, with Aliases, the top 7 PvPers in Bone Krew.


No one talks about this.

Sagebrush posted:

i don't know if it's still the case, but when i used to work for a company that made ipod-compatible products, apple's marketing guidelines forbade you from using articles with their product names

"this speaker is compatible with iPhone", not "compatible with the iPhone"

"plug the headphone amplifier into iPod", not "into your iPod"

etc

I've owned several iPhone and two MacBook Pro

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

YA BOY ETHAN COUCH posted:

I've owned several iPhone and two MacBook Pro

macbooks pro

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
Macboxen

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

MacBeese

Glans Dillzig
Nov 23, 2011

:justpost::justpost::justpost::justpost::justpost::justpost::justpost::justpost:

knickerbocker expert

Necc0 posted:

MacBeese

nignog tryna get a MacBeezy?

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope

carry on then posted:

macbooks pro

thank you

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Two Big Beef Burritos Supreme

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



not from this distance your honor

Thermopyle posted:

Is it just me or do the Pixel phones look extremely boring?



Linguica
Jul 13, 2000
You're already dead

if your smartphone in 2016 doesn't look inherently boring then something is very wrong

Linguica
Jul 13, 2000
You're already dead

ugh another flat rectangle with a screen covering most of one side. when are we going to have a, uh, toroid

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

we should stop calling them smartphones

phone call is like #20 on list of things people do with their phones now

and smart is a meaningless adjective, only relevant as a comparator

a sci fi story i read used "pocket slate" and "slate". this seems reasonable.

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



Linguica posted:

ugh another flat rectangle with a screen covering most of one side. when are we going to have a, uh, toroid



i miss those commercials about a lady fighting a robot or the phone slicing through everything or whatever

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Sagebrush posted:

we should stop calling them smartphones

phone call is like #20 on list of things people do with their phones now

and smart is a meaningless adjective, only relevant as a comparator

a sci fi story i read used "pocket slate" and "slate". this seems reasonable.

deck

comm

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

Endless Mike posted:



i miss those commercials about a lady fighting a robot or the phone slicing through everything or whatever

this was a good shape, and size, for a phone.

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Endless Mike posted:

not from this distance your honor

i will be stoaked as heck if they figure out how to avoid the camera lump

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Endless Mike posted:



i miss those commercials about a lady fighting a robot or the phone slicing through everything or whatever

even this poo poo is better than the bump. ug. at least that makes it look like the same person designed the entire thing instead of the camera guy bumbling in the day before manufacturing going 'wait 8mm i thought you said 9mm hang on here hold up'

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

Sagebrush posted:

we should stop calling them smartphones

phone call is like #20 on list of things people do with their phones now

and smart is a meaningless adjective, only relevant as a comparator

a sci fi story i read used "pocket slate" and "slate". this seems reasonable.

the Brits seem to have it figured out calling them mobiles

Linguica
Jul 13, 2000
You're already dead

why dont they just make the whole phone out of the bump??

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Necc0 posted:

the Brits seem to have it figured out calling them mobiles

That's their term for dumbphones too though

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
mobes

Sapozhnik
Jan 2, 2005

Nap Ghost

Sagebrush posted:

we should stop calling them smartphones

phone call is like #20 on list of things people do with their phones now

and smart is a meaningless adjective, only relevant as a comparator

a sci fi story i read used "pocket slate" and "slate". this seems reasonable.

computer




pocket computer, w/e.

Linguica
Jul 13, 2000
You're already dead

I unironically cannot wait until we really just all have pocket computers that we can choose to use in desktop computer mode by placing it on a special sensor pad or something

Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"

Linguica posted:

I unironically cannot wait until we really just all have pocket computers that we can choose to use in desktop computer mode by placing it on a special sensor pad or something

your wait is over



thank you, jonney

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Linguica posted:

I unironically cannot wait until we really just all have pocket computers that we can choose to use in desktop computer mode by placing it on a special sensor pad or something

i, too, want my immobile desktop computer to have the same thermal and power restrictions of a 9mm thick cell phone that has to last all day on battery. suits my needs. (?????)

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

Linguica posted:

I unironically cannot wait until we really just all have pocket computers that we can choose to use in desktop computer mode by placing it on a special sensor pad or something

it's called the cloud, all of your devices will have all of your data and application state.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Smythe posted:

i, too, want my immobile desktop computer to have the same thermal and power restrictions of a 9mm thick cell phone that has to last all day on battery. suits my needs. (?????)

i'm the implication that small-form-factor devices will ever be as powerful as their contemporary desktop computer

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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

me, 10 years ago: "holy goddamn, imagine if i had a 2ghz processor and 4 gigs of ram in my palmpilot instead of in this big old desktop. i'd never need another computer again!"

me, today: "lol"

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