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There is always a controversy over what is or is not a Netbook. Is it the screen size? The underpowered processor? The operating system?
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I don’t understand the draw of pirating movies. There is no movie that I can’t wait for it to come out on DVD and/or Netflix. As for music, I find that if I buy every new song that I enjoy on iTunes or Amazon.com, I spend about $12 per year.
That said, I have been following the Pirate Bay trial which ended on March 3. It was a crazy mess of arrogance, exploitation of legal loopholes and a lot of surprises. It is no surprise that a Swedish filmaker is planning to turn the whole afair into a documentary.
Right now, the reason his film is hitting the news is because he is welcoming the idea of it being shared across P2P networks. If he does a good enough job at covering the quirkiness of the trials and the story behind it, it may turn out as a worthy Oscar nominee for best documentary.
Pirate Bay Documentarian Looks Forward to Film Getting Pirated | Epicenter from Wired.com.
Remember the second mouse button that Apple didn’t have for roughly 15 years. OS X supported the right mouse click and perhaps even OS 9 supported it, but Apple refused to release such a piece of hardware. A fact for which Logitech and Microsoft were no doubt grateful.
When they did release the right mouse button, it was not actually a button, the right side of the mouse just worked like a right mouse button. Even today, the right mouse button is a special feature for Mac desktops and is still not supported on Macbook touch pads. Apple still wants you to use the keyboard shortcut for the context menus.
Cut, copy and paste is the right mouse click of the iPhone world. A feature that is so high in demand that it made CNET’s top predictions for 2009. Type “Copy and Paste iPhone” into Google and you come up with nothing but rants and rumors for dozens of pages. Everyone wants copy and paste for the iPhone.
Many sources for Mac rumors are predicting that copy and paste is coming to the iPhone with the new 3.0 update. That’s right, Apple waited 3 generations to release the biggest complaint about their most popular device.
Like the right mouse button, when it is announced everyone will go crazy. They will say stuff like, “It’s about time!” Then they will send out press releases, blogs and tweets about how revolutionary Apple is to address their users concerns.
One last prediction – copy and paste will most likely work differently than it does on any other device. In order to address the concern they will need to make it work differently as to create the illusion that the delay was due to difficult development – not to sell more devices or an update later. I would also not be surprised if the 3.0 update did not work on first generation models. I expect it to, but it wouldn’t surprise me if this was the case.
Apple May Give iPhone 3.0 Cut And Paste — IPhone — InformationWeek.