Apple Patents Face Detect Metering

rick_reno wrote in post #14813307
Big deal, faces...look at what Nikon can detect

http://www.lolntroll.c​om/nikon-face-detect-fail/

I demand we exam the final image @ 100% to determine if the AF is spot on!

I'm gonna sit and wait for Apple to sue whoever thought of, created, drank or might drink or buy Applejuice in the past and the future. I'm sure it will happen as they will have a patent for that too.

http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/Apple_juice

/ Magnus

I like my MacBook Pro and iPod, but their product pricing and business practices of suing everyone is pretty ridiculous. They LOVE innovation as long as they own it... if anyone else invented it, they either buy the company or sue them and try to take credit for it. I own some Apple products, but I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means.

I'm in the same boat as you josh. I have a couple ipods and miss my macbook pro. But I am not a fanboy or apple altar boy either.

Sweet_Bee wrote in post #14825236
Kinda sad really. I remember when Apple was just barely hanging on with the educational market back in the day. Since the iMac in the late 90's, I was excited for their success because I never liked Windows much. But seeing the masses drink the koolaid (or the apple juice in this case) makes me sick. I LOVE the mac computer hardware and will admit the iPod touch was amazing, but over spending on a tablet because it is a bloated iPod or paying exorbitant prices for cell phones that at the time I post don't even have 4g yet, sickens me.

Apple and their flock of good sheep are looking more and more like a new religion each day. What would Xenu do? He would buy an iPad.

I went Apple...well a long time ago because I was fedup with Win XP and wanted something different, Right when they came out with the first Mac Mini, Which was a gem of a computer in my opinion, tried out OS X and liked it, so a few months later I bought a full Power Mac G5 Dual 2ghz (The last Power PC-equipped one) and held onto it for years (Basically i got rid of it because the new software that was coming out had NO optimization for PPC hardware anymore, and it ran like garbage... and i wanted the newer software...)

I enjoyed my time as an Apple guy, I really liked my G5, in fact its one of my favorite computers I ever owned, But when it came time to replace it I came back to windows and built a Vista PC.. Yes Vista brought me -back- to Windows... There were several factors, but the big one was the fact Apple just had no hardware for -me- anymore, the Mac Pro went up in price and I couldnt justify it, iMacs have integrated monitors and are not user-upgradeable (Well not EASILY, And i still cant have 2 HDDs in it) and ok I got sick of having a gaming PC and a second computer cluttering up everything...

As for the rest of their stuff, I was an iPhone user until a couple months ago, Now I have a Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ which I love to bits and has quickly become the best cell phone I've ever had (and I had every -major- revision to the iPhone)

I bought an iPhone 4s for the sake of using it overseas. Got it from Verizon and had them unlock it for me so I could use local GSM carriers. Gave up my Droid platform just for the sake of using my phone in Japan for half the year, but found out nobody sells Sim's only in Japan. Wish I kept my droid!

Any news of the new Macbook Air version release date?

rick_reno wrote in post #14813307
Big deal, faces...look at what Nikon can detect

http://www.lolntroll.c​om/nikon-face-detect-fail/

Nikon's face detection works just like mine does.

Josh_30 wrote in post #14826723
I like my MacBook Pro and iPod, but their product pricing and business practices of suing everyone is pretty ridiculous. They LOVE innovation as long as they own it... if anyone else invented it, they either buy the company or sue them and try to take credit for it. I own some Apple products, but I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means.

Then why buy their products.

Android tablets are just as good and software is user upgradable.

Why buy mac? Want osx build same spec pc for half the cost and install osx on it.

And you got a hackintosh.