Bullshit

RIM cries foul after Apple’s video evidence

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Link: RIM responds to Apple’s antenna press conference

“Apple’s attempt to draw RIM into Apple’s self-made debacle is unacceptable. Apple’s claims about RIM products appear to be deliberate attempts to distort the public’s understanding of an antenna design issue and to deflect attention from Apple’s difficult situation. RIM is a global leader in antenna design and has been successfully designing industry-leading wireless data products with efficient and effective radio performance for over 20 years. During that time, RIM has avoided designs like the one Apple used in the iPhone 4 and instead has used innovative designs which reduce the risk for dropped calls, especially in areas of lower coverage. One thing is for certain, RIM’s customers don’t need to use a case for their BlackBerry smartphone to maintain proper connectivity. Apple clearly made certain design decisions and it should take responsibility for these decisions rather than trying to draw RIM and others into a situation that relates specifically to Apple.”

Am I seeing this correctly? Is RIM actually saying that their designs are “innovative”?

Photoshop is not going to be GPU-accelerated

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Adobe Photoshop’s Project Manager John Nack addresses the crazy amount of rumors going on the net about Photoshop CS4 getting GPU acceleration in his blog post here.

Basically he states that everything you heard about the story is bull. GPU acceleration has not been promised for any version of Photoshop, much less CS4. Hell they don’t even have a release date for CS4 yet.

Sounds like the Windows people are dying for an answer to the GPU-accelerated pixelmator and acorn, but sorry guys, you unprivileged lot are not going to get something as beautiful as pixelmator in a million years, and certainly not on that 20-year-old shitload of code known as Photoshop. GPU-accelerated image editors are for the elites, like, for example, Mac users.