You could turn this into a business opportunity young sir...   for a small mark up you could get stuff for fellow forum peeps and still supply quality goods for a lower price than is available in the UK.   I could be your tech mule picking up from blind drops when I come to the US and then pass on when I get back.   Obviously I want a small cut of the action.

If only the profit was large enough to sustain that.

Well I am certain that the B&B tech trafficking plc can sort you out with the technology...  the nuptials, that is entirely your own problem.

google wrote:

Jimmy The Lips wrote:

You could turn this into a business opportunity young sir...   for a small mark up you could get stuff for fellow forum peeps and still supply quality goods for a lower price than is available in the UK.   I could be your tech mule picking up from blind drops when I come to the US and then pass on when I get back.   Obviously I want a small cut of the action.

I'm in. I will forward you cases of Molson Canadian and you can sell to the locals.

not sure how many would survive the stringent QA process that I have developed with alcoholic beverages.

Elmlea wrote:

pabloamigo wrote:

I may want an iPad on my return from nuptial holiday. srsly

Well, in all seriousness, for a small bank transfer and a little fee to cover the petrol for the trip to the tax free military place and the postage, I'll happily pick you one up.  Looking at those prices you'd easily save £50 over the UK even after greasing my palms.

cheers Elm, will resume this conversation in 4 weeks time.

This could be the way I buy my iPhone 5 you know. What's the price difference for prepaid 4Ss?

Elmlea wrote:

Even the iPad 2 is £329 in the UK, £250 in the US.

They want £200 to fix the crack on my iPad 2.  Arseholes.

adkm1979 wrote:

Elmlea wrote:

Even the iPad 2 is £329 in the UK, £250 in the US.

They want £200 to fix the crack on my iPad 2.  Arseholes.

If you want to throw some money my way, you can be the first recipient of an item from the B&B Dodgy Tech Export LLC?

Anyone know how I sync a folder with Dropbox? I.e., I don't want the folder just in Dropbox, but basically copying any changes I make on my Mac.

Elmlea wrote:

In other news, I'm off to buy an iPad.  Can someone just finally tell me if I need 64Gb or if 32Gb would be fine? 32Gb is £410 with a Smart Case, and 64Gb is £473.

If you can afford it, get the larger one.

If you feel that $100 is best spent elsewhere get the 32GB.

Easy.

In case anyone cares, jury is giving verdict on Apple vs Samsung right now: http://live.theverge.com/apple-samsung-verdict-live/

Elmlea wrote:

If you want to throw some money my way...

Thanks for the offer, but you've identified the key issue.

Petey wrote:

In case anyone cares, jury is giving verdict on Apple vs Samsung right now: http://live.theverge.com/apple-samsung-verdict-live/

Jesus. $1 bn in damages to Apple.

Only issue with the iPad so far is that half my old iPhone apps were bought when my iTunes account was a UK one; so when I log into my now-US iTunes account on the iPad, there's only the last year's worth of download history. Plugging it into the iMac and transferring directly from iTunes solved that though.

There must be some iPad-specific apps I've missed though. And is there an easy way to check if an app I'm using has an iPad version rather than the iPhone version, other than manually searching for all of them?

Everything looks absolutely glorious on it. The screen's incredible.

I'm surprised that so many of Apple's claims were upheld. The trade dress thing in particular struck me as fairly spurious. 

There's no doubt in my mind that Samsung copied a lot from the iphone but given that similar features are adopted pretty readily throughout the tech industry, it's never struck me as anything particularly bad.  It's like Nintendo suing Sony for Move - a blatant rip off but well in the realms of standard iterative development practices.