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I Can't Deal With The 950XL Anymore...

Glance screen issues

why is my phone freezing up after a phone call (side note: Wow, I saw that one on Windows 6 mobile. They still haven't fixed it?)

Things I don't like about Windows 10

Don't understand why Windows phones aren't more popular

...so there appear to be a substantial number of forum users, for some values of "substantial", but I'm not sure they all count as "fans". With a market penetration in the low single digits (2.1 percent was the last number I remember seeing) and developers deserting the platform, true fans might have a tough time going forward.

Mind you, as a former Crackberry user, I completely understand being a desperate fan of a dying platform. Had my company been able to keep BES up reliably, I might still be using one.

Only LUDDITES think it's hard to make programs. Modern app appers know that apps are really easy to app, like BetaNews' Windows App of the App, "Hear it First", which is the same thing as the LUDDITE Speech control panel's test function, but now with APPS!

Apps!

It's in the summary title

LULWut? You DO know that Macs have more vulnerabilities than Windows right? And that your parents would have to live in someplace like NYC or LA for the cost of a decent MB to be cheaper than a half dozen or more service calls, yes? Hell the most expensive shops that I know of only charge $40 an hour for service calls and unless they are incompetent most jobs can be handled in under an hour...your parents would have to be calling a couple times a week for 6 months just for you to break even! Finally I have yet to meet this "mythical person" that only uses a browser, if that was your parents? Get them a tablet or put them on Ubuntu, but more likely they have multiple Windows programs they use, hell that is what they got the PC to run in the first place!

So sorry Macs are NOT the answer to elderly parents, it will cost more, create more problems than it solves, the only one that will benefit from that move is Apple shareholders.

http://betanews.com/2015/10/15...

Riiight, I'll just leave this here then.

The comments on that betanews page shitted all over the notion that Microsoft is a more secure OS. Linux is absolutely more secure than Windows, by design.

Also this.
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8148697&cid=50696741

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.

So the result of Microsoft "not being split in two" by the US... was what?
this--> http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8148697&cid=50696741

If the gypsies and Jews of Earth got together and coded an operating system... it would look EXACTLY like Microsoft Windows today.

Riiight, I'll just leave this here then.

According to BetaNews user rjparker1, it's your own damn fault for being pwned by a faulty Windows 7 update. You should stop being a LUDDITE and always use Microsoft's latest and greatest!

Riiiight, I'll just leave these here then.

Single digit percentages is fine. I would love to be there while making more revenue than all other laptops combined.

http://betanews.com/2015/08/12...

Does everybody see NOW why ACs are worthless? they are apparently too fucking stupid to read headlines and certainly are too retarded to actually use a search engine because if they could do more than pick their own noses they would have seen that you can't turn off Windows 10 spying as the "privacy settings" are the equivalent of the button on a street light, something designed to make the user think he has control when its just bullshit.

You got it half right, the problem on Linux is drivers or more precisely a driver stack that hasn't evolved since the days of Win9x. You can sit down and with basic math show that "let the devs handle it" just doesn't scale, even if you had ten times the amount of driver devs than Linux actually has they still wouldn't have enough hours in the day to fix all that gets pissed on when Torvalds and friends change a pointer.

I have taken XP drivers and ran them in Windows 7, taken XP X64 drivers and run them in 8.1 64bit, and until Linus fixes his mess of a driver stack so an OEM won't have to remake every driver when a new kernel comes out? Things are never gonna get any better which is why despite Windows 10 being nothing but spyware pretending to be an OS Linux will not gain even a single percentage point, not one.

The really sad part IMHO? I gave you a perfect test to rub in the dev's noses like rubbing a doggy nose in its poo, they say their driver model works? Show them the results of the Hairyfeet challenge and call 'em out on their bullshit. Instead I get called dirty names for actually expecting an OS to be able to update itself without destroying itself (gasp! shock!) and have FOSSies rush to defend them with classic memes like "its free you can't complain" or the ever hilarious "you should fix it" which is like saying you have a new car that can take on the new Mustang and when somebody asks to see it you hand 'em a pile of raw ore and say "here ya go, make it for me" LOL.

So take the challenge yourself, pick any of those "consumer friendly" distros and knock yourself out, then you will see why Linux doesn't gain any share and why I predict Valve will abandon SteamOS within 5 years, its because you can't build a strong house on a rotten foundation and the Linux driver model is rotten to the core.

Stick with Win 7 until the pirate version comes out. Its the same thing we saw with games overflowing with DRM, the pirates end up releasing a better version with all that shit stripped out.

Just as we had "WinXP Micro" and "Win 7 Tiny" there will be a "Gamer Edition" or "Tiny edition" released by the hackers that will have all that shit ripped out so its just an OS that can play games. You of course won't be able to use the updates because they require all that phone home bullshit, but a good AV and a sandboxed browser fixes that problem pretty well.

But the only way we can get rid of Win 10 is if we all shit all over it just as we did with windows 8 and 8.1. If all the regular users hear is how much of a POS it is? They will stay away. If we tell them they are broadcasting their porn habits to a company that is gonna share it with anybody that offers them a buck? they will treat the "free" upgrade like plague blankets. We already have a HUGE head start as all I've been hearing is how "slow and jerky" Windows 10 is thanks to MSFT's bineheaded P2Ping Windows Updates, so if we all spread the word, get the bloggers writing about it (which we are seeing already) that Windows 10 is no different than the spyware that comes with some "free" program? Then we CAN change the narrative.

But until we get Win 10 thrown in the same shit bucket as 8 and 8.1 just avoid it and wait for a pirate version if there is some DX12 game you want to play.

Why would anyone support Firefox. They betrayed there user by folding to governments push for DRM implementation. http://betanews.com/2014/05/14... and this is Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en... So do you think that they would not do same with the stick or the tablet OS. If you want a stick PC you are better of with Intel compute stick with Linux or Windows. At least this is a complete OS just ad Kodi or Plex and you have your HTPC, just configure it and you done. Or just buy a mini PC from China Intel base, they all cost a bought the same From $129.00 to $179.00! Most of those Mini PC come with android but there some have windows 8.1 & Android 4.2 – 5.01 some even have a display. Intel compute stick start at $149.00 and windows is $179.00 your choice. At least you know what you are getting, and you will have the options of the software.

Microsoft even admits that Windows 10 is a marketing platform

From the article in summery http://betanews.com/2015/07/31...

"If you're a Windows Insider who has been working with the various review builds for some months, this may well not be news"

I created an Insiders account, my hotmail address wasn't accessible so created a new one, which once in references the hotmail account and my real name (I'm a handle person).

I read the ToS which you agree to allow microsoft access to your system, it's microphone, web cam, whatever's connected to it at anytime. I went as far as downloading Win10 in January, but just couldn't agree to the ToS so never installed it and not sure where the file is now (just that it's not where it's suppose to be).
Just the fact I always place electrical tape over a webcam as I never use them, I'd of been violating the ToS (whatever that would mean).

After reading the article, it would be to ones benefit to know the .cpl files for the security options, if you run Win10 you can just call the .cpl files instead of digging around; I'd be looking for those.

The article also answered my question of installing Win10 or not, so just a matter of what the gaming industry does. I prefer playing on a PC but will go to the PS4 if need be.

... post seems to be missing a link to the article, so here it is: http://betanews.com/2015/07/25...

We should know one way or another within the next 18 months as the CEO recently revealed we are giving Windows 10 away because of Windows Phone, specifically to build a huge install base to get devs developing universal binaries which work on both desktop and phone.

Now do I personally think this will work? Bwa ha ha...fuck no, not a chance in hell and here is why....Windows App Store sucks monkey nuts, too much nickel and dime garbage apps and outright fakes and stolen apps (look up something like VLC and look at how many fakers with the VLC icon show up), even if they fix that? Windows users have made it clear that a phone appstore on the desktop is a DO NOT WANT and they are quite happy getting their programs they way they do now, from the Internet at large. Windows users are set in their ways, we are happy with the way things worked before and tend to get pissy if you try to change our workflow (for obvious reasons, you are fucking up our workflow with crap we don't want, go away) so I have a feeling programs like classic shell are gonna fucking blow up as people take one look at the mish mash between Win 7 and Win 8 and go "Uhhh can I make it just act like Win 7, please?".

And finally...the big rotting elephant in the room, a lesson the CEO seems not to have grasped from the Windows 8 debacle.....yeah Nadella? This is your customer here, been using MSFT since fucking DOS so let me clue you in on a little secret okay? Now listen close, this is important....you see desktops and laptops? They are big screened devices that you hold VERTICALLY and which have keyboards and mice as input devices, compare this to phones and tablets which you hold HORIZONTALLY and the input device is your finger....see the problem now? A GUI that works well in one form factor? Gonna be a big pile of ass and fail in the other, and nobody is gonna give a shit if your "universal app" runs on both their phone and their desktop if the UI is broken on one of the two or they have to constantly shift between two GUIs!

As much as I hate Apple they DO get this, which is why you have OSX and iOS and you don't see them pushing iOS on the desktop, same with Google and Android/ChromeOS. So just look at your competitors and realize what you are gonna try? Ain't gonna work. you tried putting cellphone UIs on the desktop, now you are gonna try bringing the desktop to the phone...yeah, no, its gonna suck. Hire some killer app devs to make exclusives for your phone if you wanna push it, but universal binaries? Just not gonna work.

Escalate like this?
http://betanews.com/wp-content...

If Reddit allows that, next thing you know it may escalate up to the Dyson gangstas siphoning the dirt out of our cars for their pics:

http://dbagging.com/wp-content...

Then where would America be!

It's possible that "venting" dangerous desires in a controlled setting prevents people from acting on them, but it seems equally possible that it could lead to the escalation of those desires through exposure to new fantasies and the support of like-minded people.

Escalate like this?

http://betanews.com/wp-content...

In Windows, use the Java Control Panel and select the "Advanced" tab.

At the very bottom of the list, completely out-of-sight unless you scroll aaaaaaal the way down, in a category called "Beware of the Leopard"... no, sorry, I meant "Miscellaneous"... there's a checkbox labeled "Suppress sponsor offers when installing or updating Java".

Of course, by default it's not checked. Because money.

But check it and apply or "OK" the settings change. In the current implementation, this prevents bundling the Ask.com malware with Java upgrades -- it's a pre-opt-out, and you never have to think of it again. (At least, until Oracle decides the option should auto-magically unset itself when the user's not looking. Because money.)

Assuming this option continues to exist in future Oracle Java versions and is honored for the Yahoo tie-in, this would alleviate the pre-opt-in crapware issue. Big assumptions, of course, because Oracle.

(Or alternately, don't install Java if you don't actually need it. Or install OpenJava rather than Oracle's.)

Where can I peek at this NSA own transparency report,

I should I red TFA to get the link: http://betanews.com/2014/06/28/nsa-under-the-microscope-agency-releases-transparency-report/

I see no mention of that in the article.

Here we go...
Yahoo kills Pipes, Maps, and some TV and Music services in prioritization drive

as well as Yahoo Music and Yahoo TV in some regions.

From the referred article: "The pilot came on and said that his first mate’s iPad powered down unexpectedly, and his had too, and that the entire 737 fleet on American had experienced the same behavior". This sounds awfully familiar to the latest IOS vulnerability published just a week ago - http://betanews.com/2015/04/22...

Sigh...Linux has more vulnerabilities than Windows by 3 to 1 in 2014, Windows beats iOS, OSX, and Linux in least number of vulnerabilities in 2014, and how to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps targeting the same weakness that more than 90% of malware target, the user...HAND.

Seems to be working just fine in the PC market, but of course there you have programs like Punkbuster and Steam that are pretty quick at shutting down the cheaters.

The problem is that mobile OSes are a good 10-15 years behind desktops which is why iOS had more vulnerabilities than Linux and Windows, the mobile OSes are really still in their infancy and just haven't caught up yet and with so many trying to hack them (for good and ill) its gonna take awhile to catch up. I'm sure eventually you'll have something like Punkbuster or some other anti-gamehack program for phones but until then all you can really do is look at the player as a potential bad guy.

Gentoo Linux had more bugs than IE in 2014, 350 to 289 so not even close.

You're comparing an operating system distro to a browser. You do realize that don't you? For a better comparison try Firefox vs IE: 171 vs 289.

In fact as of March this year both Apple and Linux have more bugs than Windows, again by pretty large amounts. For those wanting the figures and don't want to read TFL? OSX is the worst at 147 followed by iOS at 127, Linux at 119, and Windows, which the Linux faithful are always screaming is "full of bugs"? A grand total of...38.

RHEL from 2002 to Q1: 2015: 286, Ubuntu latest LTS: 66, Debian: 214. Compare those to Windows 2008 from 2007-2015: 524, or Windows 2012 from 2012 to Q1 2015: 133, and of course Windows 8.1: 82

The other major change is that security sites are starting to actually TEST Linux (instead of just buying the "many eyes" myth which is the classic "is ought" fallacy because it assumes because the code IS out there somebody with the years of experience in low level coding and ability to spot weak spots OUGHT to have audited it) and in several spots its been wanting, with GHOST being the latest nasty to come down the pipe. In fact if you are wondering how bad Linux is getting hammered by nasties? Gentoo Linux had more bugs than IE in 2014, 350 to 289 so not even close. In fact as of March this year both Apple and Linux have more bugs than Windows, again by pretty large amounts. For those wanting the figures and don't want to read TFL? OSX is the worst at 147 followed by iOS at 127, Linux at 119, and Windows, which the Linux faithful are always screaming is "full of bugs"? A grand total of...38.

Linux users SHOULD rejoice at this, as I've been saying for years that Linux has been skating by on security by obscurity and these numbers should make the devs finally take notice...of course these figures are before the huge uptake in systemd and since that is being controlled by Lennart "ship it anyway" Pottering? I'm betting Linux has their very own Code Red or Netsky before the year is out. It should be an interesting 2015 for Linux regardless as what the figures show is the malware writers have gone after Linux full bore, so seeing how many more Shellshocks and Heartbleeds we end up with should be enlightening.

For me personally I'll be curious to see if the next huge critical vulnerability in Linux comes from without...or within. As we've learned from Snowden the TLAs are gobbling up as much data as they can, and which OS is all the "secure" LiveCDs based on? Linux. And who is one of the biggest contributors to critical areas of Linux? Red Hat...well where does Red Hat get their money from? More than 86% of their money comes from the US government TLAs like NSA, FBI, CIA, etc. So if YOU were working at one of these agencies where would YOU go to get a backdoor or at least have a cowboy coder assigned (cough Pottering cough) to a critical subsystem so your black hats can get in? I know where I would go, I'd go to RH. After all, you think they are gonna bite the hand that feeds?

You have to read the next link and follow the trail. Yes, they do. In fact there was a report on a few news stations a short time back where Facebook was showing off it's capabilities to do so Internationally and openly admitted to having people dedicated to the task of monitoring posts and reporting people to Government agencies. The focus of that news report was on bullying, so there is no limitation of just "suicide" risks.

So you are bragging you are running Linux which has more vulnerabilities than Windows while being "forced" to run Windows for games?

Actually, your link shows that the number of high severity vulnerabilities is about the same for Linux and Windows, and it is higher for Apple operating systems. Also, it looks odd that none of the Windows versions have any reported low severity vulnerabilities at all (compared to the more natural looking bell shaped distribution of severity for Linux), which suggests that either Microsoft programmers have a strange tendency to only have serious bugs in their code, or that the vulnerabilities are under-reported and the less severe ones are simply not disclosed.

So you are bragging you are running Linux which has more vulnerabilities than Windows while being "forced" to run Windows for games? Aww poor baby!

Shellshock, Heartbleed, the assraping of Linux is just starting and its gonna get a HELL of a lot worse. While MSFT has had a big ass bullseye painted on them for years to drive them to increase their defenses Linux has been coasting on security by obscurity, well those days are over friend. Android is getting pounded by nasties and Linux is just getting beaten up as you can see and another Shellshock on the way there are even calls for a security audit in light of the constant pounding its gotten.

Frankly the FOSSie faction should be getting scared right about now, MSFT has been hardening their OS and getting their lessons in a war with the malware writers, now you have Low Rights Mode, ASLR and DEP, Secure Boot, Windows isn't the easy target anymore....Linux is. Between the coasting on security by obscurity, an OS made up of teeny tiny fiefdoms that don't collaborate or care, and oh yeah...a new spreading mess known as Systemd spreading tendrils in more and more critical systems while being run by a guy that blogs such "wisdom" as "can't get systemd running on ARM, shipping it anyway" the low hanging fruit? Its Linux and Android.

So get ready for it, because it looks like in less than 24 months you'll be posting "I HAVE to run Linux on one system for a program I need, the rest are running Windows". And when that day comes? You can thank Torvalds and all the other arrogant old guys that can't see beyond their own little gardens that have let Linux become a weak walled buggy mess.

I probably know more about computers than you. That doesn't make my arguments any more or less valid. What DOES make them valid is empirical evidence. As for information security linux is now less secure than windows

It's not a question of "coping with maintaining a linux box" - it's that nowadays, I'm not going to be bothered if I'm not getting paid to do it. There's just too much busywork.

After switching from Windows 9x to linux, I got used to the problems. However, after dumping linux and buying a Windows laptop last spring, I've been pleasantly surprised. Everything about the OS just works. And works. And works.

What doesn't work properly are Firefox and Chrome. Got FF to work properly again, but Chrome is dead. Oh well, don't need it, and now that IE supports adblock+, who cares? I now only use FF because of habit.

Before switching, I tried Adriane (Knoppix for the visually disabled). A total piece of crap that is only "friendly" if you're a masochist and like stuff most of which doesn't even work, and those parts that actually work are depressingly bad.

Sure, use linux (or freebsd) in the back - it's what I did - but after a couple of decades of doing it "the linux way" on the desktop, I'm not interested - it's crap in comparison, and probably always will be, since most of the corporate funding is devoted to back-end operations, and none of the "user-friendly" distros has enough market or a viable way of generating the money to really improve the product consistently over the long haul.

"Reports that uTorrent silently installs Bitcoin crapware are... crap" http://betanews.com/2015/03/06... Tim S.

I'm not sure "betanews" is the most credible source out there, but there's indeed a update on TF's news that suggest the news might actually be false after all.

"Reports that uTorrent silently installs Bitcoin crapware are... crap" http://betanews.com/2015/03/06... Tim S.

BetaNews article says: McAfee LiveSafe security suite

Also, the AMD buyout gave ATI access to better process technology. Without that, ATI might have gotten stompted by NVidia and we would have a graphics monoculture on desktops right now. Yuck. For the same reason I am glad that AMD never stomped NVidia, though it came close.

I'm not sure why they force people to post on a forum to provide feedback - include a feature right in the preview OS that lets you submit feedback (simple, like how Firefox does it).

Err, that's precisely what they do. There's a feedback button readily available in the Start Menu.

LinkedIn to face lawsuit for spamming users' email address books

A judge in the Northern District of California has paved the way for a lawsuit against the social network LinkedIn for violating the privacy of its users. The complaint was that LinkedIn "violated several state and federal laws by harvesting email addresses from the contact lists of email accounts associated with Plaintiffs’ LinkedIn accounts and by sending repeated invitations to join LinkedIn to the harvested email addresses". It relates to the fact that LinkedIn not only used the address books of those signing up for accounts to tout for business by sending out an email to that effect, but also sent follow-up email if there was no response.

US district judge Lucy Koh ruled that while users granted permission for LinkedIn to access their contact list it is this 'spamming' that is likely to land the company in court again. The judge outlined the process users were complaining about, explaining that LinkedIn sent an email to connected in users' address books -- albeit with initial permission -- sends the same email a week later if the recipient has not joined LinkedIn, and a third email if another week passes without a signup.

Further complaints stemmed from the fact that "the only way a LinkedIn user can stop the two follow-up endorsement emails (assuming the user found out about the initial emails in the first place) from going out to the email addresses harvested from that user’s external email account is for the user to individually open up each invitation from within his or her LinkedIn account (which LinkedIn has intentionally made difficult to find within the user’s account) and click a button that allows the user to withdraw that single invitation". This means it could take several hours to individually cancel hundreds, or even thousands, of emails that were scheduled to be sent out.

The complainants pointed out that LinkedIn's Help Center pages are filled with complaints from other users about the emails. Some users said that "LinkedIn knew about flaws in its process but nevertheless took no action". One of the plaintiff's main causes for concern is that their contacts would regard the emails sent out by LinkedIn as being indicative that they endorsed LinkedIn, as well as being seen as being so enamored with the network as to spam on its behalf. This 'spamming' is seen as having the potential to damage the reputation of the user the emails were sent on the behalf of -- it could "injure users' reputations by allowing contacts to think that the users are the types of people who spam their contacts or are unable to take the hint that their contacts do not want to join their LinkedIn network".

The judge also pointed out that some of the wording used during the signup process was misleading. "By stating a mere three screens before the disclosure regarding the first invitation that 'We will not... email anyone without your permission,' LinkedIn may have actively led users astray". Koh also suggests that LinkedIn has violated California law by associating users' names and images advertising for further business.

I sure as heck wouldn't want anyone to think I was willing to spam for linkedin, which still resembles a bunch of strangers asking other strangers to recommend them to still other strangers.

To give some context into user's response to Microsoft's products, Windows 8 market share just decreased. Comparative figures showed that Windows XP share went up. That's right, the just discontinued OS is doing better then they current system.

I can't help but point that this is one of a painful series of mistakes that all happen when Ballmer was in charge. The question for the future of Microsoft is whether he was in command so long that they will never recover.

This is something I noticed with a lot of Windows Phone users. They bought into the platform thinking it was new and neat, and the WP supporter crowd (yes, it exists) were cheering themselves on last year claiming that they were the fastest growing platform. But from what I saw, after owning it for one generation most of these guys switched back to Android. And as it turns out, Windows Phone is no longer the "fastest growing" and is in fact stagnating.

http://betanews.com/2014/02/24...

This may very well be the case of iPhone in China, given that it only recently started officially selling there.

The Windows 8 start screen is way better than the start menu from previous iterations. The "type to launch" behavior is effectively the same as the start menu (actually faster and more robust) but the added screen real estate makes it easier to find programs if you need to actually look through the list for something.

Safe to assume that you don't know how to use Windows, much less Windows 8, if you're still carrying on with that idiotic position.

Nice shill, but no, it's not. If I want a Mickey Mouse interface I'll go to the Disney website, thanks.

The only thing that's saving Windows 8 is the availability of third party software that fixes the damn interface. Just because I have a 24" monitor doesn't mean I want to use all of it to select and open a single program...and even then, I'd still have to side-scroll to get to ones I don't use often. And 'type to launch' is a better approach, seriously? The only reason it might be considered as such is because nobody can find what they're looking for any other way...so it's a pre-emptive fix for a problem that they knew they'd have.

On a side note, I would be very curious to see the total Windows 8 installed base compared to the installed base for all of the Start Menu add-on programs. As it stands, this comparison of adoption rates between Windows 7 and Windows 8 is more than a little enlightening. And this is in an era where everyone has to have the latest 'shiny'...apparently you just can't shine up Windows 8 enough to make up for the Start screen, but you know how hard it is to polish a turd...which is a shame, because under the hood, Windows 8 has quite a lot going for it. Now if only I could find the hood-release lever :)

Can we stop using these ridiculous buzz words/phrases?

Internet of things? Really?

How else would you describe items that makes themself profitable by Facebook, Gooogle and the like? Would you call them people?

When people act like things, and becomes the very products sold by Big Corporations, I think the prase is accurate.

Oh.. I just realized that this tread is about the internet of crap!

10% of the market?

I concur. Last quarter MS said Surface sales doubled, but they haven't given any solid numbers and last quarter they had a $0.9 billion write-off in order to dump their old inventory. One estimate suggests that sales can't be more than 1 million at best, more likely something like 850k. Now, compare that to Apple's 14.1 million units over the same quarter and that Apple is something like 30% of the tablet market, you realize that any projections of MS Surface capturing any substantial part of the market are just silly.

On the bright side, I did just see my first Surface being used in the wild recently. Granted, we didn't actually use it for anything, but I finally did meet someone who bought one. Maybe MS can do what they did with Xbox and just continue dumping money into it until they out-subidize their competitors (a.k.a. stereotypical monopolist behavior).

Holy how, your trying to claim that Apple has a "level of integrity" and want them to "remain honest" in selling the iPhone? Are you on crack, willfully ignorant, a simple idiotic fanboy, or a paid shill?

http://betanews.com/2008/11/26/apple-claiming-iphone-3g-is-really-fast-deemed-false-by-uk-regulators/

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-iphone-3g,news-2422.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-iphone-4-retina-display-claims-are-false-marketing-2010-6

http://forum.sdx-developers.com/index.php?topic=19901.0;wap

http://gawker.com/5042380/misleading-iphone-ad-banned-in-the-uk

"Secure" meaning . . . . . . the backdoor for the NSA is really well protected.

So the Microsoft has finally got all their systems working properly with the government requested backdoors and decryption methodologies.

"... SAFE from EXTERNAL hackers..." So it's only the ones already in the box that we have to worry about.

Hey, HEY, HEY ... Look, Ballmer's almost gone -- give M$ a break already. It's all set up so that the week after the new guy starts, the NSA will be using Azure SharePoint

(It's a shame that he wasn't the one being punched, though.)

I was gonna call the guy who wrote this a complete moron, except for this...

http://forums.androidcentral.com/tablet-apps/239022-amazon-prime-video-app.html

http://betanews.com/2013/04/22/why-is-there-no-android-app-for-amazon-instant-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed+-+bn+-+Betanews+Full+Content+Feed+-+BN

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000645111

We're missing something here namely something like this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.mediaclient&hl=en

Yep, there doesn't appear to be an Android app for amazon prime. So either Amazon is telling android users to f off, or they're unaware of the issue they'd cause with DRM.

Annoyed yet? It's available for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-instant-video/id545519333?mt=8

They'll probably do what the MPAA did to retiree Fred Lawrence when he was sued over $600,000 for 4 movies his grandkid downloaded that the kid already owned! First knock the fine down to the point where it only bankrupts her (not several times over, only fair ya' know.) Then make her into RIAA's "community service" slave warning others not to do what she did.

The recognition issue could be remedied by partnering with a big name or manufacturer. Nobody's heard of Tizen, either, but say 'Samsung' and and they'll say, 'Oh, right'.

HTC has been struggling with identity issues. They used to lead smartphone manufacturing, now they're becoming just another 'me too' in the increasingly saturated Android/WinMo/iPhone landscape. Hell, they make a Windows phone that's a design ripoff of the N9:

http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=3902

And here's a reason why a company like HTC might want to back someone other than Android:

"Microsoft is demanding that Samsung pay it $15 in royalties for every Android phone it sells, Korea's Maeil Business Newspaper reported on Wednesday. While Samsung is attempting to negotiate the royalty fee lower, it does indicate that Microsoft plans to become more aggressive in pursuing Android manufacturers over use of technologies within Android that it says it has rights to.

The Redmond company is already receiving $5 for every HTC phone sold with the Android operating system, and that has made the company some $150 million, according to reports. With Microsoft asking three times that from Samsung, the potential is there for the company to make much more from this licensing deal."

http://betanews.com/2011/07/06/microsoft-wants-15-for-every-samsung-android-device-sold/

Keep in mind that the article is 2 years old, and HTC's payout to Microsoft is certainly several times $150 million by now.

Now, add the fact that Sailfish can run any Android application out there, but does not have an equivalent to the Play Store yet. HTC could create their own app store and offer both native and Android apps, and actually see a cut of profits added to their device sales instead of money subtracted for licensing fees.

I want to get HTC and Sailfish in a room together and tell them to kiss. And make me a device.

It is running 64-bit windows. http://betanews.com/2013/01/16/microsoft-surface-pro-arriving-very-soon-time-to-get-excited/

Metro can already be run in a window.

How are end users supposed to discover that something like RetroUI Pro exists? And why should users have to pay extra rather than have it built into the operating system? Perhaps the fact that Window 8 users don't know what a Window 8 user can already do is telling about the usability of Window 8.