I'm surprised all the other cell phone makers haven't sued Apple, pretty much everything in their phone (including possibly software through prior art) has to be patented by companies that have been around far longer in the market.
Maybe they think the PC will infect the TV with viruses. TVs are getting "smarter" now, so the scary part is it could actually be a possibility. You never know...
One app that comes to mind is Touchdown. If you're trying to integrate to an Exchange server, nothing comes close.
There are so many things that I can do with Touchdown that plain wasn't possible on my old iPhone. That and it seemed more and more I'd visit a website that used flash on my iPhone, and not being able to see it annoyed me a lot. I also couldn't install another web browser (Safari wouldn't work with a few configuration pages for certain hardware we have) and then I started to realize the phone was utterly useless to me.
Crippled mail and web browsing/flash experience. I don't have that problem now. Just don't ask about the battery usage when browsing flash websites.;) But, at least I can...
Letting any random sites you surf to run even purportedly 'sandboxed' code on your machine is simply idiotic
It's not necessarily even random sites, it could be random people using your machine.
I just had to reinstall a new laptop because the person's boyfriend installed a bunch of malware to get a video to play. It installed a trojan and a rootkit, so a reinstall was necessary.
I don't think she's going to let him use her laptop any more...
I know this is for personal devices, but I installed nod32 agency-wide at work. It's got good central admin tools with replication, and it still runs on our P3/P4 machines (equipped with 1GB RAM) without noticeably bogging them down. Excellent product.
Samsung already has their own app store. It actually says there's free apps and games in it that aren't available in the normal android marketplace, although I don't know if that's true or not. It's simply called "Samsung Apps" on my phone (Galaxy S) and was there when I bought it.
It's plausible they thought of this back then already and will try to aggressively market it on their phones, possibly in other languages? It even has its own sign-in mechanism.
That could be interesting, I didn't really think about it that way when I got my phone.
We looked into getting fibre on our street and there would be a $15k layout cost that we would have to pay.
If you want to pay it, they'll run the line. If you're out smack in the middle of nowhere, it really doesn't justify the cost to wire up a handful of people. It's not rocket science.
Which is actually worse for the environment. CO2 is not the only thing that comes out of the tailpipe. Other emission readings out of motorcycles dwarf that of cars.
It's too bad that engine development/engineering really never made it to the bikes.
As someone who witnessed someone else try to drive a van across a creek, I call bullshit. The van got stuck 1/3 of the way across the creek. Then I saw a SUV go around it and pull the van out without getting stuck.
It's funny that you comment on grip, considering 4x4 vehicles have twice as much as a normal van.
99% of the population would not understand what you are talking about. Yes, people will wind up updating their clients to get some sort of encryption which will be traceable back to their IP.
I can tell you if I ask teenagers today most won't even know what a VPN is.
It will affect casual piracy as people are thrown in jail to make an example. Hardcore pirates will use workarounds such as VPNs. The average Joe won't and will see people being thrown in jail and stop.
The US used to have functional passenger rail between neighboring cities, but we killed it by driving cars and have since built things in support of that habit.
Say what? Is that what they're teaching in schools now? I seem to recall that certain auto makers, oil companies, and tire companies created a shell company that went around buying up all the rail, then eventually closing them, taking away consumer choice - just to make a buck.
When GM was floundering I seriously hoped they would die off, considering what they'd done.
I prefer incandescent bulbs because CFLs and LEDs have noticeable flicker.
I've never seen an LED bulb flicker. Cheap CFLs, yes, but never LED.
I've just finished changing all the lights in my house to LED. I've done this over the last two years or so (and mostly buy when the local power company offers half price on the bulbs.)
I've actually put a new LED bulb next to an incandescent in the same fixture, and the colour tempurature is the same. They've come a long way.
I personally don't like CFLs because or the mercury in them. I don't have any issues at all with the LED bulbs.
As a bonus, my power bill went down about $20 a month. In about a year all the bulbs will have paid themselves off and I can use that money I was spending on power somewhere else.
When I had my iPhone 3G I had to jailbreak my phone to get the bluetooth system to work again with my car after a bad update from Apple. It took Apple 4-5 months to fix that, when there were some thousands and thousands affected by it.
I don't see a difference between the two camps in this regard. Those that have the will shall find a way. I hadn't even thought about jailbreaking my phone until the bluetooth subsystem stopped working - I just wanted a phone that just worked, and I made a mistake buying an iPhone. There's no way Blackberry would let no bluetooth slide for almost six months!
After that experience I refused to update my phone. I needed it to stay working.
That largely depends on the country you live in. Here, after all the fees and taxes, the cheapest plan is between $75-$100 a month. The really cheap ones only allow you to post on facebook or other social networks (no email), have almost no minutes (100 minutes is easily eaten up... if you are social you will actually talk to people...) and have no features (no voicemail, caller ID and the like.) We have a supposed monthly "government fee" for each cell phone too.
I actually cancelled the cable first. I found out about 3 months later that there was HD channels OTA here. I don't know what you mean by keeping sane, TV was never really a huge part of my life to begin with, like I mentioned in my other post. There's a big world with many things to do outside that front door!
I don't really watch sports so that didn't really affect me. American football is not the popular where I am so that has no bearing on it either. Of the channels I have, there always seems to be NFL games, Gold and NHL games on the weekend over the air where I am.
Like I said, it's not for everybody. For me, it's just perfect. There are occasionally some shows that might be interesting to watch, and most of the time it's on one of the channels I already receive.
Here they do introductory pricing (new services get in some cases a 75% discount for the first six months for for tv/phone/internet the introductory rate might be $60 or so) and then it goes up to the regular $100-$150 a month. Not to mention that price for the TV package only gets you local channels. (Want sports? $15+ a month. Oh, you want some other extras, like time shifting? Another $10. Oh, you want specialty channels like Discovery or History? Another $10. Oh wait, the HD channels of the specialty channels aren't included with that subscription - another $15.) It can get out of hand very easily...
On the other hand, I put up the antenna for perhaps $350 (a one-time cost.) Yep, not having cable for 3.5 months paid that off, TV doesn't cost me a thing now.
Actually, I don't mind the antenna at all. The picture is actually better than my HD cable box (likely due to the cableco compressing the shit out of the signal.)
How are you saving $550 a year by getting rid of your land line, which charge in the $25-30 a month range?
A basic land line is around $25 a month. Caller ID (which you really need so you don't have to answer all the %*#)@ telemarketing calls) at that time was almost $10 a month. Oh, they reamed you up the ass for long distance if you didn't have some sort of plan. A city 18 km from me is considered long distance here. So my particular bill on the landline was sometimes almost $50 a month.
I already had a dumb cell phone with (at that time) a $60 a month plan. It allowed 5 numbers in which you can call unlimited at any time of the day across the whole country with no extra long distance charges. Also, on the cellular network I can call a city that's almost 50 km away with no long distance charges (it's considered a local call.)
So when work paid $50 of my $100 cell phone bill, I saw no need for the land line, it was redundant. Actual calling with the cell phone was far cheaper than the land line (on the land line the "plans" were for a fixed number of minutes, and if you went over, you paid more...) because of all the close cities here.
So it wound up that I paid $10 a month less than my old cell phone for a smart phone with a decent plan. Those savings weren't actually included in my original post, it would be more $650+ a year saved thanks to the work subsidy.
If you think cell phones are screwing you around with the bills, you should look at the bullshit with the land line long distance rules. I know now they are better rate-wise, but there's no reason a city right next to me is long distance! It boggles the mind...
I think I explained that properly. I'm getting tired now...
I make a reasonably decent wage. I do have problems with needlessly spending money on stuff that has no perceived value to me.
Several years ago I turned off my land line telephone. I had a cell phone and saw no need to pay for two telephones. (About $550 a year savings.)
About a year and a half ago I turned off all cable TV services. I put up an OTA antenna, and wouldn't you know it, the six channels (even in HD) I get are more than enough for me, as I don't watch a whole lot of broadcast TV to begin with. ($1200/year savings.)
I do have a smart phone now, but work subsidizes half the bill per month. (It's my phone, but they pay for me to use it to get email/calendaring and to keep in contact with vendors/trades/etc.) I can tell you two things: 1. Having email on my phone is convenient, I'll admit that. 2. The convenience is NOT worth $100/month! I'll just go to my computer. I can say if work wasn't subsidizing it, I wouldn't have a smart phone. If it was only a couple dollars more a month, I'd consider it. But where I am right now, smart phones are 2-3x the monthly cost of a dumb phone.
Everyone's values are different. However, the price of these current services are insane.
I can live without TV, and I could live without a phone if I had to. Internet? Probably not...
If the cost of smart phones was about the same as a land line with long distance (around $25-$30 a month) I wouldn't have a problem with it. Heck even $35 a month with a data plan. Most carriers are charging $30+ for 500MB of data! Never mind the voice part of the phone. It's just batshit crazy.
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I'm surprised all the other cell phone makers haven't sued Apple, pretty much everything in their phone (including possibly software through prior art) has to be patented by companies that have been around far longer in the market.
Maybe they think the PC will infect the TV with viruses. TVs are getting "smarter" now, so the scary part is it could actually be a possibility. You never know...
One app that comes to mind is Touchdown. If you're trying to integrate to an Exchange server, nothing comes close.
There are so many things that I can do with Touchdown that plain wasn't possible on my old iPhone. That and it seemed more and more I'd visit a website that used flash on my iPhone, and not being able to see it annoyed me a lot. I also couldn't install another web browser (Safari wouldn't work with a few configuration pages for certain hardware we have) and then I started to realize the phone was utterly useless to me.
Crippled mail and web browsing/flash experience. I don't have that problem now. Just don't ask about the battery usage when browsing flash websites. ;) But, at least I can...
It's not necessarily even random sites, it could be random people using your machine.
I just had to reinstall a new laptop because the person's boyfriend installed a bunch of malware to get a video to play. It installed a trojan and a rootkit, so a reinstall was necessary.
I don't think she's going to let him use her laptop any more...
Ugh, I meant "this thread is for personal computers. Sigh.
I know this is for personal devices, but I installed nod32 agency-wide at work. It's got good central admin tools with replication, and it still runs on our P3/P4 machines (equipped with 1GB RAM) without noticeably bogging them down. Excellent product.
Samsung already has their own app store. It actually says there's free apps and games in it that aren't available in the normal android marketplace, although I don't know if that's true or not. It's simply called "Samsung Apps" on my phone (Galaxy S) and was there when I bought it.
It's plausible they thought of this back then already and will try to aggressively market it on their phones, possibly in other languages? It even has its own sign-in mechanism.
That could be interesting, I didn't really think about it that way when I got my phone.
Why was this modded down? It's true.
We looked into getting fibre on our street and there would be a $15k layout cost that we would have to pay.
If you want to pay it, they'll run the line. If you're out smack in the middle of nowhere, it really doesn't justify the cost to wire up a handful of people. It's not rocket science.
Which is actually worse for the environment. CO2 is not the only thing that comes out of the tailpipe. Other emission readings out of motorcycles dwarf that of cars.
It's too bad that engine development/engineering really never made it to the bikes.
As someone who witnessed someone else try to drive a van across a creek, I call bullshit. The van got stuck 1/3 of the way across the creek. Then I saw a SUV go around it and pull the van out without getting stuck.
It's funny that you comment on grip, considering 4x4 vehicles have twice as much as a normal van.
Either that or Apple is mad that they didn't capitalize on the fanboy frenzy first...
They should be concerned... or rather they will be crying foul when they get sent to jail. Amazing how people just don't see this stuff coming.
99% of the population would not understand what you are talking about. Yes, people will wind up updating their clients to get some sort of encryption which will be traceable back to their IP.
I can tell you if I ask teenagers today most won't even know what a VPN is.
It will affect casual piracy as people are thrown in jail to make an example. Hardcore pirates will use workarounds such as VPNs. The average Joe won't and will see people being thrown in jail and stop.
That's all they want.
I don't think it was an OS attack vector, but a web browser attack vector. Not quite the same thing.
Safari was hacked in five seconds.
Say what? Is that what they're teaching in schools now? I seem to recall that certain auto makers, oil companies, and tire companies created a shell company that went around buying up all the rail, then eventually closing them, taking away consumer choice - just to make a buck.
When GM was floundering I seriously hoped they would die off, considering what they'd done.
I've never seen an LED bulb flicker. Cheap CFLs, yes, but never LED.
I've just finished changing all the lights in my house to LED. I've done this over the last two years or so (and mostly buy when the local power company offers half price on the bulbs.)
I've actually put a new LED bulb next to an incandescent in the same fixture, and the colour tempurature is the same. They've come a long way.
I personally don't like CFLs because or the mercury in them. I don't have any issues at all with the LED bulbs.
As a bonus, my power bill went down about $20 a month. In about a year all the bulbs will have paid themselves off and I can use that money I was spending on power somewhere else.
When I had my iPhone 3G I had to jailbreak my phone to get the bluetooth system to work again with my car after a bad update from Apple. It took Apple 4-5 months to fix that, when there were some thousands and thousands affected by it.
I don't see a difference between the two camps in this regard. Those that have the will shall find a way. I hadn't even thought about jailbreaking my phone until the bluetooth subsystem stopped working - I just wanted a phone that just worked, and I made a mistake buying an iPhone. There's no way Blackberry would let no bluetooth slide for almost six months!
After that experience I refused to update my phone. I needed it to stay working.
Yeah, but I was responding to a post saying "get a better job."
For me, a smartphone is convenient but not at the current prices. I can easily afford it, but I'd rather not pay what they're asking... it's too high.
That largely depends on the country you live in. Here, after all the fees and taxes, the cheapest plan is between $75-$100 a month. The really cheap ones only allow you to post on facebook or other social networks (no email), have almost no minutes (100 minutes is easily eaten up... if you are social you will actually talk to people...) and have no features (no voicemail, caller ID and the like.) We have a supposed monthly "government fee" for each cell phone too.
I actually cancelled the cable first. I found out about 3 months later that there was HD channels OTA here. I don't know what you mean by keeping sane, TV was never really a huge part of my life to begin with, like I mentioned in my other post. There's a big world with many things to do outside that front door!
I don't really watch sports so that didn't really affect me. American football is not the popular where I am so that has no bearing on it either. Of the channels I have, there always seems to be NFL games, Gold and NHL games on the weekend over the air where I am.
Like I said, it's not for everybody. For me, it's just perfect. There are occasionally some shows that might be interesting to watch, and most of the time it's on one of the channels I already receive.
Nope, they don't do that here.
Here they do introductory pricing (new services get in some cases a 75% discount for the first six months for for tv/phone/internet the introductory rate might be $60 or so) and then it goes up to the regular $100-$150 a month. Not to mention that price for the TV package only gets you local channels. (Want sports? $15+ a month. Oh, you want some other extras, like time shifting? Another $10. Oh, you want specialty channels like Discovery or History? Another $10. Oh wait, the HD channels of the specialty channels aren't included with that subscription - another $15.) It can get out of hand very easily...
On the other hand, I put up the antenna for perhaps $350 (a one-time cost.) Yep, not having cable for 3.5 months paid that off, TV doesn't cost me a thing now.
Actually, I don't mind the antenna at all. The picture is actually better than my HD cable box (likely due to the cableco compressing the shit out of the signal.)
A basic land line is around $25 a month. Caller ID (which you really need so you don't have to answer all the %*#)@ telemarketing calls) at that time was almost $10 a month. Oh, they reamed you up the ass for long distance if you didn't have some sort of plan. A city 18 km from me is considered long distance here. So my particular bill on the landline was sometimes almost $50 a month.
I already had a dumb cell phone with (at that time) a $60 a month plan. It allowed 5 numbers in which you can call unlimited at any time of the day across the whole country with no extra long distance charges. Also, on the cellular network I can call a city that's almost 50 km away with no long distance charges (it's considered a local call.)
So when work paid $50 of my $100 cell phone bill, I saw no need for the land line, it was redundant. Actual calling with the cell phone was far cheaper than the land line (on the land line the "plans" were for a fixed number of minutes, and if you went over, you paid more...) because of all the close cities here.
So it wound up that I paid $10 a month less than my old cell phone for a smart phone with a decent plan. Those savings weren't actually included in my original post, it would be more $650+ a year saved thanks to the work subsidy.
If you think cell phones are screwing you around with the bills, you should look at the bullshit with the land line long distance rules. I know now they are better rate-wise, but there's no reason a city right next to me is long distance! It boggles the mind...
I think I explained that properly. I'm getting tired now...
Who says this has anything to do with employment?
I make a reasonably decent wage. I do have problems with needlessly spending money on stuff that has no perceived value to me.
Several years ago I turned off my land line telephone. I had a cell phone and saw no need to pay for two telephones. (About $550 a year savings.)
About a year and a half ago I turned off all cable TV services. I put up an OTA antenna, and wouldn't you know it, the six channels (even in HD) I get are more than enough for me, as I don't watch a whole lot of broadcast TV to begin with. ($1200/year savings.)
I do have a smart phone now, but work subsidizes half the bill per month. (It's my phone, but they pay for me to use it to get email/calendaring and to keep in contact with vendors/trades/etc.) I can tell you two things: 1. Having email on my phone is convenient, I'll admit that. 2. The convenience is NOT worth $100/month! I'll just go to my computer. I can say if work wasn't subsidizing it, I wouldn't have a smart phone. If it was only a couple dollars more a month, I'd consider it. But where I am right now, smart phones are 2-3x the monthly cost of a dumb phone.
Everyone's values are different. However, the price of these current services are insane.
TV/Phone/Internet: $150+/month: $1800+/year.
Cell Phone: $100+/month (with taxes etc...): $1200+/year.
I can live without TV, and I could live without a phone if I had to. Internet? Probably not...
If the cost of smart phones was about the same as a land line with long distance (around $25-$30 a month) I wouldn't have a problem with it. Heck even $35 a month with a data plan. Most carriers are charging $30+ for 500MB of data! Never mind the voice part of the phone. It's just batshit crazy.
"This content is unavailable from your location."
And they wonder why people download shit? Sheesh.
You still need chains to go through mountain passes here. You'd be crazy not to.
Highways do keep plows running around the clock, but if you get heavy snowfall the accumulation would be too much for your tires to deal with.
(Got caught going to a ski hill a long time ago... glad I had chains to put on my snow tires, everyone else slid off the road...)