If the comlaint is that this complicated screw is preventing users from servicing their own phones, then I suggest the following:
Anyone smart enough to mess around with the internal electronic components of a cell phone better damned well be smart enough to know how to acquire and operate a $3.00 screwdriver.
Or back in the real world, only the most seriously nerdy electronics hobbyists will ever open their cell phone and this is a complete non-issue.
You are simply rehashing well-rehearsed talking points, and I'm dubious your post is genuine.
"Finder has driven you up a wall"? Seriously? When you sit down to fix a Mac, what does Finder have to do with anything?
UI problems in iTunes is easy to say, but I prefer examples.
Gmail was easier to setup than my old.mac account. Until there are widespread accounts of users experiencing Gmail sync issues, it's not really a problem.
That is not to say I think Apple is "perfect", but their emphasis on "superior user experience" is they type of alternative that I prefer. Yes, I have lost info syncing with iTunes, but mostly because my iTunes is a mish-mash of 5 users stuff (obtained legally or not) with 4 phones in the house. It's easy to dismiss warnings about overwriting libraries and the such.
It is indeed unusual for average users to ever have a need to open their phone for "cleaning or repair" (iPhone or otherwise). Similarly, I've never had a need to open my:
toaster, microwave, range hood, speaker cabinets, my non-iPhone phones, or any other number of consumer devices around my house.
Err, I'm sure I didn't miss the point, since I've lived in England and Germany for much of my adult life (with a stint in Cairo as well).
I can see you are trying to bait me into "America isn't the entire world", but, this is slashdot and a discussion topic about two American products (windows and iPad). Do I care that some guy in Slovenia has never seen an iPod?
The point I'm making that you are missing, is given a person who needs to commute 15 miles a day, and given a choice of vehicles, they rarely pick the cheapest. When people sink that much money into a product, they want to feel they are getting something for it, so the spend more than they probably need.
In other words, some of us actually believe in the generalization that you get what you pay for.
What local experiences? Straight marketing figures show that most people don't drive the cheapest cars available and that most consumers are not practical in their car purchase habits.
I'm just saying the very typical mindset of "cheaper = better" that is prevalent with the frugal computer science types around here is not an accurate indication of society in general. More importantly, I was standing up for the notion that sometimes things are a little more expensive because they might actually be better.
I understand your sentiment, but from an architectural and design level, and even evident to the user, a desktop OS such as Win7 or OSX is different than a mobile/tablet OS such as iOS or Android.
The experience is different, not only because of the form factor differences, but because of the OS differences.
Huh? "Oh wait" implies that Gates and Buffet don't actually want more taxes, which supports my point.
Besides, Gates and Buffet would be outliers to my "many" qualifier, if they indeed like taxes. Some people (myself included) actually do like taxes (i'm just not wealthy, but if I were, my stance would be no different...but then again, if I had a different stance, I might be wealthy..hmmm)
Let me rephrase...the reason many people hate him are for precisely the reason mentioned above.
I didn't mean to say most, as in more people than not, only meant to say of the people who really dislike him, the main reason is he made a fortune of swindling millions of users into using his mostly mediocre products.
I know saying "of the people who don't like him, most don't like him because..." is a complete tautology, and isn't what I meant, but is how it reads.
In my circles, "most" people indeed dislike Bill Gates. In my neophyte-in-laws-circle it is also "most" people, but for different reasons. I suppose there is a large segment of non-techy pro-business people who laud the success of Bill Gates as a business man and they are big enough that saying "most" people hate Bill Gates is probably inaccurate.
Try explaining that to any one of my three children.
I have several cds that don't appear to be scratched, but for whatever reason (age?) just aren't readable by any of my 3 computers at home. All of them are games...ones that without a cd crack you have to put the cd in to play, which puts them at a much higer risk of becoming damaged.
The simple fact that a game cd normally has to be handled every time you want to play it puts it at an unacceptably high risk of damage beyond use, in my humble anecdotal experiences (PC games and unfortunately now, PS3 games as well).
You can zoom in and out to see the entire field. Maybe you have to be a "retard person" to have figured that out, or maybe with the good level and game design, and the intutitive iPhone UI, most people (retard people or not) figure that out on the first level.
I think you are confusing Farmville with Angry Birds and I think you are overestimating your own intellect.
I think it was clever of Rovio to disguise an annoying UI feature (shooting the bird backward if you grab it before the UI is ready). They give you an "achievement" for basically exposing a UI weakness.
DRM has nothing to do with the horrible physical media that is the CD/DVD. The disk itself will last a lifetime...its just those pesky scratches that make it unreadable that suck.
I hate these stories. While one rises, the others needn't not fall. There is not limited market space for a phone AND for a computing platform. It's not like people only have a computer OR a phone...many of us will have both for decades to come (and multiple copies of both at that).
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If the comlaint is that this complicated screw is preventing users from servicing their own phones, then I suggest the following:
Anyone smart enough to mess around with the internal electronic components of a cell phone better damned well be smart enough to know how to acquire and operate a $3.00 screwdriver.
Or back in the real world, only the most seriously nerdy electronics hobbyists will ever open their cell phone and this is a complete non-issue.
You are simply rehashing well-rehearsed talking points, and I'm dubious your post is genuine.
"Finder has driven you up a wall"? Seriously? When you sit down to fix a Mac, what does Finder have to do with anything?
UI problems in iTunes is easy to say, but I prefer examples.
Gmail was easier to setup than my old .mac account. Until there are widespread accounts of users experiencing Gmail sync issues, it's not really a problem.
That is not to say I think Apple is "perfect", but their emphasis on "superior user experience" is they type of alternative that I prefer. Yes, I have lost info syncing with iTunes, but mostly because my iTunes is a mish-mash of 5 users stuff (obtained legally or not) with 4 phones in the house. It's easy to dismiss warnings about overwriting libraries and the such.
It is indeed unusual for average users to ever have a need to open their phone for "cleaning or repair" (iPhone or otherwise). Similarly, I've never had a need to open my:
toaster, microwave, range hood, speaker cabinets, my non-iPhone phones, or any other number of consumer devices around my house.
Err, I'm sure I didn't miss the point, since I've lived in England and Germany for much of my adult life (with a stint in Cairo as well).
I can see you are trying to bait me into "America isn't the entire world", but, this is slashdot and a discussion topic about two American products (windows and iPad). Do I care that some guy in Slovenia has never seen an iPod?
The point I'm making that you are missing, is given a person who needs to commute 15 miles a day, and given a choice of vehicles, they rarely pick the cheapest. When people sink that much money into a product, they want to feel they are getting something for it, so the spend more than they probably need.
In other words, some of us actually believe in the generalization that you get what you pay for.
What local experiences? Straight marketing figures show that most people don't drive the cheapest cars available and that most consumers are not practical in their car purchase habits.
I'm just saying the very typical mindset of "cheaper = better" that is prevalent with the frugal computer science types around here is not an accurate indication of society in general. More importantly, I was standing up for the notion that sometimes things are a little more expensive because they might actually be better.
I understand your sentiment, but from an architectural and design level, and even evident to the user, a desktop OS such as Win7 or OSX is different than a mobile/tablet OS such as iOS or Android.
The experience is different, not only because of the form factor differences, but because of the OS differences.
Huh? "Oh wait" implies that Gates and Buffet don't actually want more taxes, which supports my point.
Besides, Gates and Buffet would be outliers to my "many" qualifier, if they indeed like taxes. Some people (myself included) actually do like taxes (i'm just not wealthy, but if I were, my stance would be no different...but then again, if I had a different stance, I might be wealthy..hmmm)
Let me rephrase...the reason many people hate him are for precisely the reason mentioned above.
I didn't mean to say most, as in more people than not, only meant to say of the people who really dislike him, the main reason is he made a fortune of swindling millions of users into using his mostly mediocre products.
I know saying "of the people who don't like him, most don't like him because..." is a complete tautology, and isn't what I meant, but is how it reads.
In my circles, "most" people indeed dislike Bill Gates. In my neophyte-in-laws-circle it is also "most" people, but for different reasons. I suppose there is a large segment of non-techy pro-business people who laud the success of Bill Gates as a business man and they are big enough that saying "most" people hate Bill Gates is probably inaccurate.
Try explaining that to any one of my three children.
I have several cds that don't appear to be scratched, but for whatever reason (age?) just aren't readable by any of my 3 computers at home. All of them are games...ones that without a cd crack you have to put the cd in to play, which puts them at a much higer risk of becoming damaged.
The simple fact that a game cd normally has to be handled every time you want to play it puts it at an unacceptably high risk of damage beyond use, in my humble anecdotal experiences (PC games and unfortunately now, PS3 games as well).
I would argue it isn't a desktop because it's not running a desktop OS.
I missed the part where I pay royalties for using H.264 in the videos I produce and the After Effects classes I teach.
You can zoom in and out to see the entire field. Maybe you have to be a "retard person" to have figured that out, or maybe with the good level and game design, and the intutitive iPhone UI, most people (retard people or not) figure that out on the first level.
I think you are confusing Farmville with Angry Birds and I think you are overestimating your own intellect.
For all of you mentioning games before Angry Birds...yeah, we get it. You knew the band before they were famous.
Yeah, the birds aren't as fun as smashing stuff.
95% of the time I just aim the bird low and fast. Those stupid boomerang birds aren't really fun.
I think it was clever of Rovio to disguise an annoying UI feature (shooting the bird backward if you grab it before the UI is ready). They give you an "achievement" for basically exposing a UI weakness.
then I suspect You are the problem
Let me guess...you're a programmer?
I consider people who scratch discs to be lazy/careless.
I consider people who think such a horrible physical media was ever a good idea to be lazy/careless.
I may be lazy or careless, but I sure as hell don't have such low standards as people who actually claim they have NEVER scratched a cd.
DRM has nothing to do with the horrible physical media that is the CD/DVD. The disk itself will last a lifetime...its just those pesky scratches that make it unreadable that suck.
oops, tablet, not phone...
There is simply NO WAY Apple can compete with it's monolithic HW/SW system.
Making bold predictions about Apple's shorcomings has been generally unsuccessful the past decade.
If cheapest = greatest market share, we'd all be driving Kia Rios, or the like.
I hate these stories. While one rises, the others needn't not fall. There is not limited market space for a phone AND for a computing platform. It's not like people only have a computer OR a phone...many of us will have both for decades to come (and multiple copies of both at that).
Actually, many rich people so despise taxes they'd give away more money to charity than they would have to pay taxes, just out of spite.
Bill has both the philanthropic bleedinghearts and the sociopathic profit Uber Alles demographic absolutely sewn up
Those two are mutually exclusive.
How do you know that? Maybe many people admire him for building such a towering business as Microsoft.
Precisely why most people hate him. I like his philanthropy, though.