Seriously, the specs make it look about as good as most high-end phones. I assume it's got a slower CPU, but that's certainly not important for most people who don't care about games. 4G of RAM is the biggest flagship-level feature I see that will make a huge difference. I'm having a very hard time coming up with enough of a difference to justify the $415 price difference with a Pixel that only has 32GB of storage, no optical zoom, no IR, a smaller battery. What am I missing here? (Other than marketing—artificially inflated prices in higher-end Western markets.)
Then don't buy products from those companies. Every phone I've bought from Google has has a secure bootloader. I can easily unlock it, install what I want, and relock it again. Security *and* choice.
lol, what a surprise, Anonymous Coward is an ignorant troll.
Out of curiosity, just how secure is the bootloader on your PC? Your precious MacBook certainly isn't more secure. What's worse, you are running *entirely proprietary* technology. It doesn't get more insecure than that. Apple can do whatever it wants with literally all of your data, and you are helpless to do a thing about it. You just have to blindly trust them. That's the worst kind of security imaginable.
There's no way any for-profit bank is going to do that unless we *force* them to through regulation. A credit union is answerable to its members. A bank is answerable only to its shareholders.
This is what happens when you use a bank instead of a credit union. Why is this concept so difficult for some people to comprehend? It just happens over and over and over again...
I hope Amazon's legal team absolutely crushes these disgusting people, and bankrupts them of everything they own. I could understand suing the manufacturer and the seller for false claims. That is legitimate. But acting like Amazon should personally inspect and certify every single product sold on its platform is absolutely ridiculous. Honestly, Amazon already goes above and beyond what should be their legal requirements in this area, constantly siding with consumers over sellers, and booting out people who ship more than 1% of defective products, even if it was an accident.
There aren't many instances in which you should side with a giant corporation, but this is certainly one of them!
It feels like every tech company board of directors is suffering a childish "me too" syndrome that simply *requires* them to work on self-driving vehicles. It's so pathetic! None of these companies bring anything new or unique to the table. They're all competing to do the same damn thing, poorly. I can understand existing car manufacturers getting into it, but Samsung and Nvidia? Come on... It's like they're just jealous and want to play at the big-kids' table. I don't understand how anyone can take them seriously.
We desperately need a coordinated, OPEN SOURCE movement for all of these companies to work together on the software for autonomous vehicles. All this duplicating of effort is ridiculous, particularly when it is something that society so desperately needs.
The government should be *outlawing* the construction of any new cable lines, not mandating it! What is going on here? If it was requiring them to lay fiber, I could totally get behin them, but the notion of putting that much additional garbage coax in the ground in 2017 makes me sick. The cable industry is dying, and its old infrastructure is insufficient for modern internet needs. Since soon all media will be delivered via the internet, it really is a no-brainer.
Still, Comcast needs to shut the fuck up. Corporations need to have all of their "rights" stripped away. Corporations are allowed to operate at the pleasure of the people. Period. If they don't like it, they can leave Vermont or shut down entirely.
Today I learned that Oracle apparently has (had?) a hardware division. I'm amazed it's lasted this long, honestly. As crappy as their overpriced, proprietary software is, I can't imagine *also* trusting them with hardware. Sucks to be one of the workers, for sure, but you have to expect it when you choose to work for such a monolith. The faster we get to Oracle's demise, the better for everyone.
Why must reporters be so completely incompetent? Kodi is a media player. It is not a "social streaming service" by any stretch of the imagination. It is best compared to a *web browser*. Are people blaming Chrome and Firefox for online streaming? I don't think they are. Do some fucking research!
Is Nakamoto accused of any kind of crime whatsoever? Why have I and the other U.S. taxpayers forked over the funds for over a MONTH of work for who-knows how many analysts and expensive CPU cycles to determine this person's identity? What is the benefit to the US American taxpayer?
"We all know the phenomenon of browsing from an internet site A to a completely unrelated internet site B, and having identical ads follow you from site A to site B."
Yeah, uh...no. We don't. I've never experienced this, because I've been running some variety of ad blocker for the past...14 years. Not to mention protecting myself from tracking cookies for the last 10.
This type of user behaviour monitoring is unacceptable. I can't fathom how any user could ever go on the web without protection against it. Of course there are many other tricks like browser fingerprinting that I'm sure I've been susceptible to at various points, and that is even more frustrating. We need a universal declaration of user rights for the internet to outlaw this kind of behaviour and make it criminally punishable in all courts around the world.
"35 inches (for the master bedroom) to 70 inches (for the middle class living room in an apartment complex)"
There is seriously something wrong with you. People who put TVs in their bedrooms are already pretty pathetic, but the idea that you need a 35" TV is laughable. I've used a 32" TV in my "middle class living room in an apartment complex" for the last 10 years, and it has served me extremely well. I can't even imagine a 70" TV in such an environment. That's absolutely ridiculous.
I bet most people don't have a clue what you're talking about. YouTube shenanigans? What? I definitely don't consume most of my content from YouTube, and generally ignore anything that happens there.
"There's now a Roku device to meet any consumer's needs."
Oh really? There's a Roku that can run Kodi and other Android applications? That's great! And it supports casting from a phone as well? Perfect! I've been waiting for Roku to catchup. Even better is that it's an open-source operating system.
Oh. Wait. Roku is still proprietary garbage, that's right. What a terrible article.
How absurd to release a NEW device that is *already* running an out-of-date operating system. It's not even Android 7.1.2—the latest version pre-Oreo. But the fact is Oreo has been out as a developer preview for months. (And what is Samsung, if not an Android developer and OEM?) Not only that, but the final build of Oreo is from June 23rd. Had Samsung gotten that release ready, they could have pulled the trigger the moment Google decided it was final. They've had 2 months. This is just ridiculous.
I just use hubiC. They give you 25 GiB for free, 10 TB is only €50/year (though I've never needed that much!). It's compatible with Openstack swift, and it works with Duplicity (which I use), rclone, etc. They have a Linux client, but it's written in Mono, hasn't been updated in years and is pretty bad.
I just realised this sounds like a marketing push, but that wasn't my intention! (I won't share my affiliate link here.) I'm very much interested in learning about other solutions that are better supported on Linux and more affordable.
"Google" should not have trademark protection when it is used to refer to the NUMBER. Otherwise, when referring to an internet search, it absolutely is a trademark. And I say this as someone generally opposed to our corporate overlords. This argument is weak, and simply encouraging the further dilution of language.
Wow, what a dumbass. How can this idiot call himself a reporter? The whole POINT of "cord cutting" is not to merely get live TV via a different means. That's no different than switching to a satellite TV provider. The point is to stop consuming live content entirely. How can this guy be so ignorant on this point? Wired should be ASHAMED of itself for allowing this useless drivel on their site.
None of your arguments have anything to do with the medium. Whether Flash or HTML5 video, browsers could implement identical controls. Flash is garbage for *technical* reasons. I'm sure there are already extensions out there to handle disabling autoplay on a site-by-site basis, exactly like we had for Flash. Personally, I *always* set Flash to click-to-play site-wide, and so doing the same for HTML5 video makes perfect sense. This is really a non-issue. The benefits of HTML5 video completely trump this minor issue.
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Seriously, the specs make it look about as good as most high-end phones. I assume it's got a slower CPU, but that's certainly not important for most people who don't care about games. 4G of RAM is the biggest flagship-level feature I see that will make a huge difference. I'm having a very hard time coming up with enough of a difference to justify the $415 price difference with a Pixel that only has 32GB of storage, no optical zoom, no IR, a smaller battery. What am I missing here? (Other than marketing—artificially inflated prices in higher-end Western markets.)
Sounds more like this should be the new Nexus 5.
Then don't buy products from those companies. Every phone I've bought from Google has has a secure bootloader. I can easily unlock it, install what I want, and relock it again. Security *and* choice.
Wow, that is shocking WTF, Japan? Are you people really that pathetic in your desperate attempt to glorify anything that appears American?
lol, what a surprise, Anonymous Coward is an ignorant troll.
Out of curiosity, just how secure is the bootloader on your PC? Your precious MacBook certainly isn't more secure. What's worse, you are running *entirely proprietary* technology. It doesn't get more insecure than that. Apple can do whatever it wants with literally all of your data, and you are helpless to do a thing about it. You just have to blindly trust them. That's the worst kind of security imaginable.
There's no way any for-profit bank is going to do that unless we *force* them to through regulation. A credit union is answerable to its members. A bank is answerable only to its shareholders.
What a surprise, an anonymous coward doesn't know what he or she is talking about.
This is what happens when you use a bank instead of a credit union. Why is this concept so difficult for some people to comprehend? It just happens over and over and over again...
I hope Amazon's legal team absolutely crushes these disgusting people, and bankrupts them of everything they own. I could understand suing the manufacturer and the seller for false claims. That is legitimate. But acting like Amazon should personally inspect and certify every single product sold on its platform is absolutely ridiculous. Honestly, Amazon already goes above and beyond what should be their legal requirements in this area, constantly siding with consumers over sellers, and booting out people who ship more than 1% of defective products, even if it was an accident.
There aren't many instances in which you should side with a giant corporation, but this is certainly one of them!
It feels like every tech company board of directors is suffering a childish "me too" syndrome that simply *requires* them to work on self-driving vehicles. It's so pathetic! None of these companies bring anything new or unique to the table. They're all competing to do the same damn thing, poorly. I can understand existing car manufacturers getting into it, but Samsung and Nvidia? Come on... It's like they're just jealous and want to play at the big-kids' table. I don't understand how anyone can take them seriously.
We desperately need a coordinated, OPEN SOURCE movement for all of these companies to work together on the software for autonomous vehicles. All this duplicating of effort is ridiculous, particularly when it is something that society so desperately needs.
The government should be *outlawing* the construction of any new cable lines, not mandating it! What is going on here? If it was requiring them to lay fiber, I could totally get behin them, but the notion of putting that much additional garbage coax in the ground in 2017 makes me sick. The cable industry is dying, and its old infrastructure is insufficient for modern internet needs. Since soon all media will be delivered via the internet, it really is a no-brainer.
Still, Comcast needs to shut the fuck up. Corporations need to have all of their "rights" stripped away. Corporations are allowed to operate at the pleasure of the people. Period. If they don't like it, they can leave Vermont or shut down entirely.
Today I learned that Oracle apparently has (had?) a hardware division. I'm amazed it's lasted this long, honestly. As crappy as their overpriced, proprietary software is, I can't imagine *also* trusting them with hardware. Sucks to be one of the workers, for sure, but you have to expect it when you choose to work for such a monolith. The faster we get to Oracle's demise, the better for everyone.
Why must reporters be so completely incompetent? Kodi is a media player. It is not a "social streaming service" by any stretch of the imagination. It is best compared to a *web browser*. Are people blaming Chrome and Firefox for online streaming? I don't think they are. Do some fucking research!
No, it sucks for the taxpayers who are owed that money wherever he lives.
Is Nakamoto accused of any kind of crime whatsoever? Why have I and the other U.S. taxpayers forked over the funds for over a MONTH of work for who-knows how many analysts and expensive CPU cycles to determine this person's identity? What is the benefit to the US American taxpayer?
"We all know the phenomenon of browsing from an internet site A to a completely unrelated internet site B, and having identical ads follow you from site A to site B."
Yeah, uh...no. We don't. I've never experienced this, because I've been running some variety of ad blocker for the past...14 years. Not to mention protecting myself from tracking cookies for the last 10.
This type of user behaviour monitoring is unacceptable. I can't fathom how any user could ever go on the web without protection against it. Of course there are many other tricks like browser fingerprinting that I'm sure I've been susceptible to at various points, and that is even more frustrating. We need a universal declaration of user rights for the internet to outlaw this kind of behaviour and make it criminally punishable in all courts around the world.
"35 inches (for the master bedroom) to 70 inches (for the middle class living room in an apartment complex)"
There is seriously something wrong with you. People who put TVs in their bedrooms are already pretty pathetic, but the idea that you need a 35" TV is laughable. I've used a 32" TV in my "middle class living room in an apartment complex" for the last 10 years, and it has served me extremely well. I can't even imagine a 70" TV in such an environment. That's absolutely ridiculous.
TV is just not that important, people!
I bet most people don't have a clue what you're talking about. YouTube shenanigans? What? I definitely don't consume most of my content from YouTube, and generally ignore anything that happens there.
If you have to pi-hole their domains in the first place, that is unacceptable.
Also, you have 3 TVs and the kids don't even have their own yet? WTF?
"There's now a Roku device to meet any consumer's needs."
Oh really? There's a Roku that can run Kodi and other Android applications? That's great! And it supports casting from a phone as well? Perfect! I've been waiting for Roku to catchup. Even better is that it's an open-source operating system.
Oh. Wait. Roku is still proprietary garbage, that's right. What a terrible article.
How absurd to release a NEW device that is *already* running an out-of-date operating system. It's not even Android 7.1.2—the latest version pre-Oreo. But the fact is Oreo has been out as a developer preview for months. (And what is Samsung, if not an Android developer and OEM?) Not only that, but the final build of Oreo is from June 23rd. Had Samsung gotten that release ready, they could have pulled the trigger the moment Google decided it was final. They've had 2 months. This is just ridiculous.
STOP BUYING SAMSUNG PRODUCTS YOU FOOLS!
They want to go all the way back to nation-based and controlled currencies. Great. Seems like they've completely missed the point.
I just use hubiC. They give you 25 GiB for free, 10 TB is only €50/year (though I've never needed that much!). It's compatible with Openstack swift, and it works with Duplicity (which I use), rclone, etc. They have a Linux client, but it's written in Mono, hasn't been updated in years and is pretty bad.
I just realised this sounds like a marketing push, but that wasn't my intention! (I won't share my affiliate link here.) I'm very much interested in learning about other solutions that are better supported on Linux and more affordable.
"Google" should not have trademark protection when it is used to refer to the NUMBER. Otherwise, when referring to an internet search, it absolutely is a trademark. And I say this as someone generally opposed to our corporate overlords. This argument is weak, and simply encouraging the further dilution of language.
Wow, what a dumbass. How can this idiot call himself a reporter? The whole POINT of "cord cutting" is not to merely get live TV via a different means. That's no different than switching to a satellite TV provider. The point is to stop consuming live content entirely. How can this guy be so ignorant on this point? Wired should be ASHAMED of itself for allowing this useless drivel on their site.
None of your arguments have anything to do with the medium. Whether Flash or HTML5 video, browsers could implement identical controls. Flash is garbage for *technical* reasons. I'm sure there are already extensions out there to handle disabling autoplay on a site-by-site basis, exactly like we had for Flash. Personally, I *always* set Flash to click-to-play site-wide, and so doing the same for HTML5 video makes perfect sense. This is really a non-issue. The benefits of HTML5 video completely trump this minor issue.