I'd actually be willing to pay money to Google to use their services if they wouldn't gather any data from me.
How you'd guarantee they're not keeping it anyway I don't know, but if they offered it and somehow you could be reasonably sure they aren't actually storing anything I'd pay.
It could if connected to a dock that gave it a mouse, keyboard and monitor.
Also, mobile OS would need to be replaced by real OS which allow the user to run more than one app at once, allow root access, etc.
At the current rate of development I reckon ReactOS will match Windows 7 in around 40 years or so. They're doing great job but they'd need hundreds of devs to make meaningful progress in a few years
Exactly, technically it seems Win 10 is pretty good. What kills it for me it's the hideous mobile-like UI but mainly the spying and blatant pushing of Ms' own products inside of Windows itself. An OS should let the user take control. Windows 10 takes part of that control away from the user but most of all an OS should not have spying nor publicity.
Well, yes many people wear earbuds but it's their own freaking resposibility to be aware and alert of their surroundings. When I wear headphones on the street I'm specially careful when I'm going to cross
I'd really like to know what hardware this has inside. It might very well be something similar to the new NES, i.e.: an ARM SOC running an emulator.
It'd be really cool if this was running on the original chips. As opposed to the NES it seems the Genesis used pretty standard hardware: A Motorola 68K, a Z80 a pretty common Yamaha sound chip.
Alas, it's probably more expensive to build a device with those chips nowadays than to use the ARM and emulator option.
Sadly the only thing most people will care about will be about the SD card slot.
We live in times where our ability to do things with our computers (of any size, including smartphones) is being limited...and that's enabled by the fact that most regular joes don't care.
If eSports want to get a loyal fanbase they need a stable game: The same game played for many years, small amount of changes, rules easy to understand.
There's a few popular sports (10,20?) How many games are there that are played professionally? For how long?
If anything to prevent Microsoft from getting more power and making Windows 10 worse and more closed.
In general it's better for power to be distributed among several companies instead of having a few have a lot of power. When software companies do we all know they'll try to lock you into their ecosystems. So in this case I prefer Steam has the majority of gamers into their store instead of Microsoft.
They already have a lot of power over games with Windows and Xbox and if they were to get more they'd only get worse.
Also I must admit I'm mad at Microsoft for what they've turned Windows into
Exactly this. I'd gladly pay to have Win 10's internals with 7's UI and of course no spying but no, whether you paid for your Win10 or not you get the same crap
Don't worry. It will stop being schizophrenic: They've said they will progressively steer the UI towards a phone one on Windows. *shudders*
Why don't they allow the user to choose between a desktop UI (Win 7's for example) and a completely touch oriented one?
My 16 GB of internal memory are almost always full and I don't have that many apps.
Of course that includes that a fair amount is occupied by the system partition
What would you like to have? What are those compromises?
What I don't like on current phones is basically: battery size, amount of storage (16 GB get filled pretty fast with apps and Android doesn't let you install on external SD), lack of administrator permissions (manufacturer provided and approved, I don't want to keep looking for rooting methods for my different phones/firmware versiones).
99% of which they don't have the rights to publish.
Most of the currents right holders won't care much but guys, this isn't right. And surely there's someone at Archive.org who knows this.
well. I've found the A and J series to be mediocre and expensive for what they are. Their 2 year old flagships for 300€ are not a bad deal in my opinion.
It'll become the same to me when using Win7 is no longer feasible. I even plan to put some launcher on start (maybe Steam Big screen mode) so that I see as little of Windows as possible.
Does it have an UI fit for a desktop PC used with mouse and keyboard? Or is this one of this newfangled mobile-like apps that forces a horrid touch UI on desktop users?
This need to show off nets the smartphone makers millions of sales every year. Most of those people couldn't tell the difference if you gave them a 3 year old smartphone in the enclosure of the new one.
They're computers which are artificially limited and embedded with spyware (Android) so that the companies behind them can make tons of money off us.
How I'd love a proper Linux in smartphone form factor. With an UI designed for touch of course.
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I guess that in 2027 it will still spy you without the user being able to disable that.
I'd actually be willing to pay money to Google to use their services if they wouldn't gather any data from me.
How you'd guarantee they're not keeping it anyway I don't know, but if they offered it and somehow you could be reasonably sure they aren't actually storing anything I'd pay.
It could if connected to a dock that gave it a mouse, keyboard and monitor.
Also, mobile OS would need to be replaced by real OS which allow the user to run more than one app at once, allow root access, etc.
At the current rate of development I reckon ReactOS will match Windows 7 in around 40 years or so. They're doing great job but they'd need hundreds of devs to make meaningful progress in a few years
Exactly, technically it seems Win 10 is pretty good. What kills it for me it's the hideous mobile-like UI but mainly the spying and blatant pushing of Ms' own products inside of Windows itself. An OS should let the user take control. Windows 10 takes part of that control away from the user but most of all an OS should not have spying nor publicity.
Well, yes many people wear earbuds but it's their own freaking resposibility to be aware and alert of their surroundings. When I wear headphones on the street I'm specially careful when I'm going to cross
I'd really like to know what hardware this has inside. It might very well be something similar to the new NES, i.e.: an ARM SOC running an emulator.
It'd be really cool if this was running on the original chips. As opposed to the NES it seems the Genesis used pretty standard hardware: A Motorola 68K, a Z80 a pretty common Yamaha sound chip.
Alas, it's probably more expensive to build a device with those chips nowadays than to use the ARM and emulator option.
Sadly the only thing most people will care about will be about the SD card slot. ...and that's enabled by the fact that most regular joes don't care.
We live in times where our ability to do things with our computers (of any size, including smartphones) is being limited
If eSports want to get a loyal fanbase they need a stable game: The same game played for many years, small amount of changes, rules easy to understand.
There's a few popular sports (10,20?) How many games are there that are played professionally? For how long?
If anything to prevent Microsoft from getting more power and making Windows 10 worse and more closed.
In general it's better for power to be distributed among several companies instead of having a few have a lot of power. When software companies do we all know they'll try to lock you into their ecosystems. So in this case I prefer Steam has the majority of gamers into their store instead of Microsoft.
They already have a lot of power over games with Windows and Xbox and if they were to get more they'd only get worse.
Also I must admit I'm mad at Microsoft for what they've turned Windows into
Exactly this. I'd gladly pay to have Win 10's internals with 7's UI and of course no spying but no, whether you paid for your Win10 or not you get the same crap
Don't worry. It will stop being schizophrenic: They've said they will progressively steer the UI towards a phone one on Windows. *shudders*
Why don't they allow the user to choose between a desktop UI (Win 7's for example) and a completely touch oriented one?
Bingo. Although, I'm surprised you guessed right. There must be dozens of Android phones with 16 GB of internal memory and space problems :)
My 16 GB of internal memory are almost always full and I don't have that many apps.
Of course that includes that a fair amount is occupied by the system partition
You're talking about "adopting" sd cards or anything else?
What would you like to have? What are those compromises?
What I don't like on current phones is basically: battery size, amount of storage (16 GB get filled pretty fast with apps and Android doesn't let you install on external SD), lack of administrator permissions (manufacturer provided and approved, I don't want to keep looking for rooting methods for my different phones/firmware versiones).
Since you seem not to like changes in OS X what do you think about Windows 10?
It's derive towards a mobile like UI personally irks me to no end.
99% of which they don't have the rights to publish.
Most of the currents right holders won't care much but guys, this isn't right. And surely there's someone at Archive.org who knows this.
well. I've found the A and J series to be mediocre and expensive for what they are. Their 2 year old flagships for 300€ are not a bad deal in my opinion.
It'll become the same to me when using Win7 is no longer feasible. I even plan to put some launcher on start (maybe Steam Big screen mode) so that I see as little of Windows as possible.
Does it have an UI fit for a desktop PC used with mouse and keyboard? Or is this one of this newfangled mobile-like apps that forces a horrid touch UI on desktop users?
Does Regedit really need an update? Why? Please don't tell me it need a "modern" UI
This need to show off nets the smartphone makers millions of sales every year. Most of those people couldn't tell the difference if you gave them a 3 year old smartphone in the enclosure of the new one.
They're computers which are artificially limited and embedded with spyware (Android) so that the companies behind them can make tons of money off us.
How I'd love a proper Linux in smartphone form factor. With an UI designed for touch of course.