You'll probably won't read this but if those are your only requeriments Firefox also fits them. I use it both on Windows and my Android phone with syncing and everything and it works well
Well, they already know where you live and they even tell you. The Google app in Android phones tells you where it thinks you live and work by analyzing where you spend most of the time.
You're right, it's the only business model if you don't pay. I'd be willing to pay (for at least some things) if I could be reasonably sure that means they don't sell my data. Alas, neither Google nor most web services that are usuarlly financed by ads and data have that option
Since the PC is dying (right?) and is gonna make them less and less money they could've left Windows alone. Instead of that they had to turn it into a smartphone OS: Constantly spying the user, pushing ads and services upon the user abd pushing towars touch-first UIs.
They could've included the Win7 UI as a gesture to those of us who don't use our PC with a touchscreen.
I guess that's because they make much more money from corporations than from individuals or is somehow more scared of corporations leaving.
When they see a real threat they do react see for instance what happened with the Xbox One when, after they said it'd need to be always connected thousands of gamers said they'd go with PS4 instead. They changed they course in a heartbeat
Seeing the shit Windows has turned into, the respect motive is a really important and appropiate one: It lets you uninstall and disable things you don't want and they stay that way (hello Cortana and assorted uninstallable Windows 10 things). It lets you update at your own pace. You tell the computer what to do and *gasp* it does it.
5000 means little if the games YOU want to play aren't there.
I don't have very special needs and gaming is about the only thing tying me to Windows. I could buy a console but I think that PC gaming is better, also I don't want to lose the investment I've made on PC games over the years.
Yeah, totally agree. It's stupid going for the lower capacity chips.
I'm of the few people who still prefer a standalone device for playing music (and my smartphone doesn't have an FM radio) and most MP3 players have 4 or 8 of memory. I bought a 16 GB Samsung player about 5 years ago (it even has a MicroSD slot). Why are we going backwards?
Agree on the continuous UI redesign: Most of the time it bring the user no benefits. It's just different following the trend of the moment. Now it's all about flat, huge amounts of whitespace and monochrome icons. Ah, and forcing touch UIs everywhere making people who use them with a kb and mouse suffer a substandard UI, certainly worse than the old UIs which were designed to the strengths of kb and mouse.
Totally agree with you. UIs have gone worse terribly in the last few years all in the name of stupid trends designers copy from each other and of consistency. i.e.: Forcing a mobile UI in a desktop where it totally doesn't make sense.
You'd think the open source people would have more sense but they always end up copying whatever Google/Apple/Ms are doing.
At least in Linux we can choose our DE. In Windows and Mac you're stuck with whatever the UI gods have thought of
It's part of a concerted effort of major tech companies to make the desktop experience suck. Microsoft is a huge believer of this strategy, their contributions include: forcing parts of UI in Windows to always show touch-optimized interfaces despite the device is running on having no touch screen, making some programs and services so that they can't be turned off (Cortana), pushing ads on PCs, etc.
I get that desktop users are (on their way to being) a minority, I don't ask for preferential treatment just give us what we used to have. Is that so much to ask?
We have to find a way to make recycling of electronics profitable. It's a disaster that so many millions of electronic devices are discarded each year without recovering most of their materials.
Specially bad is in the case of the smartphones which most people replace within two years and have experienced huge growth in the last few years. Nowadays fewer and fewer PCs are built and people keep them for much longer than before. I hope that smartphones go in that direction too although I'm not optimistic about that since in my experience they seem to fail much earlier than PCs
IMO the amount of polygons and quality of textures are much more appealing than increasing the number of pixels that much. I'll take full hd with detailed textures and lots of polygons over mediocre visuals at 8k
Samsung can't fork Android and keep making phones with Google's Android. It's forbidden by a contract every manufacturer that wants to access Android's propietary parts (Play Store, Maps, Gmail, Youtube...) must sign
I don't think Samsung can get an alternative mobile OS to be successful. Not at this point anyway. Microsoft with all their money and resources hasn't been able to make it work with Windows Phone.
There's one thing Samsung does have: They can make their alternative OS phones look like their Android Touchwiz layer and so many people wouldn't know they're not running Android...except when they go to install apps and many of their favorites are not available. In fact, they actually did the UI thing with some of their Tizen phones.
If a new mobile OS is to win me over it must be a real PC OS: Give me root access, let me use desktop apps when connected to a keyb and monitor, have real multitasking (several processes running concurrently without restrictions), etc.
Well, I hate to be captain obvious here but wireless is the enemy of latency and jitter and in VR is extremely important to keep latency down. Not that I wouldn't like to see a headset that was wireless and good for VR...
...although I guess the separate app has more features. If not it would be pointless.
I chose to use the Lite version since the "fat" Facebook app was over 100 MB and I'm always running out of space on the apps partition.
Well it's not really developed (at least mainly) by them. It's based on IntelliJ, a well known commercial Java IDE. But yes, the little that I've used it it's been really slow. For what I do I'd prefer if they had stayed with Eclipse
I'll tell you what trouble:
No root access for users, built-in unremovable (see first point) spying. In Android at least, only one application can be running at the same time (no background processing unless you program a service for your app). iOS doesn't even allow you to install software from outside the official store. We'll see if Android goes that route in the future
It's like going back to the stone ages.
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You'll probably won't read this but if those are your only requeriments Firefox also fits them. I use it both on Windows and my Android phone with syncing and everything and it works well
Well, they already know where you live and they even tell you. The Google app in Android phones tells you where it thinks you live and work by analyzing where you spend most of the time.
You're right, it's the only business model if you don't pay. I'd be willing to pay (for at least some things) if I could be reasonably sure that means they don't sell my data. Alas, neither Google nor most web services that are usuarlly financed by ads and data have that option
Since the PC is dying (right?) and is gonna make them less and less money they could've left Windows alone. Instead of that they had to turn it into a smartphone OS: Constantly spying the user, pushing ads and services upon the user abd pushing towars touch-first UIs.
They could've included the Win7 UI as a gesture to those of us who don't use our PC with a touchscreen.
I guess that's because they make much more money from corporations than from individuals or is somehow more scared of corporations leaving.
When they see a real threat they do react see for instance what happened with the Xbox One when, after they said it'd need to be always connected thousands of gamers said they'd go with PS4 instead. They changed they course in a heartbeat
Seeing the shit Windows has turned into, the respect motive is a really important and appropiate one: It lets you uninstall and disable things you don't want and they stay that way (hello Cortana and assorted uninstallable Windows 10 things). It lets you update at your own pace. You tell the computer what to do and *gasp* it does it.
5000 means little if the games YOU want to play aren't there.
I don't have very special needs and gaming is about the only thing tying me to Windows. I could buy a console but I think that PC gaming is better, also I don't want to lose the investment I've made on PC games over the years.
Yeah, totally agree. It's stupid going for the lower capacity chips.
I'm of the few people who still prefer a standalone device for playing music (and my smartphone doesn't have an FM radio) and most MP3 players have 4 or 8 of memory. I bought a 16 GB Samsung player about 5 years ago (it even has a MicroSD slot). Why are we going backwards?
Agree on the continuous UI redesign: Most of the time it bring the user no benefits. It's just different following the trend of the moment. Now it's all about flat, huge amounts of whitespace and monochrome icons. Ah, and forcing touch UIs everywhere making people who use them with a kb and mouse suffer a substandard UI, certainly worse than the old UIs which were designed to the strengths of kb and mouse.
Totally agree with you. UIs have gone worse terribly in the last few years all in the name of stupid trends designers copy from each other and of consistency. i.e.: Forcing a mobile UI in a desktop where it totally doesn't make sense.
You'd think the open source people would have more sense but they always end up copying whatever Google/Apple/Ms are doing.
At least in Linux we can choose our DE. In Windows and Mac you're stuck with whatever the UI gods have thought of
It's part of a concerted effort of major tech companies to make the desktop experience suck. Microsoft is a huge believer of this strategy, their contributions include: forcing parts of UI in Windows to always show touch-optimized interfaces despite the device is running on having no touch screen, making some programs and services so that they can't be turned off (Cortana), pushing ads on PCs, etc.
I get that desktop users are (on their way to being) a minority, I don't ask for preferential treatment just give us what we used to have. Is that so much to ask?
Reclycing the phones doesn't preclude doing the same with other industries.
I was talking about recycling of electronics in general. If they can find a way to repair the Note 7s, great.
We have to find a way to make recycling of electronics profitable. It's a disaster that so many millions of electronic devices are discarded each year without recovering most of their materials.
Specially bad is in the case of the smartphones which most people replace within two years and have experienced huge growth in the last few years. Nowadays fewer and fewer PCs are built and people keep them for much longer than before. I hope that smartphones go in that direction too although I'm not optimistic about that since in my experience they seem to fail much earlier than PCs
IMO the amount of polygons and quality of textures are much more appealing than increasing the number of pixels that much. I'll take full hd with detailed textures and lots of polygons over mediocre visuals at 8k
Samsung can't fork Android and keep making phones with Google's Android. It's forbidden by a contract every manufacturer that wants to access Android's propietary parts (Play Store, Maps, Gmail, Youtube ...) must sign
I don't think Samsung can get an alternative mobile OS to be successful. Not at this point anyway. Microsoft with all their money and resources hasn't been able to make it work with Windows Phone.
There's one thing Samsung does have: They can make their alternative OS phones look like their Android Touchwiz layer and so many people wouldn't know they're not running Android...except when they go to install apps and many of their favorites are not available. In fact, they actually did the UI thing with some of their Tizen phones.
If a new mobile OS is to win me over it must be a real PC OS: Give me root access, let me use desktop apps when connected to a keyb and monitor, have real multitasking (several processes running concurrently without restrictions), etc.
Thanks for the informative comment
Don't worry. I haven't revealed anything :)
what are your thoughts on castAR? Have you used it?
Well, I hate to be captain obvious here but wireless is the enemy of latency and jitter and in VR is extremely important to keep latency down. Not that I wouldn't like to see a headset that was wireless and good for VR...
Came to say just this thing. We'll see if it's just as good as Swap Meet :)
...although I guess the separate app has more features. If not it would be pointless.
I chose to use the Lite version since the "fat" Facebook app was over 100 MB and I'm always running out of space on the apps partition.
Well it's not really developed (at least mainly) by them. It's based on IntelliJ, a well known commercial Java IDE. But yes, the little that I've used it it's been really slow. For what I do I'd prefer if they had stayed with Eclipse
I'll tell you what trouble:
No root access for users, built-in unremovable (see first point) spying. In Android at least, only one application can be running at the same time (no background processing unless you program a service for your app). iOS doesn't even allow you to install software from outside the official store. We'll see if Android goes that route in the future
It's like going back to the stone ages.