Don't you DARE talk about Apple and fragmentation, else ye be cast out of the land! There is NO Apple fragmentation. That be the realm of Android, so say we all!
If this were in the US, they'd surely being be detained and become permanent residents of guantanamo bay. Seeing as how their Czechs and getting footage of a military base, they'd sure be instantly classified as terrorists.
Yeah, because that's totally happened like a thousand times already. They're throwing peope into Guantanamo for just about anything these days. Or they aren't.
I concur. I think the author would have done better to complain about why we call the color of the sky on a sunny day "blue". What's the point of that?
Adding a cleaner looking skin to a field of icons isn't innovation, it's (rather boring) design. Smoke and mirrors. There's nothing new in anything that Meego brings to the table except the pictures overlaying the same old paradigm of a field of icons hiding your data from you.
When I have a small portable device, screen space is precious. Don't waste it on a field of icons all in rows. Show me the information I want to see.
Meego is crap. If they'd stuck with it they would just be another company cranking out smartphones with lame UI's that copy the desktop paradigm from 1984. They were smart to go with the one OS that's innovating.
Actually, if you bothered to RTFA, Apple is lowering their profits and profit margins by censoring.
Please tell me how not selling apps maximizes profits? Tell me how spending the man hours to censor increases margins?
You really can't see how maintaining a positive image would result in potentially higher sales? Seriously?
The forges that I used in middle school burned propane, similar to the kind that farriers use, only larger. They were much smaller than the traditional coke forges I've seen on PBS.
I remember when "xerox" copies were low-quality purple ink. In the 80s that shifted to black-and-white which was more-readable but still tended to smudge a lot. Now these machines can produce grayscale photos and fit inside a printer that cost me a mere $100.
The purple ones weren't Xerox copies, they were ditto machine copies. Xerox copiers have always been photostatic copies that used black toner (until color copiers came out, anyways).
A ditto machine isn't capable of making arbitrary copies. A master has to be typed onto a carbon paper that is used by the ditto machine to crank out (literally, you have to turn a crank) copies.
You have a 4 year old iPhone 3GS? Wow! You must be some kind of tech insider to have gotten that in 2008, more than a year before everyone else! Or else you're lying.
Now you can't even see what you have installed. You have to scroll, and scroll, and scroll to see what's there and even then it's not a complete list.
Yeah, burying everything in menus is the future. OS vendors have been prefecting the technology of hiding everything you want to see since 1984, and it's obvious that no other UI will ever work, ever.
Oh, yes, because everyone knows the future is pushing your own boring knock-off of PalmOS, just like Apple and Google. There's no future in pioneering the first significant UI upgrade since 1984. They should have just keeped on keepin' on, like RIM.
I can't stand companies that ruin themselves by innovating.
Um, no. The only 'feature' of 7.8 is make the root display appear to be Windows Phone 8. They might throw in some bug fixes. It cannot be compared at all with the current 'best in class' OS provider, namely Apple.
The best thing about this update for existing users is that it will force some carriers to at least push out the last bug fix, which fixed a significant text-input problem.
Yeah, you won't be allowed to buy apps that you can't use on older devices, like iOS allows you to. FAIL!
I've been waiting for this sort of integration for a while. I thought Apple would be the first. They had almost all the parts together, although their OSX and iOS integration sucked, pretty much (iTunes is it? Seriously?).
Now MS has an opportunity to scoop up all the marbles. I thought they were going to do this years ago when they announced all the Zune integration, but the integration was never quite up to snuff. Recompiling your apps for Zune never quite worked. It was akin to Java's "write once, debug everywhere" mantra. They never announced a handheld gaming initiative that really worked, either. They were talking about Xbox everywhere, but Zune didn't do it, and Windows Mobile never got off the ground.
I'm getting stoked reading about the Windows 8 development and the available data synchronizations between desktop devices, tablets, and mobile. The whole "write once, compile to any Windows 8 device (drivers included)" is just the sort of thing to get me to invest big in this new technology.
You've obviously not spent much time with the 50% of humanity who don't use it. Left hand, jug of water, attention to handwashing, job done, and more money to spend on frivolous stuff like your staple diet.
That is soooo disgusting. Scraping the poop off your ass with a wad of paper and then getting up and walking away like nothing happened is so much more hygenic.
If you look at the list of infringing devices, the ones that were found to infringe had more than simply "rounded corners" in common with iPhone. I think the jury did an excellent job of sussing out which devices were copying iPhone and which ones weren't.
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This seems to fragment it a little more.
Don't you DARE talk about Apple and fragmentation, else ye be cast out of the land! There is NO Apple fragmentation. That be the realm of Android, so say we all!
If this were in the US, they'd surely being be detained and become permanent residents of guantanamo bay. Seeing as how their Czechs and getting footage of a military base, they'd sure be instantly classified as terrorists.
Yeah, because that's totally happened like a thousand times already. They're throwing peope into Guantanamo for just about anything these days. Or they aren't.
Who's on first?
I concur. I think the author would have done better to complain about why we call the color of the sky on a sunny day "blue". What's the point of that?
Debian started using names from Toy Story (including cute animal names) in 1996. The Tux the Penguin has been around for at least as long.
Ah, yes. The colloquializtion of Occam's Razor is "All things being equal, the simpler theory is more likely."
The internetization of Occam's Razor is "If something could have happened by any wild stretch of the imagination, that's how it happened."
Yep, all this means is that 3 people looked at their results and methodology and decided it looks legit. Three people is a peer reviewal.
Adding a cleaner looking skin to a field of icons isn't innovation, it's (rather boring) design. Smoke and mirrors. There's nothing new in anything that Meego brings to the table except the pictures overlaying the same old paradigm of a field of icons hiding your data from you.
When I have a small portable device, screen space is precious. Don't waste it on a field of icons all in rows. Show me the information I want to see.
Meego is crap. If they'd stuck with it they would just be another company cranking out smartphones with lame UI's that copy the desktop paradigm from 1984. They were smart to go with the one OS that's innovating.
Life in America is so much worse now than it was pre 9/11. Oh wait, no it isn't.
It's not dramatically worse, but it is worse. Unless, you know, you really like having your nuts squeezed before you get on an airplane, for example.
You used to have to pay for that.
Actually, if you bothered to RTFA, Apple is lowering their profits and profit margins by censoring.
Please tell me how not selling apps maximizes profits? Tell me how spending the man hours to censor increases margins?
You really can't see how maintaining a positive image would result in potentially higher sales? Seriously?
The forges that I used in middle school burned propane, similar to the kind that farriers use, only larger. They were much smaller than the traditional coke forges I've seen on PBS.
I remember when "xerox" copies were low-quality purple ink. In the 80s that shifted to black-and-white which was more-readable but still tended to smudge a lot. Now these machines can produce grayscale photos and fit inside a printer that cost me a mere $100.
The purple ones weren't Xerox copies, they were ditto machine copies. Xerox copiers have always been photostatic copies that used black toner (until color copiers came out, anyways).
A ditto machine isn't capable of making arbitrary copies. A master has to be typed onto a carbon paper that is used by the ditto machine to crank out (literally, you have to turn a crank) copies.
You have a 4 year old iPhone 3GS? Wow! You must be some kind of tech insider to have gotten that in 2008, more than a year before everyone else! Or else you're lying.
Now you can't even see what you have installed. You have to scroll, and scroll, and scroll to see what's there and even then it's not a complete list.
Yeah, burying everything in menus is the future. OS vendors have been prefecting the technology of hiding everything you want to see since 1984, and it's obvious that no other UI will ever work, ever.
Oh, yes, because everyone knows the future is pushing your own boring knock-off of PalmOS, just like Apple and Google. There's no future in pioneering the first significant UI upgrade since 1984. They should have just keeped on keepin' on, like RIM.
I can't stand companies that ruin themselves by innovating.
Um, no. The only 'feature' of 7.8 is make the root display appear to be Windows Phone 8. They might throw in some bug fixes. It cannot be compared at all with the current 'best in class' OS provider, namely Apple.
The best thing about this update for existing users is that it will force some carriers to at least push out the last bug fix, which fixed a significant text-input problem.
Yeah, you won't be allowed to buy apps that you can't use on older devices, like iOS allows you to. FAIL!
I've been waiting for this sort of integration for a while. I thought Apple would be the first. They had almost all the parts together, although their OSX and iOS integration sucked, pretty much (iTunes is it? Seriously?).
Now MS has an opportunity to scoop up all the marbles. I thought they were going to do this years ago when they announced all the Zune integration, but the integration was never quite up to snuff. Recompiling your apps for Zune never quite worked. It was akin to Java's "write once, debug everywhere" mantra. They never announced a handheld gaming initiative that really worked, either. They were talking about Xbox everywhere, but Zune didn't do it, and Windows Mobile never got off the ground.
I'm getting stoked reading about the Windows 8 development and the available data synchronizations between desktop devices, tablets, and mobile. The whole "write once, compile to any Windows 8 device (drivers included)" is just the sort of thing to get me to invest big in this new technology.
Life in America is so much worse now than it was pre 9/11. Oh wait, no it isn't.
So they released a more detailed lie, and that makes it true? Sounds legit.
You've obviously not spent much time with the 50% of humanity who don't use it. Left hand, jug of water, attention to handwashing, job done, and more money to spend on frivolous stuff like your staple diet.
That is soooo disgusting. Scraping the poop off your ass with a wad of paper and then getting up and walking away like nothing happened is so much more hygenic.
Seriously... ...says the guy named Forty Two Tenfold, complaining about '2k12'
Well, he is high.
Yes, America is a Hell pit of tyranny and despotism. Yes, it's so bad here, blah blah blah.
Isn't Salvador Dali the one who did that painting of the chick with a uni-brow and mustache?
No, that would be the chick with the uni-brow and moustache, Frida Kahlo.
If you look at the list of infringing devices, the ones that were found to infringe had more than simply "rounded corners" in common with iPhone. I think the jury did an excellent job of sussing out which devices were copying iPhone and which ones weren't.