How many weeks of your life have you wasted waiting two seconds every time you want to do a meta keystroke? Surely you can't be doing anything beyond childishly simple if you think that's a satisfactory solution.
I have yet to come up with a reason why I would want a tablet.
Tablets are meant for consumption, not production. Touchscreens are a regression in human interfaces: sloppy, imprecise, immediately unintuitive kludges for meta input. Tablets are one side of a power grab by the industry because PCs offer too much freedom, privacy and repairability; the other side is app markets and cloud services. Tablets are too convenient; to achieve that they must sacrifice any spec based on volume: battery capacity, storage, RAM, cooling, etc. Except screen size... gotta keep packing more pixels.
Stop putting useless features and overspec'd hardware in phones to maintain your price points. No one needs a 36 megapixel camera. No one really wants a 6mm thick phone, they want battery capacity which requires.... volume and thickness! They want RAM and processing power.
Some of us want features we can't get anymore, like full QWERTY keyboards. Some of us know that onscreen keyboards suck on principle.
If you're willing to make a flipbendy phone, you should be willing to make slider phones again: Full keyboard, 12Mpx camera, Snapdragon 820, removeable SD card and battery. It's not too much to ask.
"Smart" TVs are the next gimmick after 3D TV failed again. TV is a completed technology, much the like the internal combustion engine. Until video can be delivered as 3D projection, there's no real upgrade path.
Windows phones long predated Win10's anti-features, and were never that popular.
MS has never figured out how to connect with consumers (except for the XBox business unit). They seem to think consumers buy like businesses do, using the same cold, cost-driven rationale, which just isn't true. Consumers make purchase decisions based partly on emotion and excitement, something that all MS product lines (again, excepting XBox) completely lack.
Part of this is that Microsoft's bread and butter is still business sales, and part of it is that they suck at marketing and actually competing, having enjoyed tremendous shares of every market they touch. Another factor is their continued colossal hubris which among other things makes them think consumers buy like businesses do.
And WordPress is antiquated, poorly written garbage that survives mostly because designers live for its theming ecosystem. Anyone that has actually read that heaping plate of spaghhetti code (with its big, juicy meatballs of bad practice and thick backwards compatibility sauce) knows not to touch WP.
We don't like Node because Javascript is eccentric (read: benignly insane) in too many ways. If there was an alternative, that would be adopted in a heartbeat. Something with sensible types and type casting at least, preferably with a better, non-prototype object model.
THIS. The industry needs to hyping thinness as a virtue: it brings less battery capacity, weaker chassis, and compromised usability (because less edge is less grip area).
And still no full QWERTY keyboard that I can find among the modules.... no sale.
Studying Sharia Law doesn't give Jihadis the practical knowledge necessary to carry out an operation, the same way that "graduating" from Liberty "University" doesn't give a christian fundie the practical knowledge necessary to blow up an abortion clinic.
He's right that teaching every kid coding is a waste of time. Not because coders will become obsolete (who will write the code that writes code for everyone else?), but because not everyone has interest in or the proclivity for coding.
Governments didn't scramble to teach every kid electronics from 1930-1970, nor did they scramble to teach every kid auto mechanics from 1950-1980. Education programs have enough trouble teaching kids math and critical thinking, how the hell are they going to wrap their heads around programming?
By his logic, kids shouldn't be taught anything because soon enough technology will do everything for them.
Google's problem with social isn't social, it's Google. Google knows too much about us already, and people are starting to realize that. And because Google already provides a huge portion of our digital footprint, they thought they could get away with being heavy-handed about tying all their services together into a single, "use your real name or else" profile, and everyone balked. I almost posted a YouTube comment the other day (which I can't remember ever doing before) until I got the dreaded "use your real name" popup.
Swapping out internal components is one thing, but when I think of a modular phone I envision one of the modules being a full hardware QUERTY keyboard.
Poor (metaphorically speaking) little parasites complaining that users can deservedly cut off their blood supply. This is what happens when an industry accrues too much power and hubris over many, many decades, and then a paradigm shift happens and they expect to hapily maintain their status quo.
Too bad there's no practical way to kill ad networks that serve up annoying or malicious pseudo-content. Punch the monkey? Yeah, now we're finally able to land knockout blows.
MS has made their play into IoT with Win10 IoT. The problem lies in that MS has made the requirements and capabilities so ridiculous that only MS-stack people give any shits about Win10 IoT. Anything else running on an rPi is a fully capable computer, but Win10 IoT on Pi is just bloated bootloader for a Universal (read: only runs on WIn10) app.
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There's a good chance these could gain class action status.
How many weeks of your life have you wasted waiting two seconds every time you want to do a meta keystroke? Surely you can't be doing anything beyond childishly simple if you think that's a satisfactory solution.
Capitalism is not desperate.... yet.
It has made itself a ravenous, gluttonous beast that began eating its own tail. It's probably past the cloaca, but not quite near the neck yet.
Making up for all the user data not acquired due to Win10 outrage.
I think you misspelled MongoDB.
I have yet to come up with a reason why I would want a tablet.
Tablets are meant for consumption, not production. Touchscreens are a regression in human interfaces: sloppy, imprecise, immediately unintuitive kludges for meta input. Tablets are one side of a power grab by the industry because PCs offer too much freedom, privacy and repairability; the other side is app markets and cloud services. Tablets are too convenient; to achieve that they must sacrifice any spec based on volume: battery capacity, storage, RAM, cooling, etc. Except screen size... gotta keep packing more pixels.
Facebook bought Oculus. Zuckerberg saw this coming and knew he needed to diversify.
Stop putting useless features and overspec'd hardware in phones to maintain your price points. No one needs a 36 megapixel camera. No one really wants a 6mm thick phone, they want battery capacity which requires.... volume and thickness! They want RAM and processing power.
Some of us want features we can't get anymore, like full QWERTY keyboards. Some of us know that onscreen keyboards suck on principle.
If you're willing to make a flipbendy phone, you should be willing to make slider phones again: Full keyboard, 12Mpx camera, Snapdragon 820, removeable SD card and battery. It's not too much to ask.
Which is extra super duper secure because you spelled it wrong. I see at least 3 errors.
My entire class learned Apple Basic on Apple ][e's in the spring of 1985, taught by our regular teacher.
"Smart" TVs are the next gimmick after 3D TV failed again. TV is a completed technology, much the like the internal combustion engine. Until video can be delivered as 3D projection, there's no real upgrade path.
Doesn't this make the flatlining mobile sales look even worse?
Windows phones long predated Win10's anti-features, and were never that popular.
MS has never figured out how to connect with consumers (except for the XBox business unit). They seem to think consumers buy like businesses do, using the same cold, cost-driven rationale, which just isn't true. Consumers make purchase decisions based partly on emotion and excitement, something that all MS product lines (again, excepting XBox) completely lack.
Part of this is that Microsoft's bread and butter is still business sales, and part of it is that they suck at marketing and actually competing, having enjoyed tremendous shares of every market they touch. Another factor is their continued colossal hubris which among other things makes them think consumers buy like businesses do.
Look back on the hype cycle of MongoDB and NoSQL: it was all the rage three years ago, now it's a fountain of regret. The same will happen with Node.
And WordPress is antiquated, poorly written garbage that survives mostly because designers live for its theming ecosystem. Anyone that has actually read that heaping plate of spaghhetti code (with its big, juicy meatballs of bad practice and thick backwards compatibility sauce) knows not to touch WP.
No.
We don't like Node because Javascript is eccentric (read: benignly insane) in too many ways. If there was an alternative, that would be adopted in a heartbeat. Something with sensible types and type casting at least, preferably with a better, non-prototype object model.
THIS. The industry needs to hyping thinness as a virtue: it brings less battery capacity, weaker chassis, and compromised usability (because less edge is less grip area).
And still no full QWERTY keyboard that I can find among the modules.... no sale.
And who will those deserters be?
Not corporate users, MS doesn't inflict this on paying customers.
Not new PC buyers, MS still has the OEMs wrapped around their finger.
Not the average user, they lack the acumen and bravery required to install an OS that's completely alien to them.
Who's left to embark on your grand exodus that will starve the beast?
Studying Sharia Law doesn't give Jihadis the practical knowledge necessary to carry out an operation, the same way that "graduating" from Liberty "University" doesn't give a christian fundie the practical knowledge necessary to blow up an abortion clinic.
He's right that teaching every kid coding is a waste of time. Not because coders will become obsolete (who will write the code that writes code for everyone else?), but because not everyone has interest in or the proclivity for coding.
Governments didn't scramble to teach every kid electronics from 1930-1970, nor did they scramble to teach every kid auto mechanics from 1950-1980. Education programs have enough trouble teaching kids math and critical thinking, how the hell are they going to wrap their heads around programming?
By his logic, kids shouldn't be taught anything because soon enough technology will do everything for them.
Companies hate their employees. Labor costs are a barrier to higher profits. Employees are treated as liabilities.
Google's problem with social isn't social, it's Google. Google knows too much about us already, and people are starting to realize that. And because Google already provides a huge portion of our digital footprint, they thought they could get away with being heavy-handed about tying all their services together into a single, "use your real name or else" profile, and everyone balked. I almost posted a YouTube comment the other day (which I can't remember ever doing before) until I got the dreaded "use your real name" popup.
Swapping out internal components is one thing, but when I think of a modular phone I envision one of the modules being a full hardware QUERTY keyboard.
Sigh... nope.
Poor (metaphorically speaking) little parasites complaining that users can deservedly cut off their blood supply. This is what happens when an industry accrues too much power and hubris over many, many decades, and then a paradigm shift happens and they expect to hapily maintain their status quo.
Too bad there's no practical way to kill ad networks that serve up annoying or malicious pseudo-content. Punch the monkey? Yeah, now we're finally able to land knockout blows.
MS has made their play into IoT with Win10 IoT. The problem lies in that MS has made the requirements and capabilities so ridiculous that only MS-stack people give any shits about Win10 IoT. Anything else running on an rPi is a fully capable computer, but Win10 IoT on Pi is just bloated bootloader for a Universal (read: only runs on WIn10) app.