And when did the French get democracy and human rights? If you are talking about the Revolution, then that led to a regime of terror and eventually the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. So: "A small minority" can also be the totalitarian madmen of Robespierre and his "Committee of Public Safety".
I have heard far more stories about Android phones hanging and needing restarts than iOS devices. Same goes for Windows PC versus Macs.
And just because Apple sticks to the non-cheap segment of the PC market does not mean they are intrinsically more expensive; traditional PC manufacturers (as in: Windows PCs) are cheap because they compete with a shed-load of other manufacturers delivering roughly the same thing, and try to compensate by filling the consumer PCs with crapware.
If you ask a (non-techie) Android phone buyer whether he bought it for its openness* or because of the flashy TV ads from the manufacturer or operator, which do you think will be the answer? People do not generally know that Android is "more open" than iOS.
(Except maybe their Android-owning friends have shown them how they can get "free" apps to go with their "free" Nintedo DS gamws on an R4 card or the "free" Sony PSP games on hacked firmware.)
*) "open" as soon as you do the magic dance and remove the vendor-modified, locked-down version, that is.
Competing with multiple vendors on the same platform is not to the manufacturer's benefit. A customer choosing a Windows PC from HP implicitly also "un-chooses" one from Dell, Asus etc.
This is why Microsoft is the company that makes any profit in the consumer desktop market.
Ever hear the term "fifth wheel on the wagon"? If person A needs to talk to person B about subject X, should the presence of person C force the conversation into subject Y instead? Why? Can't person C play a game on the iPad until the conversation finishes? And when person C is a young child, what do you do three minutes into the conversation when the child is getting bored?
Exactly: If Apple has 30% of the market, and "Android" has 50%, then that 50% is split five-ways giving an average of 10% to each of HTC, LG, Samsung, SonyEricsson and Motorola. And 10% is less than 30%.
But share to and from where? Most files on an iOS device are "owned" by each app. iOS 5 seems to introduce some "home" folders for music, pictures etc. so perhaps the home directory can have Bluetooth file transfer enabled...
And yes, tethering or no tethering on an iPhone is up to the operator to decide, I have tethering from my operator but Americans on AT&T pay extra (as if bytes over tethering are more expensive or something).
All of these "look and feel" lawsuits should be outlawed.
"Agreed!"
- thousands of Asian leatherworkers spewing out copies of Louis Vuitton handbags, watchmakers making Rolex copies, textile factories making copies of other Western brands.
Do we know Apple have provided falsified evidence? This is webwerld's self-made image, not directly from the court papers. Maybe in the actual papers there are such notes about scale? Apple Legal are NOT amateurs.
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And when did the French get democracy and human rights? If you are talking about the Revolution, then that led to a regime of terror and eventually the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. So: "A small minority" can also be the totalitarian madmen of Robespierre and his "Committee of Public Safety".
I have heard far more stories about Android phones hanging and needing restarts than iOS devices. Same goes for Windows PC versus Macs.
And just because Apple sticks to the non-cheap segment of the PC market does not mean they are intrinsically more expensive; traditional PC manufacturers (as in: Windows PCs) are cheap because they compete with a shed-load of other manufacturers delivering roughly the same thing, and try to compensate by filling the consumer PCs with crapware.
If you ask a (non-techie) Android phone buyer whether he bought it for its openness* or because of the flashy TV ads from the manufacturer or operator, which do you think will be the answer? People do not generally know that Android is "more open" than iOS.
(Except maybe their Android-owning friends have shown them how they can get "free" apps to go with their "free" Nintedo DS gamws on an R4 card or the "free" Sony PSP games on hacked firmware.)
*) "open" as soon as you do the magic dance and remove the vendor-modified, locked-down version, that is.
They only exist in tour twisted mind.
The reason it is free on Android is that Android has a 90% piracy rate so they wouldn't get paid anyway... :)
Competing with multiple vendors on the same platform is not to the manufacturer's benefit. A customer choosing a Windows PC from HP implicitly also "un-chooses" one from Dell, Asus etc.
This is why Microsoft is the company that makes any profit in the consumer desktop market.
For all practical purposes it is a very small tablet. Or perhaps the Samsung Galaxy Tab at 7" should not count either?
Heh.
- "... but now you can just use 'auto', and the compiler will deduce what actual type to use!"
- "Daddy is being boring."
Sounds like you describe someone who is socially dependent, not skilled. "I just cannot eat alone!"
I think too many nerds' only exposure to toddlers is watching "Baby Geniuses" on Netflix.
Ever hear the term "fifth wheel on the wagon"? If person A needs to talk to person B about subject X, should the presence of person C force the conversation into subject Y instead? Why? Can't person C play a game on the iPad until the conversation finishes? And when person C is a young child, what do you do three minutes into the conversation when the child is getting bored?
Websites that rely on Adobe's CPU-guzzler of a proprietary plugin are broken by design. Actual websites work fine in Safari on the iPad.
Grownup? Then why do you sound like a six-year old pottymouth?
Yes they do. You choose to live in a country where the laws say you should pay taxes to finance civilization.
I mean, you need food to live. Does that mean paying the grocer is involuntary?
Heh, the precursor to the submerged world in Bioshock?
And whose money is it then? If person A gives money to person B then it is no longer person A's money.
Exactly: If Apple has 30% of the market, and "Android" has 50%, then that 50% is split five-ways giving an average of 10% to each of HTC, LG, Samsung, SonyEricsson and Motorola. And 10% is less than 30%.
That would be number two then.
I am not going to wave a mouse around while standing on a train. That just looks silly.
But share to and from where? Most files on an iOS device are "owned" by each app. iOS 5 seems to introduce some "home" folders for music, pictures etc. so perhaps the home directory can have Bluetooth file transfer enabled...
And yes, tethering or no tethering on an iPhone is up to the operator to decide, I have tethering from my operator but Americans on AT&T pay extra (as if bytes over tethering are more expensive or something).
No, iPads are around the same price as the Android tablets.
Unless you count cheap, plastic, resistive-screen Chinese jobs running (nay, walking) Android 1.6 or 1.7 as "Android tablets".
All of these "look and feel" lawsuits should be outlawed.
"Agreed!"
- thousands of Asian leatherworkers spewing out copies of Louis Vuitton handbags, watchmakers making Rolex copies, textile factories making copies of other Western brands.
The image shown is NOT from the court papers! webwerld has this disclaimer to that effect but that apparently is ignored by Apple haters.
Do we know Apple have provided falsified evidence? This is webwerld's self-made image, not directly from the court papers. Maybe in the actual papers there are such notes about scale? Apple Legal are NOT amateurs.
No, the closest iOS comes to these "widgets" is the Calendar app that changes the icon based on the date.