The greater the dynamic range of a given piece of music, the wider the grooves need to be in the vinyl. Wider grooves = fewer minutes of music on the disc. So in order to get the maximum amount of music on the vinyl and still have it at listenable quality manufacturers began compressing the music before cutting the discs, because then they could charge more for the product because it had more songs on it.
That brick wall on the graph? That started with vinyl.
IIRC the iOS4 features disabled when running on the 3G (I have one sitting on the desk in front of me) were iOS4's implementation of multitasking, variations of background wallpapers, Bluetooth keyboard support, orientation lock, and some data encryption API that nothing ever used. I'd hardly call that "abandoned".
iPhones have had smooth, fast UI for ages. Android is finally there with ICS as well
I put a Samsung Galaxy S3 w/ICS next to my 2-year-old iPhone 4 and in normal swiping and scrolling operations the S3 felt like dogshit by comparison, where "dogshit" is a euphemism for "frustrating and laggy".
When using the S3 I said out loud "oh wow, lag" and the owner asked what I meant. So I handed him my iPhone 4 and he swiped and dragged around for two seconds and said quietly "Oh. I see."
Apple abandoned my new 3G within a year of new. No more security updates.
The iPhone 3G was supported until the release of iOS5 on 12 October 2011. For your "new 3G" to have been dropped within a year, you must have purchased it on or after 13 October 2010. When the 3G stopped receiving automatic updates the iPhone 3GS had been on the market for nearly two and a half years, the iPhone 4 for 14 months, and the iPhone 4S was 2 days away from its 14 October 2011 launch.
one wherein the guts are a bit exposed so that he can learn how a computer works rather than just treating it like a magic object
The only people who say things like this are people who have no f*cking idea how a computer works. You know what you should be doing with your seven-year-old? Reading to him. Reading with him. Having him read to you. Kicking a ball around. Going to museums. Painting pictures. Doing home science kits. Making electric circuits. Listening to music. Playing music. Cooking. Swimming. Running. Making models.
Slashdot is so desperate to pad out the front page with SEO-whoring stories containing the word "Apple" I'm amazed it's not posting press releases from the fruit industry.
You're wrong. Xerox took a million dollars of pre-IPO Apple stock as part of the deal. And then sold it for a quick buck, and then got seller's remorse.
Apple does not want to see happen to the cell phone industry, because it's all they've got.
On the contrary, every single market where a human has a shitty experience with technology is a potential target for Apple. If you've been pissed off with programming a DVR, pissed off with the interface on your microwave oven, pissed off with the power bill that you get because the thermostat in your house isn't customizable enough... you can bet someone at Apple has put that on a list for future consideration.
a court has just effectively ruled that Samsung's products are equivalent to Apple's.
No, it's ruled that Samsung's products are illegal copies of Apple products. And if you read Samsung's own testimony, Samsung admits that they're shitty copies.
That is nowhere near the functionality that Dropbox offers. That's a confusing twenty-click nightmare that only Microsoft could think was useful to a user.
Dropbox: right click on the file in Finder or Explorer, context menu, "get public link", click. THAT's useful.
LAN Sync: with Skydrive if I move 50gigs of data into the shared folder of my iMac, my iMac uploads that 50gigs into the cloud over my DSL connection and then my Macbook downloads that 50gigs from the cloud over my DSL connection and then my old PowerMac downloads that 50gigs from the cloud over my DSL connection. Dropbox will just copy the 50gigs to the other machines over the gigabit ethernet they're all plugged in to since they're all in the same room.
Differential upload: with Skydrive if I change one byte in an 8gig DVD image then that 8gigs of data gets uploaded into the cloud. Dropbox uploads the one byte.
Get public link: right click on a file in Dropbox, get link for sharing with people. A killer feature that Skydrive just doesn't have.
you can use one of the URL shortening sites, like gplsu.to [gplus.to] for a simple URL to link them to your GPlus page
I love the thought of pushing all my personal social media activity through a redirection service, I bet they won't record, datamine, and sell my info AT ALL.
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Apple has what, $130 billion in the bank? They can get the data.
Truly the "Mixed Metaphor" section of manual of style has a place in your heart where your hand has never set foot.
And it achieves this innovation by having the best people. Again, why is this news?
Oh, I forgot. It's Slashdot. There's an "Apple Story" daily quota for SEO and ad-whoring.
Vinyl avoids the loudness war issue.
Vinyl INVENTED the loudness war issue.
The greater the dynamic range of a given piece of music, the wider the grooves need to be in the vinyl. Wider grooves = fewer minutes of music on the disc. So in order to get the maximum amount of music on the vinyl and still have it at listenable quality manufacturers began compressing the music before cutting the discs, because then they could charge more for the product because it had more songs on it.
That brick wall on the graph? That started with vinyl.
IIRC the iOS4 features disabled when running on the 3G (I have one sitting on the desk in front of me) were iOS4's implementation of multitasking, variations of background wallpapers, Bluetooth keyboard support, orientation lock, and some data encryption API that nothing ever used. I'd hardly call that "abandoned".
I'm not sure how the owner had it set up so it may indeed have been running "Sammy's own and very special bastardized version of Android".
iPhones have had smooth, fast UI for ages. Android is finally there with ICS as well
I put a Samsung Galaxy S3 w/ICS next to my 2-year-old iPhone 4 and in normal swiping and scrolling operations the S3 felt like dogshit by comparison, where "dogshit" is a euphemism for "frustrating and laggy".
When using the S3 I said out loud "oh wow, lag" and the owner asked what I meant. So I handed him my iPhone 4 and he swiped and dragged around for two seconds and said quietly "Oh. I see."
Apple abandoned my new 3G within a year of new. No more security updates.
The iPhone 3G was supported until the release of iOS5 on 12 October 2011. For your "new 3G" to have been dropped within a year, you must have purchased it on or after 13 October 2010. When the 3G stopped receiving automatic updates the iPhone 3GS had been on the market for nearly two and a half years, the iPhone 4 for 14 months, and the iPhone 4S was 2 days away from its 14 October 2011 launch.
I mean, just check this out! Updated daily!
http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
one wherein the guts are a bit exposed so that he can learn how a computer works rather than just treating it like a magic object
The only people who say things like this are people who have no f*cking idea how a computer works. You know what you should be doing with your seven-year-old? Reading to him. Reading with him. Having him read to you. Kicking a ball around. Going to museums. Painting pictures. Doing home science kits. Making electric circuits. Listening to music. Playing music. Cooking. Swimming. Running. Making models.
A computer for a seven year old. Jesus.
Slashdot is so desperate to pad out the front page with SEO-whoring stories containing the word "Apple" I'm amazed it's not posting press releases from the fruit industry.
He was already thinking presidency
You mean his MUSLIM HANDLERS were thinking presidency.
Either that or they're just plain shitting themselves that Apple is about to eat their lunch.
Slashdot comments on Groklaw's comments on Bloomberg's comments on a juror's comments about a trial.
Obviously a better indicator of guilt or innocence than the actual evidence.
Actually, I thought they hadn't.
You're wrong. Xerox took a million dollars of pre-IPO Apple stock as part of the deal. And then sold it for a quick buck, and then got seller's remorse.
Apple does not want to see happen to the cell phone industry, because it's all they've got.
On the contrary, every single market where a human has a shitty experience with technology is a potential target for Apple. If you've been pissed off with programming a DVR, pissed off with the interface on your microwave oven, pissed off with the power bill that you get because the thermostat in your house isn't customizable enough... you can bet someone at Apple has put that on a list for future consideration.
So Apple licenses their design patents but you cannot build devices with their design with that supposed license? Uh. Right.
No, Apple licenses their design patents to companies that want to use them to build things that aren't slavish copies of Apple products.
a court has just effectively ruled that Samsung's products are equivalent to Apple's.
No, it's ruled that Samsung's products are illegal copies of Apple products. And if you read Samsung's own testimony, Samsung admits that they're shitty copies.
Easy.
Gizmodo posts hysterical article about Apple!
My SkyDrive does exactly this.
Now that's not ENTIRELY accurate is it?
That is nowhere near the functionality that Dropbox offers. That's a confusing twenty-click nightmare that only Microsoft could think was useful to a user.
Dropbox: right click on the file in Finder or Explorer, context menu, "get public link", click. THAT's useful.
Dropbox owns this space because it's a folder. It's not a filesystem or a server or an application. It's a folder, you put stuff in it, it syncs.
See Michael Wolfe's excellent answer to this question about Dropbox at Quora:
http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-than-other-programs-with-similar-functionality
LAN Sync: with Skydrive if I move 50gigs of data into the shared folder of my iMac, my iMac uploads that 50gigs into the cloud over my DSL connection and then my Macbook downloads that 50gigs from the cloud over my DSL connection and then my old PowerMac downloads that 50gigs from the cloud over my DSL connection. Dropbox will just copy the 50gigs to the other machines over the gigabit ethernet they're all plugged in to since they're all in the same room.
Differential upload: with Skydrive if I change one byte in an 8gig DVD image then that 8gigs of data gets uploaded into the cloud. Dropbox uploads the one byte.
Get public link: right click on a file in Dropbox, get link for sharing with people. A killer feature that Skydrive just doesn't have.
you can use one of the URL shortening sites, like gplsu.to [gplus.to] for a simple URL to link them to your GPlus page
I love the thought of pushing all my personal social media activity through a redirection service, I bet they won't record, datamine, and sell my info AT ALL.