The time spent doing this could have been spent on a billable (or freelance) project that would have paid for a new phone (and then some).
I'll admit, I don't know how long it took the writer of the article to do whatever he did. I'm not particularly inclined to read the article since it keeps referring to "jailbreaking" an Android device which indicates the writer has no clue what he's talking about (Android doesn't run in a chroot jail to begin with so "jailbreaking" it is meaningless). However, the entire process of taking my Galaxy S from stock to a custom ROM took about 10 minutes, and the process of changing from one custom ROM to another even less (admittedly the Titanium Backup restore takes about 45 minutes, but it's also a "fire and forget" process that runs in the background). If you could share with me where you're getting these billable contracts that pay in excess of $3000 an hour, I'd much appreciate it.
...and that requires administrator rights to apply those updates.
That's based on where you install it. If it's installed to Program Files, of course it does. If installed to the user directory it will not. That's why Chrome doesn't need admin rights - it's installed to C:\Users\[username]\Appdata\Local\Google by default.
I don't see how anyone who is familiar with computers could find iOS's gestures "intuitive." I actually had to look up how to create folders after iOS 4.0 hit. Drag one application on top of another? How does that bear any resemblance to a) how things are already done on Windows/OS X/Gnome/KDE/etc. or b) common sense?
In Android, conversely, you long-press (stand-in for right-click) and bam, "New folder" is right there in the menu that comes up. Just like you're already used to.
Because Windows 7 shipped with so many serious bugs, right? And Office 2010, just riddled with bugs, right?
But no, keep mindlessly bashing Microsoft in totally unrelated topics.
The iPad does not compete with devices like the ThinkPad x-series tablet and the Latitude XT. People who needed tablet PCs for real work still need tablet PCs for real work, because the iPad isn't a computer and doesn't run the specialized software people bought tablet PCs before.
Of course when Jobs starts banging on about the iPad controlling 80% of the tablet market, he's conveniently omitting convertibles like the above ThinkPad, which likely make up 90%+ of PC tablet sales.
Following the initial set-up, network location is STILL OFF until you go into settings and enable it. Hence, "disabled by default." If the salesman then proceeded to go into settings and turn on network location without telling the customer, then sue the store, not Google.
On Android, you have to MANUALLY TURN ON network-location-based services (they are disabled by default), and when you do so, you are given a warning that anonymized information will be collected by Google. The only way you could be unaware of this "tracking" is if you failed to read the warning before tapping "agree," and that's hardly Google's fault. This isn't some sprawling 100-page EULA with the warning buried in the middle, either. It's two flipping sentences.
Actually, the Radeon 9700 was cooled by a fairly small fan over the GPU. The FX 5800 required a "gigantic" (at the time) two-slot blower, but even the fastest R300 didn't have a full shroud.
0%, because all programs still have to run on the original iPad.
You can have a "fragmentation free ecosystem" or you can have real advancement each generation It's kind of hard to have both. This is why PC games and some Android games have adjustable graphics settings for different hardware, but Apple deems that to be "fragmentation."
Even if we wanted to exclude notebooks with desktop CPUs, there's always the high-end systems like the Sager NP8170.
Not to mention that you can't look at notebooks without tripping over a GPU more powerful than the 6750M, and a 5400RPM drive in a $2200 notebook is just appalling.
Free on the desktop, XBox Live, and Windows Phone 7, eh? Gee, how inconspicuous.
But seriously, with all the stuttering the Android app was worthless unless you were ONLY listening to Last.FM and not trying to actually use your multitasking anyways; if I had to guess, they didn't give the audio stream the right level of priority. Since no other media player had those kind of problems, I wasn't sure whether it was merely incompetence or an attempt to drive people away from using the radio on their phones. I guess now we know?
More netbooks than that sell each month. Intel sells more processors than that in two weeks (well uh, maybe not these two weeks specifically). 14 million is nothing in this industry, no matter how much Steve wants you to believe otherwise.
I'm pretty sure that's because Sandy Bridge chipsets have only been shipping since then. I'd assume that the "relatively few" customers affected by this are "everyone who has already purchased a SB board," kind of like how the "relatively few" customers affected by Bumpgate turned out to be "everyone with a G80 derivative" (which was "relatively few" of the set of "all nVidia customers ever," I suppose).
There is absolutely a hardware reference for Android. It requires a CPU based on the ARM11 or newer architecture, at least 256MB of RAM, at least so much (not sure on exact numbers, "enough to fit Android + system Apps") flash storage, and a touchscreen. That's the same as saying "IBM compatible," which really just meant "80286 or better CPU, enough RAM to run DOS, a screen, and a keyboard." The inability to run Need for Speed: Shift or whatever on a low-end Android device does not "fragmentation" make. There were plenty of computers that were fully "IBM compatible" in the early 90s that couldn't run DOOM.
It's the EXACT same situation. Apple releases one line of products that is locked down to their OS, expensive, and internally inferior to the like-priced competition. The competition - be it Microsoft then or Google now - licenses their operating system for use on a slew of competing products covering all ranges of performance, at a lower price.
Mark my words: in a decade, most people won't even remember Apple was ever a major player in the smartphone market. They'll be forced to re-image themselves as a "boutique" product for idiots who value form over function and cost-effectiveness, just like their PCs.
Or to use your example: how many people got Macs for Christmas in the 80s? How about now?
Yeah, I'm sure we'll find a nice, unbiased presentation of the "issue" in there.
That Apple seems to honestly believe Android's supposed "fragmentation" is a disadvantage versus their complete integration shows a remarkable inability to learn from the mistakes they made that cost them the desktop. Watching Android march past iOS is like watching the 80s and early 90s play out all over again.
Why would you want upgrades that focus on features over infrastructure? Features are essentially fluff and can be supplemented by applications; core infrastructure is critical to the performance and stability of the system. It sounds like you're trying to suggest that "form over function" is a good thing in core OS design, which is hogwash.
OS X upgrades aren't generally cheaper, either; Leopard was the same price as Vista ($129) and Tiger, Panther, and Jaguar all cost $129 each where XP got free service packs. Snow Leopard was a special case because it was little more than a service pack - the fact that Apple still felt they should charge $29 for it is pretty telling. That, of course, is all before we get into the massive premium you pay for the hardware in the first place.
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How does that not fit in this case? Did you even read the next line in the summary?
You forgot "two-thirds of the world's smartphones." Android and BlackBerry OS are both heavily dependent on Java.
The time spent doing this could have been spent on a billable (or freelance) project that would have paid for a new phone (and then some).
I'll admit, I don't know how long it took the writer of the article to do whatever he did. I'm not particularly inclined to read the article since it keeps referring to "jailbreaking" an Android device which indicates the writer has no clue what he's talking about (Android doesn't run in a chroot jail to begin with so "jailbreaking" it is meaningless). However, the entire process of taking my Galaxy S from stock to a custom ROM took about 10 minutes, and the process of changing from one custom ROM to another even less (admittedly the Titanium Backup restore takes about 45 minutes, but it's also a "fire and forget" process that runs in the background). If you could share with me where you're getting these billable contracts that pay in excess of $3000 an hour, I'd much appreciate it.
...and that requires administrator rights to apply those updates.
That's based on where you install it. If it's installed to Program Files, of course it does. If installed to the user directory it will not. That's why Chrome doesn't need admin rights - it's installed to C:\Users\[username]\Appdata\Local\Google by default.
Well at least that would finally make SOMETHING that runs on XP x64.
I don't see how anyone who is familiar with computers could find iOS's gestures "intuitive." I actually had to look up how to create folders after iOS 4.0 hit. Drag one application on top of another? How does that bear any resemblance to a) how things are already done on Windows/OS X/Gnome/KDE/etc. or b) common sense?
In Android, conversely, you long-press (stand-in for right-click) and bam, "New folder" is right there in the menu that comes up. Just like you're already used to.
Because Windows 7 shipped with so many serious bugs, right? And Office 2010, just riddled with bugs, right? But no, keep mindlessly bashing Microsoft in totally unrelated topics.
Windows Update will still install "important" updates even if your system fails WGA. This includes the MSRT.
The iPad does not compete with devices like the ThinkPad x-series tablet and the Latitude XT. People who needed tablet PCs for real work still need tablet PCs for real work, because the iPad isn't a computer and doesn't run the specialized software people bought tablet PCs before.
Of course when Jobs starts banging on about the iPad controlling 80% of the tablet market, he's conveniently omitting convertibles like the above ThinkPad, which likely make up 90%+ of PC tablet sales.
Following the initial set-up, network location is STILL OFF until you go into settings and enable it. Hence, "disabled by default." If the salesman then proceeded to go into settings and turn on network location without telling the customer, then sue the store, not Google.
On Android, you have to MANUALLY TURN ON network-location-based services (they are disabled by default), and when you do so, you are given a warning that anonymized information will be collected by Google. The only way you could be unaware of this "tracking" is if you failed to read the warning before tapping "agree," and that's hardly Google's fault. This isn't some sprawling 100-page EULA with the warning buried in the middle, either. It's two flipping sentences.
Fun fact: Hotmail is still the largest webmail provider by a margin of nearly 100 million users.
Actually, the Radeon 9700 was cooled by a fairly small fan over the GPU. The FX 5800 required a "gigantic" (at the time) two-slot blower, but even the fastest R300 didn't have a full shroud.
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0%, because all programs still have to run on the original iPad. You can have a "fragmentation free ecosystem" or you can have real advancement each generation It's kind of hard to have both. This is why PC games and some Android games have adjustable graphics settings for different hardware, but Apple deems that to be "fragmentation."
I would if the pick-up didn't have a bed.
Even if we wanted to exclude notebooks with desktop CPUs, there's always the high-end systems like the Sager NP8170.
Not to mention that you can't look at notebooks without tripping over a GPU more powerful than the 6750M, and a 5400RPM drive in a $2200 notebook is just appalling.
Free on the desktop, XBox Live, and Windows Phone 7, eh? Gee, how inconspicuous. But seriously, with all the stuttering the Android app was worthless unless you were ONLY listening to Last.FM and not trying to actually use your multitasking anyways; if I had to guess, they didn't give the audio stream the right level of priority. Since no other media player had those kind of problems, I wasn't sure whether it was merely incompetence or an attempt to drive people away from using the radio on their phones. I guess now we know?
More netbooks than that sell each month. Intel sells more processors than that in two weeks (well uh, maybe not these two weeks specifically). 14 million is nothing in this industry, no matter how much Steve wants you to believe otherwise.
I'm pretty sure that's because Sandy Bridge chipsets have only been shipping since then. I'd assume that the "relatively few" customers affected by this are "everyone who has already purchased a SB board," kind of like how the "relatively few" customers affected by Bumpgate turned out to be "everyone with a G80 derivative" (which was "relatively few" of the set of "all nVidia customers ever," I suppose).
Clearly it's just your horribly dated hardware. Everything's fine on my i7-2600k, time to get with the times grandpa!
I'm pretty sure the whole "tabs in the titlebar" thing was NOT an Opera innovation.
There is absolutely a hardware reference for Android. It requires a CPU based on the ARM11 or newer architecture, at least 256MB of RAM, at least so much (not sure on exact numbers, "enough to fit Android + system Apps") flash storage, and a touchscreen. That's the same as saying "IBM compatible," which really just meant "80286 or better CPU, enough RAM to run DOS, a screen, and a keyboard." The inability to run Need for Speed: Shift or whatever on a low-end Android device does not "fragmentation" make. There were plenty of computers that were fully "IBM compatible" in the early 90s that couldn't run DOOM.
It's the EXACT same situation. Apple releases one line of products that is locked down to their OS, expensive, and internally inferior to the like-priced competition. The competition - be it Microsoft then or Google now - licenses their operating system for use on a slew of competing products covering all ranges of performance, at a lower price.
Mark my words: in a decade, most people won't even remember Apple was ever a major player in the smartphone market. They'll be forced to re-image themselves as a "boutique" product for idiots who value form over function and cost-effectiveness, just like their PCs.
Or to use your example: how many people got Macs for Christmas in the 80s? How about now?
Is there a browser out there that doesn't display the target of the link when you hover over it? Even IE does this.
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Yeah, I'm sure we'll find a nice, unbiased presentation of the "issue" in there.
That Apple seems to honestly believe Android's supposed "fragmentation" is a disadvantage versus their complete integration shows a remarkable inability to learn from the mistakes they made that cost them the desktop. Watching Android march past iOS is like watching the 80s and early 90s play out all over again.
Why would you want upgrades that focus on features over infrastructure? Features are essentially fluff and can be supplemented by applications; core infrastructure is critical to the performance and stability of the system. It sounds like you're trying to suggest that "form over function" is a good thing in core OS design, which is hogwash.
OS X upgrades aren't generally cheaper, either; Leopard was the same price as Vista ($129) and Tiger, Panther, and Jaguar all cost $129 each where XP got free service packs. Snow Leopard was a special case because it was little more than a service pack - the fact that Apple still felt they should charge $29 for it is pretty telling. That, of course, is all before we get into the massive premium you pay for the hardware in the first place.