Nice attempt at slinging BS everywhere in the hopes something sticks. Apple haters will always hate, even if it means flat-out lying to suit their agenda. Non-Apple BT devices work fine. What happened? Did the housing inspector evict you from your bridge?
Apple's Bluetooth keyboard does indeed have an on/off swtich. It's the silver disk located on the right-side of the keyboard. You have to hold down the button for a couple seconds to turn on/off the keyboard. There is a (very) tiny green LED light on the top-right of the keyboard which which tells you when it's on or off after pushing the button.
Apple's bluetooth keyboard and mouse work great. Never had a problem with pairing. They did their development right. I can only assume that they will continue that movement with the new Bluetooth standard.
I had a logitech BT mouse before this and never had problems with that either. It was amazing with battery life.
He is right on a fundamental level. Android is more geared towards tech-heads, geeks and nerds. Nothing wrong with that. iOS is geared towards eliminating the technicalities from the user. Again, nothing wrong with that.
I don't like the pissing-contest folks either. To each their own. However, I have noticed a distinct pattern that most of my non-tech-savvy friends hate their Android phones and end up going the iOS route simply because what makes it popular for the tech-community is exactly the reason it is hated by the joe-consumer. They purchased their Android phone simply because it was a "free" phone, or came in at a lower price, etc.
It's hard to educate a user about this when phone salesmen are so biased to one system or another. Buying a phone should not have to e like buying a car.
You are assuming most users of smartphones have common sense to begin with in order to stay away from red-light-district App stores. That is simply not true. Most users (regardless of platform) are simply not savvy enough to know better.
Sure, you can label them as "ignorant", or "stupid". I've read countless of postings from tech-brats preaching that if a user doesn't know any better, they should not even buy a smartphone. If that were the case, then Android would have had a much more difficult time getting any market penetration.
Users don't know (and should not have to know) that going to a Chinese App market is akin to rolling dice. They don't look at their smartphone as a desktop-computer per se, and it's really naive to think that they should have to. Google's open-to-all approach is fundamentally broken. So much so that even fandroid folks here are hinting that Apple's walled-garden approach actually is something that should be considered. Who knew that Hell would freeze over so fast!
Best protection is not common sense. We're beyond that now. People should not have to babysit their phones. It should be treated as an appliance, not a PC. Google needs to address this or it will be their downfall. This is one area where Apple really has their act together.
Yes. You're right. The millions upon millions of iPad users all over the world are all Apple fanboys with no capabilities of thinking in an individual capacity. The iPad is a failure just waiting to happen and netbooks will still come back and take over.
You keep telling yourself that. Please. Run with it.
When iPads came out, they created a new (or reinvigorated and old and dead) market. There was uncertainty in its capabilities outside of iHaters calling it an "oversized iPod Touch". Now, two years later the iPad has had a large penetration in vertical markets where before there were none for a tablet. Back then, perhaps it was correct to say that it is not meant to replace laptops or netbooks. Now though is a different story. I lost track of how many friends and colleagues that were looking for a new home computer or a laptop decided to buy an iPad instead. There is a huge, huge market for people that don't need the capabilities of a laptop/desktop PC and all the headaches that go with keeping one running. Tech-heads, geeks, and nerds hate that idea as Apple's model pretty much obliterates their definition of what computing should be like. I say it's about damn time. We've had decades of what was essentially garbage PC's devoid of any user-friendliness for the Joe-consumer. I think it's great that Apple saw how the PC-folks were screwing everything up and decided to make "computers" that hides the computer part from the user and just let's them use it like a toaster. Good for them.
It's the haters that try to convince everyone until they're blue in the face that the only "real" tablet is one that can be rooted. I can tell you right now that that kind of logic guarantees you'll lose 99% of your potential consumer base.
You do not represent the joe-consumer that the iPhone market represents. You represent a minority-group that just complains about not having a free-for-all Anarchist development environment that the majority owners, frankly don't care about.
You believe what Apple is doing is denying consumers choice. Consumers have the brains to not buy a product or to simply go with a different product altogether. I don't believe Apple is denying me something on my iPhone. I don't go around complaining that Apple doesn't let me load app XYZ on it. It's a phone first to me and to most regular Joes with cool video/internet/music support.
Why not complain about all the other phones out there that have literally no choice as to what you can put on it? Why focus only on Apple? Get over yourself.
I agree. Some people just don't want to realize that the iPhone is a phone first and not the handheld computer the minority-crowd hackers want to believe it is. I don't want instability beginning to affect my phone experience because some sloppy-written background process is interfering with it.
The iPhone ecosystem has not even been out a year. Considering where it is heading now with the SDK, I definitely don't mind Apple taking baby steps in a controlled, non-chaotic fashion than to submit to the minority-developers and open the flood-gates turning it into a messy free-for-all coding platform.
You want truly open standards, just wait for Android. Don't hold your breath though!
It's no surprise. I refuse to use CFL's unless absolutely necessary in places like outdoor lamps where removing the housing can be very difficult at times. That's where CFL's come in handy due to their longer life. 95% of all my other lights are regular 60watt bulbs all attached to dimmer switches. Most of the time, I have them set to halfway anyways and I make sure I have the lights in non-occupied rooms turned off. The thought of having mercury in the house if a bulb breaks, let alone stockpiling dead CFL's because I can't dispose of them in an environmentally-friendly way in California was just not worth it. Too much of a pain for me to deal with. It's no surprise the tree-huggers are now reconsidering CFL's because with more and more people using them, the mercury problem is now mushrooming. This wasn't rocket-science folks!
I for one welcome our future Silicon-based LED Overlords!
Apparently enough people listen to him instead of listening to whiners like you. And yet the iPhone is a success after only eight months? iPod? MacBooks? iMac?
I'm sorry... what were you saying? Not important anyways... you can go back to your parent's basement now.
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Nice attempt at slinging BS everywhere in the hopes something sticks. Apple haters will always hate, even if it means flat-out lying to suit their agenda. Non-Apple BT devices work fine. What happened? Did the housing inspector evict you from your bridge?
Apple's Bluetooth keyboard does indeed have an on/off swtich. It's the silver disk located on the right-side of the keyboard. You have to hold down the button for a couple seconds to turn on/off the keyboard. There is a (very) tiny green LED light on the top-right of the keyboard which which tells you when it's on or off after pushing the button.
Apple's bluetooth keyboard and mouse work great. Never had a problem with pairing. They did their development right. I can only assume that they will continue that movement with the new Bluetooth standard.
I had a logitech BT mouse before this and never had problems with that either. It was amazing with battery life.
He is right on a fundamental level. Android is more geared towards tech-heads, geeks and nerds. Nothing wrong with that. iOS is geared towards eliminating the technicalities from the user. Again, nothing wrong with that.
I don't like the pissing-contest folks either. To each their own. However, I have noticed a distinct pattern that most of my non-tech-savvy friends hate their Android phones and end up going the iOS route simply because what makes it popular for the tech-community is exactly the reason it is hated by the joe-consumer. They purchased their Android phone simply because it was a "free" phone, or came in at a lower price, etc.
It's hard to educate a user about this when phone salesmen are so biased to one system or another. Buying a phone should not have to e like buying a car.
You are assuming most users of smartphones have common sense to begin with in order to stay away from red-light-district App stores. That is simply not true. Most users (regardless of platform) are simply not savvy enough to know better.
Sure, you can label them as "ignorant", or "stupid". I've read countless of postings from tech-brats preaching that if a user doesn't know any better, they should not even buy a smartphone. If that were the case, then Android would have had a much more difficult time getting any market penetration.
Users don't know (and should not have to know) that going to a Chinese App market is akin to rolling dice. They don't look at their smartphone as a desktop-computer per se, and it's really naive to think that they should have to. Google's open-to-all approach is fundamentally broken. So much so that even fandroid folks here are hinting that Apple's walled-garden approach actually is something that should be considered. Who knew that Hell would freeze over so fast!
Best protection is not common sense. We're beyond that now. People should not have to babysit their phones. It should be treated as an appliance, not a PC. Google needs to address this or it will be their downfall. This is one area where Apple really has their act together.
Yes. You're right. The millions upon millions of iPad users all over the world are all Apple fanboys with no capabilities of thinking in an individual capacity. The iPad is a failure just waiting to happen and netbooks will still come back and take over.
You keep telling yourself that. Please. Run with it.
When iPads came out, they created a new (or reinvigorated and old and dead) market. There was uncertainty in its capabilities outside of iHaters calling it an "oversized iPod Touch". Now, two years later the iPad has had a large penetration in vertical markets where before there were none for a tablet. Back then, perhaps it was correct to say that it is not meant to replace laptops or netbooks. Now though is a different story. I lost track of how many friends and colleagues that were looking for a new home computer or a laptop decided to buy an iPad instead. There is a huge, huge market for people that don't need the capabilities of a laptop/desktop PC and all the headaches that go with keeping one running. Tech-heads, geeks, and nerds hate that idea as Apple's model pretty much obliterates their definition of what computing should be like. I say it's about damn time. We've had decades of what was essentially garbage PC's devoid of any user-friendliness for the Joe-consumer. I think it's great that Apple saw how the PC-folks were screwing everything up and decided to make "computers" that hides the computer part from the user and just let's them use it like a toaster. Good for them.
It's the haters that try to convince everyone until they're blue in the face that the only "real" tablet is one that can be rooted. I can tell you right now that that kind of logic guarantees you'll lose 99% of your potential consumer base.
But aren't we all raytraced??? Or in this context, traced by Ray??? :)
You do not represent the joe-consumer that the iPhone market represents. You represent a minority-group that just complains about not having a free-for-all Anarchist development environment that the majority owners, frankly don't care about.
You believe what Apple is doing is denying consumers choice. Consumers have the brains to not buy a product or to simply go with a different product altogether. I don't believe Apple is denying me something on my iPhone. I don't go around complaining that Apple doesn't let me load app XYZ on it. It's a phone first to me and to most regular Joes with cool video/internet/music support.
Why not complain about all the other phones out there that have literally no choice as to what you can put on it? Why focus only on Apple? Get over yourself.
I agree. Some people just don't want to realize that the iPhone is a phone first and not the handheld computer the minority-crowd hackers want to believe it is. I don't want instability beginning to affect my phone experience because some sloppy-written background process is interfering with it.
The iPhone ecosystem has not even been out a year. Considering where it is heading now with the SDK, I definitely don't mind Apple taking baby steps in a controlled, non-chaotic fashion than to submit to the minority-developers and open the flood-gates turning it into a messy free-for-all coding platform.
You want truly open standards, just wait for Android. Don't hold your breath though!
I for one welcome our future Silicon-based LED Overlords!
Apparently enough people listen to him instead of listening to whiners like you. And yet the iPhone is a success after only eight months? iPod? MacBooks? iMac? I'm sorry... what were you saying? Not important anyways... you can go back to your parent's basement now.