The ipod came out like 10 years ago so it was over 10 years ago they would have made the decision on the format. The question is more what was the performance of FLAC on ARM devices and specially for ones that have to run on a battery. FLAC was certainly considered more CPU intensive than the likes of MP3 a decade ago.
Considering Android didn't even include FLAC support until honeycomb (may 2011) I suspect there is a pretty good reason it was avoided prior to that.
My ipod works just fine with Linux. In fact I've never hooked it into iTunes. iTunes is serving DRM music and their format is now open sourced so you are more than happy to move the files to any thing else.
Sure the Touch and iPhone are more locked down (mainly because they aren't music only devices) but you can still get music onto them through other means.
Which means the vast majority of people won't have access and that's what matters. Most people don't root phones, build computers, etc. So it's pretty useless to use what geeks do as some gauge.
iOS 4 was released 3 years after the first iphone so give or take a couple days it did receive every major version of iOS for the 3 year period. Considering the complaints about the Iphone 3 being slow with iOS4 I am guessing the original iphone lacks iOS support because it would suck. Where as the G1 happily ran quite well on version that were never officially released for it. HTC just decided to let people suck it up and buy a new phone which benefits them.
It doesn't include the G1 either which lost support pretty quickly as I'd guess a lot of Android phones were but trying to track and categorise every single Android phone would be nearly impossible.
One is completely legal (even if questionable) and one isn't. One doesn't really harm anyone as he still has car insurance and the other is often used for piracy so if they want to keep developers then they need to protect them.
Double the memory vs a couple extra hours of battery life. For every plus the Windows phone has it's minimal at best.
The N9 (16gb the low end model which compares to the WP7) is 480 euros which is £418. Cnet says the 800 will cost £450 from carphone warehouse so it's not cheaper. Sounds like they'll be close and it will depend on who you go with. Though most people will go with a contract. If the N9 expected to be less popular then I'd expect it to have better deals. Unless you're in the US of course where they fuck you up the butt on mobile phones no matter what.
The WII pretty much overtook the 360 straight away. You're right though that MS has a lot to lose because their only large lead over Sony is in the US. Europe it's very close if not in 3rd place and it's dead in the water in Japan. This has allowed Sony to catch up to MS and be only a few million units behind MS despite launching a year later despite the higher initial cost and despite the lack of exclusive.
I think where MS hurts themselves is they're trying to lock down the 360 so much. Proprietary add-ons, most everything of value requires a gold membership, no web browser and that ridiculous points system. At least Nintendo's points convert directly to real currency. They don't allow developers to choose whether they can give content away.
If they keep trying to have a tight reign on everything they're going to piss consumers and developers off.
Sorry but this isn't about doing what's fair. If MS was truly concerned about protecting itself then go after Android's main developer (Google) and not after a bunch of small fries who just sell the OS on their phones.
It was probably "lost" because it wasn't exciting and now it's been "found" because he's dead. The fact they haven't decided what to do with it means they want to make money from it.
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Sounds retarded if you have to join a club to be a 'proper' engineer.
Who said the browser is only supposed to open HTML documents?
The ipod came out like 10 years ago so it was over 10 years ago they would have made the decision on the format. The question is more what was the performance of FLAC on ARM devices and specially for ones that have to run on a battery. FLAC was certainly considered more CPU intensive than the likes of MP3 a decade ago.
Considering Android didn't even include FLAC support until honeycomb (may 2011) I suspect there is a pretty good reason it was avoided prior to that.
My ipod works just fine with Linux. In fact I've never hooked it into iTunes. iTunes is serving DRM music and their format is now open sourced so you are more than happy to move the files to any thing else.
Sure the Touch and iPhone are more locked down (mainly because they aren't music only devices) but you can still get music onto them through other means.
Which means the vast majority of people won't have access and that's what matters. Most people don't root phones, build computers, etc. So it's pretty useless to use what geeks do as some gauge.
iOS 4 was released 3 years after the first iphone so give or take a couple days it did receive every major version of iOS for the 3 year period. Considering the complaints about the Iphone 3 being slow with iOS4 I am guessing the original iphone lacks iOS support because it would suck. Where as the G1 happily ran quite well on version that were never officially released for it. HTC just decided to let people suck it up and buy a new phone which benefits them.
It doesn't include the G1 either which lost support pretty quickly as I'd guess a lot of Android phones were but trying to track and categorise every single Android phone would be nearly impossible.
iOs 4 was released 3 years after the original iPhone so you can say it was supported by the current OS for 3 years.
You shouldn't have to crack your phone to keep it up to date and if that is what's require the vast majority of people won't do it.
One is completely legal (even if questionable) and one isn't. One doesn't really harm anyone as he still has car insurance and the other is often used for piracy so if they want to keep developers then they need to protect them.
Double the memory vs a couple extra hours of battery life. For every plus the Windows phone has it's minimal at best.
The N9 (16gb the low end model which compares to the WP7) is 480 euros which is £418. Cnet says the 800 will cost £450 from carphone warehouse so it's not cheaper. Sounds like they'll be close and it will depend on who you go with. Though most people will go with a contract. If the N9 expected to be less popular then I'd expect it to have better deals. Unless you're in the US of course where they fuck you up the butt on mobile phones no matter what.
It's because the N9 is better than the Windows Phones.
I think it tries far too hard to be cool. I don't want interfaces that don't fit on the screen
Some people like to pretend Nintendo doesn't exist despite them being number one on home and portable consoles.
The WII pretty much overtook the 360 straight away. You're right though that MS has a lot to lose because their only large lead over Sony is in the US. Europe it's very close if not in 3rd place and it's dead in the water in Japan. This has allowed Sony to catch up to MS and be only a few million units behind MS despite launching a year later despite the higher initial cost and despite the lack of exclusive.
I think where MS hurts themselves is they're trying to lock down the 360 so much. Proprietary add-ons, most everything of value requires a gold membership, no web browser and that ridiculous points system. At least Nintendo's points convert directly to real currency. They don't allow developers to choose whether they can give content away.
If they keep trying to have a tight reign on everything they're going to piss consumers and developers off.
Likewise you lock Microsoft out of the phone and tablet market where they want to be and arguably need to be.
Sorry but this isn't about doing what's fair. If MS was truly concerned about protecting itself then go after Android's main developer (Google) and not after a bunch of small fries who just sell the OS on their phones.
Seriously 13 slides and zero good content even on the first page. I'm not clicking through that shit.
It was probably "lost" because it wasn't exciting and now it's been "found" because he's dead. The fact they haven't decided what to do with it means they want to make money from it.
Most Android phones are iphone wanna-be phones. There have only been a handful of Android phones that have had a keyboard or anything different.
It's still a good movie (Though se7en was a better Brad Pitt movie from that era) but it certainly has been blown out of proportion by some people.
Hey looks it's Ballmer's mangina.
Might as well pass on the upcoming 3D star wars and wait for the holographic version where Darth Vader will be replaced George Lucas' neck.
Since when was kinect display 3D holograms or anything?
Because it's nice. Like anything else it's not so nice when you take it in excess.