It doesn't matter how they spin this. People should be able to trust Google to provide accurate information, good or bad, when doing a search on an entity. The fact that they filter out the 'bad' for paying customers is egregious, and damages their reputation. The search should be unbiased. No exceptions.
It does nothing of the sort. The law is very clear. Jailbreaking is legal if used for the purpose to allow someone to move a phone from one provider to another. it does not remove any legal consequence for doing so strictly to traffic hardware for profit. This person violated DCMA for the purpose of profit, not portability.
Exactly. This wasn't some poor cell user trying to get his phone working on another network which is the specific use case allowed under the exception, but rather he was specifically prosecuted for breaking DMCA for the explicit purposes of trafficking that same hardware for a profit.
FCC doesn't care about content in and of itself, but rather how it's treated, which is the entire point. It doesn't matter if the 'content' is outside of the US. What matters is how your local ISP treats your connection to said content. It's also not strictly about blocking content (although that is inherently a part of the larger picture as some will threaten exactly that, like Comcast has threatened with Netflix.
It simply requires that an ISP will treat all content equally. That way they can't discriminate against a competing firms 'content' by reducing the quality of service for that content, while increasing the quality/bandwidth of their own offerings. It levels the playing field.
This wouldn't be as big an issue if content providers were not subsidiaries of telecom providers and vice versa. The first step that should be taken is to separate the internet provider from any content. It is a conflict of interest and spells nothing but trouble for the end user.
I just wish they would regulate internet like they do utilities. it has become an integral part in peoples lives. It is not much different than phone service in that regard.
Not quite. Blizzard tried to force people to use their real name on the blizzard Forums as well as on Battle Net, so that any stranger could see your real name. As far as I know, the only people who see your real name in this case are those you specifically send an invitation to (meaning someone you know).
Blizzard tried to introduce this feature to an already existing community of anonymous people. Apple introduced the Game Center and Ping services as a way to interact with your family and friends. It was never intended to be a free-for-all, anonymous community and lots of people accept this.
Amazing. I love how the Anti-Apple folks on Slashdot are so quick to jump on the bandwagon based on hearsay without the slightest bit of proof offered except for word of mouth.
Here is the Oh So Elusive customer agreement. it's offered with every phone. I seriously doubt the AT&T store couldn't give you a copy. It's freely available on the web.
FYI, jailbreaking is legal, so it doesn't meet the definition of 'unlawful' in the contract. In addition, this won't satisfy your anti-Apple craving because the contract is with AT&T, not Apple.
if we have reasonable cause to believe that your Equipment is being used for an unlawful purpose or in a way that (i) is harmful to, interferes with, or may adversely affect our Services or the network of any other provider, (ii) interferes with the use or enjoyment of Services received by others, (iii) infringes intellectual property rights, (iv) results in the publication of threatening or offensive material, or (v) constitutes spam or other abusive messaging or calling, a security risk, or a violation of privacy,
Of course what you do with that phone after it's jailbroken is up to you. You might also try to remember the fact that every cell provider has similar verbiage in regards to unauthorized tethering, IP Rights, etc. If you opt to break the contract after signing it, then that is your responsibility, not theirs.
That doesn't remove the need for updates to Firefox to prevent such an easy hack. It's interesting that the folks at Mozilla are pointing fingers and calling others 'evil' when the flaw exists in Firefox. Simply drop the addon into a folder and it's a done deal. Not exactly the hight of PC security. It should be a simple matter for them to simply have the browser keep the list of 'validated' addons stored away and encrypted. At each launch, scan the folder as it does now, and if it finds a new one, prompt the user to allow it. It doesn't need some complicated enable/disable dialog hidden in some preferences and that already exists for most. This type of simple workaround would work with any addon, including those that have no UI equivalent for enabling/disabling.
Your analogy is also false, as 'gas' will work in any vehicle. iOS Apps are for iOS devices only. The engine analogy was more accurate. Apple is a closed ecosystem, and it makes sense that they provide the means to put external apps into a closed system.
There is obviously NOT a monopoly since Android has such a healthy market share, and it's growing. That indicates that the free market is doing exactly as it is supposed to.
As to apple banning an android app; who cares? I doubt anyone seriously interested in an Android device needs to read a magazine about Android devices on an iPhone. In addition, why should Apple provide free advertising and bandwidth to a competing platform? Big shocker, they wont, and have no reason to.
Both big business and the utility companies pushed for deregulation. Trying to label it as something else doesn't change the fact that it was deregulated. Big business wanted deregulation so that they could buy power from the cheapest seller, and utilities wanted it to get out from under the investment cost of new power plants. They sold off their power plants, and put them into the hands of privatized industry, who in turn, did what private companies do without regulation; They increased the prices without regard to impact on the customers. Not necessarily price fixing, but more about simple profit and what they figured they could get away with faced with huge summer demand for power.
The industry was deregulated, which started the whole mess.
The 1998 deregulation legislation had nothing to do with the needs of small and medium consumers—as claimed by the utility companies and politicians who sponsored it. The reform was spurred by the profit interests of big business, including large industrial users, who wanted to lower their electricity costs by buying electricity in bulk from the cheapest sources rather than from utilities whose prices were regulated by the state. In addition, the major utilities pushed deregulation as a means of freeing themselves from the debt burden, left over from building and operating power plants, including nuclear plants. Under the arrangement the utility companies sold off most of their power plants and largely took on the function of distributors of energy, which they purchased from other suppliers. The state legislators who crafted the deregulation law largely ignored warnings about the detrimental impact of potential shortages on people's lives. They also underestimated the cost of the resulting transition from regulated to unregulated prices. Consequently, virtually no provisions were made to protect broad layers of the population, including the very young, the elderly, the infirm and the poor, from the impact of deregulation measures.
I couldn't have said it better myself. In the end, the primary things that are important to a typical end user are ease of use, quality of features, customer support, and design excellence, all of which Apple excels at producing.
A simple example is product activation. There is none for OS X. Its something that many end users of Windows will hit at some point in their day to day use and upgrades of a Windows OS. They are treated suspiciously, and in short, like criminals if too much of their hardware has changed. Apple treats their customers like customers in this respect. There are no limits to your install, no activation keys, no phone numbers to call, and no tedious 16 digit keys to input.
Apple consistently performs at the top spot for reliability, and that makes for happy customers. These are things that they don't need to check the web reviews for, or ask their geek friend for advice. Simple word of mouth carries this sort of appeal to new customers. They are obviously doing something different if they consistently get top grades in product reliability. All hardware is not created equal, even if it comes from China. Apple has a good reputation with it's customers, plain and simple.
Last but not least, is ease of use. There is a simple expectation that products from Apple are fuss-free. As a general rule, those hold true. They spend a great deal of time and money getting things 'right' so that their customers don't struggle with technology, which in turn also benefits from word of mouth.
There are many things that a techie can dislike about Apple, but there are many things that they should appreciate. It's willingness to advance new tech even if it is potentially risky in the market place, it's willingness to open source and contribute to open source, it's stance on privacy (google Apple Facebook), and it's basic ability to get people excited about technology in general.
Finally catching up? They were the first to offer SSD as a standard drive. As far as I know, they are still the only manufacturer to do so. The others still offer it as an upgrade, but not baseline as Apple has started to do. You'll also be hard pressed to find manufacturer's offering 512 GB SSD drives from the factory, also as Apple is already doing.
As to the 'why', Light Peak to USB adapters will most likely be an easy win for manufacturer's who aren't yet ready to make the jump to Light Peak, meaning it could easily support USB 'ports' out of the box even though it uses Light Peak underneath.
I would think most companies, like my own, ask each user to agree to this risk when they agree to use a personal device to hold company data. This is pretty standard stuff, and the ISS shop wouldn't even sign off on personal devices used in this way without that capability. It is definitely a feature.
As to the impact? Not much of an issue. Any iPhone that is synced in iTunes (the large majority I would think), automatically makes a backup when it syncs, meaning any new device could get a total restore of all apps, data, music, notes, etc, at the time it was plugged into the users PC that contained the backup.
You bring up an interesting point. From what I understand, if someone walks into an airport, drops their bag on the conveyor, and then refuses the search, they are then liable for penalties. In other words, it's a one way trip. You can't back out at the last minute with no penalty. This is NOT a voluntary procedure beyond a certain point.
Just Google the following (sorry, today is a no copy/paste day again on slashdot..really wish they would fix that): body scan refuse legal penalty
I didn't find D2 to be stale in that way. It introduces new skills that are only unlocked at higher levels, as well as new items/enhancements and set items that were typically completed only after many days of play, that kept things fresh. That, coupled with the changes in each act (new environments) in addition to the random level layouts, and those Act scene cuts (still love those) is a win in my book. Enough 'new' each time around to keep things fresh. Unlike you, I never went in to playing the game at higher difficulties. I would instead simply cut a new character and start over with a new class. Perhaps thats why we had different experiences. Either that or a simple difference in perspective.
As to the enemies standing in line, in reality, that would be far too much of a stretch for any imagination, but in a game environment, that is totally forgivable as the game would be boring if you just had to walk through the park so to speak. I got a chuckle out of your visual though..lol. Makes me want to fire it up and play it again.
I have to disagree. For me personally, I don't finish many of the games because they simply lack the ability to keep me engaged. I find myself returning to old classics like Diablo 2. There are a few exceptions, but those tend to be very few and far between. The designers these days find an engine that pleases them, and then start cranking out generic games. The problem here is that when the engine becomes available to a larger audience, you're treated to 5 games, all with the same look and feel, no story worth speaking of, and little reason to finish them, or worse, they lack play-ability, meaning the game mechanics are overly tedious for the sake of adding 'hours' to the gameplay without adding value.
I suspect if more developers concentrated on building a better story rather than worrying about looks and 'hours of gameplay' alone, the percent of folks that finish would increase.
I really doubt is has a whole lot to do with the quality of the game or how annoying it is.
It's all relative. Actually it is sped up, but not in the way you think. They've found that if a gravity well is strong enough, it actually pulls spacetime around it. If you were to shine a beam of light while based on spacetime that is moving, you in essence create a beam of light that is moving faster than the speed of light, at least for an observer standing on spacetime that is not moving.
The first question I had is how they are going to speed light up beyond the speed of light? I know it's theoretically possible for that to happen around gravity wells from black holes as they drag actual space-time around the event horizon, but how would they do this with a piece of fabric regardless of the machinery embedded in it?
Which is why I said they need to offer this simple functionality via a tool in the control panel. They made this somewhat easier in Windows 7 for folders like My Music by right clicking the folder and drilling down to the option to move it, but there is no simple tool to do this presented to the end users.
It's one of the things I love about Linux is the fact that you an set the root for common locations right in the setup process. Windows offers this via mount points, but that's hardly something your grandma could stumble through on a whim.
It's not a matter of physically moving the directory. It's a matter of most programs looking in a default location for said user folder. They need a simple control panel tool to change the location of default folders. They offer some for subfolders like My Documents, but they lack the means to simply move the entire root of the users folder.
Is the old saying "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" alive and kicking? Granted this isn't some brick and mortar store, but these sites are not all that different in that respect. It is their content.
I can't agree more. I haven't found a single instance in 3 years for requiring flash. It is only now gaining support on Android, which is funny in itself. Folks slamming Apple when it wasn't even out of beta for Android.
There is simply no need, as any site worthy of a mobile device, offers a mobile version, which never uses flash.
I think you're being naive. Why would they do that when the App store is a huge success? Every handset maker out there is selling Android device, yet Apple is still holding its own quite nicely, with a single model from one company and one mobile provider, and that is soon to change in 2011, when they expand to Verizon, and open an even bigger market to Apple. You also misunderstand the motive for the App store. They make enough to break even with perhaps a tiny bit above board. The App Store was never about profit.
I predict that the rise of the Android OS is going to force Apple to open their phone to non-App Store apps.
Statements like this remind me of the 'Year of the Linux Desktop' claims. Linux, like Android, is an excellent piece of software, but you vastly overestimate the draw for 'open' to the typical end user. Hell Linux is free yet it has a tiny portion of the desktop OS. In other words, you can't give it away (well not in any significant numbers that is). A FOSS App Store might give slashdotters a nerd-gasm, but to an average Joe, it's just another gimmick without a 'must have' appeal considering the sheer number of apps they have to choose from. Ask someone on the street if they would rather use VLC because it's GPL and they would just look at you with a blank stare until you explain what GPL meant.
I have to wonder if part of the anti-Apple movement in here lately is simply because Apple, although they are a tech company, lives, eats, and breaths, without any input from the techie crowd. That's a total reversal from even 10 years ago where most family members always had someone they know who was PC savvy and helped with decisions like that. I think that tends to leave your typical geek a little miffed. 10 years ago, you had to know a geek to do something as complex as upgrading your OS, or backing up your software (some of the basic functionality that today's devices provide with no configuration needed).
Now anyone can buy a device, download some music, sync some videos, install any number a quarter of a million apps, backup their data, upgrade their OS, all without ever needing to ask the family geek for help.
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It doesn't matter how they spin this. People should be able to trust Google to provide accurate information, good or bad, when doing a search on an entity. The fact that they filter out the 'bad' for paying customers is egregious, and damages their reputation. The search should be unbiased. No exceptions.
It does nothing of the sort. The law is very clear. Jailbreaking is legal if used for the purpose to allow someone to move a phone from one provider to another. it does not remove any legal consequence for doing so strictly to traffic hardware for profit. This person violated DCMA for the purpose of profit, not portability.
Exactly. This wasn't some poor cell user trying to get his phone working on another network which is the specific use case allowed under the exception, but rather he was specifically prosecuted for breaking DMCA for the explicit purposes of trafficking that same hardware for a profit.
Hardly innocent.
FCC doesn't care about content in and of itself, but rather how it's treated, which is the entire point. It doesn't matter if the 'content' is outside of the US. What matters is how your local ISP treats your connection to said content. It's also not strictly about blocking content (although that is inherently a part of the larger picture as some will threaten exactly that, like Comcast has threatened with Netflix.
It simply requires that an ISP will treat all content equally. That way they can't discriminate against a competing firms 'content' by reducing the quality of service for that content, while increasing the quality/bandwidth of their own offerings. It levels the playing field.
This wouldn't be as big an issue if content providers were not subsidiaries of telecom providers and vice versa. The first step that should be taken is to separate the internet provider from any content. It is a conflict of interest and spells nothing but trouble for the end user.
I just wish they would regulate internet like they do utilities. it has become an integral part in peoples lives. It is not much different than phone service in that regard.
Not quite. Blizzard tried to force people to use their real name on the blizzard Forums as well as on Battle Net, so that any stranger could see your real name. As far as I know, the only people who see your real name in this case are those you specifically send an invitation to (meaning someone you know).
Amazing. I love how the Anti-Apple folks on Slashdot are so quick to jump on the bandwagon based on hearsay without the slightest bit of proof offered except for word of mouth.
Here is the Oh So Elusive customer agreement. it's offered with every phone. I seriously doubt the AT&T store couldn't give you a copy. It's freely available on the web.
http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/legal/index.jsp?q_termsKey=wirelessCustomerAgreement&q_termsName=Wireless+Customer+Agreement&print=true#whatIsTheTermOfMyService
FYI, jailbreaking is legal, so it doesn't meet the definition of 'unlawful' in the contract. In addition, this won't satisfy your anti-Apple craving because the contract is with AT&T, not Apple.
Of course what you do with that phone after it's jailbroken is up to you. You might also try to remember the fact that every cell provider has similar verbiage in regards to unauthorized tethering, IP Rights, etc. If you opt to break the contract after signing it, then that is your responsibility, not theirs.
That doesn't remove the need for updates to Firefox to prevent such an easy hack. It's interesting that the folks at Mozilla are pointing fingers and calling others 'evil' when the flaw exists in Firefox. Simply drop the addon into a folder and it's a done deal. Not exactly the hight of PC security. It should be a simple matter for them to simply have the browser keep the list of 'validated' addons stored away and encrypted. At each launch, scan the folder as it does now, and if it finds a new one, prompt the user to allow it. It doesn't need some complicated enable/disable dialog hidden in some preferences and that already exists for most. This type of simple workaround would work with any addon, including those that have no UI equivalent for enabling/disabling.
Your analogy is also false, as 'gas' will work in any vehicle. iOS Apps are for iOS devices only. The engine analogy was more accurate. Apple is a closed ecosystem, and it makes sense that they provide the means to put external apps into a closed system.
There is obviously NOT a monopoly since Android has such a healthy market share, and it's growing. That indicates that the free market is doing exactly as it is supposed to.
As to apple banning an android app; who cares? I doubt anyone seriously interested in an Android device needs to read a magazine about Android devices on an iPhone. In addition, why should Apple provide free advertising and bandwidth to a competing platform? Big shocker, they wont, and have no reason to.
Both big business and the utility companies pushed for deregulation. Trying to label it as something else doesn't change the fact that it was deregulated. Big business wanted deregulation so that they could buy power from the cheapest seller, and utilities wanted it to get out from under the investment cost of new power plants. They sold off their power plants, and put them into the hands of privatized industry, who in turn, did what private companies do without regulation; They increased the prices without regard to impact on the customers. Not necessarily price fixing, but more about simple profit and what they figured they could get away with faced with huge summer demand for power.
The industry was deregulated, which started the whole mess.
I couldn't have said it better myself. In the end, the primary things that are important to a typical end user are ease of use, quality of features, customer support, and design excellence, all of which Apple excels at producing.
A simple example is product activation. There is none for OS X. Its something that many end users of Windows will hit at some point in their day to day use and upgrades of a Windows OS. They are treated suspiciously, and in short, like criminals if too much of their hardware has changed. Apple treats their customers like customers in this respect. There are no limits to your install, no activation keys, no phone numbers to call, and no tedious 16 digit keys to input.
Another example is simple hardware reliability.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/189986/report_gives_apple_top_honors_for_reliability.html
Apple consistently performs at the top spot for reliability, and that makes for happy customers. These are things that they don't need to check the web reviews for, or ask their geek friend for advice. Simple word of mouth carries this sort of appeal to new customers. They are obviously doing something different if they consistently get top grades in product reliability. All hardware is not created equal, even if it comes from China. Apple has a good reputation with it's customers, plain and simple.
Last but not least, is ease of use. There is a simple expectation that products from Apple are fuss-free. As a general rule, those hold true. They spend a great deal of time and money getting things 'right' so that their customers don't struggle with technology, which in turn also benefits from word of mouth.
There are many things that a techie can dislike about Apple, but there are many things that they should appreciate. It's willingness to advance new tech even if it is potentially risky in the market place, it's willingness to open source and contribute to open source, it's stance on privacy (google Apple Facebook), and it's basic ability to get people excited about technology in general.
Actually, from what I recall, it was due to deregulation, not price fixing.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/mar2001/cal-m22.shtml
Finally catching up? They were the first to offer SSD as a standard drive. As far as I know, they are still the only manufacturer to do so. The others still offer it as an upgrade, but not baseline as Apple has started to do. You'll also be hard pressed to find manufacturer's offering 512 GB SSD drives from the factory, also as Apple is already doing.
As to the 'why', Light Peak to USB adapters will most likely be an easy win for manufacturer's who aren't yet ready to make the jump to Light Peak, meaning it could easily support USB 'ports' out of the box even though it uses Light Peak underneath.
I would think most companies, like my own, ask each user to agree to this risk when they agree to use a personal device to hold company data. This is pretty standard stuff, and the ISS shop wouldn't even sign off on personal devices used in this way without that capability. It is definitely a feature.
As to the impact? Not much of an issue. Any iPhone that is synced in iTunes (the large majority I would think), automatically makes a backup when it syncs, meaning any new device could get a total restore of all apps, data, music, notes, etc, at the time it was plugged into the users PC that contained the backup.
You bring up an interesting point. From what I understand, if someone walks into an airport, drops their bag on the conveyor, and then refuses the search, they are then liable for penalties. In other words, it's a one way trip. You can't back out at the last minute with no penalty. This is NOT a voluntary procedure beyond a certain point.
Just Google the following (sorry, today is a no copy/paste day again on slashdot..really wish they would fix that): body scan refuse legal penalty
I think an easier test of intelligence is to point at something. A dog will look where you're pointing. A cat just looks at your finger...
I didn't find D2 to be stale in that way. It introduces new skills that are only unlocked at higher levels, as well as new items/enhancements and set items that were typically completed only after many days of play, that kept things fresh. That, coupled with the changes in each act (new environments) in addition to the random level layouts, and those Act scene cuts (still love those) is a win in my book. Enough 'new' each time around to keep things fresh. Unlike you, I never went in to playing the game at higher difficulties. I would instead simply cut a new character and start over with a new class. Perhaps thats why we had different experiences. Either that or a simple difference in perspective.
As to the enemies standing in line, in reality, that would be far too much of a stretch for any imagination, but in a game environment, that is totally forgivable as the game would be boring if you just had to walk through the park so to speak. I got a chuckle out of your visual though..lol. Makes me want to fire it up and play it again.
I have to disagree. For me personally, I don't finish many of the games because they simply lack the ability to keep me engaged. I find myself returning to old classics like Diablo 2. There are a few exceptions, but those tend to be very few and far between. The designers these days find an engine that pleases them, and then start cranking out generic games. The problem here is that when the engine becomes available to a larger audience, you're treated to 5 games, all with the same look and feel, no story worth speaking of, and little reason to finish them, or worse, they lack play-ability, meaning the game mechanics are overly tedious for the sake of adding 'hours' to the gameplay without adding value.
I suspect if more developers concentrated on building a better story rather than worrying about looks and 'hours of gameplay' alone, the percent of folks that finish would increase.
Here's a relevant link if you want to read more.
http://www.optcorp.com/edu/articleDetailEDU.aspx?aid=1706
It's all relative. Actually it is sped up, but not in the way you think. They've found that if a gravity well is strong enough, it actually pulls spacetime around it. If you were to shine a beam of light while based on spacetime that is moving, you in essence create a beam of light that is moving faster than the speed of light, at least for an observer standing on spacetime that is not moving.
The first question I had is how they are going to speed light up beyond the speed of light? I know it's theoretically possible for that to happen around gravity wells from black holes as they drag actual space-time around the event horizon, but how would they do this with a piece of fabric regardless of the machinery embedded in it?
Which is why I said they need to offer this simple functionality via a tool in the control panel. They made this somewhat easier in Windows 7 for folders like My Music by right clicking the folder and drilling down to the option to move it, but there is no simple tool to do this presented to the end users.
It's one of the things I love about Linux is the fact that you an set the root for common locations right in the setup process. Windows offers this via mount points, but that's hardly something your grandma could stumble through on a whim.
It's not a matter of physically moving the directory. It's a matter of most programs looking in a default location for said user folder. They need a simple control panel tool to change the location of default folders. They offer some for subfolders like My Documents, but they lack the means to simply move the entire root of the users folder.
Is the old saying "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" alive and kicking? Granted this isn't some brick and mortar store, but these sites are not all that different in that respect. It is their content.
Wouldn't that same principle apply here?
I can't agree more. I haven't found a single instance in 3 years for requiring flash. It is only now gaining support on Android, which is funny in itself. Folks slamming Apple when it wasn't even out of beta for Android.
There is simply no need, as any site worthy of a mobile device, offers a mobile version, which never uses flash.
I think you're being naive. Why would they do that when the App store is a huge success? Every handset maker out there is selling Android device, yet Apple is still holding its own quite nicely, with a single model from one company and one mobile provider, and that is soon to change in 2011, when they expand to Verizon, and open an even bigger market to Apple. You also misunderstand the motive for the App store. They make enough to break even with perhaps a tiny bit above board. The App Store was never about profit.
Statements like this remind me of the 'Year of the Linux Desktop' claims. Linux, like Android, is an excellent piece of software, but you vastly overestimate the draw for 'open' to the typical end user. Hell Linux is free yet it has a tiny portion of the desktop OS. In other words, you can't give it away (well not in any significant numbers that is). A FOSS App Store might give slashdotters a nerd-gasm, but to an average Joe, it's just another gimmick without a 'must have' appeal considering the sheer number of apps they have to choose from. Ask someone on the street if they would rather use VLC because it's GPL and they would just look at you with a blank stare until you explain what GPL meant.
I have to wonder if part of the anti-Apple movement in here lately is simply because Apple, although they are a tech company, lives, eats, and breaths, without any input from the techie crowd. That's a total reversal from even 10 years ago where most family members always had someone they know who was PC savvy and helped with decisions like that. I think that tends to leave your typical geek a little miffed. 10 years ago, you had to know a geek to do something as complex as upgrading your OS, or backing up your software (some of the basic functionality that today's devices provide with no configuration needed).
Now anyone can buy a device, download some music, sync some videos, install any number a quarter of a million apps, backup their data, upgrade their OS, all without ever needing to ask the family geek for help.