iPad still not big enough I still have to wear a glove if you dont want to have your hand accidentally touching the screen generating imput and messing up your stuff Also, although some fun drawing software is available for the iPad, no photoshop, no illustrator, etc etc.
I have one of those styluses, does not cut it due to the previous 3 points.
Give me a big tablet, between 12 - 21 inches. Give me a tablet that runs windows. Give me a tablet that has a stylus, and turns off automatically touch display once the stylus goes out of it's enclosure. Give me that, for less than 700 (would pay up to 1000 for a 21")
Let me clear one thing: I own an iPad. i wont replace it with an android tablet, and I doubt any potential iPad consumer will change it's mind towards an android tablet.
Artists, though, may still find an iPad problematic because finger drawing is... not cool, and I dont want to wear a glove, and the thing is too small to do proper art. I also want to use my current art software for windows, photoshop included.
Asus, ironically, has something close Link, but its too expensive. They want 1050 for a 12" tablet. I'm tempted, but the price is just too high.
I want a tablet that will do things that Apple will just not aim for. Stop trying to sell android tablets to people that want iPads and start making tablets for people that want more than just an iPad!
A local login and password were generated and sent by email and the old (non-Facebook) logins deactivated.
So... without asking users they went through the trouble of handing all personal data required to create a Facebook profile and email the new Facebook profile login info to those users? Is this what happened?
Do I have to join Facebook to get an answer to that?
Not entirely true. You still need Google's permission to market it as an Android device and to include Google services, including the Marketplace and map applications.
It is often the case that makers that dont bother with the compatibility just fork the entire thing and go their own way (like Amazon and Barns & Nobles.)
It is my understanding that a prototype must be provided for you to be able to distribute a device under the compatibility program.
Also, although you can go your own way without the Android name or Google services, no carrier (in America) will sell a device without the Marketplace.
They call it the Android Compatibility program [link], I have read they require prototype devices and have flexed this muscle in the past to prevent things they dont like from going into phones despite them causing no compatibility issues [link]
You can build a device without their blessing, but you are forbidden from using the Android name or adding any Google service like Maps or the Marketplace (and no American carrier will sell a phone without those.)
Its not only the android brand name you cant use, you cant add any Google service either (Marketplace, Gmail, Maps, etc.)
It is my understanding Google requies a device prototype for them to certify it compatible, and there are reports, some a bit controversial, about them making rules on the spot for something they didnt like that had nothing to do with compatibility (most notably when Motorola wanted to add some third party checkin app [link].)
In theory, during that process, they can also reject a deice that does not meet certain level of durability.
However, 'garbage' is somewhat subjective. Some people prefer to pay top dollar for something that is robust and will last.
I see what you mean, and I agree. It is good for there to be phones of varied price ranges, sacrificing features here and there. But one thing is to sacrifice features (like screen resolution or cammera megapixels) and a different thing is to make a device that litterally falls appart in your hands.
I dont think even a user that pays zero wants a phone that will break with normal usage, specially if they are smart enough they are paying with the 2 year contract.
So although I think Google should indeed allow low budget devices, they should demand some level of durability.
RIM actually has many very cheap phones, very plasticky feel too, but they are at least built to be rather durable.
All stats i have seen claiming high rates for android phones are only counting shipments. If so many units really break and need replacement, shipment numbers are extremely exagerated (even asuming every single shipped unit makes it to a user's hand.)
Then there are upgrades...
AT the end of the day the only ones that know how many devices are really used out there are the carriers, and they dont seem to say too often or in enough coordination to know how many are actually out there in use.
There is one problem with that: Google certifies every single Android phone.
They have the ability to prevent manufacturers from releasing disposable garbage, but instead they just certify it as long as the maker does not dare remove google tracking services.
So, although the manufacturer of the specific phones should be listed, Google is the one that opens the door for manufacturers to create and sell said garbage.
If not in the mood to go into the link, here is their company description:
Since 1995, WDS has been dedicated to helping both service providers and end-users get the most from their wireless products and services. Today, by optimizing the entire process of launching and managing wireless products and services, the company enlightens its customers with the knowledge and efficiency needed to deliver the best possible user experience.
To us, the wireless user experience is more than just the latest touchscreen or user interface; it's an appreciation of the device, network, service and the journey that the end-user passes through as they interact with their service provider.
By focusing attention away from 'managing' user experience problems and towards resolving the cause of an issue, and by sharing business critical intelligence through a common platform, WDS achieves the continued savings and improvements that naturally lower the support burden and improve end-user profitability. It's this ability to help customers identify preventable issues, improve future products and services and build long-term, profitable relationships with end-users that means many of the world's most recognizable mobile brands now trust the outsourcing of their user experience to WDS.
Cant be the fact that Android phones come in all production ranges, from the great Galaxy S to the horribly cheap and plasticky, nearly disposable Sanyo Zio.
Every time I get Social Network results, or get Experts Exchange listed at the top of some.Net code search, I am one step closer to stop using Google search for good.
Side topic: their current redesigning of all their pages is making me look for alternatives to all the services they provide I still use (mainly Reader and Gmail.) There is something very wrong when Hotmail and Yahoo offer more appealing web email interfaces than you.
You can download Xcode for free and install apps you write on your own phone for free.
Really? The author of this article is under the impression that "In order to test your iPhone applications on your device, you need to obtain an iPhone Development Certificate from the iPhone Developer Program Portal", access to which portal requires a paid-up membership in the developer program.
Although thats my impression too (im an iOS developer) I subscribed to the program a year and a half ago (and the article you linked is also older than that.) Apple started selling XCode in the App Store for 5 bucks. Not sure if they changed heart then and allow you to deploy to your own device now. Got to say I have not heard anything on it, but it sounds plousible.
There are thousands of new products introduced every month in stores across America. Better than 80% of them are failures. Most of the rest might achieve niche success.
OMG! The free market is a casino!
That explains why Walmart seems to be most often visit by the same type of people that spend their vacations in the 5c slot machines!
Whoever wasted time doing the math to calculate this should do more productive things with his life. Like crunching the numbers of the latest WoW class balancing patch and tell us whats the best DPS class/weapon/build.
Interesting thing: I have no clue what brand it is but my brother's thermostat does something like this. No matter how big of a change you set it to, it will not accept a jump larger than, I don't know, 4 degrees? In a single change. It's 74 and you want colder? Tell it 50 and it will, after a few minutes, bounce to 70. Once it's 70 you can then go back at it and try to lower it further.
I am not sure if in his the threshold is user configured or not.
But google does not make hype on their android version outside the tech industry. It barely gets mentioned in ad campaigns. All marketting gets pushed behind the hardware (droid/galaxy s/evo/etc.) Logical given the hardware manufacturers are the ones pushing the ads and dont want to make a blanket ad that sells competitors products.
If Google marketed the latest android flavor, hype would make sense, but they dont.
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Having had dead tree art pads that been way bigger than 21", and done work on them while laying back in the couch, I would beg to defeer.
Im not asking for a travel sized tablet, I want an art studio tablet.
iPad still not big enough
I still have to wear a glove if you dont want to have your hand accidentally touching the screen generating imput and messing up your stuff
Also, although some fun drawing software is available for the iPad, no photoshop, no illustrator, etc etc.
I have one of those styluses, does not cut it due to the previous 3 points.
I love my iPad, but I also aknoledge it's limits.
Give me a big tablet, between 12 - 21 inches.
Give me a tablet that runs windows.
Give me a tablet that has a stylus, and turns off automatically touch display once the stylus goes out of it's enclosure.
Give me that, for less than 700 (would pay up to 1000 for a 21")
Let me clear one thing: I own an iPad. i wont replace it with an android tablet, and I doubt any potential iPad consumer will change it's mind towards an android tablet.
Artists, though, may still find an iPad problematic because finger drawing is... not cool, and I dont want to wear a glove, and the thing is too small to do proper art.
I also want to use my current art software for windows, photoshop included.
Asus, ironically, has something close Link, but its too expensive. They want 1050 for a 12" tablet. I'm tempted, but the price is just too high.
I want a tablet that will do things that Apple will just not aim for. Stop trying to sell android tablets to people that want iPads and start making tablets for people that want more than just an iPad!
Never mind i guess they created an Answer.com login.
A local login and password were generated and sent by email and the old (non-Facebook) logins deactivated.
So... without asking users they went through the trouble of handing all personal data required to create a Facebook profile and email the new Facebook profile login info to those users? Is this what happened?
Do I have to join Facebook to get an answer to that?
Apple is the only company that wants to control that.
And Nintendo.
And Sony.
And Motorola (and Google claims they will be allowed to "just be".)
And Microsoft when it comes to the XBox.
But yea other than them, only Apple.
Not entirely true. You still need Google's permission to market it as an Android device and to include Google services, including the Marketplace and map applications.
It is often the case that makers that dont bother with the compatibility just fork the entire thing and go their own way (like Amazon and Barns & Nobles.)
It is my understanding that a prototype must be provided for you to be able to distribute a device under the compatibility program.
Also, although you can go your own way without the Android name or Google services, no carrier (in America) will sell a device without the Marketplace.
They call it the Android Compatibility program [link], I have read they require prototype devices and have flexed this muscle in the past to prevent things they dont like from going into phones despite them causing no compatibility issues [link]
You can build a device without their blessing, but you are forbidden from using the Android name or adding any Google service like Maps or the Marketplace (and no American carrier will sell a phone without those.)
Its not only the android brand name you cant use, you cant add any Google service either (Marketplace, Gmail, Maps, etc.)
It is my understanding Google requies a device prototype for them to certify it compatible, and there are reports, some a bit controversial, about them making rules on the spot for something they didnt like that had nothing to do with compatibility (most notably when Motorola wanted to add some third party checkin app [link].)
In theory, during that process, they can also reject a deice that does not meet certain level of durability.
However, 'garbage' is somewhat subjective. Some people prefer to pay top dollar for something that is robust and will last.
I see what you mean, and I agree. It is good for there to be phones of varied price ranges, sacrificing features here and there. But one thing is to sacrifice features (like screen resolution or cammera megapixels) and a different thing is to make a device that litterally falls appart in your hands.
I dont think even a user that pays zero wants a phone that will break with normal usage, specially if they are smart enough they are paying with the 2 year contract.
So although I think Google should indeed allow low budget devices, they should demand some level of durability.
RIM actually has many very cheap phones, very plasticky feel too, but they are at least built to be rather durable.
All stats i have seen claiming high rates for android phones are only counting shipments. If so many units really break and need replacement, shipment numbers are extremely exagerated (even asuming every single shipped unit makes it to a user's hand.)
Then there are upgrades...
AT the end of the day the only ones that know how many devices are really used out there are the carriers, and they dont seem to say too often or in enough coordination to know how many are actually out there in use.
There is one problem with that: Google certifies every single Android phone.
They have the ability to prevent manufacturers from releasing disposable garbage, but instead they just certify it as long as the maker does not dare remove google tracking services.
So, although the manufacturer of the specific phones should be listed, Google is the one that opens the door for manufacturers to create and sell said garbage.
Seems I'm better at the google search game!!!!
From TFA: "WDS vice president of Marketing Tim Deluca-Smith said"
That makes it easy to google up the company, WDS Global: http://www.wds.co/
Heck, link to their original press release:
http://www.wds.co/news/archive/2011/20111103/20111103.asp
If not in the mood to go into the link, here is their company description:
Since 1995, WDS has been dedicated to helping both service providers and end-users get the most from their wireless products and services. Today, by optimizing the entire process of launching and managing wireless products and services, the company enlightens its customers with the knowledge and efficiency needed to deliver the best possible user experience.
To us, the wireless user experience is more than just the latest touchscreen or user interface; it's an appreciation of the device, network, service and the journey that the end-user passes through as they interact with their service provider.
By focusing attention away from 'managing' user experience problems and towards resolving the cause of an issue, and by sharing business critical intelligence through a common platform, WDS achieves the continued savings and improvements that naturally lower the support burden and improve end-user profitability. It's this ability to help customers identify preventable issues, improve future products and services and build long-term, profitable relationships with end-users that means many of the world's most recognizable mobile brands now trust the outsourcing of their user experience to WDS.
Must be an Apple fanboi!!!
Cant be the fact that Android phones come in all production ranges, from the great Galaxy S to the horribly cheap and plasticky, nearly disposable Sanyo Zio.
Every time I get Social Network results, or get Experts Exchange listed at the top of some .Net code search, I am one step closer to stop using Google search for good.
Side topic: their current redesigning of all their pages is making me look for alternatives to all the services they provide I still use (mainly Reader and Gmail.) There is something very wrong when Hotmail and Yahoo offer more appealing web email interfaces than you.
You can download Xcode for free and install apps you write on your own phone for free.
Really? The author of this article is under the impression that "In order to test your iPhone applications on your device, you need to obtain an iPhone Development Certificate from the iPhone Developer Program Portal", access to which portal requires a paid-up membership in the developer program.
Although thats my impression too (im an iOS developer) I subscribed to the program a year and a half ago (and the article you linked is also older than that.) Apple started selling XCode in the App Store for 5 bucks. Not sure if they changed heart then and allow you to deploy to your own device now. Got to say I have not heard anything on it, but it sounds plousible.
There are thousands of new products introduced every month in stores across America. Better than 80% of them are failures. Most of the rest might achieve niche success.
OMG! The free market is a casino!
That explains why Walmart seems to be most often visit by the same type of people that spend their vacations in the 5c slot machines!
Waking from sleep does not count.
Whoever wasted time doing the math to calculate this should do more productive things with his life. Like crunching the numbers of the latest WoW class balancing patch and tell us whats the best DPS class/weapon/build.
Interesting thing: I have no clue what brand it is but my brother's thermostat does something like this. No matter how big of a change you set it to, it will not accept a jump larger than, I don't know, 4 degrees? In a single change. It's 74 and you want colder? Tell it 50 and it will, after a few minutes, bounce to 70. Once it's 70 you can then go back at it and try to lower it further.
I am not sure if in his the threshold is user configured or not.
Grow up.
But google does not make hype on their android version outside the tech industry. It barely gets mentioned in ad campaigns. All marketting gets pushed behind the hardware (droid/galaxy s/evo/etc.) Logical given the hardware manufacturers are the ones pushing the ads and dont want to make a blanket ad that sells competitors products.
If Google marketed the latest android flavor, hype would make sense, but they dont.
Thank you.
If I was part of the board and was aware of these actions, I would just turn the CEO parking spot into an extra handicap one.