Every time I use an Apple product I wonder if they test it for usability at all. Specifically, they should be bringing in people who have experience with every type of system out there and rate it in terms of usability in comparison with everything else.
It seems to me that their tests consist of bringing average people into the room while having someone experienced walk through some sort of script at the front of the room and the test subjects don't actually interact with the device. This would explain why they end up with pretty things that have a lot of issues once you take off the covers.
A typical heavy day consists of me checking what the weather is on a website, followed by enabling bluetooth and GPS for an hour so that I can drive to a pool (the system in my vehicle utilizes bluetooth). Then while sitting by the side of the pool lots of heavy browsing for statistics while listening to an audiobook for 8 hours or so. Then bluetooth and GPS again for the ride home. I find a single battery has trouble getting through a day with this kind of use. Hard to use battery packs by the side of the pool.
The funny thing is these people buy the device to be 'sexy' but then they don't mind dangling a battery pack off of it when the battery inevitably dies.
I'm not saying I use my GPS all day. I'm saying I don't want to have to fear using it for the sake of killing the battery, and unless I know it could go for most of the day without an issue I would fear using it.
Also, as I said above, a lot of the time when I am using my phone I am sitting by the side of a pool watching a swim meet so I don't want to be fiddling with anything external. I need to be able to pull another battery out of my pocket, insert it, and keep going.
Oh and the last time it happened I was sitting by the side of a pool looking up stats for a swimming competition that was going on. So, no, not a convienent time to use a charge pack.
And as I said, I don't want to do that. That is what quite simply what I mean.
I would rather just carry an extra battery. A solution that seems so simple by comparison that it way more then makes up for the fact that you *gasp* have seams in your phone case. I have some of those recharge packs and I have been stuck using them in the past.. the thing is a phone starts dying when you use it. So when I attach the pack I have to keep using it. Then the phone doesn't charge quickly and the cycle continues.
The point is, I want to use the GPS and Bluetooth freely without having to worry about modifying my phone with something like a power bank. With my current phone I know two batteries are enough, so I just through a charged battery in my bag and away I go. And I can't really use a power bank any because I am not sitting at a desk when I use the GPS (thus, the need to use the GPS). I don't want something else dangling off of my phone.
I won't open the case on a newer device. I'm too afraid of voiding a warranty of some sort. Or of a recall coming up for a battery or something and having them say 'oh no you opened this, we don't have to replace your part'.
I know a guy who is a big Apple fan but he won't use certain functions/apps on his phone because he wants the battery to last all day. Mostly he will not use any app that turns on the GPS.
I want to use everything on my phone and not worry about it, so unless I can have the GPS and Bluetooth on for a full day and still have a comfortable margin left to plug it in at night I'm looking for a phone with a removable battery.
The Intellipoint controller is the single best pointing device I have ever used. Better then a mouse because there are 4 less fingers away from the keyboard. Don't even get me started on touchpads, they are so inaccurate it is laughable.
If I want to buy a laptop and want to use it regularly for a long time without having to think about buying another, I buy a Thinkpad.
I really don't want to live in a world where anyone has the right to ignore whatever law they wish. It seems like that is the attitude of the day though. Just do what you want and so what if you step on the toes of someone else who thought that they were protected by the legal process. If you are a member of a country, and that country allowed the regulated market to be created, at least respect that and use the process to remove the regulated market if you feel strongly about it. It's called 'civilization'.
Right, and those regulations were put in place through proper legal process. People (taxi's) trusted that legal process and entered the market. Uber's proper course of action is to fight those laws by the same legal process if they don't like them, not to run an illegal business.
So if you feel that strongly that the law is unjust, stand up and change it and then start a company. Don't stand behind someone who is breaking the law and hurl insults.
Because a free market in the case of transportation will just devolve into the cheapest possible service in which no one wins but for the corporation and is a general safety threat to the public. No one thinks they will get into an accident when they get into a car so they won't pay for the protection they have a right to. unless regulation forces them to buy into it.
A monopoly is when one company owns the market. Therefore Taxi's aren't a monopoly. If there were only a few operators then it may be an oligopoly, but I'm afraid this isn't the case either. What the taxi industry has is known as a 'viable market'.
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Every time I use an Apple product I wonder if they test it for usability at all. Specifically, they should be bringing in people who have experience with every type of system out there and rate it in terms of usability in comparison with everything else.
It seems to me that their tests consist of bringing average people into the room while having someone experienced walk through some sort of script at the front of the room and the test subjects don't actually interact with the device. This would explain why they end up with pretty things that have a lot of issues once you take off the covers.
A typical heavy day consists of me checking what the weather is on a website, followed by enabling bluetooth and GPS for an hour so that I can drive to a pool (the system in my vehicle utilizes bluetooth). Then while sitting by the side of the pool lots of heavy browsing for statistics while listening to an audiobook for 8 hours or so. Then bluetooth and GPS again for the ride home. I find a single battery has trouble getting through a day with this kind of use. Hard to use battery packs by the side of the pool.
The funny thing is these people buy the device to be 'sexy' but then they don't mind dangling a battery pack off of it when the battery inevitably dies.
I'm not saying I use my GPS all day. I'm saying I don't want to have to fear using it for the sake of killing the battery, and unless I know it could go for most of the day without an issue I would fear using it.
Also, as I said above, a lot of the time when I am using my phone I am sitting by the side of a pool watching a swim meet so I don't want to be fiddling with anything external. I need to be able to pull another battery out of my pocket, insert it, and keep going.
Oh and the last time it happened I was sitting by the side of a pool looking up stats for a swimming competition that was going on. So, no, not a convienent time to use a charge pack.
I find anything to do with the web is a battery killer. All the javascript tracking, analytics, etc etc.
Ok I didn't know that about Apple. I assumed there was a label somewhere that got broken the instant you opened the case.
And as I said, I don't want to do that. That is what quite simply what I mean.
I would rather just carry an extra battery. A solution that seems so simple by comparison that it way more then makes up for the fact that you *gasp* have seams in your phone case. I have some of those recharge packs and I have been stuck using them in the past.. the thing is a phone starts dying when you use it. So when I attach the pack I have to keep using it. Then the phone doesn't charge quickly and the cycle continues.
The point is, I want to use the GPS and Bluetooth freely without having to worry about modifying my phone with something like a power bank. With my current phone I know two batteries are enough, so I just through a charged battery in my bag and away I go. And I can't really use a power bank any because I am not sitting at a desk when I use the GPS (thus, the need to use the GPS). I don't want something else dangling off of my phone.
I won't open the case on a newer device. I'm too afraid of voiding a warranty of some sort. Or of a recall coming up for a battery or something and having them say 'oh no you opened this, we don't have to replace your part'.
I know a guy who is a big Apple fan but he won't use certain functions/apps on his phone because he wants the battery to last all day. Mostly he will not use any app that turns on the GPS.
I want to use everything on my phone and not worry about it, so unless I can have the GPS and Bluetooth on for a full day and still have a comfortable margin left to plug it in at night I'm looking for a phone with a removable battery.
Maybe how you use it, that's not true how I use it.
That depends entirely on whether you think functionality matters or not. Clearly, Apple users don't.
I'm using T41s around my house for media players. They just don't die.
The Intellipoint controller is the single best pointing device I have ever used. Better then a mouse because there are 4 less fingers away from the keyboard. Don't even get me started on touchpads, they are so inaccurate it is laughable.
If I want to buy a laptop and want to use it regularly for a long time without having to think about buying another, I buy a Thinkpad.
I really don't want to live in a world where anyone has the right to ignore whatever law they wish. It seems like that is the attitude of the day though. Just do what you want and so what if you step on the toes of someone else who thought that they were protected by the legal process. If you are a member of a country, and that country allowed the regulated market to be created, at least respect that and use the process to remove the regulated market if you feel strongly about it. It's called 'civilization'.
But Uber drivers have internet reviews!!
Funny that you trust your life internet reviews. Kind of cute actually.
Right, and those regulations were put in place through proper legal process. People (taxi's) trusted that legal process and entered the market. Uber's proper course of action is to fight those laws by the same legal process if they don't like them, not to run an illegal business.
I didn't say you couldn't go change a law you felt was wrong. I am only saying it should be obeyed while it is a law.
So if you feel that strongly that the law is unjust, stand up and change it and then start a company. Don't stand behind someone who is breaking the law and hurl insults.
I'm getting so tired of seeing people regurgitate this overly simplistic view of how markets work.
Because a free market in the case of transportation will just devolve into the cheapest possible service in which no one wins but for the corporation and is a general safety threat to the public. No one thinks they will get into an accident when they get into a car so they won't pay for the protection they have a right to. unless regulation forces them to buy into it.
Some people don't see that the taxi industry are just trying to keep themselves viable.
A monopoly is when one company owns the market. Therefore Taxi's aren't a monopoly. If there were only a few operators then it may be an oligopoly, but I'm afraid this isn't the case either. What the taxi industry has is known as a 'viable market'.