Your point is irrelevant. Apple fixes its bugs and provides updates to devices that are over 4 years old. How many 4 year old Android phones are on Marshmallow? My old Note 2 from by far the biggest Android OEM is still on KitKat. I like Android but the fragmentation situation is ridiculous. Just buy a Nexus is a crap answer as well. The OEMs and carriers should be providing these updates in a timely manner but they aren't.
That's two words and an up to date CM isn't available for every phone. The version available for my old Note 2 for example is based on KitKat. Even if CM supported every phone 100% that's still no excuse for the manufacturers to abandon their customers. The Note 2 was an expensive flagship phone. It should be getting the same kind of support that iPhones get. That's why I abandoned Android. The only Nexus available at the time was a ridiculously huge 6in one and I wanted one below 5in. For a high spec phone that left me two options: Apple or Sony and I didn't have any faith that Sony would update their handset in a reasonable time.
These are all before 9.2 so have been patched on all devices from the 4S onwards. My Note 2 is still on KitKat and has numerous security vulnerabilities which Samsung don't give a shit about fixing.
They succeeded in growing their server and database market where they don't have a monopoly and pushed their way into the console market where they don't have a monopoly either. Google have had a similar number of failures but no one ever seems to jump on them. They didn't fail, they just became boring like the previous monopoly, IBM.
I agree. Gun ownership should be subject to similar rules as car ownership. Letting people have lethal weapons with no supervision seems like madness to me. If the general culture was based on this then I wouldn't be worried by someone with a gun. It's a matter of trust and I don't generally trust people I don't know if they have weapons in their hands.
I can own one if I want one so I guess that means I'm not a slave. Seeing someone I don't know walking around with a lethal weapon would always make me wary, whether that's a gun, a knife or anything else. At least with a knife I can take it off them relatively easily because they have to come close to me to use it. A gun user can shoot me from several metres away without me even realising.
Having a hand gun in your bag is a lot different to having an assault rifle strapped to your back as if it was a zombie apocalypse. Just as a matter of interest, how well does gun ownership in Israel defend against suicide bombings and rocket attacks?
I don't have anything against people owning guns, I just don't want one and I don't want to be around them. Poorly trained idiots and lethal weapons are not a good combination.
Are you from the UK? I never said I didn't know anyone with guns. I knew a few people but it wasn't in any way the norm like it is in the US. You're telling me you wouldn't be worried by someone you didn't know walking down the street with a military weapon strapped to their back?
I live in the UK and hardly anyone owned a gun before the handgun ban. The rise in violent crime (which has been going down more recently) has nothing to do with gun ownership. Gun ownership has been regulated since the 19th century and by 1997 was very tightly regulated. The Dunblane massacre led to an even bigger crackdown but guns are still available to those who can prove that they have a good reason to own one.
Your study assumes that the UK had a similar gun culture as the US, when in fact our culture has never been like that. There have never been any gun sections in supermarkets for example and the idea of someone openly carrying an assault rifle would be incredible (and worrying) to people here.
The availability of cheap alcohol from supermarkets and the rise in people getting drunk before going out due to high prices in bars and clubs is probably a more likely factor in the rise in violent crime than people finding it a bit harder to get guns they never really wanted in the first place. This is probably a better read than that study if you want to inform yourself about the UK's history with guns.
Saying that women have always been the primary victims of war is pretty damn insulting to those men and boys maimed and killed in wars they were forced to fight in.
Tiny hipster infested start-ups don't count unless you think that corporate America is about to issue their peons with very expensive laptops instead of much cheaper Dells.
Phones are used for work as well. I think these will do reasonably well in the corporate world where iOS is too expensive and Android is harder to secure.
Are you taking the piss? It's the fault of the user that they don't load some random firmware that doesn't support all the functions of their phone via Odin which isn't exactly user friendly. In a world like that how soon would it be before malware infested firmwares were everywhere. You fanboys are mental.
Just buy a Nexus is not the answer, the answer is for the OEMs, the carriers and Google to give a shit about their customers.
I'm not attacking the OS. I had a Nexus 6 (which wasn't cheap) and it was great. Google needs to sort out the fragmented ecosystem for the benefit of customers and developers. As it is only the OEMs and the carriers are benefiting from the status quo.
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Your point is irrelevant. Apple fixes its bugs and provides updates to devices that are over 4 years old. How many 4 year old Android phones are on Marshmallow? My old Note 2 from by far the biggest Android OEM is still on KitKat. I like Android but the fragmentation situation is ridiculous. Just buy a Nexus is a crap answer as well. The OEMs and carriers should be providing these updates in a timely manner but they aren't.
That's two words and an up to date CM isn't available for every phone. The version available for my old Note 2 for example is based on KitKat. Even if CM supported every phone 100% that's still no excuse for the manufacturers to abandon their customers. The Note 2 was an expensive flagship phone. It should be getting the same kind of support that iPhones get. That's why I abandoned Android. The only Nexus available at the time was a ridiculously huge 6in one and I wanted one below 5in. For a high spec phone that left me two options: Apple or Sony and I didn't have any faith that Sony would update their handset in a reasonable time.
These are all before 9.2 so have been patched on all devices from the 4S onwards. My Note 2 is still on KitKat and has numerous security vulnerabilities which Samsung don't give a shit about fixing.
They succeeded in growing their server and database market where they don't have a monopoly and pushed their way into the console market where they don't have a monopoly either. Google have had a similar number of failures but no one ever seems to jump on them. They didn't fail, they just became boring like the previous monopoly, IBM.
He tripled their profits and doubled their revenue in his time there. Not Apple level perhaps but hardy incompetent.
Not much use against suicide bombers though unless these person is a really good shot. They had to build a wall to keep them out.
I agree. Gun ownership should be subject to similar rules as car ownership. Letting people have lethal weapons with no supervision seems like madness to me. If the general culture was based on this then I wouldn't be worried by someone with a gun. It's a matter of trust and I don't generally trust people I don't know if they have weapons in their hands.
I can own one if I want one so I guess that means I'm not a slave. Seeing someone I don't know walking around with a lethal weapon would always make me wary, whether that's a gun, a knife or anything else. At least with a knife I can take it off them relatively easily because they have to come close to me to use it. A gun user can shoot me from several metres away without me even realising.
Having a hand gun in your bag is a lot different to having an assault rifle strapped to your back as if it was a zombie apocalypse. Just as a matter of interest, how well does gun ownership in Israel defend against suicide bombings and rocket attacks?
I don't have anything against people owning guns, I just don't want one and I don't want to be around them. Poorly trained idiots and lethal weapons are not a good combination.
Are you from the UK? I never said I didn't know anyone with guns. I knew a few people but it wasn't in any way the norm like it is in the US. You're telling me you wouldn't be worried by someone you didn't know walking down the street with a military weapon strapped to their back?
Look up the word conscription.
Flawed research based on assumptions about the UK that are not correct.
I live in the UK and hardly anyone owned a gun before the handgun ban. The rise in violent crime (which has been going down more recently) has nothing to do with gun ownership. Gun ownership has been regulated since the 19th century and by 1997 was very tightly regulated. The Dunblane massacre led to an even bigger crackdown but guns are still available to those who can prove that they have a good reason to own one.
Your study assumes that the UK had a similar gun culture as the US, when in fact our culture has never been like that. There have never been any gun sections in supermarkets for example and the idea of someone openly carrying an assault rifle would be incredible (and worrying) to people here.
The availability of cheap alcohol from supermarkets and the rise in people getting drunk before going out due to high prices in bars and clubs is probably a more likely factor in the rise in violent crime than people finding it a bit harder to get guns they never really wanted in the first place. This is probably a better read than that study if you want to inform yourself about the UK's history with guns.
Don't you already have that?
Saying that women have always been the primary victims of war is pretty damn insulting to those men and boys maimed and killed in wars they were forced to fight in.
Tiny hipster infested start-ups don't count unless you think that corporate America is about to issue their peons with very expensive laptops instead of much cheaper Dells.
Fatal? It's got 70% of the market.
The execs will still get iPhones but the peons will get something much cheaper. WinPhone will eat into what's left of BB's market share.
Phones are used for work as well. I think these will do reasonably well in the corporate world where iOS is too expensive and Android is harder to secure.
Their debt is still lower than many of the developed nations including the US.
Most white males are not privileged and bear no responsibility for the crimes of others.
How dare people want to feed, house and clothe themselves and their families! Damn commies!
Britain makes 3 given we were your chief ally in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Microsoft were found guilty of a lot more than that but let's not let the facts get in the way of your fanboyism.
I suspect you can't put that PC in your pocket.
Are you taking the piss? It's the fault of the user that they don't load some random firmware that doesn't support all the functions of their phone via Odin which isn't exactly user friendly. In a world like that how soon would it be before malware infested firmwares were everywhere. You fanboys are mental.
Just buy a Nexus is not the answer, the answer is for the OEMs, the carriers and Google to give a shit about their customers.
I'm not attacking the OS. I had a Nexus 6 (which wasn't cheap) and it was great. Google needs to sort out the fragmented ecosystem for the benefit of customers and developers. As it is only the OEMs and the carriers are benefiting from the status quo.