There are hardware means to update firwmare on old PS3's (progskeet etc). But it won't work on new, post-fail0verflow hardware, that presumably has a different metldr etc.
His argument still stands though. It was more in Android vs iOS times, when Android was just warming up, it had "mere 200 000" apps vs Apple's 500 000. People don't think about how insane are those numbers. So compared to 199 000 Android apps you''d never ever check out there were Apple's 499 000 you'd never see.
What matters is "quality" or "features". If you check what, say, Timerific does, you'd figure it can sleep your Android phone at night, but it can't do much on iOS. This is something, that matters.
Nokia, known for great hardware, still selling gazillion of cheap phones (guess where they are produced? Nope, not in Finland) would have problems competing with the likes of Samsung, hence it had to become Microsoft's EXCLUSIVE delivery boy, how could that make sense, considering NON EXISTENT smartphone market share of Microsoft?
This is only true in case of Apple's customers. There is no such thing as "the last model" for pretty much any company, besides Apple, there is a bunch of different models with their own "latest": latest "Nexus", latest "Galaxy", latest "Note"...
I also hope it would one day stop people from voting from asshats that vote for draconian laws.
Mind you, "Piraten Partei" in Germany is expected to have about 8% country-wide.
Compromising design and SD cards are a relic from a time when you wouldn't just stream your media.
SD cards are a relic from a time when manufacturers could not charge 100$ per 16Gb of flash memory, since users would rather buy an SD card for less than a quarter of that sum.
I have 2 Samsung devices, a tablet (P7500) and first Galaxy S and even though I try hard, I can't get what on earth is "apple like" in them.
Default video player? MX Player is all I use, default one supported less formats
Background image? Samsung uses shiny pics with vivid colors, how is it "apple like"?
And how is having WIDGETS on the home screen "Apple like" pretty please?
How could one own Samsung's phone and not know that, dear Petron?
Desperate, eh? With 20 million Galaxy III sold (and it was launched when, in May this year?)
Which is roughly twice as fast as VERY SUCCESSFULL Galaxy II sales?
From this it is argued that, statistically, Bob cannot tell the difference between what Alice did and a random measurement (or whether she did anything at all).
Wow, "insightfull", really?
So letting my child play a game DESIGNED FOR KIDS on a tablet, while sitting next to me, is "letting tablet babysit" eh? And that coming from a guy that apparently doesn't have kids...
No I should not discover that buying stuff USING DAMN PC auto-enchants 3rd party apps on my Android devices to charge me for whatever they decide to. Whoever came to that idea, knowing Apple's experience on this, is a damn idiot in my opinion and I can't trust company that is so frivolous with my credit card.
The parents' iTunes password was necessary to make purchases, so the common-sense argument was that the parents should simply not allow their kids to know that password. But at the time the lawsuit was filed, purchases could be made for 15 minutes after the password was put in to buy the app.
For what it's worth (and maybe a warning to others):
1) Buy "World of Goo" using my PC (!) for my shiny new tablet and set up a "google wallet",
2) 5 or 10 minutes later "congratulations, you've bought 5000 Happy Stars" for €8.99 (non-refundable), apparently my 5 year old kid clicked on something while playing "Sheeps & Clouds"
3) Attempt to fight this, what I consider to be a legalized scam, ended with nothing
In other words, if you set up google wallet 3rd party apps on Android OS can make payments without asking you for password or anything. It is amazing that it works that way since Apple had problem when remembering password for 15 mins. Google effectively "remembers" it forever, without even asking you once.
Jokes aside, I find talks about apparently superior Android being "as good" as outdated (grid of icons eh? My iPaq 5555 10 years ago had much more than that) iOS to be an insult to humanity.
Xerox was the company that both Bill Gates and Jobs stole ideas from. It had both GUI and mouse ages ago.
Why would only Microsoft have to "innovate" around someones exclusive rights?
I wonder how you say "certain proportionalities" when apple's design patterns define a very generic phone/tablet and aspect ratio of Samsung's tablets is very different from Apple's.
I guess it's news for you, but, also being an owner of Samsung S1 I want to tell you:
a) Samsung's home screen does NOT contain grid of icons (which I saw in pretty much any phone or PDA in pre smartphone era)
b) I use Opera browser and am not sure whether Samsung has at all something to do with it
c) Charging screen shows large silly battery icon only if you power the phone off completely
Let me imagine:
Lick to unlock
Smash to zoom
Squeeze to scroll
Mm...
Are your "innovation" desires limited to phones only? Wouldn't you want a single company have exclusive rights on 4 wheel cars? TV remote? Imagine how innovative would innovation be, once we give exclusive rights on something stupid and then try to "innovate" around those exclusive "innovations".
1) Nokia chose to lic apple patents and to obtain others via use of MS windows (which also lic apple patents). This was a slower approach than the android approach and they lost market share to samsung which played fast and loose. Nokia was punished worse than apple for being IP sensitive.
2) Samsungs internal documents compared their in house design to the Apple one and recommended chucking many design elements in favor of copying apple. Thus evidently some (not all) of the apple design exceeded what Samsung could do. it was not obvious evidently.
Bullshit. COMPARING your product to MAJOR competitor's products is what nearly ALL sane companies do in nearly ALL industries.
When you "slavishly copy" something, you don't need to compare what's better.
Home screen on Samsung phones does NOT look iphone's grid of icons (which looks like ancient PDA) it supports widgets and default UI uses them extensively.
"Device dominated by screen" design is more than obvious, look at most modern TVs.
And question of the day: who has invented, cough, power button, power slider, "press for X seconds to power off" pretty please? Why didn't any glorious company get
Being an owner of OLED phone (S1) I want to say:
1) poorer readability outdoors is a myth, I have no reading from it in a bright sunny day (is partially achieved by great anti-reflective coating)
2) more blacks are there on OLED phones also because they look soo brilliant
3) it has become "must have" feature for me
Let me see, single company producing 4 wheel cars.
Single company producing 3 wheel cars.
Not because it gives any kind of engineering advantage, but because USPO acts the way it does. Not a problem indeed...
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There are hardware means to update firwmare on old PS3's (progskeet etc). But it won't work on new, post-fail0verflow hardware, that presumably has a different metldr etc.
Intel - Core i7 i7-3960X
$1,029.99
BestBuy
Could you name the "high end i7" you've used pretty please.
His argument still stands though. It was more in Android vs iOS times, when Android was just warming up, it had "mere 200 000" apps vs Apple's 500 000. People don't think about how insane are those numbers. So compared to 199 000 Android apps you''d never ever check out there were Apple's 499 000 you'd never see.
What matters is "quality" or "features". If you check what, say, Timerific does, you'd figure it can sleep your Android phone at night, but it can't do much on iOS. This is something, that matters.
Why?
Nokia, known for great hardware, still selling gazillion of cheap phones (guess where they are produced? Nope, not in Finland) would have problems competing with the likes of Samsung, hence it had to become Microsoft's EXCLUSIVE delivery boy, how could that make sense, considering NON EXISTENT smartphone market share of Microsoft?
This is only true in case of Apple's customers. There is no such thing as "the last model" for pretty much any company, besides Apple, there is a bunch of different models with their own "latest": latest "Nexus", latest "Galaxy", latest "Note"...
I also hope it would one day stop people from voting from asshats that vote for draconian laws.
Mind you, "Piraten Partei" in Germany is expected to have about 8% country-wide.
Compromising design and SD cards are a relic from a time when you wouldn't just stream your media.
SD cards are a relic from a time when manufacturers could not charge 100$ per 16Gb of flash memory, since users would rather buy an SD card for less than a quarter of that sum.
I have 2 Samsung devices, a tablet (P7500) and first Galaxy S and even though I try hard, I can't get what on earth is "apple like" in them.
Default video player? MX Player is all I use, default one supported less formats
Background image? Samsung uses shiny pics with vivid colors, how is it "apple like"?
And how is having WIDGETS on the home screen "Apple like" pretty please?
How could one own Samsung's phone and not know that, dear Petron?
Desperate, eh? With 20 million Galaxy III sold (and it was launched when, in May this year?)
Which is roughly twice as fast as VERY SUCCESSFULL Galaxy II sales?
From this it is argued that, statistically, Bob cannot tell the difference between what Alice did and a random measurement (or whether she did anything at all).
I can't state I fully understand it though.
The Micro plug design is rated for at least 10,000 connect-disconnect cycles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus#Mini_and_Micro_connectors
Your post would be so much more insightfull, had it contained real "excellent examples of rates of development vs strength of IP regulation".
Besides, note the difference between Samsung's patents and Apple's "rectangle with rounded corner"... PS Mod parent up.
So letting my child play a game DESIGNED FOR KIDS on a tablet, while sitting next to me, is "letting tablet babysit" eh? And that coming from a guy that apparently doesn't have kids...
No I should not discover that buying stuff USING DAMN PC auto-enchants 3rd party apps on my Android devices to charge me for whatever they decide to. Whoever came to that idea, knowing Apple's experience on this, is a damn idiot in my opinion and I can't trust company that is so frivolous with my credit card.
The parents' iTunes password was necessary to make purchases, so the common-sense argument was that the parents should simply not allow their kids to know that password. But at the time the lawsuit was filed, purchases could be made for 15 minutes after the password was put in to buy the app.
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/ingame/lawsuit-against-apple-bait-apps-gets-go-ahead-720699
"Oh, someone got sued and lost for remembering passwords for 15 mins, so let us make it forever"
For what it's worth (and maybe a warning to others):
1) Buy "World of Goo" using my PC (!) for my shiny new tablet and set up a "google wallet",
2) 5 or 10 minutes later "congratulations, you've bought 5000 Happy Stars" for €8.99 (non-refundable), apparently my 5 year old kid clicked on something while playing "Sheeps & Clouds"
3) Attempt to fight this, what I consider to be a legalized scam, ended with nothing
In other words, if you set up google wallet 3rd party apps on Android OS can make payments without asking you for password or anything. It is amazing that it works that way since Apple had problem when remembering password for 15 mins. Google effectively "remembers" it forever, without even asking you once.
Jokes aside, I find talks about apparently superior Android being "as good" as outdated (grid of icons eh? My iPaq 5555 10 years ago had much more than that) iOS to be an insult to humanity.
Xerox was the company that both Bill Gates and Jobs stole ideas from. It had both GUI and mouse ages ago.
Why would only Microsoft have to "innovate" around someones exclusive rights?
I wonder how you say "certain proportionalities" when apple's design patterns define a very generic phone/tablet and aspect ratio of Samsung's tablets is very different from Apple's.
I guess it's news for you, but, also being an owner of Samsung S1 I want to tell you:
a) Samsung's home screen does NOT contain grid of icons (which I saw in pretty much any phone or PDA in pre smartphone era)
b) I use Opera browser and am not sure whether Samsung has at all something to do with it
c) Charging screen shows large silly battery icon only if you power the phone off completely
Let me imagine:
Lick to unlock
Smash to zoom
Squeeze to scroll
Mm...
Are your "innovation" desires limited to phones only? Wouldn't you want a single company have exclusive rights on 4 wheel cars? TV remote? Imagine how innovative would innovation be, once we give exclusive rights on something stupid and then try to "innovate" around those exclusive "innovations".
1) Nokia chose to lic apple patents and to obtain others via use of MS windows (which also lic apple patents). This was a slower approach than the android approach and they lost market share to samsung which played fast and loose. Nokia was punished worse than apple for being IP sensitive.
Apple tried to take on Nokia and lost. It ended with them paying Nokia.
http://247wallst.com/2012/08/27/nokia-rises-in-wake-of-apple-patent-win/
2) Samsungs internal documents compared their in house design to the Apple one and recommended chucking many design elements in favor of copying apple. Thus evidently some (not all) of the apple design exceeded what Samsung could do. it was not obvious evidently.
Bullshit. COMPARING your product to MAJOR competitor's products is what nearly ALL sane companies do in nearly ALL industries.
And question of the day: who has invented, cough, power button, power slider, "press for X seconds to power off" pretty please? Why didn't any glorious company get
Being an owner of OLED phone (S1) I want to say:
1) poorer readability outdoors is a myth, I have no reading from it in a bright sunny day (is partially achieved by great anti-reflective coating)
2) more blacks are there on OLED phones also because they look soo brilliant
3) it has become "must have" feature for me
Let me see, single company producing 4 wheel cars.
Single company producing 3 wheel cars.
Not because it gives any kind of engineering advantage, but because USPO acts the way it does. Not a problem indeed...