You have no comprehension of how badly US telcos underinvest in their networks. In 2007 AT&T was building less towers than T-Mobile while ignoring their engineers' warnings about the network meltdown their actions would cause.
Apple is apple, but in every other industry competition drives prices of everyone else down. Look at tablets, where you see Staples having clearance on Tegra 2 tablets for $200, and Asus announcing at CES they'll release a 7" Tegra 3 tablet for $250. In contrast smartphones retail for $600+ in America. Contrast that to China, where the Xiaomi 1.5 GHz dual-core smartphone retailed for $310 all the way back in October, and the dual-core 1.2 GHz variant was even cheaper.
There's massive price collusion in the cell phone market in America. Retail prices never go down, and bringing in your own phone does not alter the price of your monthly bill.
There is no such thing as a free market you idiot. Why do you layment keep repeating it over and over again? It's a hypothetical concept meant for academic study. It requires zero barrier to entry, unlimited competition, perfectly rational consumers with perfect knowledge of everything.
Except Android lags and always will. It was developed for Blackberry phones, and its UI thread is locked to the same priority as apps. Here's an example of an extremely sluggish browser where the UI thread is actually given priority: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eWXxCFmKUlQ#t=41s
Notice how despite the bottom of the barrel rendering times the browser scroll is still silky smooth? On Android when you load a heavy page like theverge.com, the entire OS starts to chug as it falls below 5 fps. Until Google fixes this, Android will always lag, and that lag will get worse as you load more and more apps onto the system.
WP7 doesn't even have text reflow in the browser. Without native code support for third party apps no one can release a browser that enables it. Unless you have hawk eyes WP7 and iOS are useless for web browsing. Instapaper only works for basic articles, not for forums or comment sections.
Only a willfully ignorant tool thinks Europe is "collapsing" due to universal healthcare. Your ignorance does not change reality. I'd summarize the issues behind the Euro, but it wouldn't matter to you.
BTW, we really don't have a spending problem. Most of the budget deficit is in response to the recession, with revenues down and spending up. One day humans will stop acting like monkeys that rely on their "gut feelings" instead of spending time studying academia and rational intuition. Hopefully that day comes before I'm too old to care anymore.
If import taxes is enough to encourage Foxconn to move plants to Brazil, then all the excuses made by Apple executives about China's construction advantages is meaningless. If the US applied the same protectionist trade policies then Apple would build phones in the US.
Foxconn is moving to countries like Vietnam and Indonesia, where wages are dirt cheap. China's own government is trying to develop domestic consumption, and rising wages is a part of that plan. As it is, there's a shortage of labor in China and unions are growing stronger.
It's both. Brazil has low wages. Manufacturing is also slowly moving to Vietnam, Indonesia, and even India, where wages are much lower than in China. There's a shortage of labor in China, and unions are starting to form in spite of local government attempts to prevent their existence.
Oh please. It's all about the wages. Stop making excuses for Apple. Are you aware Foxconn is now building plants in Brazil because wages are rising in China?
Uh, what multi-touch screen phone came before the iPhone? And Android's SDK emulator itself presented a picture of a Blackberry clone until 2.2 or 2.3. Do you have evidence of a touch-screen Android phone before the iPhone's intro?
It's obvious Android wasn't made for touchscreens. Its UI thread is locked to the apps priority, which makes sense on a Blackberry but not a touchscreen. If you want to see a horribly sluggish and badly coded browser with the UI thread given priority, look no further than the PS VIta:
"defense" budget: $700 billion; National Institute of Health budget: $30 billion.
I hate humanity. Or rather, I hate the monkeys that always seem to make decisions, and the monkeys that vote for their favorite war loving monkeys. I hope to god our inevitable development of the ability to use genetic manipulation on fetuses will let us eliminate these abominations- holdouts from our evolutionary past.
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You're making excuses: http://dslprime.com/a-wireless-cloud/61-w/4466-us-wireless-75-fewer-basestations-than-comparable-europe
You have no comprehension of how badly US telcos underinvest in their networks. In 2007 AT&T was building less towers than T-Mobile while ignoring their engineers' warnings about the network meltdown their actions would cause.
Greater range, more simultaneous voice connections.
However HSPA+ has greater range than CDMA.
Lol @ infrastructure buildup. You are an incredibly naive individual. American has 75% fewer basestations that Europe: http://dslprime.com/a-wireless-cloud/61-w/4466-us-wireless-75-fewer-basestations-than-comparable-europe
By "free" you mean $2000 over 2 years.
Apple is apple, but in every other industry competition drives prices of everyone else down. Look at tablets, where you see Staples having clearance on Tegra 2 tablets for $200, and Asus announcing at CES they'll release a 7" Tegra 3 tablet for $250. In contrast smartphones retail for $600+ in America. Contrast that to China, where the Xiaomi 1.5 GHz dual-core smartphone retailed for $310 all the way back in October, and the dual-core 1.2 GHz variant was even cheaper.
There's massive price collusion in the cell phone market in America. Retail prices never go down, and bringing in your own phone does not alter the price of your monthly bill.
Prices of smartphones don't drop at retail. There's massive price collusion in the American market.
There is no such thing as a free market you idiot. Why do you layment keep repeating it over and over again? It's a hypothetical concept meant for academic study. It requires zero barrier to entry, unlimited competition, perfectly rational consumers with perfect knowledge of everything.
Except Android lags and always will. It was developed for Blackberry phones, and its UI thread is locked to the same priority as apps. Here's an example of an extremely sluggish browser where the UI thread is actually given priority: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eWXxCFmKUlQ#t=41s
Notice how despite the bottom of the barrel rendering times the browser scroll is still silky smooth? On Android when you load a heavy page like theverge.com, the entire OS starts to chug as it falls below 5 fps. Until Google fixes this, Android will always lag, and that lag will get worse as you load more and more apps onto the system.
MS is developing Windows Tango to support low-priced hardware with 256 MB of RAM.
It will cost more though. Intel hardware always does.
WP7 doesn't even have text reflow in the browser. Without native code support for third party apps no one can release a browser that enables it. Unless you have hawk eyes WP7 and iOS are useless for web browsing. Instapaper only works for basic articles, not for forums or comment sections.
If other people had his money, the kind of money CEOs are (over)paid, they could live out their dreams too.
Only a willfully ignorant tool thinks Europe is "collapsing" due to universal healthcare. Your ignorance does not change reality. I'd summarize the issues behind the Euro, but it wouldn't matter to you.
BTW, we really don't have a spending problem. Most of the budget deficit is in response to the recession, with revenues down and spending up. One day humans will stop acting like monkeys that rely on their "gut feelings" instead of spending time studying academia and rational intuition. Hopefully that day comes before I'm too old to care anymore.
If import taxes is enough to encourage Foxconn to move plants to Brazil, then all the excuses made by Apple executives about China's construction advantages is meaningless. If the US applied the same protectionist trade policies then Apple would build phones in the US.
Foxconn is moving to countries like Vietnam and Indonesia, where wages are dirt cheap. China's own government is trying to develop domestic consumption, and rising wages is a part of that plan. As it is, there's a shortage of labor in China and unions are growing stronger.
Explain why the UI thread priority is borked, and show me this Android multi-touch screen concept phone that existed before the iPhone.
It's both. Brazil has low wages. Manufacturing is also slowly moving to Vietnam, Indonesia, and even India, where wages are much lower than in China. There's a shortage of labor in China, and unions are starting to form in spite of local government attempts to prevent their existence.
Can't even count the number of young, promising startups Google has bought and subsequently buried.
Oh please. It's all about the wages. Stop making excuses for Apple. Are you aware Foxconn is now building plants in Brazil because wages are rising in China?
Gorbachev was the exception, part of a "new generation" that pined for democracy and cared little for the old-school USSR.
Maybe we can classify it as a mental illness and give them medicine to combat it? We could wipe out the neo conservatives with one fell swoop.
Look, Apple's exec is lying. Foxconn's already building some plants over in Brazil due to rising wages in China.
Uh, what multi-touch screen phone came before the iPhone? And Android's SDK emulator itself presented a picture of a Blackberry clone until 2.2 or 2.3. Do you have evidence of a touch-screen Android phone before the iPhone's intro?
It's obvious Android wasn't made for touchscreens. Its UI thread is locked to the apps priority, which makes sense on a Blackberry but not a touchscreen. If you want to see a horribly sluggish and badly coded browser with the UI thread given priority, look no further than the PS VIta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eWXxCFmKUlQ#t=40s and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIIYAenI4Mc
If that were Android (and its browser were so badly coded), the phone would be freezing up and generally operating at 1 or 2 fps.
Such a simple cruddy solution. Expand Medicare to everyone. Voila, problems solved.
"defense" budget: $700 billion; National Institute of Health budget: $30 billion.
I hate humanity. Or rather, I hate the monkeys that always seem to make decisions, and the monkeys that vote for their favorite war loving monkeys. I hope to god our inevitable development of the ability to use genetic manipulation on fetuses will let us eliminate these abominations- holdouts from our evolutionary past.