Apple pay isn't on android, by definition. Unless you're talking about the competing Google Pay, which is a different competing standard. And then there's Samsung pay because they have to duplicate everything Google does.
The real question is whether your institution supports it. If your bank, etc, supports Apple Pay but not Google Pay, or vis versa, and you really want that functionality, then your answer is clear, regardless of your brand loyalty.
Also, what is this facetime equivalent you speak of, assuming you're not just talking about Skype?
That is true. I went ahead and bit the bullet cause I couldn't find anything else that had it's feature set. It's broad platform and browser support, multiple vaults, and general polish of the application are very benefits to me. I was also able to get the desktop version on sale, which also helped.:)
The only thing missing for me, is the lack of Linux support, and it's limited sync support (ie: It only supports dropbox and icloud).
If you can suggest a tool that can do what 1password does, AND supports Linux and, say, owncloud, I would very seriously consider it.
My desired features for an ideal password manager: -Support for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android -Support all major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera) -Strong encryption -Can handle multiple vaults simultaneously and seamlessly -Support for various sync solutions including Dropbox, Box, OwnCloud, etc. (my preference being OwnCloud)
I'll get this in now before it gets buried in comments: Use a password manager. The internet is too risky to be re-using passwords. Although there are various free ones out there, I went and bought 1password. It runs on Windows, OSX, iOS and Android. It has a read-only version that works in Linux. (I wish they'd make a Linux version, but as of yet, they haven't) It also has plugins for every major browser out there. It can also sync your passwords between multiple devices.
You can use it to keep track of all your passwords, and will even generate random passwords for you.
Nowdays, the risk of password re-use is just too high, and you're basically playing russian roulette with someone from a far off country just itching to steal your identity info, or cause havoc in some other way.
Considering that a large portion of the globe believe and celebrate the birth of a god on Dec 25th, despite the fact that there is no evidence at all that this truely happened, I think we can probably let this inaccuracy slide.
I learned the hard way that buying cheap android devices from lesser known manufacturers is a complete waste of money. They won't be updated by the manufacturer, you won't be able to update them because they're probably using lesser known parts, and it may not even be fit for purpose out of the box.
You're better off paying the extra money and buying a more mainstream device from Google, or devices that at least are supported by Cyanogenmod, miui or some other 3rd party android distribution.
GP may be a smidge hyperbolic, but not by much. And IMO Google does hold some blame for this. They have the power to enforce good behaviour, but don't. At least, they haven't been up till now. I've read rumblings about them wanting to take back some control of android, but I don't know details or timeframe.
True, there's nothing to be done with the crap hardware put out by two-bit companies, but for big companies such as Samsung, etc, who subscribe to Google's value-add services, Google could have very easily added into the contract that these downstream companies are obligated to provide fixes for bugs and security issues on their devices.
It's to Google's discredit that they didn't, and now the overwhelming majority of handsets in the world are badly exposed to various security issues that will never be fixed, cause the companies that made them feel no pressure to support their products. Heck, the last time I checked android stats, a sizable majority of handsets still use some flavour of Android 4.x. Good luck getting updates for those, unless you are lucky enough to root your device and replace the OS with cyanogenmod or something similar.
Are you serious? v6 introduced Doze mode, which help battery life. v7 extends Doze mode further, which means it should finally be possible to use an android phone for more than a day without needing to somehow shoehorn an absurdly large battery.
Android 6 also finally introduces various privacy features, so you can choose what access you are willing to grant to an individual application. Up until v6, Android was a identity thief's wet dream, cause a developer could request ridiculous amounts of access from your device, and the permission warning screen was confusing enough that most people ended up just ignoring it in the same way they ignore "Agree to our ToS" screens.
It also marks the point where Google has finally pulled it's head out of the sand and realized that it cannot rely 3rd party manufacturers to properly support their devices, and is taking back control of things like updates, and whatnot.
I can only hope that all this means the desperately needed end of the "Landfill Android" era.
I know exactly what I want in this shiny. Unfortunately, not one single manufacturer actually makes such a thing.
I learned the parent's lesson myself, the hard way. If the phone doesn't meet your minimum requirements right out of the box, then just don't buy it. I learned the hard way that you are wasting your time, hopes, and money if you buy a device under the promise of improvement. In my case, it was when I bought a Dell WinCE device. Never again.
The closest I've been able to get for my current needs is an iPhone SE. It's not my ideal, perfect phone, but for me it's the best compromise of features among the current mobile landscape.
Pros: -Had very little issue with it -As long as I don't play something like Pokemon Go, I can get several days of life out of it without running to a charger. I had several android devices prior to that, and if I left them virtually unused, I could sometimes even go past 24 hours. -Apple is on a tear over user privacy. -Boring and predictable, which makes it easier to talk through non-techie family members, but it could still use improvement. Their Photos app, in particular, can be very confusing to navigate. -Apple doesn't let carriers shovel their crapwhere onto their phones.
Cons: -Battery *still* not good enough. I want at *least* a week, dammit. I miss the good old days of Blackberry. -Base model is only 16GB, and they don't offer a 32GB. IMO that's just a pitifully transparent attempt at squeezing people to buy the more expensive 64GB version. -Screen is a bit small by todays standards, but IMO it's perfectly adequate for what I use it for, and in a false dichotomy between battery life and display, I'll take battery life. -iTunes. Good god, it's like their entire UX department all had simultaneous aneurisms. -Why the f__k is Facetime IOS/Mac only? Apple is making the same mistake Blackberry did with BBM. If they made Facetime available on Android and Windows, they'd slaughter the competition. -Proprietary lightning cable. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy. I would be nice if Apple would at least license out the connector for the USB consortium to use. Maybe then we wouldn't be stuck dealing with their USB 3.1 nonsense. -
The two biggest factors for me are the privacy and the battery life. Android, IIRC up until v5, didn't even try to compete in either regard. Android 6 is finally going in the right direction, and further improvements have been made with Android 7, but I'm going to wait and let time test it first.
The only problem is that Microsoft has a very loose definition of what defines a "Security" update. They've already demonstrated that they will outright lie about an update to get people to install it (eg: Telemetry)
I suspect that Edge's quality isn't the issue here. Microsoft could make Edge the best possible browser in the world, that leverages quantum computing to instantaneously give you web pages the second your mind just thinks about wanting to browser there, and it wouldn't matter.
Microsoft has spent almost it's entire lifespan fucking over everyone and their goldfish in order to dominate and monopolize the PC market, and people are remembering that. On top of everything else, Windows 10 is demonstrating very clearly what Microsoft is willing to do when they think they can get away with it. In this case, they miscalculated very very badly, and manage to even piss off loyal members of their fanbase. I'm going to be ready with popcorn in hand to see what happens when 2020 rolls around and Windows 7 support finally ends.
Note that every single product Microsoft has release, that doesn't have to do with their core Windows/Office base, has either failed miserably, or is in the process of failing miserably. Every. Single. One. Their only non-business oriented division (x-box) has had a brief run, but is also falling further and further behind.
Zune failed so badly that not even Microsoft acknowledges it's existence anymore.
I know that I wouldn't use Edge even if it could make me poop gold bullion, because I don't want Microsoft to repeat what they did with IE6. Of course, I can't use it anyway because I don't have Windows 10, and will do my damnedest to avoid it because of Microsoft's we-own-your-ass-now policies. But if Microsoft pulled their head out of their ass and ported Edge to Windows 7 and possibly other operating systems (Remember when IE4 ran on Solaris?), I still wouldn't use it.
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There's an interesting blog post on Open Whisper that argues why federation will never work.
https://whispersystems.org/blo...
I would hazard to guess that the issue is regulatory rather than technical.
Well apparently nobody told Samsung this.
http://www.samsung.com/ca/sams...
Wait what now?
You know the law has become meaningless when lawsuits become an income stream rather than a mode of redress.
Thank you!
If that doesn't deserve a +5 Informative, I dunno what does.
Hmm...
*google Samsung Pay*
*goes to Samsung Pay website*
"SAMSUNG PAY IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ONLY IN THE US AND KOREA" in ginormous 48 point font.
So much for that... :P
Apple pay isn't on android, by definition. Unless you're talking about the competing Google Pay, which is a different competing standard. And then there's Samsung pay because they have to duplicate everything Google does.
The real question is whether your institution supports it. If your bank, etc, supports Apple Pay but not Google Pay, or vis versa, and you really want that functionality, then your answer is clear, regardless of your brand loyalty.
Also, what is this facetime equivalent you speak of, assuming you're not just talking about Skype?
Why's it called the Ludicrous version? Does it go to plaid?
That is true. I went ahead and bit the bullet cause I couldn't find anything else that had it's feature set. It's broad platform and browser support, multiple vaults, and general polish of the application are very benefits to me. I was also able to get the desktop version on sale, which also helped. :)
The only thing missing for me, is the lack of Linux support, and it's limited sync support (ie: It only supports dropbox and icloud).
If you can suggest a tool that can do what 1password does, AND supports Linux and, say, owncloud, I would very seriously consider it.
My desired features for an ideal password manager:
-Support for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android
-Support all major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera)
-Strong encryption
-Can handle multiple vaults simultaneously and seamlessly
-Support for various sync solutions including Dropbox, Box, OwnCloud, etc. (my preference being OwnCloud)
Google seems to think that its partners will update phones because it's The Right Thing To Do by their customers and that
Seriously? After all the crap they've gone through involving patents, how could they possibly still be this naive?
Wow, I just checked, and the field has gotten a lot bigger than I last remembered:
http://alternativeto.net/softw...
I'll get this in now before it gets buried in comments: Use a password manager. The internet is too risky to be re-using passwords. Although there are various free ones out there, I went and bought 1password. It runs on Windows, OSX, iOS and Android. It has a read-only version that works in Linux. (I wish they'd make a Linux version, but as of yet, they haven't) It also has plugins for every major browser out there. It can also sync your passwords between multiple devices.
You can use it to keep track of all your passwords, and will even generate random passwords for you.
Nowdays, the risk of password re-use is just too high, and you're basically playing russian roulette with someone from a far off country just itching to steal your identity info, or cause havoc in some other way.
Considering that a large portion of the globe believe and celebrate the birth of a god on Dec 25th, despite the fact that there is no evidence at all that this truely happened, I think we can probably let this inaccuracy slide.
At least we know the internet really did happen.
I learned the hard way that buying cheap android devices from lesser known manufacturers is a complete waste of money. They won't be updated by the manufacturer, you won't be able to update them because they're probably using lesser known parts, and it may not even be fit for purpose out of the box.
You're better off paying the extra money and buying a more mainstream device from Google, or devices that at least are supported by Cyanogenmod, miui or some other 3rd party android distribution.
GP may be a smidge hyperbolic, but not by much. And IMO Google does hold some blame for this. They have the power to enforce good behaviour, but don't. At least, they haven't been up till now. I've read rumblings about them wanting to take back some control of android, but I don't know details or timeframe.
True, there's nothing to be done with the crap hardware put out by two-bit companies, but for big companies such as Samsung, etc, who subscribe to Google's value-add services, Google could have very easily added into the contract that these downstream companies are obligated to provide fixes for bugs and security issues on their devices.
It's to Google's discredit that they didn't, and now the overwhelming majority of handsets in the world are badly exposed to various security issues that will never be fixed, cause the companies that made them feel no pressure to support their products. Heck, the last time I checked android stats, a sizable majority of handsets still use some flavour of Android 4.x. Good luck getting updates for those, unless you are lucky enough to root your device and replace the OS with cyanogenmod or something similar.
Are you serious? v6 introduced Doze mode, which help battery life. v7 extends Doze mode further, which means it should finally be possible to use an android phone for more than a day without needing to somehow shoehorn an absurdly large battery.
Android 6 also finally introduces various privacy features, so you can choose what access you are willing to grant to an individual application. Up until v6, Android was a identity thief's wet dream, cause a developer could request ridiculous amounts of access from your device, and the permission warning screen was confusing enough that most people ended up just ignoring it in the same way they ignore "Agree to our ToS" screens.
It also marks the point where Google has finally pulled it's head out of the sand and realized that it cannot rely 3rd party manufacturers to properly support their devices, and is taking back control of things like updates, and whatnot.
I can only hope that all this means the desperately needed end of the "Landfill Android" era.
I know exactly what I want in this shiny. Unfortunately, not one single manufacturer actually makes such a thing.
I learned the parent's lesson myself, the hard way. If the phone doesn't meet your minimum requirements right out of the box, then just don't buy it. I learned the hard way that you are wasting your time, hopes, and money if you buy a device under the promise of improvement. In my case, it was when I bought a Dell WinCE device. Never again.
The closest I've been able to get for my current needs is an iPhone SE. It's not my ideal, perfect phone, but for me it's the best compromise of features among the current mobile landscape.
Pros:
-Had very little issue with it
-As long as I don't play something like Pokemon Go, I can get several days of life out of it without running to a charger. I had several android devices prior to that, and if I left them virtually unused, I could sometimes even go past 24 hours.
-Apple is on a tear over user privacy.
-Boring and predictable, which makes it easier to talk through non-techie family members, but it could still use improvement. Their Photos app, in particular, can be very confusing to navigate.
-Apple doesn't let carriers shovel their crapwhere onto their phones.
Cons:
-Battery *still* not good enough. I want at *least* a week, dammit. I miss the good old days of Blackberry.
-Base model is only 16GB, and they don't offer a 32GB. IMO that's just a pitifully transparent attempt at squeezing people to buy the more expensive 64GB version.
-Screen is a bit small by todays standards, but IMO it's perfectly adequate for what I use it for, and in a false dichotomy between battery life and display, I'll take battery life.
-iTunes. Good god, it's like their entire UX department all had simultaneous aneurisms.
-Why the f__k is Facetime IOS/Mac only? Apple is making the same mistake Blackberry did with BBM. If they made Facetime available on Android and Windows, they'd slaughter the competition.
-Proprietary lightning cable. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy. I would be nice if Apple would at least license out the connector for the USB consortium to use. Maybe then we wouldn't be stuck dealing with their USB 3.1 nonsense.
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The two biggest factors for me are the privacy and the battery life. Android, IIRC up until v5, didn't even try to compete in either regard. Android 6 is finally going in the right direction, and further improvements have been made with Android 7, but I'm going to wait and let time test it first.
WTF is USB3.1 Gen2?
USB3.1 wasn't a colossal clusterfuck already, that they had to make it even *more* complicated?
I wish Apple would pull their thumbs out and just license their lightning connector. Simple, clean design, and none of this 50 Shades of USB nonsense.
I'm not liking how systemd is taking over more and more OS functionality.
That's Emacs job.
I hate to break it to you, but Telemetry was backported to Windows 7 as well.
The only problem is that Microsoft has a very loose definition of what defines a "Security" update. They've already demonstrated that they will outright lie about an update to get people to install it (eg: Telemetry)
"tig welding" "cantilever" "bronze"
"botox" "cannabis" "dingbat"
"ion scavenger" "fluorescein"
"osmosis" "peristalsis" "cowboy bebop"
"forked code" "bonded" "lap"
You either have the worlds most amazing Saturday nights, or the most terrifying.
Bearing in mind that if you're using Windows 10, it won't be you doing the fucking...
Who needs search when you have xhamster?
I wonder if they have any connection to the old newgroup alt.sex.hamster.duct.tape...
I suspect that Edge's quality isn't the issue here. Microsoft could make Edge the best possible browser in the world, that leverages quantum computing to instantaneously give you web pages the second your mind just thinks about wanting to browser there, and it wouldn't matter.
Microsoft has spent almost it's entire lifespan fucking over everyone and their goldfish in order to dominate and monopolize the PC market, and people are remembering that. On top of everything else, Windows 10 is demonstrating very clearly what Microsoft is willing to do when they think they can get away with it. In this case, they miscalculated very very badly, and manage to even piss off loyal members of their fanbase. I'm going to be ready with popcorn in hand to see what happens when 2020 rolls around and Windows 7 support finally ends.
Note that every single product Microsoft has release, that doesn't have to do with their core Windows/Office base, has either failed miserably, or is in the process of failing miserably. Every. Single. One. Their only non-business oriented division (x-box) has had a brief run, but is also falling further and further behind.
Zune failed so badly that not even Microsoft acknowledges it's existence anymore.
I know that I wouldn't use Edge even if it could make me poop gold bullion, because I don't want Microsoft to repeat what they did with IE6. Of course, I can't use it anyway because I don't have Windows 10, and will do my damnedest to avoid it because of Microsoft's we-own-your-ass-now policies. But if Microsoft pulled their head out of their ass and ported Edge to Windows 7 and possibly other operating systems (Remember when IE4 ran on Solaris?), I still wouldn't use it.