I've got an old Nook Color (800MHz single-core A8) lying around, it's still perfectly OK for most everything I do on a tablet, except HD video (I don't game).
I think OEMs are mis-aiming. Better battery, louder sound, more rugged design... would be more interesting to me than octo-core with bells on.
There's no possible positive outcome for him. And it shows utter lack of empathy. And it doesn't really achieve any goals. I mean, the 9/11 terrorists at least believed they would be getting heaven (with virgins on top), empathized with people back home, and achieved the goal of getting some kind of message out and terrorizing the US. He achieved nothing remotely close to any of that.
That's not to say he shouldn't be judged though. Killers are killers, all are some kind of insane.
- Even if devs favor iOS, they don't do so in an overwhelming fashion. General-public stuff is available, and OK, for both OSes. Some vertical markets will be much better served by one platform or another, but the general market isn't.
- Companies may standardize on one supplier, but not all companies have to standardize on the same one. This is nowhere near the same as desktops PCs, where there are no real alternatives to windows+office+... I know Linux, Chrome OS... are trying, but Windows still has around 95% of the total market for desktops. That's monopoly. Not around 50%
It's not so much about language: you have a choice of several. It's about the rendering engine: Apple only allow their own on the platform.
Chrome (and Opera Mobile, if it's available for iOS, not sure) use Safari's rendering engine; only the user interface is different.
Opera Mini (as opposed to Mobile) does its rendering on Opera's servers, which then send over a compressed and simplified version of the page, and apparently that's allowed... or not, and maybe Opera Mini also uses Safari's renderer.
It is. But since Apple don't have an overwhelming share of the mobile space, that's allowed: customers got other options.
MS got sued because on the desktop, there is no other option, and that OS monopoly gave MS leverage in other areas (browsers, apps...). Apple don't have that kind of power.
You want to take care of your main screen first (you'll thank me later). It should be about level with your eyes for good posture, and not too close. I'm using a logitech mk605 laptop stand, but any will do. Or you could swap your secondary and main screen. Get external keyboard and mouse anyway, they are always much better than laptops'.
What he did wrong is: pick one size and anoint it The One True Size. Different people want different sizes for different uses. (Right now, I hear a lot of requests for larger tablets).
Jobs' ability to choose and decide was a blessing and a curse: it keeps the company hacks in line and Jobs was usually right... but he was also sometimes wrong, and, above all, sometimes "picked a winner" when there was room for more than 1 device.
That's true, as long as the connector and cable support the basic signaling bandwidth required for all it is sold for. If Apple are having the compress the high-rez signal to get it out or over the cable, then it's a step backward.
1- MHL is cheap, there are plenty of $2 MHL cables. If you like paying for brands and stickers, that's your choice... they have nice ones with golden connectors and one-way flux optmizations, I'm told.
1b- MHL is cheap, the cost to implement it is nowhere near whatever Apple are doing with their fake video cable.
2- MHL is a standard. The fact that some chose not to have the feature does not change that. A bit like.. you know... you're PC not being an FM radio does not make FM radios un-standard...
3- are you trying to imply that MHL is as expensive as having a failed proprietary interface + **active** components to fake a high-def video link, but that just the cost are split differently ? I can assure you that Apple's "solution" is several times more expensive both to implement in the device, and for the cable. And wayyyyy worse in terms of quality.
Indeed. I'm a big guy who likes big phones myself, but the one market opportunity I see most are for small phones that don't suck. For some reason small = underpowered these days, which is silly since many people, girls or guys alike, want small phones with top specs.
There are phones of every size from 2" to 8" (and even 10" with a bit of hacking).
Some people call a lot, some don't Some people text a lot, some don't Some people read a lot on their phones, some don't. And some have good eyesight, others not. Some people spend a lot of time in transit, some don't Some people have big hands, some don't
There's a right size for every customer and use case.
Hasn't tablet performance been "good enough" for a while now ? I know there are a few that use tablets for FPS gaming or content creation, but that's probably around 10% of the buyers ? The rest of us are more interested in creature comforts (good screen, good sound, reliability...), because running a browser, email, and facebook, even office apps, really doesn't take that much ?
Unless this is baseless hype, but still, I'm seeing a lot about this one OS.
I understand operators not wanting to be beholden to an iOS-Android duopoly, but why pick Firefox as the 3rd player ? Are there no other reasonnably OSS, reasonably good, more proven mobile OSes ? MS, RIM, Bada are proprietary, but what about Meego, Tizen, even Ubuntu ? Why not just fork Android ?
If it's that tablet (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1M80H28093), the good news is that it has HDMI out, so if your stereo also has HDMI, you can get good sound by wiring the tablet to the stereo. Wireless sound broadly sucks (it goes through bluetooth, which compresses sound a lot); I'd just forget about it. I'm assuming your music collection is accessible via a network share or DLNA. That tablet can access both (ES File explorer and BubbleUPnP respectively). I am not aware of any program to automaticalle DL videos for your music; you're better off doing that from your PC, mot probably.
Thinking of an Android tablet as a Linux PC isn't very useful: Android is a very customized version of Linux, so regular Linux software won't work. And installing a new distro, or even another, tweaked, version of Android requires a skilled hacker to build it specifically for your exact device, which probably won't happen in this case. You're better off combing through the Google PlayStore for apps that suit your needs. You'll find "kid's safety" apps, antiviruses... If you don't enable 3rd-party apps install (thus only get stuff from the playstore), risks of hacking are fairly low. Moreso with an antivirus, especially since most hackers just want to dial for-pay phone numbers, which your tablet can't do anyway. I wouldn't be too worried about viruses, I'd even skip the antivirus in your case because your tablet is not very powerful.
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do you really think torrenters are a representative sample of the general population ?
I've got an old Nook Color (800MHz single-core A8) lying around, it's still perfectly OK for most everything I do on a tablet, except HD video (I don't game).
I think OEMs are mis-aiming. Better battery, louder sound, more rugged design... would be more interesting to me than octo-core with bells on.
There's no possible positive outcome for him. And it shows utter lack of empathy. And it doesn't really achieve any goals. I mean, the 9/11 terrorists at least believed they would be getting heaven (with virgins on top), empathized with people back home, and achieved the goal of getting some kind of message out and terrorizing the US. He achieved nothing remotely close to any of that.
That's not to say he shouldn't be judged though. Killers are killers, all are some kind of insane.
You're right on both counts, but
- Even if devs favor iOS, they don't do so in an overwhelming fashion. General-public stuff is available, and OK, for both OSes. Some vertical markets will be much better served by one platform or another, but the general market isn't.
- Companies may standardize on one supplier, but not all companies have to standardize on the same one. This is nowhere near the same as desktops PCs, where there are no real alternatives to windows+office+... I know Linux, Chrome OS... are trying, but Windows still has around 95% of the total market for desktops. That's monopoly. Not around 50%
the risk to the 99% of users who don't care is too high, for only 1% of users who care (though that 1% is very vocal, especially on nerd sites)
It's not so much about language: you have a choice of several. It's about the rendering engine: Apple only allow their own on the platform.
Chrome (and Opera Mobile, if it's available for iOS, not sure) use Safari's rendering engine; only the user interface is different.
Opera Mini (as opposed to Mobile) does its rendering on Opera's servers, which then send over a compressed and simplified version of the page, and apparently that's allowed... or not, and maybe Opera Mini also uses Safari's renderer.
It is. But since Apple don't have an overwhelming share of the mobile space, that's allowed: customers got other options.
MS got sued because on the desktop, there is no other option, and that OS monopoly gave MS leverage in other areas (browsers, apps...). Apple don't have that kind of power.
You want to take care of your main screen first (you'll thank me later). It should be about level with your eyes for good posture, and not too close. I'm using a logitech mk605 laptop stand, but any will do. Or you could swap your secondary and main screen. Get external keyboard and mouse anyway, they are always much better than laptops'.
What he did wrong is: pick one size and anoint it The One True Size. Different people want different sizes for different uses. (Right now, I hear a lot of requests for larger tablets).
Jobs' ability to choose and decide was a blessing and a curse: it keeps the company hacks in line and Jobs was usually right... but he was also sometimes wrong, and, above all, sometimes "picked a winner" when there was room for more than 1 device.
That's true, as long as the connector and cable support the basic signaling bandwidth required for all it is sold for. If Apple are having the compress the high-rez signal to get it out or over the cable, then it's a step backward.
You're being extremelly disingenuous:
1- MHL is cheap, there are plenty of $2 MHL cables. If you like paying for brands and stickers, that's your choice... they have nice ones with golden connectors and one-way flux optmizations, I'm told.
1b- MHL is cheap, the cost to implement it is nowhere near whatever Apple are doing with their fake video cable.
2- MHL is a standard. The fact that some chose not to have the feature does not change that. A bit like.. you know... you're PC not being an FM radio does not make FM radios un-standard...
3- are you trying to imply that MHL is as expensive as having a failed proprietary interface + **active** components to fake a high-def video link, but that just the cost are split differently ? I can assure you that Apple's "solution" is several times more expensive both to implement in the device, and for the cable. And wayyyyy worse in terms of quality.
I guess MS is making a killing with Windows Phone then :-p
I'd rather not think about what the *other* article with him could be about ?
The telling thing is that you *can* have that (get a cheap Nokia or some such), and yet you don't ?
just for scoring's sake, Android can do the same :-p
Indeed. I'm a big guy who likes big phones myself, but the one market opportunity I see most are for small phones that don't suck. For some reason small = underpowered these days, which is silly since many people, girls or guys alike, want small phones with top specs.
There are phones of every size from 2" to 8" (and even 10" with a bit of hacking).
Some people call a lot, some don't
Some people text a lot, some don't
Some people read a lot on their phones, some don't. And some have good eyesight, others not.
Some people spend a lot of time in transit, some don't
Some people have big hands, some don't
There's a right size for every customer and use case.
Actually, I know plenty of intelligent people who make mistakes. Almost as many as retards who take pleasure in calling others out.
was it ever alive ?
There are plenty of Android keys. No SATA, but USB for all the rest.
Hasn't tablet performance been "good enough" for a while now ? I know there are a few that use tablets for FPS gaming or content creation, but that's probably around 10% of the buyers ? The rest of us are more interested in creature comforts (good screen, good sound, reliability...), because running a browser, email, and facebook, even office apps, really doesn't take that much ?
good thing averages (like totals) don't matter, and only best-of-breed does, then.
Unless this is baseless hype, but still, I'm seeing a lot about this one OS.
I understand operators not wanting to be beholden to an iOS-Android duopoly, but why pick Firefox as the 3rd player ? Are there no other reasonnably OSS, reasonably good, more proven mobile OSes ? MS, RIM, Bada are proprietary, but what about Meego, Tizen, even Ubuntu ? Why not just fork Android ?
Hard to answer with so few details.
If it's that tablet (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1M80H28093), the good news is that it has HDMI out, so if your stereo also has HDMI, you can get good sound by wiring the tablet to the stereo. Wireless sound broadly sucks (it goes through bluetooth, which compresses sound a lot); I'd just forget about it. I'm assuming your music collection is accessible via a network share or DLNA. That tablet can access both (ES File explorer and BubbleUPnP respectively). I am not aware of any program to automaticalle DL videos for your music; you're better off doing that from your PC, mot probably.
Thinking of an Android tablet as a Linux PC isn't very useful: Android is a very customized version of Linux, so regular Linux software won't work. And installing a new distro, or even another, tweaked, version of Android requires a skilled hacker to build it specifically for your exact device, which probably won't happen in this case. You're better off combing through the Google PlayStore for apps that suit your needs. You'll find "kid's safety" apps, antiviruses... If you don't enable 3rd-party apps install (thus only get stuff from the playstore), risks of hacking are fairly low. Moreso with an antivirus, especially since most hackers just want to dial for-pay phone numbers, which your tablet can't do anyway. I wouldn't be too worried about viruses, I'd even skip the antivirus in your case because your tablet is not very powerful.
It does fit, on whethter owner/seller = responsible for use