Google's revenue isn't from mobile directly. Samsung refuse to release numbers so smartphones may not be responsible for their rise in profits, it may be all those components they are selling to Apple (like the new iPad retina screen.) The Chinese are doing quite well on the low end but that's not good news for the smartphone industry because it means the rest of them are caught in the squeeze between the Chinese on one end and Apple on the other. On the whole, if you're not Apple, the market is pretty crummy right now.
That's really low impact though. Who uses or cares about Thunderbird anymore, let alone web search inside a mail client ? Not many eyeballs lost there.
I'm the opposite. Everything is much simpler now because everything has been brought together and accessed through a single device. Much easier to cope with. Of course you need to have some constraint and say "no" when the next social-whatever bandwagon comes around so you don't drown in irrelevant shit.
In the one corner Apple, in the other such winners as HTC, Motorolla, Nokia and Sony Ericsson. CEO's always get fired if they back the wrong horse, but he picked the one with the right odds.
I've a bridge for sale you might be interested in. It might be free of fees now like Android was before everyone came knocking with their big patent portfolio's. And of course Google refuse to indemnify, so they get all of the upside and none of the risk.
Android has voice dictation too hasn't it ? Plus it has to serve up all those mobile ads, so it might still use more data though not to the user's benefit.
That's the BS. This was just Google's play to push a standard they define over a standard defined by their competitors (Apple, and Microsoft chief among them) because owning one of the largest online media properties AND the file format would've given them a lot of leverage. As things stand now the competition technically has leverage over YouTube and Google through control of a format Google must support to remain competitive (the reason they left their Firefox homies high and dry by continuing to support h264 themselves.) "Open" is just the marketing wrapper.
Yes, yes - because Google has a long patent trolling history and Mozilla is obviously at the top of their "To sue" list.
Yahoo wasn't a patent troll either, until it was. And Mozilla would very quickly become enemy no1 at Google if they ever switched to Bing or another search engine. It'd be all-out war.
It's a drop-down panel that allows quick access to certain settings through toggle buttons. Its appeal is that it's always quickly available through gestures no matter what app you are currently in, instead of having to switch to the settings app.
Latest jailbreaks are using up to 3 or 4 different exploits and require a physical cable connection in order to jailbreak. Yes these are bugs but it's not like the make the device super vulnerable. As witnessed by the fact the iPhone 4S jailbreak took months of dedicated work by several hacker groups to figure out a jailbreak. The reason this iPad 3 jailbreak is out so quickly is because the latest iOS release seems to be all about supporting the new retina display and LTE on the iPad and not fixing bugs. Jailbreakers will probably be back to square one when iOS 5.2 comes along though.
I keep reading stories like that from the US but have never heard anything similar out of belgium. Not to say it's maybe not the case but if it is I haven't heard of it. As for SABAM, I meant they often put individuals or small organisations in their sights. Youth parties, individual DJ's, bars. People who don't have the resources to get into a drawn out legal battle (in either time or money.)
It did. The story is about a week old. After it broke SABAM claimed that the library in question does pay about 250 EUR, but it isn't for reading books but for music played in the library. SABAM said that it does collect money for public readings of books but it's only 15 EUR and the book has to be in copyright and be written by one of their member. (Source, in dutch.)
All of this is BS of course these people try to collect on EVERYTHING and as much as possible. They're regularly collecting money for artists that aren't affiliated with them and tend to go after "soft" targets that don't have resources to fight back. They're scum.
Tip: put a magnet on top of your hard drive. If bits do fall off they'll stick to the magnet so you can recycle them. These are also known as "sticky bits."
Yeah, no reason to check these "facts". I heard it from a guy, he said he worked there (or maybe that was his wife's girlfriend), anyway everybody knows its true OK ? The triumph of truthiness.
They want to sell papers. Apple stories sell papers. Liberal guilt stories sell papers. A reason to feel smug and get your daily 5 minutes of indignant outrage sells papers. This kind of story sells A LOT of papers.
Occam's razor: Apple managed to bully a lot of Chinese nationals into towing their corporate line, force NPR to retract its story and get Daisy to say it was all just theater OR Daisy's just another self-aggrandizing little shit who's trying to surf the Apple wave to success ? Second one seems simpler to me.
What are you talking about? Slashdot is one huge hive of fact checkers - we get Karma if we can debunk the original post ffs!
Yeah. So all those people who called for Apple's blood after the original allegations and got modded up to +5 insightful for it can take this opportunity to apologize in this thread. Strangely I don't see a lot of mea culpa's here. A lot of fingerprinting at NPR, yes. But then that's what Slashdot does best isn't it ?
"Hey everybody remember that big Apple story that drove so many of you to listen to our show ? Well we're making a new show about how all of that was made up^H^H^H^H^H^H^H a dramatization. So be sure to listen in if you want to find out exactly how we duped you, we need some more listeners. Oh and: apple Apple APPLE ! There that should hold the little SOBs."
Anti-EU story turns out to be manufactured or grossly exaggerated. Color me surprised. If these kind of stories didn't turn out to be BS 99% of the time, I'd be a lot more concerned.
You can get some idea from the articles about it :
"TSA "Pre-Check" is now available for passengers who submit fingerprints and background checks in advance."
Yep American idiots railing on about how they don't have ID cards because they're a free country "papers please, lolz." All the while their government is creating a biometric database by filtering people through the airports. It started with fingerprinting foreigners as they come into the US, now it's the Americans turn. I've said it before here and I'll say it again: Americans are being duped into fighting inconsequential, fake "high profile" so-called privacy battles like ID cards while they've already lost the real war.
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Google's revenue isn't from mobile directly. Samsung refuse to release numbers so smartphones may not be responsible for their rise in profits, it may be all those components they are selling to Apple (like the new iPad retina screen.) The Chinese are doing quite well on the low end but that's not good news for the smartphone industry because it means the rest of them are caught in the squeeze between the Chinese on one end and Apple on the other. On the whole, if you're not Apple, the market is pretty crummy right now.
That's really low impact though. Who uses or cares about Thunderbird anymore, let alone web search inside a mail client ? Not many eyeballs lost there.
Totally forgot about RIM, but then who hasn't ;-)
I'm the opposite. Everything is much simpler now because everything has been brought together and accessed through a single device. Much easier to cope with. Of course you need to have some constraint and say "no" when the next social-whatever bandwagon comes around so you don't drown in irrelevant shit.
In the one corner Apple, in the other such winners as HTC, Motorolla, Nokia and Sony Ericsson. CEO's always get fired if they back the wrong horse, but he picked the one with the right odds.
You forgot richer and better educated. Oh and more sexually active, that probably explains why there seem to be so many Android users on Slashdot.
I've a bridge for sale you might be interested in. It might be free of fees now like Android was before everyone came knocking with their big patent portfolio's. And of course Google refuse to indemnify, so they get all of the upside and none of the risk.
"No one ever got fired for buying Apple." It's a brave new world isn't it?
Android has voice dictation too hasn't it ? Plus it has to serve up all those mobile ads, so it might still use more data though not to the user's benefit.
That's the BS. This was just Google's play to push a standard they define over a standard defined by their competitors (Apple, and Microsoft chief among them) because owning one of the largest online media properties AND the file format would've given them a lot of leverage. As things stand now the competition technically has leverage over YouTube and Google through control of a format Google must support to remain competitive (the reason they left their Firefox homies high and dry by continuing to support h264 themselves.) "Open" is just the marketing wrapper.
Yes, yes - because Google has a long patent trolling history and Mozilla is obviously at the top of their "To sue" list.
Yahoo wasn't a patent troll either, until it was. And Mozilla would very quickly become enemy no1 at Google if they ever switched to Bing or another search engine. It'd be all-out war.
Firefox is free to final users, but someone (Google at least) is definitely footing the bill.
Google is paying for access to Firefox users through search bar and default home page. They are not supporting Firefox out of kindness.
Care to explain what SB Settings are?
It's a drop-down panel that allows quick access to certain settings through toggle buttons. Its appeal is that it's always quickly available through gestures no matter what app you are currently in, instead of having to switch to the settings app.
Latest jailbreaks are using up to 3 or 4 different exploits and require a physical cable connection in order to jailbreak. Yes these are bugs but it's not like the make the device super vulnerable. As witnessed by the fact the iPhone 4S jailbreak took months of dedicated work by several hacker groups to figure out a jailbreak. The reason this iPad 3 jailbreak is out so quickly is because the latest iOS release seems to be all about supporting the new retina display and LTE on the iPad and not fixing bugs. Jailbreakers will probably be back to square one when iOS 5.2 comes along though.
I keep reading stories like that from the US but have never heard anything similar out of belgium. Not to say it's maybe not the case but if it is I haven't heard of it. As for SABAM, I meant they often put individuals or small organisations in their sights. Youth parties, individual DJ's, bars. People who don't have the resources to get into a drawn out legal battle (in either time or money.)
It did. The story is about a week old. After it broke SABAM claimed that the library in question does pay about 250 EUR, but it isn't for reading books but for music played in the library. SABAM said that it does collect money for public readings of books but it's only 15 EUR and the book has to be in copyright and be written by one of their member. (Source, in dutch.)
All of this is BS of course these people try to collect on EVERYTHING and as much as possible. They're regularly collecting money for artists that aren't affiliated with them and tend to go after "soft" targets that don't have resources to fight back. They're scum.
Tip: put a magnet on top of your hard drive. If bits do fall off they'll stick to the magnet so you can recycle them. These are also known as "sticky bits."
So can we finally start raking the numerous other companies that are using Foxconn over the coals already?
Like anyone actually cares about the Chinese. It's not a sexy story if Apple's not in it.
Yeah, no reason to check these "facts". I heard it from a guy, he said he worked there (or maybe that was his wife's girlfriend), anyway everybody knows its true OK ? The triumph of truthiness.
They want to sell papers. Apple stories sell papers. Liberal guilt stories sell papers. A reason to feel smug and get your daily 5 minutes of indignant outrage sells papers. This kind of story sells A LOT of papers.
Occam's razor: Apple managed to bully a lot of Chinese nationals into towing their corporate line, force NPR to retract its story and get Daisy to say it was all just theater OR Daisy's just another self-aggrandizing little shit who's trying to surf the Apple wave to success ? Second one seems simpler to me.
What are you talking about? Slashdot is one huge hive of fact checkers - we get Karma if we can debunk the original post ffs!
Yeah. So all those people who called for Apple's blood after the original allegations and got modded up to +5 insightful for it can take this opportunity to apologize in this thread. Strangely I don't see a lot of mea culpa's here. A lot of fingerprinting at NPR, yes. But then that's what Slashdot does best isn't it ?
"Hey everybody remember that big Apple story that drove so many of you to listen to our show ? Well we're making a new show about how all of that was made up^H^H^H^H^H^H^H a dramatization. So be sure to listen in if you want to find out exactly how we duped you, we need some more listeners. Oh and: apple Apple APPLE ! There that should hold the little SOBs."
Anti-EU story turns out to be manufactured or grossly exaggerated. Color me surprised. If these kind of stories didn't turn out to be BS 99% of the time, I'd be a lot more concerned.
You can get some idea from the articles about it :
"TSA "Pre-Check" is now available for passengers who submit fingerprints and background checks in advance."
Yep American idiots railing on about how they don't have ID cards because they're a free country "papers please, lolz." All the while their government is creating a biometric database by filtering people through the airports. It started with fingerprinting foreigners as they come into the US, now it's the Americans turn. I've said it before here and I'll say it again: Americans are being duped into fighting inconsequential, fake "high profile" so-called privacy battles like ID cards while they've already lost the real war.