So, you've made it clear that you don't think that government action can have any positive effect on this situation. What is your alternative? Because the only one I see is that we're just going to be thrown to the wolves.
And let's never forget that AT&T was the first, and most eager, company to cooperate with the government in installing equipment to capture everything flowing through their part of the internet backbone.
Why wouldn't I want it to be the absolute best it can be?
Above a certain price point (which is far less than $1500), price does not correlate well with quality. You should get the best equipment you can, but you should not decide what it "the best" based on its price tag.
$1200 is fine for people who make reasonable money and just don't care about an extra $400-$500 for something they use every single day.
I make reasonable money and could afford $1200 without too much pain. But I do care about an extra $400-$500 if I'm not getting $400-$500 worth of value out of it, and it's really hard to imagine what could be added to a phone that would be worth that much.
Yes, I am the same. I don't really care about speed -- all of the browsers are fast enough. I really care about two things: the user interface and whether or not I can have the functionality that NoScript provides. RIght now, that means Firefox with the Classic Theme Restorer.
Once CTR stops working, I think that Pale Moon is the only refuge left.
You have some selection bias going on. Your enterprise clients are likely dominated by a particular demographic and not representative of the population as a whole.
That said, About 75% of the Windows users I personally know are using Windows 7 on their personal machines (and about half of the WIn 10 people really, really wish they had Windows 7 back, the other half don't care). It's somewhere near 100% Windows 10 on their works machines.
But I have the same selection bias thing going on.
Linux is, in my opinion, in a bit of a sweet spot. Popular enough to have decent development happening, but not so popular that it suffers from all of the various nastiness that happens to popular operating systems.
Use a standards compliant browser off the beaten path and you'll run into all sorts of barriers you can't get around and sites that don't work well, all because they are wittingly or unwittingly designed with Chrome in mind.
That may be the case, but all that means to me is that those are sites that I will never go to. Much like sites that don't work if I've disabled javascript or block ads: that's fine, those sites are now nonexistent to me.
I work on my own OSS projects, but I stopped contributing to other groups projects years ago. The percentage of awful people in the community is small, but they are extremely vocal and inescapable. It's not worth the aggravation to take part in that nonsense.
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It seems to me that Windows Phone died years ago. They're just finally burying the body.
So, you've made it clear that you don't think that government action can have any positive effect on this situation. What is your alternative? Because the only one I see is that we're just going to be thrown to the wolves.
Yep.
There are three things that I consider mandatory in a phone in order for me to even consider buying it:
1) An SD card slot
2) An easily replaceable battery
3) A headphone jack
Everything else is, to varying degrees, negotiable.
Go ahead. Keep telling yourself that.
OK, I will.
I fail to see how preventing companies from abusing their position as communications carriers is a bad thing.
This entire problem is so easily avoided, too, if only companies didn't have megabucks to throw into keeping the problem form being solved.
Companies that provide internet service are telecommunications carriers, and should be treated as such.
Companies that produce content that goes over those carriers are not.
The fact that companies insist on conflating these two very different roles is the fundamental source of confusion.
When Net Neutrality goes into effect Hulu and Netflix will be downgraded to match, or equal, the same service level as everything else.
Which is a good thing.
You AT&T service would not be effected by Net Neutrality since those are not on the internet
Yes, and so?
Net Neutrality, like almost any new law, takes power away from the individual.
How do you figure that?
Too late.
And let's never forget that AT&T was the first, and most eager, company to cooperate with the government in installing equipment to capture everything flowing through their part of the internet backbone.
My battery did give up the ghost, but I replaced it. I use a Galaxy, so replacing the battery is a trivial and inexpensive operation.
I agree about the buttons. I really, really miss having physical buttons.
Honestly, give up the cheap wired things and try the wireless stuff.
The problem with wireless earphones is battery life. I can't find any that last more than a couple of hours on a single charge.
Until they solve that, I'll stick with my very excellent wired earphones, thanks.
Why wouldn't I want it to be the absolute best it can be?
Above a certain price point (which is far less than $1500), price does not correlate well with quality. You should get the best equipment you can, but you should not decide what it "the best" based on its price tag.
My $600 phone is three years old and looks on track to last at least another two.
$1200 is fine for people who make reasonable money and just don't care about an extra $400-$500 for something they use every single day.
I make reasonable money and could afford $1200 without too much pain. But I do care about an extra $400-$500 if I'm not getting $400-$500 worth of value out of it, and it's really hard to imagine what could be added to a phone that would be worth that much.
Special app? You mean iTunes?
iTunes 100% counts as a "special app".
That's far too high a price for a smartphone.
Yes, I am the same. I don't really care about speed -- all of the browsers are fast enough. I really care about two things: the user interface and whether or not I can have the functionality that NoScript provides. RIght now, that means Firefox with the Classic Theme Restorer.
Once CTR stops working, I think that Pale Moon is the only refuge left.
You have some selection bias going on. Your enterprise clients are likely dominated by a particular demographic and not representative of the population as a whole.
That said, About 75% of the Windows users I personally know are using Windows 7 on their personal machines (and about half of the WIn 10 people really, really wish they had Windows 7 back, the other half don't care). It's somewhere near 100% Windows 10 on their works machines.
But I have the same selection bias thing going on.
I just use multiple FF incognito mode windows.
I agree wholeheartedly!
Linux is, in my opinion, in a bit of a sweet spot. Popular enough to have decent development happening, but not so popular that it suffers from all of the various nastiness that happens to popular operating systems.
When was Microsoft ever "nice guys"?
Use a standards compliant browser off the beaten path and you'll run into all sorts of barriers you can't get around and sites that don't work well, all because they are wittingly or unwittingly designed with Chrome in mind.
That may be the case, but all that means to me is that those are sites that I will never go to. Much like sites that don't work if I've disabled javascript or block ads: that's fine, those sites are now nonexistent to me.
It hasn't harmed my browsing experience at all.
Personally, I strongly dislike Chromium because it's hard to use and feels limited.
There probably wouldn't be much opposition to it if there were something that would replace it without losing functionality.
But there isn't.
I work on my own OSS projects, but I stopped contributing to other groups projects years ago. The percentage of awful people in the community is small, but they are extremely vocal and inescapable. It's not worth the aggravation to take part in that nonsense.
And the rightmost column won't go away. If you view it in a narrow window (as I prefer to do), then that column takes up half of the display.