Do you have a car? Do you read the manual? You have to put stuff in the cooling water to keep it from reacting with metal.
If this is really your concern, you should be MUCH more concerned about the cooling water in AUTOMOBILES, they are using FAR more water than data centers.
Just let people load them to their phone direct from web downloads anywhere on the web
Yeah who needs security or sandboxes or any of that complicated stuff? Just throw all the apps in a directory and let them sort things out for themselves.
DUH we just spent the last 20 years figuring out through HORRIBLE SECURITY NIGHTMARES that your approach is just WRONG.
If you LOOK at what is "patented" here, it's ALL OBVIOUS to ANYONE.
Touch computing has been in our culture since BEFORE IT EXISTED. We have ALL seen the computers in "Star Trek" and "Minority Report". We know ALL about making gestures to talk to a computer. We have ALL seen portable computers with rounded corners, BEFORE ANY OF THESE PATENTS WERE EVEN IMAGINED.
You HAVE to LOOK these things and say "is this the obvious way to do this?" You HAVE to do it IN OUR CURRENT CULTURE where we have ALL been exposed to these ideas FOR YEARS. If the answer is YES then THERE IS NO BASIS FOR A PATENT.
The only thing that's NOVEL here is the CONCEPT that you can IGNORE the PRIOR ART.
I just hid the button when making calls is not available. A grand total of three lines of code, including one line that was nothing more than a curly brace. Took me less than five minutes to code and test.
CONGRATULATIONS for DISPROVING YOUR OWN POINT, introducing HARDWARE DEPENDENCIES into your code.
user fragmentation that occurs as the result of having different feature sets on different devices. Unfortunately, that is not the type of fragmentation that is in any way relevant to conversations about fragmentation in the mobile space.
"in the mobile space" What a LOSER. These are JUST TINY COMPUTERS.
people are talking about device fragmentation, that is, the things dividing the devices into different groups for which the developers must separately develop.
So user fragmentation is when the devices are different, and device fragmentation is when the devices are different?
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good luck using software to write data onto disks that have taken themselves offline
Do you have a car? Do you read the manual? You have to put stuff in the cooling water to keep it from reacting with metal.
If this is really your concern, you should be MUCH more concerned about the cooling water in AUTOMOBILES, they are using FAR more water than data centers.
When I buy a tool, I demand that it only works with other stuff from the same vendor.
It would just be too confusing if I could use the same adjustable wrench for different brands of bolts.
The issue here is their habit of screwing up the technologies they do have.
Yeah because NOBODY EVER FIXES BUGS and NOBODY EVER LEARNS and NOTHING EVER CHANGES.
Just let people load them to their phone direct from web downloads anywhere on the web
Yeah who needs security or sandboxes or any of that complicated stuff? Just throw all the apps in a directory and let them sort things out for themselves.
DUH we just spent the last 20 years figuring out through HORRIBLE SECURITY NIGHTMARES that your approach is just WRONG.
It's really the same as Wal-Mart's slogan and they are HUGE
I don't see hands on the ends of those robot arms. I don't know what they are talking about.
The robot devil had to sign a deal with Fry to get hands.
If you LOOK at what is "patented" here, it's ALL OBVIOUS to ANYONE.
Touch computing has been in our culture since BEFORE IT EXISTED. We have ALL seen the computers in "Star Trek" and "Minority Report". We know ALL about making gestures to talk to a computer. We have ALL seen portable computers with rounded corners, BEFORE ANY OF THESE PATENTS WERE EVEN IMAGINED.
You HAVE to LOOK these things and say "is this the obvious way to do this?" You HAVE to do it IN OUR CURRENT CULTURE where we have ALL been exposed to these ideas FOR YEARS. If the answer is YES then THERE IS NO BASIS FOR A PATENT.
The only thing that's NOVEL here is the CONCEPT that you can IGNORE the PRIOR ART.
The $20 phones from the convenience store have more battery life and equal call quality. If you are looking for a telephone they can't be beat.
If you want to talk about carrying a computer in your pocket, that's a different story, but for pure telephone use, the cheap ones are the way to go.
I just hid the button when making calls is not available. A grand total of three lines of code, including one line that was nothing more than a curly brace. Took me less than five minutes to code and test.
CONGRATULATIONS for DISPROVING YOUR OWN POINT, introducing HARDWARE DEPENDENCIES into your code.
You have to code everything that relies on the network on mobile devices to handle cases where it is unavailable
REALLY? Last I checked, mobile browsers "rely on the network" and they have NO special code to deal with when the net is down.
So you say that having two groups of users, one of which has constant IP connectivity, and one that does not, that's not fragmentation?
You are saying that the mobile apps that rely on constant connectivity, will work fine in devices that don't have this feature?
user fragmentation that occurs as the result of having different feature sets on different devices. Unfortunately, that is not the type of fragmentation that is in any way relevant to conversations about fragmentation in the mobile space.
"in the mobile space" What a LOSER. These are JUST TINY COMPUTERS.
people are talking about device fragmentation, that is, the things dividing the devices into different groups for which the developers must separately develop.
So user fragmentation is when the devices are different, and device fragmentation is when the devices are different?
This traditionally is not called fragmentation
Tell us ALL ABOUT the "traditions" in this market that did not exist ten years ago.
If your app depends on data delivered by other apps, you SURE DO care if those other apps are functional or not.
You're the sucker for buying their hardware, why do you blame others for your own failures?
"I bought a Ford car and it's junk because I can't just drop my Chevy engine into it"
you'd have to code for when it's unavailable anyway.
This is PRECISELY what FRAGMENTATION is ALL ABOUT!
Spending development time on stuff that SOME of your users WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE.
"fragmentation" is when you have to tell SOME of your users "you can't do that thing that others are doing"
"fragmentation" is DIVIDING THE USERS INTO GROUPS
Which is EXACTLY what happens when some users have a feature and some don't.
every kind of screen size and shape and aspect ratio, it's insane.
Yeah we've had THE EXACT SAME SITUATION ON THE DESKTOP.
FOR YEARS AND YEARS
you say cyanogenmod is illegal?
WHY does Microsoft allow HP and Dell to sell Linux systems even though Microsoft provided technical support for these hardware platforms?
When Microsoft tells vendors "you can't ship anything but Windows on your computers"...
It's considered BAD
But when google says EXACTLY THE SAME THING
Somehow it's OKAY
"google gives tech support to contract holders" SO DOES MICROSOFT!
GAPPS runs GREAT on Barnes and Noble Nook WITH NO ANDROID LICENSE
"Either you are putting them on the device or hosting them, either is copyright violation. "
WHY WHY WHY can I still download this file freely?
since when does google care if I install someone else's app on someone else's device with a free OS on it?