Maybe not that cheap, but to me $650 for a phone is PATENTLY RIDICULOUS, regardless how many features it has or what it can do. My Nexus 5 just died, and I got myself a Huawei Honor 5X for 160 last week. On paper the specs look terrible, in use it's just as fast as the N5, and never feels "slow" All the apps I need work, the camera is more than good enough, and there are no showstopper bugs with the screen. Does it feel "cheap?" can't tell you a phone feels like a phone to me. What am I getting for 3x the price? Apps that open 2ms faster?
The ultimate point is that people are at this point, only buying flagship phones because marketing is telling them to. Everyone that has held and used my 5X think it's a high end phone, and will not believe me on the price, until I show them the sales slip. Once the marketing stops working (soon) well, Apple better be prepared.
"Forced" How? You mean at work? Who who isn't at work is "forced" to use windows. Many things are a voluntary choice. If you choose to keep a windows install to play a game, that's on you, you can (and should) choose not to play the game as you don't want windows. People are forced by their own entitlement ro decisions, but outright, no.
We must be looking at things differently, even in flat design, I can tell a text field from a button. I have never met a swipeable looking button that didn't respond to both gestures swipe or tap either. whitespace is only a problem in applications that simply have no reason to fill an entire landscape or portrait display.
I wouldn't call it a revamp, the basic design tenets are the same, this is just some polish and bling truthfully. At least that's how it looks right now. I doubt they will stray far from this though, it makes no sense to me to shake things up much, the basic ideas they have are good on the surface already, this just brings some more eye candy.
I swear, MS can simply do no right by some people. People are still chomping at the bit for them to fail. I will never understand it. Don't like their stuff, fine, don't use it. But the amounts of disinformation, made up "facts" etc. around this OS is more than usual funny. Adoption keeps growing, after the free period and people are besides themselves every time it's reported...
except it's neither, if this was possible on any mass scale
1) it would have already happened.
2) MS would have never had that as a policy
The owner has the freedom to use another OS if the updates are a problem, and ms has the right to sell a product as they see fit. There is no problem, except for those that want to stay on windows.
For that task, yes, now try a game with a "main thread" that the AMD core can't run at full speed. You get one core at 100% while the rest run much slower waiting on "main thread" tasks to complete. Wait, it's not just games, but more programs work in this sort of manner. I'd rater have fewer, but much wider cores, than a bunch of not so wide ones that bottleneck on the "main thread."
Well if you leave that bubble you'll quickly see why. In my neighborhood, there isn't an apple product on my block, and everywhere I have worked in the last 3 years (I contract short term mostly) is 95% windows.
If you're that surprised you need to stand up and look around a bit more.
I agree, that's pretty high , especially for a core m3, which is a chip I have tried to like, but it just throttles itself to hell and back under seemingly any small load.
Which explains why mine does not seem slow. I found the more I tried to fight, the more inconvenient and troublesome web browsing became, and the slower it got, and my batteries started dying faster. I get better results by just leaving it all alone and clicking x's on ads that need that and ignoring the rest. Malware? none in 7 years, I still wonder who is catching all that stuff.
This is the second reason, aside from no standard control scheme for phone gaming, is why I just don't bother. The pricing for so many games is simply too high for what you are getting. Sure, I've paid 50 - 60 for a game before, but I got a lot of value out of those purchases, and hundreds of hours of playtime.
The sites will block known vpn endpoints on their own, if the government makes it worthwhile to do so. They'll harass large sites and ISP's that don't block known endpoints until they do. Enjoy it while you can.
While this may seem a pessimistic viewpoint, I feel that "Wars" against this kind of censorship and privacy are already lost, and it's best to just protect yourself at this point as the masses have decided convenience is better than privacy.
It obviously hasn't, but it creates reams and reams of very hard to refute evidence. Actually, thanks for being hard headed, you're helping the very thing feelings have you against.
"Oh, and since the science is settled abuot climate change, the EPA obviously doesn't need anybody to research it... right?"
Actually since so many are rejecting facts, we need to keep proving the fact as many times as possible until it gets through their thick heads or they give up. If those that reject facts would get out of their feelings and look at the data for what it is, not what they want it to be, we could have stopped researching "is it happening" and we could be on , "how do we fix it." But as usual, science deniers are holding all progress back, because it just does not feel real.
The problem is that the definition of an "ad" becomes muddled, "ad" eventually means almost anything that someone disagrees with in regard to a notification on their system. Technically, you could call a modern smartphone setup experience an "ad." See how silly it gets?
Plus you can turn this off anyways in settings, so anyone that's "triggered" (see what I did there) can fix it.
Me too. I bought my 13.3 laptop used, and it has a QHD screen, switched it to 1080p and it looks the same, even up close. No headaches either. Battery lasts much longer as well.
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Maybe not that cheap, but to me $650 for a phone is PATENTLY RIDICULOUS, regardless how many features it has or what it can do. My Nexus 5 just died, and I got myself a Huawei Honor 5X for 160 last week. On paper the specs look terrible, in use it's just as fast as the N5, and never feels "slow" All the apps I need work, the camera is more than good enough, and there are no showstopper bugs with the screen. Does it feel "cheap?" can't tell you a phone feels like a phone to me. What am I getting for 3x the price? Apps that open 2ms faster?
The ultimate point is that people are at this point, only buying flagship phones because marketing is telling them to. Everyone that has held and used my 5X think it's a high end phone, and will not believe me on the price, until I show them the sales slip. Once the marketing stops working (soon) well, Apple better be prepared.
"Forced" How? You mean at work? Who who isn't at work is "forced" to use windows. Many things are a voluntary choice. If you choose to keep a windows install to play a game, that's on you, you can (and should) choose not to play the game as you don't want windows. People are forced by their own entitlement ro decisions, but outright, no.
We must be looking at things differently, even in flat design, I can tell a text field from a button. I have never met a swipeable looking button that didn't respond to both gestures swipe or tap either. whitespace is only a problem in applications that simply have no reason to fill an entire landscape or portrait display.
I wouldn't call it a revamp, the basic design tenets are the same, this is just some polish and bling truthfully. At least that's how it looks right now. I doubt they will stray far from this though, it makes no sense to me to shake things up much, the basic ideas they have are good on the surface already, this just brings some more eye candy.
Why don't you let the end users decide that, a lot less work.
If you absolutely HAVE to use GPO's.
That's called life, nothing is 100% the way you want.
What's really sad is that all Linux vendors and Apple did precisely 0 to pull people away.
I swear, MS can simply do no right by some people. People are still chomping at the bit for them to fail. I will never understand it. Don't like their stuff, fine, don't use it. But the amounts of disinformation, made up "facts" etc. around this OS is more than usual funny. Adoption keeps growing, after the free period and people are besides themselves every time it's reported...
I wish that happened, but it does not. Mainly because only gamers, businesses, and power users have any computer on any desk.
except it's neither, if this was possible on any mass scale
1) it would have already happened.
2) MS would have never had that as a policy
The owner has the freedom to use another OS if the updates are a problem, and ms has the right to sell a product as they see fit. There is no problem, except for those that want to stay on windows.
For that task, yes, now try a game with a "main thread" that the AMD core can't run at full speed. You get one core at 100% while the rest run much slower waiting on "main thread" tasks to complete. Wait, it's not just games, but more programs work in this sort of manner. I'd rater have fewer, but much wider cores, than a bunch of not so wide ones that bottleneck on the "main thread."
Well if you leave that bubble you'll quickly see why. In my neighborhood, there isn't an apple product on my block, and everywhere I have worked in the last 3 years (I contract short term mostly) is 95% windows.
If you're that surprised you need to stand up and look around a bit more.
I agree, that's pretty high , especially for a core m3, which is a chip I have tried to like, but it just throttles itself to hell and back under seemingly any small load.
Too much, or a large selection? I'm going with option 2
It is if you have any sort of limited data plan.
Which explains why mine does not seem slow. I found the more I tried to fight, the more inconvenient and troublesome web browsing became, and the slower it got, and my batteries started dying faster. I get better results by just leaving it all alone and clicking x's on ads that need that and ignoring the rest. Malware? none in 7 years, I still wonder who is catching all that stuff.
This is the second reason, aside from no standard control scheme for phone gaming, is why I just don't bother. The pricing for so many games is simply too high for what you are getting. Sure, I've paid 50 - 60 for a game before, but I got a lot of value out of those purchases, and hundreds of hours of playtime.
Millions will certainly be doing that.
... I couldn't hate this company more, they do this. I like the idea of what they do, but the disdain for the rule of law is unforgiveable.
The sites will block known vpn endpoints on their own, if the government makes it worthwhile to do so. They'll harass large sites and ISP's that don't block known endpoints until they do. Enjoy it while you can.
While this may seem a pessimistic viewpoint, I feel that "Wars" against this kind of censorship and privacy are already lost, and it's best to just protect yourself at this point as the masses have decided convenience is better than privacy.
It obviously hasn't, but it creates reams and reams of very hard to refute evidence. Actually, thanks for being hard headed, you're helping the very thing feelings have you against.
"Computer models that can be programmed to obtain a desired result are not facts."
Show me where the preponderance of evidence can be debunked with bad computer models.
That's right you can't.
Or is there a mass conspiracy among 99% of climate scientists?
Either way your argument comes across to me as unintelligent.
"Oh, and since the science is settled abuot climate change, the EPA obviously doesn't need anybody to research it... right?"
Actually since so many are rejecting facts, we need to keep proving the fact as many times as possible until it gets through their thick heads or they give up. If those that reject facts would get out of their feelings and look at the data for what it is, not what they want it to be, we could have stopped researching "is it happening" and we could be on , "how do we fix it." But as usual, science deniers are holding all progress back, because it just does not feel real.
The problem is that the definition of an "ad" becomes muddled, "ad" eventually means almost anything that someone disagrees with in regard to a notification on their system. Technically, you could call a modern smartphone setup experience an "ad." See how silly it gets?
Plus you can turn this off anyways in settings, so anyone that's "triggered" (see what I did there) can fix it.
See above.
Me too. I bought my 13.3 laptop used, and it has a QHD screen, switched it to 1080p and it looks the same, even up close. No headaches either. Battery lasts much longer as well.