Unnecessary to you. My kid can't wait for this update as an aspiring mechanical engineer, and his sister, who is going into animation wants it yesterday.
They both want the new AIO too, as it ties right into what they want to do.
Me too. I am not a fan of gestures, whether it be touch or a mouse. In the case of touch, just give me onscreen buttons that have some sort of feedback when I press them, like changing color, and outline, etc. It's frustrating not knowing if you did a gesture wrong, if the system misinterpreted it, etc. when nothing happens. In a lot of cases they trigger accidentally as well. Anyone with a Windows phone on W10 will know the pain of edge's back / forward swipe gesture happening when you certainly did not intend it.
Oh gods yes. I have a woman at work that works with very large and complicated excel spreadsheets. She will only use an 11 inch MacAir, because ANYTHING ELSE is TOO HEAVY. Even though she admits its very challenging working on such a small screen, she's slower to work, and that it gives her headaches, she won't budge.
It may be crap to you, but not to the user. I can see my stocks, my last few mails, and my last updated rss entries without opening an app. Garbage in garbage out. Don't put garbage in.
Also what you call crap is important to others, not everyone thinks like you, ya know.
I wouldn't do #3, when it comes to UI I usually let the user handle that. My 2 cents.
Here is the thing with Cortana. You can completely remove it, but it REMOVES LOCAL SEARCH too. Just not opting in and turning off web searches will do a local search. I'm a fair tinfoilhatist myself, but Cortana has been through a TON of live use and I haven't heard of anything seen that would suspect things are sneaking through.
From what I see, proponents of Linux fail to admit it's shortcomings. To technologists some of these issues aren't, but to joe 6 pack, they certainly are. Multiple distros are a problem. Not that they exist, but in that they currently are missing 2 crucial things
Take Android. Consider each OEM to be a distro. It's the same situation as desktop Linux (roughly), why did it work where desktop Linux has failed? Unified branding, a unified store, and product on the shelf, as well as easily found online.
So step 1 is to get the major players together to promote Linux as a brand. Maybe they choose a different name, but it has to be unified. There also needs to be a store that follows that pattern. Joe 6 pack is likely to not fret very much over a distro, if the store is the same. Joe does not feel like he may make a choice that will cause him to not have the apps he wants.
Product on the shelf. This is the hard one. I don't have many answers. For online either. Problem is, even if you have a solid plan you need money to execute it. Speaking of this product, it has to be attractive. System 76 makes decent stuff, but by today's standards it's heavy and unattractive. There are a few of the big OEM's that have it preinstalled on good kit (XPS13), but they never really tell anyone, not like the 100 off win various win laptops every week, or the ads for them.
There are no low end devices, no $150 ones don't count. Where is the model that simply mirrors notifications, tells time, lasts at least 24 continuous hours, and will pass voice and audio for a call over BT for 50 bucks?
Oh, no one has made that yet. It seems this is another market where you can't buy a basic version. Cars cost what they do now because there is almost no basic one, and is also why I don't have any desire to own one currently.
Stop trying to make it more and more "useful" while driving the price up, give us a basic version and I'll happily buy 4 of them for the fam.
This. They really aren't bullshitting. Personal experience, but on my laptop hands down Chrome rapes batteries vs edge and opera. FF is better, but not by much.
Also chrome is still terrible for HIDPI and touch support. Opera and FF fail at this as well, but at least I can somewhat use them with touch.
I really don't think so. Under a basic income I can see most people vegging out on Netflix most of the day. People that aren't motivated by money are few and far between in my travels, and most people really don't want to do a lot of shit that isn't hedonistic in nature. Take away needing to be productive for money and I doubt most would do it on their own.
They don't care if the business survives, they got theirs, F YOU! If Wendy's was wiped off the map somehow tomorrow, I doubt their CEO would give a crap, he probably has a clause where they have to pay him even more if that happens.
You obviously haven't seen 60Hz and 144Hz side by side, or hell even 90. Once you see that smoothness, a 60Hz monitor will look janky. Go do that and get back to us.
Unfortunately, telegram is useless for me. Private chats won't sync to multiple devices, and I have 3 or 4 I use regularly. Sucks have 5 different private chats with the wife, one for each device.
Well remember, Lord Jobs told everyone the desktop was a dead man walking. I too avoid services that ignore the desktop, and while I am sure there are others that do, I am getting the impression that there are more people that look for this than these companies think. People are also straddling more "ecosystems" more often than ever. Half my office is Win/Android and there are only a handful of apps that will stay in sync across win desktop, win app (that's a thing now!) and android app. Which is a damn shame because I believe there is a sizeable enough market for this kind of integration. Problem is that now everyone says you "failed" if you aren't #1 in a week. Gaining a niche and pulling in a little change is hard to do when most investors want the big cash, and people define themselves by being on the most popular service.
I'm going to cry at that last sentence, because it really upsets me that this is where we are.
If you're my family, you complain and keep buying. It's not just computers, cars, appliances, etc. They have been so trained by adverts to be loyal while taking it up the ass. As someone mentioned as another reply, I just let them suffer now.
Old phones don't have dpads and buttons. My younger cousins have tablets, but they play their DS'es way more as they get closer to double digits in age. This is the angle Nintendo needs to play here, that for many types of games, touch controls are terrible.
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Unnecessary to you. My kid can't wait for this update as an aspiring mechanical engineer, and his sister, who is going into animation wants it yesterday.
They both want the new AIO too, as it ties right into what they want to do.
Different strokes for different folks.
It makes perfect sense if I'd rather spend 200 as opposed to 650.
I agree, dark themes are a savior on my eyes. White backgrounds are the devil. I can actually turn brightness up on my screens now.
Me too. I am not a fan of gestures, whether it be touch or a mouse. In the case of touch, just give me onscreen buttons that have some sort of feedback when I press them, like changing color, and outline, etc. It's frustrating not knowing if you did a gesture wrong, if the system misinterpreted it, etc. when nothing happens. In a lot of cases they trigger accidentally as well. Anyone with a Windows phone on W10 will know the pain of edge's back / forward swipe gesture happening when you certainly did not intend it.
On a touchpad, 2 finger scrolling is enough.
I have, they didn't care, "We aren't that important."
Oh gods yes. I have a woman at work that works with very large and complicated excel spreadsheets. She will only use an 11 inch MacAir, because ANYTHING ELSE is TOO HEAVY. Even though she admits its very challenging working on such a small screen, she's slower to work, and that it gives her headaches, she won't budge.
Only because it mentions something positive about a device that was made by a company Slashdot tends to hate.
It may be crap to you, but not to the user. I can see my stocks, my last few mails, and my last updated rss entries without opening an app. Garbage in garbage out. Don't put garbage in.
Also what you call crap is important to others, not everyone thinks like you, ya know.
I wouldn't do #3, when it comes to UI I usually let the user handle that. My 2 cents.
Here is the thing with Cortana. You can completely remove it, but it REMOVES LOCAL SEARCH too. Just not opting in and turning off web searches will do a local search. I'm a fair tinfoilhatist myself, but Cortana has been through a TON of live use and I haven't heard of anything seen that would suspect things are sneaking through.
From what I see, proponents of Linux fail to admit it's shortcomings. To technologists some of these issues aren't, but to joe 6 pack, they certainly are. Multiple distros are a problem. Not that they exist, but in that they currently are missing 2 crucial things
Take Android. Consider each OEM to be a distro. It's the same situation as desktop Linux (roughly), why did it work where desktop Linux has failed? Unified branding, a unified store, and product on the shelf, as well as easily found online.
So step 1 is to get the major players together to promote Linux as a brand. Maybe they choose a different name, but it has to be unified. There also needs to be a store that follows that pattern. Joe 6 pack is likely to not fret very much over a distro, if the store is the same. Joe does not feel like he may make a choice that will cause him to not have the apps he wants.
Product on the shelf. This is the hard one. I don't have many answers. For online either. Problem is, even if you have a solid plan you need money to execute it. Speaking of this product, it has to be attractive. System 76 makes decent stuff, but by today's standards it's heavy and unattractive. There are a few of the big OEM's that have it preinstalled on good kit (XPS13), but they never really tell anyone, not like the 100 off win various win laptops every week, or the ads for them.
I wouldn't consider this a fair comparison, El Cap is an incremental update, W10 is a full on release. Yes, I consider them different.
There are no low end devices, no $150 ones don't count. Where is the model that simply mirrors notifications, tells time, lasts at least 24 continuous hours, and will pass voice and audio for a call over BT for 50 bucks?
Oh, no one has made that yet. It seems this is another market where you can't buy a basic version. Cars cost what they do now because there is almost no basic one, and is also why I don't have any desire to own one currently.
Stop trying to make it more and more "useful" while driving the price up, give us a basic version and I'll happily buy 4 of them for the fam.
This. They really aren't bullshitting. Personal experience, but on my laptop hands down Chrome rapes batteries vs edge and opera. FF is better, but not by much.
Also chrome is still terrible for HIDPI and touch support. Opera and FF fail at this as well, but at least I can somewhat use them with touch.
I'm going off my battery lasting 8 hours instead of 4.5 since uninstalling chrome. It's been verified by my own experience.
I'm letting you know. Battery life doubled over Chrome.
Can you define "nothing works?" The 500 or so places I visit at least monthly have had 0 problems.
"But the real issue is that Apple have hobbled the usefulness of Siri by not letting it gather all the information on you like Google Now "
This right here is the double edged sword of these services. They really aren't very useful without forgoing privacy.
I really don't think so. Under a basic income I can see most people vegging out on Netflix most of the day. People that aren't motivated by money are few and far between in my travels, and most people really don't want to do a lot of shit that isn't hedonistic in nature. Take away needing to be productive for money and I doubt most would do it on their own.
They don't care if the business survives, they got theirs, F YOU! If Wendy's was wiped off the map somehow tomorrow, I doubt their CEO would give a crap, he probably has a clause where they have to pay him even more if that happens.
Same everything, chats sync but PRIVATE chats absolutely will not.
You obviously haven't seen 60Hz and 144Hz side by side, or hell even 90. Once you see that smoothness, a 60Hz monitor will look janky. Go do that and get back to us.
Unfortunately, telegram is useless for me. Private chats won't sync to multiple devices, and I have 3 or 4 I use regularly. Sucks have 5 different private chats with the wife, one for each device.
Well remember, Lord Jobs told everyone the desktop was a dead man walking. I too avoid services that ignore the desktop, and while I am sure there are others that do, I am getting the impression that there are more people that look for this than these companies think. People are also straddling more "ecosystems" more often than ever. Half my office is Win/Android and there are only a handful of apps that will stay in sync across win desktop, win app (that's a thing now!) and android app. Which is a damn shame because I believe there is a sizeable enough market for this kind of integration. Problem is that now everyone says you "failed" if you aren't #1 in a week. Gaining a niche and pulling in a little change is hard to do when most investors want the big cash, and people define themselves by being on the most popular service.
I'm going to cry at that last sentence, because it really upsets me that this is where we are.
If you're my family, you complain and keep buying. It's not just computers, cars, appliances, etc. They have been so trained by adverts to be loyal while taking it up the ass. As someone mentioned as another reply, I just let them suffer now.
Old phones don't have dpads and buttons. My younger cousins have tablets, but they play their DS'es way more as they get closer to double digits in age. This is the angle Nintendo needs to play here, that for many types of games, touch controls are terrible.