My girlfriend had one through work for a while, there were no apps, but it could browse the internet quite well, was an inexpensive phone, pretty darned thin, and had a real all day battery.
At a time when that was impressive, I'm surprised it didn't take off, there are plenty of people that just want internet, GPS, and a camera.
I find the Lowe's and home depot store brands quite acceptable in price/quality (for my needs, I'm a mildly handy home owner, not a professional or anything).
Many of the Walmart even real brand stuff is garbage, but I don't see that trickling to the home stores WRT tools at least.
That just seems like a lot of work to bend the rules and break the spirit of them. Copy and pasting URLs, answering captcha and all. I assume people just check the box not knowing.
Since Android 6 apps install with no/limited permission, the first time it wants your location (or to access your camera, a file etc) a pop-up from the OS asks to grant it.
I like that feature because it allows me to see why the app needs this or that permission.
They make it really easy to send where the link gets the file (which in theory is as secure as an e-mail), the real issue is someone sending me something and getting a bounce.
They have never forced me to change plans, even when I was on one that hadn't been offered for a couple years and was less than the price of it when it canceled.
They may try to get you to change with incentives, but I've not personally experienced a forced change (just an anecdote, but I was on a plan ripe for forced switch).
They got me to change when I was traveling to Canada, as the new plan had free slow data roaming in Canada. I took the throttled video forever as a trade off for a much cheaper two week vacation.
Basically, the AT&T deal came with a spectrum infusion for T-Mobile if it fell through, and a chunk of earnest money too (if memory serves).
Once the selling failed, they (T-Mobile) took their business as a business seriously, and started competing hard. They were able to build to a more competitive network, kept their prices down, and started being a real threat. Tmobile has gotten notably better coverage every year (4G where I used to have edge locally for example).
In most areas I've been Tmobile is as good as AT&T (we still roam on them, part of the deal, the places where I get an AT&T signal when I can't get a Tmobile one are few and far between (south of buffalo on the lake, and rural VA), and even when I do, the signal is almost worthless and spotty from AT&T.
Verizon is the only company with meaningfully better coverage, but until very recently they were triple the price or so.
My options are up to 3mbps DSL, Cable, and Cellular.
January 1st my cable (internet only) went from $55->$87, I was going to cancel but they knocked me down to $60 (25mbps FYI).
Cellular was the better option over DSL (for someone living alone). for an extra $25 I can get unlimited tethering, throttled after 25 or so GB on Tmobile. I could probably make do only streaming SD and doing serious work from the office (my only use of internet at home is video and reading).
I think over the next 5 - 10 years wireless will be real competition, considering it already is for people living alone (not as good, but hits the value point really well, starting to look good enough). Either that, or someone will come up with a need for a lot more bandwidth, 25mbps pretty much covers the typical home today (a couple of 1080p streams and some spare for other stuff). Sure, I wouldn't mind 1gbps, but it's not really worth much extra to me, my cellular currently gets me 25-50 mbps, faster than Comcast until the throttling, I'd gladly pay a $60 addon to my bill for a device that was throttle free, had an Ethernet port, and and worked on the cellular network. My latency isn't great on cellular though (40-60 ms).
Even so, I think cellular is going to be what starts a real broadband price war, it has low capital outlay (as it's mostly there already for making the phones work), it's improving rapidly as the needs are not (4k only tripling them or so).
Comcast either needs a game changer in need or to not be customer hostile, otherwise tmobile, Verizon Wireless, and AT&T are going to destroy them. They need to start now too, as people will spite switch if they don't do something.
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It's quite nice too.
My girlfriend had one through work for a while, there were no apps, but it could browse the internet quite well, was an inexpensive phone, pretty darned thin, and had a real all day battery.
At a time when that was impressive, I'm surprised it didn't take off, there are plenty of people that just want internet, GPS, and a camera.
Prime Fresh is in my area, I do very little brick and mortar grocery shopping.
It's brought the price of other small things into affordable too on amazon.
I find the Lowe's and home depot store brands quite acceptable in price/quality (for my needs, I'm a mildly handy home owner, not a professional or anything).
Many of the Walmart even real brand stuff is garbage, but I don't see that trickling to the home stores WRT tools at least.
I'd say about 5% of mine take three days.
Maybe less, I'm estimating.
If I complain, they always take care of me, but often I feel bad, as the credits are disproportionately generous.
I only complain now when stuff doesn't come Sunday and I really needed it for the weekend.
Existing games run well enough.
What's important is that future games that are more demanding do too. As long as optimization happens going forward, it will be fine.
That makes sense, or an anon window.
That just seems like a lot of work to bend the rules and break the spirit of them. Copy and pasting URLs, answering captcha and all. I assume people just check the box not knowing.
Joke's on you, if you were still logged in,
Your mods are gone.
I thought the replacement was SVG and javascript, don't know how it works for elaborate flash though.
I personally think The Binding of Isaac is the best example of the value if flash.
More relevant to me, that's a pretty big hole in the plane
1 person dead, the make a hole and suck people out strategy is not very effective. Probably why it hasn't been tried.
There's no way that banning countries has an effect on the global economy.
Well, if they're government subsidized, those airlines aren't playing fair to begin with.
I liked BeOS, but it it had big flaws.
Mainly being single user at a time far too late for that to be appropriate.
At a time when you could use windows 2000 and run most windows software, BeOS was still releasing single user versions.
Didn't it run better know 95?
I seem to remember that, but maybe a false memory.
self driving cars currently seem to be not at fault more often than real drivers though.
Note, the article I read was a few years ago, so this could no longer be true.
But it looked at NYC accident rates Vs google cars (NYC being the city they could get stats on).
The Google cars were involved in more accidents per mile, even though they were rarely at fault.
Defensive driving seems to be an area where the cars need to improve.
Since Android 6 apps install with no/limited permission, the first time it wants your location (or to access your camera, a file etc) a pop-up from the OS asks to grant it.
I like that feature because it allows me to see why the app needs this or that permission.
Don't they pay $.005?
wut?
I see 2 of the last 10 best new artists and 0 of the last 10 album of the year being rap.
I don't think your point is valid.
It's a weird claim to make too.
They make it really easy to send where the link gets the file (which in theory is as secure as an e-mail), the real issue is someone sending me something and getting a bounce.
But they do actually disallow tipping cash, and I have had drivers refuse it before they cut the pay.
The reason I switched to lyft is the awkwardness of the tip that's not supposed to happen with Uber. It's a safety issue too.
I'd prefer they just charge enough, I don't even care if it's more than a cab, the drivers actually show up and take me wherever without complaining.
In a smaller city at least, these companies aren't competing with cabs, they are providing an unmet need.
They do disallow tipping cash, the drivers are supposed to refuse it.
I miss the search and menu buttons so much, and I really don't care at all about the switch task button.
Damn, I was hoping to save $20/month :(
In my experience that's true with Tmobile.
They have never forced me to change plans, even when I was on one that hadn't been offered for a couple years and was less than the price of it when it canceled.
They may try to get you to change with incentives, but I've not personally experienced a forced change (just an anecdote, but I was on a plan ripe for forced switch).
They got me to change when I was traveling to Canada, as the new plan had free slow data roaming in Canada. I took the throttled video forever as a trade off for a much cheaper two week vacation.
Basically, the AT&T deal came with a spectrum infusion for T-Mobile if it fell through, and a chunk of earnest money too (if memory serves).
Once the selling failed, they (T-Mobile) took their business as a business seriously, and started competing hard. They were able to build to a more competitive network, kept their prices down, and started being a real threat. Tmobile has gotten notably better coverage every year (4G where I used to have edge locally for example).
In most areas I've been Tmobile is as good as AT&T (we still roam on them, part of the deal, the places where I get an AT&T signal when I can't get a Tmobile one are few and far between (south of buffalo on the lake, and rural VA), and even when I do, the signal is almost worthless and spotty from AT&T.
Verizon is the only company with meaningfully better coverage, but until very recently they were triple the price or so.
My options are up to 3mbps DSL, Cable, and Cellular.
January 1st my cable (internet only) went from $55->$87, I was going to cancel but they knocked me down to $60 (25mbps FYI).
Cellular was the better option over DSL (for someone living alone). for an extra $25 I can get unlimited tethering, throttled after 25 or so GB on Tmobile. I could probably make do only streaming SD and doing serious work from the office (my only use of internet at home is video and reading).
I think over the next 5 - 10 years wireless will be real competition, considering it already is for people living alone (not as good, but hits the value point really well, starting to look good enough). Either that, or someone will come up with a need for a lot more bandwidth, 25mbps pretty much covers the typical home today (a couple of 1080p streams and some spare for other stuff). Sure, I wouldn't mind 1gbps, but it's not really worth much extra to me, my cellular currently gets me 25-50 mbps, faster than Comcast until the throttling, I'd gladly pay a $60 addon to my bill for a device that was throttle free, had an Ethernet port, and and worked on the cellular network. My latency isn't great on cellular though (40-60 ms).
Even so, I think cellular is going to be what starts a real broadband price war, it has low capital outlay (as it's mostly there already for making the phones work), it's improving rapidly as the needs are not (4k only tripling them or so).
Comcast either needs a game changer in need or to not be customer hostile, otherwise tmobile, Verizon Wireless, and AT&T are going to destroy them. They need to start now too, as people will spite switch if they don't do something.