If you look at the entire line-up, including low-end HTC phones and maybe even cheap Chinese junk, you'll see that it really only has a few gems.
Low-end HTC phones have gotten great reviews. There are also great low-end Sony phones, and even low-end prepaid phones. And they all run the same software. There is nothing even remotely like that for WP7.
It used to be the case that if you wanted a $150 (unsubsidized) smart phone, some low-end Symbian was the only choice. These days, you can get an Android phone for that.
Yeah, isn't it amazing what Microsoft can achieve if they sink billions of dollars into a product and don't worry about making a profit. And Microsoft still hasn't made a profit (overall) on Xbox.
If you quite your job in Europe, you won't get unemployment benefits either, and in some countries, benefits are dependent on having spent down your savings. Furthermore, employers are unlikely to hire you if you're already out of a job. And in Europe, you frequently face rampant age discrimination.
If Nokia's R&D plans have nothing better than Android then using Android would be better. But that wouldn't say good things about Nokia.
Nokia R&D didn't have anything better, and they still don't. Hence, Android was their best choice.
It's true that with Windows Phone 7, Nokia has fewer competitors, but that's because few companies want that turd. And with all that, Nokia still didn't manage to get any kind of exclusive deal or preferential treatment.
No progress appeared to be lost because Nokia just canceled their projects.
The damage from that decision was reflected in an immediate 14% stock drop, and it's going to get worse for Nokia. I doubt they're going to survive this.
No jumping to conclusions here: for starters, you confuse language, platform and APIs and you don't know who designed the new language features or where they come from. And what are those mythical "well designed" libraries and frameworks? Swing? Collections? Java 3D? Applets? Java Imaging? J2EE?
Yeah, I believe you that you have been programming close to 12h/day since the 1970's; you really should have spent some of that time actually learning something instead of hacking around. You're like someone who has been cleaning toilets for 12h/day for forty years and fancies himself a hydraulic engineer.
You typify the ignorant Java hack who simply doesn't know any better. It's pretty telling that the only alternatives you know are OSX and.NET. You're a poster boy for why the industry produces such shitty software.
You can get experimental prostheses like that for humans; it's called ITAP. It looks promising, but it's very specialized materials, and it's unclear how it works long term. Those materials don't seem to have been used with the camera.
But anything that protrudes through the skin is asking for trouble: it's tough to get a seal even with natural substances, let alone anything artificial. Note that in a healthy human, the skin is one continuous sheet, covering your insides and outsides, with no holes anywhere.
The only animals I can think of that have stuff sticking through their skin are animals with antlers or horns. People are trying to figure out how to replicate that. But the point of antlers/horns is that they are risky to the animal, so even they may not have solved the problem completely.
You can get all those features on Android, iPhone, and even Symbian already. It requires no cooperation either from the phone manufacturer or from Microsoft.
Why do you think Sun made it in the market in the first place? It was because a generation of graduate students grew up on cheap Sun hardware.
And "behaving just like the other major commercial Unix vendors" is going to consign them to the same fate: irrelevancy. The world these days runs on Linux and Windows. Anything else is lost in the noise.
However, Oracle does have a track record of kicking ass and taking names and they do appear to want to push Java to the next level quickly rather than wait around for the JCP and all their committees to make up their minds on the direction the language should take. Stagnation has been a big problem for Java over the last couple of years, but I get the sense that the words "stagnation" and "java" won't been used together as much under Oracle's reign.
And what do you think Oracle is going to do? Java's problem is that the language and the libraries are full of badly designed, ill-conceived, overly complex features. How is Oracle going to fix that? Adding more features to the language isn't going to do it, and removing features is a political impossibility. You can't undo a decade of inept academic language tinkering by adding more stuff.
Apply your own signature to the situation... it fits.
Sun was a company that did give away stuff for free and ultimately it failed.
Sun didn't give away Java; they made it available under viral conditions (redistributable but heavily patented) in hopes of infecting the entire industry with it, and they succeeded. Without that, they'd have gone belly up even earlier and wouldn't have gotten bought by Oracle.
Sun's failure wasn't due to supposedly giving things away free, it was due to technical and business incompetence: their software sucked, and so did their marketing and customer service.
NFC on a 10" tablet is silly; you need NFC on phones. Nokia has had that for years, and Google is getting it. Apple? Nothing.
As for resolution, 1200x800 or so is fine for a 7"-10" tablet; higher resolutions give you a little more snap, but otherwise are wasted. They can wait a few more years until batteries and processor catch up.
With my iPad, it responds instantly to swipes and taps, the Galaxy seemed to be having serious problems responding to events - especially in its web browser. Yes, it's a cheaper device, but the specs are not far from the ones in the iPad.
Apple did a good job on optimizing specific applications, and they trade off memory and speed. That's a nice touch if you happen to run just a few Apple apps, but it only goes so far. Once you start using other apps and once multitasking comes into play, the iPad can hang and stutter with the best of them. (Also, a lot of the apps that you run on the Tab don't even come from Google, they come from Samsung.)
In practice, the Galaxy Tab works well; it isn't as sleek or polished or impressive as the iPad, but I find it actually a lot more useful.
Samsung has been pushing out updates for the Galaxy Tab regularly. Updates on the Tab have been much more frequent than on the Galaxy S as far as I can tell.
Was the Tab overpriced? Well, yes, in the sense of having a huge markup over the hardware. But the Tab was the only product in its category, and they are on target for selling all the ones they made. In the end, it's supply and demand, not cost, that sets the price. The Tab was meant and priced for early adopters and people who really needed an Android tablet. And that's who bought it.
Bribery is pretty well defined and is rare in dealing with US bureaucracies.
What you're referring to is institutionalized corruption. Yeah, there's more of that in the US than overt bribery, but still less than in most other countries.
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They have found that when people camp out at a table or booth for hours working on their laptop or reading a kindle, they don't get much revenue.
And they get more revenue when people camp out for hours reading a paperback???
What are you blabbing on about? They didn't ban "reading at rush hour", they banned Kindles.
I would say that WebM is likely patent encumbered. MPEG-LA is assembling a patent pool for WebM, so it will not be royalty-free.
And what do you base this on? Saber rattling by MPEG-LA, who are seeing their protection racket disappear?
Either put up and show us the patents or shut up.
If you look at the entire line-up, including low-end HTC phones and maybe even cheap Chinese junk, you'll see that it really only has a few gems.
Low-end HTC phones have gotten great reviews. There are also great low-end Sony phones, and even low-end prepaid phones. And they all run the same software. There is nothing even remotely like that for WP7.
It used to be the case that if you wanted a $150 (unsubsidized) smart phone, some low-end Symbian was the only choice. These days, you can get an Android phone for that.
Xbox was nothing too when it got started.
Yeah, isn't it amazing what Microsoft can achieve if they sink billions of dollars into a product and don't worry about making a profit. And Microsoft still hasn't made a profit (overall) on Xbox.
Depends. Do you want him to grow up to be an evil megalomaniac?
European employers not only freak out about employment gaps, they often won't even look at you if you're in your 40s.
If you quite your job in Europe, you won't get unemployment benefits either, and in some countries, benefits are dependent on having spent down your savings. Furthermore, employers are unlikely to hire you if you're already out of a job. And in Europe, you frequently face rampant age discrimination.
If Nokia's R&D plans have nothing better than Android then using Android would be better. But that wouldn't say good things about Nokia.
Nokia R&D didn't have anything better, and they still don't. Hence, Android was their best choice.
It's true that with Windows Phone 7, Nokia has fewer competitors, but that's because few companies want that turd. And with all that, Nokia still didn't manage to get any kind of exclusive deal or preferential treatment.
No progress appeared to be lost because Nokia just canceled their projects.
The damage from that decision was reflected in an immediate 14% stock drop, and it's going to get worse for Nokia. I doubt they're going to survive this.
No jumping to conclusions here: for starters, you confuse language, platform and APIs and you don't know who designed the new language features or where they come from. And what are those mythical "well designed" libraries and frameworks? Swing? Collections? Java 3D? Applets? Java Imaging? J2EE?
Yeah, I believe you that you have been programming close to 12h/day since the 1970's; you really should have spent some of that time actually learning something instead of hacking around. You're like someone who has been cleaning toilets for 12h/day for forty years and fancies himself a hydraulic engineer.
You typify the ignorant Java hack who simply doesn't know any better. It's pretty telling that the only alternatives you know are OSX and .NET. You're a poster boy for why the industry produces such shitty software.
You can get experimental prostheses like that for humans; it's called ITAP. It looks promising, but it's very specialized materials, and it's unclear how it works long term. Those materials don't seem to have been used with the camera.
Your teeth actually do not go through your skin and they are not connected to your bone.
Pay us so that we can "protect" you.
Implants are OK, for both bones and pace makers.
But anything that protrudes through the skin is asking for trouble: it's tough to get a seal even with natural substances, let alone anything artificial. Note that in a healthy human, the skin is one continuous sheet, covering your insides and outsides, with no holes anywhere.
The only animals I can think of that have stuff sticking through their skin are animals with antlers or horns. People are trying to figure out how to replicate that. But the point of antlers/horns is that they are risky to the animal, so even they may not have solved the problem completely.
Nokia didn't have to challenge Android, they could have shipped it.
Challenging Android only makes sense if you have something technically superior or with bigger market share; WP7 clearly is neither.
Android on Nokia might not have been the perfect solution for Nokia, but it would have been better than the alternatives.
You can get all those features on Android, iPhone, and even Symbian already. It requires no cooperation either from the phone manufacturer or from Microsoft.
Why do you think Sun made it in the market in the first place? It was because a generation of graduate students grew up on cheap Sun hardware.
And "behaving just like the other major commercial Unix vendors" is going to consign them to the same fate: irrelevancy. The world these days runs on Linux and Windows. Anything else is lost in the noise.
However, Oracle does have a track record of kicking ass and taking names and they do appear to want to push Java to the next level quickly rather than wait around for the JCP and all their committees to make up their minds on the direction the language should take. Stagnation has been a big problem for Java over the last couple of years, but I get the sense that the words "stagnation" and "java" won't been used together as much under Oracle's reign.
And what do you think Oracle is going to do? Java's problem is that the language and the libraries are full of badly designed, ill-conceived, overly complex features. How is Oracle going to fix that? Adding more features to the language isn't going to do it, and removing features is a political impossibility. You can't undo a decade of inept academic language tinkering by adding more stuff.
Apply your own signature to the situation... it fits.
Sun was a company that did give away stuff for free and ultimately it failed.
Sun didn't give away Java; they made it available under viral conditions (redistributable but heavily patented) in hopes of infecting the entire industry with it, and they succeeded. Without that, they'd have gone belly up even earlier and wouldn't have gotten bought by Oracle.
Sun's failure wasn't due to supposedly giving things away free, it was due to technical and business incompetence: their software sucked, and so did their marketing and customer service.
NFC on a 10" tablet is silly; you need NFC on phones. Nokia has had that for years, and Google is getting it. Apple? Nothing.
As for resolution, 1200x800 or so is fine for a 7"-10" tablet; higher resolutions give you a little more snap, but otherwise are wasted. They can wait a few more years until batteries and processor catch up.
With my iPad, it responds instantly to swipes and taps, the Galaxy seemed to be having serious problems responding to events - especially in its web browser. Yes, it's a cheaper device, but the specs are not far from the ones in the iPad.
Apple did a good job on optimizing specific applications, and they trade off memory and speed. That's a nice touch if you happen to run just a few Apple apps, but it only goes so far. Once you start using other apps and once multitasking comes into play, the iPad can hang and stutter with the best of them. (Also, a lot of the apps that you run on the Tab don't even come from Google, they come from Samsung.)
In practice, the Galaxy Tab works well; it isn't as sleek or polished or impressive as the iPad, but I find it actually a lot more useful.
Samsung has been pushing out updates for the Galaxy Tab regularly. Updates on the Tab have been much more frequent than on the Galaxy S as far as I can tell.
Was the Tab overpriced? Well, yes, in the sense of having a huge markup over the hardware. But the Tab was the only product in its category, and they are on target for selling all the ones they made. In the end, it's supply and demand, not cost, that sets the price. The Tab was meant and priced for early adopters and people who really needed an Android tablet. And that's who bought it.
Bribery is pretty well defined and is rare in dealing with US bureaucracies.
What you're referring to is institutionalized corruption. Yeah, there's more of that in the US than overt bribery, but still less than in most other countries.