except to get that battery life you either have to plug into power, or suspend, then hassle with getting the old battery out, the new battery in, and resume from suspend.
an iPad can get more power from a Tune June or similar device.
Ubuntu doesn't "Just work" and the OS vendor isn't the same as the hardware vendor either.
Given that Apple's been giving away the source to Darwin for free? Not to mention all of the code they contribute to other OSS projects? I'd say that Apple understands the Unix philosophy quite well.
I'm not saying it will, I'm saying in general, Flash needs to GTFO. I saw this site use Flash as a simple graphics banner. Flash is being abused pretty badly for the worst shit ever. it needs to get the fuck out.
Why am I suddenly reminded of the days in the 70's and 80's when everything ran CP/M and everything *had* to run CP/M? I know that Apple II *DID* run CP/M of some flavor, but CP/M *sucked*, and Apple showed nearly no support for it.
Now we're stuck with Flash, which everyone tolerates and does a lot, but again, it *sucks*. Adobe hasn't put together a decent Flash interpreter for ANY OS(well, the Windows version is debatable), and everyone puts up with it because of it's ubiquity.
Folks. Ubiquity is never a reason to keep a shitty idea around. Particularly when it comes to the mobile space.
The President does control his party as well as signs and enacts spending legislation(yes, overturning v. from 2001 to 2006, it was President Bush who ran his party to run huge deficits, engage in two costly wars, and cut taxes. From 2006 to 2009, when Democrats took power, Republicans dragged their feet on a lot of things, and from 2009 until present, they've drug their feet on *EVERYTHING*. Even pay-as-you-go legislation rules that worked in the 90's got filibustered.
This kind of meltdown of our economic and political system can only come from unintentional incompetence.
having a UNIX based OS that's got full vendor support and local hardware service should anything go wrong is worth it. Besides, the discrepancy is 600 bucks, and Apple's offering more stable hardware with a much better battery.
I'm not being mindlessly dismissive here, but what does Adobe seek to gain here? To sway the hearts and minds of a handful of pundits while Steve Jobs rolls out products that make HTML5 development attractive?
This part is redundant, but needs to be asked, why is Adobe not fixing flash? Is it cheaper to litigate and wage a PR war than it is to fix the damn browser plugin and development tools?
Not true. They look ugly as sin, and I would want to play say, Sonic the Hedgehog on one, but EchoFon for twitter or the iTunes remote app or anything else that doesn't require me to grip it by the sides and play, sure. That includes Rock Band. Which it's fantastic for. Might even be cheating.
Massive changes in contrast to minor changes over time. Touch screens are revolutionary, not evolutionary. Not having to worry about a lost stylus is a big freaking deal.
I think you are severely mistaken and the Android platform will overtake the iPhone, just like the IBM PC clones overtook the Commodore 64, Apple II, and whatever. The push for this is nearly irresistible.
Android will sell more devices, no doubt, but will Android Apps sell better? Will Android as a platform bring any real advantages? Unfortunately, no. Everyone seems to make the comparison to desktop machines and while if my desktop were as locked down as my iPhone, I'd go mad, the reverse in my experience of a string of crap WinMo phones and using Palm devices(which mostly weren't crap until the end), yes, the reverse is true. Desktop metaphors and paradigms don't work in the mobile sphere.
because the whole experience was reworked with the tablet interface in mind? I mean, in addition to having several disparate screen resolutions, android tablets are going to introduce more resolutions and UI considerations for Android devs. iPad might just blindly scale up iPhone OS apps, but, it doesn't leave iPhone developers out in the cold figuring out how to setup their UI.
Compare the Nexus One to a Treo, a Palm Pixi, any given 2006 era Windows Mobile device, etc.
Stylus free touch screen, simple button layout, no built in keyboard, candy bar phone... it's pretty clear that when Apple set the bar with the iPhone, everyone scrambled to copy it.
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except to get that battery life you either have to plug into power, or suspend, then hassle with getting the old battery out, the new battery in, and resume from suspend.
an iPad can get more power from a Tune June or similar device.
So why aren't they pumping the Zune and Windows Mobile the same way Apple is?
For every Mac ad I see, I see at least 3 or 4 ads for Windows 7.
Maybe it's because every other phone sucks and this is the one that everyone's interested in?
Christ, no one was talking about smartphones the way they are now before the iPhone. The fucking Nexus One *looks* like an iPhone for God's sake.
The thing about netbooks are that they're priced right and they fit into almost any bag(the power brick not included).
Do you even know what the hell Draconian means?
Ubuntu doesn't "Just work" and the OS vendor isn't the same as the hardware vendor either.
Given that Apple's been giving away the source to Darwin for free? Not to mention all of the code they contribute to other OSS projects? I'd say that Apple understands the Unix philosophy quite well.
If your media player app is bad enough to merit replacing,
YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.
(Proof in point: I love xmms and iTunes, Windows Media Player on the other hand...)
The alternatives are *NIX based Phone OSes running web browsers based on WebKit with(usually) multitouch.
GEE.
THAT SOUNDS EERILY FAMILIAR.
I'm not saying it will, I'm saying in general, Flash needs to GTFO. I saw this site use Flash as a simple graphics banner. Flash is being abused pretty badly for the worst shit ever. it needs to get the fuck out.
Why am I suddenly reminded of the days in the 70's and 80's when everything ran CP/M and everything *had* to run CP/M? I know that Apple II *DID* run CP/M of some flavor, but CP/M *sucked*, and Apple showed nearly no support for it.
Now we're stuck with Flash, which everyone tolerates and does a lot, but again, it *sucks*. Adobe hasn't put together a decent Flash interpreter for ANY OS(well, the Windows version is debatable), and everyone puts up with it because of it's ubiquity.
Folks. Ubiquity is never a reason to keep a shitty idea around. Particularly when it comes to the mobile space.
The President does control his party as well as signs and enacts spending legislation(yes, overturning v. from 2001 to 2006, it was President Bush who ran his party to run huge deficits, engage in two costly wars, and cut taxes. From 2006 to 2009, when Democrats took power, Republicans dragged their feet on a lot of things, and from 2009 until present, they've drug their feet on *EVERYTHING*. Even pay-as-you-go legislation rules that worked in the 90's got filibustered.
This kind of meltdown of our economic and political system can only come from unintentional incompetence.
whoosh.
having a UNIX based OS that's got full vendor support and local hardware service should anything go wrong is worth it. Besides, the discrepancy is 600 bucks, and Apple's offering more stable hardware with a much better battery.
not having windows is worth $971. Snow Leopard is $29.
I'm not being mindlessly dismissive here, but what does Adobe seek to gain here? To sway the hearts and minds of a handful of pundits while Steve Jobs rolls out products that make HTML5 development attractive?
This part is redundant, but needs to be asked, why is Adobe not fixing flash? Is it cheaper to litigate and wage a PR war than it is to fix the damn browser plugin and development tools?
Easy.
Richard Nixon(R), Ronald Reagan(R), George H.W. Bush(R), George W. Bush(R).
Am I the only one who remembers that the deficit clock stopped under Clinton(D)? Surpluses instead of deficits?
With this kind of dataset I think we can assume what causes deficits to explode, and it's not fiscal conservatives.
Not true. They look ugly as sin, and I would want to play say, Sonic the Hedgehog on one, but EchoFon for twitter or the iTunes remote app or anything else that doesn't require me to grip it by the sides and play, sure. That includes Rock Band. Which it's fantastic for. Might even be cheating.
i was going to say, Egghead, CompUSA, and Babbages, but we all know what happened to THOSE...
With iPhone OS4, a 3G iPad and a bluetooth headset and Skype can replace your phone.
Massive changes in contrast to minor changes over time. Touch screens are revolutionary, not evolutionary. Not having to worry about a lost stylus is a big freaking deal.
Right but you can still run iPhone and iPod Touch apps on the iPad, they just blindly scale the display up. Looks ugly as sin, but it's still usable.
I think it does. If the Android platform becomes so toxic that handset makers abandon it, what then?
I think you are severely mistaken and the Android platform will overtake the iPhone, just like the IBM PC clones overtook the Commodore 64, Apple II, and whatever. The push for this is nearly irresistible.
Android will sell more devices, no doubt, but will Android Apps sell better? Will Android as a platform bring any real advantages? Unfortunately, no. Everyone seems to make the comparison to desktop machines and while if my desktop were as locked down as my iPhone, I'd go mad, the reverse in my experience of a string of crap WinMo phones and using Palm devices(which mostly weren't crap until the end), yes, the reverse is true. Desktop metaphors and paradigms don't work in the mobile sphere.
because the whole experience was reworked with the tablet interface in mind? I mean, in addition to having several disparate screen resolutions, android tablets are going to introduce more resolutions and UI considerations for Android devs. iPad might just blindly scale up iPhone OS apps, but, it doesn't leave iPhone developers out in the cold figuring out how to setup their UI.
Compare the Nexus One to a Treo, a Palm Pixi, any given 2006 era Windows Mobile device, etc.
Stylus free touch screen, simple button layout, no built in keyboard, candy bar phone... it's pretty clear that when Apple set the bar with the iPhone, everyone scrambled to copy it.
Because those devices largely suck with no real thought put into optimising the experience of using what is essentially a giant PDA.