I think you mean, "Uber and the like are free to compete, but we're going to hamstring them so the antiquated taxi companies can still compete, because they're an extraordinarily powerful political special interest group."
According to some TFA I read recently that I can't be bothered to go find, there are only a handful of companies responsible for most robocalls. Stamping the nonsense out wouldn't cost anyone anything. They employ few people and probably generate very little economic activity anyway. It's just a way of cheaply carpet-bombing people with unwanted advertising.
LGBT people and atheists don't usually have a massive great chip on their shoulder and go out and riot if they don't get what they think they're owed by society.
Verizon figures it out weeks later, rolls out a fix, someone files a class action, Verizon settles for $20 million, $19 million of which goes to lawyers, you get a card in the mail telling you to go to dlksjOIjhdhsf893lk3jhflskhfsdkjh384982.com between the hours of 4 and 5 AM on the second tuesday after the winter solstice to register for your class action payout, and 6 months after that you get a check for $0.16
As long as carriers are customizing Android, they're going to find a way to fill it with bloatware and crapware that they can monetize. And if history is any judge, you may not be able to delete it. I'm sure most of us remember the early days of carrier preinstalled apps you can't remove, of AT&T forcing your search to Yahoo instead of Google, etc etc
Say what you will about Apple, the last story in this vein that we heard was about Apple discussing making fewer apps uninstallable, not more, or selling "push" app installations.
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
Werner Heisenberg
Every single political post I see on Facebook is not really about politics, it's about someone trying to snidely imply that they are much more intelligent, high-minded, and enlightened than everyone else. It's not about Trump or Hillary. It's about trying to make themselves look like an upright, cultured, magnanimous person by publicly expressing disdain for others.
I don't know why there isn't some sort of a feature like a bogus password I could give to someone that would appear to show a plain vanilla OS installation - just my contacts and some fake innocuous texts. No email access or apps beyond a standard load of fake ones.
A password that wipes the device would be helpful, but one that betrays nothing while still giving the illusion of compliance would be more helpful.
I like to upgrade and have a reasonably current device. iPhones have served me well. Taking away a headphone jack would constitute them ceasing to serve me well.
I've had 3 iphones in a row, going back to the first one.
If the next one doesn't have a headphone jack, and there's an Android phone out there that does, I'll switch. I don't think I'm alone, either.
There will be phones with headphone jacks out there because people want them. People want to be able to use any headset. People don't want to carry adapters around.
It's a cash grab that delivers no additional value to users.
The music industry will rightly do whatever they can to protect against use of content that they own without their permission. Consumers will have to decide if the content is high enough in quality that they will pay for it or pay a streaming service for it.
I hate the idea of a phone not having a headphone jack, and I would not buy such a phone. However, the fact that it might stop me from using a product illegitimately is not one of my reasons.
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When you say "Controlled by a small group of people", do you mean the collective worldwide shareholders of Apple and Samsung?
Company has misbehaving employee. Misbehaving employee was fired.
What am I missing here?
SJWs just heard a buzzword and started a twitter campaign
I think you mean, "Uber and the like are free to compete, but we're going to hamstring them so the antiquated taxi companies can still compete, because they're an extraordinarily powerful political special interest group."
By default.
In other words, this is the last app anyone would ever want.
(LUDDITE as I am)
I don't know why they don't just outlaw this.
According to some TFA I read recently that I can't be bothered to go find, there are only a handful of companies responsible for most robocalls. Stamping the nonsense out wouldn't cost anyone anything. They employ few people and probably generate very little economic activity anyway. It's just a way of cheaply carpet-bombing people with unwanted advertising.
Gawker was largely a trash publication and provided little value journalistically. It was largely a place for snobs to act like jerks.
You just described about 95% of "new media"
But who is helping those chocolate cows find their way home now? :'(
LGBT people and atheists don't usually have a massive great chip on their shoulder and go out and riot if they don't get what they think they're owed by society.
They don't riot, they litigate.
Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others.
Sure beats those non-portable aircraft!
Much like Apple's walled garden makes it difficult to load apps from elsewhere
Difficult, meaning, a checkbox
More like
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Verizon figures it out weeks later, rolls out a fix, someone files a class action, Verizon settles for $20 million, $19 million of which goes to lawyers, you get a card in the mail telling you to go to dlksjOIjhdhsf893lk3jhflskhfsdkjh384982.com between the hours of 4 and 5 AM on the second tuesday after the winter solstice to register for your class action payout, and 6 months after that you get a check for $0.16
Customers do not demand locked phones. Most are too ignorant of what locked means to even care.
As long as carriers are customizing Android, they're going to find a way to fill it with bloatware and crapware that they can monetize. And if history is any judge, you may not be able to delete it. I'm sure most of us remember the early days of carrier preinstalled apps you can't remove, of AT&T forcing your search to Yahoo instead of Google, etc etc
Say what you will about Apple, the last story in this vein that we heard was about Apple discussing making fewer apps uninstallable, not more, or selling "push" app installations.
The very first post on any thread about tech industry layoffs must contain "MBA". I'm glad this thread did not disappoint.
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
Werner Heisenberg
Every single political post I see on Facebook is not really about politics, it's about someone trying to snidely imply that they are much more intelligent, high-minded, and enlightened than everyone else. It's not about Trump or Hillary. It's about trying to make themselves look like an upright, cultured, magnanimous person by publicly expressing disdain for others.
I don't know why there isn't some sort of a feature like a bogus password I could give to someone that would appear to show a plain vanilla OS installation - just my contacts and some fake innocuous texts. No email access or apps beyond a standard load of fake ones.
A password that wipes the device would be helpful, but one that betrays nothing while still giving the illusion of compliance would be more helpful.
TFA is poorly informed. Skype stopped working some time ago.
I like to upgrade and have a reasonably current device. iPhones have served me well. Taking away a headphone jack would constitute them ceasing to serve me well.
I've had 3 iphones in a row, going back to the first one.
If the next one doesn't have a headphone jack, and there's an Android phone out there that does, I'll switch. I don't think I'm alone, either.
There will be phones with headphone jacks out there because people want them. People want to be able to use any headset. People don't want to carry adapters around.
It's a cash grab that delivers no additional value to users.
The music industry will rightly do whatever they can to protect against use of content that they own without their permission. Consumers will have to decide if the content is high enough in quality that they will pay for it or pay a streaming service for it.
I hate the idea of a phone not having a headphone jack, and I would not buy such a phone. However, the fact that it might stop me from using a product illegitimately is not one of my reasons.
And then we accept political donations from them in order to permit their monopolies to persist.