It's true that often on Android games you'll see ratings all very high or very low, and the very low ones are usually "It didn't run well on my phone". with iOS there are no such worries about hardware (and OS) fragmentation.
It's the same advantage Apple has always had, they know what hardware everyone has in advance.
Does this explain why, when you lay an iOS and an Android app side by side, the iPhone one almost always appears more polished?
Usually the function is the same, but the one on iOS will show screen wipes graphically smooth, the animation is smooth, the interface is simpler because you don't rely on users to know they need to check the "menu" button for a bunch of options and suboptions.
In some cases (like with Yahoo's fantasy offerings) the iOS app is pretty good, and the android one is just a link to a mobile site basically. I've always wondered why these things are.
I'm not sure that "$5-$10 cheaper" statement is accurate. There's been a lot of consternation among we Kindle users that often the ebook is only 5 or ten *percent* cheaper than the printed book.
Amazon denotes often that "this price is set by the publisher" and they say that the actual cost of printing a book is minimal, whereas the profit taken by the publisher and author are almost all of the rest (which should be the case).
But for me, I haven't found ebooks to deliver any cost savings, except that you can read most anything published before 1923 for free. I'm burning through a lot of classics and buying some full price books too.
Most of the hipsters / geeksters who disdain whatever is most popular or anything perceived as mainstream also parrot the same lines and maintain orthodoxy with a fairly uniform set of viewpoints, they just come from a different source.
Another story, which I submitted but has not been posted, detailed leadership changes at Microsoft around WP7, and Windows 8 vis-a-vis mobile devices.
Where will Nokia be if Microsoft declares WP7 a failure and moves forward with trying to shoehorn Windows 8 onto mobile devices (as it pictures tablets running)?
What a competent president would have done is sent another drone to destroy it so the technology didn't fall into the hands of every enemy state in the world.
Instead, we're sending them a "formal" pretty-please.
Who knows, maybe we can sweeten the pot with a fruit basket and the Ayatollah will see things our way.
Perhaps the excuses are contrived, but their point is true that any environmental treaty that doesn't take China and India to task is not going to change anything. You can't wash your hands 10 times and declare that a substitute for a shower.
With the Nook Color, you don't have access to any content delivered by Amazon, such as their streaming video and movie service, you wouldn't be able to access any existing Amazon content you own (such as books), and you wouldn't get their accelerated browser (which supposedly works well now that they've fixed it).
Just saying... I returned mine, as I posted above, because I really wanted a reader and it's not too good as a reader. But I don't think the Nook is clearly superior. (It's also $50 more expensive, for what that is worth)
There's very little wrong with the Kindle fire that can't be fixed with software.
I owned one, and returned it. I returned it because I prefer the e-ink screen of the Kindle DX for reading. If you want a tablet, the Fire is fine.
The problem is that the operating system is not ready for release, it feels like it's in a beta state. There's no way to customize most of the things you look at and think "Hmm, I wish I could..."
The volume button position is weird, but you can simply turn the device over and the screen flips. It's no issue. Some people bellyache about the external volume control, but so what? Does that kill a device that comes in a less than half it's competitors' price point?
The Silk browser was reportedly sped up greatly after the first software update - I returned mine before taking it.
The Kindle Fire was rushed out before the OS was ready. A couple updates down the road, it will be a very nice competitor to the iPad.
There's a National Geographic documentary you can watch free on Netflix (the Lisa Ling) one that gives a glimpse. Brainwashed citizens, traffic cops directing no traffic, empty roads... etc
I think they could have an opening here. If they really make efforts to avoid fragmentation and get get WebOS onto some future phone handsets, they could avoid some of the mistakes that have been made with Android.
Let people install WebOS however they want, don't load it up with crapware, give the users full control over the system. Make this the truly "open" mobile OS. ("open" means more than being able to see the source)
Some of the same reasons they don't want you upgrading the OS yourself. They don't want you to get the latest features without paying them a big pile of money or extending your contract.
I'm sure they also have to make sure the latest version is festooned with crapware before they unleash it on the public.
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They also offer truly unlimited data, versus all the other carriers and their bandwidth capping practices.
It's true that often on Android games you'll see ratings all very high or very low, and the very low ones are usually "It didn't run well on my phone". with iOS there are no such worries about hardware (and OS) fragmentation.
It's the same advantage Apple has always had, they know what hardware everyone has in advance.
Does this explain why, when you lay an iOS and an Android app side by side, the iPhone one almost always appears more polished?
Usually the function is the same, but the one on iOS will show screen wipes graphically smooth, the animation is smooth, the interface is simpler because you don't rely on users to know they need to check the "menu" button for a bunch of options and suboptions.
In some cases (like with Yahoo's fantasy offerings) the iOS app is pretty good, and the android one is just a link to a mobile site basically. I've always wondered why these things are.
What you need is a trunk monkey.
I'm not sure that "$5-$10 cheaper" statement is accurate. There's been a lot of consternation among we Kindle users that often the ebook is only 5 or ten *percent* cheaper than the printed book.
Amazon denotes often that "this price is set by the publisher" and they say that the actual cost of printing a book is minimal, whereas the profit taken by the publisher and author are almost all of the rest (which should be the case).
But for me, I haven't found ebooks to deliver any cost savings, except that you can read most anything published before 1923 for free. I'm burning through a lot of classics and buying some full price books too.
Most of the hipsters / geeksters who disdain whatever is most popular or anything perceived as mainstream also parrot the same lines and maintain orthodoxy with a fairly uniform set of viewpoints, they just come from a different source.
Another story, which I submitted but has not been posted, detailed leadership changes at Microsoft around WP7, and Windows 8 vis-a-vis mobile devices.
Where will Nokia be if Microsoft declares WP7 a failure and moves forward with trying to shoehorn Windows 8 onto mobile devices (as it pictures tablets running)?
What a competent president would have done is sent another drone to destroy it so the technology didn't fall into the hands of every enemy state in the world.
Instead, we're sending them a "formal" pretty-please.
Who knows, maybe we can sweeten the pot with a fruit basket and the Ayatollah will see things our way.
Not at all. Corruption in Chicago is more prevalent than bacteria, and it has been this way for a century.
Where will you go for shares of the DNC, then? The WIC office?
I for one feel like we should have more passive-aggressive editorializing, especially by using the old /. standby phrase "it will be interesting..."
What, you don't think United Russia would score 100% in Chechnya?
Perhaps the excuses are contrived, but their point is true that any environmental treaty that doesn't take China and India to task is not going to change anything. You can't wash your hands 10 times and declare that a substitute for a shower.
With the Nook Color, you don't have access to any content delivered by Amazon, such as their streaming video and movie service, you wouldn't be able to access any existing Amazon content you own (such as books), and you wouldn't get their accelerated browser (which supposedly works well now that they've fixed it).
Just saying... I returned mine, as I posted above, because I really wanted a reader and it's not too good as a reader. But I don't think the Nook is clearly superior. (It's also $50 more expensive, for what that is worth)
Sell now, fix bugs later - as a business model. So this is the future, eh?
It's the past, present, and future.
(sorry, I meant "The power button position is weird...")
There's very little wrong with the Kindle fire that can't be fixed with software.
I owned one, and returned it. I returned it because I prefer the e-ink screen of the Kindle DX for reading. If you want a tablet, the Fire is fine.
The problem is that the operating system is not ready for release, it feels like it's in a beta state. There's no way to customize most of the things you look at and think "Hmm, I wish I could ..."
The volume button position is weird, but you can simply turn the device over and the screen flips. It's no issue. Some people bellyache about the external volume control, but so what? Does that kill a device that comes in a less than half it's competitors' price point?
The Silk browser was reportedly sped up greatly after the first software update - I returned mine before taking it.
The Kindle Fire was rushed out before the OS was ready. A couple updates down the road, it will be a very nice competitor to the iPad.
There's a National Geographic documentary you can watch free on Netflix (the Lisa Ling) one that gives a glimpse. Brainwashed citizens, traffic cops directing no traffic, empty roads... etc
I think they could have an opening here. If they really make efforts to avoid fragmentation and get get WebOS onto some future phone handsets, they could avoid some of the mistakes that have been made with Android.
Let people install WebOS however they want, don't load it up with crapware, give the users full control over the system. Make this the truly "open" mobile OS. ("open" means more than being able to see the source)
Some of the same reasons they don't want you upgrading the OS yourself. They don't want you to get the latest features without paying them a big pile of money or extending your contract.
I'm sure they also have to make sure the latest version is festooned with crapware before they unleash it on the public.
In Soviet Russia, tag hashes YOU!
How do we know it wasn't the one who had to take the punishment for the other?
I used to work with someone who'd say "six of one, a dozen of the other."
I hope you bought the extended service plan for your sarcasm detector
Uh... it's all "intents" and purposes.