I'm not sure how well your analogy was chosen. Latin american countries, for example, tend to use cement and bricks for house-building, not wood. I've never seem a wooden-framed (like the ones built in the US). I don't think those would cost less in most of the world either, since wood tends to be more expensive.
The real problem is stupid people who continue to give them ridiculous amounts of money. If people stopped doing this, EA would have no money and stop making this "products".
The problem isn't the OS. The problem is you're buying a phone from a service provider. You should buy phones from phone dealers, and services from service providers, never mix those things up.
You bought an upgrade; you're allow to do an upgrade, why would you expect to be able to run a clean install? This has never been true for any version of windows. (and even I know this, being a pure *nix user).
Artificially limiting what versions of the OS can run their other software is a huge annoyance of windows. There is no reason why this and newer DirectX could not be back ported to XP.
Yes there is. It would mean less profits from Vista sales.
Agreed. I'm actually curious if these phones will be sold clean or if they'll only be available locked-down by operators, since mozilla isn't mentioning this at all.
Meego was (regrettably) abandoned my Nokia, and until Jolla releases anything, it's a dead end. MS has a very poor image, and fails horribly as mobile phone sales. RIM is dying. Ubuntu doesn't have any hardware yet AFAIK, and I think Bada is semi-abadoned.
An Android fork? By whom? Operators have no interest in investing in an OS, they'd rather pick an existing one.
An Intel HD 4000 is a pretty good graphics card, it can even play some quite recent games pretty well. Also, it's well documented and has drivers for more OSs than any ATI/nvidia card.
I can't think of any real use for so much cloud storage for a single user. Also consider the fact that it would take days, or weeks to upload/retrieve that much data. External disks take minutes.
* A nice, modern AJAX webmail. (The few FLOSS ones are horrible) which uses standard stuff like IMAP or Maildir, not a custom LDA and a custom DB schema.
* A desktop address book, which can sync to stuff like CardDAV and other standards.
* A desktop calendar, which can sync to stuff like CalDAV and other standards.
Safari uses webkit, and testing in chromium will usually suffice (I haven't come across safari-specific issues that can't be reproduced in chromium either).
And, yeah, sure, one of my development laptops has 1GiB RAM, another is a PowerPC. I can't even run a windoze VM there. I wouldn't do it if I could either.
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There's no mention of any vulnerabilities on any other OS. Does this mean they're only windows-specific issues?
I'm not sure how well your analogy was chosen.
Latin american countries, for example, tend to use cement and bricks for house-building, not wood. I've never seem a wooden-framed (like the ones built in the US). I don't think those would cost less in most of the world either, since wood tends to be more expensive.
Downside is everyone on the call has to have a g+ account.
That sound like the same requirements as Skype: you need to register with the service provider.
Additionally, Jitsi doesn't represent a new standard, it's a new implementation of an already existing standard.
The real problem is stupid people who continue to give them ridiculous amounts of money.
If people stopped doing this, EA would have no money and stop making this "products".
Poor windows users. Users with modern OSs (ie: post 2000) won't have any issues though.
What? Both google-chrome and chromium are updated in the exact same way using my OS's package manager. I've no idea what you mean by your comment.
Then the problem is the market/culture, and (again) not the actual OS.
The problem isn't the OS. The problem is you're buying a phone from a service provider.
You should buy phones from phone dealers, and services from service providers, never mix those things up.
You bought an upgrade; you're allow to do an upgrade, why would you expect to be able to run a clean install? This has never been true for any version of windows. (and even I know this, being a pure *nix user).
Artificially limiting what versions of the OS can run their other software is a huge annoyance of windows. There is no reason why this and newer DirectX could not be back ported to XP.
Yes there is. It would mean less profits from Vista sales.
Indeed. A decent package manager is basically what's lacking in windows that's present in almost every other OS. WU could easily be it.
Use chromium. Chrome - spyware - flash - branding = chromium.
Agreed. I'm actually curious if these phones will be sold clean or if they'll only be available locked-down by operators, since mozilla isn't mentioning this at all.
Meego was (regrettably) abandoned my Nokia, and until Jolla releases anything, it's a dead end. MS has a very poor image, and fails horribly as mobile phone sales. RIM is dying.
Ubuntu doesn't have any hardware yet AFAIK, and I think Bada is semi-abadoned.
An Android fork? By whom? Operators have no interest in investing in an OS, they'd rather pick an existing one.
Anybody paying any serious money for computer equipment in this day and age is just throwing away money.
Or just living in a country where hardware costs way more.
For that price, get a macbook and install Linux onto it. Apple may be expensive, but this is equally expensive, and poorer hardware.
An Intel HD 4000 is a pretty good graphics card, it can even play some quite recent games pretty well. Also, it's well documented and has drivers for more OSs than any ATI/nvidia card.
I can't think of any real use for so much cloud storage for a single user. Also consider the fact that it would take days, or weeks to upload/retrieve that much data. External disks take minutes.
Just like linux support, I'm sure we don't have to worry about a future update disabling this feature.
* A nice, modern AJAX webmail. (The few FLOSS ones are horrible) which uses standard stuff like IMAP or Maildir, not a custom LDA and a custom DB schema.
* A desktop address book, which can sync to stuff like CardDAV and other standards.
* A desktop calendar, which can sync to stuff like CalDAV and other standards.
How is this useful? Can't you fit all your music into a single drive? A 500GiB disk is extremely cheap, do you really have that much music?
How would I check what goes wrong when my email server dies (which is what actually happened to me this morning)? I'm basically locked out forever.
They both don't need airtight alibis - if one of them as an airtight alibi, then both can use it, since they're identical....
Not really. Identical twins may be identical to strangers, but close friends and family can easily distinguish the two.
Safari uses webkit, and testing in chromium will usually suffice (I haven't come across safari-specific issues that can't be reproduced in chromium either).
And, yeah, sure, one of my development laptops has 1GiB RAM, another is a PowerPC. I can't even run a windoze VM there. I wouldn't do it if I could either.