Google releases -> vendor "customizations" -> carrier "customizations" -> user gets update
Several months from the time Google releases an update, to the user seeing it - if they get them at all.
We like it laugh at Apple for all the security exploits in iOS, but Apple gets to patch it and distribute the patch fast due to the lack of the middle man.
Wonder what would happen if a major security fault was found in Android. Millions of phones unpatched for heaven knows how long, for some probably forever.
No significantly complex system comes out right the first time. Apple has a goal, I believe it's to give as much freedom to 3rd party developers without losing control of the platform.
It's like how Blizzard balances WoW, they have "back-pedalled" countless times.
According to a documentary I watched a while back.
The other TOS actors hated him because he keeps requesting script changes that would put himself in the limelight.
A lot of "real" actors basically live to perform. To have great roles to play, memorable lines, to have the opportunity to shine and put out a good performance.
Shatner's selfish requests kept denying the rest of the cast that opportunity.
If you look at TNG, the best actors of the show are no doubt Patrick Stewart and Bent Spinner. And the writers gave lots of interesting bits for Spinner to do despite him not being the lead.
I'm sure the TOS writers did the same, but Shatner kept getting in the way.
I also heard that there is some friction between Shatner and Nimoy, simply because Nimoy ended up out shining him half the time and was more popular than him in among certain fans despite being co-lead.
Been living with depression for quite a while now.
I didn't really have much motivation to do anything, video games seem to be the exception.
I think it's because they are psychologically addictive to some extend, they have a very well tuned effort / reward cycle.
Games like WoW gives you relatively achievable goals to get and rewards you with a sense of achievement when you complete them. A nice escape from the feelings of powerless and hopelessness of real life.
From the way I see it, if these politicians actually had the will to put their foot down on net neutrality then Google wouldn't even have to compromise and cut deals.
But IMO Apple current leadership is pretty sharp, and I have seen games like this played before - look at MS and IE.
Starting early is best, it's easier. Also there is less of a chance of accidentally running afoul of anti-trust laws when you push your product "too hard" - again MS and IE.
PS:I thought iTunes was a cost centre, that they only started it up so people can fill up their iPods.
Apple must have seen the inevitable convergence of the tablets and dedicated ebook readers.
Amazon will probably want people to be locked into their software platform as much as possible, and they have quite a userbase already, as well as the ability to provide a lot of content.
When they control the software platform, they can easily extend the control to hardware. Apple with it's iPad platform will not like that.
Hence introduced iBooks to hopefully turn the tide against Amazon. Or at the very least allow them to stand on equal footing, where iBook is an equally established platform, with a large enough userbase that publishers cannot do exclusives without hurting themselves. With both having a more or less similar selection of books, there will be no difference between the two platforms.
By the time MS has a workable product, Apple would already have locked the market up.
From my observations, Apple product cycle goes something like this.
Part 1 - *Hype new product as a premium product *Launch limited amounts to reduce risk *Sell at a high mark up to early-adopters/fanboys/people-with-top-much-money, to recoup R&D cost
If it does OK
Part 2- *Aggressively tune manufacturing to bring cost down and increase production volume *Sell to masses at an affordable price, helped by the hype and word of mouth from early-adopters/fanboys/people-with-too-much-money
To my knowledge, it would appear Apple in the old days failed to do part 2 quick enough, and the Mac got zerged by DOS/Windows. Well Jobs has learned his lesson.
By the time MS's tablet is ready, part 2 would already have long passed.
Not to mention MS's old standby tactics of price undercutting and stuff doesn't seem to work very well any more, not against Apple's marketing machine. For an example, we only have to look to the Zune.
Well, if anyone cares the swap is no go, my operator doesn't think it's their problem any more.:s
My phone is now sitting at the Samsung service centre waiting for a screen swap. I'm hoping it doesn't make matters worse.
If anyone is still reading... Say anyone know a good virtual keyboard that has good cursor control?
Swype cursor's control is on a separate screen, major PITA.
PS: I just had an epiphany, why hasn't anyone implemented cursor control via swiping the keyboard? Or anyone know an Android keyboard that do cursor control the palm way? I heard it's quite good.
From the beginning, Microsoft's success was based on rapidly identifying emerging markets of technically naive consumers and ruthlessly exploiting their naivety by pruning out anything that would slow their market penetration. Such as quality control (beyond what was necessary for a good showroom appearance) or solid engineering (hence all the problems with malware). The developers dance was all about getting everyone on the bandwagon before anyone knew enough to critically assess the sorry state of that wagon's mechanicals, or the lack of roadway that was in front of it.
IMO I felt that Gates while not a creative visionary, he at least had enough vision to spot emerging markets and properly position MS to enter it - most of the time anyway.
Unfortunately for MS, Ballmer for the most part has little to no foresight, and MS only make attempts at new markets after their early bird competitors have firmly entrenched themselves.
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Slows the rate of OS updates too.
Google releases -> vendor "customizations" -> carrier "customizations" -> user gets update
Several months from the time Google releases an update, to the user seeing it - if they get them at all.
We like it laugh at Apple for all the security exploits in iOS, but Apple gets to patch it and distribute the patch fast due to the lack of the middle man.
Wonder what would happen if a major security fault was found in Android.
Millions of phones unpatched for heaven knows how long, for some probably forever.
This is plain as day, duplication of functionality.
Unless a Opera mini like miracle occurs.
If it isn't like the PDF exploit that can allow someone to pwn my phone from the web, I don't give a crap.
No significantly complex system comes out right the first time.
Apple has a goal, I believe it's to give as much freedom to 3rd party developers without losing control of the platform.
It's like how Blizzard balances WoW, they have "back-pedalled" countless times.
According to a documentary I watched a while back.
The other TOS actors hated him because he keeps requesting script changes that would put himself in the limelight.
A lot of "real" actors basically live to perform.
To have great roles to play, memorable lines, to have the opportunity to shine and put out a good performance.
Shatner's selfish requests kept denying the rest of the cast that opportunity.
If you look at TNG, the best actors of the show are no doubt Patrick Stewart and Bent Spinner.
And the writers gave lots of interesting bits for Spinner to do despite him not being the lead.
I'm sure the TOS writers did the same, but Shatner kept getting in the way.
I also heard that there is some friction between Shatner and Nimoy, simply because Nimoy ended up out shining him half the time and was more popular than him in among certain fans despite being co-lead.
Ya, bad form to reply to yourself.
But it also appears, iTunes' sound check isn't working on .mp4 files.
iTunes 10 treats .mp4 files as video files regardless if there is video content in the file or not.
With regards to the .mp4 extension, iTunes 10 has been acting weird.
Now when you play a music file with the .mp4 extension it opens a blank video window, and there is not way to stop it.
iTunes 9 never did this.
I don't look forward to batch renaming my files to .m4a in my music folder or re-adding them to iTunes.
Apple surprisingly has manage to keep most of the new features they add pretty streamline when added to the UI.
My main complain about that stupid app is it's speed and memory consumption.
Something which has been it's Achilles' heel since forever.
It seem just about every piece of Apple software on Windows is 2-3 times less efficient that any other software of it's class.
You can always convert it to Apple Lossless at no quality loss, if you really want it on your iDevice.
Troublesome but it's possible.
Been living with depression for quite a while now.
I didn't really have much motivation to do anything, video games seem to be the exception.
I think it's because they are psychologically addictive to some extend, they have a very well tuned effort / reward cycle.
Games like WoW gives you relatively achievable goals to get and rewards you with a sense of achievement when you complete them.
A nice escape from the feelings of powerless and hopelessness of real life.
That must be why the original iPhone didn't allow 3rd party native apps at all. /s
What do you want businesses to do?
It is your friend that snapped the photo and stuck your name on it.
You want Google to police it so that your name never appears on any photo not posted by you?
That probably isn't even possible with today's tech.
From the way I see it, if these politicians actually had the will to put their foot down on net neutrality then Google wouldn't even have to compromise and cut deals.
But what do I know.
It's important in the sense that it establishes Han Solo as a rogue-ish sort of character, one who is "morally flexible".
The chilling effects from the case might discourage Java use from here on new stuff.
As someone pointed out on Reddit, Java is now "radioactive".
Back to C/C++ I suppose, no one ever got sued for using those, C# is probably in no better shape patent minefield-wise.
I don't think it's has anything to do with Not Invented Here syndrome.
It's just the way Google's research works.
They basically try everything and anything, some will fail.
Actually that is Google's research strategy.
Throw random stuff at the wall and see what sticks.
I think they refer to it as "generating luck".
compared to normal glass.
Seeing videos of it bending and all.
Won't that mean it's actually fairly "soft" ?
Strong and elastic it is, but don't think that will help against scratches though.
Bingo.
That's why it's also free, unlike the iOS 3 where Apple charge me to upgrade my ipod touch.
That is the "simple" explanation.
But IMO Apple current leadership is pretty sharp, and I have seen games like this played before - look at MS and IE.
Starting early is best, it's easier. Also there is less of a chance of accidentally running afoul of anti-trust laws when you push your product "too hard" - again MS and IE.
PS:I thought iTunes was a cost centre, that they only started it up so people can fill up their iPods.
Apple must have seen the inevitable convergence of the tablets and dedicated ebook readers.
Amazon will probably want people to be locked into their software platform as much as possible, and they have quite a userbase already, as well as the ability to provide a lot of content.
When they control the software platform, they can easily extend the control to hardware.
Apple with it's iPad platform will not like that.
Hence introduced iBooks to hopefully turn the tide against Amazon.
Or at the very least allow them to stand on equal footing, where iBook is an equally established platform, with a large enough userbase that publishers cannot do exclusives without hurting themselves.
With both having a more or less similar selection of books, there will be no difference between the two platforms.
By the time MS has a workable product, Apple would already have locked the market up.
From my observations, Apple product cycle goes something like this.
Part 1 -
*Hype new product as a premium product
*Launch limited amounts to reduce risk
*Sell at a high mark up to early-adopters/fanboys/people-with-top-much-money, to recoup R&D cost
If it does OK
Part 2-
*Aggressively tune manufacturing to bring cost down and increase production volume
*Sell to masses at an affordable price, helped by the hype and word of mouth from early-adopters/fanboys/people-with-too-much-money
To my knowledge, it would appear Apple in the old days failed to do part 2 quick enough, and the Mac got zerged by DOS/Windows.
Well Jobs has learned his lesson.
By the time MS's tablet is ready, part 2 would already have long passed.
Not to mention MS's old standby tactics of price undercutting and stuff doesn't seem to work very well any more, not against Apple's marketing machine.
For an example, we only have to look to the Zune.
Well, if anyone cares the swap is no go, my operator doesn't think it's their problem any more. :s
My phone is now sitting at the Samsung service centre waiting for a screen swap.
I'm hoping it doesn't make matters worse.
If anyone is still reading...
Say anyone know a good virtual keyboard that has good cursor control?
Swype cursor's control is on a separate screen, major PITA.
PS: I just had an epiphany, why hasn't anyone implemented cursor control via swiping the keyboard?
Or anyone know an Android keyboard that do cursor control the palm way? I heard it's quite good.
From the beginning, Microsoft's success was based on rapidly identifying emerging markets of technically naive consumers and ruthlessly exploiting their naivety by pruning out anything that would slow their market penetration. Such as quality control (beyond what was necessary for a good showroom appearance) or solid engineering (hence all the problems with malware). The developers dance was all about getting everyone on the bandwagon before anyone knew enough to critically assess the sorry state of that wagon's mechanicals, or the lack of roadway that was in front of it.
IMO I felt that Gates while not a creative visionary, he at least had enough vision to spot emerging markets and properly position MS to enter it - most of the time anyway.
Since he left ... we have the MS we have today.
An alternative is to enter potent new markets.
Unfortunately for MS, Ballmer for the most part has little to no foresight, and MS only make attempts at new markets after their early bird competitors have firmly entrenched themselves.