You know that terrorists kill many more muslims in their countries (look at Daech) than wite christians, right?
The fact that these people claim to be muslims doesn't make all muslims terrorists. After all, they are humans, and you are also human. Are you a terrorist?
I think your first two points are the reason. People using iOS are far more likely to actually PAY for a game (or any other app for that matter). The fact that the iOS platform is far more homogeneous (At any point in time you have to cover 2 versions of the OS, three tablets and three phones to address 90+% of iOS users) make also development costs lower. Lower costs, higher profits, yes, the iOS platform is most likely an order of magnitude more profitable than Android.
Well, numbers don't matter in the end because most of this is just a matter of perception. You can show me that Booting is much slower on iOS9 than iOS8, but I so rarely boot my phone that I don't care. Apps start much faster. The keyboard pops out slightly slower. There are differences and if you want to only measure the things that are slower, you'll have cold hard numbers and still a flawed comparison. So measuring things is only part of the experience.
If iOS8 was almost unusable on your iPhone 4S, then I'm sorry. I've lived with it for about a year and found it fine. It was sure not as snappy as iOS7, but it brought some cool things and I found the deal acceptable.
As far as battery life is concerned, I can go full-day without recharging now which was not the case with iOS8. True, some of it is due to the fact that whan I reach 20% of battery, the iPhone switch to "energy saving" mode (or something like that) which did not exist in iOS8. It may be artificial, but it works. And it works well.
So, as I stated, and this is a subjective opinion, if I could switch back to iOS8 ot iOS7, I wouldn't. I'd keep iOS9. The rest is irrelevant.
I'll have to call you a troll. I have an iPhone 4S since 2011 and it runs iOS9 just fine. Sure, there is some lag here and there and the screen is cramped, but I'm much better off with iOS9 than I was with iOS7. I actually gained in battery life.
I live in France as (I suspect) you do. And it's true that for half the pay we get about 35-40 days of paid vacation a year. And you're considered crazy if you don't take them.
There is still a swarm of NotImplementedException going around. Most of C# is running, at a much slower speed than.Net4.5, but there are still APIs that are just not there or terribly buggy.
A manager with absolutely no knowledge of the field will at best do a good planning and organisational job. Usually, you expect more from a manager, such as leading. I don't believe a manager completely disconnected can do a more than adequate job.
If your browser doesn't contact GA directly, GA can't drop the cookie that will help analytics be more precise. It also doesn't have any code running in your browser - hence less data to collect.
Don't get me wrong, we're not losing analytics, but we'll be far less fine-grained.
You rarely need to add thousands of nodes to fill in the viewport. There are techniques such as infinite scrolling which will display the viewport blazingly fast and download more content as the user scrolls down. You save network bandwidth, CPU, and it all looks good.
Choosing the proper tools is also a given. Anything developed in AngularJS for example is bound to be slow on every redraw since it generates a whole new DOM every time. Not counting the initial payload. Try out simpler frameworks such as mithril for example.
Frankly speaking, the DOM is good enough for most uses. Learning how to not download 20MB of data in each page is what's missing.
What I'd like is to have all versions of IE available on Linux. I can't stand running VMs just to test the websites I'm working on. What a waste of resources...
IE is the only reasons I still have Windows (both VMs and real machines) around at home.
Well, I have the latest iOS8.x on both my 4S and my iPad2 and I don't experience the same stuff as you. They both run fine. Granted, they are slower with iOS8 than they were originally. Remember the iPad2 is basically a big iPhone 4S. Almost same CPU, same RAM.
iOS 9 also holds the promise of being faster than iOS8, a first in iOS history. Who knows, maybe they'll deliver on their promise...
Without software, your table will quickly become useless. That app you liked? Well, the vendor cut the support for the old API, you know the API your old version is using. Sorry bro, doesn't work anymore.
I have an iPhonre that is from 2011 (iPhone 4S). It works the latest software from Apple, the latest software from the App Store and, while not as snappy as the first day, runs smoothly enough.
I also have an iPad 2 which was bought at the exact same time. Same results, equivalent CPU, same RAM, runs just fine with the latest software from Apple. It will even support iOS9.
So no, I don't think 2012 is a long time ago, even in tablet times. Maybe other vendors aren't as keen to support old hardware. Maybe that's why they sell their tablets for half the price, since you have to buy twice as many;-)
From what I can gather, Apple and Google most certainly have an expertise which is a few orders of magnitude higher than the auto industry. Short of firing all the automotive CEOs and replacing them with geeks, I don't know how anyone can operate a significant shift in focus in less than 50 years.
I've worked for insurance, finance and distribution(I assume car companies to be as bad) and the state of the art is that none of those people have the first clue as to what computer science is, can bring to them or can take from them. They see a few wins (by looking around and copying ideas) and they don't want to pay for it.
So yeah, they end up with a badly glued patch of libraries (some open source, some not) and the end result is a collection of crap that has more bugs than features.
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You know that terrorists kill many more muslims in their countries (look at Daech) than wite christians, right?
The fact that these people claim to be muslims doesn't make all muslims terrorists. After all, they are humans, and you are also human. Are you a terrorist?
I think your first two points are the reason. People using iOS are far more likely to actually PAY for a game (or any other app for that matter). The fact that the iOS platform is far more homogeneous (At any point in time you have to cover 2 versions of the OS, three tablets and three phones to address 90+% of iOS users) make also development costs lower. Lower costs, higher profits, yes, the iOS platform is most likely an order of magnitude more profitable than Android.
Well, numbers don't matter in the end because most of this is just a matter of perception. You can show me that Booting is much slower on iOS9 than iOS8, but I so rarely boot my phone that I don't care. Apps start much faster. The keyboard pops out slightly slower. There are differences and if you want to only measure the things that are slower, you'll have cold hard numbers and still a flawed comparison. So measuring things is only part of the experience.
If iOS8 was almost unusable on your iPhone 4S, then I'm sorry. I've lived with it for about a year and found it fine. It was sure not as snappy as iOS7, but it brought some cool things and I found the deal acceptable.
As far as battery life is concerned, I can go full-day without recharging now which was not the case with iOS8. True, some of it is due to the fact that whan I reach 20% of battery, the iPhone switch to "energy saving" mode (or something like that) which did not exist in iOS8. It may be artificial, but it works. And it works well.
So, as I stated, and this is a subjective opinion, if I could switch back to iOS8 ot iOS7, I wouldn't. I'd keep iOS9. The rest is irrelevant.
I'll have to call you a troll. I have an iPhone 4S since 2011 and it runs iOS9 just fine. Sure, there is some lag here and there and the screen is cramped, but I'm much better off with iOS9 than I was with iOS7. I actually gained in battery life.
So, there's that.
I live in France as (I suspect) you do. And it's true that for half the pay we get about 35-40 days of paid vacation a year. And you're considered crazy if you don't take them.
So, there's that.
People wanting sex get way too many kids, so they can't feed them? See how it works for poverty?
Exercise left for the reader: Do the same logic to see how a massive amount of hungry people can lead to a war.
There is still a swarm of NotImplementedException going around. Most of C# is running, at a much slower speed than .Net4.5, but there are still APIs that are just not there or terribly buggy.
Try running IIS in Mono, and we'll talk again.
A manager with absolutely no knowledge of the field will at best do a good planning and organisational job. Usually, you expect more from a manager, such as leading. I don't believe a manager completely disconnected can do a more than adequate job.
What's really sad is that she's still a better alternative than Trump :(
Can you elaborate?
If your browser doesn't contact GA directly, GA can't drop the cookie that will help analytics be more precise. It also doesn't have any code running in your browser - hence less data to collect.
Don't get me wrong, we're not losing analytics, but we'll be far less fine-grained.
And I think we'll all be better off this way.
I've noticed that certain tweets, especially if they are politically sensitive, get less impressions. Also, some retweets mysteriously vanish.
Seems like a censorship system is in operation.
Evidence?
How can you get evidence on a mysterious vanishing?
You rarely need to add thousands of nodes to fill in the viewport. There are techniques such as infinite scrolling which will display the viewport blazingly fast and download more content as the user scrolls down. You save network bandwidth, CPU, and it all looks good.
Choosing the proper tools is also a given. Anything developed in AngularJS for example is bound to be slow on every redraw since it generates a whole new DOM every time. Not counting the initial payload. Try out simpler frameworks such as mithril for example.
Frankly speaking, the DOM is good enough for most uses. Learning how to not download 20MB of data in each page is what's missing.
I doubt Apple will let you run competing browsers on their computer.
Chrome, Opera and Firefox are available on MacOSX and have been for a while. What are you talking about?
What I'd like is to have all versions of IE available on Linux. I can't stand running VMs just to test the websites I'm working on. What a waste of resources...
IE is the only reasons I still have Windows (both VMs and real machines) around at home.
Well, I have the latest iOS8.x on both my 4S and my iPad2 and I don't experience the same stuff as you. They both run fine. Granted, they are slower with iOS8 than they were originally. Remember the iPad2 is basically a big iPhone 4S. Almost same CPU, same RAM.
iOS 9 also holds the promise of being faster than iOS8, a first in iOS history. Who knows, maybe they'll deliver on their promise...
But still, the performance of Apple's iOS 9 on iPad 2 is kind of a disappointment, but the fact that they keep pushing updates out at all is amazing.
iOS9 isn't out yet. Did you try a developer's version?
Without software, your table will quickly become useless. That app you liked? Well, the vendor cut the support for the old API, you know the API your old version is using. Sorry bro, doesn't work anymore.
Software is the issue, not hardware.
I have an iPhonre that is from 2011 (iPhone 4S). It works the latest software from Apple, the latest software from the App Store and, while not as snappy as the first day, runs smoothly enough.
I also have an iPad 2 which was bought at the exact same time. Same results, equivalent CPU, same RAM, runs just fine with the latest software from Apple. It will even support iOS9.
So no, I don't think 2012 is a long time ago, even in tablet times. Maybe other vendors aren't as keen to support old hardware. Maybe that's why they sell their tablets for half the price, since you have to buy twice as many ;-)
I can see it perfectly fine.
Yes, and there's a certain particular kind of emotion that can only be accurately expressed with a cucumber.
Aaaaaah, no! Now I'm all turned on!
If emojis are supposed to convey emotion, hopefully in a standardized fashion, what's the emoji for sarcasm, universally agreed to and understood?
emojis are supposed to convey emotions, which is not to say emotions are all represented by an amoji. Do you eat bananas? Are you a chimp?
We're moving back to dumb terminals anyhow.
To be fair, our terminals are getting smarter and smarter by the day these times.
Apple has nothing to worry about.
I disagree right here. After all, the guy - and he is the only one who can claim this - came very close to sinking Apple itself!
If there's one guy Apple should be worry about it's the one that almost killed them.
http://priceonomics.com/how-a-...
Read the article to see that the woman did not just "win hundreds of millions when she got burnt from McDonald's coffee".
From what I can gather, Apple and Google most certainly have an expertise which is a few orders of magnitude higher than the auto industry. Short of firing all the automotive CEOs and replacing them with geeks, I don't know how anyone can operate a significant shift in focus in less than 50 years.
I've worked for insurance, finance and distribution(I assume car companies to be as bad) and the state of the art is that none of those people have the first clue as to what computer science is, can bring to them or can take from them. They see a few wins (by looking around and copying ideas) and they don't want to pay for it.
So yeah, they end up with a badly glued patch of libraries (some open source, some not) and the end result is a collection of crap that has more bugs than features.