Your kids seems much calmer than most I know. You are lucky. All three of your points can lead to a collision between my kids and virtually anything. Mine are predictible for the most part, but there are those times...
As for the so called supervision, I'm not a robot. I make mistakes too and my attention is not 100% on my kids, even when I supervise them. The same as a server uptime. You can try as hard as you want to, but you cannot avoid this fraction of a percent of downtime.
So to sum it all up, rereading your post, it looks like you are superman supervising very calm, unexcited and obedient kids. It just looks like you're out of a poorly written Hollywood movie.
When Schmidt claims 200 000 activations a day, and that Android is open in the same speech, do you think he excludes all the handsets that are locked down from his claimed activations per day?
Maybe you are straight in your head, but then he isn't. Or he is dishonest. Hmm, I wonder.
All Android phones that have a "Google" logo on them use the same exact marketplace. I should know - I've had 3 and all my apps synced perfectly between them.
The UI is just a personal preference. Stop drinking the cool aid;).
So how does that work with Cookie Monster that eat up several cookies at once? Can it regrow if you eat it all up or do you necessarily have to have just a bite?
Or rather "As you probably aren't capable of doing a good job at being a sysadmin, we're going to try to mash it up for you. There, 5 good years of a CS degree saved up for you. BTW, when you'll have your CS degree, you can buy Android."
I live in France, not in the US, and I've always had a hard time figuring out why american people say it doesn't work well. On all three french carriers, iPhones work well and as advertised. I believe it's true all over europe.
Look, we are talking end users here, not you. I know it's a foreign concept but come on, a little imagination. It's not that hard.
The point Steve Jobs is making is that when Google says "100 000" Android devices, maybe 50% of them share UI, market, etc... When you say 100 000 iPhones, they all share 100% of the same stuff.
Android phones have common core apps and the same user interfaces. Manufacturers install their own home apps and some additional apps, but you don't have to see them or use them if you don't like them.
Are you kidding? There are probably 100x as many locked down Linux machines than Linux desktops; many routers, set-top-boxes, (non-Android) phones, photo frames, webcams, and other devices run some form of Linux and you buy them, use them, and throw them out without ever noticing.
But you don't have to root your iPhone to get the AppStore. Or to set Google as the default search engine. Or... I think you get the point.
Of course, it's harder for people to meddle with a jailbroken iPhone because they don't have the source code. But man, the need to Jailbreak is not the same as the need to get out of a horribly craploaded and crippled version of Android.
I have an HTC Evo since the day it was released. Since then, I've been through a few minor updates and a major release (Froyo). I have never had to reinstall apps and I've never had to worry about libraries or compiling anything at all. For that matter, I've never known anyone to have to compile anything for Android with the exception of a developer I know.
Great. Nobody ever said otherwise. Reread your P and GP. Maybe you are talking about Andy Rubin? He was actually trying to make a point for Android with the fact that you can compile it. The point of the iPhone supporters in this debate is that you cannot compare Android with iPhone. However you can compare android phones to an iPhone. Then the waters get a little muddier for Android.
So, I don't know what phone or Android version you're running, but it can't be anything recent. I think your issues could be compared with someone bashing Ubuntu because way back when they ran Linux, they had to compile everything from source.
Stop beating the dead horse. He was not talking about his phone but about the quote of Andy Rubin. And I suspect you perfectly got that and are just trolling.
As for Apple, I have two iPod Touch units, one 3rd Gen and one 4th Gen. I've had to reinstall different software apps several times and had some just stop working after a time (don't know if an update caused the problems). Of course, when something stops working on the iPod/Phone, there's really nothing you can do except uninstall and reinstall and see if that fixes your issue. Other than that, well, just uninstall and hope you can get your money back if it's an app you paid for. Those issues were with the 3rd Gen.
I've had an iPhone 1st gen and an iPhone 3GS. Never had to reinstall an app. Ever. Sometimes a reboot after 4-5 month of uptime when things seems to go berserk, but that's all. So see, YMMV.
I can't really speak for the 4th Gen as it only worked for a couple of days before I had to send it back to Apple. Apple service was great, but I shouldn't of had to send the damn thing back in the first place.
Of course. Apple should not ship defective products. Maybe we should tell Steve Jobs about it. It's actually a great way to improve user experience! And of course HTC has never shipped a defective Evo. Ever. If we needed more proof that you're a troll, there it is.
I didn't have to pay any money for the repair, but it did cost me several hours trying to figure out what was wrong + a trip to the UPS store to have it shipped back to Apple.
At least, there's that. Same cannot be said for all Android handsets. Some, for sure. Most maybe. All never. See my first point above.
People were saying the exact same thing about color as they are saying about 3D now. Because when color was just out, colors sucked. Have you looked at a movie in so called "technicolor" lately? It looks horrendous, and in many ways worse than a b&w movie.
Stereo faced the same fate. Because music and movie producers played with stereo a bit too much at the beginning, stereo music/soundtrack was often a pain to listen to.
See the pattern? 3D sucks because nobody really knows how to work with it. Yet. One producers are accustomed to it, it won't get in the way anymore.
Color enhanced the experience in my opinion. Stereo enhanced the experience in my opinion. 5.1 enhanced the experience in my opinion. 3D on the other hand detracts from the experience in my opinion. See how that works? When something I think is a gimmick is added just to try and make more money off selling 3D glasses that makes the movie worse in my view, it is not an enhancement.
Yeah, just as color is. And 5.1 sound. And stereo.
Following your vision, we should all get back to monophonic sound with b&w movies. Or maybe just to comic books. Those images moving around are a distraction to the movie.
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Your kids seems much calmer than most I know. You are lucky. All three of your points can lead to a collision between my kids and virtually anything. Mine are predictible for the most part, but there are those times...
As for the so called supervision, I'm not a robot. I make mistakes too and my attention is not 100% on my kids, even when I supervise them. The same as a server uptime. You can try as hard as you want to, but you cannot avoid this fraction of a percent of downtime.
So to sum it all up, rereading your post, it looks like you are superman supervising very calm, unexcited and obedient kids. It just looks like you're out of a poorly written Hollywood movie.
Keep that up, it made my day.
Shit happens.
So how exactly can you avoid a collision unless you are on the bike? (or holding your child with a leash?)
No it's not. If you go to any other country you can slap a local SIM card in it and get going. That's what we call "not locked".
Can't do that with a locked phone. As for T-Mobile, while Edge is way slower than 3G, it is still internet and it still works well.
When Schmidt claims 200 000 activations a day, and that Android is open in the same speech, do you think he excludes all the handsets that are locked down from his claimed activations per day?
Maybe you are straight in your head, but then he isn't. Or he is dishonest. Hmm, I wonder.
All Android phones that have a "Google" logo on them use the same exact marketplace. I should know - I've had 3 and all my apps synced perfectly between them.
The UI is just a personal preference. Stop drinking the cool aid ;).
So? How does that answer any of my points?
So how does that work with Cookie Monster that eat up several cookies at once? Can it regrow if you eat it all up or do you necessarily have to have just a bite?
Or rather "As you probably aren't capable of doing a good job at being a sysadmin, we're going to try to mash it up for you. There, 5 good years of a CS degree saved up for you. BTW, when you'll have your CS degree, you can buy Android."
I live in France, not in the US, and I've always had a hard time figuring out why american people say it doesn't work well. On all three french carriers, iPhones work well and as advertised. I believe it's true all over europe.
Must be AT&T.
Look, we are talking end users here, not you. I know it's a foreign concept but come on, a little imagination. It's not that hard.
The point Steve Jobs is making is that when Google says "100 000" Android devices, maybe 50% of them share UI, market, etc... When you say 100 000 iPhones, they all share 100% of the same stuff.
Android phones have common core apps and the same user interfaces. Manufacturers install their own home apps and some additional apps, but you don't have to see them or use them if you don't like them.
In what world are you living? I want in !!!
Are you kidding? There are probably 100x as many locked down Linux machines than Linux desktops; many routers, set-top-boxes, (non-Android) phones, photo frames, webcams, and other devices run some form of Linux and you buy them, use them, and throw them out without ever noticing.
But they don't call themselves "open".
But you don't have to root your iPhone to get the AppStore. Or to set Google as the default search engine. Or ... I think you get the point.
Of course, it's harder for people to meddle with a jailbroken iPhone because they don't have the source code. But man, the need to Jailbreak is not the same as the need to get out of a horribly craploaded and crippled version of Android.
I have an HTC Evo since the day it was released. Since then, I've been through a few minor updates and a major release (Froyo). I have never had to reinstall apps and I've never had to worry about libraries or compiling anything at all. For that matter, I've never known anyone to have to compile anything for Android with the exception of a developer I know.
Great. Nobody ever said otherwise. Reread your P and GP. Maybe you are talking about Andy Rubin? He was actually trying to make a point for Android with the fact that you can compile it. The point of the iPhone supporters in this debate is that you cannot compare Android with iPhone. However you can compare android phones to an iPhone. Then the waters get a little muddier for Android.
So, I don't know what phone or Android version you're running, but it can't be anything recent. I think your issues could be compared with someone bashing Ubuntu because way back when they ran Linux, they had to compile everything from source.
Stop beating the dead horse. He was not talking about his phone but about the quote of Andy Rubin. And I suspect you perfectly got that and are just trolling.
As for Apple, I have two iPod Touch units, one 3rd Gen and one 4th Gen. I've had to reinstall different software apps several times and had some just stop working after a time (don't know if an update caused the problems). Of course, when something stops working on the iPod/Phone, there's really nothing you can do except uninstall and reinstall and see if that fixes your issue. Other than that, well, just uninstall and hope you can get your money back if it's an app you paid for. Those issues were with the 3rd Gen.
I've had an iPhone 1st gen and an iPhone 3GS. Never had to reinstall an app. Ever. Sometimes a reboot after 4-5 month of uptime when things seems to go berserk, but that's all. So see, YMMV.
I can't really speak for the 4th Gen as it only worked for a couple of days before I had to send it back to Apple. Apple service was great, but I shouldn't of had to send the damn thing back in the first place.
Of course. Apple should not ship defective products. Maybe we should tell Steve Jobs about it. It's actually a great way to improve user experience! And of course HTC has never shipped a defective Evo. Ever. If we needed more proof that you're a troll, there it is.
I didn't have to pay any money for the repair, but it did cost me several hours trying to figure out what was wrong + a trip to the UPS store to have it shipped back to Apple.
At least, there's that. Same cannot be said for all Android handsets. Some, for sure. Most maybe. All never. See my first point above.
Oh, and don't even get me started on iTunes...
Point granted.
Dude, stop it! I'm laughiong my ass off !!!!
In the trollish counting system, there are only three numbers.
Troll means "one." Trolltroll means "two." Trolltrolltroll means "definitely two."
But now there is a Trolltrolltrolltroll. And I am not even kidding!
I see in the summary three tags: troll, trolltroll and trolltrolltroll.
Does it mean it's a 6*troll or an average of just a 2*troll?
Thanks! That's the point actually.
Well, I just switched my home server from Windows to Linux this very week-end. That cannot be a coincidence, right?
Allright. 3-D sucks, long live 3-D !!!
Because that would leave tech journalists with nothing to do.
Is that bad? I mean, we would probably all be better off with them idle, right?
People were saying the exact same thing about color as they are saying about 3D now. Because when color was just out, colors sucked. Have you looked at a movie in so called "technicolor" lately? It looks horrendous, and in many ways worse than a b&w movie.
Stereo faced the same fate. Because music and movie producers played with stereo a bit too much at the beginning, stereo music/soundtrack was often a pain to listen to.
See the pattern? 3D sucks because nobody really knows how to work with it. Yet. One producers are accustomed to it, it won't get in the way anymore.
Color enhanced the experience in my opinion. Stereo enhanced the experience in my opinion. 5.1 enhanced the experience in my opinion. 3D on the other hand detracts from the experience in my opinion. See how that works? When something I think is a gimmick is added just to try and make more money off selling 3D glasses that makes the movie worse in my view, it is not an enhancement.
Emphasis mine. I see how that works now. Thanks.
"The rise of mainstream tablets"
Why can't we call the rise of the iPad "The rise of the iPad" ?
Yeah, just as color is. And 5.1 sound. And stereo.
Following your vision, we should all get back to monophonic sound with b&w movies. Or maybe just to comic books. Those images moving around are a distraction to the movie.