I have no way, on mobile, to shutoff ad networks and pics and tracking and auto played videos and gifs. These are not items that I want. I can not refrain from them. Why should I have to pay for them?
There is nothing stopping you from using an ad blocker. There are third party browsers for Android and iOS 9 supports Ad-blocking extensions natively.
A big part of the problem here is that many don't offer unlimited data at ANY price, and when you do find someone that does, they often try to bog it down with fine print like this or just flat out cut you off if you use too much of your "unlimited" service.
For $95 a month T-mobile offers an unlimited high speed data. All of their other plans offer limited high speed data that slows down after you reach the limit.
If you have an unlimited plan and choose to use Binge-On they will give you two free movie rentals.
where you have clowns suggest having a single site for both computers and mobile devices, rather than have different sites based on the device (like m.foo.com) That's the problem when you try to improve what's already optimal, if not perfect.
It's really not that hard to have one website for desktop and mobile. My website design skills suck and I can make one website that looks and works well on both with Bootstrap.
But when you have different offerings you are stuck with the mushy middle like the Google Nexus 7. Desktop websites aren't really always usable but mobile websites look weird on it. By default,, Chrome on Nexus sends a mobile browser user agent. A responsive website scales appropriately.
You see, this is why I don't get hired for these things. I'd ask what my increase in pay is going to be
On the other hand, if I put on my resume in 2008 that I had played a major role in the design of the iPhone, I think I could command much higher salaries than if I said I wrote yet another line of business software-as-a-service web app.
"In his brief time on the stand at Tuesday's Apple v. Samsung court proceedings, Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller said the company doesn't rely on "typical" market studies to create its products.
"That plays no role in the creation of the products."
If they had done market research before they created the first iPhone, people would have said that they wanted a phone with a keyboard. No one would have said that they wanted a computer without a floppy drive and let's get rid of the optical drive in laptops to make them smaller and add some PS/2 ports while you're at it.
Why would you think having 12 different messaging programs on your iPhone would use more battery life than using 1? It's not like those 12 programs are actually running in the background listening for messages. That's not how iOS works.
When a messaging app is not in the foreground and not actively being used (i.e. when you're in an audio call and its in the background) the app is either suspended - in memory but not given any CPU cycles - or not running at all. There is one process in iOS that listens for all notifications and dispatches it the correct process. If that process is not running, iOS launches it.
From all accounts that was Jobs making an announcement without first checking with the lawyers or the developers. The first any developers on the IOS team heard about FaceTime becoming open source was when SJ announced it to the public.
I disagree. Windows 7 runs well on both my 2006 era Mac Mini Core Duo 1.66Ghz with 2GB of RAM and my 2009 era Pentium Dual Core Dell laptop with 4GB of RAM. I've heard reports that Windows 10 should also run well on at least the 2009 era Dell if not the Mac Mini.
So if you go around quoting a 5TB drive at $200 as if it was a "nothing" I still wouldn't touch it. I can just imagine how long it would take me to manipulate TB's of data on that drive, let alone copy sizeable chunks to/from that drive.
What do most consumers need a 5TB worth of storage for besides storing media like ripped videos, music, etc? In that case SSD is overkill. I have no problem streaming 3 videos (with transcoding) over WIFI from a regular hard drive over USB 3. Sure SSD for primary work but a bunch of slow spinning hard drive makes more sense for backup and media.
You apparently are not aware that it is possible to obtain insurance and dental without getting it from an employer?
Unless you or anyone in your family has a "pre-existing condition", at least before the ACA.
Although the employers like to make you think you are stuck with them and their insurance is cheaper, in fact that has never been the case. Why would anyone even think that buying insurance from the company store would be cheaper than buying it from hundreds of companies that are competing for your business?
You think you can negotiate better rates than a company with 100's of people? Insurance companies pre-ACA (i.e. ObamaCare) only competed over the healthiest segment of the population.
At other times, where the company listed health insurance as a benefit, it was in fact you, the employee, who paid 100%
In that case "you're doing it wrong". I've worked for companies with 20 employees, to companies with 50,000+ employees and never had to pay 100% of my own premiums.
So much of what you wrote does not mesh with your statement above. Lets say you make $100k per year, so your hourly rate is roughly $50 per hour. That puts the freelance rate at $150 per hour. Lets add in a great family insurance plan that would cost you $15k per year, the employer's portion of your taxes at $8000 per year, and an extra $2000 per year in hardware purchases since you can't use the company laptop anymore. Add in another $5k for good measure, and you would need $130k to make the same as your last job. That is 22 weeks of work, or roughly 5 months.
So let's see where to start, I work 1880 hours a year once you subtract the 10 paid holidays and 15 P.T,O days. You don't get paid for holidays or vacation when you freelance.
Then let's say you could work about 11 months out of the year, usually it takes me about a month once I hit the job market to get another job, That's another 160 hours. So now we are down to 1720 hours.
Let's use your cost for insurance and self employment taxes ($23000). Of course you don't get 401K matching (averages about 3% of salary or $3000). So you're about right that it would take $130,000.
So just to be equivalent you would have to make around $80 an hour.
Then there are fringe benefits to working at a salaried job. You don't have to come in being an expert at everything. My company is more than willing to let me spend some time getting up to speed on a framework/technology that I don't know because they see it as investment in future productivity. Would someone be willing to let me learn on the job as a contractor? If I'm not proficient at something as someone else, they don't have a problem with it taking 30% longer as long as I meet deadlines (working on weekends, or staying late). They wouldn't be willing to do that if they were paying me by the hour.
Settings->Battery->low power mode stops all apps from running in the background. You can also turn off background refresh on a per app basis and not allow an app to track your location in the background.
Well assuming that for some reason Arm stopped licensing to Apple, Apple could easily move over to Intel chips. When you run a program under the iOS simulator, it compiles the code to x86 and binds against an x86 build of the iOS libraries. So Apple already has an x86 tool chain for iOS.
Since all social programs like social security are pay as you go, who do you think is going to be working and funding Social Security and Medicare when you stop working?
I did no such thing. Apple supports iPhones a lot longer than 2 years. If a user wants to keep an iPhone longer, they wouldn't buy an iPhone that is already over two years old.
If by "about two years" you mean 2 and a half years. Then you're right. But let's look at what Apple has done since then....
iPhone 4 - (introduced 6/2010) discontinued 9/2013, had the latest OS until 9/2015
IPhone 4s - (introduced 9/2011) discontinued (9/2014) has the latest OS at least until 9/2016.
Of course every iPhone since the iPhone 4s is still supported.
So if you cared about keeping a phone for as long as possible, why would you buy a 2 generation old phone? If you bought the iPhone 4s the day it went on sell, you would have had 5 years of support. How many Android devices that were introduced in 2011 are still supported by their manufacturer?
Apple stopped selling the iPhone 3G June 2010. It had the latest OS until September 2011 when iOS 5 was introduced. Even if you bought a 2 generation old iPhone 3G on the last day it was for sell, you still had 15 months where it had the latest OS.
Apple stopped selling the iPhone 3GS new September 2011. Apple didn't drop support until iOS 7 - introduced September 2013. In fact, Apple released a patch for iOS 6 for the "goto fail" bug February 2014.
No, you fanboi, Apple would say (AND HAS SAID) you're holding it wrong. Only after a massive public backlash did they reverse course. That's the depth of how much they care about you, their customer.
If by "reverse course" you mean "sold the same phone (the GSM iPhone 4) for four years without any modifications to the antenna design", I agree with you completely.
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There is nothing stopping you from using an ad blocker. There are third party browsers for Android and iOS 9 supports Ad-blocking extensions natively.
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For $95 a month T-mobile offers an unlimited high speed data. All of their other plans offer limited high speed data that slows down after you reach the limit.
If you have an unlimited plan and choose to use Binge-On they will give you two free movie rentals.
Neither iOS or Android page to disk. The OS gives individual apps a chance to shut down cleanly before they are purged.
How well do Android devices work running the newest OS with 512MB of RAM?
Your iPad 2 has 512Mb of RAM. What do you expect?
They updated iOS 6 for the goto fail bug February 2014, 7 months after iOS 7 was out.
The report was that Microsoft was selling more tablets "online".
It's really not that hard to have one website for desktop and mobile. My website design skills suck and I can make one website that looks and works well on both with Bootstrap.
But when you have different offerings you are stuck with the mushy middle like the Google Nexus 7. Desktop websites aren't really always usable but mobile websites look weird on it. By default,, Chrome on Nexus sends a mobile browser user agent. A responsive website scales appropriately.
On the other hand, if I put on my resume in 2008 that I had played a major role in the design of the iPhone, I think I could command much higher salaries than if I said I wrote yet another line of business software-as-a-service web app.
Words Mean Things:
"In his brief time on the stand at Tuesday's Apple v. Samsung court proceedings, Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller said the company doesn't rely on "typical" market studies to create its products.
"That plays no role in the creation of the products."
If they had done market research before they created the first iPhone, people would have said that they wanted a phone with a keyboard. No one would have said that they wanted a computer without a floppy drive and let's get rid of the optical drive in laptops to make them smaller and add some PS/2 ports while you're at it.
Why would you think having 12 different messaging programs on your iPhone would use more battery life than using 1? It's not like those 12 programs are actually running in the background listening for messages. That's not how iOS works.
When a messaging app is not in the foreground and not actively being used (i.e. when you're in an audio call and its in the background) the app is either suspended - in memory but not given any CPU cycles - or not running at all. There is one process in iOS that listens for all notifications and dispatches it the correct process. If that process is not running, iOS launches it.
From all accounts that was Jobs making an announcement without first checking with the lawyers or the developers. The first any developers on the IOS team heard about FaceTime becoming open source was when SJ announced it to the public.
And would you waste money on an SSD for that or buy a cheap regular hard drive?
I disagree. Windows 7 runs well on both my 2006 era Mac Mini Core Duo 1.66Ghz with 2GB of RAM and my 2009 era Pentium Dual Core Dell laptop with 4GB of RAM. I've heard reports that Windows 10 should also run well on at least the 2009 era Dell if not the Mac Mini.
What do most consumers need a 5TB worth of storage for besides storing media like ripped videos, music, etc? In that case SSD is overkill. I have no problem streaming 3 videos (with transcoding) over WIFI from a regular hard drive over USB 3. Sure SSD for primary work but a bunch of slow spinning hard drive makes more sense for backup and media.
Unless you or anyone in your family has a "pre-existing condition", at least before the ACA.
You think you can negotiate better rates than a company with 100's of people? Insurance companies pre-ACA (i.e. ObamaCare) only competed over the healthiest segment of the population.
In that case "you're doing it wrong". I've worked for companies with 20 employees, to companies with 50,000+ employees and never had to pay 100% of my own premiums.
So let's see where to start, I work 1880 hours a year once you subtract the 10 paid holidays and 15 P.T,O days. You don't get paid for holidays or vacation when you freelance.
Then let's say you could work about 11 months out of the year, usually it takes me about a month once I hit the job market to get another job, That's another 160 hours. So now we are down to 1720 hours.
Let's use your cost for insurance and self employment taxes ($23000). Of course you don't get 401K matching (averages about 3% of salary or $3000). So you're about right that it would take $130,000.
So just to be equivalent you would have to make around $80 an hour.
Then there are fringe benefits to working at a salaried job. You don't have to come in being an expert at everything. My company is more than willing to let me spend some time getting up to speed on a framework/technology that I don't know because they see it as investment in future productivity. Would someone be willing to let me learn on the job as a contractor? If I'm not proficient at something as someone else, they don't have a problem with it taking 30% longer as long as I meet deadlines (working on weekends, or staying late). They wouldn't be willing to do that if they were paying me by the hour.
Settings->Battery->low power mode stops all apps from running in the background. You can also turn off background refresh on a per app basis and not allow an app to track your location in the background.
Well assuming that for some reason Arm stopped licensing to Apple, Apple could easily move over to Intel chips. When you run a program under the iOS simulator, it compiles the code to x86 and binds against an x86 build of the iOS libraries. So Apple already has an x86 tool chain for iOS.
Since all social programs like social security are pay as you go, who do you think is going to be working and funding Social Security and Medicare when you stop working?
I did no such thing. Apple supports iPhones a lot longer than 2 years. If a user wants to keep an iPhone longer, they wouldn't buy an iPhone that is already over two years old.
If by "about two years" you mean 2 and a half years. Then you're right. But let's look at what Apple has done since then....
iPhone 4 - (introduced 6/2010) discontinued 9/2013, had the latest OS until 9/2015
IPhone 4s - (introduced 9/2011) discontinued (9/2014) has the latest OS at least until 9/2016.
Of course every iPhone since the iPhone 4s is still supported.
So if you cared about keeping a phone for as long as possible, why would you buy a 2 generation old phone? If you bought the iPhone 4s the day it went on sell, you would have had 5 years of support. How many Android devices that were introduced in 2011 are still supported by their manufacturer?
Apple stopped selling the iPhone 3G June 2010. It had the latest OS until September 2011 when iOS 5 was introduced. Even if you bought a 2 generation old iPhone 3G on the last day it was for sell, you still had 15 months where it had the latest OS.
Apple stopped selling the iPhone 3GS new September 2011. Apple didn't drop support until iOS 7 - introduced September 2013. In fact, Apple released a patch for iOS 6 for the "goto fail" bug February 2014.
If by "reverse course" you mean "sold the same phone (the GSM iPhone 4) for four years without any modifications to the antenna design", I agree with you completely.