The question, why you need so much storage on a tablet? I mean, I understand the time when tablets and phones came with 16GB of storage, and that was a pain, always. But now 32-64GB base storage is now standard even on cheap throwaway Amazon Fire HD10. One hour of Prime Netflix HD stream compresses to something like less than 1GB. So even on a tablet or phone with only 32GB of storage I can download enough shows to last a long transatlantic flight. The 64GB version of iPad will pretty much end this discussion for the vast majority of owners.
When was the last time when a new tablet-centric feature was introduced to Android OS? We don't remember. We know that a lot of third-party apps don't have a tablet-optimized interface, but how come google has done nothing about it? For example, they could have configured the app store so that search results down-rank apps that does not have a tablet enhanced GUI when you do a search from tablet. Instead, Google spent promising us to bring ChromeOS to tablets, and the end-result was underwhelming.
I never questioned that Russia was not corrupt. Russia was corrupt for the whole of its history since the foundation by the viking nobility a thousand years ago, with perhaps the exception of a brief period of Stalin rule when a peasant was sent to GULAG for stealing a potato from state farm. That Russia is corrupt and that Putin's buddies are rich and getting richer was never a secret. After all, Putin was appointed by corruptioner-in-law and very authoritarian Mr Yeltsin (who is strangely remembered by western libel-democrats as some kind of democratic freedom fighter and reformist despite shelling his own parliament in 1993). The difference between Yeltsin and Putin was that Putin allowed only his loyalists to rob the country while Yeltsin also allowed foreigners (e.g. the well documented case of the Harvard economics professors Larry Summers and Andrei Shleifer) But the rest of your statements were complete BS.
I called you out for your deception for making tall tale statements and then linking to a bunch of irrelevant ENGLISH wiki articles as proof but you only reply with a bunch of drivel including links to other bunch of websites, and also with pompous claims about where you live and what languages you know. Yes, we know Russia is very corrupt. We know its rank in the corruption index. This still does not justify stupid statements with a bunch of Wikipedia links that not even superficially prove what you said. I could mention but you would say I got it from google translate.
According to Steam hardware survey 25% of people are still using Windows 7 which is a pretty high number for an OS that old.
I don't know about your references, but I will take your word for it. What's really surprising is that this 25% number, if it's true, coming from Steam!! The PC games company! Why is this interesting? Because this is a statistic pertaining to the consumer PC user community, not corporate/government. It is well known that organizations are very slow to upgrade the OS because they're very conservative (don't fix what's not broken) and their IT departments are overworked anyways. But to see a Steam survey saying that 25% of its users are running Windows 7 is highly significant. Shockingly, so many people still prefer running a 10 year old OS. This is very telling about how badly received Windows 10 is.
Running a "modern" version of Window on an older computer will make the computer run like crap.
I disagree with this. Remember the performance hit of Windows Vista? It was huge. It was the number one reason people hated it. However, all versions of Windows after Vista, seemed to run faster on the same hardware. Windows 7 was basically called "Windows Vista fixed" or "done right", and the success of Windows 7 was huge. Now around 2012, Microsoft came up with Windows 8, and one of the claims why you should upgrade was that Windows 8 does about anything faster, and it did. After all Windows 8 was being marketed as a viable tablet OS. The same claim was made for Windows 10. After all, Windows 10 had to be compatible with a number of Surface tablets with _only_ 2GB of RAM, and it did well.
I recall that circa 2016 when Windows 10 just came out, a distant acquaintance of my family who were also very broke fresh and computer illiterate immigrants begged me to fix a 2009 Dell PC they picked up from a trash bin at some hospital. They said they wanted to setup a PC for their child room. I took upon this project simply out of sheer curiosity about just how useful or useless a PC with Core2 Duo CPU and 2GB of memory (max) can be.
This PC had a license for a version of Windows Vista, and after getting hold of the media and all of the updates, this turned out to be a passable "kiosk" PC, just in case if all you do is use gmail or watch youtube. Then I decided to try Windows 10 on the same machine. Back then there still existed a loophole allowing to upgrade from Vista to Windows 10 for free, and it worked! So anyways, the performance of this PC under 10 was at least as good as with Vista. Moreover, even Windows 10 haters like me have to agree that 10 is a lot better than Vista in terms of software usability today (I really hate the look and feel of Vista). The core of this story is that a decent PC from as far back as 2009 is still good enough to run Windows 10 even with 2GB of RAM (just don't open a gazillion of tabs in Firefox), and that Windows versions past-Vista really did improve performance.
Why did this happen? For one, operating systems have become very mature. You can't compare the security features of Windows 7 vs Windows 95 and ME. 7 already had most things built in, like modern file systems, multiuser support, firewall, robust networking and multitasking, etc. At some point, software manufacturers see that there is no pressing need to add more "bloat" to something that's already mature. Another issue is that we can't take hardware upgrades for granted any more. Industry experts agree that shrinking chip manufacturing process below 7nm is basically already hitting the wall. This means, no more Moore's Law. No more "free" CPU cores. No more "free" doubling of RAM or SSD storage every 2-3 years. The picture of the PC that's manufactured today is likely to be very similar to one made five years from now. So I really don't think any significant software company still thinks that "hardware is free".
We can assume that the US intelligence on the issues pertaining German security (say terrorist network cells in Germany, or German infrastructure being infiltrated by foreign actors) is the one that interests Germans the most, and it's inconceivable that US won't share it because of Huawei. Imagine that after a major terrorist attack in Germany someone in the WH announced, "see, we could have warned you, but you! bought Huawei equipment! never!"
Looks like Putin has truly become the Tsar of The Grand Duchy of Moscow and the people are content with each [wikipedia.org] atrocity [wikipedia.org] he [wikipedia.org] does [wikipedia.org]. A dictator, a tyrant, Godfather [wikipedia.org] of the Russian mafia state.
Your linking to wikipedia articles "documenting" "Putin's atrocities" only paints you as someone who knows very little about Russia besides a few western-liberal headlines. Sorry but the victims of Al-queda-linked terrorists are not an example of Putin's atrocities. And yes, many journalists died in Russia, but that's a country with a significant history of violent crime and corruption, and a violent war/insurgency in the Caucasus all dating from pre-Putin years in 1990s. Yes, they haven't done enough to solve many of them. On the bright side, the terrorist attacks mostly stopped under Putin, becoming quite a rarity in the last decade.
Obviously, the goal here to make a link between FSB and the soviet era KGB, just in case if there are people who don't think that FSB is not evil enough. I don't understand why this is necessary considering that FSB has built itself a pretty fearsome reputation in the post-Soviet era.
I think that constantly pointing out that FSB is the new KGB is stupid. For one, KGB combined both foreign and domestic intelligence functions of USSR, while FSB is primarily a domestic intelligence agency (the Russian agency for foreign intelligence is SVR and GRU). While some functions between FSB and SVR overlap, it is mostly the people inside of Russia who should fear FSB. Another major difference between soviet KGB and Russian FSB is the extent of corruption inside FSB which is rumored to be involved in all sorts of malicious activity like extortion racket, taxation racket, or protection rackets involving private businesses. There is evidence that someone inside FSB might have been involved in smuggling cocaine.
(https://www.rferl.org/a/argentina-russia-cocaine-plot-suspect-extradited-from-germany-jailed-in-moscow/29399251.html)
Whine many evil deeds were ascribed to the soviet KGB, the corruption and all sorts of economic side businesses were not among those.
What is wrong with permanent standard time? Trump upholds idiocracy.
People want an extra hour of sunshine in the evening when they are free to be outside, not in the morning when they work in offices, attend school, or still sleep.
Apple is in a very unique position to force rather unpopular decisions upon the consumers because of the cult of mac and iOS. There is a ton of people who consider iOS effectively irreplaceable because of better apps, better security, and better APIs. So, they will eat up rather unpopular decisions like removing the headphone jack or continuing shunning away standard usb ports. Moreover, Apple knows that losing a few percent of iPhone sales because of headphone jack will be more than made up with sales of Apple's own audio accessories.
However, when a Chinese phone maker removes the rather popular headphone jack to save 10 cents on its manufacture and "be just like Apple" but with no hope to make up for lost sales with its own audio accessories is just stupid...
Actually you could be surprised how many relatively trivial repair jobs could require removing the intake manifold since the components are being packaged more tightly with each generation. This specially applies to most cars with transversally placed V6 engines. Most people for example get a sticker shock when they find out how much it costs to change the spark plugs on the rear bank on such engines.
Finally Samsung has a flagship phone model that I can consider buying. This checks all the boxes for me.
FHD resolution (keep the useless battery/CPU killing QHD away from my phones)
headphone jack
no useless image distorting curved edge.. I'll take the normal edge
I never understand why the spec fetishists always demanded the CPU/GPU/Battery-killing QHD resolution on phone screens (which IMHO, is useless on a phone), and yet tolerated the massive visible distortion along the edges of it.
They talk about drawing more users into Google's internet empire as if cheap Chinese phones are not already loaded with Google's entire standard array of apps and spyware.
In my household we got several Apple iPads, lots of Android USB-c phones, and also a number of devices (like BT earbuds and speakers) that will stick with micro-USB for a long long time. Any place where I need to charge the mobile devices, whether car, kitchen, or bedroom, I need to have at least three cables around. These cables are like black spaghetti or copulating worms, always follow me and stare around with their sad sad eyes. How did we end up here?
The world's largest Android OEM installs its web browser, which is impossible to uninstall or even disable, on every device sold. If anything, this is just a testament to how much Samsung Android devices are out there.
I am shocked that McCormick has to go so low that they announce to use AI. How about you start selling Garam Masala, Tea Masala, or MSG? How about saffron?
Cheap phones still often come with 1GB, and most mid range phones still have 2, while high end phones have 3 or 4.
Your information is seriously out of date. My phone is a 2016 Honor 6X, and it came with 3GB of memory. It never felt like the phone was running out of memory. My Firefox with 15 open tabs usually stayed in memory and did not reload the tabs all the time. Its price was about 200 bucks. I consider that to be pretty cheap (no need to cheapen down to 60 bucks for device you use every day). The 2017-2018 Honor 7X was launched with 3GB of RAM and fixed 200 price, but its 4GB version cost only 250 bucks. Frankly, the memory has become so cheap that the 2019 updates of these phones will probably have more RAM. The popular Moto G series also has very similar prices and specs. The Nokias follow pretty much the same spec.
Remember how the PC market started stalling at about the time of introduction of Windows Vista a decade ago, and then went into a full decline by 2012? People who don't play 3D games started to keep their PCs for 6-7 years because PC with Core 2 Duo was enough for checking mail, social networks, or browsing the web. The smartphones have reached the same plateau.
I recall how horrible were the early iPhones. They reminded me the PCs of the 1990s. Despite all the innovations, there was no denying that say iPhone 3G or iPhone 4S were ridiculously and painfully slow for things like web browsing. Watching video or reading the ebook on 3-inch something display was terrible. But the technology has moved on, and I myself use a 2016 Honor 6X phone which cost me 200 bucks (when it was new). It's has a big bright screen, good camera, the security patch level from Dec 2018, battery to last at least a day and runs all apps that I actually use flawlessly. Sometimes I entertain the idea of getting a 2019 phone, but at the same time I just wonder, don't fix what's not broken.
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The question, why you need so much storage on a tablet? I mean, I understand the time when tablets and phones came with 16GB of storage, and that was a pain, always. But now 32-64GB base storage is now standard even on cheap throwaway Amazon Fire HD10. One hour of Prime Netflix HD stream compresses to something like less than 1GB. So even on a tablet or phone with only 32GB of storage I can download enough shows to last a long transatlantic flight. The 64GB version of iPad will pretty much end this discussion for the vast majority of owners.
It seems like the preferred format for warez and porn distribution through file hosts.
I don't understand why this is such a bad issue. Anyway, what does the Debian family do with all the money they earn from selling the Linux CDs?
When was the last time when a new tablet-centric feature was introduced to Android OS? We don't remember. We know that a lot of third-party apps don't have a tablet-optimized interface, but how come google has done nothing about it? For example, they could have configured the app store so that search results down-rank apps that does not have a tablet enhanced GUI when you do a search from tablet. Instead, Google spent promising us to bring ChromeOS to tablets, and the end-result was underwhelming.
Put your neocon propaganda crackpipe down.
I never questioned that Russia was not corrupt. Russia was corrupt for the whole of its history since the foundation by the viking nobility a thousand years ago, with perhaps the exception of a brief period of Stalin rule when a peasant was sent to GULAG for stealing a potato from state farm. That Russia is corrupt and that Putin's buddies are rich and getting richer was never a secret. After all, Putin was appointed by corruptioner-in-law and very authoritarian Mr Yeltsin (who is strangely remembered by western libel-democrats as some kind of democratic freedom fighter and reformist despite shelling his own parliament in 1993). The difference between Yeltsin and Putin was that Putin allowed only his loyalists to rob the country while Yeltsin also allowed foreigners (e.g. the well documented case of the Harvard economics professors Larry Summers and Andrei Shleifer) But the rest of your statements were complete BS.
I called you out for your deception for making tall tale statements and then linking to a bunch of irrelevant ENGLISH wiki articles as proof but you only reply with a bunch of drivel including links to other bunch of websites, and also with pompous claims about where you live and what languages you know. Yes, we know Russia is very corrupt. We know its rank in the corruption index. This still does not justify stupid statements with a bunch of Wikipedia links that not even superficially prove what you said. I could mention but you would say I got it from google translate.
According to Steam hardware survey 25% of people are still using Windows 7 which is a pretty high number for an OS that old.
I don't know about your references, but I will take your word for it. What's really surprising is that this 25% number, if it's true, coming from Steam!! The PC games company! Why is this interesting? Because this is a statistic pertaining to the consumer PC user community, not corporate/government. It is well known that organizations are very slow to upgrade the OS because they're very conservative (don't fix what's not broken) and their IT departments are overworked anyways. But to see a Steam survey saying that 25% of its users are running Windows 7 is highly significant. Shockingly, so many people still prefer running a 10 year old OS. This is very telling about how badly received Windows 10 is.
Running a "modern" version of Window on an older computer will make the computer run like crap.
I disagree with this. Remember the performance hit of Windows Vista? It was huge. It was the number one reason people hated it. However, all versions of Windows after Vista, seemed to run faster on the same hardware. Windows 7 was basically called "Windows Vista fixed" or "done right", and the success of Windows 7 was huge. Now around 2012, Microsoft came up with Windows 8, and one of the claims why you should upgrade was that Windows 8 does about anything faster, and it did. After all Windows 8 was being marketed as a viable tablet OS. The same claim was made for Windows 10. After all, Windows 10 had to be compatible with a number of Surface tablets with _only_ 2GB of RAM, and it did well.
I recall that circa 2016 when Windows 10 just came out, a distant acquaintance of my family who were also very broke fresh and computer illiterate immigrants begged me to fix a 2009 Dell PC they picked up from a trash bin at some hospital. They said they wanted to setup a PC for their child room. I took upon this project simply out of sheer curiosity about just how useful or useless a PC with Core2 Duo CPU and 2GB of memory (max) can be.
This PC had a license for a version of Windows Vista, and after getting hold of the media and all of the updates, this turned out to be a passable "kiosk" PC, just in case if all you do is use gmail or watch youtube. Then I decided to try Windows 10 on the same machine. Back then there still existed a loophole allowing to upgrade from Vista to Windows 10 for free, and it worked! So anyways, the performance of this PC under 10 was at least as good as with Vista. Moreover, even Windows 10 haters like me have to agree that 10 is a lot better than Vista in terms of software usability today (I really hate the look and feel of Vista). The core of this story is that a decent PC from as far back as 2009 is still good enough to run Windows 10 even with 2GB of RAM (just don't open a gazillion of tabs in Firefox), and that Windows versions past-Vista really did improve performance.
Why did this happen? For one, operating systems have become very mature. You can't compare the security features of Windows 7 vs Windows 95 and ME. 7 already had most things built in, like modern file systems, multiuser support, firewall, robust networking and multitasking, etc. At some point, software manufacturers see that there is no pressing need to add more "bloat" to something that's already mature. Another issue is that we can't take hardware upgrades for granted any more. Industry experts agree that shrinking chip manufacturing process below 7nm is basically already hitting the wall. This means, no more Moore's Law. No more "free" CPU cores. No more "free" doubling of RAM or SSD storage every 2-3 years. The picture of the PC that's manufactured today is likely to be very similar to one made five years from now. So I really don't think any significant software company still thinks that "hardware is free".
We can assume that the US intelligence on the issues pertaining German security (say terrorist network cells in Germany, or German infrastructure being infiltrated by foreign actors) is the one that interests Germans the most, and it's inconceivable that US won't share it because of Huawei. Imagine that after a major terrorist attack in Germany someone in the WH announced, "see, we could have warned you, but you! bought Huawei equipment! never!"
Looks like Putin has truly become the Tsar of The Grand Duchy of Moscow and the people are content with each [wikipedia.org] atrocity [wikipedia.org] he [wikipedia.org] does [wikipedia.org]. A dictator, a tyrant, Godfather [wikipedia.org] of the Russian mafia state. Your linking to wikipedia articles "documenting" "Putin's atrocities" only paints you as someone who knows very little about Russia besides a few western-liberal headlines. Sorry but the victims of Al-queda-linked terrorists are not an example of Putin's atrocities. And yes, many journalists died in Russia, but that's a country with a significant history of violent crime and corruption, and a violent war/insurgency in the Caucasus all dating from pre-Putin years in 1990s. Yes, they haven't done enough to solve many of them. On the bright side, the terrorist attacks mostly stopped under Putin, becoming quite a rarity in the last decade.
Obviously, the goal here to make a link between FSB and the soviet era KGB, just in case if there are people who don't think that FSB is not evil enough. I don't understand why this is necessary considering that FSB has built itself a pretty fearsome reputation in the post-Soviet era. I think that constantly pointing out that FSB is the new KGB is stupid. For one, KGB combined both foreign and domestic intelligence functions of USSR, while FSB is primarily a domestic intelligence agency (the Russian agency for foreign intelligence is SVR and GRU). While some functions between FSB and SVR overlap, it is mostly the people inside of Russia who should fear FSB. Another major difference between soviet KGB and Russian FSB is the extent of corruption inside FSB which is rumored to be involved in all sorts of malicious activity like extortion racket, taxation racket, or protection rackets involving private businesses. There is evidence that someone inside FSB might have been involved in smuggling cocaine. (https://www.rferl.org/a/argentina-russia-cocaine-plot-suspect-extradited-from-germany-jailed-in-moscow/29399251.html) Whine many evil deeds were ascribed to the soviet KGB, the corruption and all sorts of economic side businesses were not among those.
What is wrong with permanent standard time? Trump upholds idiocracy.
People want an extra hour of sunshine in the evening when they are free to be outside, not in the morning when they work in offices, attend school, or still sleep.
Apple is in a very unique position to force rather unpopular decisions upon the consumers because of the cult of mac and iOS. There is a ton of people who consider iOS effectively irreplaceable because of better apps, better security, and better APIs. So, they will eat up rather unpopular decisions like removing the headphone jack or continuing shunning away standard usb ports. Moreover, Apple knows that losing a few percent of iPhone sales because of headphone jack will be more than made up with sales of Apple's own audio accessories. However, when a Chinese phone maker removes the rather popular headphone jack to save 10 cents on its manufacture and "be just like Apple" but with no hope to make up for lost sales with its own audio accessories is just stupid...
Actually you could be surprised how many relatively trivial repair jobs could require removing the intake manifold since the components are being packaged more tightly with each generation. This specially applies to most cars with transversally placed V6 engines. Most people for example get a sticker shock when they find out how much it costs to change the spark plugs on the rear bank on such engines.
I never understand why the spec fetishists always demanded the CPU/GPU/Battery-killing QHD resolution on phone screens (which IMHO, is useless on a phone), and yet tolerated the massive visible distortion along the edges of it.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these mining cryptocurrencies in order to save the world economy! *drool*
Samsung, what's gonna be your excuse now? I was in the market fo exactly this type of tablet, but I guess I'll pass...
They talk about drawing more users into Google's internet empire as if cheap Chinese phones are not already loaded with Google's entire standard array of apps and spyware.
In my household we got several Apple iPads, lots of Android USB-c phones, and also a number of devices (like BT earbuds and speakers) that will stick with micro-USB for a long long time. Any place where I need to charge the mobile devices, whether car, kitchen, or bedroom, I need to have at least three cables around. These cables are like black spaghetti or copulating worms, always follow me and stare around with their sad sad eyes. How did we end up here?
The world's largest Android OEM installs its web browser, which is impossible to uninstall or even disable, on every device sold. If anything, this is just a testament to how much Samsung Android devices are out there.
I am shocked that McCormick has to go so low that they announce to use AI. How about you start selling Garam Masala, Tea Masala, or MSG? How about saffron?
Pfft. I have a OnePlus One (64GB) sitting in a drawer and I can say that it could still be a glorious phone even today if it had a fingerprint reader.
Cheap phones still often come with 1GB, and most mid range phones still have 2, while high end phones have 3 or 4.
Your information is seriously out of date. My phone is a 2016 Honor 6X, and it came with 3GB of memory. It never felt like the phone was running out of memory. My Firefox with 15 open tabs usually stayed in memory and did not reload the tabs all the time. Its price was about 200 bucks. I consider that to be pretty cheap (no need to cheapen down to 60 bucks for device you use every day). The 2017-2018 Honor 7X was launched with 3GB of RAM and fixed 200 price, but its 4GB version cost only 250 bucks. Frankly, the memory has become so cheap that the 2019 updates of these phones will probably have more RAM. The popular Moto G series also has very similar prices and specs. The Nokias follow pretty much the same spec.
Remember how the PC market started stalling at about the time of introduction of Windows Vista a decade ago, and then went into a full decline by 2012? People who don't play 3D games started to keep their PCs for 6-7 years because PC with Core 2 Duo was enough for checking mail, social networks, or browsing the web. The smartphones have reached the same plateau.
I recall how horrible were the early iPhones. They reminded me the PCs of the 1990s. Despite all the innovations, there was no denying that say iPhone 3G or iPhone 4S were ridiculously and painfully slow for things like web browsing. Watching video or reading the ebook on 3-inch something display was terrible. But the technology has moved on, and I myself use a 2016 Honor 6X phone which cost me 200 bucks (when it was new). It's has a big bright screen, good camera, the security patch level from Dec 2018, battery to last at least a day and runs all apps that I actually use flawlessly. Sometimes I entertain the idea of getting a 2019 phone, but at the same time I just wonder, don't fix what's not broken.