London and Paris are not coastal cities. The great circle from JFK to CDG or LHR is close to land except between Newfoundland and Ireland. At this point they might as well do 10 minutes over the Atlantic before going to Tokyo. Or do the sonic boom over lake Ontario.
Apple followed by releasing 4.7" and 5.5" phones. Not the other way around. They stuck with 3.5" phones for too long and it hurt their sales. I still agree there is a market for 4" (mini) phones, but it's not very large. Most people getting smaller iPhones will do so because they are cheaper, and despite (not because) of the smaller screen.
They are throttling. It doesn't matter who sells the content. They say the program is open to any content service, but we all know it is impossible to implement and the small players are currently not selected and most of them probably never will.
Just give me data and let me decide how I use it. If I use 5GB/month streaming on my 75" TV, why should I get throttled while someone use 5GB/month downloading apps from the play store doesn't?
The fact is HD video targeting a 5-inch OLED cell phone screen only needs 1.5Mbit/s at 1080p h.264; h.265 can apparently get as small as half the bitrate for the same quality.
The bitrate needed is independant of the screen size. Also some people may connect their phone to a 75" TV. So in short, lame excuse for a net neutrality violation.
When you are "locked" into Google you have choices between dozens of manufacturers. They all use standard chargers. The messaging application (Hangouts) is cross-platform. You don't need any proprietary software to manage your music library (MP3 copy and paste works fine). The level of vendor lock-in-ess if much, much lower than with anything Apple makes or even touches. You can even choose no to use the Play Store and use Amazon instead. Or you can install your own APK manually and not use any of those if you wish to. The OS is largely open source, and alternatives (cyanogen mod) exist. You can develop your own applications, on a PC made by any vendor, running either Windows, Linux or OSX (not sure about BSD), and you can share them with your friends and even sell them if you want to, all this without being forced to ask Google for the permission.
And don't use iTunes, don't get any proprietary accessories / chargers, don't use AirPlay, don't use iMessage... in the end you might as well not get an iPhone to begin with if you care about vendor lock-in.
Exactly, Android has the same. Disabling the GPS is a privacy feature, not a power saving feature. Unless you want to browse maps for hours (then of course disabling GPS might actually save some power).
This was by far the most common myth about smartphone battery life I heard. The next one is to turn off GPS after use to save battery (as if it changed anything when not using an application using the GPS)
... and for most people that's the Apple ecosystem.
According to ComScore, Android still has the lead in market share at 52%, compared to iOS at 44%.
The world-wide annual numbers are more like 80% Android and 15% Apple for the past 3 years (source: Gartner, IDC). Even in the USA 44% seems very generous for Apple, unless maybe if you cherry pick a quarter with a new iPhone launch.
There is no DNS caching in browsers or OS that could interfere? Also ad-blocking sometimes break content. A quick workaround is to white list a specific web site.
because it has many flaws, here are just a few I can think of:
-can't list blocked elements -can't disable ad-blocking for a single web site -can't disable ad-blocking temporarily without restarting browser (or even PC) -need admin rights -doesn't allow complex patterns (regex), which makes the database huge -can't block ads located on the same server (host name) as the main site
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London and Paris are not coastal cities. The great circle from JFK to CDG or LHR is close to land except between Newfoundland and Ireland.
At this point they might as well do 10 minutes over the Atlantic before going to Tokyo. Or do the sonic boom over lake Ontario.
Wouldn't it make more sense on a longer flight, say between North America and East Asia?
From a financial point of view
How about from a user/consumer point of view?
Changed connectors, and thus obsoleted all of the devices in the house & cars that used the iPhone 4/old iPad interface.
You have only yourself to blame for investing so much in a proprietary connector. At least you learned, some people never will.
Apple followed by releasing 4.7" and 5.5" phones. Not the other way around. They stuck with 3.5" phones for too long and it hurt their sales.
I still agree there is a market for 4" (mini) phones, but it's not very large. Most people getting smaller iPhones will do so because they are cheaper, and despite (not because) of the smaller screen.
You still pay for it even if you don't use it. You still suffer the network congestion because others use it. You loose even if you turn it off.
it could be even better without Binge On.
they'd save pennies by not providing email. Providing unlimited video streaming is expensive.
Except that without Binge On T-Mobile would be able to offer more data for the same price. So I am loosing a lot with this feature.
Except that this feature put unfair congestion on the network. It's not as if others using it had no consequence on me.
They are throttling. It doesn't matter who sells the content. They say the program is open to any content service, but we all know it is impossible to implement and the small players are currently not selected and most of them probably never will.
Just give me data and let me decide how I use it. If I use 5GB/month streaming on my 75" TV, why should I get throttled while someone use 5GB/month downloading apps from the play store doesn't?
The fact is HD video targeting a 5-inch OLED cell phone screen only needs 1.5Mbit/s at 1080p h.264; h.265 can apparently get as small as half the bitrate for the same quality.
The bitrate needed is independant of the screen size. Also some people may connect their phone to a 75" TV.
So in short, lame excuse for a net neutrality violation.
It does Solitaire very well.
Cisco calls it containment. Centrally managed access points will send deauth or deassociation frames to clients connected to "rogue" APs.
We use it at my job
What is your job, so that I can complain to the FCC?
Apple is by far the worse.
http://apple.slashdot.org/comm...
When you are "locked" into Google you have choices between dozens of manufacturers. They all use standard chargers. The messaging application (Hangouts) is cross-platform. You don't need any proprietary software to manage your music library (MP3 copy and paste works fine).
The level of vendor lock-in-ess if much, much lower than with anything Apple makes or even touches.
You can even choose no to use the Play Store and use Amazon instead. Or you can install your own APK manually and not use any of those if you wish to. The OS is largely open source, and alternatives (cyanogen mod) exist. You can develop your own applications, on a PC made by any vendor, running either Windows, Linux or OSX (not sure about BSD), and you can share them with your friends and even sell them if you want to, all this without being forced to ask Google for the permission.
And don't use iTunes, don't get any proprietary accessories / chargers, don't use AirPlay, don't use iMessage... in the end you might as well not get an iPhone to begin with if you care about vendor lock-in.
I got a 6S 6 months ago because my battery life on my 4 was getting short enough that it was starting to bug me.
So you are a victim of Apple's non-replaceable battery scheme?
So instead of polling for WiFi networks it polls for location, Brilliant. Especially since WiFi helps location a lot.
Exactly, Android has the same. Disabling the GPS is a privacy feature, not a power saving feature. Unless you want to browse maps for hours (then of course disabling GPS might actually save some power).
This was by far the most common myth about smartphone battery life I heard. The next one is to turn off GPS after use to save battery (as if it changed anything when not using an application using the GPS)
... and for most people that's the Apple ecosystem.
According to ComScore, Android still has the lead in market share at 52%, compared to iOS at 44%.
The world-wide annual numbers are more like 80% Android and 15% Apple for the past 3 years (source: Gartner, IDC). Even in the USA 44% seems very generous for Apple, unless maybe if you cherry pick a quarter with a new iPhone launch.
There is no DNS caching in browsers or OS that could interfere?
Also ad-blocking sometimes break content. A quick workaround is to white list a specific web site.
because it has many flaws, here are just a few I can think of:
-can't list blocked elements
-can't disable ad-blocking for a single web site
-can't disable ad-blocking temporarily without restarting browser (or even PC)
-need admin rights
-doesn't allow complex patterns (regex), which makes the database huge
-can't block ads located on the same server (host name) as the main site