Because MTP was the simplest protocol they could think of that allowed both devices (phone and PC) to access files at the same time. I agree it sucks. It would have been better to use samba and the network stack, however it would have required configuring IP addresses, permissions and such.
The camera seems to be the most promising improvement. I'm also glad they didn't improve the display resolution. Otherwise the 5X will perform better, just not "2 years" better than the old Nexus 5. Smartphone performance seems to have reached a "good enough" plateau.
On the contrary. Once Uber will have win its war against the taxi industry, barriers to entry will be huge. Since everyone will have Uber installed on its phone, an independent taxi driver will have 0 chances of getting called. Everybody could clone the Uber app tomorrow. The problem is getting both the drivers and the clients to use it, not only in one market, but internationally. The tourist traveling to Paris won't use a Uber competitor he has never heard of even if it's popular locally if he has the Uber application installed. And it's not just about downloading the application. You have to create an account (which is another barrier to entry) and trust them with your credit card number. Not worth it even if you save $2 once on one ride in a foreign country.
It's like saying that there are no barriers to entry in the operating system market and everyone can create a competitor to Windows. The barrier is not the technical difficulty in writing the software, it's to get the people to use it, and depend on it.
Is a Uber monopoly. After they kill the taxi industry, they would then raise prices back as high or even higher then before. So any competition is good.
What are you trolling about? Did I say Apple cheated? That the benchmark results of TFA were false? Or that the A9 was slow? I understand that with a name such as Mac4all, you feel personally attacked when someone attacks Apple, but that wasn't the case here.
And yes, I've seen the Anandtech review about Flash performance and it is interesting. Still nothing about the impact of RAM size, however. This was leading many people to think that 1GB RAM was enough, since more RAM didn't help getting a higher score in their Javascript or 3D game benchmark.
You are forgetting that the phone with a higher-res display could easily render the game in a lower resolution. Especially now with QHD phones, as they have 4x the pixels of 1280x720, a resolution which games must support.
1. Javascript has real-world uses, of course. But even a 5-year old phone is fast enough to do the javascript rendering of most web sites very quickly. If you are waiting several seconds, then the web site is badly designed. Therefore benchmarking Javascript is over-rated. I couldn't care less if my web site is rendered in 20 or 40 ms, I won't notice the difference. I switched to a browser which has a much slower Javascript engine. Why? Because there are many other features I rank higher in my list of priorities, such as Ad-blocking, privacy, and synchronization with my desktop browser. I agree that comparing CPU performance is interesting. Please just don't use Javascript. What's wrong with programs calculating Pi decimals or large Primes?
2. I agree that 4k isn't needed on mobile phones. Also, those QHD phones could render 3D games and movies in 1280x720 and nobody would notice. Higher-res is only discernible with text on these small screens. However, if you want to test the performance of a chip, you need to compare off-screen result at a fixed resolution (say 1920x1080). Comparing the on-screen performance at different resolutions with different chips isn't interesting at all.
Honestly many of these benchmarks probably don't come close to using the 8 cores on Samsung phones. But 8 cores on a phone is probably stupid to begin with.
1. Javascript benchmarks. They should be outlawed, period. They test the software (browser) more than the CPU. Also they are probably single threaded or close to be.
2. On-screen 3D game benchmarks. Because they favor phones with low-res display such as iPhones.
None of the benchmarks in TFA even consider RAM size and flash memory speed, which both have real-world benefits.
Democracy is not a boolean. It's a full spectrum. The USA is a flawed democracy. It's still better than a dictatorship, but many countries are more democratic. All of them also tend to have greatly different policies, starting with free health care.
The problem is that the Roman Empire was no more or no less evil than any other empire/country/kingdom/whatever of its time. The same can't be said of Nazi Germany.
The problem in the USA is that corporation can fund political parties without any limit. Therefore corporations choose which party can or can't run. There are only two parties and both of them support the DMCA. To have a chance to repeal the DMCA, USA needs to reform political parties financing rules.
On the contrary, Android and iOS were well-behind BB for years in terms of features, with few exceptions.
Yeah right... I should have specified features people care about. Not "features" such as requiring a Blackberry phone in order to be able to receive emails on a blackberry tablet. I've never head anyone in the past 6 years tell me "I wish that Android/iOS had feature X just like Blackberry".
Which is odd, as developing for BB has always been easier than developing for Android.
Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. You surely are no authority in the mater. But the fact remains, there are almost no developers on Blackberry and this is what matters.
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aren't they used to pay more anyways?
Of course it still worked fine. But is it future-proof? Maybe not. I replaced my 1GB RAM phone because of lack of RAM.
Because MTP was the simplest protocol they could think of that allowed both devices (phone and PC) to access files at the same time.
I agree it sucks. It would have been better to use samba and the network stack, however it would have required configuring IP addresses, permissions and such.
but it has wireless and more space than a nomad!
2GB was great... 3 years ago. Time to move on. Everything uses more RAM, applications, web pages, etc.
They didn't make a 64GB phone because nobody would have bought it outside of this slashdot conversation.
The camera seems to be the most promising improvement. I'm also glad they didn't improve the display resolution.
Otherwise the 5X will perform better, just not "2 years" better than the old Nexus 5. Smartphone performance seems to have reached a "good enough" plateau.
But those who do use taxi services a lot.
Yeah right... try to run a campaign without money. It costs millions of dollars otherwise you don't look credible.
On the contrary. Once Uber will have win its war against the taxi industry, barriers to entry will be huge. Since everyone will have Uber installed on its phone, an independent taxi driver will have 0 chances of getting called. Everybody could clone the Uber app tomorrow. The problem is getting both the drivers and the clients to use it, not only in one market, but internationally. The tourist traveling to Paris won't use a Uber competitor he has never heard of even if it's popular locally if he has the Uber application installed. And it's not just about downloading the application. You have to create an account (which is another barrier to entry) and trust them with your credit card number. Not worth it even if you save $2 once on one ride in a foreign country.
It's like saying that there are no barriers to entry in the operating system market and everyone can create a competitor to Windows. The barrier is not the technical difficulty in writing the software, it's to get the people to use it, and depend on it.
Is a Uber monopoly.
After they kill the taxi industry, they would then raise prices back as high or even higher then before.
So any competition is good.
What are you trolling about? Did I say Apple cheated? That the benchmark results of TFA were false? Or that the A9 was slow? I understand that with a name such as Mac4all, you feel personally attacked when someone attacks Apple, but that wasn't the case here.
And yes, I've seen the Anandtech review about Flash performance and it is interesting. Still nothing about the impact of RAM size, however. This was leading many people to think that 1GB RAM was enough, since more RAM didn't help getting a higher score in their Javascript or 3D game benchmark.
You are forgetting that the phone with a higher-res display could easily render the game in a lower resolution. Especially now with QHD phones, as they have 4x the pixels of 1280x720, a resolution which games must support.
1. Javascript has real-world uses, of course. But even a 5-year old phone is fast enough to do the javascript rendering of most web sites very quickly. If you are waiting several seconds, then the web site is badly designed. Therefore benchmarking Javascript is over-rated. I couldn't care less if my web site is rendered in 20 or 40 ms, I won't notice the difference. I switched to a browser which has a much slower Javascript engine. Why? Because there are many other features I rank higher in my list of priorities, such as Ad-blocking, privacy, and synchronization with my desktop browser.
I agree that comparing CPU performance is interesting. Please just don't use Javascript. What's wrong with programs calculating Pi decimals or large Primes?
2. I agree that 4k isn't needed on mobile phones. Also, those QHD phones could render 3D games and movies in 1280x720 and nobody would notice. Higher-res is only discernible with text on these small screens.
However, if you want to test the performance of a chip, you need to compare off-screen result at a fixed resolution (say 1920x1080). Comparing the on-screen performance at different resolutions with different chips isn't interesting at all.
Honestly many of these benchmarks probably don't come close to using the 8 cores on Samsung phones.
But 8 cores on a phone is probably stupid to begin with.
1. Javascript benchmarks. They should be outlawed, period. They test the software (browser) more than the CPU. Also they are probably single threaded or close to be.
2. On-screen 3D game benchmarks. Because they favor phones with low-res display such as iPhones.
None of the benchmarks in TFA even consider RAM size and flash memory speed, which both have real-world benefits.
Democracy is not a boolean. It's a full spectrum. The USA is a flawed democracy. It's still better than a dictatorship, but many countries are more democratic. All of them also tend to have greatly different policies, starting with free health care.
The problem is that the Roman Empire was no more or no less evil than any other empire/country/kingdom/whatever of its time. The same can't be said of Nazi Germany.
The problem in the USA is that corporation can fund political parties without any limit. Therefore corporations choose which party can or can't run.
There are only two parties and both of them support the DMCA. To have a chance to repeal the DMCA, USA needs to reform political parties financing rules.
They didn't hack Firefox OS, Meego, Tizen and Bada either I guess. Nobody care about OS nobody uses.
I don't think the lifespan of cars doubled since 2008.
On the contrary, Android and iOS were well-behind BB for years in terms of features, with few exceptions.
Yeah right... I should have specified features people care about. Not "features" such as requiring a Blackberry phone in order to be able to receive emails on a blackberry tablet.
I've never head anyone in the past 6 years tell me "I wish that Android/iOS had feature X just like Blackberry".
Which is odd, as developing for BB has always been easier than developing for Android.
Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. You surely are no authority in the mater. But the fact remains, there are almost no developers on Blackberry and this is what matters.
The BB10 OS is very well designed, fast and secure.
How do you know how secure it is?
Why would a phone requires, or even perform better, with a RTOS? The phone radio already runs some RTOS. The main CPU can run Linux or iOS just fine.
On every quarter, they have less sales than the quarter before. Their market share is decreasing even faster.