Because more than enough corporations will buy the "corporate" version of a chip even if it's slower and more expensive than the toy-like "consumer" version.
There is pressure. If I want to video-call you, I have to buy Apple's hardware because you won't install a cross-platform application. Also, you must be living under a rock if you only know people who has a phone with only 16% market share worldwide, and less market share than Android in probably every country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
but from the adoption numbers it's pretty clear people wanted bigger phones and went to Android to get them only to come back when Apple also offered them.
What numbers? Android still outsell iPhones by about 5:1 worldwide, and the launch of the larger iPhone didn't change much. In fact, Apple has lost market share since their peak of 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I wasn't expecting someone who's username is mac4all to know that, but yes, Android does run on x86 and all java apps should work. Only some apps are written in C and compiled for ARM. So app-support is a non-issue.
While it's a cool feature for you, you are in that 0.001% of the users doing that. I don't think Asus even considered this use case when they designed the tablet.
Except that most people don't have iPhones. So unless you live under a rock, you still need other applications to communicate with them. When you pay $300 more to have an iPhone, and use these services instead of cross-platform alternatives, you are a nuisance to your friends and family by putting pressure on them so that they also spend the extra $300.
With Facetime your contacts also need the application. The only difference is that with Facetime you can only communicate with people using the Apple ecosystem. Anyways there are more popular alternatives such as Skype, and even Google Hangout is a better choice as more people have it on their phone (and cross-platform).
But, then again, I guess this allows everybody to be lazy and just reuse the same architecture they've had for decades and slowly turn the tablets back into low end desktops for no good reason.
Asus could have used ARM just as easily. They chose Intel because they thought it was the best SoC for their needs, not because of the legacy x86 compatibility. Nobody is going to install DOS or Windows on these.
So why pay $300? Well if all the people at the other end of the connection are on iPhones, it gets you iMessage, FaceTime, AirDrop and many other features. I know I find those compelling. $300 compelling.
Wow. It's like you actually LIKE being vendor locked-in. Even if I had an iPhone, I wouldn't use any of these services and would use cross-platforms alternatives instead, when possible.
1. ads 2. tries to lure you into installing additional, non-wanted software (such as bundling McAfee with Flash Player, or Safari with iTunes, or the ask toolbar) 3. Has a nag screen (WinZIP "I agree") 4. its sole purpose is to spy on you (the ask toolbar again fall into that category)
No I don't. I was referring to greenhouse gases, not only CO2. Pollution heavily correlated with wealth and consumption anyways. A typical westerner pollutes a lot more than a typical Chinese, and it's pretty obvious. But I don't expect a denier such as yourself to be able to have an intelligent discussion about it anyways. Good bye.
Still, you are cherry picking when choosing only mercury, a single pollutant out of many. And we do (both the Bad Chinese and Good Westerners) release a lot more CO2 than mercury.
There is much more to greenhouse gases than mercury. Accounting just for mercury is misleading. Overall, the US procduces much more greehouse gases per capita than China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bluray players can play any bluray not approved by the manufacturer. And that's what they are meant to do. A car can also go on any road. You don't have to root an Android to install any software not approved by Google. You just have to check an option.
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The iPhone doesn't have a majority market share in Canada. Android does. You must definitely be living under a rock.
http://mobilesyrup.com/2015/03...
Because more than enough corporations will buy the "corporate" version of a chip even if it's slower and more expensive than the toy-like "consumer" version.
It was clarified in the GPLv3, but it is unclear in the GPLv2 and from my understanding is still being debated.
maybe they downloaded, rated 1-star, and then deleted it.
There is pressure. If I want to video-call you, I have to buy Apple's hardware because you won't install a cross-platform application.
Also, you must be living under a rock if you only know people who has a phone with only 16% market share worldwide, and less market share than Android in probably every country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
but from the adoption numbers it's pretty clear people wanted bigger phones and went to Android to get them only to come back when Apple also offered them.
What numbers?
Android still outsell iPhones by about 5:1 worldwide, and the launch of the larger iPhone didn't change much. In fact, Apple has lost market share since their peak of 2012.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I wasn't expecting someone who's username is mac4all to know that, but yes, Android does run on x86 and all java apps should work. Only some apps are written in C and compiled for ARM.
So app-support is a non-issue.
While it's a cool feature for you, you are in that 0.001% of the users doing that. I don't think Asus even considered this use case when they designed the tablet.
Except that most people don't have iPhones. So unless you live under a rock, you still need other applications to communicate with them.
When you pay $300 more to have an iPhone, and use these services instead of cross-platform alternatives, you are a nuisance to your friends and family by putting pressure on them so that they also spend the extra $300.
maybe, but again it has nothing to do with the instruction set.
With Facetime your contacts also need the application. The only difference is that with Facetime you can only communicate with people using the Apple ecosystem. Anyways there are more popular alternatives such as Skype, and even Google Hangout is a better choice as more people have it on their phone (and cross-platform).
Probably. But even without replacing it, you can install most command line linux programs anyways. Either directly on inside a chroot
It might be a variant of the tablet, or may be a different tablet. In all cases, they could have used ARM Android on this one if they wanted to.
But, then again, I guess this allows everybody to be lazy and just reuse the same architecture they've had for decades and slowly turn the tablets back into low end desktops for no good reason.
Asus could have used ARM just as easily. They chose Intel because they thought it was the best SoC for their needs, not because of the legacy x86 compatibility. Nobody is going to install DOS or Windows on these.
The problem is the price. I agree that 16GB is low for a $650 phone.
So why pay $300? Well if all the people at the other end of the connection are on iPhones, it gets you iMessage, FaceTime, AirDrop and many other features. I know I find those compelling. $300 compelling.
Wow. It's like you actually LIKE being vendor locked-in.
Even if I had an iPhone, I wouldn't use any of these services and would use cross-platforms alternatives instead, when possible.
1. ads
2. tries to lure you into installing additional, non-wanted software (such as bundling McAfee with Flash Player, or Safari with iTunes, or the ask toolbar)
3. Has a nag screen (WinZIP "I agree")
4. its sole purpose is to spy on you (the ask toolbar again fall into that category)
No I don't. I was referring to greenhouse gases, not only CO2.
Pollution heavily correlated with wealth and consumption anyways. A typical westerner pollutes a lot more than a typical Chinese, and it's pretty obvious.
But I don't expect a denier such as yourself to be able to have an intelligent discussion about it anyways. Good bye.
Still, you are cherry picking when choosing only mercury, a single pollutant out of many.
And we do (both the Bad Chinese and Good Westerners) release a lot more CO2 than mercury.
There is much more to greenhouse gases than mercury. Accounting just for mercury is misleading. Overall, the US procduces much more greehouse gases per capita than China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You are just measuring mercury. Therefore it's irrelevant. I won't even bother checking your link.
Bluray players can play any bluray not approved by the manufacturer. And that's what they are meant to do. A car can also go on any road.
You don't have to root an Android to install any software not approved by Google. You just have to check an option.
OK sorry I assumed you were the same poster.
Still, your citations do not back the claim of the poster.
check if you see NFC in the specs.
Per capita is about the dumbest measure for this stuff. It is pollution, it is pollution the US doesn't have at all, what don't you get there?
This is not about what I get or not. You claimed that China was polluting more per capita than the US. You can't back this claim.