Oh yes, the "hate the game not the player" argument.
No, I didn't say that at all, mine is a "cause and effect" argument. The cause is a corrupt legal framework, the effect is that corporations game that framework to their best advantage.
Do you expect benevolent behaviour of the "players" in the world of sport? Of course not, and even less so in big business where the stakes are even higher.
So hatred aside, its the game and it's lazy, corrupt rules that is to blame, the corporations are just following the rules to breaking point with an army of lawyers that know the game inside out.
Android is the sum total of all the handsets out there, shitty and great alike. It's all the different versions on those phones. And it's all the skinned versions of those versions.
That's the android platform, not the latest and greatest flagship model and customers intuitively realise that only too well.
So rather than admonish the customers for making incorrect shopping decisions, wouldn't it be less arrogant if you instead put your voice behind google tightening up their ship a little more?
Worst part, there will be an endless stream of authors clambering to be first in line to give up their copyrights in exchange for a chance at being published.
All that's happened is that apple have introduced a new proprietary file format into the world - and for that format only, they are the sole distributors.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't know of any copyright that has been given up.
The use of patents to block competition sure is evil.
But it makes me sick to my gut when I see these mega corps cross licensing their patents with each other in one big price-fixing, high-barrier-to-entry love-in.
Out of the two I prefer the first evil where at least the mega corps are locked in a fight to the death, rather than the second, which is after all the same as the first except with a much larger group of companies colluding together.
So yes Kodak is as much as a patent troll as anybody else and to argue that they wield their patents with noble righteousness is to validate the whole cosy cartel-fest.
If I find you 12 comments modded as I told, will it be reference enough for you?
I would love to see somebody gather some stats, but not in the way you have suggested. Better would be to take the last 10 stories and categorise those posts modded +5. I would be prepared to be proved wrong.
However I see I've been modded into offtopic oblivion, so this is falling onto deaf ears.
The fact is there are google bashers getting +5, MS bashers getting +5, apple bashers getting +5, fandroids getting +5, iFanbois getting +5, M$ $hills getting +5, but you chose one to meet your expectations.
emphasis mine.
So this is a second example, the parent is already getting modded up merely for asserting 6 facts without citing any references. The 7th implicit fact is that all these types of posts are somehow evenly spread, evidence of a healthy, vibrant debating community here on slashdot.
When it comes to "apple vs google" I beg to differ.
How much Google paid for the judge for his "honest" ruling?
Did you really register as a Slashdot user just to post that?
Hold on there, I too recently registered as a user specifically to post a "pro Apple" comment but that doesn't mean I'm a shill. In my case I'm getting fed up of all the unearned mod points that the apple bashers are getting, including the parent post that is nothing more than a backslapper, with circumstantial evidence at best.
"If Sun doesn't want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language - or - 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way"
Not saying this is a smoking gun but your timeline deserves a correction:
Putting together a timeline:
1) First "damning" email in 2005 2) Android released in 2008
3) Oracle purchased Sun in 2009
4) "Damning" email in 2010
You in fact debunked the strawman assertion that the tablet will wipe out the PC, whereas if you had read TFA, what Michael Dell actually said was:
The PC is not likely to be challenged by the tablet or the smartphone, and many users of the Internet on these devices will turn to the PC for a better experience, Michael Dell said in Bangalore on Monday.
From my experience this is false: I know of many who are holding off upgrading to the latest and greatest PC and in some cases where households used to have multiple PCs for family members, are reducing down to a single model. Admittedly this is based on my own very small sample, but if it holds true on the wider stage then that would certainly represent a challenge.
If this is indeed a genuine trend then PC designs in the not too distant future would become less viable due to losing the economies of scale advantage, relegating them to a more expensive niche market.
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Oh yes, the "hate the game not the player" argument.
No, I didn't say that at all, mine is a "cause and effect" argument. The cause is a corrupt legal framework, the effect is that corporations game that framework to their best advantage.
Do you expect benevolent behaviour of the "players" in the world of sport? Of course not, and even less so in big business where the stakes are even higher.
So hatred aside, its the game and it's lazy, corrupt rules that is to blame, the corporations are just following the rules to breaking point with an army of lawyers that know the game inside out.
That's the android platform, not the latest and greatest flagship model and customers intuitively realise that only too well.
So rather than admonish the customers for making incorrect shopping decisions, wouldn't it be less arrogant if you instead put your voice behind google tightening up their ship a little more?
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/01/enthusiasm-for-ibooks-author-marred-by-licensing-format-issues.ars
So creating an open editor for this would require a lot of reverse engineering.
Tricky, scheister-y Apple.
Worst part, there will be an endless stream of authors clambering to be first in line to give up their copyrights in exchange for a chance at being published.
All that's happened is that apple have introduced a new proprietary file format into the world - and for that format only, they are the sole distributors.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't know of any copyright that has been given up.
The legal system is at fault, not the big players, who will always game it to their maximum advantage as they try to best each other.
That is the most insightful post yet on this story, I hope you get modded up further.
But it makes me sick to my gut when I see these mega corps cross licensing their patents with each other in one big price-fixing, high-barrier-to-entry love-in.
Out of the two I prefer the first evil where at least the mega corps are locked in a fight to the death, rather than the second, which is after all the same as the first except with a much larger group of companies colluding together.
So yes Kodak is as much as a patent troll as anybody else and to argue that they wield their patents with noble righteousness is to validate the whole cosy cartel-fest.
Wasn't android "eaten" by google and it is wildly successful? I agree though that NeXT was going nowhere before it's purchase by Apple.
If I find you 12 comments modded as I told, will it be reference enough for you?
I would love to see somebody gather some stats, but not in the way you have suggested. Better would be to take the last 10 stories and categorise those posts modded +5. I would be prepared to be proved wrong.
However I see I've been modded into offtopic oblivion, so this is falling onto deaf ears.
The fact is there are google bashers getting +5, MS bashers getting +5, apple bashers getting +5, fandroids getting +5, iFanbois getting +5, M$ $hills getting +5, but you chose one to meet your expectations.
emphasis mine.
So this is a second example, the parent is already getting modded up merely for asserting 6 facts without citing any references. The 7th implicit fact is that all these types of posts are somehow evenly spread, evidence of a healthy, vibrant debating community here on slashdot.
When it comes to "apple vs google" I beg to differ.
Did you really register as a Slashdot user just to post that?
Hold on there, I too recently registered as a user specifically to post a "pro Apple" comment but that doesn't mean I'm a shill. In my case I'm getting fed up of all the unearned mod points that the apple bashers are getting, including the parent post that is nothing more than a backslapper, with circumstantial evidence at best.
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias round here is getting way out of hand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szRTDfSDhME&feature=youtube_gdata_player
it was a perhaps too obscure cultural reference from spinal tap, thought it might amuse some ;)
May I humbly submit my review of Ice Cream Sandwich? It's merely a two word review that reads: "shit sandwich". :-)
There is no fragmentation problem with Android
Fragmentation and differentiation are just flip sides of the same coin so either Android has neither or it has both.
[Android] less homogeneous
Why that's just fragmentation or differentiation in fancy clothes! Your cognitive dissonance is killing me ;)
"If Sun doesn't want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language - or - 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way"
Not saying this is a smoking gun but your timeline deserves a correction:
Putting together a timeline:
1) First "damning" email in 2005
2) Android released in 2008
3) Oracle purchased Sun in 2009
4) "Damning" email in 2010
It's insane to say that the PC is dying because people aren't buying new ones.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall if you said that in the next Dell board meeting.
The PC is not likely to be challenged by the tablet or the smartphone, and many users of the Internet on these devices will turn to the PC for a better experience, Michael Dell said in Bangalore on Monday.
From my experience this is false: I know of many who are holding off upgrading to the latest and greatest PC and in some cases where households used to have multiple PCs for family members, are reducing down to a single model. Admittedly this is based on my own very small sample, but if it holds true on the wider stage then that would certainly represent a challenge.
If this is indeed a genuine trend then PC designs in the not too distant future would become less viable due to losing the economies of scale advantage, relegating them to a more expensive niche market.
"People are choosing Android, as much as the Iphone fans like to pretend otherwise.
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Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument."
Calling someone an "IPhone fan" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.