The 3GS is only an option if you are a complete idiot, which unfortunately is true to more people than it would be good for our poor World. Or if you give them for free, which should be classified as dumping in any serious country. Worldwide 3GS sells are inferior to many individual android devices.
I've read the article, and these are ridiculous claims. Come on, girl goes and fucks with guy, which she herself admits doing willingly for a week and then suddenly gets worried about DSTs, many years later and decides to sue him for supposedly "torning his condom on purpose". Public attorney decides to make a name and blows this out of proportion.
But it gets better, Another girl (a friend of the first one) then brings him to her home, and turns him down, because he didn't want to use a condom. He accepts but she still invites him to sleep with her. In the morning he advances over her, and she relutanctly agrees to have unprotected sex with him, after he assures her he didn't have HIV.
There is absolutely nothing even remotely related to rape here. Only a feminazy would see it otherwise. It is obviously a honey trap to send him to US as soon as he lands in Sweden. If the government is out for someone it can accuse him of basically anything and running from an abusive government is many times the only alternative a person has, as it is his case here. Especially in his case where the most powerful people in the World want him dead or at the very least arrested and discredited.
Yes, we should. But when the governments do not follow the law and behave as Authoritarian regimens, as it happens more often each day, we end having to defend ourselves in the best way we can, even if it is by breaking the law.
The accusations against Assange are ridiculous and obviously manufactured and blown out of proportion for political reasons. He has no real choice but to run. Anybody else with half a brain would do the same.
I don't know in which world you live, my friend. Apple still dominates the high end tablet market, and will from a long time, but, the market for low-end and mid-end devices (be it cell-phones or tablets) is Android dominated, and as far as mobile phones are concerned Apple manages to tie up in high-end devices with Samsung.
US market is distorted by agreements between Apple and the operators as you pointed before, but that is a localized phenomenon, the World is a lot bigger than that...
That depends. When comparing apps, sure, which is fine enough, considering popular Android Apps are mostly on pair with popular iOS apps even if most of them are designed for Gingerbread.
When directly comparing OS features high-end Android Devices do have the lastest versions, so you need to compare those new versions with iOS equivalent ones. My Galaxy S2 received ICS almost 2 months ago, for example, and it will most likely receive JB in a few months at most.
Mid to low end devices must be compared taking their price tag into consideration, and sorry no option from Apple beats the best Android devices in this region, even if they are running Gingerbread.
There are not viable non-premium options from Apple. Only old trash they are trying to dump on us for an abusive price. Your non-premium "options" have premium prices for their limited value, and therefore aren't really an option unless you want to be ripped off.
I see absolutely no problem with that. In the near future (maybe a year or so) ICS or JB will be the most common version as Gingerbread is now. Then most app developers will be targeting these versions. Google won't ever force all OEM developers to upgrade ASAP, but time and competition naturally forces the versions up, even if more slowly than you would like. Furthermore in a market where devices have a mean life of 2 years, I see no great problem even if no updates were ever available, which is not exactly the case.
You still didn't tell you how exactly the "whole android ecosystem" suffers. It seems to me you want very badly to believe on it, but the truth is, very few apps require the newer versions, and when a significant amount of them do these versions are not new anymore and most cellphones already run them. It would be VERY odd if it were different than that, because app developers want their programs bought and they wouldn't target a small market when they can target a much larger one.
By your ridiculous number of long-winded posts in this thread, mostly off-topic ones, it is clear that you hate android with passion. Unfortunately what you want so passionately to believe is utter nonsense.
Nobody forces you to buy a device from a manufacturer that won't update it. If you buy the top devices from Google or Samsung you will be upgraded to the last version eventually and will at least will stay close enough to it all the time even if the update takes a while. Enough to never worry about not being able to install any app.
If you want to buy cheap models, on the other hand, chances are you don't care a lot about upgrades, but the great majority of available apps work well on Froyo, and the great majority of the devices current on market are on this versions and above. So no real problem here. Saying otherwise is just FUD.
Well, here nothing but the lowliest cost cellphones are completely free on contact. Sure, you get discounts for locked phones, but the discounts are about the same for a Galaxy Ace or an iphone 3GS (if you are able to find one to sell in the phone operators, which you are usually not).
And sorry, except for special cases, as you exemplified in your post, which are not available in most places of this world, you will still be paying a premium for a service you don't even have anymore, because you will be buying a 3 year old cellphone from Apple and paying a superior amount you would pay for much better, newer devices.
Apple 3GS is an old piece of shit that is considerably inferior to any middle ground Android phones in the market, like Galaxy Ace, for example, AND more expensive.
There is no problem at all. If you don't care about OS updates (and many many people don't) you buy a cheaper product from a company that does not give you one. If you think it is important you buy the top models from Google or Samsung and pay the price for it. Unlike Apple products in this case you have the choice of not to paying the premium price for future upgrades if you think you don't need them.
The majority of people can oppress the minority in a democracy and it is still far better than the opposite, thus the motive why we are in democracies. It is far from being a perfect system, but it is still the best we have. IP does not foster business, it foster big business and deluded people that think they are the next big guy. I do agree that IP costs big companies something, what I do not agree is that it is any significant amount at all, and I have absolute no problem in hindering their profits. They profit far too much with far too little effort.
Furthermore I do not believe in the concept of IP at all, as is the case with more and more people each day, especially in less developed countries, which are the most affected by the absurdities of IP. For most of human history just a very small part of artistic works was fostered by a some "rich guy ", that is a ridiculous fallacy. Art and intellectual work does not have to be a highly profitable endeavor. It just have to be sustainable. And apparently it has been without IP for a very long time, and in this long time a case may be made that the quality of intellectual and artistic work was far greater than in today's IP protected world.
Electrical power bill enforcement works because the majority of people WHERE it works can pay it with little effort and feel it is fair. It has nothing to do with strategy, and even if there is localized success for sometime in the effort against smoking, it is increasing in general and even the localized success you are so proud of is more likely than not an ephemeral result.
When the majority of people think something is unfair and repudiates it, the only way to enforce it is with a totalitarian regimen and machine guns pointed at people's heads. Short than this, good luck with your illusions.
Well, but money is useful. There is no better way as of now to exchange goods and services. IP is not. It hiders innovation as much as it helps it (see patent trolling for example), and it makes access to knowledge harder and harder each day, which is diametrically opposed to the motive of its creation.
And seriously, if I am not buying who exactly will benefit if I don't download it as well? Please, enlighten me. I do not care even a little bit about what that dinosaurs think. The sooner they go the better.
Don't take me wrong, I download very little from the big studios or record companies, but when I do I do without any trouble in my conscience, rest assured. I do not recognize theirs or anybody's right over information, period.
Your post simply does not make sense. It is a series of long-winded fallacies without any real content.
Sorry, but Tyranny of the masses is a oxymoron.Tyranny is when someone illegally takes the power. The masses in a democracy should already have the power, legally.
Furthermore look at the link I posted above and read it. It is from Forbes, and it shows you from an economist point of view how ridiculous the claims of lost sales are.
And look at the war on drugs to see how effective is to try to force people to do what they strongly don't want to do. Nothing will work on piracy for the exact same motive, but be my guest to think otherwise. If anything piracy has been steadily increasing despite any effort against it and I dare to bet it will continue like so indefinitely until copyright is a long dead concept.
Copyright didn't exist for the most part of human history, and a lot of the best artistic production of our species happened in its absence. There was a point in it a long time ago, when it was created. At the time it seemed like a good idea to help the press to develop and expand knowledge. Now it is being used for exact the opposite end, and therefore it has outlived its worth. Time to scrap it and go ahead.
When this something is something they got for nothing for the great majority of human history I don't see a problem with that.
IP was created by us. It is an abstract thing. It served a purpose which does not exist anymore, and so it is time for it to go away.
The truth is, there is no data that links downloads with selling losses. Be it for big corporations or indies. Some indies got rich because of p2p, others may have been harmed by it. Corporations are probably harmed by it, but how much? Nobody really knows, and certainly not enough to justify the witch hunting US and its aligned countries have been practicing against end users.
All in all apparently the great majority of people do not think piracy is wrong, and considering we are living in Democratic countries last time I checked, where it is very tricky to keep the population from doing what the majority wants. Copyright had its purpose, but it is not useful anymore for the human race. Its drawbacks far outweight any good it brings at this point. People know this and no matter how much big money or governments try, they will always fail to enforce what most people do not want enforced.
I have nothing against having the warranty void. I think it is even fair, but Apple's policy tends to make software customization harder and harder as time goes on, and hardware customization even harder. A cellphone whose battery is soldered is an absurdity imo, for example.
LOL. I have to concede that your answer was indeed funny and well placed.:)
In a more serious note, yes, there are a lot o simple games in that list, but there is also Psychonauts, Bastion, Quake 1-4, Doom 1-3, Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series, and a considerable amount of commercial games from successful indies and even very big developers.
But if a third party makes parts for custom updates of your Ford, guess what: you can use them! Even if that third party is Honda or Toyota by some weird motive.
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The 3GS is only an option if you are a complete idiot, which unfortunately is true to more people than it would be good for our poor World. Or if you give them for free, which should be classified as dumping in any serious country. Worldwide 3GS sells are inferior to many individual android devices.
I've read the article, and these are ridiculous claims. Come on, girl goes and fucks with guy, which she herself admits doing willingly for a week and then suddenly gets worried about DSTs, many years later and decides to sue him for supposedly "torning his condom on purpose". Public attorney decides to make a name and blows this out of proportion.
But it gets better, Another girl (a friend of the first one) then brings him to her home, and turns him down, because he didn't want to use a condom. He accepts but she still invites him to sleep with her. In the morning he advances over her, and she relutanctly agrees to have unprotected sex with him, after he assures her he didn't have HIV.
There is absolutely nothing even remotely related to rape here. Only a feminazy would see it otherwise. It is obviously a honey trap to send him to US as soon as he lands in Sweden. If the government is out for someone it can accuse him of basically anything and running from an abusive government is many times the only alternative a person has, as it is his case here. Especially in his case where the most powerful people in the World want him dead or at the very least arrested and discredited.
Or, God forbids, he knows how to cook well.
Yes, we should. But when the governments do not follow the law and behave as Authoritarian regimens, as it happens more often each day, we end having to defend ourselves in the best way we can, even if it is by breaking the law. The accusations against Assange are ridiculous and obviously manufactured and blown out of proportion for political reasons. He has no real choice but to run. Anybody else with half a brain would do the same.
I don't know in which world you live, my friend. Apple still dominates the high end tablet market, and will from a long time, but, the market for low-end and mid-end devices (be it cell-phones or tablets) is Android dominated, and as far as mobile phones are concerned Apple manages to tie up in high-end devices with Samsung. US market is distorted by agreements between Apple and the operators as you pointed before, but that is a localized phenomenon, the World is a lot bigger than that...
That depends. When comparing apps, sure, which is fine enough, considering popular Android Apps are mostly on pair with popular iOS apps even if most of them are designed for Gingerbread.
When directly comparing OS features high-end Android Devices do have the lastest versions, so you need to compare those new versions with iOS equivalent ones. My Galaxy S2 received ICS almost 2 months ago, for example, and it will most likely receive JB in a few months at most.
Mid to low end devices must be compared taking their price tag into consideration, and sorry no option from Apple beats the best Android devices in this region, even if they are running Gingerbread.
There are not viable non-premium options from Apple. Only old trash they are trying to dump on us for an abusive price. Your non-premium "options" have premium prices for their limited value, and therefore aren't really an option unless you want to be ripped off.
I see absolutely no problem with that. In the near future (maybe a year or so) ICS or JB will be the most common version as Gingerbread is now. Then most app developers will be targeting these versions. Google won't ever force all OEM developers to upgrade ASAP, but time and competition naturally forces the versions up, even if more slowly than you would like. Furthermore in a market where devices have a mean life of 2 years, I see no great problem even if no updates were ever available, which is not exactly the case.
You still didn't tell you how exactly the "whole android ecosystem" suffers. It seems to me you want very badly to believe on it, but the truth is, very few apps require the newer versions, and when a significant amount of them do these versions are not new anymore and most cellphones already run them. It would be VERY odd if it were different than that, because app developers want their programs bought and they wouldn't target a small market when they can target a much larger one. By your ridiculous number of long-winded posts in this thread, mostly off-topic ones, it is clear that you hate android with passion. Unfortunately what you want so passionately to believe is utter nonsense.
Nobody forces you to buy a device from a manufacturer that won't update it. If you buy the top devices from Google or Samsung you will be upgraded to the last version eventually and will at least will stay close enough to it all the time even if the update takes a while. Enough to never worry about not being able to install any app.
If you want to buy cheap models, on the other hand, chances are you don't care a lot about upgrades, but the great majority of available apps work well on Froyo, and the great majority of the devices current on market are on this versions and above. So no real problem here. Saying otherwise is just FUD.
Well, here nothing but the lowliest cost cellphones are completely free on contact. Sure, you get discounts for locked phones, but the discounts are about the same for a Galaxy Ace or an iphone 3GS (if you are able to find one to sell in the phone operators, which you are usually not). And sorry, except for special cases, as you exemplified in your post, which are not available in most places of this world, you will still be paying a premium for a service you don't even have anymore, because you will be buying a 3 year old cellphone from Apple and paying a superior amount you would pay for much better, newer devices.
Apple 3GS is an old piece of shit that is considerably inferior to any middle ground Android phones in the market, like Galaxy Ace, for example, AND more expensive.
There is no problem at all. If you don't care about OS updates (and many many people don't) you buy a cheaper product from a company that does not give you one. If you think it is important you buy the top models from Google or Samsung and pay the price for it. Unlike Apple products in this case you have the choice of not to paying the premium price for future upgrades if you think you don't need them.
The majority of people can oppress the minority in a democracy and it is still far better than the opposite, thus the motive why we are in democracies. It is far from being a perfect system, but it is still the best we have. IP does not foster business, it foster big business and deluded people that think they are the next big guy. I do agree that IP costs big companies something, what I do not agree is that it is any significant amount at all, and I have absolute no problem in hindering their profits. They profit far too much with far too little effort. Furthermore I do not believe in the concept of IP at all, as is the case with more and more people each day, especially in less developed countries, which are the most affected by the absurdities of IP. For most of human history just a very small part of artistic works was fostered by a some "rich guy ", that is a ridiculous fallacy. Art and intellectual work does not have to be a highly profitable endeavor. It just have to be sustainable. And apparently it has been without IP for a very long time, and in this long time a case may be made that the quality of intellectual and artistic work was far greater than in today's IP protected world. Electrical power bill enforcement works because the majority of people WHERE it works can pay it with little effort and feel it is fair. It has nothing to do with strategy, and even if there is localized success for sometime in the effort against smoking, it is increasing in general and even the localized success you are so proud of is more likely than not an ephemeral result. When the majority of people think something is unfair and repudiates it, the only way to enforce it is with a totalitarian regimen and machine guns pointed at people's heads. Short than this, good luck with your illusions.
Well, but money is useful. There is no better way as of now to exchange goods and services. IP is not. It hiders innovation as much as it helps it (see patent trolling for example), and it makes access to knowledge harder and harder each day, which is diametrically opposed to the motive of its creation.
And seriously, if I am not buying who exactly will benefit if I don't download it as well? Please, enlighten me. I do not care even a little bit about what that dinosaurs think. The sooner they go the better.
Don't take me wrong, I download very little from the big studios or record companies, but when I do I do without any trouble in my conscience, rest assured. I do not recognize theirs or anybody's right over information, period.
Your post simply does not make sense. It is a series of long-winded fallacies without any real content. Sorry, but Tyranny of the masses is a oxymoron.Tyranny is when someone illegally takes the power. The masses in a democracy should already have the power, legally. Furthermore look at the link I posted above and read it. It is from Forbes, and it shows you from an economist point of view how ridiculous the claims of lost sales are. And look at the war on drugs to see how effective is to try to force people to do what they strongly don't want to do. Nothing will work on piracy for the exact same motive, but be my guest to think otherwise. If anything piracy has been steadily increasing despite any effort against it and I dare to bet it will continue like so indefinitely until copyright is a long dead concept. Copyright didn't exist for the most part of human history, and a lot of the best artistic production of our species happened in its absence. There was a point in it a long time ago, when it was created. At the time it seemed like a good idea to help the press to develop and expand knowledge. Now it is being used for exact the opposite end, and therefore it has outlived its worth. Time to scrap it and go ahead.
When this something is something they got for nothing for the great majority of human history I don't see a problem with that. IP was created by us. It is an abstract thing. It served a purpose which does not exist anymore, and so it is time for it to go away.
The truth is, there is no data that links downloads with selling losses. Be it for big corporations or indies. Some indies got rich because of p2p, others may have been harmed by it. Corporations are probably harmed by it, but how much? Nobody really knows, and certainly not enough to justify the witch hunting US and its aligned countries have been practicing against end users.
All in all apparently the great majority of people do not think piracy is wrong, and considering we are living in Democratic countries last time I checked, where it is very tricky to keep the population from doing what the majority wants. Copyright had its purpose, but it is not useful anymore for the human race. Its drawbacks far outweight any good it brings at this point. People know this and no matter how much big money or governments try, they will always fail to enforce what most people do not want enforced.
Do we? Where do you take your data from? The research financed by the big labels? Maybe the same research that generated this:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/05/24/the-riaa-do-not-believe-a-word-they-say-ever-for-theyre-claiming-72-trillion-in-damages/
Please, someone call the doctor..
I have nothing against having the warranty void. I think it is even fair, but Apple's policy tends to make software customization harder and harder as time goes on, and hardware customization even harder. A cellphone whose battery is soldered is an absurdity imo, for example.
LOL. I have to concede that your answer was indeed funny and well placed. :)
In a more serious note, yes, there are a lot o simple games in that list, but there is also Psychonauts, Bastion, Quake 1-4, Doom 1-3, Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series, and a considerable amount of commercial games from successful indies and even very big developers.
http://www.lgdb.org/list_games
But if a third party makes parts for custom updates of your Ford, guess what: you can use them! Even if that third party is Honda or Toyota by some weird motive.
No, they are just trying to sue their way into market monopoly, with mixed results...