I'll defend my sarcasm in light of what AC wrote initially. From the article I linked to, apple seems to have punished him for making it clear that there were holes in their app store security. Not actually exploiting them.
So you don't attack Google because of what Charlie Miller himself says, but you attack (and still think rightfully) Apple for what you think read on some blog - which clearly says he put an app on the store exploiting the hole.
Because no one but Apple gives one tenth of one fuck about docks.
Ohh, so your point wasn't actually about hooking up peripherals, but about docks. Silly me, I thought we were talking about technology not about "the shiny" - I should have known that's all you Fandroids care about.
Will the lightning->micro usb adapter be free of charge (naive,and against the spirit of the EU directive), or how will this device comply with EN 301489-34 directive?
First of all: "EN 301489-34 directive"? Do you have the slightest idea what you are talking about? The ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) standard EN 301 489-34 handles the "Electromagnetic compatibility and Radio spectrum Matters (ERM); ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) standard for radio equipment and services; Part 34: Specific conditions for External Power Supply (EPS) for mobile phones"
And you can claim that the use of an adapter is against the spirit of the EU directive all you want, because the directive actually specifically allows their use.
The gist of that article is "Lightning is better because it has 8 pins! 8 is more than 5!"
And 11 is louder than 10...
It's nonsense. You can put audio and video over micro-USB (see: MHL), and the standard specifically allows for sending more power over the cable when a device is using its own charger, so the argument "You couldn't charge the iPad!" is BS. The Nexus 7, Kindle, Galaxy Tab, Transformer, etc. all charge fine over micro-USB based chargers.
Yeah, they just charge slower. And that's when using USB-charging, not USB-data like the iPad can. Not to mention they actually have a smaller battery.
Anyway, if Apple used micro-USB today, they'd have to switch soon to yet another plug. Ever heard of USB3? New micro-plug. Which is of course again much bigger than micro-USB.
Because not everyone will use it. Everyone however does use mini-usb on something, and mini-usb phones sell far more total units. Apple should at least support that without an adaptor.
Why? Is this a chicken and Apple-doesn't-support-it problem? Where if Apple doesn't support it, nobody actually does? Like NFC?
Apple dropped analog video output so all they actually need is to put all the ports next to one another on the bottom of the phone; stereo mini or micro plug, uHDMI, and uUSB. "Docks" can implement as many connectors as necessary for their functionality.
Well, so why doesn't anybody do it that way?
Oh, and in case you haven't noticed: Lightning is not a dock connector, the dock is dead.
And we go again: why does nobody use USB to hook up peripherals to their phone? Not justApple, nobody. No, using a non-standard USB connector doesn't count, and if it did, that would make it almost nobody for a handful of peripherals.
Sorry I had you confused - but reading your further you are just as dumb as the guy I had you confused with. You are actually arguing that Apple is evil for giving updates to the 3GS because that proves it wasn't a good phone when it came out?
You are implying that planned obsolescence on Android is a good thing.and that Android phones, no matter how crappy, are worth their money as long as they don't get updates - which is almost certain. That's the most stretched rationalizing I've come across in a long time.
I'm not sure if I should admit this publicly, so I'm posting anonymously.
The ubiquitous "floppy disk" graphic for Open and "folder" graphic for Save is something I only grokked consciously early this year.
I've been using computers in one form or another since the early 1980s, and I got used to seeing a seemingly random spray of icons in toolbars that I filtered them out for decades, and instead learned keyboard shortcuts for load/save. What's wrong with the text "OPEN" and "SAVE"?.
Errm, so you have never actually seen a Macintosh even from afar, have you.
challenge accepted: a downward pointing arrow which is already a common enough metaphor for "download" and to todays users there's not a lot of difference between downloading something and saving it.
Sure and saving to "the cloud" should be denoted by...?
Let me guess, Cyanogen is concerned about performance so instead of putting out a subpar rom they don't do it at all, am I in the ballpark? But yeah, I hear you loud and clear, your premium payment provides you with laggy updates that will frustrate you into upgrading. Magic indeed.
Figures you would try to draw the non-availability of an one year old OS on old Androids phones as a plus - right after you attacked Apple for not bringing all features of a brand new OS to an iPhone of the same age. Fucking Magic Flav-R-Aid.
Maybe, in order to make news relevant to readers, they chose to compare to something most readers are familiar with? That's pretty much the point of analogies and comparisons.
Or maybe it's what we call "Marketing".
Yeah, I'm sure Apple paid for that research. Which wasn't about comparing an iPad to a Cray BTW.
I hate how everything must be compared against Apple iProducts. I don't recall every comparisons of yesteryear being brand specific.
Well, then you have a memory like a sieve. Comparisons were always to something well known to the audience addressed - and judging by sales, even most Fandroids assume "Asus Transformer Prime" is an Autobot.
No, he's talking about the common optimization technique of moving code around, hoping it will cause the compiler to create more efficient code. For example, you might try moving a function call outside of a loop, or try using instead of *2. Then you measure which one goes faster, and use that one. You aren't optimizing directly, you're helping the compiler produce better code.
If simple things like that help, you aren't helping the compiler produce better code, you are using an outdated compiler.
One thing you're missing is the condition of the data. Unfortunately, it's not very good, especially temperature data. There are gaps, there are insturmentation issues, there are siting issues, and, the 800lb gorilla in the room, there's just the simple fact that climate changes happen in geologic time frames, and we literally don't have any direct measurements of that scale.
Alas, the skeptics love to quote satellite temperature data - you can't get more indirect than that.
But I hear that the 3GS is totally supported due the high profit margins or something, and investing in an iPhone means that you don't have to upgrade to get updates unlike those pesky Nexus devices. So how come your friend is upgrading away from a supported iDevice that is getting updates? Does time somehow let the magic out or what?
Because the 3GS is 3 years old. It came out the same time as the HTC Hero - even Cyanogen only gives you 2.3 for that high end phone.
And AT&T alone activated over 1 million iPhone 4S in less than a week, 9.4 million iPhones (all types) for the whole quarter the 4S was released 2.5 months). Apple sold 37 million iPhones that quarter.
Right but, are we talking about units sold or units shipped.
I'm cynical enough to believe they make these numbers up just to generate hype over a new product.
The inevitable "shortage" of 'phones over the month after launch? That could be deliberate, too, just to make people who got one feel special (and the ones who didn't to walk around muttering at the floor).
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I'll defend my sarcasm in light of what AC wrote initially. From the article I linked to, apple seems to have punished him for making it clear that there were holes in their app store security. Not actually exploiting them.
So you don't attack Google because of what Charlie Miller himself says, but you attack (and still think rightfully) Apple for what you think read on some blog - which clearly says he put an app on the store exploiting the hole.
Well, so why doesn't anybody do it that way?
Because no one but Apple gives one tenth of one fuck about docks.
Ohh, so your point wasn't actually about hooking up peripherals, but about docks. Silly me, I thought we were talking about technology not about "the shiny" - I should have known that's all you Fandroids care about.
well Charlie did get banned from the app store for 1 year for finding a security hole.
No, he got banned from the app store for violating the developers contract - which doesn't mention finding security holes.
Will the lightning->micro usb adapter be free of charge (naive,and against the spirit of the EU directive), or how will this device comply with EN 301489-34 directive?
First of all: "EN 301489-34 directive"? Do you have the slightest idea what you are talking about? The ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) standard EN 301 489-34 handles the "Electromagnetic compatibility and Radio spectrum Matters (ERM); ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) standard for radio equipment and services; Part 34: Specific conditions for External Power Supply (EPS) for mobile phones"
And you can claim that the use of an adapter is against the spirit of the EU directive all you want, because the directive actually specifically allows their use.
The gist of that article is "Lightning is better because it has 8 pins! 8 is more than 5!"
And 11 is louder than 10...
It's nonsense. You can put audio and video over micro-USB (see: MHL), and the standard specifically allows for sending more power over the cable when a device is using its own charger, so the argument "You couldn't charge the iPad!" is BS. The Nexus 7, Kindle, Galaxy Tab, Transformer, etc. all charge fine over micro-USB based chargers.
Yeah, they just charge slower. And that's when using USB-charging, not USB-data like the iPad can. Not to mention they actually have a smaller battery.
Anyway, if Apple used micro-USB today, they'd have to switch soon to yet another plug. Ever heard of USB3? New micro-plug. Which is of course again much bigger than micro-USB.
Because not everyone will use it. Everyone however does use mini-usb on something, and mini-usb phones sell far more total units. Apple should at least support that without an adaptor.
Why? Is this a chicken and Apple-doesn't-support-it problem? Where if Apple doesn't support it, nobody actually does? Like NFC?
Apple dropped analog video output so all they actually need is to put all the ports next to one another on the bottom of the phone; stereo mini or micro plug, uHDMI, and uUSB. "Docks" can implement as many connectors as necessary for their functionality.
Well, so why doesn't anybody do it that way?
Oh, and in case you haven't noticed: Lightning is not a dock connector, the dock is dead.
And we go again: why does nobody use USB to hook up peripherals to their phone? Not justApple, nobody. No, using a non-standard USB connector doesn't count, and if it did, that would make it almost nobody for a handful of peripherals.
you become what you hate.
1984.
So Slashdot will become Apple?
Sorry I had you confused - but reading your further you are just as dumb as the guy I had you confused with. You are actually arguing that Apple is evil for giving updates to the 3GS because that proves it wasn't a good phone when it came out?
You are implying that planned obsolescence on Android is a good thing.and that Android phones, no matter how crappy, are worth their money as long as they don't get updates - which is almost certain. That's the most stretched rationalizing I've come across in a long time.
Oh you naive fool.
Says the guy who exchanges "*2" by "<<1" by hand in the hope that will fix the performance problem of his program.
I'm not sure if I should admit this publicly, so I'm posting anonymously.
The ubiquitous "floppy disk" graphic for Open and "folder" graphic for Save is something I only grokked consciously early this year.
I've been using computers in one form or another since the early 1980s, and I got used to seeing a seemingly random spray of icons in toolbars that I filtered them out for decades, and instead learned keyboard shortcuts for load/save. What's wrong with the text "OPEN" and "SAVE"?.
Errm, so you have never actually seen a Macintosh even from afar, have you.
challenge accepted: a downward pointing arrow which is already a common enough metaphor for "download" and to todays users there's not a lot of difference between downloading something and saving it.
Sure and saving to "the cloud" should be denoted by...?
Really? There's so much to criticize about Apple's design, like OSX's big and cluttered dock versus a tradicional taskbar,
You mean the traditional dock from NeXTSTEP versus the imitation from Windows?
Let me guess, Cyanogen is concerned about performance so instead of putting out a subpar rom they don't do it at all, am I in the ballpark? But yeah, I hear you loud and clear, your premium payment provides you with laggy updates that will frustrate you into upgrading. Magic indeed.
Figures you would try to draw the non-availability of an one year old OS on old Androids phones as a plus - right after you attacked Apple for not bringing all features of a brand new OS to an iPhone of the same age. Fucking Magic Flav-R-Aid.
Maybe, in order to make news relevant to readers, they chose to compare to something most readers are familiar with? That's pretty much the point of analogies and comparisons.
Or maybe it's what we call "Marketing".
Yeah, I'm sure Apple paid for that research. Which wasn't about comparing an iPad to a Cray BTW.
And in other news, the Asus Transformer Prime is 4x as fast as the Cray. Android (NVIDIA Tegra 3 T30 1300 MHz (4 cores) ) vs Apple (Apple A5 (32nm) 1000 MHz (2 cores) )
I hate how everything must be compared against Apple iProducts. I don't recall every comparisons of yesteryear being brand specific.
Well, then you have a memory like a sieve. Comparisons were always to something well known to the audience addressed - and judging by sales, even most Fandroids assume "Asus Transformer Prime" is an Autobot.
No, he's talking about the common optimization technique of moving code around, hoping it will cause the compiler to create more efficient code. For example, you might try moving a function call outside of a loop, or try using instead of *2. Then you measure which one goes faster, and use that one. You aren't optimizing directly, you're helping the compiler produce better code.
If simple things like that help, you aren't helping the compiler produce better code, you are using an outdated compiler.
One thing you're missing is the condition of the data. Unfortunately, it's not very good, especially temperature data. There are gaps, there are insturmentation issues, there are siting issues, and, the 800lb gorilla in the room, there's just the simple fact that climate changes happen in geologic time frames, and we literally don't have any direct measurements of that scale.
Alas, the skeptics love to quote satellite temperature data - you can't get more indirect than that.
But I hear that the 3GS is totally supported due the high profit margins or something, and investing in an iPhone means that you don't have to upgrade to get updates unlike those pesky Nexus devices. So how come your friend is upgrading away from a supported iDevice that is getting updates? Does time somehow let the magic out or what?
Because the 3GS is 3 years old. It came out the same time as the HTC Hero - even Cyanogen only gives you 2.3 for that high end phone.
Those millions of S3 users welcome you to try their lemonade Mighty tasty stuff.
Turns out it was Flav-R-Aid.
In the US market, sure. In the World Market Samsung alone already has a lead, though.
In a quarter before the next iPhone comes out. Don't hatch your bears before they scratch their back on the Christmas tree. Or something.
>>> Galaxy S3's 9 million pre-orders was over a longer period, worldwide and pre-orders by carriers.
And that was just one of MANY Android devices. :)
HTC, Motorola, LG, etc....
And non of them bothered to post pre-sales numbers. Most don't even post sales numbers. Actually they just post losses.
Galaxy S3 did not have 9 million preorders. Samsung confirmed it took just under 2 months to sell 10 million. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57477475-94/samsung-galaxy-s3-hits-10-million-sales-mark-early/
And AT&T alone activated over 1 million iPhone 4S in less than a week, 9.4 million iPhones (all types) for the whole quarter the 4S was released 2.5 months). Apple sold 37 million iPhones that quarter.
Right but, are we talking about units sold or units shipped.
I'm cynical enough to believe they make these numbers up just to generate hype over a new product.
The inevitable "shortage" of 'phones over the month after launch? That could be deliberate, too, just to make people who got one feel special (and the ones who didn't to walk around muttering at the floor).
Yeah, you are totally right, others have made the same observation last year. iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the iPhone 4S was a huge success.
People also noted 2 years ago: iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Wreaking Havoc On Apple Store. That one also sold well.
Now the question is: why did Samsung suddenly tell us that the S III pre-sold well?