No, their first base is called "New Jerusalem". And don't worry, they're easily destroyed early in the game, especially when you ally with the Peacekeepers.
Buy a G1. It has the best tools (Eclipse) and the cheapest development costs ($25, and that's only if you want to distribute in the Android Market). Blackberry is free unless you want to access certain APIs that require signing, then it's a one-shot $100. Their development environment is somewhat primitive, but you can use Eclipse and command-line tools as well. iPhone, of course, requires a yearly $99, and they can reject you or your applications. You'd better like Objective-C and Xcode. Series 60 (Nokia) is a PITA to develop for, though with them moving over to Qt that will get better. But don't expect their phones to be upgradeable. Windows Mobile is easy to develop for, but Visual Studio will cost you.
What the hell are you people talking about? Aside from the looseness of the display, the G1 has the most solid feeling plastic case of any phone I've worked with (and I've worked with dozens). Part of it is the weight, and part of it is the rubberized back in a single piece of plastic. It reminds me of the original Nokia sliders, before *those* started feeling like cheap flimsy toys.
I'm afraid to use my iPhone, because it's so slippery and I just know the screen is going crack when I drop it.
Andrew Keen is a bitter, jealous academic and a failed entrepreneur. He has no credibility, because he has never created anything of value. I mean, for Gods' sake, he even looks the health inspector from Ghostbusters! Yes, it is true...
If you don't pay attention to Andrew Keen, he just goes away.
Just what we need...the average cell phone user having to decide wheater [sic] or not something they are about to install is nefarious.
Mama's gonna check out all your applications for you, mama won't let anything dirty get through, mama gonna keep baby cozy and warm...
The point is, every user knows exactly what the application can do, and the application can be denied at the API-level by the OS from accessing to those features. Android, like BlackBerry and Symbian, treats users like grown-ups who are capable of making decisions about whom they can trust, and just how much trust they can afford to those vendors.
If your cell phone spams everyone you know, it's because you installed an unvetted application, let it access everything it asked for, and ran the application. Way to go, Einstein.
the telecom providers to do what they want with their lines
Than stop worrying about it. Those lines are built on public land, and many of them became entrenched in their position due to government-granted monopolies. We have every right to tell them how to prioritize our packets.
The "coolness" of Android will be the simple fact that it is not trying to be trendy. This is the phone for peope who laugh at "bling", and "bling" culture is on the way out.
What could hurt it, IMHO, is the carriers trying to make it trendy with lame advertisements and gimmicks.
Do you have any evidence that the government has restricted any right that people want?
By "people", I mean ordinary people and not elitist liberals, and by "want", I mean want to use as opposed to want to replace the rightful government.
The Apple zealots will mod me offtopic, but analogy is not specious. "Security" in this context is always a pretext for "control".
What has a the increased security of the iPhone gotten you? A crippled device with limited options under an external authority's control, though the security is nonetheless easily defeated by the well informed, thus demonstrating it to be a sham. The security of the system does not exist to protect you, it exists to protect a monopoly of power.
Listen fanboys: deep down, in your heart, you know Woz is right. You are not your machines. You owe Apple no loyalty. There is good left in all of you, you just need to listen to your conscience.
Or are you suggesting that people aren't allowed to detain those they catch stealing from them? You should not be calling anyone's argument "weak".
You seem to be unaware of the fact that all the powers of (our) government are granted by those that it governs, as are all the laws the define legal behavior for both the government and citizen alike. It starts with Constitution and derives from there.
Maybe it's news to you, but "device" and "general-purpose computer" are not mutually exclusive terms. In the mobile industry parlance, device doesn't even mean what you want it to mean.
"Feature phone" is the term you are looking for, but of course, to call it that would emphasize how laughable your attempt is to convince people that the iPhone belongs to a different category than other smartphones.
I'm still not at all clear on what this "spin" is. Is it using large words, or fully enunciating each syllable, or speaking in complete sentences? Or some combination of all three?
Please, someone explain it to me. I do not wish to be perceived as elitist.
What we need is widespread use of web annotation software.
Then people could judge the truthiness of anything according their own little ideological ghetto, and the rest of us wouldn't have to put up with their whining.
If you're whining about proficiency tests, then you are exactly the sort of person we're intentionally weeding out.
And WTF is with this "IT professional" moniker, anyway? Who calls themselves that? It's like a janitor lumping mechanics with engineers to include himself with both.
If you think this is a bad thing, don't develop for it and don't buy an iphone, it's that simple.
You left out the part about raising a big stink about it so that others don't make the same mistake of buying it, or taking the risk of developing for it, either.
It doesn't matter. Her platform is telling children not to have sex before marriage while not educating them about birth control. Her own child went and got knocked up despite all this. Getting married because you failed doesn't make you a success.
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I cringe; personally when I see applications...
SYNTAX ERROR
I love pointing out the errors of people who say things like this: "for consumers who have no sense of style or consistency".
No, their first base is called "New Jerusalem". And don't worry, they're easily destroyed early in the game, especially when you ally with the Peacekeepers.
Buy a G1. It has the best tools (Eclipse) and the cheapest development costs ($25, and that's only if you want to distribute in the Android Market).
Blackberry is free unless you want to access certain APIs that require signing, then it's a one-shot $100. Their development environment is somewhat primitive, but you can use Eclipse and command-line tools as well.
iPhone, of course, requires a yearly $99, and they can reject you or your applications. You'd better like Objective-C and Xcode.
Series 60 (Nokia) is a PITA to develop for, though with them moving over to Qt that will get better. But don't expect their phones to be upgradeable.
Windows Mobile is easy to develop for, but Visual Studio will cost you.
It is a good day to fly.
What the hell are you people talking about? Aside from the looseness of the display, the G1 has the most solid feeling plastic case of any phone I've worked with (and I've worked with dozens). Part of it is the weight, and part of it is the rubberized back in a single piece of plastic. It reminds me of the original Nokia sliders, before *those* started feeling like cheap flimsy toys.
I'm afraid to use my iPhone, because it's so slippery and I just know the screen is going crack when I drop it.
I believe it's not multi-touch however. I think that was the intended criticism.
Where the hell do you get that? No, the intended criticism is that isn't sold by Apple, that's all that matters to these people.
Andrew Keen is a bitter, jealous academic and a failed entrepreneur. He has no credibility, because he has never created anything of value. I mean, for Gods' sake, he even looks the health inspector from Ghostbusters! Yes, it is true...
If you don't pay attention to Andrew Keen, he just goes away.
Just don't look. Just don't look.
Just what we need...the average cell phone user having to decide wheater [sic] or not something they are about to install is nefarious.
Mama's gonna check out all your applications for you, mama won't let anything dirty get through, mama gonna keep baby cozy and warm...
The point is, every user knows exactly what the application can do, and the application can be denied at the API-level by the OS from accessing to those features. Android, like BlackBerry and Symbian, treats users like grown-ups who are capable of making decisions about whom they can trust, and just how much trust they can afford to those vendors.
If your cell phone spams everyone you know, it's because you installed an unvetted application, let it access everything it asked for, and ran the application. Way to go, Einstein.
the telecom providers to do what they want with their lines
Than stop worrying about it. Those lines are built on public land, and many of them became entrenched in their position due to government-granted monopolies. We have every right to tell them how to prioritize our packets.
The "coolness" of Android will be the simple fact that it is not trying to be trendy. This is the phone for peope who laugh at "bling", and "bling" culture is on the way out.
What could hurt it, IMHO, is the carriers trying to make it trendy with lame advertisements and gimmicks.
The Apple zealots will mod me offtopic, but analogy is not specious. "Security" in this context is always a pretext for "control".
What has a the increased security of the iPhone gotten you? A crippled device with limited options under an external authority's control, though the security is nonetheless easily defeated by the well informed, thus demonstrating it to be a sham. The security of the system does not exist to protect you, it exists to protect a monopoly of power.
Listen fanboys: deep down, in your heart, you know Woz is right. You are not your machines. You owe Apple no loyalty. There is good left in all of you, you just need to listen to your conscience.
Using your logic, because police officers detain suspects we the public should be able to as well.
Or are you suggesting that people aren't allowed to detain those they catch stealing from them? You should not be calling anyone's argument "weak".
You seem to be unaware of the fact that all the powers of (our) government are granted by those that it governs, as are all the laws the define legal behavior for both the government and citizen alike. It starts with Constitution and derives from there.
iPhone isn't done until Lotus won't run!
Maybe it's news to you, but "device" and "general-purpose computer" are not mutually exclusive terms. In the mobile industry parlance, device doesn't even mean what you want it to mean.
"Feature phone" is the term you are looking for, but of course, to call it that would emphasize how laughable your attempt is to convince people that the iPhone belongs to a different category than other smartphones.
What it does do, however, is make it clear (again), that the iPhone is not a general-purpose computer, but a device.
lolwut? You people are redefining words, now?
That gagging sound you hear is a black turtleneck chocking a human neck, forever.
I'm still not at all clear on what this "spin" is. Is it using large words, or fully enunciating each syllable, or speaking in complete sentences? Or some combination of all three?
Please, someone explain it to me. I do not wish to be perceived as elitist.
What we need is widespread use of web annotation software.
Then people could judge the truthiness of anything according their own little ideological ghetto, and the rest of us wouldn't have to put up with their whining.
When I read the term "coder", I always have to pronounce it in my mind the way the mining foreman says "digger" in the beginning of Jurassic Park.
I visualize two Geek Squad types hunched over a shiny new piece of hardware:
"They'll never get [computer scientist] away from his computer. He's like me... he's a coder."
If you're whining about proficiency tests, then you are exactly the sort of person we're intentionally weeding out.
And WTF is with this "IT professional" moniker, anyway? Who calls themselves that? It's like a janitor lumping mechanics with engineers to include himself with both.
If you think this is a bad thing, don't develop for it and don't buy an iphone, it's that simple.
You left out the part about raising a big stink about it so that others don't make the same mistake of buying it, or taking the risk of developing for it, either.
How are you any different from a terrorist?
"Oh w-w-w-ait! I'm I'm I'm not some idiot's stu-stu-stuttering imaginary strawman!"
Sorry, it's Gitmo for you.
Dude. Android. Maybe you've heard of it?
It doesn't matter. Her platform is telling children not to have sex before marriage while not educating them about birth control. Her own child went and got knocked up despite all this. Getting married because you failed doesn't make you a success.
Freeper denial - it is sweeter than gypsy tears.
Obviously every movie will be distributed in a dedicated OLED display.
Why was there no option for Sony fanboys on the poll?