@David Gerard: "Don’t forget the documentation to match!"
Reminds me of online Microsoft documentation, click here and here and here to finally get a link to the service-pack-bug-fix. Doesn't in any way contribute to your understanding of the problem.
I’m just going to go down your post and call out everything I see that is false, bad logic, or just plain misleading.
First off, no one selects phone by carrier. That’s a ridiculous way of thinking. Nearly every phone manufacturer makes devices for every carrier. So you pick from a manufacturer that you know and trust and select a device that works on your carrier. For every manufacturer there are flagship phones and there are budget phones. I guarantee you that the vast majority of users have only heard of perhaps half the devices on that list.
Next, are you really going to suggest that having multiple homes screens AND an app drawer is to complicated? Or that the ability to have multiple copies of the same app is a drawback? How dumb do you think the majority of users are? I guess in your eyes we should all go back to using brick phones.
Next you take issue with the app linking that is native in Android. This isn’t an issue, it’s a feature. It’s one of the things that has no copy on the Apple side of the house. If you have a picture, you are presented with a list of apps that can take pictures as input. Either to transfer, save, post, etc that picture. It’s a coordination between apps that doesn’t exist on iOS, where you can only share inputs between stock apps.
All of the above are way outside the “normal” user experience. They are options that exist solely for the “tinkerer” individuals you so kindly mention further down your article. Soccer Mom Sandy isn’t going to spend time downloading and trying out different launchers and fonts. She is going to stay with the default launcher, font, most of the default apps, etc. Your point here is moot.
Next. Ah, finally. SOURCES. Is there a link between choice and buyers remorse? Definitely. But it’s not limited to Android. It’s the reason that BMW, Ford, Audi, Samsung, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, any many others (including Apple) advertise. It has nothing to do with getting the word out, it has everything to do with combating buyers regret. Any time you make a large purchase like this, you are going to experience buyers regret. So yes, it exists, but please don’t try to pretend it is a solely Android problem. As soon as someone buys a Windows Phone, or an iPhone, or an Android, whatever, they are going to experience buyers regret. Unless of course they are completely deluded in to thinking that their brand is the end-all-be-all of phones/TVs/Cars/etc.
* I think many who extol Android’s flexibility fall into the tinkerer category
I disagree. Of course, neither of us has any way to back our opinions up. I however think that most people are tired of companies making decisions for them.
* But if they’ve punted too many times — resolving tough decisions with a checkbox here, a slider there — then they’ve shifted that responsibility onto you.
No no no. Android devs haven’t shifted the responsibility to anyone. The devs make design choices – good ones IMO – but they also realize that their tastes do not reflect those of everyone else. So they make it possible for a user to change certain parts of the product. But don’t act like Android devs just shrugged and said “Fuck it, let the users decide”. They made decisions, implemented them in the defaults, and left a choice in some menu somewhere in the settings to alter that choice if the user desires.
And your restaurant analogy simply does not apply. When you order, if you are at a reputable restaurant, you are offered an array of options (not to mention the menu itself). How do you want your steak? What sides would you like with
"When Samsung packaged a solar-powered classroom for Africa’s remote communities, it shipped a GNU/Linux solution but M$ intervened"
"Working together with Reza Bardien, our Education Lead, we managed to turn this into an end to end Windows solution by the end of the week"
- quote - Solar Powered Schools – Linux Win
In the week of 16 January, Samsung Africa launched its first Solar Powered Internet Schools. These 40 ft solar powered containers are designed for use in remote rural education communities with limited, or no access to electricity. This is a world first and shows great innovation from our partners.
However, this solution with little education relevance (all 20 student laptops as well as the teacher one) was a complete Linex solution at the time of launch. Working together with Reza Bardien, our Education Lead, we managed to turn this into an end to end Windows solution by the end of the week, including the PIL Learning Suite and the Windows-based NETOP Classroom Management solution.
By Friday morning, when Samsung demonstrated its solution to press and stakeholders, the solution was based on a Microsoft platform. This container (and the next 10 containers going into Africa and South Africa) will include devices running on a Microsoft platform only, so the students learning on these devices will be running and learning on Windows.
Some great cross group collaboration between the Windows BG, the Education Public Sector, NETOP and Jacques from OEM who assisted.
"The WSJ reports that six days into the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the new health-care law, the federal government finally acknowledged that design and software problems have kept customers from applying online for coverage."
'There were 801 listings under the category "Digital Goods," including offerings for pirated media content, hacked accounts at various online services such as Amazon and Netflix, and more malicious software. For example, one listing, totled "HUGE Hacking Pack **150++ HACKING TOOLS & PROGRAMS**," described the item being sold as a "hacking pack loaded with keyloggers, RATs, banking trojans, and other various malware."' link
"The agency is required to obtain a warrant from the intelligence court to target a "U.S. person" — a citizen or legal resident — for actual eavesdropping'."
'Where they operate in narrower, less competitive markets — like where they’ve become an Internet service provider, for example — they abandon those commitments.'
".. we happen to live in the causal future of the classical big bang singularity.. we outline a novel mechanism through which any thermal atmosphere for the brane, with comoving temperature of 20% of the 5D Planck mass can induce scale-invariant primordial curvature perturbations on the brane, circumventing the need for a separate process (such as cosmic inflation) to explain current cosmological observations..."
That whole argument is totally bogus. You might as well argue that Free software is fundamentalist Christian because Michael Meeks supports it. Or Free software is fundamentalist atheist because Richard Stallman supports it
Slashdot Mirror
"Some of the points you make are valid, but making blanket statements weakens your argument"
...
Although I agree with them, these are not my comments, I provided a link to the original
@David Gerard: "Don’t forget the documentation to match!"
Reminds me of online Microsoft documentation, click here and here and here to finally get a link to the service-pack-bug-fix. Doesn't in any way contribute to your understanding of the problem.
Austin October 14th, 2013
What a complete load of bullshit nonsense.
I’m just going to go down your post and call out everything I see that is false, bad logic, or just plain misleading.
First off, no one selects phone by carrier. That’s a ridiculous way of thinking. Nearly every phone manufacturer makes devices for every carrier. So you pick from a manufacturer that you know and trust and select a device that works on your carrier. For every manufacturer there are flagship phones and there are budget phones. I guarantee you that the vast majority of users have only heard of perhaps half the devices on that list.
Next, are you really going to suggest that having multiple homes screens AND an app drawer is to complicated? Or that the ability to have multiple copies of the same app is a drawback? How dumb do you think the majority of users are? I guess in your eyes we should all go back to using brick phones.
Next you take issue with the app linking that is native in Android. This isn’t an issue, it’s a feature. It’s one of the things that has no copy on the Apple side of the house. If you have a picture, you are presented with a list of apps that can take pictures as input. Either to transfer, save, post, etc that picture. It’s a coordination between apps that doesn’t exist on iOS, where you can only share inputs between stock apps.
* Custom Lock Screens
* Launchers
* Replacement Phone Apps
* Different Fonts
All of the above are way outside the “normal” user experience. They are options that exist solely for the “tinkerer” individuals you so kindly mention further down your article. Soccer Mom Sandy isn’t going to spend time downloading and trying out different launchers and fonts. She is going to stay with the default launcher, font, most of the default apps, etc. Your point here is moot.
Next. Ah, finally. SOURCES. Is there a link between choice and buyers remorse? Definitely. But it’s not limited to Android. It’s the reason that BMW, Ford, Audi, Samsung, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, any many others (including Apple) advertise. It has nothing to do with getting the word out, it has everything to do with combating buyers regret. Any time you make a large purchase like this, you are going to experience buyers regret. So yes, it exists, but please don’t try to pretend it is a solely Android problem. As soon as someone buys a Windows Phone, or an iPhone, or an Android, whatever, they are going to experience buyers regret. Unless of course they are completely deluded in to thinking that their brand is the end-all-be-all of phones/TVs/Cars/etc.
* I think many who extol Android’s flexibility fall into the tinkerer category
I disagree. Of course, neither of us has any way to back our opinions up. I however think that most people are tired of companies making decisions for them.
* But if they’ve punted too many times — resolving tough decisions with a checkbox here, a slider there — then they’ve shifted that responsibility onto you.
No no no. Android devs haven’t shifted the responsibility to anyone. The devs make design choices – good ones IMO – but they also realize that their tastes do not reflect those of everyone else. So they make it possible for a user to change certain parts of the product. But don’t act like Android devs just shrugged and said “Fuck it, let the users decide”. They made decisions, implemented them in the defaults, and left a choice in some menu somewhere in the settings to alter that choice if the user desires.
And your restaurant analogy simply does not apply. When you order, if you are at a reputable restaurant, you are offered an array of options (not to mention the menu itself). How do you want your steak? What sides would you like with
Consumers buy the one phone at a time and stick to it.
"Finally he says the people who general prefer the choice Android provides are tinkers similar to gear heads who love tinkering with their car"
So by that logic 80% of mobile users are tinkers
'Steve Jobs approached Bill Gates... to organize the first true WYSIWYG word processor for a personal computer --'
.. was the first WYSIWYG .. word processor
Ami
"several recent studies have found that therapy via the Internet is just as effective as face-to-face treatment"
:)
Recent studies have also shown that cyber-sex is just as effective as getting your girl friend to sit-on-your-face
Bing ads that infect users Microsoft Windows computers with malware, shurly :)
The European Court of Human Rights are a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
.. that's cunt not coon .. etc ...
What about my Human Right to post abuse about our dear leaders, Obama is a cunt
AmigaOS
"When Samsung packaged a solar-powered classroom for Africa’s remote communities, it shipped a GNU/Linux solution but M$ intervened"
"Working together with Reza Bardien, our Education Lead, we managed to turn this into an end to end Windows solution by the end of the week"
- quote -
Solar Powered Schools – Linux Win
In the week of 16 January, Samsung Africa launched its first Solar Powered Internet Schools. These 40 ft solar powered containers are designed for use in remote rural education communities with limited, or no access to electricity. This is a world first and shows great innovation from our partners.
However, this solution with little education relevance (all 20 student laptops as well as the teacher one) was a complete Linex solution at the time of launch. Working together with Reza Bardien, our Education Lead, we managed to turn this into an end to end Windows solution by the end of the week, including the PIL Learning Suite and the Windows-based NETOP Classroom Management solution.
By Friday morning, when Samsung demonstrated its solution to press and stakeholders, the solution was based on a Microsoft platform. This container (and the next 10 containers going into Africa and South Africa) will include devices running on a Microsoft platform only, so the students learning on these devices will be running and learning on Windows.
Some great cross group collaboration between the Windows BG, the Education Public Sector, NETOP and Jacques from OEM who assisted.
Thank you all!
- unquote -
"The WSJ reports that six days into the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the new health-care law, the federal government finally acknowledged that design and software problems have kept customers from applying online for coverage."
What software platform does the software run on ?
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
"Link to indictment contained within too."
'There were 801 listings under the category "Digital Goods," including offerings for pirated media content, hacked accounts at various online services such as Amazon and Netflix, and more malicious software. For example, one listing, totled "HUGE Hacking Pack **150++ HACKING TOOLS & PROGRAMS**," described the item being sold as a "hacking pack loaded with keyloggers, RATs, banking trojans, and other various malware."' link
What, if anything has Microsoft Research ever originated that has led directly to generating a new type of market?
How did they know he was cheating, cause he was winning ...
..
That's a quote from some movie, can't remember which one
Anyone here know it ?
"The agency is required to obtain a warrant from the intelligence court to target a "U.S. person" — a citizen or legal resident — for actual eavesdropping'."
..
Which is why the NSA gets GCHQ in Britain land to spy on Americans
So we can blow up the economy even faster ..
How does this malware get onto the targeted system, without user action or root access?
Insert comment here ...
Linux x86_64, Linux, Netscape, Mozilla/5.0 X11; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0 Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 ..
Firefox Nightly 26.0a1 (64-bit)
That whole article is noting more than anti-Apple bullshit. What consultancy got paid by Microsoft for typing that?
'Where they operate in narrower, less competitive markets — like where they’ve become an Internet service provider, for example — they abandon those commitments.'
...
Like where, give examples
".. we happen to live in the causal future of the classical big bang singularity .. we outline a novel mechanism through which any thermal atmosphere for the brane, with comoving temperature of 20% of the 5D Planck mass can induce scale-invariant primordial curvature perturbations on the brane, circumventing the need for a separate process (such as cosmic inflation) to explain current cosmological observations ..."
That whole argument is totally bogus. You might as well argue that Free software is fundamentalist Christian because Michael Meeks supports it. Or Free software is fundamentalist atheist because Richard Stallman supports it
Monsanto