The Android model is similar to that of Windows-based PCs. The carriers are like OEMs, complete with pre-installed junkware. There are actually articles advising people on how to tell when an Android app is malware, which is straight out of the Windows experience.
Apple probably wasn't willing to concede control of iOS to Verizon. Now that iOS is a hit, Apple has bargaining power to retain control of the platform.
An operating system running on multiple phones surpassed the sales of a single phone? You don't say! When you properly compare operating systems, the iOS platform is ahead of Android in U.S. marketshare according to Nielsen, and this is right before the iPhone about to become available on Verizon later this month. If you want to compare single smartphones, the best-selling Android phone is the Droid 2, which was crushed by the iPhone in sales. The only way the Android comes out ahead in numbers is when people pull the bogus trick of comparing an entire operating system platform to a single phone.
Not likely. iPad is the #1 tablet device and totally unchallenged right now, and the iPhone is coming to Verizon this month. Being on Verizon will be huge.
This new article is comparing a single phone to an operating system for some reason, while Nielsen is properly comparing iOS to Android.
It's a common trick people use to give the appearance of Android being ahead. It's no surprise that lumping every Android phone together, including all the lower-class junk phones, is going to total up to a number that's greater than the iPhone. Given how many Android phones there are, it's a testament to the iPhone that Android's marketshare hasn't surpassed that of iOS, which is only on Apple devices and on one carrier. Wiith Verizon iPhones coming, the iOS userbase is only going to increase.
But yeah, this is a pointless and inaccurate Slashdot submission (surprise!).
How is that the real gold? That's like saying BMW is a failure because Ford outsells it. I'll never understand the quality-over-quantity argument.
This article is comparing a single smartphone to an entire operating system platform. When the platforms are compared, iOS is #1 in U.S. marketshare according to Nielsen. The Verizon iPhone is coming out, so that lead is going to increase. This is a pretty pointless Slashdot submission.
This article is stupid. It's comparing a single smartphone to an entire platform running on multiple smartphones. When you compare platforms, iOS is #1 in U.S. marketshare according to the recent Nielsen report.
So what? You make it sound like Internet access is some necessity or right. It's a service you pay for to obtain an IP from a company's private network. They can charge what they want for that access, and their sysadmins can regulate the traffic on it however they wish.
The government programs and spending increases instituted by the Democrat supermajority of the last two years will fix it. Governments solve everything and aren't the most corrupt organizations on the planet.
It's the government allowing this. The summary says: "Over the past year, the CRTC, Canada's communication regulator, let Bell and Rogers start charging extra for customers who download a lot of data." It even links to the previous article about it.
Internet access isn't a right. They can charge higher prices if they want to. But hey, you're bashing capitalism on Slashdot, so instant "+5 Insightful" for you.
Did you read the article? How is it going to get thrown out of court if Google clearly violated Korean privacy laws?
By your logic, I'm allowed to use sensitive microphone technology to pick up all the sounds in your house from the street. After all, you're publicly transmitting your soundwaves through the atmosphere.
It was a pretty obvious accident, if you understood the technical explanation of what happened.
So why did they store the data for several years?
The data they were trying to gather is perfectly fair game and not at all a privacy issue.
People repeat this in every Google Street View story, and it's not true, as evidenced by this article. Privacy laws around the world prohibit this kind of data collection, which is why Google is under investigation in multiple countries.
Linux users yesterday: "My distro has a package manager that tracks everything I install and provides updates." Linux users today: "Haha, stupid Apple consumers, just another way for you to pay money!"
This is Slashdot, so Microsoft is the evil, wealthy corporation in collusion with the government, and Google is the poor, downtrodden, Linux-using upstart who didn't have a fair shot, even though they're a multi-billion dollar advertising company with controversial ties to the administration and investigations around the world over their "accidental" neighborhood data collection.
Apple doesn't have a good track record of providing open systems.
Other than the Mac since 1984? Basically, the "track record" you're referring to is a single example, iOS, and that's on mobile devices where it makes sense to control what's installed.
What technologies today do people think Apple invented rather than perfected? Or is more this lame "I'm so cool, I'm going to bash Apple fans for being sheep" propaganda?
What trouble was caused for users? People were already using zip drives and CD-Rs by then, and not to be condescending, but the Mac userbase had likely already shifted away from floppies, being full of creative professionals who dealt with documents larger than 1.44 MB on a regular basis.
The original post reads: "Once again MS arrives late to the party with an offering that likely won't offer enough to be competitive." The Xbox offered enough to be competitive, though that's becoming less true with the rise of mobile devices.
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The Android model is similar to that of Windows-based PCs. The carriers are like OEMs, complete with pre-installed junkware. There are actually articles advising people on how to tell when an Android app is malware, which is straight out of the Windows experience.
Apple probably wasn't willing to concede control of iOS to Verizon. Now that iOS is a hit, Apple has bargaining power to retain control of the platform.
Android, however, is very much under the control of the carriers.
An operating system running on multiple phones surpassed the sales of a single phone? You don't say! When you properly compare operating systems, the iOS platform is ahead of Android in U.S. marketshare according to Nielsen, and this is right before the iPhone about to become available on Verizon later this month. If you want to compare single smartphones, the best-selling Android phone is the Droid 2, which was crushed by the iPhone in sales. The only way the Android comes out ahead in numbers is when people pull the bogus trick of comparing an entire operating system platform to a single phone.
This is another inaccurate Slashdot submission.
Not likely. iPad is the #1 tablet device and totally unchallenged right now, and the iPhone is coming to Verizon this month. Being on Verizon will be huge.
This new article is comparing a single phone to an operating system for some reason, while Nielsen is properly comparing iOS to Android.
It's a common trick people use to give the appearance of Android being ahead. It's no surprise that lumping every Android phone together, including all the lower-class junk phones, is going to total up to a number that's greater than the iPhone. Given how many Android phones there are, it's a testament to the iPhone that Android's marketshare hasn't surpassed that of iOS, which is only on Apple devices and on one carrier. Wiith Verizon iPhones coming, the iOS userbase is only going to increase.
But yeah, this is a pointless and inaccurate Slashdot submission (surprise!).
How is that the real gold? That's like saying BMW is a failure because Ford outsells it. I'll never understand the quality-over-quantity argument.
This article is comparing a single smartphone to an entire operating system platform. When the platforms are compared, iOS is #1 in U.S. marketshare according to Nielsen. The Verizon iPhone is coming out, so that lead is going to increase. This is a pretty pointless Slashdot submission.
This article is stupid. It's comparing a single smartphone to an entire platform running on multiple smartphones. When you compare platforms, iOS is #1 in U.S. marketshare according to the recent Nielsen report.
So what? You make it sound like Internet access is some necessity or right. It's a service you pay for to obtain an IP from a company's private network. They can charge what they want for that access, and their sysadmins can regulate the traffic on it however they wish.
The government programs and spending increases instituted by the Democrat supermajority of the last two years will fix it. Governments solve everything and aren't the most corrupt organizations on the planet.
It's the government allowing this. The summary says: "Over the past year, the CRTC, Canada's communication regulator, let Bell and Rogers start charging extra for customers who download a lot of data." It even links to the previous article about it.
Internet access isn't a right. They can charge higher prices if they want to. But hey, you're bashing capitalism on Slashdot, so instant "+5 Insightful" for you.
This is Slashdot, where the mantra seems to be: "If I can do it, it's okay."
Did you read the article? How is it going to get thrown out of court if Google clearly violated Korean privacy laws?
By your logic, I'm allowed to use sensitive microphone technology to pick up all the sounds in your house from the street. After all, you're publicly transmitting your soundwaves through the atmosphere.
So why did they store the data for several years?
People repeat this in every Google Street View story, and it's not true, as evidenced by this article. Privacy laws around the world prohibit this kind of data collection, which is why Google is under investigation in multiple countries.
It's not as if Google's CEO said that only people who have something to hide care about privacy or anything.
Hello there, KDE File-Edit-View-Window-Help menus, close buttons, scroll bars, and other window elements from 1984 Mac OS.
Linux users yesterday: "My distro has a package manager that tracks everything I install and provides updates."
Linux users today: "Haha, stupid Apple consumers, just another way for you to pay money!"
This is Slashdot, so Microsoft is the evil, wealthy corporation in collusion with the government, and Google is the poor, downtrodden, Linux-using upstart who didn't have a fair shot, even though they're a multi-billion dollar advertising company with controversial ties to the administration and investigations around the world over their "accidental" neighborhood data collection.
But, yeah. "Micro$oft" and all that.
I'm sure Slashdot is the most objective place to determine which solution is the inferior one.
So in addition to the hardware fragmentation, there will be store fragmentation too. Sounds great.
Other than the Mac since 1984? Basically, the "track record" you're referring to is a single example, iOS, and that's on mobile devices where it makes sense to control what's installed.
They're trying to eliminate fragmentation by creating another development target for Android developers?
Fragmentation? What fragmentation?
*whistles*
What technologies today do people think Apple invented rather than perfected? Or is more this lame "I'm so cool, I'm going to bash Apple fans for being sheep" propaganda?
What trouble was caused for users? People were already using zip drives and CD-Rs by then, and not to be condescending, but the Mac userbase had likely already shifted away from floppies, being full of creative professionals who dealt with documents larger than 1.44 MB on a regular basis.
The original post reads: "Once again MS arrives late to the party with an offering that likely won't offer enough to be competitive." The Xbox offered enough to be competitive, though that's becoming less true with the rise of mobile devices.