OMG Android is making a play that's designed to let lower cost, highly capable devices subsist in the marketplace? How horrible is that?
Horrible enough to hurt the user experience, unless you think it's okay for software-based compositing to inefficiently drain your battery or for scrolling to be choppy years after the iPhone 1 on less powerful hardware was smooth and responsive. If you don't think it's important for animated user elements on a touchscreen to not pause, then you're just being a fanboy. If Android doesn't address these concerns, it will plateau and be overtaken by others willing to compete on Apple's level.
Say what you want, Android's strategy is working, as demonstrated by its continuing skyrocketing market share.
Not that it matters, but a Nielsen report just came out showing iOS as the #1 mobile U.S. operating system. Much of the "skyrocketing" marketshare is on cheap, lower-class phones can can barely run things. Hey, it still counts, but it's not some magical revolution in smartphone platforms. It's a Linux OS from an ad company wanting people to run free apps that just so happen to display their ads...
Java may not make as much sense right now, but it will again in the future.
If you say so, true believer.
Android is going to get even more fragmented in the future, but that's not a bad thing. It just shows how versatile Linux can be.
How does it show how versatile it can be? Running with different hardware capabilities isn't something operating systems haven't done before. It is a bad thing because it increases development and support costs for app developers and forces bugs and design compromises onto consumers. There's a reason consoles and mobile devices are replacing desktop PCs in most people's lives.
You mean desktop computers, those complicated machines that mobile devices and tablets are replacing? People are trying to get away from managing device drivers and hardware compatibility bugs.
No, that one game everyone talks about doesn't count; it's not a result of OS fragmentation, but a result of some devices not meeting minimum hardware requirements.
Nice try. You slipped in the phrase "OS fragmentation" when what people refer to is hardware fragmentation, which is what the last part of your statement is describing.
Have you never been here before? This is what Slashdot does. It has an agenda.
In this case, the agenda is correct--Google search results really blow lately. But there's so little competition that things aren't changing. Sounds a bit like Microsoft, eh?
Saudi Arabia's neat little version of the Fairness Doctrine. I'm sure the government will stick to its word that there will be no restrictions on free speech. What could possibly go wrong in having governments regulate the internet? Other than governments being the most corrupt organizations on the planet, I mean.
With no disrespect to Dell, it's not clear from your post how Dell was the better support simply because they sent out a technician. You said Apple had to replace your iMac's motherboard and videocard for two weeks. iMacs are built like laptops in that they're cramped and require specialized hardware and complicated methods of access and repair, so yes, it's going to take longer than just sending out a technician to unscrew a power supply and motherboard in a standard tower PC. It ended up that the repair experience with Dell was better because it was an easy fix to do.
Apple is known for being really good at customer support. Just one story found using Google.
These crazy Slashdotters who treat EULAs as life or death issues really need to take a step back and realize how silly they sound, especially since, after all the years of preaching about how evil Microsoft and Apple EULAs are, they have no examples of anything evil ever occurring because of them. Self-rightousness has blinded you to practical reasoning.
The annoying part is that this company has nothing to do with Apple. It's a third-party repair shop with a certification to work on Apple hardware and purchase spare parts. It would be like treating MSCEs as Microsoft employees. But since the submitter is plugging their site, they intentionally used a provocative title to rile up the usual peanut gallery of Apple-bashers, and it's going to get a bunch of attention here.
There are already misinformed comments acting as if this involves Apple. Fucking Slashdot and its intentionally misleading headlines.
As they rightfully pointed out, they are not Apple, just a company authorized to service Apple computers. Having worked for an independent Apple service provider in the past, this is a maddening mistake that many customers make, especially irate ones who don't want to listen to a thing you say.
Isn't it wonderful when sites like Slashdot further that misinformation by blindly referring to them as an "Apple support company" right in the headline? It's almost as if the submitter did it intentionally to create a provocative article and rile up the usual peanut gallery of Apple-bashers.
One of the dumbest comments from an Apple-hater I've seen on Slashdot in a while. It's like you're going out of your way to ignore every third-party customer satisfaction survey ever.
Yes, you're the enlightened one, and everyone else is just brainwashed by P.R. You're very smart for calling people "Apple suckers" and "fanbois."
The only reason there would be any brand damage is hyperbolic sites like Slashdot calling them an "Apple support company" simply because they are officially licensed to repair Macs. The company has nothing to do with Apple other than the fact they have employees who got repair certification and access to Apple parts.
But, of course, this is Slashdot, so the headline has to call them an "Apple support company," and everyone in the comments is going to act as if they have some direct association with Apple. It's as stupid as treating every MSCE as a Microsoft employee.
Apple would demonstrate to be on their customers' side for once.
What do you mean "for once?" Apple regularly receives high marks in customer satisfaction surveys.
The submitter's biased headline is totally doing its job. People are treating this company as if it's an offshoot of Apple or something. It's just another third-party repair shop that has Apple certification so that they can work on Macs and receive access to parts from Apple. It would be like bashing Microsoft for the actions of a MCSE-certified employee at some random company.
Outlook? Hell, if this issue occurred on the iPhone, it would be the next month-long controversy on TechCrunch and Engadget, right up there with "Gee, when I smother my iPhone, the signal strength drops"-gate.
Everything you described sounds so much like Microsoft and Windows that it's almost depressing, especially the part about shipping beta-quality products and iterating over successive versions to finish them.
If the iPhone randomly sent text messages to the wrong people, the comments section here would be filled with a level of sarcastic vitriol the likes of which hasn't been seen since a Bill Hicks show. Gawker would call it a "debaclo," Engadget would label it as another major controversy, and Paul Thurrott would cash his monthly paycheck from Microsoft and write up another article about how Apple sucks and doesn't listen to people when there's a problem. Online petitions would be filled out by no-lifers with a cause, PC-using douchebags who list their computer specs in their forum signatures would mock Mac users for the thousandth time, and media outlets with nothing to write about would concoct a "growing outcry" where there is none.
However, this is about Android. The difference in tone when a bug or security flaw story is about a Google product is striking. There are even posters here defending the classification of this very serious bug as "Medium" importance. So, rest easy, Google! The tech press and the one-sided fanboys who read them have got your back.
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Maybe he should try scrolling on an iPhone sometime.
Horrible enough to hurt the user experience, unless you think it's okay for software-based compositing to inefficiently drain your battery or for scrolling to be choppy years after the iPhone 1 on less powerful hardware was smooth and responsive. If you don't think it's important for animated user elements on a touchscreen to not pause, then you're just being a fanboy. If Android doesn't address these concerns, it will plateau and be overtaken by others willing to compete on Apple's level.
Not that it matters, but a Nielsen report just came out showing iOS as the #1 mobile U.S. operating system. Much of the "skyrocketing" marketshare is on cheap, lower-class phones can can barely run things. Hey, it still counts, but it's not some magical revolution in smartphone platforms. It's a Linux OS from an ad company wanting people to run free apps that just so happen to display their ads...
If you say so, true believer.
How does it show how versatile it can be? Running with different hardware capabilities isn't something operating systems haven't done before. It is a bad thing because it increases development and support costs for app developers and forces bugs and design compromises onto consumers. There's a reason consoles and mobile devices are replacing desktop PCs in most people's lives.
What about the collector pauses?
You mean desktop computers, those complicated machines that mobile devices and tablets are replacing? People are trying to get away from managing device drivers and hardware compatibility bugs.
Nice try. You slipped in the phrase "OS fragmentation" when what people refer to is hardware fragmentation, which is what the last part of your statement is describing.
"Supporting a wide range of products" is leading to animation pauses and jerky scrolling. That's a bad thing for a touchscreen smartphone.
Thanking Google for a better SEO industry is like thanking antivirus software for motivating the creation of more difficult-to-detect trojans.
Have you never been here before? This is what Slashdot does. It has an agenda.
In this case, the agenda is correct--Google search results really blow lately. But there's so little competition that things aren't changing. Sounds a bit like Microsoft, eh?
Saudi Arabia's neat little version of the Fairness Doctrine. I'm sure the government will stick to its word that there will be no restrictions on free speech. What could possibly go wrong in having governments regulate the internet? Other than governments being the most corrupt organizations on the planet, I mean.
Nobody has yet to explain why it's wrong for them to charge for access to their private networks however they wish.
With no disrespect to Dell, it's not clear from your post how Dell was the better support simply because they sent out a technician. You said Apple had to replace your iMac's motherboard and videocard for two weeks. iMacs are built like laptops in that they're cramped and require specialized hardware and complicated methods of access and repair, so yes, it's going to take longer than just sending out a technician to unscrew a power supply and motherboard in a standard tower PC. It ended up that the repair experience with Dell was better because it was an easy fix to do.
Apple is known for being really good at customer support. Just one story found using Google.
These crazy Slashdotters who treat EULAs as life or death issues really need to take a step back and realize how silly they sound, especially since, after all the years of preaching about how evil Microsoft and Apple EULAs are, they have no examples of anything evil ever occurring because of them. Self-rightousness has blinded you to practical reasoning.
The annoying part is that this company has nothing to do with Apple. It's a third-party repair shop with a certification to work on Apple hardware and purchase spare parts. It would be like treating MSCEs as Microsoft employees. But since the submitter is plugging their site, they intentionally used a provocative title to rile up the usual peanut gallery of Apple-bashers, and it's going to get a bunch of attention here.
There are already misinformed comments acting as if this involves Apple. Fucking Slashdot and its intentionally misleading headlines.
Apple has nothing to do with this. This company is a third-party repair shop with a certification to work on Apple hardware and purchase spare parts.
Fucking Slashdot and its intentionally misleading headlines.
Isn't it wonderful when sites like Slashdot further that misinformation by blindly referring to them as an "Apple support company" right in the headline? It's almost as if the submitter did it intentionally to create a provocative article and rile up the usual peanut gallery of Apple-bashers.
One of the dumbest comments from an Apple-hater I've seen on Slashdot in a while. It's like you're going out of your way to ignore every third-party customer satisfaction survey ever.
Yes, you're the enlightened one, and everyone else is just brainwashed by P.R. You're very smart for calling people "Apple suckers" and "fanbois."
Next.
The only reason there would be any brand damage is hyperbolic sites like Slashdot calling them an "Apple support company" simply because they are officially licensed to repair Macs. The company has nothing to do with Apple other than the fact they have employees who got repair certification and access to Apple parts.
But, of course, this is Slashdot, so the headline has to call them an "Apple support company," and everyone in the comments is going to act as if they have some direct association with Apple. It's as stupid as treating every MSCE as a Microsoft employee.
What do you mean "for once?" Apple regularly receives high marks in customer satisfaction surveys.
The submitter's biased headline is totally doing its job. People are treating this company as if it's an offshoot of Apple or something. It's just another third-party repair shop that has Apple certification so that they can work on Macs and receive access to parts from Apple. It would be like bashing Microsoft for the actions of a MCSE-certified employee at some random company.
It's not the same bug.
That is not the same bug being discussed here. SMS messages are going to total strangers, not previous contacts.
Outlook? Hell, if this issue occurred on the iPhone, it would be the next month-long controversy on TechCrunch and Engadget, right up there with "Gee, when I smother my iPhone, the signal strength drops"-gate.
Everything you described sounds so much like Microsoft and Windows that it's almost depressing, especially the part about shipping beta-quality products and iterating over successive versions to finish them.
Yeah, but this is Android! From Google! So it's not as big a deal, you see.
However, the next time someone smothers their iPhone and sees the signal strength drop a bar, you can bet we'll be all over that massive controversy.
Yours truly,
The easily swayed masses
If the iPhone randomly sent text messages to the wrong people, the comments section here would be filled with a level of sarcastic vitriol the likes of which hasn't been seen since a Bill Hicks show. Gawker would call it a "debaclo," Engadget would label it as another major controversy, and Paul Thurrott would cash his monthly paycheck from Microsoft and write up another article about how Apple sucks and doesn't listen to people when there's a problem. Online petitions would be filled out by no-lifers with a cause, PC-using douchebags who list their computer specs in their forum signatures would mock Mac users for the thousandth time, and media outlets with nothing to write about would concoct a "growing outcry" where there is none.
However, this is about Android. The difference in tone when a bug or security flaw story is about a Google product is striking. There are even posters here defending the classification of this very serious bug as "Medium" importance. So, rest easy, Google! The tech press and the one-sided fanboys who read them have got your back.