I would say that a monopoly would be even worse. Netflix is just a middle man. The best would be an open source platform where content creators could publish their content and they would decide the pricing.
I don't need to swap batteries until my current one no longer keep its charge so I don't really care if the battery is "removable" as long as I can open the phone with tools and replace the battery. What I don't like is that it is sometimes hard to find original quality batteries 3-4 years after launch which aren't overpriced or sold by obscure ebay sellers.
You could board in a high pressure area and then some airlock before entering the low pressure tube. The passengers have to get in and out one way or another. Especially in a city mid point, it would be stupid to block the main tube while people get in and out.
Encourage businesses to change their working hours, so people are not travelling at peak times (honestly 9-5 is stupid, we have lights - we're not working in fields where daylight is required to work and we often deal with foreign clients/suppliers who keep different hours anyway).
So convenient for day care / schools and family life. You work from say, 4pm to midnight and your wife from 8am to 4pm. You never see each other and you never see your kids.
A more realistic option is flexible work hours.
Encourage businesses to set up in different areas, so that their employees can actually find affordable housing within easy reach.
It already exists. It's called rural areas. The only problem with that is finding two jobs in the same location is often not possible. Short of that, having all businesses in the center and people community from the outside is not that bad. This way you can live anywhere on the ring and find two jobs in the middle.
In a complex hyperloop system with multiple destinations (I know, we are being theoretical here), most likely the boarding tubes would be shared for different destinations, just like airports gates or runways can be used by different planes.
You still see the ads when you mute or fast forward.
Not really, some DVRs have a skip 30 (or more) seconds button. By your logic I should feel guilty for using that button just like I should feel guilty to use an ad blocker.
Likewise, as the technology catches up and advertising adapts you'll get advertising one way or another, or be restricted to paid content
So be it. I'll be free to pay for that content or not. Most probably not, as it won't be worth it. Major web sites such as Wikipedia are doing just fine without ads or mandatory payments.
Passwords syncing and ad blocking are much more important to me than performance or battery life. To me, the only downside of Firefox right now is that it has become increasingly buggy especially with large numbers of tabs.
It's still the only major cross platform browser with syncing on all devices and good ad blocking support, so I'll continue to use it. The fact that it is open source and not owned by an evil corporation trying to spy on me (Google, Microsoft or Apple, mainly) is a bonus.
I'll watch Brave but it currently still sounds like yet another chromium (or could be webkit or firefox) clone/fork/derivative/rebrand that may or may not exist next year, and who may or may not have the resources to release security updates on a timely manner.
You must be the kind of person never muting/fast forwarding ads on TVs or doing something else. Otherwise, you wouldn't get that free content, isn't it?
I don't use the browser for more than a few minutes so I don't think I would see any battery life difference. But does it sync passwords and bookmarks using your chrome account?
Iphone is Hardware, Android is Software. How could a serious comparison be made?
You can compare high end Android phones (Pixel, Galaxy S) to iPhones. iPhone cameras typically loose. Of course if you compare iPhone to low end Android devices costing one fifth of the price, the iPhone typically wins.
But in social situations, as soon as you pull out a 'real camera' you put up a wall of separation between yourself and people right in your vicinity.
BS. Taking a picture is taking a picture, no matter which device you are using. No such wall exists, except of course the wall around the garden when you use Apple products.
Sounds like a "let's make it crap for the masses for the special case where a DB is useful". How about letting the users choose whether they want to use iTunes to manage their library or not?
My car plays MP3 on USB just fine. No, I don't have thousands of files on it. But I wouldn't want to have to click "next" thousands of times either.
Then, when people ask how to get their large library to work well, the answer is almost always to connect an iPod to the USB port
If you do that, chances are it won't play since the host needs to speak Apple's proprietary protocol. And no, the solution isn't for all the world to bend over and support Apple's (and all of Apple's competitors) proprietary protocol(s).
Apple is far from the only "Mp3 media player company" that required some sort of music manager to update the library
Probably, but if you picked a random MP3 player, chances are it didn't required a music manager unless it's an iPod.
The original iPod was mocked upon it's release for not having the "essential features" some geeks considered essential yet sold in the hundreds of millions.
Same with the iPhone.
Good for Apple and their shareholders back then. I'm still glad I never bought and iPod or any other overpriced MP3 player on which I can't just drag and drop files and play them.
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I would say that a monopoly would be even worse.
Netflix is just a middle man. The best would be an open source platform where content creators could publish their content and they would decide the pricing.
What matters is the idle power consumption. Desktop CPUs are idle over 99% of the time.
at least on the Nexus 5, it was pretty easy to "unglue" the battery and replace it.
I don't need to swap batteries until my current one no longer keep its charge so I don't really care if the battery is "removable" as long as I can open the phone with tools and replace the battery.
What I don't like is that it is sometimes hard to find original quality batteries 3-4 years after launch which aren't overpriced or sold by obscure ebay sellers.
I have a 16GB iPhone 6. It was a mistake to go for the lowest tier of storage, and I regret it
It was also a mistake to choose a phone without expandable storage.
The iPod shuffle was very expensive for what you got. Cheaper and better music players included a display and didn't require iTunes.
You could board in a high pressure area and then some airlock before entering the low pressure tube. The passengers have to get in and out one way or another. Especially in a city mid point, it would be stupid to block the main tube while people get in and out.
Encourage businesses to change their working hours, so people are not travelling at peak times (honestly 9-5 is stupid, we have lights - we're not working in fields where daylight is required to work and we often deal with foreign clients/suppliers who keep different hours anyway).
So convenient for day care / schools and family life. You work from say, 4pm to midnight and your wife from 8am to 4pm. You never see each other and you never see your kids.
A more realistic option is flexible work hours.
Encourage businesses to set up in different areas, so that their employees can actually find affordable housing within easy reach.
It already exists. It's called rural areas. The only problem with that is finding two jobs in the same location is often not possible. Short of that, having all businesses in the center and people community from the outside is not that bad. This way you can live anywhere on the ring and find two jobs in the middle.
In a complex hyperloop system with multiple destinations (I know, we are being theoretical here), most likely the boarding tubes would be shared for different destinations, just like airports gates or runways can be used by different planes.
big airports can have more than one runway, just like hyperloops can have multiple boarding tubes
yeah, as long as you don't care about the destination
you can use firefox on android and you get pretty much all the advantages you listed, plus ad blocking support on your phone
Strawman argument.
You still see the ads when you mute or fast forward.
Not really, some DVRs have a skip 30 (or more) seconds button. By your logic I should feel guilty for using that button just like I should feel guilty to use an ad blocker.
Likewise, as the technology catches up and advertising adapts you'll get advertising one way or another, or be restricted to paid content
So be it. I'll be free to pay for that content or not. Most probably not, as it won't be worth it. Major web sites such as Wikipedia are doing just fine without ads or mandatory payments.
Passwords syncing and ad blocking are much more important to me than performance or battery life. To me, the only downside of Firefox right now is that it has become increasingly buggy especially with large numbers of tabs.
It's still the only major cross platform browser with syncing on all devices and good ad blocking support, so I'll continue to use it. The fact that it is open source and not owned by an evil corporation trying to spy on me (Google, Microsoft or Apple, mainly) is a bonus.
I'll watch Brave but it currently still sounds like yet another chromium (or could be webkit or firefox) clone/fork/derivative/rebrand that may or may not exist next year, and who may or may not have the resources to release security updates on a timely manner.
You must be the kind of person never muting/fast forwarding ads on TVs or doing something else. Otherwise, you wouldn't get that free content, isn't it?
it's on chrome, but not android
I don't use the browser for more than a few minutes so I don't think I would see any battery life difference.
But does it sync passwords and bookmarks using your chrome account?
I'll stick to ublock. Which means using Firefox because Chrome for Android doesn't support it.
Iphone is Hardware, Android is Software. How could a serious comparison be made?
You can compare high end Android phones (Pixel, Galaxy S) to iPhones. iPhone cameras typically loose.
Of course if you compare iPhone to low end Android devices costing one fifth of the price, the iPhone typically wins.
But in social situations, as soon as you pull out a 'real camera' you put up a wall of separation between yourself and people right in your vicinity.
BS. Taking a picture is taking a picture, no matter which device you are using. No such wall exists, except of course the wall around the garden when you use Apple products.
So? Apple developers can't solve the removable media problem? How did they do with floppies, CDs, USB thumb drives on Macs?
still, I don't see why your MP3 player must refuse to play a file drag and dropped to its file system to support that feature.
Sounds like a "let's make it crap for the masses for the special case where a DB is useful".
How about letting the users choose whether they want to use iTunes to manage their library or not?
My car plays MP3 on USB just fine. No, I don't have thousands of files on it. But I wouldn't want to have to click "next" thousands of times either.
Then, when people ask how to get their large library to work well, the answer is almost always to connect an iPod to the USB port
If you do that, chances are it won't play since the host needs to speak Apple's proprietary protocol. And no, the solution isn't for all the world to bend over and support Apple's (and all of Apple's competitors) proprietary protocol(s).
Apple is far from the only "Mp3 media player company" that required some sort of music manager to update the library
Probably, but if you picked a random MP3 player, chances are it didn't required a music manager unless it's an iPod.
You are clearly misinformed if you think not being able to drag and drop files is a requirement to be able to support playlists.
The original iPod was mocked upon it's release for not having the "essential features" some geeks considered essential yet sold in the hundreds of millions.
Same with the iPhone.
Good for Apple and their shareholders back then.
I'm still glad I never bought and iPod or any other overpriced MP3 player on which I can't just drag and drop files and play them.