Yes and no. Flash drives (both inside laptops and inside tablets) killed the low cost netbook market (not that it killed it completely, but it put a serious damper on it).
Flash drives make laptops and tablets thinner and weight less, not just because they're smaller and weight less themselves, although that's part of it, but because they don't require those large batteries and they keep a charge for longer so you usually don't have to lug around an extra bulky power adapter with you.
Not to mention, they start up almost instantly, and since most of the time you're not worried about losing the entire charge, not having to hunt down a power outlet when you're at a coffee shop is one extra less hassle you have to contend with.
And yes, you could argue that the iPad killed the netbook market, but personally if I see a colleague desperately trying to take notes during a meeting with his iPad, I certainly feel more pity for him than envy. Why use a iPad for taking notes when you could easily be using a Macbook Pro, a Chromebook/Notebowook, or simply a pen and paper (sometimes even any ballpoint pen plus a napkin would be better). And unless you're a salesman and actually need a nice display device for your quick one-on-one sales presentations, or are on TV and are playing some kind of uber-cool CSI detective, there is no reason for you to be using an iPad to peck your notes awkwardly into.
And yes, I understand you can set up a nice little keyboard and a nice little stand for your iPad, but really what's the point of the simplicity of the iPad if you have to carry around and set up a bunch of fragile accessories almost everywhere you go. For me, even the screen unlocking gesture is one gesture too many for taking notes, I much prefer flipping my laptop open and see it magically light up in less than a second or two, while having access to the mechanical keyboard at the very same time it lights up.
Why create something, give it out for free, and then allow businesses to take your work, profit from it, and give nothing back?
You have to view this from the context of the Marketplace.
If there is already an open source GPL project that does the same thing as my own home-built proprietary one. The only real chance I have to compete with that existing open source project, aside from using marketing dollars (which I do not have), is by making my own project even more attractive to some people than this other project.
In other words, I either have the choice of letting my project fall into abject obscurity, and in that scenario I get nothing back from it anyway, or I have the choice of letting go of it under some MIT license, and then may be -- just may be -- my software project may have a chance to become widely used by others (although, even this part is not guaranteed).
Verizon may have become a member of the GSM Association just this last year, but it's still using CDMA, plus its own brand of 4G, so in effect the GSMA is probably criticizing Verizon. After all, the entire World has already standardized on GSM, even Mainland China has, but there still remains one or two hold outs here in the US, mainly Verizon and Sprint. Those two don't want to play in the same sandbox with others (although, they have to when their business customers ask for World phones).
Yes, but how much did Apple prepay Samsung? 10 billion dollars? Apple prepays for everything these days. It's a bargaining chip they can use, plus it will probably be safer invested in their own inventory than in the stock market somewhere.
2.2(Froyo) and 2.3(Gingerbread) are a night and day difference in every way possible.
-The battery management issues went from abysmal to acceptable between these two kernel versions.
Citation please. From abysmal to acceptable is not a measurement I can grok.
-The user interface is way cleaner and better thought out.
The circular lock screen looks better. I admit. Is that all?
-Entire genres of the Android Market are unavailable when you have an out of date version of the kernel because app developers like myself actually use the features released in new SDK APIs.
So you're telling me that you wrote off something like 99% of the Android handsets as soon as that new SDK came out? You should have waited until now at the very least.
Specifically Gingerbread updated the "SensorManager" Class to include updated Sensor Fusion functions which combine accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope sensor data to create an Inertial Navigation System. Froyo has the technology necessary for a graduate student to build a satelite. Gingerbread has the technology necessary for a middle schooler to build a satellite. 1 API update changed technology accessibility by an entire decade of education. This doesn't even touch on the difference in development hours required for the graduate student before and after.
I just had to buy a new Samsung Phone off of eBay because Motorola has their head up their ass. I can root the Epic 4G and install any kernel version I fancy. Motorola's locked bootloader (aka eFuse) makes this impossible and means I'm constantly having to develop apps with 1 hand tied behind my back guaranteeing that I fail to keep pace with the competition.
As an example, Google released the "Google API Level 10"(Android 2.3.4) which updated the USB adapter to add functionality for the new "Google ADK". This update separates the world of Android phones in to TWO TYPES: -Those with 2.3.4 and up have Arduino level ease of interfacing to hardware like relays, potentiometers, oscilloscopes, servo motors etc. -Those with 2.3.3 and below which cannot do this without doing something hokey like Bluetooth or the Sparkfun IOIO.
The first type is in an entirely different league of phone from the second.
In conclusion, every Android Update is a critical update and should be available in hours, not years.
Of course, a developer should have the latest SDK on one of his phones, but I was speaking about my friend who is not a developer. My friend doesn't have an ADK and his one-year old phone certainly didn't have a gyroscope chip in it yet. If anything, you've just made my original point. What's the point of crying foul about upgrading software to hardware he doesn't have in the first place?
It's not the idea that's important, it's the execution that matters.
For proof of this, just take a look at any public transportation app in the Market/App store for your area. In my area, there are many apps that deal with the BART transportation system for instance, and yet if you read the user reviews of those same apps in their respective app stores/market, none of the users believe that any of those apps are equivalent in terms of functionality/usability.
And if your area doesn't publish reliable next-bus information publicly, then any extra work you do crowdsourcing/collecting the data, correcting/massaging the data, and updating it at different intervals, will help you differentiate the quality of your app vs. the quality of the app of your competitors.
I get what you're saying. I just find it ironic that you'd be downgrading to an iPhone all because you're not getting all the latest upgrades/updates on Android.
You remind me of someone who was complaining about not getting Android 2.3.x when he already was on 2.2.x and Android 2.3 wasn't going to offer him any feature that he was actually going to use, and yet, he was still upset that his phone wasn't getting that mystical 2.3 update for some reason.
Why do you think Steve Jobs pushed to hard with AT&T and demanded full control over the OS?
So that no one could provide 4G service for the iPhone/iPad for a couple of years? So that no one could use FaceTime ahead of schedule? Am I getting close? Is any one else wandering why the iPad still looks like an over-sized phone and the Android Honeycomb tablet simply doesn't? What's up with that?
Money grubbing cell carriers would rather have your device locked down, so if you want the latest features, you buy a new phone.
Yes, money grubbing Apple would rather have your device locked down, so if you want the latest features, you buy a new phone/tablet.
Your explanation actually makes complete sense. Thank you.
Also it cites the PCI standard, but that applies only to a full credit card number that has been transmitted already.
In this case, it only keeps the 4 digits of the card number and the expiration date in plain text on your own phone. It's not bad compared to a regular wallet that will keep the full credit card number, the expiration date, the full name, and the verification code as well, all written in plain text on some flat piece of plastic.
Don't forget, Android's target demographic is also buyers who pay top dollars for having a mobile hotspot and a phone that can download things at top speed (Personally, I don't get the the advertised speeds, but I still get 1 MB/secs inside a building). Pray tell, what speeds are you guys getting on your shiny iPhones? Are you guys still on Edge/2G?
The truth is that Android developers are still betting more heavily on Android (even if they're making less than iOS developers). That's really what is making you guys so all upset, the steadfast irrationality of Android developers. Isn't it? And you can tell me that iOS developers are going to be making more money than me until you're blue in the face, but that really doesn't matter to me.
Those iOS developers already have a huge headstart. Of course, they should be making more money!! They've been in this business longer than I have. Don't tell me that someone like me, with no Mac, no iPhone, and no Objective-C experience, should start betting on iOS for some weird reason. Why should I? The switching cost is as high for me to switch to iOS as it ever was (even with the new cross-platform frameworks out there, the competition in the Apple app store is not getting any better).
Furthermore, the tide is switching. You guys know it. I know it. Even marketing departments prefer Android apps, and it's not just about the numbers of activations either. At least with an Android app, a company can launch an expensive nationwide marketing campaign, and know that their app will be in the Market when they get to their official launch date (assuming their developers are on-time). With Apple's app store, they still have no such assurances. Their app can be delayed indefinitely, for the most trivial of reasons, while they're spending millions of dollars in the mean time burning money to advertise it in the mainstream media.
The funny thing is that even Windows Phone market has comparatively more developers, apps and games.
Citation please.
Are you counting in your figures the number former Windows mobile developers? Or former Nokia developers? I can't imagine anyone, in the know, making his kind of statement with a straight face. With the Windows Phone Marketshare crashing from 2.7% to just 1.5% this Q3 2011, I don't think many Windows Phone Developers are happy these days, and I very much doubt any of the claims you're making about their numbers, their number of mobile apps, and their number of mobile games, are true at all.
They provide great tools, XNA, Silverlight and you can code with.NET.
Also, you may be a huge fan of Microsoft, but I question the fact that you're even Windows Phone Mobile developer yourself, or that you're even friends with any. Otherwise, you'd know that Microsoft just basically gave up on Silverlight in favor of HTML5, much to the loud objections of the thousands developers that were already invested Silverlight.
There's no way you're going to know the real price of any of the applications included, any more than you'll know how much the in-car computer system itself costs.
You mean to say you're going to sell everything as just one package deal, with no app store. I find that hard to believe. And what about five years down the road, when the parent driving the car wants to buy an app for her kid to keep the kid occupied? Not even then?
And what about map updates? Will you still be charging $300 for them? I kind of doubt that too. These days, the consumer is just getting too used to the free up-to-date maps and the free turn-by-turn navigation provided by Google.
Are we asking about who is going to be the biggest? Or are we asking about which is going to be the most flexible and responsive? Take the Toyota Prius for instance, why couldn't any American or German manufacturer come up with that? It seems now, everybody is doing it, but they're just following the lead of Toyota.
I agree with your main argument, but I just have some questions about your last point. Did this guy give consent to the restraining order? Or in other words, did he ever have the option to refuse the restraining order?
Your point doesn't make sense to me. I would expect many stalkers to refuse to even show up for restraining order hearings in the first place. And I wouldn't expect this to nullify a restraining order just because the guy/gall refuses to show up. That would just be too easy.
Emails, notes and letters sent to specific individuals is not publishing, it is direct communication which he can be ordered to cease without violating his fundamental constitutional right to free speech.
He was already told to stop doing that, but he made up some fake personas on facebook, used those fake personas to get close to her friends, her family, and her Goldman Sachs coworkers, for the sole purpose of sending them the link to his blog.
He does not publish the blog -at- anyone. He publishes it for everyone.
Like I said from this guy's actions, it's pretty clear that his purpose was a very specific target audience. If I were the judge, I'd just throw him in jail by now. It's pretty clear to me this guy is going to use any means necessary to get around the instructions written in the restraining order.
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Yes and no. Flash drives (both inside laptops and inside tablets) killed the low cost netbook market (not that it killed it completely, but it put a serious damper on it).
Flash drives make laptops and tablets thinner and weight less, not just because they're smaller and weight less themselves, although that's part of it, but because they don't require those large batteries and they keep a charge for longer so you usually don't have to lug around an extra bulky power adapter with you.
Not to mention, they start up almost instantly, and since most of the time you're not worried about losing the entire charge, not having to hunt down a power outlet when you're at a coffee shop is one extra less hassle you have to contend with.
And yes, you could argue that the iPad killed the netbook market, but personally if I see a colleague desperately trying to take notes during a meeting with his iPad, I certainly feel more pity for him than envy. Why use a iPad for taking notes when you could easily be using a Macbook Pro, a Chromebook/Notebowook, or simply a pen and paper (sometimes even any ballpoint pen plus a napkin would be better). And unless you're a salesman and actually need a nice display device for your quick one-on-one sales presentations, or are on TV and are playing some kind of uber-cool CSI detective, there is no reason for you to be using an iPad to peck your notes awkwardly into.
And yes, I understand you can set up a nice little keyboard and a nice little stand for your iPad, but really what's the point of the simplicity of the iPad if you have to carry around and set up a bunch of fragile accessories almost everywhere you go. For me, even the screen unlocking gesture is one gesture too many for taking notes, I much prefer flipping my laptop open and see it magically light up in less than a second or two, while having access to the mechanical keyboard at the very same time it lights up.
Why create something, give it out for free, and then allow businesses to take your work, profit from it, and give nothing back?
You have to view this from the context of the Marketplace.
If there is already an open source GPL project that does the same thing as my own home-built proprietary one. The only real chance I have to compete with that existing open source project, aside from using marketing dollars (which I do not have), is by making my own project even more attractive to some people than this other project.
In other words, I either have the choice of letting my project fall into abject obscurity, and in that scenario I get nothing back from it anyway, or I have the choice of letting go of it under some MIT license, and then may be -- just may be -- my software project may have a chance to become widely used by others (although, even this part is not guaranteed).
No, I think the opposite is true.
Verizon may have become a member of the GSM Association just this last year, but it's still using CDMA, plus its own brand of 4G, so in effect the GSMA is probably criticizing Verizon. After all, the entire World has already standardized on GSM, even Mainland China has, but there still remains one or two hold outs here in the US, mainly Verizon and Sprint. Those two don't want to play in the same sandbox with others (although, they have to when their business customers ask for World phones).
...says Tarasiuk, who also gets polygraphed regularly, though he won't be more specific.
Polygraphed?
I hope they also check each employee's horoscope just to make sure.
Chrome automatically updates all old versions to their newest one while IE doesn't.
So basically, it does the exact opposite of what Google does for Android.
Yes, but how much did Apple prepay Samsung? 10 billion dollars? Apple prepays for everything these days. It's a bargaining chip they can use, plus it will probably be safer invested in their own inventory than in the stock market somewhere.
The number is 1,100 according to the article. That's still a pretty low number. I wonder if those chips will get shipped to China for assembly.
You're an uninformed idiot.
Thanks, this post looks promising.
2.2(Froyo) and 2.3(Gingerbread) are a night and day difference in every way possible.
-The battery management issues went from abysmal to acceptable between these two kernel versions.
Citation please. From abysmal to acceptable is not a measurement I can grok.
-The user interface is way cleaner and better thought out.
The circular lock screen looks better. I admit. Is that all?
-Entire genres of the Android Market are unavailable when you have an out of date version of the kernel because app developers like myself actually use the features released in new SDK APIs.
So you're telling me that you wrote off something like 99% of the Android handsets as soon as that new SDK came out? You should have waited until now at the very least.
Specifically Gingerbread updated the "SensorManager" Class to include updated Sensor Fusion functions which combine accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope sensor data to create an Inertial Navigation System. Froyo has the technology necessary for a graduate student to build a satelite. Gingerbread has the technology necessary for a middle schooler to build a satellite. 1 API update changed technology accessibility by an entire decade of education. This doesn't even touch on the difference in development hours required for the graduate student before and after.
I just had to buy a new Samsung Phone off of eBay because Motorola has their head up their ass. I can root the Epic 4G and install any kernel version I fancy. Motorola's locked bootloader (aka eFuse) makes this impossible and means I'm constantly having to develop apps with 1 hand tied behind my back guaranteeing that I fail to keep pace with the competition.
As an example, Google released the "Google API Level 10"(Android 2.3.4) which updated the USB adapter to add functionality for the new "Google ADK". This update separates the world of Android phones in to TWO TYPES:
-Those with 2.3.4 and up have Arduino level ease of interfacing to hardware like relays, potentiometers, oscilloscopes, servo motors etc.
-Those with 2.3.3 and below which cannot do this without doing something hokey like Bluetooth or the Sparkfun IOIO.
The first type is in an entirely different league of phone from the second.
In conclusion, every Android Update is a critical update and should be available in hours, not years.
Of course, a developer should have the latest SDK on one of his phones, but I was speaking about my friend who is not a developer. My friend doesn't have an ADK and his one-year old phone certainly didn't have a gyroscope chip in it yet. If anything, you've just made my original point. What's the point of crying foul about upgrading software to hardware he doesn't have in the first place?
It's not the idea that's important, it's the execution that matters.
For proof of this, just take a look at any public transportation app in the Market/App store for your area. In my area, there are many apps that deal with the BART transportation system for instance, and yet if you read the user reviews of those same apps in their respective app stores/market, none of the users believe that any of those apps are equivalent in terms of functionality/usability.
And if your area doesn't publish reliable next-bus information publicly, then any extra work you do crowdsourcing/collecting the data, correcting/massaging the data, and updating it at different intervals, will help you differentiate the quality of your app vs. the quality of the app of your competitors.
Either that, or he was just the type of person who wanted to disagree with everybody in the room.
So for all we know, he could just be a linux desktop user.
I get what you're saying. I just find it ironic that you'd be downgrading to an iPhone all because you're not getting all the latest upgrades/updates on Android.
You remind me of someone who was complaining about not getting Android 2.3.x when he already was on 2.2.x and Android 2.3 wasn't going to offer him any feature that he was actually going to use, and yet, he was still upset that his phone wasn't getting that mystical 2.3 update for some reason.
Make sure their 4G coverage goes inside your home. For me Sprint doesn't, but Verizon does. The extra bandwidth is always handy.
I'm replacing my Droid Incredible next month, and this very issue is steering me towards an iPhone 4S...
Yeah, good luck getting the update to 4G on iPhone, it's already two years late and counting.
Why do you think Steve Jobs pushed to hard with AT&T and demanded full control over the OS?
So that no one could provide 4G service for the iPhone/iPad for a couple of years? So that no one could use FaceTime ahead of schedule? Am I getting close? Is any one else wandering why the iPad still looks like an over-sized phone and the Android Honeycomb tablet simply doesn't? What's up with that?
Money grubbing cell carriers would rather have your device locked down, so if you want the latest features, you buy a new phone.
Yes, money grubbing Apple would rather have your device locked down, so if you want the latest features, you buy a new phone/tablet.
Your explanation actually makes complete sense. Thank you.
Dear iPhone user,
I'm afraid your update to 4G is already two years late and it's still nowhere in sight.
Good luck with that.
Also it cites the PCI standard, but that applies only to a full credit card number that has been transmitted already.
In this case, it only keeps the 4 digits of the card number and the expiration date in plain text on your own phone. It's not bad compared to a regular wallet that will keep the full credit card number, the expiration date, the full name, and the verification code as well, all written in plain text on some flat piece of plastic.
Don't forget, Android's target demographic is also buyers who pay top dollars for having a mobile hotspot and a phone that can download things at top speed (Personally, I don't get the the advertised speeds, but I still get 1 MB/secs inside a building). Pray tell, what speeds are you guys getting on your shiny iPhones? Are you guys still on Edge/2G?
Android is the new Windows...and the corporate sector will never adopt Android
So you're saying that Android is the new Windows and that the corporate sector will never adopt something like Windows?
Putting all the rhetoric aside.
The truth is that Android developers are still betting more heavily on Android (even if they're making less than iOS developers). That's really what is making you guys so all upset, the steadfast irrationality of Android developers. Isn't it? And you can tell me that iOS developers are going to be making more money than me until you're blue in the face, but that really doesn't matter to me.
Those iOS developers already have a huge headstart. Of course, they should be making more money!! They've been in this business longer than I have. Don't tell me that someone like me, with no Mac, no iPhone, and no Objective-C experience, should start betting on iOS for some weird reason. Why should I? The switching cost is as high for me to switch to iOS as it ever was (even with the new cross-platform frameworks out there, the competition in the Apple app store is not getting any better).
Furthermore, the tide is switching. You guys know it. I know it. Even marketing departments prefer Android apps, and it's not just about the numbers of activations either. At least with an Android app, a company can launch an expensive nationwide marketing campaign, and know that their app will be in the Market when they get to their official launch date (assuming their developers are on-time). With Apple's app store, they still have no such assurances. Their app can be delayed indefinitely, for the most trivial of reasons, while they're spending millions of dollars in the mean time burning money to advertise it in the mainstream media.
The funny thing is that even Windows Phone market has comparatively more developers, apps and games.
Citation please.
Are you counting in your figures the number former Windows mobile developers? Or former Nokia developers? I can't imagine anyone, in the know, making his kind of statement with a straight face. With the Windows Phone Marketshare crashing from 2.7% to just 1.5% this Q3 2011, I don't think many Windows Phone Developers are happy these days, and I very much doubt any of the claims you're making about their numbers, their number of mobile apps, and their number of mobile games, are true at all.
They provide great tools, XNA, Silverlight and you can code with .NET.
Also, you may be a huge fan of Microsoft, but I question the fact that you're even Windows Phone Mobile developer yourself, or that you're even friends with any. Otherwise, you'd know that Microsoft just basically gave up on Silverlight in favor of HTML5, much to the loud objections of the thousands developers that were already invested Silverlight.
In-car systems don't have app stores.
Not yet anyway.
There's no way you're going to know the real price of any of the applications included, any more than you'll know how much the in-car computer system itself costs.
You mean to say you're going to sell everything as just one package deal, with no app store. I find that hard to believe. And what about five years down the road, when the parent driving the car wants to buy an app for her kid to keep the kid occupied? Not even then?
And what about map updates? Will you still be charging $300 for them? I kind of doubt that too. These days, the consumer is just getting too used to the free up-to-date maps and the free turn-by-turn navigation provided by Google.
In fact Volkswagen (Germany) is on-course to become the largest car manufacturer in the world.
Yes, this gives us an idea of which company you're working with (and/or which country you're from).
That's what happens when your ego is invested in some entity, you start answering questions that no one even asked, nor even cares about.
Are we asking about who is going to be the biggest? Or are we asking about which is going to be the most flexible and responsive? Take the Toyota Prius for instance, why couldn't any American or German manufacturer come up with that? It seems now, everybody is doing it, but they're just following the lead of Toyota.
I agree with your main argument, but I just have some questions about your last point. Did this guy give consent to the restraining order? Or in other words, did he ever have the option to refuse the restraining order?
Your point doesn't make sense to me. I would expect many stalkers to refuse to even show up for restraining order hearings in the first place. And I wouldn't expect this to nullify a restraining order just because the guy/gall refuses to show up. That would just be too easy.
Emails, notes and letters sent to specific individuals is not publishing, it is direct communication which he can be ordered to cease without violating his fundamental constitutional right to free speech.
He was already told to stop doing that, but he made up some fake personas on facebook, used those fake personas to get close to her friends, her family, and her Goldman Sachs coworkers, for the sole purpose of sending them the link to his blog.
He does not publish the blog -at- anyone. He publishes it for everyone.
Like I said from this guy's actions, it's pretty clear that his purpose was a very specific target audience. If I were the judge, I'd just throw him in jail by now. It's pretty clear to me this guy is going to use any means necessary to get around the instructions written in the restraining order.