You aren't listening. I still have that phone. The navigation is still free. I didn't lose it, because I made the conscious decision to stop upgrading the firmware. If I had kept the firmware up to date, I would have lost free navigation. When it came time to spend $700 on a new phone this summer, I didn't even consider Nokia.
Nevermind the actual specs. iPhone5 is slower than Samsung Galaxy S3 despite the fact that the S3 is three months older. iPhone5 doesn't have NFC. iPhone5 still has a tiny screen. iOS market share has been sliding for a while, but after a few million get burned with this device, I think iPhone6 will be a very tough sell.
Navigation was built in and came free with the phone. Then a firmware update removed the navigation feature unless you paid for it.
Not least because the software and maps are basically completely free, for as many devices as you care to load it up on. The idea is that detailed street maps of virtually the entire world are made available for free, along with route calculation and display of your GPS position
I remember getting my N95 just before the first iPhone came out. It came installed with a map app that included directions and navigation. Then a software update removed navigation and made it a paid feature. I refused to update and decided I didn't want a Nokia after that.
Nokia burned what good will they had with me. Apple is now doing the same thing to their users.
Apple's problem is primarily with the data, not the actual mapping application. Considering how deep Apple's pockets are, I'm really surprised they weren't able to license a better / larger set of GIS data. There are number of competing mapping companies out there, so I have a hard time believing that, given enough money, one of them wouldn't have provided Apple with what they needed.
Google is a data company. Apple isn't going to catch up to them quickly. Google has at least 10 years head start.
Now as for the actual application, I believe Apple's map application is superior to Google's in a number of ways. I've always preferred vector / real-time drawn maps over pre-rendered tiled raster maps (which is what Google's are).
Why do I keep hearing this? You realize Android has had vector based Google maps since 2010. Where have you been? Oh, on iOS... where Google maps was bitmap. Congratulations iOS users! Welcome to two years ago. Glad you could finally join us.
So as for Google maps, why hasn't Google released a stand alone app yet? After all, that's all Google Maps are with Android is an app on the marketplace. Is Apple blocking Google, or is Google (perhaps wisely) letting Apple go it alone for a bit so people will miss the functionality Google provided, then they can step in and save the day (before Apple has a chance to improve their product enough)?
Google has already submitted an app. They await approval from the App Store Fuhrer.
So what you are saying is that a guy who pours significant amounts of time into developing an algorithm, making it space and time efficient, modelling it to resolve concurrency issues, etc... should not get patent protection and that you are 'entitled' to use his algorithm without compensating him for all his hard work?
What "guy" are you talking about? Who does that? Software patents take years to acquire and cost $8000-$10,000 a piece. I've written many brilliant methods/functions/apps in various languages. I've been writing software for years. You know how many patents I have? Zero.
You know how many people will use code if it is patent encumbered? Again, zero. Nobody wants that shit. It's the kiss of death. Hell, most companies won't even touch code under the GPL because it isn't "free" enough. They only want BSD, MIT, or Apache license so they can take everything, redistribute it as their own, and never give anything back. Just like Apple.
Samsung: The Android implementation is different from Apple's. The view layout is hierarchical, which makes it different from what was patented.
Apple: They claim to use an inferior method (Apple douchebag putting words in their mouth), but the end result is the same. That means they've copied our invention.
Apple likes to argue that they invented everything. In other news, Apple is rumored to be putting together a copy of Pandora. Jackasses...
The frustrating thing is that The Climate Change Deniers insist that the BEST plan for humanity is to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING until after The Catastrophe has struck.
I, for one, fail to see the wisdom in that stance.
Hello Mr. Strawman. Not surprised you're modded +5 insightful. Religious fanatics tend to overlook rational thought and critical thinking. Logical fallacies are so much easier.
Please use the money to rebuild the WardenClyffe tower to Tesla's original specs. Build the working version that he never had the funding to complete! Wireless electricity for all:-)
They don't have to buy them in the US. Other markets will still have access to these smartphones. In the US, your choices will be limited by decisions made in kangaroo courts.
Not that you have much choice in the US anyway. Notice how the rest of the world had quad core phones back in April... Maybe Apple will "invent" quad core phones later this year. I wouldn't hold my breath on it though. They tend to deliver old hardware that's at least a year or two out of date on launch.
According to wikipedia 1 Sivert == 100 rem. 0.1rem would be 0.001 Sivert or 1 mSv. According to a quick google there were hotspots = 5.82 microsiverts per hour. That's about 51 mSv per year or an increase of 5.1rem.
Where is he measuring this 0.1 rem increase? On Japan's south island?
One of the "handsets" you can order is a sim card for 99 cents. They won't sell you this plan in store. You have to buy it online. And they won't sell you a decent phone with the plan. You can buy a Galaxy S3 on eBay to use, but you can't buy one from them in the store without a plan. They *will* sell you a handset with some other monthly plan if you want one right away, but you end up with a month of service you'll never really use. The real bitch with T-Mobile is finding a decent handset that does 1700, 1900, and 2100Mhz. I really wanted a Fujitsu quad core, but it doesn't have 1700mhz...:-/ Meizu 4core does from what I read though.
Why does it really matter whether you call it a "civil union" or "marriage"?... oops, I meant "assault weapon" or "assault rifle". [I'm all for gun rights, but I couldn't pass that one up:-)]
He can call it art, most human beings would call it creepy as hell, and last I checked you aren't supposed to be installing hidden spy equipment on Apple's display units.
Yes. This. The problem is marketing has no business designing software in the first place. They don't know their asses from a hole in the ground. They request UI designs that we as developers KNOW are slow, confusing, and/or doomed to fail. We tell them so, and they persist in their "vision."
Oh hai Marketings, you want a image gallery? I see your mockup. You didn't include pagination. What should that look like? Oh, Marketing doesn't *want* pagination. FAIL.
We don't let the passengers design the flight control panel. Why do we let marketing design web applications?
I'm fine with Google being free to promote race equality as long as I am free to disagree with them and promote segregation.
You evidently can't see it, but in 30 years, that's what you'll sound like. Good work, etching that in/. stone, Davide Marney. Your grand kids will be so proud:-/
If the classes are good, who cares who's on top or not? The whole bit about other students doing better than an in person one doesn't matter a bit to me. Neither does the whole degree / not degree thing.
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Again, the free navigation only came long after n95
No, the N95 came with free navigation. I have one. You are wrong.
You aren't listening. I still have that phone. The navigation is still free. I didn't lose it, because I made the conscious decision to stop upgrading the firmware. If I had kept the firmware up to date, I would have lost free navigation. When it came time to spend $700 on a new phone this summer, I didn't even consider Nokia.
It's not just iOS6. The iPhone5 is seriously substandard. Purple photos, Apple Maps, iPhone5's inability to handle LTE and data concurrently, easily scratched paint, and the new docking port with $30 adaptor makes iPhone5 a real lemon...
Nevermind the actual specs. iPhone5 is slower than Samsung Galaxy S3 despite the fact that the S3 is three months older. iPhone5 doesn't have NFC. iPhone5 still has a tiny screen. iOS market share has been sliding for a while, but after a few million get burned with this device, I think iPhone6 will be a very tough sell.
Navigation was built in and came free with the phone. Then a firmware update removed the navigation feature unless you paid for it.
I remember getting my N95 just before the first iPhone came out. It came installed with a map app that included directions and navigation. Then a software update removed navigation and made it a paid feature. I refused to update and decided I didn't want a Nokia after that.
Nokia burned what good will they had with me. Apple is now doing the same thing to their users.
Apple's problem is primarily with the data, not the actual mapping application. Considering how deep Apple's pockets are, I'm really surprised they weren't able to license a better / larger set of GIS data. There are number of competing mapping companies out there, so I have a hard time believing that, given enough money, one of them wouldn't have provided Apple with what they needed.
Google is a data company. Apple isn't going to catch up to them quickly. Google has at least 10 years head start.
Now as for the actual application, I believe Apple's map application is superior to Google's in a number of ways. I've always preferred vector / real-time drawn maps over pre-rendered tiled raster maps (which is what Google's are).
Why do I keep hearing this? You realize Android has had vector based Google maps since 2010. Where have you been? Oh, on iOS... where Google maps was bitmap. Congratulations iOS users! Welcome to two years ago. Glad you could finally join us.
So as for Google maps, why hasn't Google released a stand alone app yet? After all, that's all Google Maps are with Android is an app on the marketplace. Is Apple blocking Google, or is Google (perhaps wisely) letting Apple go it alone for a bit so people will miss the functionality Google provided, then they can step in and save the day (before Apple has a chance to improve their product enough)?
Google has already submitted an app. They await approval from the App Store Fuhrer.
So what you are saying is that a guy who pours significant amounts of time into developing an algorithm, making it space and time efficient, modelling it to resolve concurrency issues, etc... should not get patent protection and that you are 'entitled' to use his algorithm without compensating him for all his hard work?
What "guy" are you talking about? Who does that? Software patents take years to acquire and cost $8000-$10,000 a piece. I've written many brilliant methods/functions/apps in various languages. I've been writing software for years. You know how many patents I have? Zero.
You know how many people will use code if it is patent encumbered? Again, zero. Nobody wants that shit. It's the kiss of death. Hell, most companies won't even touch code under the GPL because it isn't "free" enough. They only want BSD, MIT, or Apache license so they can take everything, redistribute it as their own, and never give anything back. Just like Apple.
The Apple lawyer would like you to believe that.
Samsung: The Android implementation is different from Apple's. The view layout is hierarchical, which makes it different from what was patented.
Apple: They claim to use an inferior method (Apple douchebag putting words in their mouth), but the end result is the same. That means they've copied our invention.
Apple likes to argue that they invented everything. In other news, Apple is rumored to be putting together a copy of Pandora. Jackasses...
The frustrating thing is that The Climate Change Deniers insist that the BEST plan for humanity is to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING until after The Catastrophe has struck.
I, for one, fail to see the wisdom in that stance.
Hello Mr. Strawman. Not surprised you're modded +5 insightful. Religious fanatics tend to overlook rational thought and critical thinking. Logical fallacies are so much easier.
Please use the money to rebuild the WardenClyffe tower to Tesla's original specs. Build the working version that he never had the funding to complete! Wireless electricity for all :-)
Alarmists have been predicting an ice free arctic for at least half a century already. Even a stopped watch is right twice a day, eh?
They don't have to buy them in the US. Other markets will still have access to these smartphones. In the US, your choices will be limited by decisions made in kangaroo courts.
Not that you have much choice in the US anyway. Notice how the rest of the world had quad core phones back in April... Maybe Apple will "invent" quad core phones later this year. I wouldn't hold my breath on it though. They tend to deliver old hardware that's at least a year or two out of date on launch.
Fidler holding both tablets. Yeah, Apple's is totally original... :-|
WSJ probably got it from We're too lazy to write our own story dot com. What could possibly go wrong?
According to wikipedia 1 Sivert == 100 rem. 0.1rem would be 0.001 Sivert or 1 mSv. According to a quick google there were hotspots = 5.82 microsiverts per hour. That's about 51 mSv per year or an increase of 5.1rem.
Where is he measuring this 0.1 rem increase? On Japan's south island?
One of the "handsets" you can order is a sim card for 99 cents. They won't sell you this plan in store. You have to buy it online. And they won't sell you a decent phone with the plan. You can buy a Galaxy S3 on eBay to use, but you can't buy one from them in the store without a plan. They *will* sell you a handset with some other monthly plan if you want one right away, but you end up with a month of service you'll never really use. The real bitch with T-Mobile is finding a decent handset that does 1700, 1900, and 2100Mhz. I really wanted a Fujitsu quad core, but it doesn't have 1700mhz... :-/ Meizu 4core does from what I read though.
With unlimited web, 30 bucks gets you unlimited talk, text, and web too.
Why does it really matter whether you call it a "civil union" or "marriage"? ... oops, I meant "assault weapon" or "assault rifle". [I'm all for gun rights, but I couldn't pass that one up :-)]
He can call it art, most human beings would call it creepy as hell, and last I checked you aren't supposed to be installing hidden spy equipment on Apple's display units.
He was just doing it as a security measure. That's all.
developers can be really bad at designing web applications
If that's the case, they aren't very good developers. I *know* 500 thumbs are going to be a ridiculous amount of bandwidth. Marketing doesn't.
We tend to think of how the site is constructed, not how it's used, and design nice, orderly, awkward, unfriendly interfaces.
That's user interface design. Which, BTW, marketing ALSO has no fscking clue about. Marketing should be doing *marketing* and that's it.
Yes. This. The problem is marketing has no business designing software in the first place. They don't know their asses from a hole in the ground. They request UI designs that we as developers KNOW are slow, confusing, and/or doomed to fail. We tell them so, and they persist in their "vision."
Oh hai Marketings, you want a image gallery? I see your mockup. You didn't include pagination. What should that look like? Oh, Marketing doesn't *want* pagination. FAIL.
We don't let the passengers design the flight control panel. Why do we let marketing design web applications?
Verizon will sell your web browsing history, cell phone location and app usage data. They are not privacy champions.
I'm fine with Google being free to promote race equality as long as I am free to disagree with them and promote segregation.
You evidently can't see it, but in 30 years, that's what you'll sound like. Good work, etching that in /. stone, Davide Marney. Your grand kids will be so proud :-/
My next pc will be a smartphone.
If the classes are good, who cares who's on top or not? The whole bit about other students doing better than an in person one doesn't matter a bit to me. Neither does the whole degree / not degree thing.
It matters for Udacity's credibility.