Wikipedia has sales figures here and it lists PS3 as having worldwide sales of 38.1 million vs X-Box 360 sales of 41.7 million. That's hardly dominating, especially compared to the Wii's 73.97 million.
X-Box 360 is doing quite a bit better than PS3 in the U.S., but it's still not a complete blowout (18.6 million vs 11.1 million). The Wii's U.S. sales are around 30 million.
Also, see my comment here concerning X-Box 360 failure rates. That kind of shoddy quality control is going to catch up to Microsoft eventually.
What apps in the android market depend on HTC sense or Motorola Blur? I can tell you that the answer is approximately zero. There may be different UI overlays on those phones, but even those are user-replaceable (without rooting!) to a certain extent. The fragmentation argument is bullshit that Apple hypes because the open vs closed argument is already lost.
No, "SJ" is trying to frame the discussion in a manner that put his company's product in the best light. His exaggerations are designed to improve the marketability of Apple's products. Period.
Oh, and by the way, you can thank the KHTML developers for Webkit.
When what "was Microsoft"? Are you referring to the contract dispute between Sun and Microsoft wherein Microsoft violated the explicit terms of their contract?
The dispute between Oracle and Google is strictly a patent dispute. Oracle didn't produce any copyright infringement examples when they filed suit. Now, whether Google's implementation of Dalvik runs afoul of Oracle patents is an open question.
Rubbing alcohol will take that off without damaging the screen. Also, is phone vandalism via permanent marker a big problem where you work/live? That is just about the most lame damage example that I've ever heard.
The 65% failure number may be somewhat high, but the numbers in the two surveys I found aren't reassuring. There's no way that I would knowingly put my hard-earned money into a product that failed about half of the time. I can't believe that MS wasn't forced to recall the systems.
I've had the WDTV for over a year and it's an awesome device for playing your own media (works with almost any type of video file you throw at it including DVD.iso files). The Plus version adds netflix streaming and would be the one I would get now if I were purchasing it for the first time. I have mine hooked up to an external USB drive with my media stored on it.
Where on earth did you get this nonsense? Every TV that is capable of it advertises 1080p resolution. That mean 1080 lines of resolution or 1920x1080 pixels. A quick search on Amazon.com's bestsellers page for LCD Flat panels has 13 out of 24 advertising 1080p resolution. The televisions that provide the resolution that you mention (1366x768) are 720p (or 1080i) resolution.
Also people who buy Android tend to be cheaper, thus buying the cheaper Android devices, and are less likely to spend a lot of money on apps.
That's funny, because the best selling android phone costs exactly the same as an iPhone 4 with the same capacity. Maybe android phone buyers aren't cheaper, but more picky.
Often, I read complaints from the apple crowd about its competitors that boil down to "the apple product is more polished". But, they don't often refer to specific things that "lack polish" on the competitor. I think this kind of complaint is really just a thinly veiled "it isn't apple so I don't want it."
But, it's not making "more efficient use of existing hardware". It's using more hardware resources. More efficient means increased performance without increased resource requirements. It could cause a negative impact on overall system performance as it contends with other applications (like the aero window manager) for resources.
I'm not sure you know what the word "semantics" means either.
Flash on Android has a setting to only start flash items when you "click" on them. It's very similar to "flashblock" for firefox. So, you won't see any flash ads unless you really want to. I like being able to see video on websites that aren't youtube.
I have an older WDTV unit (not the "Live" version; mine does not have network.) and it works very well indeed. I have it connected to a small external hard drive. Plays almost any type of audio/video file you could imagine including DVD.iso images.
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Wikipedia has sales figures here and it lists PS3 as having worldwide sales of 38.1 million vs X-Box 360 sales of 41.7 million. That's hardly dominating, especially compared to the Wii's 73.97 million.
X-Box 360 is doing quite a bit better than PS3 in the U.S., but it's still not a complete blowout (18.6 million vs 11.1 million). The Wii's U.S. sales are around 30 million.
Also, see my comment here concerning X-Box 360 failure rates. That kind of shoddy quality control is going to catch up to Microsoft eventually.
This is what the creators of our government thought about corporations.
You can write (C and C++) native code on Android.
The Android Scripting Environment adds several scripting languages to Android.
You sir, deserve +1 Funny and a video mocking your grandfather's plight :-)
What apps in the android market depend on HTC sense or Motorola Blur? I can tell you that the answer is approximately zero. There may be different UI overlays on those phones, but even those are user-replaceable (without rooting!) to a certain extent. The fragmentation argument is bullshit that Apple hypes because the open vs closed argument is already lost.
No, "SJ" is trying to frame the discussion in a manner that put his company's product in the best light. His exaggerations are designed to improve the marketability of Apple's products. Period.
Oh, and by the way, you can thank the KHTML developers for Webkit.
Android is also more popular with people that don't want to use the steaming pile of crap that is iTunes.
However the value to slashdot has never been in the articles, it's been in the comments.
I'd say that's certainly true in light of the number of commenters that obviously didn't read the article before commenting.
When what "was Microsoft"? Are you referring to the contract dispute between Sun and Microsoft wherein Microsoft violated the explicit terms of their contract?
The dispute between Oracle and Google is strictly a patent dispute. Oracle didn't produce any copyright infringement examples when they filed suit. Now, whether Google's implementation of Dalvik runs afoul of Oracle patents is an open question.
Rubbing alcohol will take that off without damaging the screen. Also, is phone vandalism via permanent marker a big problem where you work/live? That is just about the most lame damage example that I've ever heard.
A survey of 5,000 Xbox 360 owners shows failure rate of 54.2% with over 40% reporting a *second* failure.
Another survey of 500,000 reports a failure rate of 42%.
The 65% failure number may be somewhat high, but the numbers in the two surveys I found aren't reassuring. There's no way that I would knowingly put my hard-earned money into a product that failed about half of the time. I can't believe that MS wasn't forced to recall the systems.
I've had the WDTV for over a year and it's an awesome device for playing your own media (works with almost any type of video file you throw at it including DVD .iso files). The Plus version adds netflix streaming and would be the one I would get now if I were purchasing it for the first time. I have mine hooked up to an external USB drive with my media stored on it.
The Apple giveth and the Apple taketh away...
Where on earth did you get this nonsense? Every TV that is capable of it advertises 1080p resolution. That mean 1080 lines of resolution or 1920x1080 pixels. A quick search on Amazon.com's bestsellers page for LCD Flat panels has 13 out of 24 advertising 1080p resolution. The televisions that provide the resolution that you mention (1366x768) are 720p (or 1080i) resolution.
I offer you a virtual +1 insightful or +1 funny. Take your pick. It will only improve your virtual karma, though.
But for mobile devices on wireless data networks, a 40% reduction in file size starts to become significant.
Also people who buy Android tend to be cheaper, thus buying the cheaper Android devices, and are less likely to spend a lot of money on apps.
That's funny, because the best selling android phone costs exactly the same as an iPhone 4 with the same capacity. Maybe android phone buyers aren't cheaper, but more picky.
Windows...
Bravo!
I have a Motorola Droid that's running Cyanogenmod. The D2 and DX have root, but I don't think you can replace the running kernel (yet).
Often, I read complaints from the apple crowd about its competitors that boil down to "the apple product is more polished". But, they don't often refer to specific things that "lack polish" on the competitor. I think this kind of complaint is really just a thinly veiled "it isn't apple so I don't want it."
There are a number of Android phones that you can "jailbreak" (root) and do what you want.
But, it's not making "more efficient use of existing hardware". It's using more hardware resources. More efficient means increased performance without increased resource requirements. It could cause a negative impact on overall system performance as it contends with other applications (like the aero window manager) for resources.
I'm not sure you know what the word "semantics" means either.
Flash on Android has a setting to only start flash items when you "click" on them. It's very similar to "flashblock" for firefox. So, you won't see any flash ads unless you really want to. I like being able to see video on websites that aren't youtube.
I have an older WDTV unit (not the "Live" version; mine does not have network.) and it works very well indeed. I have it connected to a small external hard drive. Plays almost any type of audio/video file you could imagine including DVD .iso images.