Nothing of course. Most end users aren't geeks, they just want a product that works and is easy to use.
Many people stick with Windows due to the familiar user interface. But with Android how can anyone know what interface you're going to get? You can end up in the position of having a phone where the UI is great but the hardware sucks, only to see a phone with great hardware and a UI that sucks.
Many OEMs using Android are parasites, they are taking the OS, sticking their own UI on it and not contributing anything back!
We had this bootless technology in the 80s and earlier. ROMs were used for many things. Ultimately the bloat took over and ROM wasn't big enough, plus software changes so fast now too.
Some pretty big players in overpriced hardware and software in there. Adobe, Microsoft and Quark being three who are big players in proprietary document creation software.
How do you think the world got widescreen? everyone was happy with the squarer sized films until TV came along. TV sales resulted in less people going to the cinema so they came up with widescreen ratios.
3D has been tried any times, what is new is the software and camera technology to make it work better. But it's still a gimmick and just gets in the way of making the film.
The whole case is about cashing in on the success of Android. Oracle sells dull clunky buggy database software and they'd love to get some revenue from the consumer market.
Microsoft is two to three years behind everyone else now. They have an OS that is about equivalent to iPhone OS2.
That's all fine and dandy if we were in 2008 and Android was still a clunky geek OS on rubbish handsets, but it's on the up now. Many of the OEMs who were skinning WinMo are now doing so with Android instead.
People who buy Apple moan more, they expect it to be better than anything else. It's not so much that Apple has inferior products, it's that the owners are very vocal in their dissatisfaction at even the slightest problem. Things that owners of other brands would just live with.
Try reading Apple forums sometime, it's full of people who are annoyed that Apple won't give them a new phone because they dropped it and it broke. Or they left it in their pocket and washed it in their washing machine, but Apple won't give them a new one.
Surely if you're doing A4 DTP then you'd get a rotatable monitor. I'm sure people would have loved such technology years ago. Being able to buy a normal screen and rotate for A4. Your only option years ago was an A4 CRT monitor which was very expensive.
How do you think these big companies remain so big? they have to raise lots of money to cover their staff and infrastructure costs alone, never mind R&D and so on.
Look at Microsoft Office home and business, £187 in the UK. That's a lot of money for office software, probably about £150 profit too!
Objective C is part of the main development environment of OSX. It is the main development language of OSX. OSX is based on NeXT and that used Objective C in the development environment too.
C++ extensions were only added to OSX due to Adobe not wanting to rewrite all their applications. Apple have been trying to kill off the C++ API (Cocoa) for years.
On a mobile device you can't realistically have numerous runtime environments just because developers are lazy. Android only really lets you code in one language, a Java derivative (or rip off if you side with Oracle) with some potential for native libraries.
What do you have against Objective C? it's a really nice language to use and some of it's useful syntax features have been lifted and put in.NET 4. Things such as named parameters, so you can see the names and values of parameters to a method/function instead of just values.
In the case of Microsoft it seems to be the case anyway.
They have used the news of a competitor being sued for IP infringement in their own interests numerous times now. Just recently with Google and Oracle over the Android Java implementation.
Maybe if they concentrated on making their products better and gave people a genuine reason to upgrade then they wouldn't need so much FUD?
What is surprising is that it seems that there is little or no involvement of the police or law enforcement agencies in this.
What appears to have happened is private companies have been granted permission to sample Internet traffic and this information is then made available to these dubious legal firms who just spam people with demands for payment.
It probably is time to start again. Microsoft could have carried on with the old Windows Mobile. They could have carried on with Win9x architecture, in the end they realised both were tired and not modern enough.
Indeed. Plus a desktop firewall can prompt you to allow or deny specific applications to access the Internet.
Typically firewalls are looking at port numbers and can't always tell where the traffic is coming from unless it inspects packets for obvious traffic types.
Linux has way too much choice in terms of audio systems, desktops, audio drivers and so on. I just tried to use it for MIDI and audio work and wished to hell that someone would just put their foot down and have a standard audio driver and mix system.
Can you imagine if there were about 5 different X servers? it would be a nightmare. So why there's Jack, ALSA and then all the sound daemons, artas, esound.....grrr annoying. All you want is a low latency sound system which will mix all audio from each application into one sound stream or allow routing to specific output jacks.
I use what works for me, Windows didn't - too unstable timing, Linux didn't - too much lousy complicated software, OSX does. Logic Studio is a dream to use.
This is the problem with Apple's hardware line. There just isn't really a computer you could have in offices. iMacs are too nice, Mac Minis are too small, Mac Pros are too costly and again, Macbooks and Macbook pros are too nice.
If they could only do a slightly duller, cheaper Mac for business then OSX would be in more offices.
OSX has Office, it has plenty of Office alternatives and it's a hell of a lot easier to use and support than Linux.
Seems to be a common thing with people who buy Apple, they buy it and expect the feature to be added instead of being happy with what it does at time of purchase.
Nobody else seems to suffer this annoyance.
Who cares about flash games, plenty of decent native apps for iOS. The people moaning about flash are wanting to stream porn on the phone.
Well they only have to build the OS. It's the OEMs who have to licence it for phones and given how little the fees probably are for Android I think WP7 has to offer something better.
Not to mention that the hardware has to be slightly more bespoke for WP7, so it's not like they can easily swap graphics over on the buttons to support both platforms.
The biggest problem with phone OEMs is their unwillingness to provide good long lasting support for their phones. I kept my iPhone 3G for two years, I can imagine that would have been 12 months or less if the device was a HTC phone. The hardware is capable of great things and you only have to update the software to add more capabilities. But the OEMs just want you to keep buying hardware, so the phones never last as long as they should.
The gaming market was easy for Microsoft, Windows is the gaming OS of choice. XBox has DirectX and similar API so many games were easy to write or port. They released at a good point in time with a console that supported online gaming. PS2 and gamecube didn't do online gaming.
Phones are a lot different since people are accustomed to having lots of software applications to install with Android and iOS. It's going to take a while to get software available for the WP7 platform and the OS itself is lacking things that even Apple were slow to add (multitasking, cut and paste).
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Maybe, maybe not.
To do so would result in all previous software not being allowed to run since you would have to prevent non-App Store software from being used.
Apple won't do it, the Mac isn't popular enough and it's a general purpose computer not a handheld device.
So what does that mean to the end user?
Nothing of course. Most end users aren't geeks, they just want a product that works and is easy to use.
Many people stick with Windows due to the familiar user interface. But with Android how can anyone know what interface you're going to get? You can end up in the position of having a phone where the UI is great but the hardware sucks, only to see a phone with great hardware and a UI that sucks.
Many OEMs using Android are parasites, they are taking the OS, sticking their own UI on it and not contributing anything back!
We had this bootless technology in the 80s and earlier. ROMs were used for many things. Ultimately the bloat took over and ROM wasn't big enough, plus software changes so fast now too.
I can see it now, parents suing for past 'damage' caused by wifi.
I think the fear of wifi and just anything generating signals or god forbid magnetism is worse than the actual effects of it.
What about all the satellites beaming down radio waves at GHz frequencies? surely that does some harm? who's for a tinfoil umbrella?
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Some pretty big players in overpriced hardware and software in there. Adobe, Microsoft and Quark being three who are big players in proprietary document creation software.
How do you think the world got widescreen? everyone was happy with the squarer sized films until TV came along. TV sales resulted in less people going to the cinema so they came up with widescreen ratios.
3D has been tried any times, what is new is the software and camera technology to make it work better. But it's still a gimmick and just gets in the way of making the film.
Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board. So what?
The whole case is about cashing in on the success of Android. Oracle sells dull clunky buggy database software and they'd love to get some revenue from the consumer market.
Microsoft is two to three years behind everyone else now. They have an OS that is about equivalent to iPhone OS2.
That's all fine and dandy if we were in 2008 and Android was still a clunky geek OS on rubbish handsets, but it's on the up now. Many of the OEMs who were skinning WinMo are now doing so with Android instead.
People who buy Apple moan more, they expect it to be better than anything else. It's not so much that Apple has inferior products, it's that the owners are very vocal in their dissatisfaction at even the slightest problem. Things that owners of other brands would just live with.
Try reading Apple forums sometime, it's full of people who are annoyed that Apple won't give them a new phone because they dropped it and it broke. Or they left it in their pocket and washed it in their washing machine, but Apple won't give them a new one.
Do people really need to print stuff these days?
Surely if you're doing A4 DTP then you'd get a rotatable monitor. I'm sure people would have loved such technology years ago. Being able to buy a normal screen and rotate for A4. Your only option years ago was an A4 CRT monitor which was very expensive.
Motorola have been in the electronics business for a considerable amount of time. Motorola demonstrated the first mobile phone in the 1970s.
Okay, maybe some of Motorola's patents have gone now. But it's still a risk to sue a company with such a diverse number of past innovations.
Something out of the Philip K Dick novel Minority Report, Spielberg shouldn't get credit for the ideas.
So you think everyone should work for free?
How do you think these big companies remain so big? they have to raise lots of money to cover their staff and infrastructure costs alone, never mind R&D and so on.
Look at Microsoft Office home and business, £187 in the UK. That's a lot of money for office software, probably about £150 profit too!
Objective C is part of the main development environment of OSX. It is the main development language of OSX. OSX is based on NeXT and that used Objective C in the development environment too.
C++ extensions were only added to OSX due to Adobe not wanting to rewrite all their applications. Apple have been trying to kill off the C++ API (Cocoa) for years.
On a mobile device you can't realistically have numerous runtime environments just because developers are lazy. Android only really lets you code in one language, a Java derivative (or rip off if you side with Oracle) with some potential for native libraries.
What do you have against Objective C? it's a really nice language to use and some of it's useful syntax features have been lifted and put in .NET 4. Things such as named parameters, so you can see the names and values of parameters to a method/function instead of just values.
In the case of Microsoft it seems to be the case anyway.
They have used the news of a competitor being sued for IP infringement in their own interests numerous times now. Just recently with Google and Oracle over the Android Java implementation.
Maybe if they concentrated on making their products better and gave people a genuine reason to upgrade then they wouldn't need so much FUD?
What is surprising is that it seems that there is little or no involvement of the police or law enforcement agencies in this.
What appears to have happened is private companies have been granted permission to sample Internet traffic and this information is then made available to these dubious legal firms who just spam people with demands for payment.
It probably is time to start again. Microsoft could have carried on with the old Windows Mobile. They could have carried on with Win9x architecture, in the end they realised both were tired and not modern enough.
Symbian's origins are nearly 20 years old now.
Mainly due to it running on cheap, boring phones for business. Small screened devices with full keypads
There are lots of these phones out there, to call them "smartphones" is to use a rather old fashioned description for smartphones.
While a smartphone by definition is a phone which can be expanded and have extra software installed, a modern smartphone is so much more.
If you split the smartphone market by business and consumers the figures would be a lot more interesting.
Indeed. Plus a desktop firewall can prompt you to allow or deny specific applications to access the Internet.
Typically firewalls are looking at port numbers and can't always tell where the traffic is coming from unless it inspects packets for obvious traffic types.
I can say the same about Windows and Linux.
Linux has way too much choice in terms of audio systems, desktops, audio drivers and so on. I just tried to use it for MIDI and audio work and wished to hell that someone would just put their foot down and have a standard audio driver and mix system.
Can you imagine if there were about 5 different X servers? it would be a nightmare. So why there's Jack, ALSA and then all the sound daemons, artas, esound.....grrr annoying. All you want is a low latency sound system which will mix all audio from each application into one sound stream or allow routing to specific output jacks.
I use what works for me, Windows didn't - too unstable timing, Linux didn't - too much lousy complicated software, OSX does. Logic Studio is a dream to use.
This is the problem with Apple's hardware line. There just isn't really a computer you could have in offices. iMacs are too nice, Mac Minis are too small, Mac Pros are too costly and again, Macbooks and Macbook pros are too nice.
If they could only do a slightly duller, cheaper Mac for business then OSX would be in more offices.
OSX has Office, it has plenty of Office alternatives and it's a hell of a lot easier to use and support than Linux.
Seems to be a common thing with people who buy Apple, they buy it and expect the feature to be added instead of being happy with what it does at time of purchase.
Nobody else seems to suffer this annoyance.
Who cares about flash games, plenty of decent native apps for iOS. The people moaning about flash are wanting to stream porn on the phone.
Well they only have to build the OS. It's the OEMs who have to licence it for phones and given how little the fees probably are for Android I think WP7 has to offer something better.
Not to mention that the hardware has to be slightly more bespoke for WP7, so it's not like they can easily swap graphics over on the buttons to support both platforms.
The biggest problem with phone OEMs is their unwillingness to provide good long lasting support for their phones. I kept my iPhone 3G for two years, I can imagine that would have been 12 months or less if the device was a HTC phone. The hardware is capable of great things and you only have to update the software to add more capabilities. But the OEMs just want you to keep buying hardware, so the phones never last as long as they should.
The gaming market was easy for Microsoft, Windows is the gaming OS of choice. XBox has DirectX and similar API so many games were easy to write or port. They released at a good point in time with a console that supported online gaming. PS2 and gamecube didn't do online gaming.
Phones are a lot different since people are accustomed to having lots of software applications to install with Android and iOS. It's going to take a while to get software available for the WP7 platform and the OS itself is lacking things that even Apple were slow to add (multitasking, cut and paste).