Make no mistake - there is absolutely no "meaningful data" presented in this piece of trash article. Anyone that equates an app crash with total hardware failure is selling a story.
You're right - it's not the fault of Apple / Google / Samsung / HTC / Etc. that bad apps are bad. And users are smart enough to know this - they have the ability to know that if the shitty app they just downloaded crashes, it's a problem with the app, not the phone.
Now, if the whole phone reboots - that's a problem with the phone. But I'm guessing from this "study" that we're not talking about a whole kernel panic and reboot situation. We're talking about some piece of shit FaceTube app that shits the bed because the developer didn't feel it necessary to deal with unhandled exceptions gracefully.
Why spend the resources and energy on trying to make the customer *want* to stay forever, when they already have to stay forever. It's not like there's a big range of choice out there - get fucked by Verizon or AT&T for the best coverage, or get fucked slightly less by Sprint for coverage that isn't as good.
It's not like you're going to stop having a mobile phone.
By this logic, every single security exploit that ever happened in Adobe Flash or Adobe Acrobat is all of a sudden a failure of Windows / MacOS / Linux?
What about Java - is Sun / Oracle completely without blame all of a sudden, because they "used existing libraries in the OS" ?
Yeah, but I'm sure that Samsung may have looked at the problem and decided that scrapping untold amounts of R&D and product design and manufacturing may have been worth it because they knew what the actual problem was, and what the real failure rate would be in time.
Do you think they would just shitcan their flagship product and have nothing to sell in that space for months if it wasn't an actual problem?
20 were confirmed to fail within weeks of launch. What would the numbers be at 6 months? A year? I'm guessing an engineer somewhere did the math and saw it as being a significant percentage; then that percentage was combined with the PR DISASTER that would have been having thousands of occurrences with collateral damage - burns inflicted on people, structure fires, plane cabins filled with lithium fire smoke, etc.
Samsung is the only entity that knows how bad it could have gotten, and they are just as profit motivated as anyone else - they didn't recall and EOL because "it was the happy nice thing to do" - they did it because it was the "save the company from multi-billion-dollar lawsuits that we would lose and wholesale product bans thing to do."
I'm just glad that this "study" treats a crash of a YouBook app as a "failure" the same as if the phone explodes and embeds shards of glass in your eyes.
Seems like a pretty fucking stupid way to cook the numbers to tell a narrative you're trying to sell. And Slashdot Media is buying, apparently.
I believe the actual cost equation also includes energy costs - the roof may be more expensive than a traditional roof up front, but if it reduces your energy bill to zero for the next 20+ years, the overall cost is lower.
They've shown video of dropping calibrated weights on 3 other roofing materials as well as this new product, and the other 3 failed (read: shattered) where this solar shingle thing did not. They claim it is almost as strong as steel.
There is a version that has electric resistive warmers in it for melting snow - remember that SolarCity installs panels in New York, Vermont, and Pennsylvania, which are no strangers to snow.
Well, as they have to actually opt-in to iCloud, then I would assume that they read what it actually does before blindly turning it on and establishing a set of credentials.
There are the non-techies, then there is the willfully ignorant.
I used this just today actually - I left my phone in my bedroom on it's charger, and I missed a call. I was able to click a 'redial' button on my MacBook Pro and return the call.
So when they get a new device and the call history magically shows up after putting in the iCloud account and password, it's divining that through psychic feed or something?
No ability to control it?
Turn off iCloud. It no longer stores this information. Sounds like a fairly easy and basic control to me. Would it be better if there was an individual switch for this function? Probably, but at some point you end up with an overwhelming page of little switches for every single little thing, and it's a usability nightmare that most people wouldn't bother with anyway.
Both, at Apple though - the GP post claims that Apple didn't do much besides directly rip the Xerox Alto, which is complete horseshit, especially in light of Apple giving Xerox hundreds of thousands of AAPL shares for access to PARC and technology licenses. And, it's not exactly a secret that the Mac team liberally borrowed from Lisa, as there were several people working on both teams; most notably, Bill Atkinson who created QuickDraw allowing for overlapping windows and very fast rendering of "regions" on the hardware available at the time.
Macintosh and Xerox Alto were only similar in that they had a bitmapped display and a mouse. That's basically it.
Literally everything else we accept as being a GUI widget of some kind was invented at Apple - drop down menus, contextual menus, desktop metaphor of files in folders, heirarchic folders, drag-and-drop, the clipboard, etc.
Here is a former researcher from Xerox PARC, and member of the original Macintosh team, talking about exactly this.
Be fair. The ROKR was a typical carrier-inspired device that had any useful feature hobbled for the sake of rent seeking, and Motorola lapped it up like the good phone manufacturer they were.
The real innovation that the iPhone brought to the market was telling the carrier to go fuck themselves when it came to limiting functionality of the device at the carriers' whims, or risk not being certified for their networks. This is why it was exclusive to AT&T (Cingular) at launch - Apple had to shop it around to carriers until they found one that was actually going to make a good decision for their subscribers for once. Verizon had the first look, and took a pass because they couldn't control it like they did every other piece of shit on the market at the time.
No, it will still be lame, except for hypocrites. The difference will be that this device will only represent a minor invasion of privacy to everyone around the wearer, rather than a Big Brother invasion of privacy to everyone around the wearer.
Oh, Microsoft has been doing that far longer than Apple.
See: the old Mac version of Excel where they just deleted VBA scripting, and figured nobody would notice. Then they brought it back all of a sudden in the next version and proclaimed it to be a huge feature.
I'm still waiting for an Outlook on OS X that isn't just a bad OWA front end. And they are capable of making a real Outlook on the Mac too - because they had one 15 years ago on Mac OS 9, which was killed by the Mac Apps team in a bad case of Not-Invented-Here fever because it was written by the Exchange team. Which is why it actually worked properly and supported all the features it should.
It's always funny people whine about the popular election when they lose the only metric that legally matters.
It's not like the rules changed all of a sudden. The Electoral College has been a thing for 233 years or so. Stop moving the goalposts and attempting to declare victory. It's not the fault of the Electoral College that the DNC nominated an even more flawed candidate than Donald Trump. If you want to complain about something, complain about that.
Because it's clearly easier to invent, design, engineer, and manufacture terraforming technology which doesn't exist that can reduce or outright reverse global impacts of 150 years of burning oil and coal than it is to just use technology we already have, and are already deploying on ever-increasing scale.
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Make no mistake - there is absolutely no "meaningful data" presented in this piece of trash article. Anyone that equates an app crash with total hardware failure is selling a story.
You're right - it's not the fault of Apple / Google / Samsung / HTC / Etc. that bad apps are bad. And users are smart enough to know this - they have the ability to know that if the shitty app they just downloaded crashes, it's a problem with the app, not the phone.
Now, if the whole phone reboots - that's a problem with the phone. But I'm guessing from this "study" that we're not talking about a whole kernel panic and reboot situation. We're talking about some piece of shit FaceTube app that shits the bed because the developer didn't feel it necessary to deal with unhandled exceptions gracefully.
Why spend the resources and energy on trying to make the customer *want* to stay forever, when they already have to stay forever. It's not like there's a big range of choice out there - get fucked by Verizon or AT&T for the best coverage, or get fucked slightly less by Sprint for coverage that isn't as good.
It's not like you're going to stop having a mobile phone.
By this logic, every single security exploit that ever happened in Adobe Flash or Adobe Acrobat is all of a sudden a failure of Windows / MacOS / Linux?
What about Java - is Sun / Oracle completely without blame all of a sudden, because they "used existing libraries in the OS" ?
You sound like a fucking idiot.
Yeah, but I'm sure that Samsung may have looked at the problem and decided that scrapping untold amounts of R&D and product design and manufacturing may have been worth it because they knew what the actual problem was, and what the real failure rate would be in time.
Do you think they would just shitcan their flagship product and have nothing to sell in that space for months if it wasn't an actual problem?
20 were confirmed to fail within weeks of launch. What would the numbers be at 6 months? A year? I'm guessing an engineer somewhere did the math and saw it as being a significant percentage; then that percentage was combined with the PR DISASTER that would have been having thousands of occurrences with collateral damage - burns inflicted on people, structure fires, plane cabins filled with lithium fire smoke, etc.
Samsung is the only entity that knows how bad it could have gotten, and they are just as profit motivated as anyone else - they didn't recall and EOL because "it was the happy nice thing to do" - they did it because it was the "save the company from multi-billion-dollar lawsuits that we would lose and wholesale product bans thing to do."
I'm just glad that this "study" treats a crash of a YouBook app as a "failure" the same as if the phone explodes and embeds shards of glass in your eyes.
Seems like a pretty fucking stupid way to cook the numbers to tell a narrative you're trying to sell. And Slashdot Media is buying, apparently.
They have a version with electric resistive heating to melt snow.
Sounds like Texas is in need of people that know how to build a roof that isn't a piece of shit.
Or, you're lying. I think that's more likely.
I believe the actual cost equation also includes energy costs - the roof may be more expensive than a traditional roof up front, but if it reduces your energy bill to zero for the next 20+ years, the overall cost is lower.
They've shown video of dropping calibrated weights on 3 other roofing materials as well as this new product, and the other 3 failed (read: shattered) where this solar shingle thing did not. They claim it is almost as strong as steel.
There is a version that has electric resistive warmers in it for melting snow - remember that SolarCity installs panels in New York, Vermont, and Pennsylvania, which are no strangers to snow.
It gives me perverse pleasure that there is a Cadillac CTS-V Wagon.
Now only if it wasn't a Cadillac.
In the US, they are illegal in a commercial vehicle, and in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
1 out of 50 != most states.
Well, as they have to actually opt-in to iCloud, then I would assume that they read what it actually does before blindly turning it on and establishing a set of credentials.
There are the non-techies, then there is the willfully ignorant.
I used this just today actually - I left my phone in my bedroom on it's charger, and I missed a call. I was able to click a 'redial' button on my MacBook Pro and return the call.
It was rather convenient, actually.
Without the user's knowledge?
So when they get a new device and the call history magically shows up after putting in the iCloud account and password, it's divining that through psychic feed or something?
No ability to control it?
Turn off iCloud. It no longer stores this information. Sounds like a fairly easy and basic control to me. Would it be better if there was an individual switch for this function? Probably, but at some point you end up with an overwhelming page of little switches for every single little thing, and it's a usability nightmare that most people wouldn't bother with anyway.
Real rocket scientists prefer lithobraking over aerobraking every time.
Both, at Apple though - the GP post claims that Apple didn't do much besides directly rip the Xerox Alto, which is complete horseshit, especially in light of Apple giving Xerox hundreds of thousands of AAPL shares for access to PARC and technology licenses. And, it's not exactly a secret that the Mac team liberally borrowed from Lisa, as there were several people working on both teams; most notably, Bill Atkinson who created QuickDraw allowing for overlapping windows and very fast rendering of "regions" on the hardware available at the time.
Macintosh and Xerox Alto were only similar in that they had a bitmapped display and a mouse. That's basically it.
Literally everything else we accept as being a GUI widget of some kind was invented at Apple - drop down menus, contextual menus, desktop metaphor of files in folders, heirarchic folders, drag-and-drop, the clipboard, etc.
Here is a former researcher from Xerox PARC, and member of the original Macintosh team, talking about exactly this.
Be fair. The ROKR was a typical carrier-inspired device that had any useful feature hobbled for the sake of rent seeking, and Motorola lapped it up like the good phone manufacturer they were.
The real innovation that the iPhone brought to the market was telling the carrier to go fuck themselves when it came to limiting functionality of the device at the carriers' whims, or risk not being certified for their networks. This is why it was exclusive to AT&T (Cingular) at launch - Apple had to shop it around to carriers until they found one that was actually going to make a good decision for their subscribers for once. Verizon had the first look, and took a pass because they couldn't control it like they did every other piece of shit on the market at the time.
No, it will still be lame, except for hypocrites. The difference will be that this device will only represent a minor invasion of privacy to everyone around the wearer, rather than a Big Brother invasion of privacy to everyone around the wearer.
Oh, Microsoft has been doing that far longer than Apple.
See: the old Mac version of Excel where they just deleted VBA scripting, and figured nobody would notice. Then they brought it back all of a sudden in the next version and proclaimed it to be a huge feature.
I'm still waiting for an Outlook on OS X that isn't just a bad OWA front end. And they are capable of making a real Outlook on the Mac too - because they had one 15 years ago on Mac OS 9, which was killed by the Mac Apps team in a bad case of Not-Invented-Here fever because it was written by the Exchange team. Which is why it actually worked properly and supported all the features it should.
Sounds like a useability nightmare. I'm sure Samsung will streamline that design in short order. And add curved glass, because reasons.
It's not like Congress has had a whole lot of reservations about spending money they don't have in the past...
It's always funny people whine about the popular election when they lose the only metric that legally matters.
It's not like the rules changed all of a sudden. The Electoral College has been a thing for 233 years or so. Stop moving the goalposts and attempting to declare victory. It's not the fault of the Electoral College that the DNC nominated an even more flawed candidate than Donald Trump. If you want to complain about something, complain about that.
Because it's clearly easier to invent, design, engineer, and manufacture terraforming technology which doesn't exist that can reduce or outright reverse global impacts of 150 years of burning oil and coal than it is to just use technology we already have, and are already deploying on ever-increasing scale.
Duh!