Dont buy a windows tablet and bitch you cant put linux on it, fucking simple right? Much in the same way that you dont buy an iPad if you dont want iOS
Mod parent up. Nobody has a "right" to whatever tablet they personally want. We all have to choose from what the market has to offer. If you don't like the offerings, form your own company and create your dream tablet device.
What is a windows device exactly? Microsoft marketing dept have invented this concept that Windows is somehow hardware. Its not. Windows is an OS. No more.
I buy computers (not Windows devices, or apple devices). I need them to do the things I want. Its my property. I can and should be able to do what I like with it.
A Windows device would be hardware that has all of the necessary drivers installed on the internal storage medium at the very least to support all of the built-in hardware so that when you first boot it all hardware is recognized and configured. I think you are assuming that a tablet would be a generic X86 machine with common GFX chipsets rather than an ARM SOC (System on a chip). Good luck just downloading the drivers from some sight for an unknown SOC for your linux distro.
When you buy a PC, you can choose to buy "hardware" and install what you want on it but when you buy a tablet, you are buying a "device" that is a combination of hardware and software tailored for that device. Most new era tablets come with the OS preinstalled and ready to go.
You are a hobbyist nerd who thinks they know more than you actually do. I hate to break it to you but any idiot can "build" their own PC if they actually wanted to and they can also install their own OS of choice. These days, there are even idiot's guides for hackintoshes out there on the web.
The question is a matter of will rather than ability. I have done it all. I've hacked my DLL's in windows using reshacker for a full skinning experience, I've hacked the registry. I've built my own PCs. I've put a 1U server into a desktop case. I've jailbroken my iPhone/IPod touch. I've created icon/unlock screen themes for those devices. I've changed hidden settings in OS X. I run GeekTool on my mac with shell scripts and PHP scripts fetching weather icons.
At the end of the day, I decided that my personal time was too valuable to waste on all of that stuff so at home I just have an iMac, iPhone 4S and an iPad 2. The iOS platform provides all sorts of connectivity apps. I get my "geek" on when I am at "work" writing software on windows for my employer. I also don't bother jail breaking anymore now that iOS 5 allows for custom alert tones.
Trying to do much REAL WORK(tm) on a tablet is an exercise in frustration.
Do you mean like a doctor at a hospital looking at CTC scan or chart? Do you mean like a plant of warehouse working checking inventory? A meeting attendee reviewing meetings notes/annotating those notes? Is it not real work for someone to show their client a prospectus on a tablet and being able to make quick alterations on the device while meeting with them? What do you define as "real work"?
I would think that it would be equally frustrating to work with a laptop without a wireless connection. Many tablets like the iPad 2 come in 3G cellular data models so that takes care of the lack of "wireless".
AC didn't say that you have to be a fag to like apple. But, he stated the truth - Apple does appeal to fags. Next time you're in some gay coffee bar, tapping away on your gayPad, look around you, and see how many gays are also tapping away at their own gayPads. It's safe to say that possession of a gayProduct is an indicator on anyone gayDar.
Something tells me that you had an embarrassing experience where you hit on some dude with an iPad and he told you that you were barking up the wrong tree and that the lady sitting at the table with him was his wife.
Buying electronics for their resale value is an idiot's venture.
How is is an idiots venture? If it fulfills your basic needs for a year and a newer version comes out a year later, please enlighten me as to why high resale value is a bad thing. Is is a bad thing only because android tablets have almost no resale value even after 6 months?
Nobody is forcing you to upgrade but if you want to upgrade each year being able to resell your existing device at upgrade time for a significant portion of the original purchase price can only be seen as an advantage. Do you have your own RDF which renders resell value as a negative?
If given two choices, one being a device that depreciates in value within 6 months to a negligible amount versus one that retains between 60-70% (or more) of its value after a year, why would you choose the former if you intended on upgrading each year to a new model?
Do you tend to lose things frequently? I lost one HD video camera several years ago in Spain when the cab driver drove away with it in his trunk after dropping me off at the airport but I've never lost my electronics in an airport because I alway have them with me as a carry on.
Do you stay at sketchy hotels or something? I have never had anything stolen from a hotel room but again, I don't stay at sketchy hotels and resorts and I am not a cheapskate when it comes to tips.
The iPad 2 has a high resale value. When the iPad 2 came out, I sold my iPad 1 for several hundred dollars. Try reselling any android tablet a year later. Seriously good luck with that.
Why a MacBook? It's bigger, more expensive and feeds Apple. There are plenty of netbooks available with touch screens. I've even seen ones where the touch screen flips around over the keyboard to make it tablet like. Or... you can roll your own, there are touchscreens available as addons for plain netbooks.
Macbook "Air" models are in the ultra book niche and are thinner and less expensive than the competitors even with Intel's offer of subsidization. Netbooks are not even in the same league. They are too anemic to run desktop software properly and are only really useful for face booking and web email.
The netbook niche is dead because they have not changed much over the last few years. That segment has been stagnant.
This will get modded Troll, but seriously? If you're planning extended travel, why on Earth would you think about buying a gadget to play with before you go? Get a grip!
Do you know why you travel? To travel. To experience new things, new people, new places. Not to fuck around with a gadget, or spend your time sitting in a chair by yourself, reading a book.
Count your trip as a blessing, expect it to be one of the experiences of your life that you will always look back on fondly, and please, for the love of God, put the fucking phone DOWN.
I would mod you as insightful if I had not already posted in this story. If you don't already have a tablet and you are planning on travelling then don't worry about it but make sure that you have a decent camera to capture memories and be sure to enjoy yourself with the people you meet.
A tablet can be a good thing to have along with you to use in your hotel room for watching videos, checking out Facebook and other social media and checking your email but that is something that you should only do when you are bored resting after a long day spent outside interacting with "people" in the "real world". If you are travelling for "fun" then you really don't need a full fledged laptop and a tablet with Wifi should be "good enough" to check in with family and friends back home during some down time.
Frankly, I'm disappointed that you are a platform snob. You want a device because of the "platform" rather than what it does for you. As I pointed out, the iPad is a great device if you want to connect to anything be it a mac, windows pc or even linux machine running x-windows. You don't even need to use iTunes to manage it now with the release of iOS 5.0.
The first e-commerce platform I launched in my career was written in perl and ran off a linux server with apache back in 2000. I was a windows user from 1996-2002 at home but I wrote software for both windows and linux (perl) at work. Even after I switched to an eMac at home, I still wait for it.... wrote software on windows and linux at work. When my workplace decide to move to the.NET platform for our online products, I learned.NET. I am still a mac user at home but I also have a windows partition on my Intel mac for running games and other applications that have no mac counterpart. I never complain about using windows at work while I write software using.NET, Java and python because I am a professional.
Do you see me calling myself.NETSith,.NETJedi or JEDI.NET? No. If you lost your job at slashdot right now and you came looking for work at my employer, they would not hire you. First of all, PERL is a dying language and second of all, we don't tolerate platform or language zealots. I use the tools at work that I have at my disposal and we use the languages that are the best for the job. Sometimes we have to use Java or Python to integrate with off the shelf software.
If Apple had not released the iOS platform then I would probably not be using a tablet. Let's be honest for a second, if it was not for the iOS platform, Android would look like a Blackberry knock off runnning on phones with keyboards on the bottom and tablets would still be a microscopic niche market dominated by windows. There would be no Android tablets or even WebOS tablets. WebOS would not exist if Apple had not forked KHTML to create webkit.
I offer the following reasons: 1. It has a high resale value in case you want to upgrade to an iPad 3 later or actually want an Android tablet later. 2. iOS offers multiple remote connection options like Citrix Receiver, Join.me, Logmein Ignition, Webex, VNC app, RDP apps an X-windows client and various SSH clients on the app store. 3. iOS offers some of the best browser out there including the built-in Safari and third party ones like iCab which offer some extensions and file downloads. 4. The iPad 2 is one of the most usable tablets out there and it is used by mac and windows users. If you have linux then I assume that you also have a windows partition since linux also has few "commercial" apps available for it.
Not knowing what submarine trojans were installed during the jailbreak - priceless. Once you jailbreak, your BSD jail isolation is gone leaving your iPhone far more vulnerable to trojan horses.
That's not socialism . You're describing a totalitarian state.
The Soviet Union was called the Union of Soviet "Socialist" Republics or USSR for short. From their perspective they were socialist and they were a totalitarian state when Stalin was in power. Hitler was the Chancellor of the Germany representing the National Socialist Worker Party (NAZI) and his regime was also a totalitarian state. Totalitarianism is neither left or right because totalitarianism is about "social" control rather than "economic" control. You can have "right wing" totalitarian regimes but the majority have been left or left of centre. The Nazis were never right of centre let alone "far right" even if you compare them to their counterparts of their day. They were "LEFT" of the conservatives in england and had more in common economically with the socialists there.
The british socialists have always been a lot less libertarian than socialists in some other countries which is why Tony Blair accelerated things like the CCTV installations in london.
> My opposition to the expansion of Android goes beyond being a user of Apple products at home.
"How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? "
Just sayin'
I either give away or resell my used model before upgrading to a newer model and I only upgrade at a maximum of once per year. I bought an iPad 1 which I sold just before the iPad 2 came out but I upgraded from an iPhone 3GS (purchased in 2009) to a 4S this year and I sold my 3GS to my boss.
One word "E-Waste". We have too much e-waste from disposable electronics that become useless within a few months and Android is one of the worst culprits for this. You can buy an Android phone right now which is "brand new" but cannot be upgraded to the latest android release without rooting the device. That is simply unacceptable from an environmental perspective. The iPhone 3GS was released in 2009 and it can be upgraded by anyone for "free" to the latest and greatest version of iOS (5.01) through iTunes. You cannot say the same thing about Android phones even released earlier this year as they will not be officially supported by ice cream.
My opposition to the expansion of Android goes beyond being a user of Apple products at home. I am tired of seeing electronics that are seen as disposable. I hate the pricing model of inkjet printers where you get a cheap printer and then pay through the nose of ink cartridges. I would rather pay a couple hundred bucks for a printer that is guaranteed to work for a few years and pay more reasonable amount for ink cartridges and even see official support for ink cartridges recycling/refilling.
This shouldn't come to a shock to anyone. Mac except FOR A VERY SHORT period. Has always controlled their hardware (in some cases to their demise).
You have a memory leak. The mac clones almost killed Apple. The problem was that the clones cannibalize sales of Apple macs rather than expanding the marketshare of Mac OS. They were also of worse quality leaving Apple with less sales but higher end user support costs as they had to troubleshoot mac os for those clone owners.
Isn't that a good thing though? With iPad you get very little choice as to what you want, everyone's iPad is the same excepting how much space it's got and whether it has 3G.
With Android tablets though, because they come in such varieties and with such a selection of features you can have a much more personalised experience. Not to mention the fact that individual manufacturers can customise the interface, like HTC Sense and Samsung TouchWiz, to give you more opportunity to pick one that you like. iPad only offers one choice as far as that goes.
Are you serious? You call gaudy skins like TouchWiz and Sense desirable? Listen pal, there are these things called "computers" that you can install all sorts of crap on for windows or linux like lipstick on a pig to make it "look" different but in the end they do not really change the underlying function, performance and usability of the OS they run on. A tablet is an appliance for media consumption, gaming and possibly mobile remote computing for work as a terminal. Do you see a lot of people installing skins on their game console UIs? Very few people do install themes and they only end up changing some of the menu icons, UI sounds as well as the background picture. The latter two can be changed even without a theme on iOS devices.
You represent a really, really small niche.
I used to be a windows user back in the day and I was part of the skinning modding community. I even contributed skins to customize.org and deskmod (sp?) as well as modded win32.dll and user.dll files for XP with modded icons, strings (dialog text) and fonts on sites like aqua-soft.org. Despite all of the modded DLLs, icons and add-on's like Stardock's stuff, Avedesk, window shadow hacks and top screen menu bars, I was still running windows XP underneath and it just slowed everything down.
Android users would be better served by just having tablets with standard Android installs with only some extra crapware installed as a differentiators to reduce the fragmentation.
As a developer who would like to write apps for both platforms, I only write apps for Android for a few simple reasons:
1) You have to have a Mac to do iPhone development 2) The Apple App Store requires you to pay every year to keep using the store while Android Market only requires a one time payment 3) I have more friends who own Android phones than own iPhones, so this gives me a larger group of testers. 4) This one no longer applies, but you used to have to be on AT&T to have an iPhone
So to sum up, you are a platform snob. I work for a living as a software developer on the windows platform because enterprises like my employer use windows. I don't bring my platform preferences to work and I don't go out of my way to use a cross platform language like Java. FYI. I use a mac at home.
Yes, there is a yearly fee but that fee includes a bunch of support that you do not get from Google and Apple will advertise/highlight your app if their staff really like it or if it becomes popular.
Unless if you plan on only creating apps for you friends then that is pretty much moot. Are you interested in making money?
Your last point seems to show that you suffer from America centric myopia which is holding you back from making some serious money. The Apple app store can give you a global reach but if you are content with only reaching your small cadre of American android using friends then so be it.
Apple was caught TRACKING YOUR MOVEMENT if you own an iPhone, somehow that is not a privacy concern in your books? (oh, they certainly "don't know" who the owner of iPhone is, eh?)
Dolphin HD was cought giving out information about sites your visit on Android platform. It was doing it on both iOS and Android, yet only Android users could catch it, see the problem? Where was your mythical Apple's "strict set of guidlines"?
As most stuff surrounding Apple, being better protected than on Android is yet another myth.
Apple was caught "logging" your movement and storing it on "YOUR" phone. It is called a log or cache file. Do you even understand the concept?
Is there something inherently better with iOS development?
Yes. iOS has an integrated development environment including debugging tools that allow on the fly changes to the code while debugging.
Is the API better written?
Yes. The iOS API is more feature rich and provides things like low latency audio.
Is there some technological inferiority to Android? Is it cheaper to buy the development tools for iOS?
Yes, as mentioned above, there is no low latency audio support and the interface has a normal priority instead of high priority which is one of the major reasons why the UI on android phones feels sluggish at times.
Android did not even have a native SDK until recently and you were forced to write everything against the Dalvik JVM.
@ Prior to the iPhone, the standard practice for cell phones were for handset makers to make phones for carriers with their carrier branding on the case and carrier specific apps permanently installed on the phone. @
You forgot to add "in the USA". You could get unlocked, unbranded phones in Europe before iphone and sure you can get it after.
I don't think you understand what privacy is. Privacy protects information that can identify a "person" specifically things like your name, address, phone number and government issued ID numbers. Privacy policies do not protect statistical information like what was contained in the log file. It does not identify a person. Devices do not have privacy rights and you agree to give access to your phone identifier number to your carrier when you sign up for service. The only time location because a privacy concern is if the location information is tied to your account information which was not the case for the log file.
You are doing disservice to consumers who actually have real privacy risks from using the Android platform. Don't forget that Google is an advertising company and not a consumer technology company. They do not view consumers as they customers. There is also the real risk of downloading malware from the marketplace because google does not have proper vetting processes in place.
iOS does not require a series of allow/deny prompts beyond location services in third party apps because Apple has a strict set of guidelines for what an application can access and they vet all of their apps in the app store. You can always go into location services in the settings app and turn location services for specific apps off and or turn off location services entirely.
Privacy is an issue for you with Android devices so your first idea is to turn to an Apple product?
This is were a young person would post a picture of Jackie Chan looking utterly baffled.
You seem to have either a short or selective memory. Prior to the iPhone, the standard practice for cell phones were for handset makers to make phones for carriers with their carrier branding on the case and carrier specific apps permanently installed on the phone. The iPhone was sold to "consumers" and treated like a consumer device rather than something created specifically for a carrier.
Apple has put into place restrictions to protect the privacy of users from third party apps from collecting personal information without concept.
If you are referring to the "log" file that was in the backup file, that did not contain any personal information in it. Location information was stored "ON THE PHONE" to speed up location services acting as a "CACHE".
All carriers are capable of tracking you through their backhaul infrastructure without any help from Apple.
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Dont buy a windows tablet and bitch you cant put linux on it, fucking simple right? Much in the same way that you dont buy an iPad if you dont want iOS
Mod parent up. Nobody has a "right" to whatever tablet they personally want. We all have to choose from what the market has to offer. If you don't like the offerings, form your own company and create your dream tablet device.
>> if you buy a Windows device
What is a windows device exactly? Microsoft marketing dept have invented this concept that Windows is somehow hardware. Its not. Windows is an OS. No more.
I buy computers (not Windows devices, or apple devices). I need them to do the things I want. Its my property. I can and should be able to do what I like with it.
A Windows device would be hardware that has all of the necessary drivers installed on the internal storage medium at the very least to support all of the built-in hardware so that when you first boot it all hardware is recognized and configured. I think you are assuming that a tablet would be a generic X86 machine with common GFX chipsets rather than an ARM SOC (System on a chip). Good luck just downloading the drivers from some sight for an unknown SOC for your linux distro.
When you buy a PC, you can choose to buy "hardware" and install what you want on it but when you buy a tablet, you are buying a "device" that is a combination of hardware and software tailored for that device. Most new era tablets come with the OS preinstalled and ready to go.
You are a hobbyist nerd who thinks they know more than you actually do. I hate to break it to you but any idiot can "build" their own PC if they actually wanted to and they can also install their own OS of choice. These days, there are even idiot's guides for hackintoshes out there on the web.
The question is a matter of will rather than ability. I have done it all. I've hacked my DLL's in windows using reshacker for a full skinning experience, I've hacked the registry. I've built my own PCs. I've put a 1U server into a desktop case. I've jailbroken my iPhone/IPod touch. I've created icon/unlock screen themes for those devices. I've changed hidden settings in OS X. I run GeekTool on my mac with shell scripts and PHP scripts fetching weather icons.
At the end of the day, I decided that my personal time was too valuable to waste on all of that stuff so at home I just have an iMac, iPhone 4S and an iPad 2. The iOS platform provides all sorts of connectivity apps. I get my "geek" on when I am at "work" writing software on windows for my employer. I also don't bother jail breaking anymore now that iOS 5 allows for custom alert tones.
Trying to do much REAL WORK(tm) on a tablet is an exercise in frustration.
Do you mean like a doctor at a hospital looking at CTC scan or chart? Do you mean like a plant of warehouse working checking inventory? A meeting attendee reviewing meetings notes/annotating those notes? Is it not real work for someone to show their client a prospectus on a tablet and being able to make quick alterations on the device while meeting with them? What do you define as "real work"?
I would think that it would be equally frustrating to work with a laptop without a wireless connection. Many tablets like the iPad 2 come in 3G cellular data models so that takes care of the lack of "wireless".
AC didn't say that you have to be a fag to like apple. But, he stated the truth - Apple does appeal to fags. Next time you're in some gay coffee bar, tapping away on your gayPad, look around you, and see how many gays are also tapping away at their own gayPads. It's safe to say that possession of a gayProduct is an indicator on anyone gayDar.
Something tells me that you had an embarrassing experience where you hit on some dude with an iPad and he told you that you were barking up the wrong tree and that the lady sitting at the table with him was his wife.
Man, that must have been so awkward for you.
Buying electronics for their resale value is an idiot's venture.
How is is an idiots venture? If it fulfills your basic needs for a year and a newer version comes out a year later, please enlighten me as to why high resale value is a bad thing. Is is a bad thing only because android tablets have almost no resale value even after 6 months?
Nobody is forcing you to upgrade but if you want to upgrade each year being able to resell your existing device at upgrade time for a significant portion of the original purchase price can only be seen as an advantage. Do you have your own RDF which renders resell value as a negative?
If given two choices, one being a device that depreciates in value within 6 months to a negligible amount versus one that retains between 60-70% (or more) of its value after a year, why would you choose the former if you intended on upgrading each year to a new model?
Do you tend to lose things frequently? I lost one HD video camera several years ago in Spain when the cab driver drove away with it in his trunk after dropping me off at the airport but I've never lost my electronics in an airport because I alway have them with me as a carry on.
Do you stay at sketchy hotels or something? I have never had anything stolen from a hotel room but again, I don't stay at sketchy hotels and resorts and I am not a cheapskate when it comes to tips.
Resale value of what? CY next year..
The iPad 2 has a high resale value. When the iPad 2 came out, I sold my iPad 1 for several hundred dollars. Try reselling any android tablet a year later. Seriously good luck with that.
Why a MacBook? It's bigger, more expensive and feeds Apple. There are plenty of netbooks available with touch screens. I've even seen ones where the touch screen flips around over the keyboard to make it tablet like. Or... you can roll your own, there are touchscreens available as addons for plain netbooks.
Macbook "Air" models are in the ultra book niche and are thinner and less expensive than the competitors even with Intel's offer of subsidization. Netbooks are not even in the same league. They are too anemic to run desktop software properly and are only really useful for face booking and web email.
The netbook niche is dead because they have not changed much over the last few years. That segment has been stagnant.
This will get modded Troll, but seriously? If you're planning extended travel, why on Earth would you think about buying a gadget to play with before you go? Get a grip!
Do you know why you travel? To travel. To experience new things, new people, new places. Not to fuck around with a gadget, or spend your time sitting in a chair by yourself, reading a book.
Count your trip as a blessing, expect it to be one of the experiences of your life that you will always look back on fondly, and please, for the love of God, put the fucking phone DOWN.
I would mod you as insightful if I had not already posted in this story. If you don't already have a tablet and you are planning on travelling then don't worry about it but make sure that you have a decent camera to capture memories and be sure to enjoy yourself with the people you meet.
A tablet can be a good thing to have along with you to use in your hotel room for watching videos, checking out Facebook and other social media and checking your email but that is something that you should only do when you are bored resting after a long day spent outside interacting with "people" in the "real world". If you are travelling for "fun" then you really don't need a full fledged laptop and a tablet with Wifi should be "good enough" to check in with family and friends back home during some down time.
Frankly, I'm disappointed that you are a platform snob. You want a device because of the "platform" rather than what it does for you. As I pointed out, the iPad is a great device if you want to connect to anything be it a mac, windows pc or even linux machine running x-windows. You don't even need to use iTunes to manage it now with the release of iOS 5.0.
The first e-commerce platform I launched in my career was written in perl and ran off a linux server with apache back in 2000. I was a windows user from 1996-2002 at home but I wrote software for both windows and linux (perl) at work. Even after I switched to an eMac at home, I still wait for it.... wrote software on windows and linux at work. When my workplace decide to move to the .NET platform for our online products, I learned .NET. I am still a mac user at home but I also have a windows partition on my Intel mac for running games and other applications that have no mac counterpart. I never complain about using windows at work while I write software using .NET, Java and python because I am a professional.
Do you see me calling myself .NETSith, .NETJedi or JEDI.NET? No. If you lost your job at slashdot right now and you came looking for work at my employer, they would not hire you. First of all, PERL is a dying language and second of all, we don't tolerate platform or language zealots. I use the tools at work that I have at my disposal and we use the languages that are the best for the job. Sometimes we have to use Java or Python to integrate with off the shelf software.
If Apple had not released the iOS platform then I would probably not be using a tablet. Let's be honest for a second, if it was not for the iOS platform, Android would look like a Blackberry knock off runnning on phones with keyboards on the bottom and tablets would still be a microscopic niche market dominated by windows. There would be no Android tablets or even WebOS tablets. WebOS would not exist if Apple had not forked KHTML to create webkit.
I offer the following reasons:
1. It has a high resale value in case you want to upgrade to an iPad 3 later or actually want an Android tablet later.
2. iOS offers multiple remote connection options like Citrix Receiver, Join.me, Logmein Ignition, Webex, VNC app, RDP apps an X-windows client and various SSH clients on the app store.
3. iOS offers some of the best browser out there including the built-in Safari and third party ones like iCab which offer some extensions and file downloads.
4. The iPad 2 is one of the most usable tablets out there and it is used by mac and windows users. If you have linux then I assume that you also have a windows partition since linux also has few "commercial" apps available for it.
Nice try, Nate Chiger.
Ok, how about this.
Not knowing what submarine trojans were installed during the jailbreak - priceless. Once you jailbreak, your BSD jail isolation is gone leaving your iPhone far more vulnerable to trojan horses.
1. Your Prime Minister was sleeping around with a 17 year old stripper so you should not be throwing rocks when you live in a glass house.
2. Your economy is the the crapper so maybe you should be looking to fix your own house first.
3. Two years warranty is TOO LONG for a device that is obsolete within a year. The standard in other countries is a year.
3. Apple care provides more protection for the device than just an extended warranty. It provides free battery replacement.
"...and even cylcon symbols by Australia's Aborigines which can be up to 20,000 years old." ... I had no idea BSG was a documentary!
Holy crap
There is some evidence that there was a "nuclear" war in India thousands of years ago. See http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ancientatomicwar/esp_ancient_atomic_07.htm I'm not sure what to make of it but it is interesting.
That's not socialism . You're describing a totalitarian state.
The Soviet Union was called the Union of Soviet "Socialist" Republics or USSR for short. From their perspective they were socialist and they were a totalitarian state when Stalin was in power. Hitler was the Chancellor of the Germany representing the National Socialist Worker Party (NAZI) and his regime was also a totalitarian state. Totalitarianism is neither left or right because totalitarianism is about "social" control rather than "economic" control. You can have "right wing" totalitarian regimes but the majority have been left or left of centre. The Nazis were never right of centre let alone "far right" even if you compare them to their counterparts of their day. They were "LEFT" of the conservatives in england and had more in common economically with the socialists there.
The british socialists have always been a lot less libertarian than socialists in some other countries which is why Tony Blair accelerated things like the CCTV installations in london.
> My opposition to the expansion of Android goes beyond being a user of Apple products at home.
"How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? "
Just sayin'
I either give away or resell my used model before upgrading to a newer model and I only upgrade at a maximum of once per year. I bought an iPad 1 which I sold just before the iPad 2 came out but I upgraded from an iPhone 3GS (purchased in 2009) to a 4S this year and I sold my 3GS to my boss.
One word "E-Waste". We have too much e-waste from disposable electronics that become useless within a few months and Android is one of the worst culprits for this. You can buy an Android phone right now which is "brand new" but cannot be upgraded to the latest android release without rooting the device. That is simply unacceptable from an environmental perspective. The iPhone 3GS was released in 2009 and it can be upgraded by anyone for "free" to the latest and greatest version of iOS (5.01) through iTunes. You cannot say the same thing about Android phones even released earlier this year as they will not be officially supported by ice cream.
My opposition to the expansion of Android goes beyond being a user of Apple products at home. I am tired of seeing electronics that are seen as disposable. I hate the pricing model of inkjet printers where you get a cheap printer and then pay through the nose of ink cartridges. I would rather pay a couple hundred bucks for a printer that is guaranteed to work for a few years and pay more reasonable amount for ink cartridges and even see official support for ink cartridges recycling/refilling.
This shouldn't come to a shock to anyone. Mac except FOR A VERY SHORT period. Has always controlled their hardware (in some cases to their demise).
You have a memory leak. The mac clones almost killed Apple. The problem was that the clones cannibalize sales of Apple macs rather than expanding the marketshare of Mac OS. They were also of worse quality leaving Apple with less sales but higher end user support costs as they had to troubleshoot mac os for those clone owners.
Isn't that a good thing though? With iPad you get very little choice as to what you want, everyone's iPad is the same excepting how much space it's got and whether it has 3G.
With Android tablets though, because they come in such varieties and with such a selection of features you can have a much more personalised experience. Not to mention the fact that individual manufacturers can customise the interface, like HTC Sense and Samsung TouchWiz, to give you more opportunity to pick one that you like. iPad only offers one choice as far as that goes.
Are you serious? You call gaudy skins like TouchWiz and Sense desirable? Listen pal, there are these things called "computers" that you can install all sorts of crap on for windows or linux like lipstick on a pig to make it "look" different but in the end they do not really change the underlying function, performance and usability of the OS they run on. A tablet is an appliance for media consumption, gaming and possibly mobile remote computing for work as a terminal. Do you see a lot of people installing skins on their game console UIs? Very few people do install themes and they only end up changing some of the menu icons, UI sounds as well as the background picture. The latter two can be changed even without a theme on iOS devices.
You represent a really, really small niche.
I used to be a windows user back in the day and I was part of the skinning modding community. I even contributed skins to customize.org and deskmod (sp?) as well as modded win32.dll and user.dll files for XP with modded icons, strings (dialog text) and fonts on sites like aqua-soft.org. Despite all of the modded DLLs, icons and add-on's like Stardock's stuff, Avedesk, window shadow hacks and top screen menu bars, I was still running windows XP underneath and it just slowed everything down.
Android users would be better served by just having tablets with standard Android installs with only some extra crapware installed as a differentiators to reduce the fragmentation.
As a developer who would like to write apps for both platforms, I only write apps for Android for a few simple reasons:
1) You have to have a Mac to do iPhone development
2) The Apple App Store requires you to pay every year to keep using the store while Android Market only requires a one time payment
3) I have more friends who own Android phones than own iPhones, so this gives me a larger group of testers.
4) This one no longer applies, but you used to have to be on AT&T to have an iPhone
So to sum up, you are a platform snob. I work for a living as a software developer on the windows platform because enterprises like my employer use windows. I don't bring my platform preferences to work and I don't go out of my way to use a cross platform language like Java. FYI. I use a mac at home.
Yes, there is a yearly fee but that fee includes a bunch of support that you do not get from Google and Apple will advertise/highlight your app if their staff really like it or if it becomes popular.
Unless if you plan on only creating apps for you friends then that is pretty much moot. Are you interested in making money?
Your last point seems to show that you suffer from America centric myopia which is holding you back from making some serious money. The Apple app store can give you a global reach but if you are content with only reaching your small cadre of American android using friends then so be it.
Apple was caught TRACKING YOUR MOVEMENT if you own an iPhone, somehow that is not a privacy concern in your books? (oh, they certainly "don't know" who the owner of iPhone is, eh?)
Dolphin HD was cought giving out information about sites your visit on Android platform. It was doing it on both iOS and Android, yet only Android users could catch it, see the problem? Where was your mythical Apple's "strict set of guidlines"?
As most stuff surrounding Apple, being better protected than on Android is yet another myth.
Apple was caught "logging" your movement and storing it on "YOUR" phone. It is called a log or cache file. Do you even understand the concept?
Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android
Is there something inherently better with iOS development?
Yes. iOS has an integrated development environment including debugging tools that allow on the fly changes to the code while debugging.
Is the API better written?
Yes. The iOS API is more feature rich and provides things like low latency audio.
Is there some technological inferiority to Android? Is it cheaper to buy the development tools for iOS?
Yes, as mentioned above, there is no low latency audio support and the interface has a normal priority instead of high priority which is one of the major reasons why the UI on android phones feels sluggish at times.
Android did not even have a native SDK until recently and you were forced to write everything against the Dalvik JVM.
@ Prior to the iPhone, the standard practice for cell phones were for handset makers to make phones for carriers with their carrier branding on the case and carrier specific apps permanently installed on the phone. @
You forgot to add "in the USA". You could get unlocked, unbranded phones in Europe before iphone and sure you can get it after.
On Android you know which app has which permissions, but you don't with iOS.
Having this piece of news in mind, talk about Apple's "protect the privacy" is very ironic:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-tracking-prompts-privacy-fears
I don't think you understand what privacy is. Privacy protects information that can identify a "person" specifically things like your name, address, phone number and government issued ID numbers. Privacy policies do not protect statistical information like what was contained in the log file. It does not identify a person. Devices do not have privacy rights and you agree to give access to your phone identifier number to your carrier when you sign up for service. The only time location because a privacy concern is if the location information is tied to your account information which was not the case for the log file.
You are doing disservice to consumers who actually have real privacy risks from using the Android platform. Don't forget that Google is an advertising company and not a consumer technology company. They do not view consumers as they customers. There is also the real risk of downloading malware from the marketplace because google does not have proper vetting processes in place.
iOS does not require a series of allow/deny prompts beyond location services in third party apps because Apple has a strict set of guidelines for what an application can access and they vet all of their apps in the app store. You can always go into location services in the settings app and turn location services for specific apps off and or turn off location services entirely.
Privacy is an issue for you with Android devices so your first idea is to turn to an Apple product?
This is were a young person would post a picture of Jackie Chan looking utterly baffled.
You seem to have either a short or selective memory. Prior to the iPhone, the standard practice for cell phones were for handset makers to make phones for carriers with their carrier branding on the case and carrier specific apps permanently installed on the phone. The iPhone was sold to "consumers" and treated like a consumer device rather than something created specifically for a carrier.
Apple has put into place restrictions to protect the privacy of users from third party apps from collecting personal information without concept.
If you are referring to the "log" file that was in the backup file, that did not contain any personal information in it. Location information was stored "ON THE PHONE" to speed up location services acting as a "CACHE".
All carriers are capable of tracking you through their backhaul infrastructure without any help from Apple.
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In what alternate universe do you live?
They are probably confusing movies like Universal Soldier for documentaries.