Considering the bread for the muffins is baked fresh at your local McD's and the buns for other sandwiches are not frozen, only the meat, just like at your supermarket, the assumptions you're making are completely wrong.
Its to reduce costs obviously -- they wanted to sell a device for $200 at all. That price point is pretty important and making a 16GB device fit that price wasn't going to be possible.
Yes, I'm still annoyed by no card slot, but I have the Transformer Prime with a full size SD card slot so I"m happy.
Heavy Rain is a fantastic example. But then again, I also thoroughly enjoyed FEAR2 for the semi-hidden documents along the way that explained the back-story of what was going on. There was actually a lot of thought put into it. I say FEAR2 because the first and third were a lot less well flushed out I found.
In fact, if I'm going to play a good game that tells a good story and is fun and looks and sounds great, in general its a PS3 game like Heavy Rain, R&C, Uncharted... I'll throw a bone to Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, and God of War too.
I'm the exact opposite. I get rapidly bored of shooting random enemies for no reason. If I wanted to do that, I'd be playing space invaders. I play video games primarily for the entertainment of the progression -- a good story, like in Uncharted or even the silly but well developed plots of Ratchet and Clank games make a huge difference from something mediocre. I picked console games specifically because I haven't seen real innovation in the story telling video game on PCs in a long time. Not since Wing Commander and Privateer (I'll except some RPGs, but by and large, those are pretty campy).
I was on a scavenger hunt once, we had to interview people and ask them specific questions to win. I went straight to walmart for the widest variety of people as quickly as possible. Security had me leave the store within 2 questions for having a camera in the store.
My daughter loves mcd's chicken nuggets. When she was still very young, she got tired of only getting 4 in the children's happy meal, and upgraded to the adult size nuggets instead without fries (she doesn't like fries). The toy's inclusion was immaterial.
Sure some kids go for the toy, but the truth is, mcdonald's food is prepared to be very palatable and generically tasty without any strange flavours a simple palate won't recognize.
I've frequented several excellent McDonald's locations in my travels. There's one near me however which always serves stale food and has given me at least a dozen free meals due to minor errors over the years. That specific McD's happens to be staffed by morons.
A police officer recently explained to me "we can only be where we are" as I complained that they had speed traps in thoroughfares with no residential instead of near schools where safety would matter.
Agreed. Up here in Canada at least, if you buy a phone from a carrier at full price, they have to unlock it for you -- that doesn't mean they have to give you the non-crapware version though. I bought a Galaxy Nexus at a Virgin Mobile kiosk and got the model with the Samsung ROM. Of course, four steps on a PC later I had the official Google ROM on it instead, no hacking required, but it was still annoying.
With modern hardware acceleration for video, that's not necessarily true at all.
The PS2 for example had the ability to load data into memory while playing a video off the disc simultaneously. Neither slowed the other down, and so several developers made inter-level videos that gave plot updates and so on while loading data for the next level in the background and it made the process much smoother feeling than a "loading..." screen.
Another example would be rotation animations -- when you rotate your screen, if your phone waits for the rotate to be complete and then snaps the screen instantly to the correct orientation, that may not feel as smooth as the phone updating the screen with in-rotation animations of the screen turning with your movement. Both may take exactly the same amount of time, but one feels smoother due to the animation on-screen.
No but my laptop can, and then I transfer songs to my Android device quite easily with MTP sync.
PS why hasn't Apple made an HTML browsable version of the iTunes store yet? They claimed to be working on it years ago; I'd be able to purchase music from my Android and Linux boxes if they did. Don't give me that iDevice tie-in crap either; the songs are unlocked and I buy the music on Windows hardware so they're not getting a dime from me on hardware sales as it is now either.
iOS development is only on OS X, only with specific tools and doesn't support live debugging with a regular phone plugged into the hardware.
Android allows development on the computer of the developer's choice (go ahead, tell a mechanic they can only use tools from one tool company and see how far that goes for you), allows debugging on nearly any device via USB connection and can be done with any software tools the user wishes, even command-line with no GUI.
Yes, developer choice is important because many developers aren't willing to change their entire ecosystem to suit one device.
Most of the ICS and JB API are backward-compatible right down to 1.6 Doughnut. So yes, in all likelihood, that buddy can just download the app and use it, appbar and all.
The guy with the ICS or JB phone will just get more features out of that app.
This is no different from a kiosk display running a locked bootloader with Windows installed. The user chooses to buy a product that's locked down to get certain features the manufacturer wasn't willing to make otherwise. The user can also choose to buy a Nexus series and not have these issues (or a regular PC in the Windows analogy).
There are also locked-down Linux boxes (see TiVo) which annoy some people -- you don't have to buy them though. Come on people, stop feeling 'forced' to spend your money when its not a product you want.
And you only get to choose from Apple made hardware. If you only choose from Google-made hardware, you get the latest updates too.
The difference is, with Android, you don't have to choose Google made hardware. You may not get software updates, but you do get alternate hardware options, like full 3D support, damage-proof, water resistance and other options.
Where's the drop-resistant water-resistant daylight bright iPhone exactly? There isn't one. By licensing Android to other handset makers Google ends up with older versions in use on hardware that won't run the newer OS but there's more user choice too.
I understand where you're coming from -- I'm from northern Ontario, in Canada, where kids often learn how to repair cars or gut a rabbit in the woods. I was using power tools as a child, so were most of my friends. When I moved down to the over protective Toronto region, I was shocked that none of the other children on the block were allowed to play outside unsupervised (or at all in many cases).
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tl;dr version: K9 dogs are better cops than many cops, respect them and let them do their jobs.
OMG, I also don't know how to do neurosurgery or build my own CPU.
Guess what, expertise and relying on experts in fields is a perfectly good example of knowledge progress.
If everyone can know how to do everything, your society's knowledge and skill base is very small.
The sucky part is that rocks 'grow' pretty rapidly out of the fields up here due to frost.
Its already a great annoyance to me that I can charge my ASUS Transformer Prime by USB from their own power adapter but not from a PC USB port.
Considering the bread for the muffins is baked fresh at your local McD's and the buns for other sandwiches are not frozen, only the meat, just like at your supermarket, the assumptions you're making are completely wrong.
Its to reduce costs obviously -- they wanted to sell a device for $200 at all. That price point is pretty important and making a 16GB device fit that price wasn't going to be possible.
Yes, I'm still annoyed by no card slot, but I have the Transformer Prime with a full size SD card slot so I"m happy.
Heavy Rain is a fantastic example. But then again, I also thoroughly enjoyed FEAR2 for the semi-hidden documents along the way that explained the back-story of what was going on. There was actually a lot of thought put into it. I say FEAR2 because the first and third were a lot less well flushed out I found.
In fact, if I'm going to play a good game that tells a good story and is fun and looks and sounds great, in general its a PS3 game like Heavy Rain, R&C, Uncharted ... I'll throw a bone to Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, and God of War too.
I'm the exact opposite. I get rapidly bored of shooting random enemies for no reason. If I wanted to do that, I'd be playing space invaders. I play video games primarily for the entertainment of the progression -- a good story, like in Uncharted or even the silly but well developed plots of Ratchet and Clank games make a huge difference from something mediocre. I picked console games specifically because I haven't seen real innovation in the story telling video game on PCs in a long time. Not since Wing Commander and Privateer (I'll except some RPGs, but by and large, those are pretty campy).
I was on a scavenger hunt once, we had to interview people and ask them specific questions to win. I went straight to walmart for the widest variety of people as quickly as possible. Security had me leave the store within 2 questions for having a camera in the store.
You aren't a parent I take it.
My daughter loves mcd's chicken nuggets. When she was still very young, she got tired of only getting 4 in the children's happy meal, and upgraded to the adult size nuggets instead without fries (she doesn't like fries). The toy's inclusion was immaterial.
Sure some kids go for the toy, but the truth is, mcdonald's food is prepared to be very palatable and generically tasty without any strange flavours a simple palate won't recognize.
You do indeed have a choice not to use sidewalks. Sidewalks are public space. They are not private space.
Look up 'expectation of privacy.
I've frequented several excellent McDonald's locations in my travels. There's one near me however which always serves stale food and has given me at least a dozen free meals due to minor errors over the years. That specific McD's happens to be staffed by morons.
The standards are a mess, and they're almost entirely based on BIND's implementation.
You can run straight up machine language with a stack overflow. Does that make machine language a security nightmare?
Jeez.
They're also a huge part of the problem in dealing with the DNS system's shortcomings.
IPv6 DNS lookups are a fiasco, so is DNSSEC, and for that matter, so is BIND.
We really need a research group a little more separated from Vixie working on a much better replacement for modern DNS.
A police officer recently explained to me "we can only be where we are" as I complained that they had speed traps in thoroughfares with no residential instead of near schools where safety would matter.
Then he wrote me the ticket ;-)
Agreed. Up here in Canada at least, if you buy a phone from a carrier at full price, they have to unlock it for you -- that doesn't mean they have to give you the non-crapware version though. I bought a Galaxy Nexus at a Virgin Mobile kiosk and got the model with the Samsung ROM. Of course, four steps on a PC later I had the official Google ROM on it instead, no hacking required, but it was still annoying.
With modern hardware acceleration for video, that's not necessarily true at all.
The PS2 for example had the ability to load data into memory while playing a video off the disc simultaneously. Neither slowed the other down, and so several developers made inter-level videos that gave plot updates and so on while loading data for the next level in the background and it made the process much smoother feeling than a "loading..." screen.
Another example would be rotation animations -- when you rotate your screen, if your phone waits for the rotate to be complete and then snaps the screen instantly to the correct orientation, that may not feel as smooth as the phone updating the screen with in-rotation animations of the screen turning with your movement. Both may take exactly the same amount of time, but one feels smoother due to the animation on-screen.
No but my laptop can, and then I transfer songs to my Android device quite easily with MTP sync.
PS why hasn't Apple made an HTML browsable version of the iTunes store yet? They claimed to be working on it years ago; I'd be able to purchase music from my Android and Linux boxes if they did. Don't give me that iDevice tie-in crap either; the songs are unlocked and I buy the music on Windows hardware so they're not getting a dime from me on hardware sales as it is now either.
iOS development is only on OS X, only with specific tools and doesn't support live debugging with a regular phone plugged into the hardware.
Android allows development on the computer of the developer's choice (go ahead, tell a mechanic they can only use tools from one tool company and see how far that goes for you), allows debugging on nearly any device via USB connection and can be done with any software tools the user wishes, even command-line with no GUI.
Yes, developer choice is important because many developers aren't willing to change their entire ecosystem to suit one device.
Most of the ICS and JB API are backward-compatible right down to 1.6 Doughnut. So yes, in all likelihood, that buddy can just download the app and use it, appbar and all.
The guy with the ICS or JB phone will just get more features out of that app.
This is no different from a kiosk display running a locked bootloader with Windows installed. The user chooses to buy a product that's locked down to get certain features the manufacturer wasn't willing to make otherwise. The user can also choose to buy a Nexus series and not have these issues (or a regular PC in the Windows analogy).
There are also locked-down Linux boxes (see TiVo) which annoy some people -- you don't have to buy them though. Come on people, stop feeling 'forced' to spend your money when its not a product you want.
And you only get to choose from Apple made hardware. If you only choose from Google-made hardware, you get the latest updates too.
The difference is, with Android, you don't have to choose Google made hardware. You may not get software updates, but you do get alternate hardware options, like full 3D support, damage-proof, water resistance and other options.
Where's the drop-resistant water-resistant daylight bright iPhone exactly? There isn't one. By licensing Android to other handset makers Google ends up with older versions in use on hardware that won't run the newer OS but there's more user choice too.
6 or 7% of total handset users? What percentage of those people bought handsets before ICS existed?
I understand where you're coming from -- I'm from northern Ontario, in Canada, where kids often learn how to repair cars or gut a rabbit in the woods. I was using power tools as a child, so were most of my friends. When I moved down to the over protective Toronto region, I was shocked that none of the other children on the block were allowed to play outside unsupervised (or at all in many cases).