android has better privacy controls than iOS. every android app must declare permissions for the services it can use BEFORE it is installed.
And that is one of the biggest security fails I've seen in an OS.
You have to choose BEFORE the app is run, EVERYTHING it is allowed to do, and its all or nothing, so the default answer to non-android-fanboy-fucktards like yourself is to just let it have permission because they want to use the app.
When every app wants to access your contacts and call log (which seems to be WAY too fucking common) normal users just give up on trying to decide and click next. So while you've put in a security feature that technically works, it is still an EPIC failure.
This is also an area where while Apple did not invent fine grained permissions on apps (neither did Android btw), they did refine it. No permissions to just run an app, instead as the App is running, you get prompted to allow on first use and you can do it just one time for most things... and the app still works if you say no, just doesn't give access to that feature. So I can still use the Google+ app... but it doesn't actually get free run over my call log, contacts, GPS and photos just because it might need them for some feature I might use.
Sorry, Androids permission system is pretty fucking shitty in the real world. Lets like a starting point on the technical side, but thats about it.
I had one on my iPhone 2G about a month after you could get apps on the app store. Perhaps you're searching for Samba instead of anything a normal non-linux fan would know? Samba means something to Linux fanboys and system admins (includes home admins!) Its not something my wife would look for to access her file shares at work as she has no clue what Samba is, she's a vet and shouldn't know what Samba is.
Perhaps iOS isn't the problem, its your narrow perspective of what the world should look like that is causing your problems.
As for your dissatisfaction rate... NO SHIT, WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO MANAGE FILES FROM A PHONE?! Not everything is going to be 'great' to do on a phone with a tiny screen.
Also, is it difficult to port from iOS to Android?
No and Yes.
I've ported one of my iOS apps to android in about 15 minutes (excluding time it took me to make an initial helloworld app and setup the environment).
I have been writing cross-platform apps for about 15 years, I write every app I make as if its going to be cross platform as a matter of practice, as such porting to OS X desktop and FreeBSD took roughly the same amount of time. Its an OpenGL app so the OS specific bits are basically just startup code, getting a renderable OpenGL context, and getting input in and sound out.
Another employee at the company I work at will have to rewrite the app she worked on essentially from scratch to port else where. She knows nothing other than iOS development really, she just started with it, made a couple of apps. Its written in Objective-C++ and wrapped around CocoaTouch, its just not being ported.
So... the long answer is, that depends on your skill level and how you engineered the application.
Apple's forced upgrades, the overpriced hardware, the imposed limitations that force you to buy expensive workarounds, and most of all, the fact that you can't use your content unless you keep buying Apple's overpriced hardware.
The overpriced hardware comment is the one debatable thing in that statement. I won't argue that point because even as an iPhone user, I Agree, its over priced.
However I would love to see some actual facts backing up the rest of that sentence.
What FORCES you to upgrade? What imposed limitations are you refering to that have expensive workarounds? What content magically becomes unusable if you don't purchase new apple hardware?
I just pulled my old iPhone 2G out of my desk a few days ago to test some software on iOS 3 and ended up playing an old copy of Osmos for a while, it would appear that none of my content has disappeared since the original iPhone was released. The phone still works, though the battery is crap, it still does more than what it did when I purchased it. What is it not doing that it used to do?
You're a chump, a fool who is parted from his money easily.
On the contrary, you're an idiot who pays up front in the price of his phone so the company that makes it can distribute free apps that you may or may not like.
Where do you think the company gets the money to develop those apps for free and 'add value' to your device?
You're paying for those 'free' apps like it or not, you just aren't smart enough to realize it.
Why is it such a hard concept for you to understand that nothing is free. Just because you aren't given a choice in those 'free' apps doesn't mean you didn't pay for them. Do you still not understand that marking things up and including things for 'free' doesn't actually reduce your cost?
My local supermarket has $60 AUD android prepaid phones.
Which is essentially a crappier device than the original iPhone, that doesn't make it impressive.
You can't compare a phone that is barely capable of booting, let alone doing anything useful to an iPhone and pretend its the same thing. You can't compare a Galaxy or a Nexus to that $60 phone EITHER.
6 or 7 year old battery with a week of runtime in a cell phone?
You are beyond any contestation, a liar. There isn't any battery tech on the planet short of lead acid that will handle that number of charge cycles or shelf life if you want to claim it wasn't being used or something silly.
You do not have a phone with a week long battery life and a 6 or 7 year old battery, you're a liar.
The only reason the post office is 'losing money' is due to unions.
Take away ridiculous union requirements that prevent them from, god for bid, firing someone and you'll find that the postal service does just fine on its own.
The postal service will cease to exist before the unions stop raping it for all its worth.
Bullshit. I bet they were hoping to very quietly roll it into a driver update and have it all go away.
Yes, that would be ideal for everyone. If it just silently went away, that also means it wasn't much of a problem... that means it didn't get used as a massive exploit. Thats good.
There is no scenario where 'going away' is a bad thing, unless you're just all angsty and looking for a reason to tell 'the man' how much he sucks.
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I'm one of the first C programmers and I've switched to js and node.js. it's better and faster than C.
Then you're doing it wrong. And if you had half as much experience as you claim to have in this and your other post, you would understand that.
Just because you've written some C, doesn't mean you know what you're doing. I've worked with plenty of 'programmers' who have been 'doing it all their life' or better yet, 'longer than you've been alive' (refering to me) and those statements universally come from people who suck and are too stupid to realize it.
You go on to further my point about you not really knowing what you're talking about when in other posts you talk about the x86 emulator written JavaScript as if thats supposed to be something to show how awesome it is. When you make that awesome emulator there out run my copy of QEMU without kmod, then perhaps I'll give you a listen, but you've got to be absolutely retarded to actually think JavaScript as a language has a technical reason for it to be faster than compiled C in reality, you being unable to write quality C withstanding.
Yes, decent Javascript can out run really really shitty C, but only if you stack the deck so that C doesn't have a chance first. Just because you've seen a porn, doesn't mean you know how to be a parent.
Considering these are effectively the new dumb terminals
Thats the problem.
These aren't dumb terminals. The web sucks with dumb terminals. Turn off plugins and javascript, THAT would make it far more like a dumb terminal, though not completely.
Chromebooks are just a halfassed attempt to make you think its a dumb terminal. Your Chromebook still has to run the browser, display graphics, render OpenGL, process sound and apply effects and tons of other stuff.
A TV with a keyboard attached to the network sending key strokes to the server who then updates the display image and sends nothing more than a rendered image back to the display is how dumb terminals work.
Chromebooks are just excuses for you to tie yourself to Google under the cover of what acts like a 'dumb' terminal.
Chromebooks gain none of the advantages of dumb terminals, all the problems of an unpopular full blown OS and an invasion of privacy on levels not before seen in computing.
It's too cut to the bone e.g. it only supports triangles, lines and points as primitives,
Show me any hardware or software that actually does something different at the core. You can't. EVERYTHING users triangles, lines and points for a reason.
Blackberry had the lead, they pissed it away by pretending nothing could unseat them. There really is no chance of a comeback.
Businesses aren't stupid. They can act like iPhone owners are kids and all thats going to do is piss off the guy making the decision and he's going to respond by calling them on his iPhone and telling them how out of touch with reality they are and he'll just keep his iPhone.
Assuming nothing changes, your wife will move off of an iPad within the next couple of years as well. No business continues to 'run' on an iPad for long. Many have tried, but it doesn't last. My wife is a doctor, she would lose her fucking mind if some moron told her she had to do her medical notes on an iPad, so would pretty much all the rest who actually have to do shit on a regular basis. She might carry an iPad around to read some data, but it simply not ergonomic for data input, which is something workers do actually have to do.
Blackberry has proven they are incapable of writing software that can integrate well with anything. Ask any poor bastard who has had to deal with BES. And why should they have to? Everyone elses phones integrate with the existing infrastructure in various ways with little extra effort, even the iPhone.
And since the iPhone has come out, who has given a flying fuck about the pile of shit more commonly known as BES?
No one. BES mattered because of push email. Guess what, EVERYONE DOES PUSH EMAIL NOW, making BES entirely unimportant.
The only thing BES offers is being tired into running yet another POS server package written by a bunch of morons who wanted to lock you into a proprietary protocol when open/public ones would do better and have existed longer than the company itself.
I live in Cary. Canceled my service because they wouldn't give me a new subscriber rate on their own channels. First month after they sent me a letter, half the original price, more bandwidth, for one year. I had already switched to Uverse (which is shitty in my neighborhood unfortunately) so I didn't take it. The next month, as I as getting fed up with Uverse, I get a second letter. Sign back up and for $60/month will give you cable and Internet (second from the top tier) for 2 years.
I switched back.
In another year and a half, I will again cancel my service for as long as needed to get the price back down to where I accept it.
Having dealt with them intimately over the past few years, they make so much profit they could literally replace every single piece of equipment they own, EVERY SINGLE MONTH, and still make a comfortable profit. Can't lay new cables monthly, but its not off by month.
Most of the country? You're silly little oddball habits are only important in the vacuum between your ears. The rest of the world works differently than your silly ideas of how it is.
To specifically answer your question, Joe_Dragon obviously cares, so the message you were replying to already answered your silly little questions. Your attempt at being snarky just made you look stupid.
Yes, because fresh out of high school you understood the point of the business and what they were trying to accomplish.
Sadly, you seem to be somewhere post-after-high school and you still don't understand that your goals may not actually be the goal of the company as a whole and that they may have a strategy that fits them better.
They may not, but fresh out of high school you certainly didn't have the cluepon needed to understand that.
Yea, unions are awesome. Not like they cause more employement problems or anything. Not like there aren't any recent examples of unions ruining the lives of their members or anything, causing companies to go out of business... preventing non-unionized employees from getting jobs.
If you think unions or the solution you're ignorant. If you don't like your working environment, CHANGE IT. There is absolutely no excuse in America for not having a job. The only reason ANY American is unemployed for an extended period of time is because they don't WANT to work. You may not be able to get the job you want, but you can certainly get a job that will keep you from starving or living under a bridge. It may not pay for you to live in some lifestyle you think you're entitled too, but you won't 'die'.
Get over yourself, you aren't entitled to anything.
WTF? How does having more space on the side mean you have to scroll more?
Are you trading vertical space for horizontal space? If so thats pretty much your fault.
You don't buy a monitor thats 17" tall square and then get a 15" wide screen and pretend you got the same thing. Well, okay, an intelligent person wouldn't. You seem to be doing just that.
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I really envy some of the apps are that available only for iPhone.
Really? Like what? I'm an iPhone owner and I can't think of any single app that I can't find elsewhere, what am I missing?
android has better privacy controls than iOS. every android app must declare permissions for the services it can use BEFORE it is installed.
And that is one of the biggest security fails I've seen in an OS.
You have to choose BEFORE the app is run, EVERYTHING it is allowed to do, and its all or nothing, so the default answer to non-android-fanboy-fucktards like yourself is to just let it have permission because they want to use the app.
When every app wants to access your contacts and call log (which seems to be WAY too fucking common) normal users just give up on trying to decide and click next. So while you've put in a security feature that technically works, it is still an EPIC failure.
This is also an area where while Apple did not invent fine grained permissions on apps (neither did Android btw), they did refine it. No permissions to just run an app, instead as the App is running, you get prompted to allow on first use and you can do it just one time for most things ... and the app still works if you say no, just doesn't give access to that feature. So I can still use the Google+ app ... but it doesn't actually get free run over my call log, contacts, GPS and photos just because it might need them for some feature I might use.
Sorry, Androids permission system is pretty fucking shitty in the real world. Lets like a starting point on the technical side, but thats about it.
I had one on my iPhone 2G about a month after you could get apps on the app store. Perhaps you're searching for Samba instead of anything a normal non-linux fan would know? Samba means something to Linux fanboys and system admins (includes home admins!) Its not something my wife would look for to access her file shares at work as she has no clue what Samba is, she's a vet and shouldn't know what Samba is.
Perhaps iOS isn't the problem, its your narrow perspective of what the world should look like that is causing your problems.
As for your dissatisfaction rate ... NO SHIT, WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO MANAGE FILES FROM A PHONE?! Not everything is going to be 'great' to do on a phone with a tiny screen.
Also, is it difficult to port from iOS to Android?
No and Yes.
I've ported one of my iOS apps to android in about 15 minutes (excluding time it took me to make an initial helloworld app and setup the environment).
I have been writing cross-platform apps for about 15 years, I write every app I make as if its going to be cross platform as a matter of practice, as such porting to OS X desktop and FreeBSD took roughly the same amount of time. Its an OpenGL app so the OS specific bits are basically just startup code, getting a renderable OpenGL context, and getting input in and sound out.
Another employee at the company I work at will have to rewrite the app she worked on essentially from scratch to port else where. She knows nothing other than iOS development really, she just started with it, made a couple of apps. Its written in Objective-C++ and wrapped around CocoaTouch, its just not being ported.
So ... the long answer is, that depends on your skill level and how you engineered the application.
Apple's forced upgrades, the overpriced hardware, the imposed limitations that force you to buy expensive workarounds, and most of all, the fact that you can't use your content unless you keep buying Apple's overpriced hardware.
The overpriced hardware comment is the one debatable thing in that statement. I won't argue that point because even as an iPhone user, I Agree, its over priced.
However I would love to see some actual facts backing up the rest of that sentence.
What FORCES you to upgrade?
What imposed limitations are you refering to that have expensive workarounds?
What content magically becomes unusable if you don't purchase new apple hardware?
I just pulled my old iPhone 2G out of my desk a few days ago to test some software on iOS 3 and ended up playing an old copy of Osmos for a while, it would appear that none of my content has disappeared since the original iPhone was released. The phone still works, though the battery is crap, it still does more than what it did when I purchased it. What is it not doing that it used to do?
The problem here is that now, at least on iOS, the fucking paid versions are ad laidened crap.
Angry birds is a perfect example, I see ads regardless of which version I use. If its not iAds, its Angry Birds ads.
Remember when you bought an app (phone or PC) and you didn't get bombarded with shit trying to sell you something else? Ahh, those were the days.
You're a chump, a fool who is parted from his money easily.
On the contrary, you're an idiot who pays up front in the price of his phone so the company that makes it can distribute free apps that you may or may not like.
Where do you think the company gets the money to develop those apps for free and 'add value' to your device?
You're paying for those 'free' apps like it or not, you just aren't smart enough to realize it.
Why is it such a hard concept for you to understand that nothing is free. Just because you aren't given a choice in those 'free' apps doesn't mean you didn't pay for them. Do you still not understand that marking things up and including things for 'free' doesn't actually reduce your cost?
You mean that notification system that the Palm Pre had first?
Get over yourself fanboy, Android didn't invent it.
My local supermarket has $60 AUD android prepaid phones.
Which is essentially a crappier device than the original iPhone, that doesn't make it impressive.
You can't compare a phone that is barely capable of booting, let alone doing anything useful to an iPhone and pretend its the same thing. You can't compare a Galaxy or a Nexus to that $60 phone EITHER.
6 or 7 year old battery with a week of runtime in a cell phone?
You are beyond any contestation, a liar. There isn't any battery tech on the planet short of lead acid that will handle that number of charge cycles or shelf life if you want to claim it wasn't being used or something silly.
You do not have a phone with a week long battery life and a 6 or 7 year old battery, you're a liar.
The only reason the post office is 'losing money' is due to unions.
Take away ridiculous union requirements that prevent them from, god for bid, firing someone and you'll find that the postal service does just fine on its own.
The postal service will cease to exist before the unions stop raping it for all its worth.
Bullshit. I bet they were hoping to very quietly roll it into a driver update and have it all go away.
Yes, that would be ideal for everyone. If it just silently went away, that also means it wasn't much of a problem ... that means it didn't get used as a massive exploit. Thats good.
There is no scenario where 'going away' is a bad thing, unless you're just all angsty and looking for a reason to tell 'the man' how much he sucks.
I'm one of the first C programmers and I've switched to js and node.js. it's better and faster than C.
Then you're doing it wrong. And if you had half as much experience as you claim to have in this and your other post, you would understand that.
Just because you've written some C, doesn't mean you know what you're doing. I've worked with plenty of 'programmers' who have been 'doing it all their life' or better yet, 'longer than you've been alive' (refering to me) and those statements universally come from people who suck and are too stupid to realize it.
You go on to further my point about you not really knowing what you're talking about when in other posts you talk about the x86 emulator written JavaScript as if thats supposed to be something to show how awesome it is. When you make that awesome emulator there out run my copy of QEMU without kmod, then perhaps I'll give you a listen, but you've got to be absolutely retarded to actually think JavaScript as a language has a technical reason for it to be faster than compiled C in reality, you being unable to write quality C withstanding.
Yes, decent Javascript can out run really really shitty C, but only if you stack the deck so that C doesn't have a chance first. Just because you've seen a porn, doesn't mean you know how to be a parent.
Considering these are effectively the new dumb terminals
Thats the problem.
These aren't dumb terminals. The web sucks with dumb terminals. Turn off plugins and javascript, THAT would make it far more like a dumb terminal, though not completely.
Chromebooks are just a halfassed attempt to make you think its a dumb terminal. Your Chromebook still has to run the browser, display graphics, render OpenGL, process sound and apply effects and tons of other stuff.
A TV with a keyboard attached to the network sending key strokes to the server who then updates the display image and sends nothing more than a rendered image back to the display is how dumb terminals work.
Chromebooks are just excuses for you to tie yourself to Google under the cover of what acts like a 'dumb' terminal.
Chromebooks gain none of the advantages of dumb terminals, all the problems of an unpopular full blown OS and an invasion of privacy on levels not before seen in computing.
This isn't informative. Its pedantic and unuseful in every possible way.
It's too cut to the bone e.g. it only supports triangles, lines and points as primitives,
Show me any hardware or software that actually does something different at the core. You can't. EVERYTHING users triangles, lines and points for a reason.
Blackberry had the lead, they pissed it away by pretending nothing could unseat them. There really is no chance of a comeback.
Businesses aren't stupid. They can act like iPhone owners are kids and all thats going to do is piss off the guy making the decision and he's going to respond by calling them on his iPhone and telling them how out of touch with reality they are and he'll just keep his iPhone.
Assuming nothing changes, your wife will move off of an iPad within the next couple of years as well. No business continues to 'run' on an iPad for long. Many have tried, but it doesn't last. My wife is a doctor, she would lose her fucking mind if some moron told her she had to do her medical notes on an iPad, so would pretty much all the rest who actually have to do shit on a regular basis. She might carry an iPad around to read some data, but it simply not ergonomic for data input, which is something workers do actually have to do.
Blackberry has proven they are incapable of writing software that can integrate well with anything. Ask any poor bastard who has had to deal with BES. And why should they have to? Everyone elses phones integrate with the existing infrastructure in various ways with little extra effort, even the iPhone.
While I agree with you in principle on the No to headline aspect, lets put things in perspective.
5 years ago, neither Google nor Apple sold a phone, yet between the two of them they've entirely owned the market, world wide.
If that doesn't make it clear just how silly fragile your market dominance can be I don't know what is.
Can someone do it? Yes, just have to wait until Google and Apple sit on their butt for a bit. It may not be today, or tomorrow, but it will happen.
All things come to pass.
And since the iPhone has come out, who has given a flying fuck about the pile of shit more commonly known as BES?
No one. BES mattered because of push email. Guess what, EVERYONE DOES PUSH EMAIL NOW, making BES entirely unimportant.
The only thing BES offers is being tired into running yet another POS server package written by a bunch of morons who wanted to lock you into a proprietary protocol when open/public ones would do better and have existed longer than the company itself.
I live in Cary. Canceled my service because they wouldn't give me a new subscriber rate on their own channels. First month after they sent me a letter, half the original price, more bandwidth, for one year. I had already switched to Uverse (which is shitty in my neighborhood unfortunately) so I didn't take it. The next month, as I as getting fed up with Uverse, I get a second letter. Sign back up and for $60/month will give you cable and Internet (second from the top tier) for 2 years.
I switched back.
In another year and a half, I will again cancel my service for as long as needed to get the price back down to where I accept it.
Having dealt with them intimately over the past few years, they make so much profit they could literally replace every single piece of equipment they own, EVERY SINGLE MONTH, and still make a comfortable profit. Can't lay new cables monthly, but its not off by month.
Most of the country? You're silly little oddball habits are only important in the vacuum between your ears. The rest of the world works differently than your silly ideas of how it is.
To specifically answer your question, Joe_Dragon obviously cares, so the message you were replying to already answered your silly little questions. Your attempt at being snarky just made you look stupid.
Yes, because fresh out of high school you understood the point of the business and what they were trying to accomplish.
Sadly, you seem to be somewhere post-after-high school and you still don't understand that your goals may not actually be the goal of the company as a whole and that they may have a strategy that fits them better.
They may not, but fresh out of high school you certainly didn't have the cluepon needed to understand that.
Yea, unions are awesome. Not like they cause more employement problems or anything. Not like there aren't any recent examples of unions ruining the lives of their members or anything, causing companies to go out of business ... preventing non-unionized employees from getting jobs.
If you think unions or the solution you're ignorant. If you don't like your working environment, CHANGE IT. There is absolutely no excuse in America for not having a job. The only reason ANY American is unemployed for an extended period of time is because they don't WANT to work. You may not be able to get the job you want, but you can certainly get a job that will keep you from starving or living under a bridge. It may not pay for you to live in some lifestyle you think you're entitled too, but you won't 'die'.
Get over yourself, you aren't entitled to anything.
WTF? How does having more space on the side mean you have to scroll more?
Are you trading vertical space for horizontal space? If so thats pretty much your fault.
You don't buy a monitor thats 17" tall square and then get a 15" wide screen and pretend you got the same thing. Well, okay, an intelligent person wouldn't. You seem to be doing just that.
His point would be that you're mind numbingly ignorant of how absolutely awesome it is to be even homeless in the US.
Spend a day in a country that actually sucks ass, then speak.
Go spend a day in Somalia, Lybia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, most of Africa, large sections of rural Asia.
You have absolutely no clue what 'bad' is.