No, a better analogy is: the store forgot a price sticker printer in the shelf, so any client could just get it and print new prices freely. This kid found the printer and took it to the cashier, and rather than getting thanked, he got accused of stealing the printer.
Microsoft thought they could hijack Nokia's passionate fanbase. But those people were hyped for MeeGo, so when that died, everyone was furious. So you could say that WP didn't merely start from zero, it started from a huge negative number: millions of people who hated it by default.
because although the UI isn't 100% configurable, it is actually good. and android cant seem to be configured to be good without investing 15 hrs a week into rolling your own.
Android's stock interface is pretty good. Or you can easily find an alternative launcher to your liking. Even ones that are modeled after WP or iOS, if you're into that. Ew.
There was the IBM Simon and the Palm Pilot phones and blackberries before iPhone.
1994 to early 00s, that's a huge gap there. You fail to mention Nokia's GEOS-based 9000 Communicator, launched in 1996. It was perhaps the first commercially successful smartphone, and the first mobile device to do web browsing with graphics.
Did the Fire have any actual compelling feature? That 3D-ish interface was cute, but it was just a gimmick. Amazon fucked up by trying to create their own ecosystem when people were already hooked on Google's.
Yes, but after that short period - and particularly after the major revamp of Ice Cream Sandwich - Android became a fully viable and much less locked down alternative.
No. The Prada had a fancy interface (based on Adobe Flash Lite) and could run J2ME programs, but even back then that was too limited to call a smartphone.
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... assuming the UK is still a first-world nation by 2040.
It ceased to be one in 1991, since the "Three-World Model" was about national alignments during the Cold War.
No, a better analogy is: the store forgot a price sticker printer in the shelf, so any client could just get it and print new prices freely. This kid found the printer and took it to the cashier, and rather than getting thanked, he got accused of stealing the printer.
However, if you fancy yourself a photographer, you will buy a dedicated SLR camera and a good lens kit, not a goddamn phone.
Fixed that for you.
Making them a bit thicker would also make it easier to give them better battery life.
They did, it was called MeeGo. And the Microsoft-planted CEO Stephen Elop killed it in favor of Winblows Phoney.
Microsoft thought they could hijack Nokia's passionate fanbase. But those people were hyped for MeeGo, so when that died, everyone was furious. So you could say that WP didn't merely start from zero, it started from a huge negative number: millions of people who hated it by default.
because although the UI isn't 100% configurable, it is actually good. and android cant seem to be configured to be good without investing 15 hrs a week into rolling your own.
Android's stock interface is pretty good. Or you can easily find an alternative launcher to your liking. Even ones that are modeled after WP or iOS, if you're into that. Ew.
Everyone did. Why do you think retailers kept it in the back?
There was the IBM Simon and the Palm Pilot phones and blackberries before iPhone.
1994 to early 00s, that's a huge gap there. You fail to mention Nokia's GEOS-based 9000 Communicator, launched in 1996. It was perhaps the first commercially successful smartphone, and the first mobile device to do web browsing with graphics.
Removable storage ? Check
Too many recent phones lack that. And some lack the headphone jack. Sometimes things change for the worse.
It's "altogether", not "all together", you illiterate buffoons.
"Most quotes on the internet are made up."
- Albert Einstein
They don't call it OS X anymore, now it's macOS.
Not exactly. Linux is Unix-like, macOS is officially certified Unix.
I read the F is lighter, even though it is louder.
It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.
That's a bit different. (Damn, I loved Voyagers! when I was little.)
Old news, not for nerds, shit that doesn't matter.
iOS leads in a handful of wealthy countries, but globally its market share by Q1 2017 was 14.5%, against Android's 85%.
Still a damn good result, considering that all other systems put together got 0.5%.
Did the Fire have any actual compelling feature? That 3D-ish interface was cute, but it was just a gimmick. Amazon fucked up by trying to create their own ecosystem when people were already hooked on Google's.
Yes, but after that short period - and particularly after the major revamp of Ice Cream Sandwich - Android became a fully viable and much less locked down alternative.
Two different situations at two different points in time.
Android can do anything that iOS does, but the same flexibility of a jailbreak can be had out of the box. So why even look at the iPhone?
Even back then the judgement was clear: the LG Prada mobile is not a smartphone.
No. The Prada had a fancy interface (based on Adobe Flash Lite) and could run J2ME programs, but even back then that was too limited to call a smartphone.