Even if iOS is 8 percent of the installed base, that can still be a lot more than 8 percent of the market. For example, if revenue per iOS user for paid apps and in-app purchases is 9.1 times that on Android (source: a six-month-old Business Insider article), an installed base of 8 percent iOS and 92 percent other corresponds to a market of.08*9.1/(.08*9.1+.92*1.0)*100 = 44 percent iOS and 56 percent other.
First, if there's a market, there is no reason not to make specific applications for various combos of hardware and software
Other than lack of capital on the developer's part. If a company lacks the resources to make five different native applications, one for each platform, it can serve more users with one JavaScript web application than with one native application.
Nobody says you have to buy any particular hardware or operating system.
Other than that you need to test on hardware and software similar to what your users are likely to already have.
Also, there is NO reason that today's smartphones need to run a particular OS.
Good luck convincing users to buy and carry a second device running "a different OS" or to abandon their existing investment in paid apps, in-app purchases, and learning time on their existing devices.
That's the thing about general computing
Android devices are general computers, at least at the userland level, but iOS devices are treated as appliances.
you can always write a different OS if you want.
Just because you write an operating system doesn't mean it's practical to deploy said operating system. Not all devices offer ability to unlock the bootloader, nor are most users willing to buy a new device just to be able to unlock its bootloader.
Also, as the Chinese have shown, you can run apps outside of Apple's walled garden without needing to jailbreak the phone.
On what grounds? The contract to which the subscriber agreed when service began and to which the subscriber continued to agree by not canceling service each month states that the ISP has the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason permitted by law with a month's notice.
Besides, who says you needed a WIRED provider?
The $10/GB charges from the wireless providers, and the fact that all licensed spectrum needed for starting your own provider is already leased to an incumbent provider.
For community-based stuff, mesh networks are just fine.
That requires the community in question being co-located with a physical neighborhood. I was referring to the uses for which people used Usenet or IRC, in particular to communicate across thousands of miles (thousands of kilometers). In many of the situations in which face-to-face communication is impractical, mesh networking is also impractical. For example, I routinely use web forums (which I grant are conceptually a web-based reimplementation of Usenet) and IRC to communicate with other members of the worldwide virtual community of people who develop homemade software for the Nintendo Entertainment System. I'm in the USA; others are in Brazil, the Netherlands, Japan, and elsewhere. That's why I mentioned an "international conference call" as an example in my previous comment.
Then what's a better word for "compile" that specifically connotes the target language being higher level than assembly language?
(Here, I define "assembly language" as a human-readable programming language with a nearly one-to-one correspondence with a CPU's native machine language or a JIT-compiled bytecode.)
Sharing a framework is fine on servers running *n?x, not so fine on desktop or smartphones.
On Windows, the most widespread desktop and laptop computer operating system in the Western industrialized world, there exists no system-wide automated way to install and update frameworks separately from an application. So when you try to install an application whose framework comes separately, it won't run because the framework isn't already there.
And on both macOS and iOS, Apple requires applications sold in the App Store to be "self-contained". A "self-contained" app either is statically linked or has a local copy of any frameworks that aren't shipped with the OS. I imagine that Apple instituted this policy to avoid the "DLL hell" problem on Windows, where an update to a framework would break applications that inadvertently depended on implementation-defined, unspecified, or undefined behaviors of said framework.
Besides, address space layout randomization (ASLR) is likely to diminish any RAM-sharing benefits of a shared framework.
Or better, force companies like Verizon to conduct their business honestly and stop advertising limited plans as unlimited.
Verizon hasn't advertised an "unlimited" plan to the public for years to my knowledge, and this story is about Verizon phasing it out to grandfathered customers. It's obviously a gradual rebranding of the grandfathered "unlimited" plan to what Verizon intended it to be in the first place: a 100 GB/mo plan.
The United States. It's not true of refrigerators here, but it is true of audio and video recording equipment. For example, Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) is part of why Digital Audio Tape (DAT) never took off. Only "professional" recorders, not for sale to the general public, were capable of making a second-generation digital copy.
It is impossible to participate in the connected world without these services.
Disputed. One could "participate in the connected world" before these particular services came into being. For example, one could "participate in the connected world" before Facebook fully launched in September 2006.
Next you are invited to an important meeting at a club, you must attend if you want to grow/achieve with your life.
Disputed that there exist no other ways "to grow/achieve with your life."
My county publishes at least the following for every homeowner as part of their public record, and this is just what I'm aware of: - First and last names [etc]
Does it publish only the name of the owner or also the names of other occupants, be they the owner's family members or lessees? The "kids" in the headline would fall into "the owner's family members".
No need for a food vendor permit or any of that horse pucky.
Yet. I apologize for not specifying earlier, but once the major refrigerator makers finish rolling out a requirement to phone home, they're likely to prohibit sale of their commercial grade refrigerators for installation in private residences. Furthermore, they're likely to lobby for regulation to enforce this in urban areas nationwide on the pretense of controlling refrigerant emissions.
Firmware embedded in an appliance, or "a computer program which is embodied in a machine or product and which cannot be copied during the ordinary operation or use of the machine or product" (17 USC 109(b)(1)(B)(i)), is exempt from copyright restrictions on software rental. It's exempt from the exchange-only provision of a typical appliance store's return policy for the same reason.
Sorry I misread and assumed you get the xfinity wifi service only if you have a physical landline internet connection at home.
Your assumption was correct. I subscribe to cable Internet at home instead of cellular Internet. If I switched from cable Internet to cellular Internet, I'd lose access to xfinitywifi hotspots, and my monthly usage quota would decrease from 1000 GB to 5 GB. Last I checked, I used 60 GB in a month.
The fact is that adverts do not contribute anywhere near as much to people's mobile phone bill as the OP implied.
My assumption was that some people use cellular as their primary means of Internet access at home, with tethering for any desktop or laptop PCs, because they can't afford to subscribe to both wired and cellular Internet.
That position is indefensible compared to standard published data on what consumes internet bandwidth and how people use their phones.
I fail to understand the security risk if you don't permit it to connect to your network.
Until the majority of manufacturers of refrigerators for the home market decide not to turn on the compressor unless the appliance has phoned home recently. Not everybody has the money to buy a router capable of running third-party firmware that supports setting up a segregated network for each appliance.
Which then you buy an commercial grade fridge which won't have this amount of "stupid" therein.
Good luck setting up a corporation or LLC and obtaining a food vendor permit from your local government in order to qualify to purchase "an commercial grade fridge".
White goods used to last decades, but were expensive. These days they are relatively much cheaper, but also only last a few years.
Energy efficiency mandates will do that. The compressors in new refrigerators have to be so small that they run constantly, which imposes more wear and tear.
there is no reason everyone can't just have their own ip and host their own services
Other than the threat that your Internet service provider, to which you switched after the only other wired Internet service provider in your area disconnected you for running a server in violation of its standard terms of residential service, will also disconnect you for running a server in violation of its standard terms of residential service.
What - you never heard of platform-independent applications. Java is still around, and runs just fine
Only on desktop, or also on smartphones and on tablet computers running a smartphone-derived operating system? I was under the impression that iPhone and iPad forbade Java entirely with Apple's ban on third-party JIT engines, and Android required an application's publisher, not the user, to be willing to port the app from Swing to Android's widget set and then rebuild and test the application for Dalvik, ART, or whatever it's using nowadays.
And yes, you can run Java on a chromebook.
How is this done without installing something like Crouton (source for the requirement of Crouton), which triggers the "OS verification is off" notice that prompts whoever turns on a device to erase Crouton and all work that has yet to be backed up?
Or you know, you can do what people have always done - paid for a program that does what they want.
From what you've written in the last few comments in this thread, I gather that you'd agree with an application publisher's decision to make a JavaScript application available without charge but paywall the native versions.
Flaws in the underlying file system implementation are the problem of the file system manufacturer.
Problems of an operating system installed on the supermajority of a particular class of devices are the problem of any publisher who wants to reach customers using said devices.
I fail to understand what you mean by that question. My devices connect to Wi-Fi at home, and because their MAC addresses are linked to my account, I can also use hotspots throughout the city that have the xfinitywifi SSID. I don't find coverage while riding in vehicles worth a downgrade from 1000 GB/mo to 5 GB/mo.
Most plain text viewers with which I'm familiar don't support pagination of a document into side-by-side columns. They just assume 80 columns across by unbounded rows down. Which viewers do you recommend for Windows, X11/Linux, and Android that do a good job of breaking columns automatically while avoiding distracting orphan lines?
And good luck getting "multiple windows" on the Android 4, 5, and 6 tablets still in use. Only in Android 7 "Nougat" did multiple windows become a standard feature. And if you can un-maximize a plain text document, you can also un-maximize an HTML document with full-featured CSS, especially now that sites are using media queries to adapt the layout to a reduced viewport width.
Which became voice mail. But voice mail is still only to one other party, not to all other participants in a multi-party discussion. And nowadays, the extent of messages that I tend to get is "please call me back", be it for privacy reasons (such as not wanting to reveal personal health information to others in the household) or laziness reasons.
I'm confused. Why would you use that? Are you still living in 2010? I used to do stuff like that back before the most common dataplans became 2-5GB options.
I currently get 1000 GB/mo on Xfinity and am on a pay-per-minute cellular plan. Why would I either A. cancel cable Internet in favor of a cellular ISP that offers only 5 GB/mo, or B. double my bill by subscribing to both?
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8% of the market is pretty safe to ignore
Even if iOS is 8 percent of the installed base, that can still be a lot more than 8 percent of the market. For example, if revenue per iOS user for paid apps and in-app purchases is 9.1 times that on Android (source: a six-month-old Business Insider article), an installed base of 8 percent iOS and 92 percent other corresponds to a market of .08*9.1/(.08*9.1+.92*1.0)*100 = 44 percent iOS and 56 percent other.
First, if there's a market, there is no reason not to make specific applications for various combos of hardware and software
Other than lack of capital on the developer's part. If a company lacks the resources to make five different native applications, one for each platform, it can serve more users with one JavaScript web application than with one native application.
Nobody says you have to buy any particular hardware or operating system.
Other than that you need to test on hardware and software similar to what your users are likely to already have.
Also, there is NO reason that today's smartphones need to run a particular OS.
Good luck convincing users to buy and carry a second device running "a different OS" or to abandon their existing investment in paid apps, in-app purchases, and learning time on their existing devices.
That's the thing about general computing
Android devices are general computers, at least at the userland level, but iOS devices are treated as appliances.
you can always write a different OS if you want.
Just because you write an operating system doesn't mean it's practical to deploy said operating system. Not all devices offer ability to unlock the bootloader, nor are most users willing to buy a new device just to be able to unlock its bootloader.
Also, as the Chinese have shown, you can run apps outside of Apple's walled garden without needing to jailbreak the phone.
To which exploit do you refer? Are you referring to 7659's abuse of the Developer Enterprise Program?
So you sue them!
On what grounds? The contract to which the subscriber agreed when service began and to which the subscriber continued to agree by not canceling service each month states that the ISP has the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason permitted by law with a month's notice.
Besides, who says you needed a WIRED provider?
The $10/GB charges from the wireless providers, and the fact that all licensed spectrum needed for starting your own provider is already leased to an incumbent provider.
For community-based stuff, mesh networks are just fine.
That requires the community in question being co-located with a physical neighborhood. I was referring to the uses for which people used Usenet or IRC, in particular to communicate across thousands of miles (thousands of kilometers). In many of the situations in which face-to-face communication is impractical, mesh networking is also impractical. For example, I routinely use web forums (which I grant are conceptually a web-based reimplementation of Usenet) and IRC to communicate with other members of the worldwide virtual community of people who develop homemade software for the Nintendo Entertainment System. I'm in the USA; others are in Brazil, the Netherlands, Japan, and elsewhere. That's why I mentioned an "international conference call" as an example in my previous comment.
The expansion of Lifeline from landlines to cellular took effect in 2008, President George W. Bush's final year in office.
Then what's a better word for "compile" that specifically connotes the target language being higher level than assembly language?
(Here, I define "assembly language" as a human-readable programming language with a nearly one-to-one correspondence with a CPU's native machine language or a JIT-compiled bytecode.)
Python's switch statement is a dictionary of inner functions.
Sharing a framework is fine on servers running *n?x, not so fine on desktop or smartphones.
On Windows, the most widespread desktop and laptop computer operating system in the Western industrialized world, there exists no system-wide automated way to install and update frameworks separately from an application. So when you try to install an application whose framework comes separately, it won't run because the framework isn't already there.
And on both macOS and iOS, Apple requires applications sold in the App Store to be "self-contained". A "self-contained" app either is statically linked or has a local copy of any frameworks that aren't shipped with the OS. I imagine that Apple instituted this policy to avoid the "DLL hell" problem on Windows, where an update to a framework would break applications that inadvertently depended on implementation-defined, unspecified, or undefined behaviors of said framework.
Besides, address space layout randomization (ASLR) is likely to diminish any RAM-sharing benefits of a shared framework.
Or better, force companies like Verizon to conduct their business honestly and stop advertising limited plans as unlimited.
Verizon hasn't advertised an "unlimited" plan to the public for years to my knowledge, and this story is about Verizon phasing it out to grandfathered customers. It's obviously a gradual rebranding of the grandfathered "unlimited" plan to what Verizon intended it to be in the first place: a 100 GB/mo plan.
The United States. It's not true of refrigerators here, but it is true of audio and video recording equipment. For example, Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) is part of why Digital Audio Tape (DAT) never took off. Only "professional" recorders, not for sale to the general public, were capable of making a second-generation digital copy.
It is impossible to participate in the connected world without these services.
Disputed. One could "participate in the connected world" before these particular services came into being. For example, one could "participate in the connected world" before Facebook fully launched in September 2006.
Next you are invited to an important meeting at a club, you must attend if you want to grow/achieve with your life.
Disputed that there exist no other ways "to grow/achieve with your life."
My county publishes at least the following for every homeowner as part of their public record, and this is just what I'm aware of:
- First and last names [etc]
Does it publish only the name of the owner or also the names of other occupants, be they the owner's family members or lessees? The "kids" in the headline would fall into "the owner's family members".
No need for a food vendor permit or any of that horse pucky.
Yet. I apologize for not specifying earlier, but once the major refrigerator makers finish rolling out a requirement to phone home, they're likely to prohibit sale of their commercial grade refrigerators for installation in private residences. Furthermore, they're likely to lobby for regulation to enforce this in urban areas nationwide on the pretense of controlling refrigerant emissions.
Firmware embedded in an appliance, or "a computer program which is embodied in a machine or product and which cannot be copied during the ordinary operation or use of the machine or product" (17 USC 109(b)(1)(B)(i)), is exempt from copyright restrictions on software rental. It's exempt from the exchange-only provision of a typical appliance store's return policy for the same reason.
Sorry I misread and assumed you get the xfinity wifi service only if you have a physical landline internet connection at home.
Your assumption was correct. I subscribe to cable Internet at home instead of cellular Internet. If I switched from cable Internet to cellular Internet, I'd lose access to xfinitywifi hotspots, and my monthly usage quota would decrease from 1000 GB to 5 GB. Last I checked, I used 60 GB in a month.
The fact is that adverts do not contribute anywhere near as much to people's mobile phone bill as the OP implied.
My assumption was that some people use cellular as their primary means of Internet access at home, with tethering for any desktop or laptop PCs, because they can't afford to subscribe to both wired and cellular Internet.
That position is indefensible compared to standard published data on what consumes internet bandwidth and how people use their phones.
To which "standard published data" do you refer?
I fail to understand the security risk if you don't permit it to connect to your network.
Until the majority of manufacturers of refrigerators for the home market decide not to turn on the compressor unless the appliance has phoned home recently. Not everybody has the money to buy a router capable of running third-party firmware that supports setting up a segregated network for each appliance.
Which then you buy an commercial grade fridge which won't have this amount of "stupid" therein.
Good luck setting up a corporation or LLC and obtaining a food vendor permit from your local government in order to qualify to purchase "an commercial grade fridge".
White goods used to last decades, but were expensive. These days they are relatively much cheaper, but also only last a few years.
Energy efficiency mandates will do that. The compressors in new refrigerators have to be so small that they run constantly, which imposes more wear and tear.
The refridgeration probably won't start running until after it's phoned home
That's when you exercise the return policy.
there is no reason everyone can't just have their own ip and host their own services
Other than the threat that your Internet service provider, to which you switched after the only other wired Internet service provider in your area disconnected you for running a server in violation of its standard terms of residential service, will also disconnect you for running a server in violation of its standard terms of residential service.
What - you never heard of platform-independent applications. Java is still around, and runs just fine
Only on desktop, or also on smartphones and on tablet computers running a smartphone-derived operating system? I was under the impression that iPhone and iPad forbade Java entirely with Apple's ban on third-party JIT engines, and Android required an application's publisher, not the user, to be willing to port the app from Swing to Android's widget set and then rebuild and test the application for Dalvik, ART, or whatever it's using nowadays.
And yes, you can run Java on a chromebook.
How is this done without installing something like Crouton (source for the requirement of Crouton), which triggers the "OS verification is off" notice that prompts whoever turns on a device to erase Crouton and all work that has yet to be backed up?
Or you know, you can do what people have always done - paid for a program that does what they want.
From what you've written in the last few comments in this thread, I gather that you'd agree with an application publisher's decision to make a JavaScript application available without charge but paywall the native versions.
Flaws in the underlying file system implementation are the problem of the file system manufacturer.
Problems of an operating system installed on the supermajority of a particular class of devices are the problem of any publisher who wants to reach customers using said devices.
I fail to understand what you mean by that question. My devices connect to Wi-Fi at home, and because their MAC addresses are linked to my account, I can also use hotspots throughout the city that have the xfinitywifi SSID. I don't find coverage while riding in vehicles worth a downgrade from 1000 GB/mo to 5 GB/mo.
It'd be easier if holding the Windows key for a second brought up a list of what all Win+letter commands do.
Most plain text viewers with which I'm familiar don't support pagination of a document into side-by-side columns. They just assume 80 columns across by unbounded rows down. Which viewers do you recommend for Windows, X11/Linux, and Android that do a good job of breaking columns automatically while avoiding distracting orphan lines?
And good luck getting "multiple windows" on the Android 4, 5, and 6 tablets still in use. Only in Android 7 "Nougat" did multiple windows become a standard feature. And if you can un-maximize a plain text document, you can also un-maximize an HTML document with full-featured CSS, especially now that sites are using media queries to adapt the layout to a reduced viewport width.
it's called an answering machine
Which became voice mail. But voice mail is still only to one other party, not to all other participants in a multi-party discussion. And nowadays, the extent of messages that I tend to get is "please call me back", be it for privacy reasons (such as not wanting to reveal personal health information to others in the household) or laziness reasons.
Plus you can't Ctrl+F voice mail.
I'm confused. Why would you use that? Are you still living in 2010? I used to do stuff like that back before the most common dataplans became 2-5GB options.
I currently get 1000 GB/mo on Xfinity and am on a pay-per-minute cellular plan. Why would I either A. cancel cable Internet in favor of a cellular ISP that offers only 5 GB/mo, or B. double my bill by subscribing to both?
Is there a reason your floating point kernels can't be written in OpenCL to execute on pixel shaders?