what will you do to ensure proprietary software, proprietary licenses and related legal uncertainties/risks will not be further migrated into ubuntu? What will you do to further the goal of free software/open source? It's not safe to program anything using mono due to the obvious legal risks, for example.
The yahoo search deal (after yahoo announcing a MS partnership) and having mono (and fspot) in ubuntu are two notable issues in that sense.
Just because a carrier tries to disable it doesn't mean you have to pay the extra $30-$60 a month they'd like to charge you for paying the same service as now. aka net neutrality issues all over again aka double dipping.
This is why smart users jailbreak. Why pay extra for an artificial scarcity? This concept is at the forefront of many an economic failure. Yes, it's not apple's fault. However, it's in apple's hands what to do with it too unless you jailbreak.
I have no clue your point with the process viewer. Yes, flash won't be the same as the desktop, and HTML5 support will eventually be fine once HTML5 gains some traction and loses some proprietary (h264). HTML5 will not likely gain a lot of traction with h264 behind it.
Also, the tethering options you have are not the same when the phone isn't jailbroke.
reason to root your android phone is simple: apps on SD card. Why?
Because otherwise you share the same flash rom for applications as you do for storing said applications, and their respective caches and whatever they keep in memory while running. Yes, all 3 are shared. Meaning if you install more than 5-10 apps (and some people like having 20-30 apps for crap - good luck with games, btw) - you'll run out of ram real fast. Considering that the ram is the only improvement in most android phones other than the droid and the nexus one, that means that installing some apps and games will result in your phone running no faster than an HTC Magic (g1), as they all have the same ~500ish megaherz (since all are underclocked) processors.
Oh, and every single app in the app store (paid including) will still work - you won't lose any.
Average users with apps on the SD card use approximately 100-200MB of flash. The most a phone has available for android, including nexus one, is 256MB. That means you have 50mb for both a: running apps (in the background) and things such as browser cache (which don't clear on exit).
1: You can still follow apple's DRM/obligations on a jailbroken phone. The way DRM is set up, you can't even use DRM'd products without observing what is in essence apple's policies on music.
2: content doesn't make the iphone special. It's the developers which make the phone special by creating usage. Content is simply the end conduit of that talent. Also, a lot of apple "app store content" is a bunch of crap. I'm sure your product, Mr developer, is no exception.
Just because you can jailbreak and use apps for free, doesn't mean that's why people do it. You are clearly a bad developer if you focus on a single negative aspect of the result as a reason to rationalize off all the other positive uses of jailbreaking. For that reason we may as well ban oxygen since it can be used for explosions. See how faulty that is? Also, app store revenue? Give me a fucking break. Nobody makes serious cash on apple apps any more than android apps. A few companies got super lucky and hit it big but you'll never make a living off apple apps. It's not a perpetual sales deal by any stretch. Make some money, enough to offload some bills? Absolutely Make a living? Not likely.
3: Apple provides you with a horrible platform for your goods. People already do make their own content because neither consumers nor developers want walled gardens. This is why jailbreaking exists. Again, a demand not met by apple, is being forced to be met by a non apple source.
Apple's agreement already gets the ire of plenty of developers, I can point to their refund policy on that as an easy example.
I know you don't want to feel bad about your decision to support the apple app store, but that doesn't mean other people want to support you, or your decision. Try not selling out and using some ethics and you'll get a lot more sales.
MS hasn't exactly changed in the last 10-15 years, why would anyone think Apple has either?
hint to folks(not aimed at you mighty): for a corporation to change at it's core is exceedingly difficult and feared by both a corporation's own management and their stakeholders in various forms. It almost never happens.
there's no law broken in jailbreaking an iphone either, so what's your point? Yes, you had a contractual agreement, but that's not law (nor would it hold up in court if apple tried to sue jailbreakers)- this is well established in the mod-chip cases in the US, which are legal.
where do you come up with this? Jail breaking exists because there is a demand for features that apple refuses to provide. It's no different than rooting a google phone, and for the same reasons.
Easy examples: Flash, multitasking, tethering.
I'm an apple hater, someone who doesn't even have an iphone, and even I know this. Basically, there wouldn't be jailbreaking if apple was actually giving their customers what they want.
It's like the 4th/5th amendment: it's set up that if you do anything at all involving any topic, you basically give up those rights.
It's not a good thing, but I'm not sure what decent alternative we have either. Clearly judicial and other governmental interests are in conflict in how privacy comes together. They just don't want to acknowledge it.
There was another slashdot article about this - basically government has an interest in encouraging all of this tracking, because they can profit from the information. Meanwhile, it's costing us money in terms of lack of security and lack of relevant data. So it's a very cyclical situation.
If you want to know why I don't like Microsoft, go look up the comes antitrust exhibits and/or plenty of the things MS has done in the past. We can go as far back as Dr. Dos, or as recent as Trusted Computing/WMA/DRM/OOXML Fiacso/office patent fiasco/Windows Live Gaming/Xbox Live service shutdown. Really, do I need to name more? They are also the reason people don't even understand the phrase open source (and don't even consider the phrase free software) and why android isn't really true open source, although it's significantly better than the alternatives thus far. I don't need to just be a ms hater. It comes from reading a lot of groklaw and actually putting effort into being educated in understanding computers as a good slashie.
As far as Flo, I didn't know enough about it, so thank you for explaining and sorry for going on a tangent.
Maybe you should think again, since you don't understand anything. People hack windows mobile because it's atrocious as it exists currently. XDA devs is for hacking of all HTC devices, whether winmo or android. If you think xda devs is all about windows mobile then I take it you don't even realize that HTC magic (g1) is a huge part of android hacking?
Or maybe I should say the name cyanogenmod? I looked into every site in your list, and unless the name was pocketpc, it didn't cover exclusively windows mobile. Really, what do you expect from a site like that? Do I expect a site that says "windowsfans" to cover android? I can cite a whole lot of android sites too, but it still doesn't show for any actual interest (and marketshare will show you that) for windows mobile, which is drifting around 5% or less at this point, and shrinking.
Thanks for reminding me that apparently you love windows mobile. That's about the most embarrassing piece of software I've ever heard anyone being associated with.
actually, nobody even cares about microsoft phones. They were (and still are) featureless and generally crappy. At this point MS would be smarter to just let that market go.
Re: do customers use gmail for professional use? Answer:Daily/constantly. Mind you, these are ceo's of large companies that make in the range of >$10M/year minimum when I state that. If I include any company smaller than that, they don't even have an @gmail most of the time.
I don't know where you think they don't, but having company@gmail.com is a hundred times better than I usually see. Usually it's something like divorcedmom69@emailprovider.com or redsoxfan42@randomemailprovider.com or misspelt@randomemailprovider.com. Heck, some companies don't even spell the word that is their company name correctly in their email.
Never underestimate the amazing lack of IT understanding from business owners.
Beyond that my instinct says this could be huge, how big of an impact does a product like this really have? Mind you, the questions of implementation and all that aside, is this really practical or just another thing that might eventually be a standard feature?
Nice troll. christian enemies? Sounds like you believe this is a war, my (presumably from a republican state) slashdotter. creationism is not a science. What we put in our books is fact. Creationism has no more place in our books than Scientology does. Would you like scientology in your books alongside creationism?
gamers are a huge part of the entirety of computer users, and nearly 0% of the minority that doesn't include gaming wants to recognize that such exists.
Really, if google were to fail, we'd have lots of alternatives. Saying it's too big to fail just shows that someone is writing horrifically shitty blogposts.
they don't like that they're actually already getting paid to stream, so apparently they'd prefer that they don't get paid to have their music streamed.
Impressive, isn't it?
Note that correctly: they don't let people stream the music for free, they charge people for it.
clearly you don't understand - it has nothing to do with "proprietary doing better" and everything to do with DirextX (and it's focus on all gaming) being owned 100% by Microsoft.
When does DirectX release new versions? Shortly after when wine cracks the full functionality of the existing DirectX.
it's a lot less trivial for folks who never bought it (and thus pirated) by just disabling this WAT. Nice to know MS is treating their paying customers almost as well as it treats the ones that don't pay.
windows live is it's own DRM. 1: you have to be online to use it (and play the game), 2: it has it's own activation/install limits.
So securom might be gone, but windows live's limit is 15 installs. Thus, securom is just handing the torch to microsoft.
Tracking achievements is just how they rationalize it. There already is voice chat for games that don't have it. It's called ventrilo, or teamspeak, or gaming with a PC.
On the xbox, you have no choice but to use that system. On the PC? We like that choice thing.
I guess the guy doesn't like asking for donations or something.
Making annoying ads different doesn't make them less annoying. There is a well known trend away from online advertising being effective in any format. Really, people don't want ads and don't have interest in them. Have a proxy and a cost for that proxy? ask for it. Relakks does so with their vpn, and if you want a good proxy I see no reason not to have to pay them too. Maybe have the free option include ads as they are now, but trying to make the ads more intrusive will not gain the desired effect.
Sounds like faulty logic with the fact that it's a "$529" phone. Even beyond the fact that the somehow phone retailers have arbitrarily decided that if a phone has a keyboard it should automatically be $300 and if it has anything remotely more useful it should automatically be >$500, that is an issue people will get to all in due time. Really, This phone wouldn't even be realistically priced at $300, and it's cutting edge technology. Anyway:
Either a: you buy the phone and pay the cost upfront or b: you buy into the plan and pay the cost over the duration of the contract
It's not the most expensive package available, it's actually spending to save more. You get a better plan out of it. Europe has done it right, but you can't blame tmobile for making steps to do so. Think you'd see this kind of a concept on ATT, sprint, us cellular or verizon? Think again.
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what will you do to ensure proprietary software, proprietary licenses and related legal uncertainties/risks will not be further migrated into ubuntu? What will you do to further the goal of free software/open source? It's not safe to program anything using mono due to the obvious legal risks, for example.
The yahoo search deal (after yahoo announcing a MS partnership) and having mono (and fspot) in ubuntu are two notable issues in that sense.
Just because a carrier tries to disable it doesn't mean you have to pay the extra $30-$60 a month they'd like to charge you for paying the same service as now. aka net neutrality issues all over again aka double dipping.
This is why smart users jailbreak. Why pay extra for an artificial scarcity? This concept is at the forefront of many an economic failure. Yes, it's not apple's fault. However, it's in apple's hands what to do with it too unless you jailbreak.
I have no clue your point with the process viewer. Yes, flash won't be the same as the desktop, and HTML5 support will eventually be fine once HTML5 gains some traction and loses some proprietary (h264). HTML5 will not likely gain a lot of traction with h264 behind it.
Also, the tethering options you have are not the same when the phone isn't jailbroke.
please. taking physical property is related to jailbreaking how, exactly? Oh right, anon, appletard, etc.
reason to root your android phone is simple: apps on SD card. Why?
Because otherwise you share the same flash rom for applications as you do for storing said applications, and their respective caches and whatever they keep in memory while running. Yes, all 3 are shared. Meaning if you install more than 5-10 apps (and some people like having 20-30 apps for crap - good luck with games, btw) - you'll run out of ram real fast. Considering that the ram is the only improvement in most android phones other than the droid and the nexus one, that means that installing some apps and games will result in your phone running no faster than an HTC Magic (g1), as they all have the same ~500ish megaherz (since all are underclocked) processors.
Oh, and every single app in the app store (paid including) will still work - you won't lose any.
Average users with apps on the SD card use approximately 100-200MB of flash. The most a phone has available for android, including nexus one, is 256MB. That means you have 50mb for both a: running apps (in the background) and things such as browser cache (which don't clear on exit).
Your points are 100% invalid.
1: You can still follow apple's DRM/obligations on a jailbroken phone. The way DRM is set up, you can't even use DRM'd products without observing what is in essence apple's policies on music.
2: content doesn't make the iphone special. It's the developers which make the phone special by creating usage. Content is simply the end conduit of that talent. Also, a lot of apple "app store content" is a bunch of crap. I'm sure your product, Mr developer, is no exception.
Just because you can jailbreak and use apps for free, doesn't mean that's why people do it. You are clearly a bad developer if you focus on a single negative aspect of the result as a reason to rationalize off all the other positive uses of jailbreaking. For that reason we may as well ban oxygen since it can be used for explosions. See how faulty that is?
Also, app store revenue? Give me a fucking break. Nobody makes serious cash on apple apps any more than android apps. A few companies got super lucky and hit it big but you'll never make a living off apple apps. It's not a perpetual sales deal by any stretch. Make some money, enough to offload some bills? Absolutely Make a living? Not likely.
3: Apple provides you with a horrible platform for your goods. People already do make their own content because neither consumers nor developers want walled gardens. This is why jailbreaking exists. Again, a demand not met by apple, is being forced to be met by a non apple source.
Apple's agreement already gets the ire of plenty of developers, I can point to their refund policy on that as an easy example.
I know you don't want to feel bad about your decision to support the apple app store, but that doesn't mean other people want to support you, or your decision. Try not selling out and using some ethics and you'll get a lot more sales.
MS hasn't exactly changed in the last 10-15 years, why would anyone think Apple has either?
hint to folks(not aimed at you mighty): for a corporation to change at it's core is exceedingly difficult and feared by both a corporation's own management and their stakeholders in various forms. It almost never happens.
there's no law broken in jailbreaking an iphone either, so what's your point? Yes, you had a contractual agreement, but that's not law (nor would it hold up in court if apple tried to sue jailbreakers)- this is well established in the mod-chip cases in the US, which are legal.
where do you come up with this? Jail breaking exists because there is a demand for features that apple refuses to provide. It's no different than rooting a google phone, and for the same reasons.
Easy examples: Flash, multitasking, tethering.
I'm an apple hater, someone who doesn't even have an iphone, and even I know this. Basically, there wouldn't be jailbreaking if apple was actually giving their customers what they want.
It's like the 4th/5th amendment: it's set up that if you do anything at all involving any topic, you basically give up those rights.
It's not a good thing, but I'm not sure what decent alternative we have either. Clearly judicial and other governmental interests are in conflict in how privacy comes together. They just don't want to acknowledge it.
There was another slashdot article about this - basically government has an interest in encouraging all of this tracking, because they can profit from the information. Meanwhile, it's costing us money in terms of lack of security and lack of relevant data. So it's a very cyclical situation.
If you want to know why I don't like Microsoft, go look up the comes antitrust exhibits and/or plenty of the things MS has done in the past. We can go as far back as Dr. Dos, or as recent as Trusted Computing/WMA/DRM/OOXML Fiacso/office patent fiasco/Windows Live Gaming/Xbox Live service shutdown. Really, do I need to name more? They are also the reason people don't even understand the phrase open source (and don't even consider the phrase free software) and why android isn't really true open source, although it's significantly better than the alternatives thus far. I don't need to just be a ms hater. It comes from reading a lot of groklaw and actually putting effort into being educated in understanding computers as a good slashie.
As far as Flo, I didn't know enough about it, so thank you for explaining and sorry for going on a tangent.
Let's try this again. What came out first, the HTC Hero or the HTC HD2? Which one was designed to look like the other again?
Please remind me, because, oh wait, why would I trust you? I prefer fact. htc hero: October 11th
HTC HD2: November 11th .
Maybe you should think again, since you don't understand anything. People hack windows mobile because it's atrocious as it exists currently. XDA devs is for hacking of all HTC devices, whether winmo or android. If you think xda devs is all about windows mobile then I take it you don't even realize that HTC magic (g1) is a huge part of android hacking?
Or maybe I should say the name cyanogenmod? I looked into every site in your list, and unless the name was pocketpc, it didn't cover exclusively windows mobile. Really, what do you expect from a site like that? Do I expect a site that says "windowsfans" to cover android? I can cite a whole lot of android sites too, but it still doesn't show for any actual interest (and marketshare will show you that) for windows mobile, which is drifting around 5% or less at this point, and shrinking.
Thanks for reminding me that apparently you love windows mobile. That's about the most embarrassing piece of software I've ever heard anyone being associated with.
actually, nobody even cares about microsoft phones. They were (and still are) featureless and generally crappy. At this point MS would be smarter to just let that market go.
The best they have done is trying to make a phone look exactly like an android phone which shows how crappy winmo is.
Re: do customers use gmail for professional use? Answer:Daily/constantly. Mind you, these are ceo's of large companies that make in the range of >$10M/year minimum when I state that. If I include any company smaller than that, they don't even have an @gmail most of the time.
I don't know where you think they don't, but having company@gmail.com is a hundred times better than I usually see. Usually it's something like divorcedmom69@emailprovider.com or redsoxfan42@randomemailprovider.com or misspelt@randomemailprovider.com. Heck, some companies don't even spell the word that is their company name correctly in their email.
Never underestimate the amazing lack of IT understanding from business owners.
Beyond that my instinct says this could be huge, how big of an impact does a product like this really have? Mind you, the questions of implementation and all that aside, is this really practical or just another thing that might eventually be a standard feature?
Nice troll. christian enemies? Sounds like you believe this is a war, my (presumably from a republican state) slashdotter. creationism is not a science. What we put in our books is fact. Creationism has no more place in our books than Scientology does. Would you like scientology in your books alongside creationism?
gamers are a huge part of the entirety of computer users, and nearly 0% of the minority that doesn't include gaming wants to recognize that such exists.
See how this works? You're full of shit.
Really, if google were to fail, we'd have lots of alternatives. Saying it's too big to fail just shows that someone is writing horrifically shitty blogposts.
they don't like that they're actually already getting paid to stream, so apparently they'd prefer that they don't get paid to have their music streamed.
Impressive, isn't it?
Note that correctly: they don't let people stream the music for free, they charge people for it.
clearly you don't understand - it has nothing to do with "proprietary doing better" and everything to do with DirextX (and it's focus on all gaming) being owned 100% by Microsoft.
When does DirectX release new versions? Shortly after when wine cracks the full functionality of the existing DirectX.
it's a lot less trivial for folks who never bought it (and thus pirated) by just disabling this WAT. Nice to know MS is treating their paying customers almost as well as it treats the ones that don't pay.
not only that, but knowing a hack is coming is not exactly realistic.
I'm sure the results will say "we're well prepared for a hack" even though reality proves otherwise.
windows live is it's own DRM. 1: you have to be online to use it (and play the game), 2: it has it's own activation/install limits.
So securom might be gone, but windows live's limit is 15 installs. Thus, securom is just handing the torch to microsoft.
Tracking achievements is just how they rationalize it. There already is voice chat for games that don't have it. It's called ventrilo, or teamspeak, or gaming with a PC.
On the xbox, you have no choice but to use that system. On the PC? We like that choice thing.
I guess the guy doesn't like asking for donations or something.
Making annoying ads different doesn't make them less annoying. There is a well known trend away from online advertising being effective in any format. Really, people don't want ads and don't have interest in them. Have a proxy and a cost for that proxy? ask for it. Relakks does so with their vpn, and if you want a good proxy I see no reason not to have to pay them too. Maybe have the free option include ads as they are now, but trying to make the ads more intrusive will not gain the desired effect.
yeah, that's a whole lot of "I'm going to pirate instead of buy because that's a whole lot of garbage", at least to me.
Adding windows live even when securom is removed isn't even a tradeoff. It's worse.
Sounds like faulty logic with the fact that it's a "$529" phone. Even beyond the fact that the somehow phone retailers have arbitrarily decided that if a phone has a keyboard it should automatically be $300 and if it has anything remotely more useful it should automatically be >$500, that is an issue people will get to all in due time. Really, This phone wouldn't even be realistically priced at $300, and it's cutting edge technology. Anyway:
Either a: you buy the phone and pay the cost upfront
or b: you buy into the plan and pay the cost over the duration of the contract
It's not the most expensive package available, it's actually spending to save more. You get a better plan out of it. Europe has done it right, but you can't blame tmobile for making steps to do so. Think you'd see this kind of a concept on ATT, sprint, us cellular or verizon? Think again.