I would go so far as to say that it took 5 years for the first malware to be acknowledged. When it was identified that Apple was tracking users, most Apple fans went into denial mode. Even when Apples 'apology' letter acknowledged that they were working on an application that depended on the tracking of users. I suppose that you could rationalize that code delivered with the OS can't be considered malware, but that seems to be splitting hairs.
I don't know. Jobs isn't at Apple anymore, so direction can certainly change. Also, Apple has pretty well saturated their iPhone/Pad/Pod market share. At this point, they are going to face the ever increasing onslaught of the unwashed Android masses. Getting a permanent, irremovable dock in people's cars, would go a long way in locking customers to Apple.
I assume that we will hear a LOT of that kind of reasoning from Apple fans. We saw that with the iPhone. Claims that anything larger was too big for anyone's hand, and any smaller was too small to see clearly. The fact that different humans had different sized hands was irrelevant to the argument. Apple made the iPhone, so it's screen size was obviously the perfect size.
No doubt that for a limited subset of peolpe the size of the iPhone was perfect. It certainly wasn't for everyone. I see the same happening with an iPad Mini. 7.85" might be better for some folks than 7", but we will be hearing form a lot of Apple fans that it is inherently better, even when it is not for them, and how only Apple could make a table that was a "usable" size.
Because Apple didn't make a 7" tablet. Apple's marketing has always declared that any features Apple doesn't have is either irrelevant or actively bad, and any feature that Apple does have but their competitors don't are absolutely indispensable.
That implies that 10" is better. I have a 10" tablet. I am likely going to get the Nexus 7". When we got a Fire for my wife, we found that while the 10" is dandy for around the house, the 7" is way better if you actually want to take it with you.
I agree on the price point, but for a different reason. Apple would need to hit the $200-$225 price point because the iPad isn't better than a decent Android tablet. If they get too high above the price of the Kindle or the Nexus, most people won't buy it. They would have think long and hard before going lower than $200 because that could erode their "premium" branding.
No they don't. Saying that people hate their Android phones doesn't make it so. Watch this. People hate their iPhones. Talk to almost anyone who isn't an Apple fan and they will tell you that they'd rather have and Android. That doesn't make it true. Both Android and iPhones are widely available, and both can be had as a pack in to the phone plan. People using iPhones generally prefer iPhones, and people using Android phones generally prefer Android.
Exactly, and if the failure rate is per test, and not per person, if that infected person has multiple partners, the chances of them finding out and ending their promiscuity goes way up.
Steve Jobs wasn't as successful with Apple as many would like to believe. Remember, Apple was skirting on bankruptcy, and it was MS that bailed them out. MS viewed Apple the way that Intel views AMD. Apple has been pushing the Mac desktop for almost 30 years and they are still a lot closer to the market share of desktop Linux than they are to Windows.
The iOS line has done very well. It was a product that was in the right place at the right time, but even starting with 90% of that market, they have not been able to maintain their market share. If Jobs was in charge, the Vista Ready/Compatible disaster would have just been blamed on the user. Just as all of Apple's failings have been.
Unless they are looking to move as many people over as possible in as short of a time as possible. XP was a good OS. There are still plenty of people dedicated to continuing to run it. I myself have 2 computers and 2 VM that I still have on XP. If 8 doesn't completely blow, I will seriously consider upgrading the VMs to Windows 8, and if the XP machines hardware will run it, I might just upgrade them as well. XP is comming to it's end of life. The fewer people still on it on the EOL date, the less complaining about MS we will hear.
Then I have to ask (since I haven't seen the price that OEMs pay for 8. or 7 for that matter), Is the price of 8 20% less, or is MS just bringing the retail price of Windows closer in line with the OEM prices?
That joke keeps getting told, and it has been a fair jab so far. It also is not entirely impossible. 2013? Probably not. 2014? Maybe. Android is advancing fast. On average Google is releasing 2 versions of Android per year. Tablets are already powerful enough to run 90% of the software that 90% of the users need. When Google decides to release a version of Android that works as a desktop, Linux will be showing up on a lot of desktops.
If you will accept the dropping of the word "desktop", we are already way past the 'Year of Linux'. Most people have more Linux devices in their homes than Windows devices.
No, they are not. They are the number one provider of DESKTOP OSes. In total OS shipments, they are not even close anymore. Office software, I will give you.
I have a hard time taking your comment seriously. Besides the fact that your claim the Galaxy Tab can't swipe between pages with without 'stutter' being dubious, even if it did stutter, claiming that this makes the tablet unusable is ridiculous. It comes across like the wannabe video aficionado that declares any TV picture that isn't delivered over $250 Monster HDMI cables to be 'unwatchable'.
Or be happy with your phone in the exact same way you would be if Google didn't release updates so fast, and just hit every other version. The obsession with needing to be on every version released is a self inflicted problem. In the 4.5 years that Android has been on the market, there have been 10 version releases. Complaining that you are not getting an OS update every 6 months is simply silly. Anyone that wants reliably regular updates to stay on the newest version of Android has that option. Everyone who does not have the newest version of Android has chosen not to. Having every phone that isn't a Nexus phone disappear from the market would make Android OS version numbering have the same percentages as iOS, but it wouldn't be good for us Android users.
That 'problem' is solved by time. It is an unstoppable force. It marches on. When Gingerbread came out, we heard the same complaints. 6 months later, we were still hearing that complaint. At the time, most users were not on Froyo yet. Today, 64% of users are on Gingerbread and 10% are on Ice Cream. JB gets released now, and in 6 months, we will see a small percentage on JB, more users on Ice Cream and fewer on Gingerbread. With Android, you will also see people skipping releases. Eclair never made it to very many phones. It was great for those of us that got it, but most people went straight to Gingerbread. Not getting Eclair did not hinder them in any way.
With Apple, either you are an early adopter, or you are too old to care about. On Android, we have early adopters, as well as mainstream users, and late adopters. My year old phone is on Gingerbread, and iOS still hasn't caught up to it in functionality unless you buy a specific model of iPhone. So, while you can say that everyone on iPhone is running the newest OS version, while Android users are not, you can also say that every Android user can perform voice searches while iPhone users cannot.
Simply put, worries about being on the newest OS version is meaningless FUD.
This could easily be encourage by adjusting taxes so that companies pay more for on site workers than they do for telecommuters. Currently, the employees pay the full burden of the cost of commuting. This leads most companies to take a no telecommuting stance, since it brings unknown risk with little to no reward. Make the cost/reward situation better for businesses that promote telecommuting and you reduce the number of cars on the road while improving the quality of life of the populace.
Yes. In the same way that studying the magic of witch doctors is also legitimate field of study. They are equivalent, but at the time of the writing, he clearly did not see this.
I agree, and pointed this out earlier in the thread, but servies said "I also could also update it to another 'unofficial rom as it has been rooted... Thats total freedom...". He implied that rooting an Android phone was somehow different than jailbreaking an iPhone. Rooting and Jailbreaking are the same thing. Android wins hands down in the freedom category. Making strong implications that are simply not true does not help in the argument.
Nice link. It is kind of funny that while dismissing witch doctors as obviously fake, he discusses parapsychology as a legitimate field of study. I don't mean that in a bad way. The fact that it was considered a legitimate field of study at the time, drives his point home that much better.
Your problem is you are looking at the things that id doesn't do or doesn't do well. You should be looking at the things it does do, and does do well. Common logic error.
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I would go so far as to say that it took 5 years for the first malware to be acknowledged. When it was identified that Apple was tracking users, most Apple fans went into denial mode. Even when Apples 'apology' letter acknowledged that they were working on an application that depended on the tracking of users. I suppose that you could rationalize that code delivered with the OS can't be considered malware, but that seems to be splitting hairs.
Wow. I would have thought that he would have liked the iPhone and iPod Touch more than that....
That must be why there are no iOS devices smaller than 10".
I don't know. Jobs isn't at Apple anymore, so direction can certainly change. Also, Apple has pretty well saturated their iPhone/Pad/Pod market share. At this point, they are going to face the ever increasing onslaught of the unwashed Android masses. Getting a permanent, irremovable dock in people's cars, would go a long way in locking customers to Apple.
That being said, I'm guessing it is just an iPad.
I assume that we will hear a LOT of that kind of reasoning from Apple fans. We saw that with the iPhone. Claims that anything larger was too big for anyone's hand, and any smaller was too small to see clearly. The fact that different humans had different sized hands was irrelevant to the argument. Apple made the iPhone, so it's screen size was obviously the perfect size.
No doubt that for a limited subset of peolpe the size of the iPhone was perfect. It certainly wasn't for everyone. I see the same happening with an iPad Mini. 7.85" might be better for some folks than 7", but we will be hearing form a lot of Apple fans that it is inherently better, even when it is not for them, and how only Apple could make a table that was a "usable" size.
Because Apple didn't make a 7" tablet. Apple's marketing has always declared that any features Apple doesn't have is either irrelevant or actively bad, and any feature that Apple does have but their competitors don't are absolutely indispensable.
That implies that 10" is better. I have a 10" tablet. I am likely going to get the Nexus 7". When we got a Fire for my wife, we found that while the 10" is dandy for around the house, the 7" is way better if you actually want to take it with you.
I agree on the price point, but for a different reason. Apple would need to hit the $200-$225 price point because the iPad isn't better than a decent Android tablet. If they get too high above the price of the Kindle or the Nexus, most people won't buy it. They would have think long and hard before going lower than $200 because that could erode their "premium" branding.
No they don't. Saying that people hate their Android phones doesn't make it so. Watch this. People hate their iPhones. Talk to almost anyone who isn't an Apple fan and they will tell you that they'd rather have and Android. That doesn't make it true. Both Android and iPhones are widely available, and both can be had as a pack in to the phone plan. People using iPhones generally prefer iPhones, and people using Android phones generally prefer Android.
Exactly, and if the failure rate is per test, and not per person, if that infected person has multiple partners, the chances of them finding out and ending their promiscuity goes way up.
Steve Jobs wasn't as successful with Apple as many would like to believe. Remember, Apple was skirting on bankruptcy, and it was MS that bailed them out. MS viewed Apple the way that Intel views AMD. Apple has been pushing the Mac desktop for almost 30 years and they are still a lot closer to the market share of desktop Linux than they are to Windows.
The iOS line has done very well. It was a product that was in the right place at the right time, but even starting with 90% of that market, they have not been able to maintain their market share. If Jobs was in charge, the Vista Ready/Compatible disaster would have just been blamed on the user. Just as all of Apple's failings have been.
Unless they are looking to move as many people over as possible in as short of a time as possible. XP was a good OS. There are still plenty of people dedicated to continuing to run it. I myself have 2 computers and 2 VM that I still have on XP. If 8 doesn't completely blow, I will seriously consider upgrading the VMs to Windows 8, and if the XP machines hardware will run it, I might just upgrade them as well. XP is comming to it's end of life. The fewer people still on it on the EOL date, the less complaining about MS we will hear.
Then I have to ask (since I haven't seen the price that OEMs pay for 8. or 7 for that matter), Is the price of 8 20% less, or is MS just bringing the retail price of Windows closer in line with the OEM prices?
That joke keeps getting told, and it has been a fair jab so far. It also is not entirely impossible. 2013? Probably not. 2014? Maybe. Android is advancing fast. On average Google is releasing 2 versions of Android per year. Tablets are already powerful enough to run 90% of the software that 90% of the users need. When Google decides to release a version of Android that works as a desktop, Linux will be showing up on a lot of desktops.
If you will accept the dropping of the word "desktop", we are already way past the 'Year of Linux'. Most people have more Linux devices in their homes than Windows devices.
No, they are not. They are the number one provider of DESKTOP OSes. In total OS shipments, they are not even close anymore. Office software, I will give you.
iOS doesn't run iTunes either. If you want to run iTunes, you have to buy a PC.
I have a hard time taking your comment seriously. Besides the fact that your claim the Galaxy Tab can't swipe between pages with without 'stutter' being dubious, even if it did stutter, claiming that this makes the tablet unusable is ridiculous. It comes across like the wannabe video aficionado that declares any TV picture that isn't delivered over $250 Monster HDMI cables to be 'unwatchable'.
Or be happy with your phone in the exact same way you would be if Google didn't release updates so fast, and just hit every other version. The obsession with needing to be on every version released is a self inflicted problem. In the 4.5 years that Android has been on the market, there have been 10 version releases. Complaining that you are not getting an OS update every 6 months is simply silly. Anyone that wants reliably regular updates to stay on the newest version of Android has that option. Everyone who does not have the newest version of Android has chosen not to. Having every phone that isn't a Nexus phone disappear from the market would make Android OS version numbering have the same percentages as iOS, but it wouldn't be good for us Android users.
That 'problem' is solved by time. It is an unstoppable force. It marches on. When Gingerbread came out, we heard the same complaints. 6 months later, we were still hearing that complaint. At the time, most users were not on Froyo yet. Today, 64% of users are on Gingerbread and 10% are on Ice Cream. JB gets released now, and in 6 months, we will see a small percentage on JB, more users on Ice Cream and fewer on Gingerbread. With Android, you will also see people skipping releases. Eclair never made it to very many phones. It was great for those of us that got it, but most people went straight to Gingerbread. Not getting Eclair did not hinder them in any way.
With Apple, either you are an early adopter, or you are too old to care about. On Android, we have early adopters, as well as mainstream users, and late adopters. My year old phone is on Gingerbread, and iOS still hasn't caught up to it in functionality unless you buy a specific model of iPhone. So, while you can say that everyone on iPhone is running the newest OS version, while Android users are not, you can also say that every Android user can perform voice searches while iPhone users cannot.
Simply put, worries about being on the newest OS version is meaningless FUD.
This could easily be encourage by adjusting taxes so that companies pay more for on site workers than they do for telecommuters. Currently, the employees pay the full burden of the cost of commuting. This leads most companies to take a no telecommuting stance, since it brings unknown risk with little to no reward. Make the cost/reward situation better for businesses that promote telecommuting and you reduce the number of cars on the road while improving the quality of life of the populace.
Yes. In the same way that studying the magic of witch doctors is also legitimate field of study. They are equivalent, but at the time of the writing, he clearly did not see this.
I agree, and pointed this out earlier in the thread, but servies said "I also could also update it to another 'unofficial rom as it has been rooted... Thats total freedom...". He implied that rooting an Android phone was somehow different than jailbreaking an iPhone. Rooting and Jailbreaking are the same thing. Android wins hands down in the freedom category. Making strong implications that are simply not true does not help in the argument.
Holy men don't claim to have performed experiments on your behalf. In religion, no one ever claims to have actually performed an experiment.
Nice link. It is kind of funny that while dismissing witch doctors as obviously fake, he discusses parapsychology as a legitimate field of study. I don't mean that in a bad way. The fact that it was considered a legitimate field of study at the time, drives his point home that much better.
It's 12' instead of 50", but is this what you are referring to? http://www.target.com/p/airblown-inflatable-widescreen-deluxe-outdoor-movie-screen-12/-/A-10806714?ref=tgt_adv_XSC10001&AFID=shopping_df&LNM=|10806714&CPNG=electronics&ci_src=13736960&ci_sku=10806714&
Your problem is you are looking at the things that id doesn't do or doesn't do well. You should be looking at the things it does do, and does do well. Common logic error.
I'm not sure if that is sarcasm or not, but either way, it is true. They do carry around little telescopes.