That term gets misused all the time. It isn't that "content producers" have the upper hand. It is that big business has the upper hand. When false DMCA take downs are happening, the person they are happening to is a content producer. If they were not, the take down notice wouldn't be false.
If I write and record a song, and UMG issues a take down, how do I suddenly stop being a content producer?
The sad thing is that while you are completely correct, and your actions could save lives and reduce injury, there is a large portion of the population that would think you were committing human rights violations. You could even end up in jail over it. We are on a definite path of outlawing being a parent.
I have no illusions either. If you want longer support on Android, the other poster's recommendation to stick with Nexus phones is the best choice. I don't know what phone ADP is, but I was able to run Google Navigate on the MyTouch which is the second Android phone ever released.
Right now, the phones are improving so fast long term support on most phones is just not happening. The iPhone had over a year head start on Android, and we have seen major upgrades at a breakneck speed. At this point, depending on who you ask, Android has caught up (is behind or is ahead) of iPhone. So, I think we are at a turning point. If Android continues to improve at the rate it has, it is going to leave iOS in the dust, but that will likely mean continuing the shorter support cycles. How this plays out relies on many unanswered questions.
Will people rebel against the lack of updates?
Will Apple follow the lead and reduce their support cycle?
Are current phones 'good enough' that new updates don't matter to people?
Will economies of scale make Apple appear too expensive for what you get?
Will the iPhone 5 be so far ahead of everything else that it changes the game?
Will Android and iPhone find an equilibrium that keeps them both running?
Will everyone decide to move to Windows Mobile? (OK, that might be going too far)
Certainly there are a lot of question about what the next couple of years will hold for both platforms, and I don't think that past performance is going to be a reliable indication for future actions on either platform going forward in regards to upgrade cycles.
Or, you could just have a bunch of people who are leaving for religious reasons. Some group that was zealot enough to give up earth, annoying enough that people with enough money to ship them off would pay up, but not dangerous enough to warrant extermination. Maybe something like those 'allergic to WiFi.'
Well, if you don't have so supply the whole new OS, then all the Android manufacturers have to do is send out an update that print 4.0 on the Android version and they are up to day. Problem solved.
Yes. I do think Apple cares that they are at 6% market share. That puts them in an extremely vulnerable position. Sure they make a ton off each sale, but they don't sell many. What it says about the PC manufacturers is that their market is more robust. Sony could stop producing PC entirely for 5 years, and on the 6th year, they could be right back in there selling PCs like nothing ever happened. If Apple quit selling PCs for 6 months, their market would be gone.
Besides, your wrong. Apple isn't even in the top 5 world wide.
I was in there last week, and they were still showing the monthly cost for buying the phone. I am also not on a contract, as they definitely off monthly plans.
It is true that in the end the you pay the same amount if you upgrade at the two year mark. The thing is that by hiding the payments in the bill, it makes it difficult for many to see what they are actually paying for. This is bad. The other thing is that with other carriers, if you want to upgrade at 18 months, you can't without paying the full price of the new phone. So, you end up paying for a phone over the next two years that you have already paid for out of pocket.
So, in a best case scenario, "subsidized" phones cost the same. If you upgrade before or after the 2 year mark, you end up paying more. It is also deceptive billing. Thus, it is a scam and should be made illegal.
The last numbers I saw put them in them at 6% worldwide. That is poor sales. Even if you were to be optimistic and used your 14%, it is still total crap compared to their next higher competitor at 85-95%.
You should have went with a Roku. http://www.roku.com/roku-products The thing started out as a Netflix streaming box. They are priced between $50 and $90 depending on model, They do HD. They support Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora and MOG. It has plenty of outputs for older or newer TVs, and it has a standard TV style remote. It also far lower power than any games system.
My Android T-Mobile G2 lasts longer than my 3GS ever has. So, like all smart phones the battery life is crap, but there are no smartphones with good battery life.
My iPhone 3GS is not running the most current version of iOS. Siri is part of the OS. My phone does not have it. Just incrementing the number does not make it an upgrade. Sending out half of an upgrade does not make it an upgrade.
I am seeing the exact opposite. More and more people I know are moving away from the iPhone and going towards Android. I think that Siri is a bit of a game changer. Ever since it has been released, frequently when I ask my phone for directions, or do a voice search, people with iPhones start tapping each other on the shoulder and pointing out that I am talking to my phone. They then ask me if it is an iPhone 4S. When I tell them that it is an Android phone, and it has had voice capabilities since version 1.6, other Android users chime in that they have been using it for a long time also. That is when you see the gears begin to turn in the iPhone users minds.
Siri has been highlighting that Apple has been playing an "Emperor's New Cloths" game for some time now.
I am on T-Mobile. They don't have a locked in 2 year upgrade cycle. Instead of 'subsidizing' the phones, they show you what the phone payments are and give you an interest free loan on it. This way, if you want to upgrade sooner, you can pay off the remaining balance on your existing phone, and get a new loan on the next phone. You can also keep your existing phone and pay less each month.
"subsidized" phones are a scam, and should be made illegal.
Hopefully, they will do that. I also hope that they price the phones high enough that other vendors can sell equivalent phones just a little cheaper. This way, if the other vendors fall into line, people will buy those phones because they are equivalent phones for a little less money. But, if the vendors screw up the software, people will buy Motorola because for an extra $20 or $30 dollars, they can get a much better phone that gets updates.
Google should shoot for 20% market share for Motorola.
I am hoping that this is what happens to Motorola. I want to see Google become a minority handset maker that prices their phones so that they remain profitable, but at a 10-20% market share.
Yep, they would have looked at the market share leader on the desktop and come to the obvious conclusion that.... fragmentation works out for operating systems.
There is nothing in the NBC app that should preclude it from working on the iPhone 3GS. While the GPS functionality can be expected to not work on an iPod, there is no reason that the RoadSide America app shouldn't be able set a location based on WiFi positioning, or via manual input. The fragmentation problems I am seeing are not "The phone is old, so the software can't run." They are problems that are directly related to developers having expectations on hardware that simply are not realistic. Your post is a perfect example of this. Three or 4 models of fragmentation that is not planned and accounted for is far worse than 100 models that are planned and accounted for. I simply have fewer software compatibility problems on my personal Android phone than I have on my work iPhone. My wife has fewer software compatibility problems on her Android phone than she has on her iPod.
Compatibility problems are pretty much as bad as you can expect them to get for Android, but we can expect them to continue to get worse on iOS.
The apps are marked as iPhone. They just don't work with my model of iPhone. Obviously, Apple does not have a clean way of dealing with their fragmentation problem. My wife has had the problem of buying apps for her iPod, and they download and just not work properly because the iPod doesn't have all of the equipment that the iPhone has. That has pretty well turned her off of paying for any apps on the iPod.
The point being is that Android has solutions for the inevitable hardware changes built in. Apple does not. Apple has not learned a very important lesson that has been repeatedly taught through the computer industry. Hardware changes. Plan for it.
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That term gets misused all the time. It isn't that "content producers" have the upper hand. It is that big business has the upper hand. When false DMCA take downs are happening, the person they are happening to is a content producer. If they were not, the take down notice wouldn't be false.
If I write and record a song, and UMG issues a take down, how do I suddenly stop being a content producer?
I don't see the problem with that. The store distributes plenty of files. There is no reason that the source can't just be included in the download.
The sad thing is that while you are completely correct, and your actions could save lives and reduce injury, there is a large portion of the population that would think you were committing human rights violations. You could even end up in jail over it. We are on a definite path of outlawing being a parent.
Sounds good to me.
I have no illusions either. If you want longer support on Android, the other poster's recommendation to stick with Nexus phones is the best choice. I don't know what phone ADP is, but I was able to run Google Navigate on the MyTouch which is the second Android phone ever released.
Right now, the phones are improving so fast long term support on most phones is just not happening. The iPhone had over a year head start on Android, and we have seen major upgrades at a breakneck speed. At this point, depending on who you ask, Android has caught up (is behind or is ahead) of iPhone. So, I think we are at a turning point. If Android continues to improve at the rate it has, it is going to leave iOS in the dust, but that will likely mean continuing the shorter support cycles. How this plays out relies on many unanswered questions.
Will people rebel against the lack of updates?
Will Apple follow the lead and reduce their support cycle?
Are current phones 'good enough' that new updates don't matter to people?
Will economies of scale make Apple appear too expensive for what you get?
Will the iPhone 5 be so far ahead of everything else that it changes the game?
Will Android and iPhone find an equilibrium that keeps them both running?
Will everyone decide to move to Windows Mobile? (OK, that might be going too far)
Certainly there are a lot of question about what the next couple of years will hold for both platforms, and I don't think that past performance is going to be a reliable indication for future actions on either platform going forward in regards to upgrade cycles.
Or, you could just have a bunch of people who are leaving for religious reasons. Some group that was zealot enough to give up earth, annoying enough that people with enough money to ship them off would pay up, but not dangerous enough to warrant extermination. Maybe something like those 'allergic to WiFi.'
Well, if you don't have so supply the whole new OS, then all the Android manufacturers have to do is send out an update that print 4.0 on the Android version and they are up to day. Problem solved.
Yes. I do think Apple cares that they are at 6% market share. That puts them in an extremely vulnerable position. Sure they make a ton off each sale, but they don't sell many. What it says about the PC manufacturers is that their market is more robust. Sony could stop producing PC entirely for 5 years, and on the 6th year, they could be right back in there selling PCs like nothing ever happened. If Apple quit selling PCs for 6 months, their market would be gone.
Besides, your wrong. Apple isn't even in the top 5 world wide.
Citation: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23087711
So what it says about HP is that Apple won't ship 1/5 as many PCs as HP.
I was in there last week, and they were still showing the monthly cost for buying the phone. I am also not on a contract, as they definitely off monthly plans.
It is true that in the end the you pay the same amount if you upgrade at the two year mark. The thing is that by hiding the payments in the bill, it makes it difficult for many to see what they are actually paying for. This is bad. The other thing is that with other carriers, if you want to upgrade at 18 months, you can't without paying the full price of the new phone. So, you end up paying for a phone over the next two years that you have already paid for out of pocket.
So, in a best case scenario, "subsidized" phones cost the same. If you upgrade before or after the 2 year mark, you end up paying more. It is also deceptive billing. Thus, it is a scam and should be made illegal.
The last numbers I saw put them in them at 6% worldwide. That is poor sales. Even if you were to be optimistic and used your 14%, it is still total crap compared to their next higher competitor at 85-95%.
You should have went with a Roku. http://www.roku.com/roku-products The thing started out as a Netflix streaming box. They are priced between $50 and $90 depending on model, They do HD. They support Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora and MOG. It has plenty of outputs for older or newer TVs, and it has a standard TV style remote. It also far lower power than any games system.
Roku is the way to go for internet streaming. My only real complaint is that it doesn't do local streaming. That is a major down side for me.
GOG.com is the place for that too. Cheap prices. DRM free.
iOS on my 3GS is missing features, so I don't consider it a full upgrade.
My Android T-Mobile G2 lasts longer than my 3GS ever has. So, like all smart phones the battery life is crap, but there are no smartphones with good battery life.
My iPhone 3GS is not running the most current version of iOS. Siri is part of the OS. My phone does not have it. Just incrementing the number does not make it an upgrade. Sending out half of an upgrade does not make it an upgrade.
I am seeing the exact opposite. More and more people I know are moving away from the iPhone and going towards Android. I think that Siri is a bit of a game changer. Ever since it has been released, frequently when I ask my phone for directions, or do a voice search, people with iPhones start tapping each other on the shoulder and pointing out that I am talking to my phone. They then ask me if it is an iPhone 4S. When I tell them that it is an Android phone, and it has had voice capabilities since version 1.6, other Android users chime in that they have been using it for a long time also. That is when you see the gears begin to turn in the iPhone users minds.
Siri has been highlighting that Apple has been playing an "Emperor's New Cloths" game for some time now.
My 3GS keeps telling me that the apps I try to download are not compatible with my phone.
I am on T-Mobile. They don't have a locked in 2 year upgrade cycle. Instead of 'subsidizing' the phones, they show you what the phone payments are and give you an interest free loan on it. This way, if you want to upgrade sooner, you can pay off the remaining balance on your existing phone, and get a new loan on the next phone. You can also keep your existing phone and pay less each month.
"subsidized" phones are a scam, and should be made illegal.
Hopefully, they will do that. I also hope that they price the phones high enough that other vendors can sell equivalent phones just a little cheaper. This way, if the other vendors fall into line, people will buy those phones because they are equivalent phones for a little less money. But, if the vendors screw up the software, people will buy Motorola because for an extra $20 or $30 dollars, they can get a much better phone that gets updates.
Google should shoot for 20% market share for Motorola.
I am hoping that this is what happens to Motorola. I want to see Google become a minority handset maker that prices their phones so that they remain profitable, but at a 10-20% market share.
Yep, they would have looked at the market share leader on the desktop and come to the obvious conclusion that.... fragmentation works out for operating systems.
There is nothing in the NBC app that should preclude it from working on the iPhone 3GS. While the GPS functionality can be expected to not work on an iPod, there is no reason that the RoadSide America app shouldn't be able set a location based on WiFi positioning, or via manual input. The fragmentation problems I am seeing are not "The phone is old, so the software can't run." They are problems that are directly related to developers having expectations on hardware that simply are not realistic. Your post is a perfect example of this. Three or 4 models of fragmentation that is not planned and accounted for is far worse than 100 models that are planned and accounted for. I simply have fewer software compatibility problems on my personal Android phone than I have on my work iPhone. My wife has fewer software compatibility problems on her Android phone than she has on her iPod.
Compatibility problems are pretty much as bad as you can expect them to get for Android, but we can expect them to continue to get worse on iOS.
The apps are marked as iPhone. They just don't work with my model of iPhone. Obviously, Apple does not have a clean way of dealing with their fragmentation problem. My wife has had the problem of buying apps for her iPod, and they download and just not work properly because the iPod doesn't have all of the equipment that the iPhone has. That has pretty well turned her off of paying for any apps on the iPod.
The point being is that Android has solutions for the inevitable hardware changes built in. Apple does not. Apple has not learned a very important lesson that has been repeatedly taught through the computer industry. Hardware changes. Plan for it.
Shhhh..... Don't give them any ideas.