Maybe you just don't have a use for one. A lot of people don't. Nothing wrong with that.
For me, it's a laptop replacement. Since I have a desktop and don't have a laptop, I just got an iPad instead. All I wanted was something I could read on that's portable, and it does a great job at that. Plays games, has my music (and an occasional movie), does browsing and email really well, has my ebooks, etc.
Battery life lasts far longer then a laptop does and it's more portable. Since I don't do real "work" with it, the limitations don't matter and its better then a laptop at everything I'd use it for. Doesn't even come close to replacing my desktop, but it augments it perfectly.
The normal scenario for these is the company either discontinued that line of equipment, or went out of business. Said equipment is so expensive that you don't replace it until it's broken. The OS on the computer it's connected to just doesn't matter to lab people as long as it works. If you only have drivers for XP, you're using XP until the equipment dies.
It turns out few CEOs like "XP is going away, give me a million bucks for a new sample analyzer."
When the equipment is providing frequent readings or results, it becomes a really expensive boat anchor if it's disconnected and those readings can't get to the people who need them.
Few businesses today want to pay someone to use sneakernet every 15 minutes to transfer new results to the network.
It's along a river, for government. In a nutshell people have a part of the river they can go along and from up on a bridge or at a safe distance from the riverbank, look out at the ice at pre-determined locations to see what's going on. The current method has things being written down, photos taken, then sent in when they get home or to a computer somewhere.
If we can have a phone app that lets people submit directly from the field, it's both easier for the users and much more timely for the flood forecasters and emergency response folks that benefit from knowing ASAP if an ice jam is forming.
Other phones are *better* business tools, if you're in a business that has more to it then just email and IM. There's quite a lot of business that falls into that category.
We're looking at giving field staff phones when they do their ice jam monitoring during the winter/spring, because it lets them have maps of their routes, take photos of the jam, and submit it all from the field. We're not considering Blackberries for this task, because they're so far behind current phones that they're just not up to the task.
Have a business where you can use apps to look at client data, market data, or any other kind of data? BB is a bad phone for it.
Sorry folks, but "we do email best!" doesn't cut it anymore.
That's it. If they can come up with a good answer for that, they'll be able to sell them. Thus far, they haven't been able to. "Windows" itself is a negative brand name that carries a ton of baggage from crapware infested poor quality OEM PCs, and not something that makes people feel good about buying. The market tolerates Windows because it doesn't have a choice, it doesn't love Windows.
Only problem is that in the tablet space, the market *does* have a choice. There's a clear leader, and it's not Windows. Why would I want Windows instead of the market leader? A lower resolution screen and Office are not exactly compelling selling features for home users.
That was one group, yes. The more powerful group was Conservative party members, particularly donors. They started hearing during fundraising calls about this, and people closed their wallets in protest.
The Conservative party is better then any other party in Canada at grassroots fundraising. When that gets threatened, the party brass respond VERY quickly.
Because the Nokia phones that most North Americans have had exposure to are from many years ago back when Nokia was popular here. LIke, *many* years ago.
I had an old Nokia 6160 more then a decade ago, and the thing was virtually indestructible.
You'd think that people involved with the IEEE are a group that should know better, and yet the most common passwords according to the analysis reads like the usual suspects list from other breaches. They're still common, easily guessable passwords. Hashing wouldn't have protected them very long, as these are on the short list for any cracking program to test.
It should be a wake up call that our current methods of trying to get users to pick secure passwords are a total failure. We need to go back to the drawing board and figure out a better way to get the message across, including tools to make it easy for people to get it right.
That's true of every AV product in existence. None of them catch everything. Other people have seen MSE catch things that the others miss, and in other cases MSE misses stuff the others find.
The question is always that risk as compared to the cost of the AV. In the case of something like Norton, the AV itself is worse then most viruses for computer usability.
Oh look, it's another first post at exactly the same time the article went up, and it's another user with no other posts, and it's another post talking about how Windows Phone shill post.
Man, Microsoft's PR department really gives us no credit at all.
"Tediore weapons have a different feel for Borderlands 2, having been described as "Cheap, plastic pieces of crap" and "Wal-Mart guns" by Randy Pitchford himself during a demo presentation. Instead of being reloaded, Tediore weapons are thrown away and explode like grenades; the more ammo left in the clip, the bigger the explosion. A fully-loaded gun regenerates in the user's hand after the expended weapon is discarded. Due to their explosive capabilities, there is a chance they will explode in the user's hand before throwing it away."
I like how you're whining about the article when you don't know that Windows RT is also the name of the ARM version of the OS and there's no announced pricing for the Surface yet.
Because Microsoft is charging Asus a lot of money for Windows RT, and that's why the tablet is so expensive? Should Asus maybe sell these things at a loss so that Microsoft can compete against Android?
It's funny because the carriers don't seem to like Windows Phone very much. You think they know something about actual user satisfaction that the astroturfer boy here doesn't?
Best money I spent along with my phone was the $35 or so it cost for an Otter box. While I may have to replace the case at some point due to some nasty scratching on the screen part, the phone itself is in pristine condition despite being dropped multiple times, stepped on, and the aforementioned scratching when it fell out of a pocket and got sat on at the beach. (I admit it - I'm a klutz.)
While they won't replace the phone if it does get broken, I much prefer the idea of protecting it so it won't break in the first place since then I'm not without it. Also acts as a belt clip, so there's that too.
Wish I had mod points, because this is it exactly. It's been their problem right from the start.
These narratives exist for successful phones. I know why I bought an iPhone. I know why I almost bought an Android phone instead. I know why my dad bought a Blackberry.
I look at a Windows phone and just wonder "why would I want that?" Microsoft has never answered that question in a satisfactory way.
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Maybe you just don't have a use for one. A lot of people don't. Nothing wrong with that.
For me, it's a laptop replacement. Since I have a desktop and don't have a laptop, I just got an iPad instead. All I wanted was something I could read on that's portable, and it does a great job at that. Plays games, has my music (and an occasional movie), does browsing and email really well, has my ebooks, etc.
Battery life lasts far longer then a laptop does and it's more portable. Since I don't do real "work" with it, the limitations don't matter and its better then a laptop at everything I'd use it for. Doesn't even come close to replacing my desktop, but it augments it perfectly.
The normal scenario for these is the company either discontinued that line of equipment, or went out of business. Said equipment is so expensive that you don't replace it until it's broken. The OS on the computer it's connected to just doesn't matter to lab people as long as it works. If you only have drivers for XP, you're using XP until the equipment dies.
It turns out few CEOs like "XP is going away, give me a million bucks for a new sample analyzer."
When the equipment is providing frequent readings or results, it becomes a really expensive boat anchor if it's disconnected and those readings can't get to the people who need them.
Few businesses today want to pay someone to use sneakernet every 15 minutes to transfer new results to the network.
It's along a river, for government. In a nutshell people have a part of the river they can go along and from up on a bridge or at a safe distance from the riverbank, look out at the ice at pre-determined locations to see what's going on. The current method has things being written down, photos taken, then sent in when they get home or to a computer somewhere.
If we can have a phone app that lets people submit directly from the field, it's both easier for the users and much more timely for the flood forecasters and emergency response folks that benefit from knowing ASAP if an ice jam is forming.
Or maybe just get a phone that lets you do everything you want to do.
RIM phones are nowhere near as capable as the competition, and until fanboys get that through their heads the company is going nowhere.
Microsoft's position happens to include a pretty strong desktop PC business, I'm pretty sure their position is better then RIM's right now.
Other phones are *better* business tools, if you're in a business that has more to it then just email and IM. There's quite a lot of business that falls into that category.
We're looking at giving field staff phones when they do their ice jam monitoring during the winter/spring, because it lets them have maps of their routes, take photos of the jam, and submit it all from the field. We're not considering Blackberries for this task, because they're so far behind current phones that they're just not up to the task.
Have a business where you can use apps to look at client data, market data, or any other kind of data? BB is a bad phone for it.
Sorry folks, but "we do email best!" doesn't cut it anymore.
Why would I want to buy a Windows tablet?
That's it. If they can come up with a good answer for that, they'll be able to sell them. Thus far, they haven't been able to. "Windows" itself is a negative brand name that carries a ton of baggage from crapware infested poor quality OEM PCs, and not something that makes people feel good about buying. The market tolerates Windows because it doesn't have a choice, it doesn't love Windows.
Only problem is that in the tablet space, the market *does* have a choice. There's a clear leader, and it's not Windows. Why would I want Windows instead of the market leader? A lower resolution screen and Office are not exactly compelling selling features for home users.
That was one group, yes. The more powerful group was Conservative party members, particularly donors. They started hearing during fundraising calls about this, and people closed their wallets in protest.
The Conservative party is better then any other party in Canada at grassroots fundraising. When that gets threatened, the party brass respond VERY quickly.
Because the Nokia phones that most North Americans have had exposure to are from many years ago back when Nokia was popular here. LIke, *many* years ago.
I had an old Nokia 6160 more then a decade ago, and the thing was virtually indestructible.
If you live in an area where the data is actually accurate, it's probably alright.
The first time you discover it's put a city in the wrong place, you might not think the same way.
There's other ones like Bing Maps already allowed. Apple's rules are so arbitrary that you never really know what they'll do.
You'd think that people involved with the IEEE are a group that should know better, and yet the most common passwords according to the analysis reads like the usual suspects list from other breaches. They're still common, easily guessable passwords. Hashing wouldn't have protected them very long, as these are on the short list for any cracking program to test.
It should be a wake up call that our current methods of trying to get users to pick secure passwords are a total failure. We need to go back to the drawing board and figure out a better way to get the message across, including tools to make it easy for people to get it right.
That's true of every AV product in existence. None of them catch everything. Other people have seen MSE catch things that the others miss, and in other cases MSE misses stuff the others find.
The question is always that risk as compared to the cost of the AV. In the case of something like Norton, the AV itself is worse then most viruses for computer usability.
People waiting to upgrade are not new users. They're existing users buying new phones.
That will lead to sales, but not growth in the user base.
Oh look, it's another first post at exactly the same time the article went up, and it's another user with no other posts, and it's another post talking about how Windows Phone shill post.
Man, Microsoft's PR department really gives us no credit at all.
There aren't any WP8 phones with full keyboards. None. It's one of the things that Nokia watchers shake their heads at and go "WTF?"
That's not what the Borderlands 2 wiki says:
"Tediore weapons have a different feel for Borderlands 2, having been described as "Cheap, plastic pieces of crap" and "Wal-Mart guns" by Randy Pitchford himself during a demo presentation. Instead of being reloaded, Tediore weapons are thrown away and explode like grenades; the more ammo left in the clip, the bigger the explosion. A fully-loaded gun regenerates in the user's hand after the expended weapon is discarded. Due to their explosive capabilities, there is a chance they will explode in the user's hand before throwing it away."
http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Borderlands_2
I like how you're whining about the article when you don't know that Windows RT is also the name of the ARM version of the OS and there's no announced pricing for the Surface yet.
0/10. Next time put some effort in.
Because Microsoft is charging Asus a lot of money for Windows RT, and that's why the tablet is so expensive? Should Asus maybe sell these things at a loss so that Microsoft can compete against Android?
Windows Phone - #1 in astroturfing!
It's funny because the carriers don't seem to like Windows Phone very much. You think they know something about actual user satisfaction that the astroturfer boy here doesn't?
It's remarkable how on every phone story there's a post made simultaneously with the article about how great the Lumia is.
Microsoft really needs to hire less obvious shills.
Best money I spent along with my phone was the $35 or so it cost for an Otter box. While I may have to replace the case at some point due to some nasty scratching on the screen part, the phone itself is in pristine condition despite being dropped multiple times, stepped on, and the aforementioned scratching when it fell out of a pocket and got sat on at the beach. (I admit it - I'm a klutz.)
While they won't replace the phone if it does get broken, I much prefer the idea of protecting it so it won't break in the first place since then I'm not without it. Also acts as a belt clip, so there's that too.
Wish I had mod points, because this is it exactly. It's been their problem right from the start.
These narratives exist for successful phones. I know why I bought an iPhone. I know why I almost bought an Android phone instead. I know why my dad bought a Blackberry.
I look at a Windows phone and just wonder "why would I want that?" Microsoft has never answered that question in a satisfactory way.
You're right. We should all be voting by putting our votes in the cloud using a mobile app that takes advantage of social media synergies.
That would be much more buzzword compliant then using a system that's worked pretty effectively for centuries.