did you know, copying or improving something someone else has already done is not innovation? everything you list above is an incremental improvement of an idea that apple did not pioneer.
innovation is a *new* idea. apple copies others' ideas and uses it's massive market force to get it done cheaper and better. i'm not say that they don't sometimes do it better, but again that's not innovation. just because they did it cheaper / better / made it popular / marketed it better doesn't give them exclusive legal domain over it.
These hotmail passwords are obviously stored in clear text, otherwise how would they be able to just chop them at 16 characters?
they've always been chopping them. they are chopped before they go into the hash function. they haven't changed anything, they are just now letting you know what they are doing.
Sometimes I'm more willing to pay a bit more for immediacy.
ever heard of 2-day or next day shipping?
that might be more than a "bit", but you also have to factor in your time driving, gas, waiting for some clerk to find the key to open the locked cabinet where they keep them, standing in line to check out, and so on.
did you know that you get the same kindle regardless of where you buy it? people are going to purchase where it's most convenient. stores like target and walmart have much higher traffic and than some specialized gadget store.
Well, WebOS didn't fail because the web stack was a fundamentally bad user experience
agreed. the reasons why it failed are probably too complex for either of us to completely understand... but a major factor was the user adoption - developer interest chicken and the egg problem. there weren't many users, so devs weren't interested in writing apps. i'm curious how FF OS will get around that?
you might say that the web is filled with apps. okay, but there's no way you are going to run anything but the simplest, mobile optimized web pages on a low-end device. if you are really talking about low-end devices, meaning lower-end than what's currently already in the android device space, you are talking sub 600Mhz and sub 256MB. that's really low end. even today's high-end devices struggle with a modern web pages. confirmation is that even on my quad core 1.6Ghz tablet the experience is still not great. browser apps are CPU hogs. you can talk about optimizing gecko, but it's unrealistic to think that you are going to get anything significantly faster than what we have with chrome or FF mobile today. the browser wars have been waging for years. if someone could build a significantly (as opposed to incrementally) faster browser, wouldn't they have done it? what black magic have you uncovered that's going to allow you to leap frog the competition?
that, and web apps can't tap into the hardware as well as "native" (note the quotes) apps. you can talk about extensions, but then you are asking devs to write FF OS apps, not web apps, and you are right back in WebOS land.
(Firefox OS developer here) This is a common misconception, but Chrome OS is a lot different from Firefox OS, at least from an architectural perspective.
that's interesting, but it's an implementation detail. the result is the same: an OS that boots into a browser and runs web apps (only). as a user, it's all the same.
Also note that Chrome OS is not targeting smartphones (afaik). It's really quite different.
google stated publicly they plan on eventually merging chromeos and android. what the exactly means, i don't know. but anyway, how small of a leap would it be to build an android dist that has chrome mobile set as the home screen app? if google thought this was viable in any way, they are a few steps from having it especially considering they have an extremely robust mobile browser in chrome mobile.
regardless, discount chromeos if you want. you've heard of webos right? you know that the iphone originally launched with web app only support right? more examples of how this model failed. i'm sure you can rattle off some differenes between FF OS and those, but unless there's something profoundly different from the user's perspective, i don't see it.
thanks for making my point, again. google didn't own and hence run moto when they released the itunes phone any more than they owned or ran moto when moto sued apple.
and yeah, i seriously doubt google is saying "remember 7 years ago when apple screwed over this business we just bought a year ago? we'll get them for that!".
it's apple's mobile advertising solution. if you think they don't use personal information taken from mobile devices to target ads, then i have a bridge to sell you.
second, maybe someone should explain to you how google "sells your information to others". they allow ads to be targeted based on your personal information garnered through your use of google services. an advertisers says "show this ad to gay males 25-40 who like hula dancing", and google serves up the ad to you if you fit the bill. they don't bundle up your data in a CSV file and hand it over to the advertiser... because, if nothing else, they aren't going to give away or even sell their core asset - your information. your information is at the core of their multi-billion dollar business.
if you are still worried, i have a hole in north dakota where you can hide, and anyway, apple is surely doing the same thing through their iAd service.
your location is harvested by google, by apple, and by ever other mobile phone manufacturer, and probably quite a few of the apps you use. you are a fool if you think apple isn't watching and recording your location.
with apple, you are a mark for itunes sales. you are a mark for app sales. you are a mark for apple accessories.
Also, turn-by-turn is not a lot of use with online maps that need a continuous internet connection.
you can cache arbitrary map segments for offline use with google maps / nav. anyway, it smartly caches routes, so even if you lose data connection somewhere in your journey, it has the map for the route cached.
maybe you should look up the time frame of the google motorola acquisition. hint... it was after that lawsuit. you can't blame google for something that the head of another company executed.
I do not like virtual box because it will not access my network and will not find a flash drive either so it is difficult to add programs unless I have a cd.
how about sharing a folder between the host and guess? how about dragging files between the host and guest? if you are having trouble getting files between the host and guest, it's user error.
I feel I was fooled into buying a product (W7) which simply can't work.
go on TPB, get a pre-activated, clean version of W7. wipe your laptop and re-install this.
i know, you shouldn't have to do that, but it's a solution. a clean W7 install has been uber-stable for me. i'm thinking it's all the bull crap malware the manufacturer sticks on that causes problems... and you need a phd to clean it manually.
Macs are more expensive, and Apple isn't perfect either, but at least they leave me to run the software I've paid for in peace.
apple lets you run your software in peace because they've already reamed you on the price of the hardware (and accessories). MSFT has to make $ on the software itself. outside of the small OSX-clone-hack community, you simply cannot get around paying apple because you are forced to buy apple hardware to run it.
there's this little company called Google that has this thing called ChromeOS. it is EXACTLY this... an OS that boots into a browser. it's not lighting the world on fire either.
i didn't say MHL was USB. MHL is a way to provide HD audio / video over a USB connector. the (obvious) point is that apple could have chosen to use micro USB connectors, and existing (proposed) standards like MHL to provide features on-top of USB.
You are telling me that Motorola could have avoided the decision long before the judge began deliberation by simply updating the software? And that that inaction makes Motorola's violation of the patent less of an issue?
it would sort of make the deliberations moot if they implicitly admitted wrongdoing by changing the software in question, huh? my guess is they actually think they are in the right.
Apple is for some strange reason the last to adopt these innovations
the just got LTE w/ the iphone 5. they still don't have NFC. that's just not how apple roles. they add features when they make sense for the masses, not for the hype. yeah i can't believe i just said that either, but when it comes to feature adoption, it's true.
probably not, but what's your point? china is a much longer lived country than the US, so if anything, they should be more "civilized" with respect to workers' rights.
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did you know, copying or improving something someone else has already done is not innovation? everything you list above is an incremental improvement of an idea that apple did not pioneer.
innovation is a *new* idea. apple copies others' ideas and uses it's massive market force to get it done cheaper and better. i'm not say that they don't sometimes do it better, but again that's not innovation. just because they did it cheaper / better / made it popular / marketed it better doesn't give them exclusive legal domain over it.
it could mean that. but it could also mean they've always been truncating them from day one, and they are now just letting you know.
These hotmail passwords are obviously stored in clear text, otherwise how would they be able to just chop them at 16 characters?
they've always been chopping them. they are chopped before they go into the hash function. they haven't changed anything, they are just now letting you know what they are doing.
Sometimes I'm more willing to pay a bit more for immediacy.
ever heard of 2-day or next day shipping?
that might be more than a "bit", but you also have to factor in your time driving, gas, waiting for some clerk to find the key to open the locked cabinet where they keep them, standing in line to check out, and so on.
did you know that you get the same kindle regardless of where you buy it? people are going to purchase where it's most convenient. stores like target and walmart have much higher traffic and than some specialized gadget store.
studies showed that people would come into retail stores and play with the kindle, then return home and buy it online. now that's wasted retail space.
Well, WebOS didn't fail because the web stack was a fundamentally bad user experience
agreed. the reasons why it failed are probably too complex for either of us to completely understand ... but a major factor was the user adoption - developer interest chicken and the egg problem. there weren't many users, so devs weren't interested in writing apps. i'm curious how FF OS will get around that?
you might say that the web is filled with apps. okay, but there's no way you are going to run anything but the simplest, mobile optimized web pages on a low-end device. if you are really talking about low-end devices, meaning lower-end than what's currently already in the android device space, you are talking sub 600Mhz and sub 256MB. that's really low end. even today's high-end devices struggle with a modern web pages. confirmation is that even on my quad core 1.6Ghz tablet the experience is still not great. browser apps are CPU hogs. you can talk about optimizing gecko, but it's unrealistic to think that you are going to get anything significantly faster than what we have with chrome or FF mobile today. the browser wars have been waging for years. if someone could build a significantly (as opposed to incrementally) faster browser, wouldn't they have done it? what black magic have you uncovered that's going to allow you to leap frog the competition?
that, and web apps can't tap into the hardware as well as "native" (note the quotes) apps. you can talk about extensions, but then you are asking devs to write FF OS apps, not web apps, and you are right back in WebOS land.
(Firefox OS developer here) This is a common misconception, but Chrome OS is a lot different from Firefox OS, at least from an architectural perspective.
that's interesting, but it's an implementation detail. the result is the same: an OS that boots into a browser and runs web apps (only). as a user, it's all the same.
Also note that Chrome OS is not targeting smartphones (afaik). It's really quite different.
google stated publicly they plan on eventually merging chromeos and android. what the exactly means, i don't know. but anyway, how small of a leap would it be to build an android dist that has chrome mobile set as the home screen app? if google thought this was viable in any way, they are a few steps from having it especially considering they have an extremely robust mobile browser in chrome mobile.
regardless, discount chromeos if you want. you've heard of webos right? you know that the iphone originally launched with web app only support right? more examples of how this model failed. i'm sure you can rattle off some differenes between FF OS and those, but unless there's something profoundly different from the user's perspective, i don't see it.
There is NOTHING forcing you to upgrade to iOS6 other than getting access to the new features in iOS6.
security fixes? if there are not any now, there will be at some point.
are you suggesting that making users choose between not upgrading their entire OS and losing access to an important application is good thing?
thanks for making my point, again. google didn't own and hence run moto when they released the itunes phone any more than they owned or ran moto when moto sued apple.
and yeah, i seriously doubt google is saying "remember 7 years ago when apple screwed over this business we just bought a year ago? we'll get them for that!".
first, every heard of iAd?
http://advertising.apple.com/
it's apple's mobile advertising solution. if you think they don't use personal information taken from mobile devices to target ads, then i have a bridge to sell you.
second, maybe someone should explain to you how google "sells your information to others". they allow ads to be targeted based on your personal information garnered through your use of google services. an advertisers says "show this ad to gay males 25-40 who like hula dancing", and google serves up the ad to you if you fit the bill. they don't bundle up your data in a CSV file and hand it over to the advertiser ... because, if nothing else, they aren't going to give away or even sell their core asset - your information. your information is at the core of their multi-billion dollar business.
if you are still worried, i have a hole in north dakota where you can hide, and anyway, apple is surely doing the same thing through their iAd service.
please, stop fooling yourself.
your location is harvested by google, by apple, and by ever other mobile phone manufacturer, and probably quite a few of the apps you use. you are a fool if you think apple isn't watching and recording your location.
with apple, you are a mark for itunes sales. you are a mark for app sales. you are a mark for apple accessories.
Also, turn-by-turn is not a lot of use with online maps that need a continuous internet connection.
you can cache arbitrary map segments for offline use with google maps / nav. anyway, it smartly caches routes, so even if you lose data connection somewhere in your journey, it has the map for the route cached.
maybe you should look up the time frame of the google motorola acquisition. hint ... it was after that lawsuit. you can't blame google for something that the head of another company executed.
getting the printer to work was painful - and Windows 7 required me to add 4 megs of ram to her printer's memory before the printer would work
you should return that printer.
I do not like virtual box because it will not access my network and will not find a flash drive either so it is difficult to add programs unless I have a cd.
how about sharing a folder between the host and guess? how about dragging files between the host and guest? if you are having trouble getting files between the host and guest, it's user error.
I feel I was fooled into buying a product (W7) which simply can't work.
go on TPB, get a pre-activated, clean version of W7. wipe your laptop and re-install this.
i know, you shouldn't have to do that, but it's a solution. a clean W7 install has been uber-stable for me. i'm thinking it's all the bull crap malware the manufacturer sticks on that causes problems ... and you need a phd to clean it manually.
Macs are more expensive, and Apple isn't perfect either, but at least they leave me to run the software I've paid for in peace.
apple lets you run your software in peace because they've already reamed you on the price of the hardware (and accessories). MSFT has to make $ on the software itself. outside of the small OSX-clone-hack community, you simply cannot get around paying apple because you are forced to buy apple hardware to run it.
what a great marketing campaign- "the phone for people that can't afford anything better." i'm sure that'll go over well in the west.
there's this little company called Google that has this thing called ChromeOS. it is EXACTLY this ... an OS that boots into a browser. it's not lighting the world on fire either.
i didn't say MHL was USB. MHL is a way to provide HD audio / video over a USB connector. the (obvious) point is that apple could have chosen to use micro USB connectors, and existing (proposed) standards like MHL to provide features on-top of USB.
You are telling me that Motorola could have avoided the decision long before the judge began deliberation by simply updating the software? And that that inaction makes Motorola's violation of the patent less of an issue?
it would sort of make the deliberations moot if they implicitly admitted wrongdoing by changing the software in question, huh? my guess is they actually think they are in the right.
Apple is for some strange reason the last to adopt these innovations
the just got LTE w/ the iphone 5. they still don't have NFC. that's just not how apple roles. they add features when they make sense for the masses, not for the hype. yeah i can't believe i just said that either, but when it comes to feature adoption, it's true.
Switching to just a micro-USB would have been stupid as you can't get analog audio or HD video through USB 2.0
MHL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_High-Definition_Link
probably not, but what's your point? china is a much longer lived country than the US, so if anything, they should be more "civilized" with respect to workers' rights.