if you don't believe that making copies of paid software and installing them and using them our your device without paying isn't stealing, then why are you even participating in this conversation?
All that said the developers and publishers themselves are to blame for their problems: make your apps worth not pirating, and either develop only for walled-garden platforms or accept piracy as a fact of life and ignore it as long as you're still generating profits.
Steam? I have a 250 Mbit connection at home. I can pull down an entire steam game in about 5 min. When it's installed, I play it at 60 fps at 2560x1600.
and? you have an internet connection that's 20-40x faster than the average which makes your conclusions meaningless. bravo.
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Surprisingly the staff at the new company isn't typically all that upset about loosing their stock options.
treating options as anything other than an unscratched lottery ticket is a mistake.
the reason why they have not sued MS or RIM is because they are taking on thing at a time. companies don't initiate 10 parallel identical lawsuits. they execute one, and depending on the outcome, decide how to proceed on the others.
As Android started to look more like iOS, Jobs was starting to believe that it wasn't a coincidence.
and how exactly do they look the same? they both have a grid of icons for launching applications. hey, i have been arranging application icons in grids on my desktop computer since 1994. i should be suing.
really, what people don't get it is that both iOS and Android are minimalist UIs. they really offer very little except a way to start an app, a lock screen, and a few settings screens.
if samsung's products are inferior, they will lose in the market. some people will get bamboozled and believe misleading marketing, but in this age, that can't go on for long. information about products is spread like the wind.
if by "riding the wave of apple's success" you mean selling products that people are interested in, then yes, they sure are. i guess you expect that since apple started the smartphone and tablet craze, all others should be barred from entry to that market? all apple did was make better, cheaper copies of what other companies have already produced. that doesn't give them exclusive rights to the market.
Chinas intellectual property laws are quite different from the USA's and they are not beholden to your laws/quote.
that's true, but unfortunately for china, most of the world recognizes IP laws of some sort that are in the same vein as that of the US. china does need to play by the rules of the global economy if they want to participate (and it sure seems like they do).
there's traditional war (reduce your country to ashes), and there's limited war (find some jerkoff hidden in a bunker somewhere and make sure not to hurt anyone else in the process).
the US is very good at traditional war. they are as good as anyone else at limited war... and by that i mean not very good.
a war with china would definitely be a traditional war however.
Apple's PC products are too expensive for businesses
not really. not when you factor in that businesses are buying "enterprise" class laptops with hefty support contracts. businesses don't buy the $499 refurbished special.
the main reason apple isn't as big in the enterprise is because you have IT departments entrenched in windows technology. even if we admit that apple is a better solution, it would take decades to get microsoft out of there.
and, it's already changing. i work at 10k employee tech company and apart from a linux laptop i haven't seen anything but macs. i'm sure windows is around in other groups, and i would even bet it's still a majority, but the proof is in the pudding. my group works entirely on macs without problems, and our IT dept supports macs 100%.
spoken by someone that clearly has never used the service.
i'm a subscriber and have purchased several games spanning the spectrum, including defense grid gold (a higher-end tower defense game), osmosis, some permutations of warhammer 40k, and homefront (first person shooter). all of these games were $10 for unlimited play (with the stipulation that the company needs to still be in business i guess).
i can play all of them on my mac, windows pc, and android tablet. except homefront which required keyboard control to do anything useful. they all ran pretty great as long as i was on fast broadband.
it was a pretty awesome idea. no more installing gigabytes of crap on your PC. no more compatibility problems. games that just work wherever and whatever platform you are on.
i've seen this problem in a lot of software projects. two competing ideas... one is implemented, one is on paper. guess what? the one on paper is always better. of course it is, since it doesn't exist, it can solve any problem.
Given Microsoft's need to make Skype work in the browser, it seems likely that, should its proposal not be accepted as the standard, it will press on regardless, thus splitting the development environment.
wait, i thought as long as everyone supported HTML5 we'd never have any browser compatibility problems again, right?
Why not go with the best overall standard regardless of who introduced it and whether or not it was the first. Now this doesn't mean I'm for or against either standard, it just seems that the assumption is that it should be ignored because it wasn't first and because Microsoft introduced it.
because at some point, you need to say "good enough for version 1.0" and move forward with an implementation. google and firefox have already done this. should they back up and re-write their impls because someone came along with something better (on paper)?
there's always 2.0, and MSFT should be getting involved in the existing standard to influence the 2.0 effort to get the features they need.
almost all android games are written for the touchscreen. this will continue to be the case, because game devs aren't going to spend the resources to optimize for a platform with an extremely small portion of the market. if you don't believe this, look to the failure of the Sony (Ericsson) Play.
ouya will be lucky if they can get android devs to release games for their console, period... let alone optimize them for their hardware.
and yeah if you are just looking for a way to play your pirated old-school console games, that's not going to support their business model anyway.
what a great world we live in, where people have to announce their non-opinion of the US president lest they be raked over the coals when people interpret their comments and pro or con.
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if you don't believe that making copies of paid software and installing them and using them our your device without paying isn't stealing, then why are you even participating in this conversation?
All that said the developers and publishers themselves are to blame for their problems: make your apps worth not pirating, and either develop only for walled-garden platforms or accept piracy as a fact of life and ignore it as long as you're still generating profits.
make your apps worth not pirating
so basically, your logic is that if developers make something crappy, then they deserve to have it stolen?
Steam? I have a 250 Mbit connection at home. I can pull down an entire steam game in about 5 min. When it's installed, I play it at 60 fps at 2560x1600.
and? you have an internet connection that's 20-40x faster than the average which makes your conclusions meaningless. bravo.
Surprisingly the staff at the new company isn't typically all that upset about loosing their stock options.
treating options as anything other than an unscratched lottery ticket is a mistake.
the reason why they have not sued MS or RIM is because they are taking on thing at a time. companies don't initiate 10 parallel identical lawsuits. they execute one, and depending on the outcome, decide how to proceed on the others.
As Android started to look more like iOS, Jobs was starting to believe that it wasn't a coincidence.
and how exactly do they look the same? they both have a grid of icons for launching applications. hey, i have been arranging application icons in grids on my desktop computer since 1994. i should be suing.
really, what people don't get it is that both iOS and Android are minimalist UIs. they really offer very little except a way to start an app, a lock screen, and a few settings screens.
if samsung's products are inferior, they will lose in the market. some people will get bamboozled and believe misleading marketing, but in this age, that can't go on for long. information about products is spread like the wind.
if by "riding the wave of apple's success" you mean selling products that people are interested in, then yes, they sure are. i guess you expect that since apple started the smartphone and tablet craze, all others should be barred from entry to that market? all apple did was make better, cheaper copies of what other companies have already produced. that doesn't give them exclusive rights to the market.
absolutely wrong. do you really think an invention needs to be brought to market at a reasonable cost be be patentable? that's just not how it works.
Chinas intellectual property laws are quite different from the USA's and they are not beholden to your laws/quote.
that's true, but unfortunately for china, most of the world recognizes IP laws of some sort that are in the same vein as that of the US. china does need to play by the rules of the global economy if they want to participate (and it sure seems like they do).
there's traditional war (reduce your country to ashes), and there's limited war (find some jerkoff hidden in a bunker somewhere and make sure not to hurt anyone else in the process).
the US is very good at traditional war. they are as good as anyone else at limited war ... and by that i mean not very good.
a war with china would definitely be a traditional war however.
Apple's PC products are too expensive for businesses
not really. not when you factor in that businesses are buying "enterprise" class laptops with hefty support contracts. businesses don't buy the $499 refurbished special.
the main reason apple isn't as big in the enterprise is because you have IT departments entrenched in windows technology. even if we admit that apple is a better solution, it would take decades to get microsoft out of there.
and, it's already changing. i work at 10k employee tech company and apart from a linux laptop i haven't seen anything but macs. i'm sure windows is around in other groups, and i would even bet it's still a majority, but the proof is in the pudding. my group works entirely on macs without problems, and our IT dept supports macs 100%.
spoken by someone that clearly has never used the service.
i'm a subscriber and have purchased several games spanning the spectrum, including defense grid gold (a higher-end tower defense game), osmosis, some permutations of warhammer 40k, and homefront (first person shooter). all of these games were $10 for unlimited play (with the stipulation that the company needs to still be in business i guess).
i can play all of them on my mac, windows pc, and android tablet. except homefront which required keyboard control to do anything useful. they all ran pretty great as long as i was on fast broadband.
it was a pretty awesome idea. no more installing gigabytes of crap on your PC. no more compatibility problems. games that just work wherever and whatever platform you are on.
yeah, talk to me when you are building scramjets and let me know how that works out.
I am guessing they documented the design somewhere so they could probably build additional vehicles in the future if need be.
you think? or maybe they will have to start from scratch, and see what they can remember from when they built the first four.
i've seen this problem in a lot of software projects. two competing ideas ... one is implemented, one is on paper. guess what? the one on paper is always better. of course it is, since it doesn't exist, it can solve any problem.
Given Microsoft's need to make Skype work in the browser, it seems likely that, should its proposal not be accepted as the standard, it will press on regardless, thus splitting the development environment.
wait, i thought as long as everyone supported HTML5 we'd never have any browser compatibility problems again, right?
Why not go with the best overall standard regardless of who introduced it and whether or not it was the first. Now this doesn't mean I'm for or against either standard, it just seems that the assumption is that it should be ignored because it wasn't first and because Microsoft introduced it.
because at some point, you need to say "good enough for version 1.0" and move forward with an implementation. google and firefox have already done this. should they back up and re-write their impls because someone came along with something better (on paper)?
there's always 2.0, and MSFT should be getting involved in the existing standard to influence the 2.0 effort to get the features they need.
i was waiting for someone to bring this up.
almost all android games are written for the touchscreen. this will continue to be the case, because game devs aren't going to spend the resources to optimize for a platform with an extremely small portion of the market. if you don't believe this, look to the failure of the Sony (Ericsson) Play.
ouya will be lucky if they can get android devs to release games for their console, period ... let alone optimize them for their hardware.
and yeah if you are just looking for a way to play your pirated old-school console games, that's not going to support their business model anyway.
I haven't bought a game system since the playstaion 2 because they're all too costly.
me neither. oh wait, MY PHONE and MY TABLET. do i need one more device on which to play android games?
If the US wants to improve the lot of women then it should fund women's education and birth control in these countries, not bomb them to shit.
it's that simple huh? just head over to ol' tehran and get to work putting up a women's university, right?
I felt truly proud of what my country had done.
i felt proud for what my *species* has done.
way to go homos!
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There is no decent teleconfering app that doesn't go through Google+.
skype.
Also, no good support for the kinds of instant messaging that's used inside of companies (which, unfortunately, tends to be Microsoft stuff).
iOS has support for MSFT communicator?
As an email client, the IMAP client leaves much to be desired. And K-9 isn't much better.
it's very usable. i've used iOS mail and they seem equivalent to me, but i don't use iOS mail much.
I'm Canadian and nigher for or against Obama.
what a great world we live in, where people have to announce their non-opinion of the US president lest they be raked over the coals when people interpret their comments and pro or con.