iPhone: Proprietary, unchangeable, walled garden, one vendor, one device.
Android: Open source, changeable, free, many vendors, many devices.
Is this even a choice?
I use a Samsung Galaxy S7. I don't think ANY of your options are reasons for the majority of consumers. They care about price, features and interacting with their friends with another smaller (but highly lucrative target group) caring about fashion and trend. The people that give a shit about the proprietry/open source/walled garden etc stuff is so insignificant that I don't think either side intentionally targets them.
Interesting, I really haven't seen a MacBook Pro for quite some time now. They seem to all disappear a couple of years ago, prior to that just about every IT contractor and consultant was using them. Now it seems to either be a surface or some other ultrabook and a lot of the big heavy Lenovo W series for those that require more than 16GB ram and lots of drive and connectivity options.
Surface, Surface Pro and surface book all run standard windows. They replaced the surface RT line with the Surface Line several years ago, RT was a flop. The Surface Tablet has access to ALL the same apps as any other windows PC since it runs a standard version of windows now.
perhaps it is different over their, my grandparents lived through WW2 in Latvia before living in Germany and Italy and finally Australia. They were two of the nicest people you could ever meet and would help anyone in need but they taught me their is no such thing a as free lunch and if something sounds too good to be true it really is. Scams, con artists and greedy companies are nothing new, they have simply evolved to modern technology, this myth that somehow the good ole days were safer is exactly that.
Surface devices are one of the most successful devices of the last couple of years and have had constant growth in sales for the last few years. It has massive sales now of around $1billion a quarter (up 30% again this year). that is huge for an expensive laptop/tablet hybrid
Well Actually my Degrees are in IT and Business. Your ignorance of Chinese culture is astounding though. The only part you got right is the Japanese culture, sadly though even that is breaking down somewhat now with the recession there and they are becoming more like the US and China every day.
You need better insurance. My insurance covers new for old and full rebuild regardless of cost as well as costs for temporary accommodation while they are rebuilding. The incentive with skyrocketing building costs is for them to get it done As soon as humanly possible in a disaster.
When you win a lawsuit of this nature the first people to get paid back is the insurance company. My sister recently won a lawsuit against the scumbag incompetent doctor that was treating her. So she got around 800k, first thing required was 600k went to pay back what medical insurance had paid out.
China has a long history of selling dangerous products. From poisonous pet food to exploding electronics. When confronted, the Chinese government's response is "what a shame, we'll do something". The "something" is to rename the company and do it all over again.
Why the fuck does China have most favored nation trade status?
That is hardly an exclusive problem to china, china just happens to make the vast majority of products nowadays. You don't have to look far to find cars that catch fire or mass tire recalls on faulty products, US contaminated beef or chicken etc etc. They do seem particularly lax on punishment etc but for the scale of it, it doesn't seem any worse than what most companies do the world over where cost and profit are king.
holy fuck. I hate apple more than most but you sound like a fucking retard. All companies are required to respond to legal warrants, Including Microsoft, Google and Any open source based companies or organisations. grow the fuck up.
I do similar, obviously you haven't done much travel or IT work between organisations or government departments otherwise you would realise it is impossible to rely on internet connectivity even in major cities. I have a lot of my lab stuff setup in Azure, but all my critical ones must run on my laptop, you would have to be insane or just plane stupid to rely on internet/cloud connectivity when sales/presentations or critical work is on the line.
yep all those users that run VM's are just all erection seekers, can't possibly have a justifiable reason for running a local VM like lab work or demos or development all of which many times can't run in the cloud. for such a low UID you act remarkably oblivious to common Tech configurations (typing this on my Lenovo with 32GB of RAM which hopefully I can convince work to upgrade before end of year). 16GB is a consumer limit, many professionals from video, graphic arts, photo editing too IT and development find that way to small.
While I use credit cards for a lot of things. I have no desire to fully replace cash and I DO LIKE to carry cash. cash doesn't require me to ensure I have a charge on my phone/laptop, it still works if the shop is having technology issues and is hugely convenient for small transactions. that is without getting into all the extra security and tracking issues with technology solutions here.
perhaps you live in a different universe to the rest of us. Surface Pro's and Surface books have been a massive sales success for them. The NFL issues have nothing to do with Surface devices and everything to do with the application and network connectivity provided to teams.
you are comparing 2 different markets. this is aimed squarely at designers/artists etc that absolutely require a digitiser screen. If what you are after is a workstation with Server class CPU than you might look at a Mac Pro or IMac but at the moment most other vendors have far better offerings than Apple in this space and Microsoft doesn't make a device for that space.
of course not, don't be a retard. Pointing out the fallacy of those posting and how the headlines etc is blatantly WRONG, does not equal support for coal. Coal needs to die the sooner the better, it is poisoning the planet and people, unfortunately the best alternative is Nuclear which while clean and relatively safe has so much stigma and misinformation associated with it that it is currently cost prohibitive in many circumstances.
Steve Balmer, despite all the hate for what he did wrong (which there is a shit load he got wrong), consistently year on year increased revenue and profit. By the end of his time he had more than tripled both revenue and profit to the point where they were actually worth the insane overvalued stock price they were at when he first took over.
way to completely miss the point. renewables like solar generate at peak capacity for around 1/3 of a day. a coal plant operating at half the capacity will still outgenerate it on a daily basis.
Actually yes they do announce price cuts when currency surges in Value. They regularly adjust because of exchange rates, the only thing that makes this one stand out is the size of the adjustment. In Australia we regularly have both price rises and price cuts depending on current exchange rates.
So somehow they are miraculously going from not being able to accurately predict a week in advance to being able to do a year? So how did they solve the current problem that makes it so unpredictable of not having sufficient information points from various areas of the world that severely affect weather long term? Is this super computer an amazing guesser or have they deployed 10's of thousands of weather stations around the world to gather that missing data?
if you set chilli sauce or onion juice into a booby trap also expect to be thrown in jail in most places. It isn't the ingredient that is the issue, it is the use and injury, even if only to a scumbag thief it isn't legal in most countries.
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Let's see, I can choose between:
iPhone: Proprietary, unchangeable, walled garden, one vendor, one device.
Android: Open source, changeable, free, many vendors, many devices.
Is this even a choice?
I use a Samsung Galaxy S7. I don't think ANY of your options are reasons for the majority of consumers. They care about price, features and interacting with their friends with another smaller (but highly lucrative target group) caring about fashion and trend. The people that give a shit about the proprietry/open source/walled garden etc stuff is so insignificant that I don't think either side intentionally targets them.
written like a Dupe of a previous advertisement you mean.
Interesting, I really haven't seen a MacBook Pro for quite some time now. They seem to all disappear a couple of years ago, prior to that just about every IT contractor and consultant was using them. Now it seems to either be a surface or some other ultrabook and a lot of the big heavy Lenovo W series for those that require more than 16GB ram and lots of drive and connectivity options.
Surface, Surface Pro and surface book all run standard windows. They replaced the surface RT line with the Surface Line several years ago, RT was a flop. The Surface Tablet has access to ALL the same apps as any other windows PC since it runs a standard version of windows now.
Ahhhh yes of course, they just keep shipping 2 million units each quarter into warehouses where they sit unsold, are you really that fucking stupid?
perhaps it is different over their, my grandparents lived through WW2 in Latvia before living in Germany and Italy and finally Australia. They were two of the nicest people you could ever meet and would help anyone in need but they taught me their is no such thing a as free lunch and if something sounds too good to be true it really is. Scams, con artists and greedy companies are nothing new, they have simply evolved to modern technology, this myth that somehow the good ole days were safer is exactly that.
Surface devices are one of the most successful devices of the last couple of years and have had constant growth in sales for the last few years. It has massive sales now of around $1billion a quarter (up 30% again this year). that is huge for an expensive laptop/tablet hybrid
Well Actually my Degrees are in IT and Business. Your ignorance of Chinese culture is astounding though. The only part you got right is the Japanese culture, sadly though even that is breaking down somewhat now with the recession there and they are becoming more like the US and China every day.
You need better insurance. My insurance covers new for old and full rebuild regardless of cost as well as costs for temporary accommodation while they are rebuilding. The incentive with skyrocketing building costs is for them to get it done As soon as humanly possible in a disaster.
When you win a lawsuit of this nature the first people to get paid back is the insurance company. My sister recently won a lawsuit against the scumbag incompetent doctor that was treating her. So she got around 800k, first thing required was 600k went to pay back what medical insurance had paid out.
China has a long history of selling dangerous products. From poisonous pet food to exploding electronics. When confronted, the Chinese government's response is "what a shame, we'll do something". The "something" is to rename the company and do it all over again.
Why the fuck does China have most favored nation trade status?
That is hardly an exclusive problem to china, china just happens to make the vast majority of products nowadays. You don't have to look far to find cars that catch fire or mass tire recalls on faulty products, US contaminated beef or chicken etc etc. They do seem particularly lax on punishment etc but for the scale of it, it doesn't seem any worse than what most companies do the world over where cost and profit are king.
holy fuck. I hate apple more than most but you sound like a fucking retard. All companies are required to respond to legal warrants, Including Microsoft, Google and Any open source based companies or organisations. grow the fuck up.
I do similar, obviously you haven't done much travel or IT work between organisations or government departments otherwise you would realise it is impossible to rely on internet connectivity even in major cities. I have a lot of my lab stuff setup in Azure, but all my critical ones must run on my laptop, you would have to be insane or just plane stupid to rely on internet/cloud connectivity when sales/presentations or critical work is on the line.
who gives a shit, you don't buy a professionally specced laptop where your primary concern is battery life.
yep all those users that run VM's are just all erection seekers, can't possibly have a justifiable reason for running a local VM like lab work or demos or development all of which many times can't run in the cloud. for such a low UID you act remarkably oblivious to common Tech configurations (typing this on my Lenovo with 32GB of RAM which hopefully I can convince work to upgrade before end of year). 16GB is a consumer limit, many professionals from video, graphic arts, photo editing too IT and development find that way to small.
While I use credit cards for a lot of things. I have no desire to fully replace cash and I DO LIKE to carry cash. cash doesn't require me to ensure I have a charge on my phone/laptop, it still works if the shop is having technology issues and is hugely convenient for small transactions. that is without getting into all the extra security and tracking issues with technology solutions here.
perhaps you live in a different universe to the rest of us. Surface Pro's and Surface books have been a massive sales success for them. The NFL issues have nothing to do with Surface devices and everything to do with the application and network connectivity provided to teams.
you are comparing 2 different markets. this is aimed squarely at designers/artists etc that absolutely require a digitiser screen. If what you are after is a workstation with Server class CPU than you might look at a Mac Pro or IMac but at the moment most other vendors have far better offerings than Apple in this space and Microsoft doesn't make a device for that space.
of course not, don't be a retard. Pointing out the fallacy of those posting and how the headlines etc is blatantly WRONG, does not equal support for coal. Coal needs to die the sooner the better, it is poisoning the planet and people, unfortunately the best alternative is Nuclear which while clean and relatively safe has so much stigma and misinformation associated with it that it is currently cost prohibitive in many circumstances.
Steve Balmer, despite all the hate for what he did wrong (which there is a shit load he got wrong), consistently year on year increased revenue and profit. By the end of his time he had more than tripled both revenue and profit to the point where they were actually worth the insane overvalued stock price they were at when he first took over.
way to completely miss the point. renewables like solar generate at peak capacity for around 1/3 of a day. a coal plant operating at half the capacity will still outgenerate it on a daily basis.
Actually yes they do announce price cuts when currency surges in Value. They regularly adjust because of exchange rates, the only thing that makes this one stand out is the size of the adjustment. In Australia we regularly have both price rises and price cuts depending on current exchange rates.
Yep, you can pretty much expect all companies that haven't already done this to follow. (many already have)
So somehow they are miraculously going from not being able to accurately predict a week in advance to being able to do a year? So how did they solve the current problem that makes it so unpredictable of not having sufficient information points from various areas of the world that severely affect weather long term? Is this super computer an amazing guesser or have they deployed 10's of thousands of weather stations around the world to gather that missing data?
if you set chilli sauce or onion juice into a booby trap also expect to be thrown in jail in most places. It isn't the ingredient that is the issue, it is the use and injury, even if only to a scumbag thief it isn't legal in most countries.