Rapid advancement in mobile is often attributed to the natural disruption by which emerging industries innovate quickly, while established markets like PCs follow a slower, more sustained trajectory.
But there are deeper fundamentals driving the breathtaking pace of smartphone advancement.
Rapid advancement in mobile is often attributed to the natural disruption by which emerging industries innovate quickly, while established markets like PCs follow a slower, more sustained trajectory.
But there had to be some way for me to create buzz for my blog so I came up with some convoluted explanation.
I just called T-Mobile on such fraud. Here is the abridged version of the conversation I had in the T-Mobile store (oh wait, even though the store has the T-Mobile logo plastered everywhere with nary another brand name in sight, apparently it's an authorized reseller) with a sales rep:
Me: Do you sell air cards?
Rep: Yes!
Me: Great! Can you tell me about it?
Rep: Sure. You get unlimited data for $39.99 a month.
Me: Unlimited? Really?
Rep: Yes!
Me: Is that 3G or 4G?
Rep: It's 3G but it's actually faster than Sprint's 4G.
Me: Great! Sign me up.
(I know what you're thinking: that should have set off warning bells in my head)
Signed up, took the air card home, and did some speed tests online. Expected: 2-3 Mbps. Actual: 730 Kbps. Two weeks later, after updating the firmware on the air card and trying two computers (Mac OS X and Win7), I placed a call to T-Mobile to cancel my service due to false advertising. After two customer service reps and a tech support rep, I finally got through to a "manager." Oh, and it turns out "unlimited" means 5 GBs and then they throttle your connection speed down to below half. And, it turns out, their new, faster 3G service isn't actually available in my area yet.
Me: I want to cancel my service without incurring the early termination fee because I was lied to by a sales rep in your store.
Mgr: It's not our store. They're an authorized reseller.
Me: (Rather irritated at this point) But they bear your logo. Regardless, T-Mobile ultimately sets the prices and dictates the terms of the contract. I want to cancel my service because what I was sold in the store and what I'm experiencing at home are two entirely different things.
(After lot of back and forth about network speeds, technical issues, pricing, contract terms and etc.)
Mgr: I can offer you half off of your termination fee or if you can get the store to take your equipment back we won't charge you any fees.
I got the T-Mobile/not-T-Mobile store to take the equipment back and canceled my service. T-Mobile is all kinds of FAIL, and I can only imagine what other wireless carriers dream up to sell to their customers.
...it's a "pre-recorded" session. I played the NYTimes game twice in a row. The first time, the computer beat me. The second time, given the exact same questions, I handily beat the computer. I learned from my mistakes and was able to apply that knowledge to a similar scenario improving the outcome on my end. It's definitely an interesting study.
So, they trained snails to stop using built-in survival mechanisms and then gave them drugs that prevented the snails from going back into survival mode. Seems to me like they're not improving memory but are instead prohibiting instinct.
Indeed. Several years ago I purchased a GE portable CD player. When it finally quit working I opened it up to see what made it tick. Turns out around 90% of the components had the name Sony stamped on them. You're absolutely right: Sony makes damn near everything when it comes to electronics.
Wake me up when someone has actually infected an organic organism at the cellular level with an honest to goodness computer virus made up of 0s and 1s (which is theoretically possibly since the human body controls itself in large part by electric pulses sent from the brain).
You fail to realize that part of the reason why we have so much memory in our desktops these days is because programmers have gotten lazy. I hear the phrase "memory is cheap" thrown around alot these days. I don't think that's a good enough excuse to not optimize your code. I agree with the AC post (although he does come across as bitter and jaded).
The whole reason I started using Firefox (from early beta through 3.5) was because it was light, fast and didn't have all the crap that "full-featured" browsers have. I prefer Google Docs to the bloatware that is Microsoft Office and even OpenOffice. I don't know what the real problem here is. I'm sure some of it is as you say - users demanding more features, but I don't believe that's even close to the entirety of the problem Mozilla is facing.
Do you drive a car built sometime after the 1970's? Do you have a programmable coffee maker? What about a microwave (the none analog dial kind)? I'm pretty sure there are plenty of devices you own and use every day that have software on them and are pretty much impossible to add your own software to. Very few people, if any, are complaining about not being able to run custom code on other devices. Your argument is too broad.
I want to write a Flash app in Delphi, compile it with Adobe Acrobat and run it as a stand alone device! I shouldn't have to "buy" anything to use Flash if it's a truly open platform.
No, it's not. You may buy a gun, but you do not have the right to use it in whatever manner you wish. That would be entitlement and licentiousness. You most certainly do not have the right to use anything considered personal property "in whatever manner you wish".
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Rapid advancement in mobile is often attributed to the natural disruption by which emerging industries innovate quickly, while established markets like PCs follow a slower, more sustained trajectory.
But there are deeper fundamentals driving the breathtaking pace of smartphone advancement.
Rapid advancement in mobile is often attributed to the natural disruption by which emerging industries innovate quickly, while established markets like PCs follow a slower, more sustained trajectory.
But there had to be some way for me to create buzz for my blog so I came up with some convoluted explanation.
...the last thing you want is for another generation of consumers to be conditioned to the idea that data is always going to be uncapped.
Actually that's the second thing I want. The first thing I want is for ISPs to stop weaseling out of their advertised services.
I just called T-Mobile on such fraud. Here is the abridged version of the conversation I had in the T-Mobile store (oh wait, even though the store has the T-Mobile logo plastered everywhere with nary another brand name in sight, apparently it's an authorized reseller) with a sales rep:
Me: Do you sell air cards?
Rep: Yes!
Me: Great! Can you tell me about it?
Rep: Sure. You get unlimited data for $39.99 a month.
Me: Unlimited? Really?
Rep: Yes!
Me: Is that 3G or 4G?
Rep: It's 3G but it's actually faster than Sprint's 4G.
Me: Great! Sign me up.
(I know what you're thinking: that should have set off warning bells in my head)
Signed up, took the air card home, and did some speed tests online. Expected: 2-3 Mbps. Actual: 730 Kbps. Two weeks later, after updating the firmware on the air card and trying two computers (Mac OS X and Win7), I placed a call to T-Mobile to cancel my service due to false advertising. After two customer service reps and a tech support rep, I finally got through to a "manager." Oh, and it turns out "unlimited" means 5 GBs and then they throttle your connection speed down to below half. And, it turns out, their new, faster 3G service isn't actually available in my area yet.
Me: I want to cancel my service without incurring the early termination fee because I was lied to by a sales rep in your store.
Mgr: It's not our store. They're an authorized reseller.
Me: (Rather irritated at this point) But they bear your logo. Regardless, T-Mobile ultimately sets the prices and dictates the terms of the contract. I want to cancel my service because what I was sold in the store and what I'm experiencing at home are two entirely different things.
(After lot of back and forth about network speeds, technical issues, pricing, contract terms and etc.)
Mgr: I can offer you half off of your termination fee or if you can get the store to take your equipment back we won't charge you any fees.
I got the T-Mobile/not-T-Mobile store to take the equipment back and canceled my service. T-Mobile is all kinds of FAIL, and I can only imagine what other wireless carriers dream up to sell to their customers.
Where's the "Like" button on Slashdot?
Sure! As long as you define peace as "getting rid of everyone who disagrees with me."
...it's a "pre-recorded" session. I played the NYTimes game twice in a row. The first time, the computer beat me. The second time, given the exact same questions, I handily beat the computer. I learned from my mistakes and was able to apply that knowledge to a similar scenario improving the outcome on my end. It's definitely an interesting study.
I'm truly sorry. I was confusing my space-faring aircraft. Kudos to you Mr. Earp for pointing out my mistake.
I wonder if any of these "doctors" have taken up residency aboard the Freewinds? What could be better than a stem cell therapy cruise?
Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. No seriously, mod this guy +10 Insightful.
That's why when someone says "DOS boot" I cry. 42
Delphi makes me LOL, but not in a good way. More like when the clown shows up in Stephen King's "It".
Probably. I mean at least some of the stem cell tourists must be getting to their destinations via 747's, right?
CSIRO, which is also now targeting Lenovo, Sony and Acer in new cases...
How can they sue Lenovo?
...there are many countries where we don't hold patents including Russia and China...
Isn't Lenovo a Chinese company?
So, they trained snails to stop using built-in survival mechanisms and then gave them drugs that prevented the snails from going back into survival mode. Seems to me like they're not improving memory but are instead prohibiting instinct.
...will the Flash Destroyer hold up under this load?
If I'm not mistaken, platter-based hard drives do the same thing.
You're joking, right? Someone actually displays a working, FLEXIBLE video screen and all you can say is "it has artifacts." Give them some time.
Indeed. Several years ago I purchased a GE portable CD player. When it finally quit working I opened it up to see what made it tick. Turns out around 90% of the components had the name Sony stamped on them. You're absolutely right: Sony makes damn near everything when it comes to electronics.
Wake me up when someone has actually infected an organic organism at the cellular level with an honest to goodness computer virus made up of 0s and 1s (which is theoretically possibly since the human body controls itself in large part by electric pulses sent from the brain).
...for software to manage their wholesale killing of homeless pets?
...that I can't release my Bacon emulation software under their license?
You fail to realize that part of the reason why we have so much memory in our desktops these days is because programmers have gotten lazy. I hear the phrase "memory is cheap" thrown around alot these days. I don't think that's a good enough excuse to not optimize your code. I agree with the AC post (although he does come across as bitter and jaded).
The whole reason I started using Firefox (from early beta through 3.5) was because it was light, fast and didn't have all the crap that "full-featured" browsers have. I prefer Google Docs to the bloatware that is Microsoft Office and even OpenOffice. I don't know what the real problem here is. I'm sure some of it is as you say - users demanding more features, but I don't believe that's even close to the entirety of the problem Mozilla is facing.
Do you drive a car built sometime after the 1970's? Do you have a programmable coffee maker? What about a microwave (the none analog dial kind)? I'm pretty sure there are plenty of devices you own and use every day that have software on them and are pretty much impossible to add your own software to. Very few people, if any, are complaining about not being able to run custom code on other devices. Your argument is too broad.
I want to write a Flash app in Delphi, compile it with Adobe Acrobat and run it as a stand alone device! I shouldn't have to "buy" anything to use Flash if it's a truly open platform.
No, it's not. You may buy a gun, but you do not have the right to use it in whatever manner you wish. That would be entitlement and licentiousness. You most certainly do not have the right to use anything considered personal property "in whatever manner you wish".