My thoughts exactly. MS saw a non-biased critical piece and sent the army of astro-turfers on attack. Corporate PR and reputation management. When MS finally gets brought down the world will be a better place. Simple as that.
Hey, dumbfuck, if you are offended like the good little halfwit fanboy you are then procede to the firehouse so you can mod up the anti-Linux stories. Don't forget to tighten that clothespin on your penis while you click the plus buttons.
What is it with Apple fans that they take so much pride in lining Apple's coffers more than the competitions' users do? Not a story goes by without Apple-ites crowing about how much money Apple makes. Its like some kind of sick reverse materialism.
It's not necessarily about "openness" for everybody. Some of us are just tired of Microsoft and want to see somebody else win for a while. Personally I fall into that camp so I'm rooting for the inevitable amalgamation of ChromeOS and Android to get some traction.
The only thing you really need to sign in for is to use the app store. You can always just use f-droid which is an app store hosting nothing but Free apps and you can download stuff from around the web. You could also go here and just use the Amazon app store. Don't forget too that the Nexus 7 can be bootloader unlocked with a single command so you can load whatever you want as long as you can find drivers.
I just fired up a 720P mkv (not sure the specific codecs in use) of the watchmen in VLC on the Nexus 7 and dropped nary a frame. This movie did drop frames on my Xoom but is perfectly smooth on the 7. I don't have any 1080P stuff to test.
The main thing you can't get is the video app and with Amazon Prime supposedly you get a lot of free movies through it. I guess that's enough to swing some people.
I have every single track I own in Google Music (20,000 song limit and free). My phone has an unlimited data plan with tethering so I can access my entire music library anywhere I want as long as I have data which in the US where I live is ubiquitous. For people that roam the countryside, you can pin albums to the device.
I got the 16GB version and this is by far the best 250 dollar technology purchase I have ever made. I am extremely satisfied. If Google made $42.50 off of me then more power to them and the last thing I'm going to do is start wringing my hands when such a great piece of gadgetry can be purchased so cheaply. Have you looked at the price of some of the other premium tablets on the market lately?
Replacement parts could easily be chalked up to shortages of an extremely popular product. My brother has a Transformer Prime that just stopped working one day out of the blue. He got an RMA number and printed out the little form they gave him and just dropped the package off at the nearest FedEx. Didn't have to pay shipping or anything. Within a week or so, his TF was back in his hands as good as new with all data intact.
If that is a real problem then get the 16GB version and get happy. How long are you planning to be away from wifi with just your tablet that 16GB isn't enough? Movies fit for such a small screen can be encoded to a gigabyte or less so assuming you have 1GB for the OS, 4GB for some apps, 3GB worth of music, you still have room for at least 8 movies. Of course there is already a method floating around for hooking a flash drive to your Nexus 7 so the point is moot for some people already. There are also little hard drives that have their own wi-fi access point built in so you can stop somewhere in th mountains you are obviously hiking in while the latest blockbusters on your tablet and re-up.
I have a Xoom with 32GB internal and an 8GB sdcard. I almost never bother putting movies or much music on it as it's just so convenient to stream. I only really want to watch a movie once especially if it isn't good enough to bother watching it on the TV in the living room so anything that hits my Xoom is in the watch it once and dispose of category anyway. Since I have flash, there are a plethora of places to get my fix on the internet and I have unlimited 4G on Verizon thanks to a grandfathered plan so I'm golden.
I bought it for a few reasons. First of all, I have a Xoom so I already like Android tablets. I also have an iPad but that's beside the point. The Nexus 7 is very inexpensive, almost down to impulse buy for a first worlder with a job, I was led to believe and can now confirm it has an extremely responsive OS and UI, much better than the Kindle Fire, it has most of the add on hardware I was looking for like bluetooth, front facing camera, and GPS, and it is a Nexus directly supported by Google so I'm not worried about updates for the forseeable lifespan of the product. Almost forgot, the 7" size makes it a true mobile device whereas my Xoom and iPad are like baby laptops without the keyboard so not truly mobile in the sense of stick it in your pocket and go that the Nexus 7 is. After receiving and using this thing unless you just have a vested interest in not liking Android, you owe it to yourself to at least go into the store and take a good look at it.
The case for the most part at least until trial can be put on auto-pilot with the occasional appearance here and there. The issue really is having to deal with your own attorneys getting them all the information they need, etc. It can be time consuming.
You are making the common mistake of assuming that x86 and ARM are somehow comparable in this regard. x86 is a standardized architecture for the most part while ARM could not be further from it. Do some research.
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My thoughts exactly. MS saw a non-biased critical piece and sent the army of astro-turfers on attack. Corporate PR and reputation management. When MS finally gets brought down the world will be a better place. Simple as that.
Hey, dumbfuck, if you are offended like the good little halfwit fanboy you are then procede to the firehouse so you can mod up the anti-Linux stories. Don't forget to tighten that clothespin on your penis while you click the plus buttons.
You're happy that Apple rips you off. And people wonder why Apple is seen as a cult.
What is it with Apple fans that they take so much pride in lining Apple's coffers more than the competitions' users do? Not a story goes by without Apple-ites crowing about how much money Apple makes. Its like some kind of sick reverse materialism.
If you care about openness
It's not necessarily about "openness" for everybody. Some of us are just tired of Microsoft and want to see somebody else win for a while. Personally I fall into that camp so I'm rooting for the inevitable amalgamation of ChromeOS and Android to get some traction.
The only thing you really need to sign in for is to use the app store. You can always just use f-droid which is an app store hosting nothing but Free apps and you can download stuff from around the web. You could also go here and just use the Amazon app store. Don't forget too that the Nexus 7 can be bootloader unlocked with a single command so you can load whatever you want as long as you can find drivers.
I just fired up a 720P mkv (not sure the specific codecs in use) of the watchmen in VLC on the Nexus 7 and dropped nary a frame. This movie did drop frames on my Xoom but is perfectly smooth on the 7. I don't have any 1080P stuff to test.
The main thing you can't get is the video app and with Amazon Prime supposedly you get a lot of free movies through it. I guess that's enough to swing some people.
Damn this is a fucking insightful new take on a worn out joke. Don't know if +1000 insightful of -1 redundant.
It's a Nexus so install the su.apk and apply this.
I have every single track I own in Google Music (20,000 song limit and free). My phone has an unlimited data plan with tethering so I can access my entire music library anywhere I want as long as I have data which in the US where I live is ubiquitous. For people that roam the countryside, you can pin albums to the device.
Your 4chan addiction doesn't count as "adventurous".
This version of xbmc works very well on my Galaxy Nexus.
Troll scale: 2/10. Would have rated it higher but you laid it on a little thick.
You can get this Archos Android tablet with 250GB of storage. Is that enough?
With this app and an HTC MedialinkHD, you can stream movies and music though you can't actually mirror the full display.
I got the 16GB version and this is by far the best 250 dollar technology purchase I have ever made. I am extremely satisfied. If Google made $42.50 off of me then more power to them and the last thing I'm going to do is start wringing my hands when such a great piece of gadgetry can be purchased so cheaply. Have you looked at the price of some of the other premium tablets on the market lately?
The important part is, of course, I already received mine.
The clue to your answer is in that statement.
Replacement parts could easily be chalked up to shortages of an extremely popular product. My brother has a Transformer Prime that just stopped working one day out of the blue. He got an RMA number and printed out the little form they gave him and just dropped the package off at the nearest FedEx. Didn't have to pay shipping or anything. Within a week or so, his TF was back in his hands as good as new with all data intact.
If that is a real problem then get the 16GB version and get happy. How long are you planning to be away from wifi with just your tablet that 16GB isn't enough? Movies fit for such a small screen can be encoded to a gigabyte or less so assuming you have 1GB for the OS, 4GB for some apps, 3GB worth of music, you still have room for at least 8 movies. Of course there is already a method floating around for hooking a flash drive to your Nexus 7 so the point is moot for some people already. There are also little hard drives that have their own wi-fi access point built in so you can stop somewhere in th mountains you are obviously hiking in while the latest blockbusters on your tablet and re-up.
I have a Xoom with 32GB internal and an 8GB sdcard. I almost never bother putting movies or much music on it as it's just so convenient to stream. I only really want to watch a movie once especially if it isn't good enough to bother watching it on the TV in the living room so anything that hits my Xoom is in the watch it once and dispose of category anyway. Since I have flash, there are a plethora of places to get my fix on the internet and I have unlimited 4G on Verizon thanks to a grandfathered plan so I'm golden.
I bought it for a few reasons. First of all, I have a Xoom so I already like Android tablets. I also have an iPad but that's beside the point. The Nexus 7 is very inexpensive, almost down to impulse buy for a first worlder with a job, I was led to believe and can now confirm it has an extremely responsive OS and UI, much better than the Kindle Fire, it has most of the add on hardware I was looking for like bluetooth, front facing camera, and GPS, and it is a Nexus directly supported by Google so I'm not worried about updates for the forseeable lifespan of the product. Almost forgot, the 7" size makes it a true mobile device whereas my Xoom and iPad are like baby laptops without the keyboard so not truly mobile in the sense of stick it in your pocket and go that the Nexus 7 is. After receiving and using this thing unless you just have a vested interest in not liking Android, you owe it to yourself to at least go into the store and take a good look at it.
To make the 16 GB jump on the iPad how much does it cost? Now divide that number by two. 8 GB for 50 dollars is pretty standard.
The case for the most part at least until trial can be put on auto-pilot with the occasional appearance here and there. The issue really is having to deal with your own attorneys getting them all the information they need, etc. It can be time consuming.
You are making the common mistake of assuming that x86 and ARM are somehow comparable in this regard. x86 is a standardized architecture for the most part while ARM could not be further from it. Do some research.