I mean the iOS part and the Mac marketplace, both locked to a single provider. Also the proprietary extension to open protocols (XMPP, ePub, SIP), and proprietary connectors.
Wait. Others will follow. I've left feed back at Dell, System 76 an a few others about this for the last couple of years... I'm probably not the only one.
Praising what Apple done... do you mean the "building really nice hardware part" or the "doing all they can to destroy the notion of open personal computing part". It is nice hardware, but funding one also funds the other, unfortunately.
Many people do have similar concerns about their DVD players, as region locking renders most of them useless. Ones that have configuration options exposed can play multiple regions. In this case it's the manufacturers telling you how you can use your media rather than your device, but the concept is similar.
You don't need to trust Google. Don't set your phone up to use their services. It's basically a good phone for a good price, with good, open OS. It integrates nicely with Google's services, but you don't need to use them.
Control? As faras I'm aware, you do not need to have you device talk to Google *at all*. Google wants an open web so they can push ads. They trade services for personal information, but you're not required to use their services. MS and Apple want what AOL had, and I hope they both end up the same way.
... A threat? That's silly, if they wanted to threaten them, they say "French news sites are blocked, and if they want back in, they need to bay *us*".
The whole 'all these files is a problem' part of the article (well, summary) seems a little silly since all of the VCS tools I'm aware of use files to separate units of work between different people. Until we get a version control system that works some other way, a large number of files is pretty much required for a project consisting of more than one person.
There's all sorts on SourceForge, where you can download the APK, or build it yourself. Same with GitHub. Some commercial entities also provide them directly.
Typically you don't need to set up any Google stuff on it at all, although the Google software will definitely come installed on it. The only thing you lose is access to the Google Play market, but you can use Amazon, several others, or side-load.
The idea that teachers should have to do new lesson plans every year is something that I keep hearing. Unless the programs are changing drastically every year, this should be done once centrally and used by everyone.
I was going to say something similar. If the ghardware companies got together with RedHat, Canonical, etc, and put out a polished version of Linux that their hardware supported perfectly, it would be good for them in the short and long term. It would be very bad for Microsoft in the long term, which is really just an added bonus. This would also finally get the video card vendors on board with providing proper drivers, and provide the extra push needed for games to be ported. Having Office, etc would likely be a non-starter though, so open document formats would need to much more acceptable.
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I mean the iOS part and the Mac marketplace, both locked to a single provider. Also the proprietary extension to open protocols (XMPP, ePub, SIP), and proprietary connectors.
Yes, I'm sure Linux is thrilled by the direction Apple is trying to push the softare industry.
Wait. Others will follow. I've left feed back at Dell, System 76 an a few others about this for the last couple of years ... I'm probably not the only one.
Praising what Apple done ... do you mean the "building really nice hardware part" or the "doing all they can to destroy the notion of open personal computing part". It is nice hardware, but funding one also funds the other, unfortunately.
Most of us have been on rants for higher resolution displays for years.
MacBooks do not run iOS ... yet.
Windows 7 + Metro = More bloated, in my opinion.
Why treat mobile apps as a special case? All software applications, client-side or web based should be treated the same way.
Many people do have similar concerns about their DVD players, as region locking renders most of them useless. Ones that have configuration options exposed can play multiple regions. In this case it's the manufacturers telling you how you can use your media rather than your device, but the concept is similar.
You don't need to trust Google. Don't set your phone up to use their services. It's basically a good phone for a good price, with good, open OS. It integrates nicely with Google's services, but you don't need to use them.
Control? As faras I'm aware, you do not need to have you device talk to Google *at all*. Google wants an open web so they can push ads. They trade services for personal information, but you're not required to use their services. MS and Apple want what AOL had, and I hope they both end up the same way.
... A threat? That's silly, if they wanted to threaten them, they say "French news sites are blocked, and if they want back in, they need to bay *us*".
Nulls do not necessarily indicate failure. It's only an exception because an operation using it as a base was specified.
The whole 'all these files is a problem' part of the article (well, summary) seems a little silly since all of the VCS tools I'm aware of use files to separate units of work between different people. Until we get a version control system that works some other way, a large number of files is pretty much required for a project consisting of more than one person.
If you've ever worked for the government, you'll know that they ensure it's hard for them to hire anyone.
There's all sorts on SourceForge, where you can download the APK, or build it yourself. Same with GitHub. Some commercial entities also provide them directly.
I don't think you need to be rooted to install APK files ... just drop them on the phone and run them.
Typically you don't need to set up any Google stuff on it at all, although the Google software will definitely come installed on it. The only thing you lose is access to the Google Play market, but you can use Amazon, several others, or side-load.
The idea that teachers should have to do new lesson plans every year is something that I keep hearing. Unless the programs are changing drastically every year, this should be done once centrally and used by everyone.
$100K here in Ontario, but we're now broke because of it. (The premier's wife is a teacher)
Just tried it out. One thing it is useful for is making the silly "Metro" interface more usable.
I'm not sure what you're on abut. Android was designed to be rooted. It can also tell applications that it's not.
Cool, so did I.
I was going to say something similar. If the ghardware companies got together with RedHat, Canonical, etc, and put out a polished version of Linux that their hardware supported perfectly, it would be good for them in the short and long term. It would be very bad for Microsoft in the long term, which is really just an added bonus. This would also finally get the video card vendors on board with providing proper drivers, and provide the extra push needed for games to be ported. Having Office, etc would likely be a non-starter though, so open document formats would need to much more acceptable.
They may even want to check out the definition of the standard HTTP 420 status code.