The lag was always obvious all the way up until ICS, where they introduced proper hardware acceleration for the UI (i.e. actually using triangles to render UI elements), however it was still not quite as good as it was on other platforms, they addressed this on Jelly Bean and the difference is pretty obvious to anyone who's used the same device on both versions.
The OP is simply yet another MS shill trying to spread the usual FUD.
Speaking from personal experience I own an Ipad 2 and a Nexus 4, the UI in the iPad 2 is smooth as silk as usual, the UI in the Nexus 4 is even better in terms of speed and responsiveness. Switching between applications is seamless and the UI will not drop a single frame.
The user experience in Android was lacking until Matias Duarte took over the UI, in modern phones it's as good if not better than anything on the market, period.
No, this was quite a lottle bit evil. As were all the various anticompetitive practices they've been into recently. Many of those have even been directly trying to bring down open source competition, like deliberately polluting OpenStreetMap's data.
They're just so evil, I mean can you imagine how much better things would be if that stupid Android hadn't showed up?, we'd all be using phones made by Apple or running Windows, now those are companies you want to support, who on earth would want an Open Source OS to be relevant in a consumer market for once, that's preposterous.
And the OpenStreetMap data, it's so clear that this goes to the highest levels of the company.... oh wait.
What does it bring new to developers that isn't there in Android?
Real openness?
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health?
All right, fair enough, but appart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health; what have the Romans ever done for us?
What does it bring new to developers that isn't there in Android?
Real openness?
The AOSP is perfectly open, you're more than welcome to grab the source and do with it as you please, like Amazon did. The license doesn't require you to publish the full source code but it doesn't prevent you from doing so either.
This allows Android distributions like Replicant to exist.
Currently 4 OSs dominate the smartphone market, Android, Blackberry OS, iOS and Windows Phone. You'd think people would show a little apreciation for the fact that the dominant OS is the only Open OS out of the bunch.
An article showed up yesterday talking about Google's plans for Docs on the enterprise and I guess someone got upset because that's 2 articles so far today of complete non news praising the wonders of MS Office.
It does if you can't give it its intended use because the app you need is not being approved.
Furthermore, should Microsoft ever manage to turn Metro/Windows Store into a dominant platform, it could use its leverage to (for example) keep Open Source software out its app store.
Do you mean you want to turn the whole tech industry into SCO like IP zombies? are you insane? What we need patent and copyright reform, not a dark age.
Right now, there are people salivating at the concept of a free for all patent system, because they think a business model based exclusively on patent licensing is both lucrative and sustainable. At the same time there is a complete lack of action from lawmakers because right now the tech industry is thriving. It's not going to be until it costs more to license a patent than it does to make something out of it that people will come to their senses.
You mean the company that single handedly set the web back at least five years and has been criminally convicted for anti competitive behavior and the company that is being run into the ground by the 8th largest shareholder of the previously mentioned company?
The Laptop Hunters campaign is almost 4 years old, and completely irrelevant in this day and age when we're talking about perception of value, it costs just over $300 to buy into Apple's ecosystem and even less to buy into Google's..
I find it interesting that this tidbit was glossed over.
However, the scene wasn’t so rosy for Microsoft at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, where analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray and team observed and tabulated traffic and sales at Microsoft and Apple stores. Microsoft saw 47 percent less foot traffic than the Apple Store did, and far fewer sales — 3.5 items per hour, compared with 17.2 items per hour at the Apple Store, as reported by Fortune’s Philip Elmer-Dewitt.
Most of the items purchased from the Microsoft Store were Xbox 360 games. During the two hours that the Piper Jaffray team observed the Microsoft Store, they didn’t see any Microsoft Surface tablets being purchased.
Takes 3 clicks on Chrome:
1 - Right click on the DuckDuckGo search bar
2 - Click "use as search engine"
3 - Click ok
You're also asked to choose a search engine when you install it.
You're confusing 'no walls' with 'walls with a gate'. Android is most certainly walled on anything that matters, the wall just has a gate. Ubuntu for all intents and purposes isn't worth talking about as no one cares enough to run it at this point in time.
You're hiding behind semantics, Android users can install apps on their own. Windows Phone and iOS users have to go through the App Store.
If the checkbox bothers you there are builds that don't have it, that's the beauty of Open Source.
As far as Ubuntu goes, it's a very popular distribution with developers.
I really like how the Republicans always want to let "the market" take care of things, then it fails and we have to bail banks out with public money. A system based purely on greed and search for profit is as unsustainable as a pure communist doctrine.
They keep drawing more press coverage to it. The sheer stupidity of their decision making is baffling, had they done it properly this would have been out of the news a week ago.
We're calculating lost downloads, now? And I thought lost sales due to piracy was a stupid metric...
It's not when they go down 63% when the glitch occurs and come back to normal the day it's been fixed. This is not about counting every user who pirates something as potential buyer, this is more like seeing your sales go down when a crack comes out and then go back up when the crack no longer works.
Samsung shipped a lot of S3s to retailers but they aren't actually saying how many of them sold. I have only seen three in the wild, approximately one for every seven hundred iPhones I have seen.
Ah yes, the old shipped but not sold bullshit, here:
Profits on Android phones can be measured in the $5-10 per unit range, not the $150-350 *PROFIT* per device that the iPhone has.
Who cares what the monthly sales figures of Android are? You could fling them out the cargo door of a C-130 over Somalia and it'd be no less profitable for the phone manufacturers.
You know it really cracks me up when people say shit like this, "people buy Android phones because they're cheap" and then you bring up devices like the Galaxy S3 which is sold at the same price as the iPhone and was outselling it for most of the year and they go red in the face and say "IT'S MADE BY SAMSUNG IT DOESN'T COUNT".
No why the fuck are Samsung's WP7 devices not selling at all?
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The brand alone?, yes.
The lag was always obvious all the way up until ICS, where they introduced proper hardware acceleration for the UI (i.e. actually using triangles to render UI elements), however it was still not quite as good as it was on other platforms, they addressed this on Jelly Bean and the difference is pretty obvious to anyone who's used the same device on both versions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5E5revikUU
The OP is simply yet another MS shill trying to spread the usual FUD.
Speaking from personal experience I own an Ipad 2 and a Nexus 4, the UI in the iPad 2 is smooth as silk as usual, the UI in the Nexus 4 is even better in terms of speed and responsiveness. Switching between applications is seamless and the UI will not drop a single frame.
The user experience in Android was lacking until Matias Duarte took over the UI, in modern phones it's as good if not better than anything on the market, period.
Here's another http://replicant.us/
To the "tablets are a fad" crowd?
They were a lot louder 2 years ago.
No, this was quite a lottle bit evil. As were all the various anticompetitive practices they've been into recently. Many of those have even been directly trying to bring down open source competition, like deliberately polluting OpenStreetMap's data.
They're just so evil, I mean can you imagine how much better things would be if that stupid Android hadn't showed up?, we'd all be using phones made by Apple or running Windows, now those are companies you want to support, who on earth would want an Open Source OS to be relevant in a consumer market for once, that's preposterous.
And the OpenStreetMap data, it's so clear that this goes to the highest levels of the company.... oh wait.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/17/2714044/google-contractors-sacked-vandalism-openstreetmap
Sometimes it pays off to have some fucking perspective, here's an obnoxious smiley face right back atcha *:)*
What does it bring new to developers that isn't there in Android?
Real openness?
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health?
All right, fair enough, but appart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health; what have the Romans ever done for us?
What does it bring new to developers that isn't there in Android?
Real openness?
The AOSP is perfectly open, you're more than welcome to grab the source and do with it as you please, like Amazon did. The license doesn't require you to publish the full source code but it doesn't prevent you from doing so either.
This allows Android distributions like Replicant to exist. Currently 4 OSs dominate the smartphone market, Android, Blackberry OS, iOS and Windows Phone. You'd think people would show a little apreciation for the fact that the dominant OS is the only Open OS out of the bunch.
Instead they come here and spew bile.
An article showed up yesterday talking about Google's plans for Docs on the enterprise and I guess someone got upset because that's 2 articles so far today of complete non news praising the wonders of MS Office.
No, you need to be a developer. With Metro, it's Microsoft's way or the highway.
It does if you can't give it its intended use because the app you need is not being approved.
Furthermore, should Microsoft ever manage to turn Metro/Windows Store into a dominant platform, it could use its leverage to (for example) keep Open Source software out its app store.
Do you mean you want to turn the whole tech industry into SCO like IP zombies? are you insane? What we need patent and copyright reform, not a dark age.
Right now, there are people salivating at the concept of a free for all patent system, because they think a business model based exclusively on patent licensing is both lucrative and sustainable. At the same time there is a complete lack of action from lawmakers because right now the tech industry is thriving. It's not going to be until it costs more to license a patent than it does to make something out of it that people will come to their senses.
I honestly hope the patent wars continue to escalate until the only people making any money in the tech industry are the lawyers.
I hope things get so bad that when all is said and done, patent-mania makes tulip-mania look like a small price fluctuation.
It'd be the death of porn as we know it :(
Seen how much money Microsoft is making out of Android?
More than they make from Windows Phone.
This is SLASHDOT. We are BIAS.
You mean the company that single handedly set the web back at least five years and has been criminally convicted for anti competitive behavior and the company that is being run into the ground by the 8th largest shareholder of the previously mentioned company?
Gee, I wonder why anyone would hate them.
I find it interesting that this tidbit was glossed over.
However, the scene wasn’t so rosy for Microsoft at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, where analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray and team observed and tabulated traffic and sales at Microsoft and Apple stores. Microsoft saw 47 percent less foot traffic than the Apple Store did, and far fewer sales — 3.5 items per hour, compared with 17.2 items per hour at the Apple Store, as reported by Fortune’s Philip Elmer-Dewitt. Most of the items purchased from the Microsoft Store were Xbox 360 games. During the two hours that the Piper Jaffray team observed the Microsoft Store, they didn’t see any Microsoft Surface tablets being purchased.
Takes 3 clicks on Chrome: 1 - Right click on the DuckDuckGo search bar 2 - Click "use as search engine" 3 - Click ok You're also asked to choose a search engine when you install it.
You're confusing 'no walls' with 'walls with a gate'. Android is most certainly walled on anything that matters, the wall just has a gate. Ubuntu for all intents and purposes isn't worth talking about as no one cares enough to run it at this point in time.
You're hiding behind semantics, Android users can install apps on their own. Windows Phone and iOS users have to go through the App Store. If the checkbox bothers you there are builds that don't have it, that's the beauty of Open Source. As far as Ubuntu goes, it's a very popular distribution with developers.
I really like how the Republicans always want to let "the market" take care of things, then it fails and we have to bail banks out with public money. A system based purely on greed and search for profit is as unsustainable as a pure communist doctrine.
You keep chasing that carrot though.
They keep drawing more press coverage to it. The sheer stupidity of their decision making is baffling, had they done it properly this would have been out of the news a week ago.
We're calculating lost downloads, now? And I thought lost sales due to piracy was a stupid metric...
It's not when they go down 63% when the glitch occurs and come back to normal the day it's been fixed. This is not about counting every user who pirates something as potential buyer, this is more like seeing your sales go down when a crack comes out and then go back up when the crack no longer works.
Google worked around it by using a tilt effect.
Samsung shipped a lot of S3s to retailers but they aren't actually saying how many of them sold. I have only seen three in the wild, approximately one for every seven hundred iPhones I have seen.
Ah yes, the old shipped but not sold bullshit, here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2203312/samsung-brags-that-it-has-sold-20-million-galaxy-s3-handsets
Also, their sales are increasing, not decreasing:
http://www.itproportal.com/2012/10/04/iphone-5-launch-and-apple-patent-trial-boosted-galaxy-s3-sales/
Profits on Android phones can be measured in the $5-10 per unit range, not the $150-350 *PROFIT* per device that the iPhone has.
Who cares what the monthly sales figures of Android are? You could fling them out the cargo door of a C-130 over Somalia and it'd be no less profitable for the phone manufacturers.
You know it really cracks me up when people say shit like this, "people buy Android phones because they're cheap" and then you bring up devices like the Galaxy S3 which is sold at the same price as the iPhone and was outselling it for most of the year and they go red in the face and say "IT'S MADE BY SAMSUNG IT DOESN'T COUNT".
No why the fuck are Samsung's WP7 devices not selling at all?