You can't say Google didn't make there own bed for stuff like this.
Don't be evil never for even a second meshed with the corporate ethos, and it never will.
it's out of control, and needs regulation.
If anything, Apple put the pressure on verizon and sprint, and paved the way for android.
OP, tim Wu, where are you on this planet where apple exudes so much presence?
the anti apple fanboy sentiment is for honestly, the saddest tools in the toolshed, if your willing to not try a product because you think it's "evil" or "will make you drink the cool-aid" Then your an idiot. Competition is a good thing. Enjoy being stupid.
You do know that Android's don't support on device encryption for exchange support and iOS devices later than the 3g do, right?
It's been like this for over a year.
By the way, your wrong about the other part too.
There's 3 ways to multi task in iOS, only one way is provided by Apple. It's cute (and typical of a fanboy) to mention modders in your android points, then leave out the jailbreak scene. And people who write jailbroken apps, do my friend, have root access. You also act like OS X and iOS don't take linux ports just as easily. Your not the only one with a bash shell.
keep hating for no reason tho. I have all the best parts of your UI, and my UI, and triple the apps. It's nice that comex ported android's flash too...
Statistics are just as bullshit. Usually sliced from a particular set of research data to prove the OP's point.
"Apple just overtook RIM"
Android to take over iOS this xxx"
I'm sure those are both total truths and dirty lies depending on the "data fact" sheet.
Your problem is you hate iOS because Apple makes it, and you love Android because Google makes it. Open open open, you talk like there's no way to get root and ssh access on a iphone. Your next argument is "why should i have to jailbreak" to which i'll ask "did you root your android"
It's also funny how the voice of android can be heard throughout the geek sites of the internet so loud, that i'm sure you think the world is responding when you talk about it. There not. Probably not even listening to there's till 3 times the Apps in the apple appstore, still massive blazing holes and untested ground on android.
You still have oracle basically telling you to take your dev kit and shove it up your ass. Your still missing a ton of useful apps (webex, retrospect, a real vnc client, VLC) and the Rooting scene is laughable when compared to cydia and the entire separate app store for jailbroken devices.
You were never given a chance to tinker with code for iOS? why not just go register as a dev? You can get the entire kit for $99 Cause your bias?
Then you have Google. Who else would you give all your personal information on your smart phone too... an advertiser. Eric Schmidt thinks people are going to have to change there names to get away from there past indiscretions, and steve jobs is eccentric? He's also on record against your own personal privacy. "if you want to hide it, maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
Google needs to google discretion.
Probably the stupidest post i've ever read on/.
Picking a device that less fits your needs because of the company that produces it is shooting yourself in the foot. Very simple. the Android propaganda machine is far far stronger than the reality distortion field.
Funny, i thought by having more app's that did more things (i.e. i can login to webex's, my server's retrospect's backups, you can't) Extended functionality to my device, even though it was from apple.
ohh wait.
it does.
I honestly can't believe this got picked up and i'm ashamed of subby.
I got into it with the blog owner yesterday, over this. Dave, "head of community relations" told me, in a matter of fact kinda way, that some dust, actually pushed through a screen protector on his iphone 4, and scratched the glass back behind.
When i asked him if he was using a pneumatic press to hold the iphone, (possibly to avoid the antenna gate) he said it was from his messenger bag. Me and Sir Isaac Newton called bullshit and he took out the ban stick.
This is a non story put up by two idiots, for this exact reason, for the story to be picked up by slashdot, actually giving them a place among the already terrible tech bloggin community.
"tech journalism" is more payola based than clear channel radio. Anyway, thanks again for making more incompetent fan boys "respected bloggers"
Tango, Skype, loads of web browsers, (all compete with apples apps) The 3 camera app's i have, the weather channel, I even have a DivX file player that side loads.avi files
it was much easier to get skype on an iOS device before yesterday, than a non verizon android phone.
so yeah, you couldn't be more wrong, and your marked +4.
typical
A grudge? He said it was slow, and it didn't read like an op piece to me, much less so than your comments. Are your numbers from a cold start? Sounds like you may be caching everything by relaunching a few times and counting the fastest time.
I was just pointing out how absurd your last post was. You do re-encode video with a A8 processor (cause that would be rather stupid), and how apparently none of the apps you use require xga resolution, which, is crap as well.
There are tons of ipad problems, trust me i know. It's by no means a primary device for me, saying that t1 is a viable alternative to both the ipad and a notebook is utter shite though.
you posts don't negate the facts i'm afraid.
by the way
http://tablet-news.com/tag/sharp-tablet/
is where i got the open office in 30 seconds to launch quote, you should read the review.
really though, keep up the humor in your replies.
if you say your encoding 720p, with a arm processor running at 800 mhz,
darwin will take care of you soon.
they are NOT inexpensive, they do not fit in a pocket. You were reaching with even playing 720p, Kage,
so bascially your 100% full of shit.
I have low power machines, mostly atom's which should be more powerful, running at double the frequency, they can't play 720p running windows or ubuntu.
Have fun making shit up though. And encoding on arm processors.
what a fucking joke, you could build a much better machine to do your encoding for half the price./from someone who just re-encoded 2TB to h264
With Google admitting Froyo is a phone OS, and pretty bad in the tablet area, and there being no 3rd party apps to take advantage of the new screen size, so i don't really see android taking off (at least with 2.2) as the future of tablet computing. Apple's setup did there customers much more service in terms of 3rd party apps for tablets.
Add that to the fact that Apple seems to be the cheapest option (with no contract) And i'm not so sure how this will play out for android.
tablets are only as useful as their appstores are beyond a certain point.
i got a lol out of "superkendall" though. Samsung gets trashed on a regular basis for it's android UI's.
how is this insightful? bad slashdot, bad.
How does being open fit into your equation? If Apple ever had a monopoly in schools? are you kidding? Where did you go to school? When i was growing up they had what I would call a monopoly in the schooling system, it never hurt anyone.
They eventually put new PC's in the school just because of cost decisions. In this case though, every linux and android tablet costs more. More. They have less dev's and have contracts. That's what we want to give our kids, right?
Yeah "harmony" they def should have spent $700 each on android tablets that won't support android market place, where the only apps your going to get with the correct screen resolution are the ones that came from your hardware manufacturer. Clearly that's better.
Really?
your comment makes no sense to me. A pen to get around the fact that your touch based device is using an OS that is not nearly suitable. How many ubunutu apps are made with a 1024 x 600 res in mind?
if you can run 25k apps on that thing, i'm the queen of england.
Idk if you know this, but you can write code, and use terminal on iOS too. (i cannot yet however compile it)
how does vlc handle 720p?
but anyway, seeing as with it's 800mhz arm processor, open office takes about 30+ seconds to launch (http://tablet-news.com/tag/sharp-tablet/) with 512mb of ram on it, i doubt you do much work on it.
you could install flash! (you however couldn't use it)
you think dedicated ipad apps, built from the ground up for that resolution, processor and input type are going to slaughtered by what magic repo? Ubuntu supports this tablets dedicated graphics chips?
so much fail
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They don't have the money.
You can't say Google didn't make there own bed for stuff like this. Don't be evil never for even a second meshed with the corporate ethos, and it never will. it's out of control, and needs regulation.
Sure, the only countries in the world with basically no debt to repay, yeah. there the next greece. idiot.
If anything, Apple put the pressure on verizon and sprint, and paved the way for android. OP, tim Wu, where are you on this planet where apple exudes so much presence? the anti apple fanboy sentiment is for honestly, the saddest tools in the toolshed, if your willing to not try a product because you think it's "evil" or "will make you drink the cool-aid" Then your an idiot. Competition is a good thing. Enjoy being stupid.
Android doesn't run java.
Perfect Example of how the Schmidt Juice is more hardcore than the distortion field but... it's from google...
No, your 100% right. How many +5 informative's have you seen for calling larry ellison an asshole? it's insane.
this thread is proof that /.'s mod system doesn't work.
i like 4 +5's just cause they support the GPL over Oracles supposed rights.
Just stupid
You do know that Android's don't support on device encryption for exchange support and iOS devices later than the 3g do, right? It's been like this for over a year. By the way, your wrong about the other part too. There's 3 ways to multi task in iOS, only one way is provided by Apple. It's cute (and typical of a fanboy) to mention modders in your android points, then leave out the jailbreak scene. And people who write jailbroken apps, do my friend, have root access. You also act like OS X and iOS don't take linux ports just as easily. Your not the only one with a bash shell. keep hating for no reason tho. I have all the best parts of your UI, and my UI, and triple the apps. It's nice that comex ported android's flash too...
Statistics are just as bullshit. Usually sliced from a particular set of research data to prove the OP's point. "Apple just overtook RIM" Android to take over iOS this xxx" I'm sure those are both total truths and dirty lies depending on the "data fact" sheet.
Your problem is you hate iOS because Apple makes it, and you love Android because Google makes it. Open open open, you talk like there's no way to get root and ssh access on a iphone. Your next argument is "why should i have to jailbreak" to which i'll ask "did you root your android" It's also funny how the voice of android can be heard throughout the geek sites of the internet so loud, that i'm sure you think the world is responding when you talk about it. There not. Probably not even listening to there's till 3 times the Apps in the apple appstore, still massive blazing holes and untested ground on android. You still have oracle basically telling you to take your dev kit and shove it up your ass. Your still missing a ton of useful apps (webex, retrospect, a real vnc client, VLC) and the Rooting scene is laughable when compared to cydia and the entire separate app store for jailbroken devices. You were never given a chance to tinker with code for iOS? why not just go register as a dev? You can get the entire kit for $99 Cause your bias? Then you have Google. Who else would you give all your personal information on your smart phone too... an advertiser. Eric Schmidt thinks people are going to have to change there names to get away from there past indiscretions, and steve jobs is eccentric? He's also on record against your own personal privacy. "if you want to hide it, maybe you shouldn't be doing it" Google needs to google discretion.
Probably the stupidest post i've ever read on /.
Picking a device that less fits your needs because of the company that produces it is shooting yourself in the foot. Very simple. the Android propaganda machine is far far stronger than the reality distortion field.
Actually, studies have shown android fanboys get laid the least. Sorry buddy.
Memory stick? UMD? yeah, that was universal. sony loves proprietary, which despite what you may think, is not a naughty word.
Funny, i thought by having more app's that did more things (i.e. i can login to webex's, my server's retrospect's backups, you can't) Extended functionality to my device, even though it was from apple. ohh wait. it does.
I honestly can't believe this got picked up and i'm ashamed of subby. I got into it with the blog owner yesterday, over this. Dave, "head of community relations" told me, in a matter of fact kinda way, that some dust, actually pushed through a screen protector on his iphone 4, and scratched the glass back behind. When i asked him if he was using a pneumatic press to hold the iphone, (possibly to avoid the antenna gate) he said it was from his messenger bag. Me and Sir Isaac Newton called bullshit and he took out the ban stick. This is a non story put up by two idiots, for this exact reason, for the story to be picked up by slashdot, actually giving them a place among the already terrible tech bloggin community. "tech journalism" is more payola based than clear channel radio. Anyway, thanks again for making more incompetent fan boys "respected bloggers"
Tango, Skype, loads of web browsers, (all compete with apples apps) The 3 camera app's i have, the weather channel, I even have a DivX file player that side loads .avi files
it was much easier to get skype on an iOS device before yesterday, than a non verizon android phone.
so yeah, you couldn't be more wrong, and your marked +4.
typical
sorry meant to say, you don't re-encode video on a A8, cause you know, that would actually be retarded.
A grudge? He said it was slow, and it didn't read like an op piece to me, much less so than your comments. Are your numbers from a cold start? Sounds like you may be caching everything by relaunching a few times and counting the fastest time. I was just pointing out how absurd your last post was. You do re-encode video with a A8 processor (cause that would be rather stupid), and how apparently none of the apps you use require xga resolution, which, is crap as well. There are tons of ipad problems, trust me i know. It's by no means a primary device for me, saying that t1 is a viable alternative to both the ipad and a notebook is utter shite though. you posts don't negate the facts i'm afraid.
by the way http://tablet-news.com/tag/sharp-tablet/ is where i got the open office in 30 seconds to launch quote, you should read the review. really though, keep up the humor in your replies.
if you say your encoding 720p, with a arm processor running at 800 mhz, darwin will take care of you soon. they are NOT inexpensive, they do not fit in a pocket. You were reaching with even playing 720p, Kage, so bascially your 100% full of shit. I have low power machines, mostly atom's which should be more powerful, running at double the frequency, they can't play 720p running windows or ubuntu. Have fun making shit up though. And encoding on arm processors. what a fucking joke, you could build a much better machine to do your encoding for half the price. /from someone who just re-encoded 2TB to h264
With Google admitting Froyo is a phone OS, and pretty bad in the tablet area, and there being no 3rd party apps to take advantage of the new screen size, so i don't really see android taking off (at least with 2.2) as the future of tablet computing. Apple's setup did there customers much more service in terms of 3rd party apps for tablets. Add that to the fact that Apple seems to be the cheapest option (with no contract) And i'm not so sure how this will play out for android. tablets are only as useful as their appstores are beyond a certain point. i got a lol out of "superkendall" though. Samsung gets trashed on a regular basis for it's android UI's.
how is this insightful? bad slashdot, bad. How does being open fit into your equation? If Apple ever had a monopoly in schools? are you kidding? Where did you go to school? When i was growing up they had what I would call a monopoly in the schooling system, it never hurt anyone. They eventually put new PC's in the school just because of cost decisions. In this case though, every linux and android tablet costs more. More. They have less dev's and have contracts. That's what we want to give our kids, right? Yeah "harmony" they def should have spent $700 each on android tablets that won't support android market place, where the only apps your going to get with the correct screen resolution are the ones that came from your hardware manufacturer. Clearly that's better.
Really? your comment makes no sense to me. A pen to get around the fact that your touch based device is using an OS that is not nearly suitable. How many ubunutu apps are made with a 1024 x 600 res in mind? if you can run 25k apps on that thing, i'm the queen of england. Idk if you know this, but you can write code, and use terminal on iOS too. (i cannot yet however compile it) how does vlc handle 720p? but anyway, seeing as with it's 800mhz arm processor, open office takes about 30+ seconds to launch (http://tablet-news.com/tag/sharp-tablet/) with 512mb of ram on it, i doubt you do much work on it. you could install flash! (you however couldn't use it) you think dedicated ipad apps, built from the ground up for that resolution, processor and input type are going to slaughtered by what magic repo? Ubuntu supports this tablets dedicated graphics chips? so much fail
the benefit is that it doesn't have an apple logo basically, ohh, and there's no software support for it. duh.
Carriers for the 3g features on the devices. I haven't seen ONE without a 2 year contract with a carrier. (well one, but made by apple)