Time to check which boogie man foreign power is currently in the news the most, assign blame for the hack to them and then continue on without changing anything.
Region locking seems to leave netflix America with a dearth of its own content in my experience. Companies have a big American machine designed to wring the money out of this market so they won't throw their stuff up on another company's setup because they don't want it to compete with their offerings. But if its a market they aren't already established in they'll just grab that low hanging fruit licensing to Netflix there.
Which explains why the majority of the best content on netflix in the USA seems to be from the UK and Australia.
I was under the impression that Firefox was what broke peak IE. It certainly coincides with your timeline. Its popular to hate on Firefox these days but I recall it being the hot new thing for a good long time. Chrome and iPhone/Safari probably accelerated the trend away from IE but they didn't start the trend since they didn't exist when the trend started.
I don't really blame the developers. The market is what it is. I personally opt to have nothing to do with it in that form, but it seems like I'm the minority.
I run hundreds of tabs in firefox and it runs fine. Things really only take a dump if I load tons of videos at the same time. But that is inane so I don't expect that to work well.
But I don't see most of the problems described either. My tabs aren't all auto loaded when I start up firefox, they only refresh if I tell them too and they only load up at all if I return to them. I do shutdown my machine each day though, so its not like they're all loaded. There's no delay when I create a new tab view, its basically instant. Switching between loaded tabs, also instant.
I'm not sure why compared Chrome, Chrome clone Opera and Safari and announced after basically two browsers that they're all bad.
My opinion is the things that make the browser seem slow are mostly in the web pages themselves. While add-ons add some bloat, by scrapping much of the nasty trash out of a page they speed things way back up resulting in a serious net gain.
Expandability, upgradability, ease of repair, price, performance, legacy device support.
Basically, its better at literally everything except portability. Maybe portability is a huge item for you but its not so for everyone.
Personally I think the worst monsters made are the "All in one" PCs. They remove all the things that are still nice about a desktop and aren't even portable like a laptop. They're abominations.
Camacho was a charismatic and dynamic leader who was wise and humble enough to seek a domain expert's assistance in solving a problem he was himself incapable of solving. He did demand results on a somewhat unreasonable time line however.
Well, they were going to give the actual stats but when they fired up their Surface to show the spreadsheet with all the statistics there were a bunch of pending Windows 10 updates that needed to be installed. So you'll just have to trust them that its way better and that the presentation would have been dope, and will be dope for real in a 3-4 hours or whatever.
Windows phone was more like the Zune strategy repeated 3 times in rapid succession failing harder each time.
Its perplexing to me that Microsoft fought it out so hard with the xbox and then did nothing more than half heart fight in phones. Consoles don't really do much for Microsoft's other businesses IMO, and I'd actually argue their success hurts Windows in some direct ways by weakening the need for a Windows gaming PC for some people. I don't really see what Microsoft at large really wins with the xbox.
Throwing their all at phones makes sense. Throwing their all at web browsers make sense. But they seem to half ass both efforts and then act surprised they fail each time.
I actually felt the games initial levels had some clever scares and settings, but by the time you got the "Even More Delta Labs 97" it was clear the level designers had lost interest in the same way as the player had and they were just looking to get this over with. I feel like the overall experience would have been improved if a lot of those levels were edited out. Obviously there were some unique levels at the end but that huge slog in the middle did them no favors.
Intel just dumped 10 billion dollars into a sink hole trying to run ARM out of town only to end up running back home with their tail between their legs. AMD might have again have a competitive product on the desktop next year but they've been in poor shape for a long time. I can't imagine AMD management wanting to sign up to repeat Intel's expensive failures. Maybe if Microsoft offered a deal where they took all the risk/cost off their hands this might sign on. But Microsoft doesn't seem like they want to actually stick their neck out there and do the hard work to fight it out in mobile so I doubt they would offer that. They just want to show up and win because for some reason they think people actually want Windows on their phone.
Many people say its the lack of apps. I think that was their own fault for dumping and rebooting the platform a million times thinking they just had to get that sauce perfect and and the world would love them. They've been drinking to much of their own koolaid.
I think the lack of apps is simply what finally put them out of their misery though. I'm not convinced any significant amount of people actually wanted Windows on their phone in the first place.
Man, you guys. I just install the FlashControl (don't let the name fool you, it works on HTML5 as well) add-on and then temporarily disable it in the rare, rare case click to play doesn't cooperate and I really want to see that element.
Everyone complains about this but its been a solved problem for years on firefox at least.
Those tape adapters work better than the utter trash FM transmitters that you can barely heard and sound like crap. I installed an aftermarket stereo in my car because there's no way to get a 3.5mm input jack on the car without doing so. While I was at it I got with MP3 CD and USB so it became a moot point. If I had a tape deck in there instead of a CD player I would have just deployed the 1990s tech solution because it would have been easier than removing my whole dash.
It remains to be seen if the surface phone is anything more than the product of a few people's imagination. My opinion is that Windows on phones is dead. Whether Microsoft will admit this or not is probably not relevant in the end. Intel flinched and stopped dumping Atoms into the market at less than cost. They've given up, which puts Microsoft in a worse position now. And they already looked pretty hopeless.
Games for Windows Live! Games for Windows Live again Was there a third one? Nevermind, no one cares. Silverlight Xbox Media Center (had a better run than some of them, but they got bored all the same) I'm sure there's plenty of others, those are just the ones that spring to mind. A lot of these things seem more like they were weak gambits to hamstring a competitor than actual products MS wanted to sell.
If a Microsoft product doesn't take off pretty quickly, they'll abandon it and leave you holding the bag. They have shown repeatedly in recent years that they don't have the patience required to fight it out in a market that has competitors. The logical response to any new Microsoft initiative is to ignore it until you can't, because its only at that point you can begin to believe that they'll continue to support it.
Microsoft seems to be oblivious to this effect they're causing. They say they want apps for their latest Windows phone whatever its called. But they keep resetting because their late to the party also ran didn't immediately steal a huge chunk of marketshare from two established mega corporation backed platforms and they're convinced they just need to start again to win. How many times do you think you can burn the people that actually want to develop for your platform before they stop trying?
Paypal, the assholes, only allow 20 characters max. Apparently they were running out of bits and have to save money somewhere. Anyway, that's not the aggravating part. The aggravating part is when you enter the password, it just truncates to 20 without telling you. Then you go to log in with the password you just set and find it doesn't work. It doesn't work because you've entered to many characters, but it lets you enter them when setting the password...it just throws the extras away and performs the set! But when you go to log in, it DOESN'T throw the extra away and fails the login.
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Right, it'll say "Something happened" with a frown emoji. The message will still be crystal clear even to dogs.
Time to check which boogie man foreign power is currently in the news the most, assign blame for the hack to them and then continue on without changing anything.
Region locking seems to leave netflix America with a dearth of its own content in my experience. Companies have a big American machine designed to wring the money out of this market so they won't throw their stuff up on another company's setup because they don't want it to compete with their offerings. But if its a market they aren't already established in they'll just grab that low hanging fruit licensing to Netflix there.
Which explains why the majority of the best content on netflix in the USA seems to be from the UK and Australia.
I was under the impression that Firefox was what broke peak IE. It certainly coincides with your timeline. Its popular to hate on Firefox these days but I recall it being the hot new thing for a good long time. Chrome and iPhone/Safari probably accelerated the trend away from IE but they didn't start the trend since they didn't exist when the trend started.
I don't really blame the developers. The market is what it is. I personally opt to have nothing to do with it in that form, but it seems like I'm the minority.
I use the tree style tabs add on. Things just naturally end up grouped by subject and I collapse subjects I'm not currently working on.
I run hundreds of tabs in firefox and it runs fine. Things really only take a dump if I load tons of videos at the same time. But that is inane so I don't expect that to work well.
But I don't see most of the problems described either. My tabs aren't all auto loaded when I start up firefox, they only refresh if I tell them too and they only load up at all if I return to them. I do shutdown my machine each day though, so its not like they're all loaded. There's no delay when I create a new tab view, its basically instant. Switching between loaded tabs, also instant.
I'm not sure why compared Chrome, Chrome clone Opera and Safari and announced after basically two browsers that they're all bad.
My opinion is the things that make the browser seem slow are mostly in the web pages themselves. While add-ons add some bloat, by scrapping much of the nasty trash out of a page they speed things way back up resulting in a serious net gain.
Is it to late for me to file suit against the creators of all those geocities home pages I viewed back in the day?
Expandability, upgradability, ease of repair, price, performance, legacy device support.
Basically, its better at literally everything except portability. Maybe portability is a huge item for you but its not so for everyone.
Personally I think the worst monsters made are the "All in one" PCs. They remove all the things that are still nice about a desktop and aren't even portable like a laptop. They're abominations.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -Mencken
Camacho was a charismatic and dynamic leader who was wise and humble enough to seek a domain expert's assistance in solving a problem he was himself incapable of solving. He did demand results on a somewhat unreasonable time line however.
Apple cannot even afford to put audio jacks in their phones anymore and these now these eurotrash bullies expect them to pay their taxes too!
Well, they were going to give the actual stats but when they fired up their Surface to show the spreadsheet with all the statistics there were a bunch of pending Windows 10 updates that needed to be installed. So you'll just have to trust them that its way better and that the presentation would have been dope, and will be dope for real in a 3-4 hours or whatever.
Windows phone was more like the Zune strategy repeated 3 times in rapid succession failing harder each time.
Its perplexing to me that Microsoft fought it out so hard with the xbox and then did nothing more than half heart fight in phones. Consoles don't really do much for Microsoft's other businesses IMO, and I'd actually argue their success hurts Windows in some direct ways by weakening the need for a Windows gaming PC for some people. I don't really see what Microsoft at large really wins with the xbox.
Throwing their all at phones makes sense. Throwing their all at web browsers make sense. But they seem to half ass both efforts and then act surprised they fail each time.
It is a pisa something that's for sure.
I actually felt the games initial levels had some clever scares and settings, but by the time you got the "Even More Delta Labs 97" it was clear the level designers had lost interest in the same way as the player had and they were just looking to get this over with. I feel like the overall experience would have been improved if a lot of those levels were edited out. Obviously there were some unique levels at the end but that huge slog in the middle did them no favors.
Intel just dumped 10 billion dollars into a sink hole trying to run ARM out of town only to end up running back home with their tail between their legs. AMD might have again have a competitive product on the desktop next year but they've been in poor shape for a long time. I can't imagine AMD management wanting to sign up to repeat Intel's expensive failures. Maybe if Microsoft offered a deal where they took all the risk/cost off their hands this might sign on. But Microsoft doesn't seem like they want to actually stick their neck out there and do the hard work to fight it out in mobile so I doubt they would offer that. They just want to show up and win because for some reason they think people actually want Windows on their phone.
Many people say its the lack of apps. I think that was their own fault for dumping and rebooting the platform a million times thinking they just had to get that sauce perfect and and the world would love them. They've been drinking to much of their own koolaid.
I think the lack of apps is simply what finally put them out of their misery though. I'm not convinced any significant amount of people actually wanted Windows on their phone in the first place.
"OMG where the hell would I go snorkeling then?"
Well, there's this new VR thing that has an ocean level I heard about somewhere.
Man, you guys. I just install the FlashControl (don't let the name fool you, it works on HTML5 as well) add-on and then temporarily disable it in the rare, rare case click to play doesn't cooperate and I really want to see that element.
Everyone complains about this but its been a solved problem for years on firefox at least.
Sorry, I meant Windows Media Center
Those tape adapters work better than the utter trash FM transmitters that you can barely heard and sound like crap. I installed an aftermarket stereo in my car because there's no way to get a 3.5mm input jack on the car without doing so. While I was at it I got with MP3 CD and USB so it became a moot point. If I had a tape deck in there instead of a CD player I would have just deployed the 1990s tech solution because it would have been easier than removing my whole dash.
It remains to be seen if the surface phone is anything more than the product of a few people's imagination. My opinion is that Windows on phones is dead. Whether Microsoft will admit this or not is probably not relevant in the end. Intel flinched and stopped dumping Atoms into the market at less than cost. They've given up, which puts Microsoft in a worse position now. And they already looked pretty hopeless.
Its not just hardware.
Games for Windows Live!
Games for Windows Live again
Was there a third one? Nevermind, no one cares.
Silverlight
Xbox Media Center (had a better run than some of them, but they got bored all the same)
I'm sure there's plenty of others, those are just the ones that spring to mind.
A lot of these things seem more like they were weak gambits to hamstring a competitor than actual products MS wanted to sell.
If a Microsoft product doesn't take off pretty quickly, they'll abandon it and leave you holding the bag. They have shown repeatedly in recent years that they don't have the patience required to fight it out in a market that has competitors. The logical response to any new Microsoft initiative is to ignore it until you can't, because its only at that point you can begin to believe that they'll continue to support it.
Microsoft seems to be oblivious to this effect they're causing. They say they want apps for their latest Windows phone whatever its called. But they keep resetting because their late to the party also ran didn't immediately steal a huge chunk of marketshare from two established mega corporation backed platforms and they're convinced they just need to start again to win. How many times do you think you can burn the people that actually want to develop for your platform before they stop trying?
Paypal, the assholes, only allow 20 characters max. Apparently they were running out of bits and have to save money somewhere. Anyway, that's not the aggravating part. The aggravating part is when you enter the password, it just truncates to 20 without telling you. Then you go to log in with the password you just set and find it doesn't work. It doesn't work because you've entered to many characters, but it lets you enter them when setting the password...it just throws the extras away and performs the set! But when you go to log in, it DOESN'T throw the extra away and fails the login.