often rightly, and also often without questioning the policies that contribute to it often being cheaper and easier to employ people thousands of miles away in other countries/quote
By "cheaper" and "easier", you mean not having to treat employees like people, and not having to care about the environment?
It is NOT the consumers fault. Especially because 1). The Nexus Line was never available on all carriers until recently, and 2). Buying a Nexus device does NOT guarantee timely updates. See the Nexus S 4G on Sprint.
Windows 8 ARM tablets, maybe. They can't run legacy Windows software, so like the other devices (Android, iOS), software has to be built from the ground up for it, meaning that developers should actually treat touch as a first class citizen.
Windows 8 x86 tablets, probably not. They'll be about as popular as previous gen Windows tablets, which is to say, not very.
No, I'm not saying that only American developers are top tier. There are top tier people overseas too. However, your entitlement complex leads you to believe you don't have to pay them market rates, simply because they're in another country. Thus, you believe you are entitled to top tier talent without actually spending the money on it. This makes you no different than someone who says they are entitled to a top tier wage. In fact, it makes you even worse because you are also decrying those people, while refusing to pay market wages yourself.
No, I didn't miss the point. You believe you are entitled to top tier talent, but because you don't have money, that somehow entitles you to not actually pay market rates for it. Thus, making you an entitled prick.
No, you're acting entitled. You believe that you are entitled to high quality labor for the shit wages you're offering.
I don't give a shit about your excuses of 'not having money'. I don't have money, but I really want a Ferrari. Does that mean I'm entitled to one, even though I can't pay for it? If not, then why are you entitled to top tier talent without paying for it?
The Samsung Windows 7 tablet comes with a Core i5 CPU. That's plenty of horsepower for the kinds of things people do on tablets and still nobody is buying them. For a business user, it should be a no-brainer to pick one of these over the iPad, but that isn't happening.
No it's not. Why would I pick one of those over any other laptop on the market? What does that tablet get me over a regular laptop? Further, what Windows applications are designed with touch as a first-class input option?
Windows 7 tablets are NOT meant for use with a finger. Windows 7 and, more importantly, just about every application that runs on it, were designed for use by a keyboard and mouse. Trying to shoehorn that experience onto a device that doesn't have a keyboard and mouse results in a flat out shitty, shitty, shitty experience.
Saying that you can put a keyboard on it doesn't change anything, as at that point, now you loose the portability of the tablet, and end up with just an underpowered laptop.
How many Asus Transformers were available at launch time? It doesn't really count as "not being able to keep them in stock" if each store only got a handful.
As long as the OS you're targeting has hooks for inserting keyboard/mouse/touch events, you can. I've done a similar thing using an iPhone as a trackpad/keyboard shortcut thingy for a Mac, by hooking into the Assistive Devices API. I know Windows has something similar.
The key phrase is "tablet-optimized". As in, the UI/UX is designed to take advantage of the additional capabilities of a tablet, rather than just looking like a larger phone app. Even for many of the apps you can find on both Android and iOS, this is true. The iOS app will take advantage of the tablet to present additional information in a way that makes sense, whereas the Android version will look exactly the same as the phone version. If that's the case, then why do I have an Android tablet?
Except it falls extremely short of the iPad in one very important department: Software. Most Android developers are not interested in optimizing their apps for tablet use. So you end up using the exact same applications on your tablet that you would on your phone, just slightly bigger, rather than actually taking advantage of the additional screen real estate you have.
The vast majority of devices have not been upgraded to ICS. Most people only get 1 update, if that. Anything that didn't come with GB, it is highly unlikely that it will get ICS.
Google does not control when phones are moved from GB to ICS.
So? It doesn't really matter who's fault it is. At the end of the day, the iPhone still receives updates for up to 3 years. Most Android devices are lucky to get one update.
Not going to work because you have a headache or a cold (In Switzerland, that's not good enough - you're expected to go to work and take a pill if you really need it).
Because I totally want the guy at 7-11 who's handing me my taquitos to have to do this.
Oh wait, they already do.
Expecting people with the flu to stay home, stand far from them on the bus/subway, refuse shaking their hand... In Switzerland people don't care as much about avoiding germs. I definitely felt a stronger concern about avoiding germs when I moved to North America
A good amount of this is from people knowing that if they do get sick, they don't have any paid time off, and thus are either going to have to be completely miserable on top of working their shitty job, or be completely miserable while they get better and be miserable after because they don't have paid sick leave, and will just have lost a few days worth of pay, which is a big deal.
On the upside, people in Switzerland go to school or work if they have a cold or just a headache.
So do most people in the US. Especially ones who shouldn't when they have a cold: food service employees. The lack of paid sick time is a direct cause of this.
I agree that it's in both party's interest to not fuck the other over. However, that kind of long-term thinking seems to have no place in business anymore.
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often rightly, and also often without questioning the policies that contribute to it often being cheaper and easier to employ people thousands of miles away in other countries/quote
By "cheaper" and "easier", you mean not having to treat employees like people, and not having to care about the environment?
So it's not worth talking about touch, which is the main way that someone would interact with this device.
Tell me, what is the point of buying those devices over something like the MacBook Air and just putting Windows on it?
It is NOT the consumers fault. Especially because 1). The Nexus Line was never available on all carriers until recently, and 2). Buying a Nexus device does NOT guarantee timely updates. See the Nexus S 4G on Sprint.
Windows 8 ARM tablets, maybe. They can't run legacy Windows software, so like the other devices (Android, iOS), software has to be built from the ground up for it, meaning that developers should actually treat touch as a first class citizen.
Windows 8 x86 tablets, probably not. They'll be about as popular as previous gen Windows tablets, which is to say, not very.
Excellent. The mouse is my finger, and I don't have to carry around an extra device, or worry about batteries.
No, I'm not saying that only American developers are top tier. There are top tier people overseas too. However, your entitlement complex leads you to believe you don't have to pay them market rates, simply because they're in another country. Thus, you believe you are entitled to top tier talent without actually spending the money on it. This makes you no different than someone who says they are entitled to a top tier wage. In fact, it makes you even worse because you are also decrying those people, while refusing to pay market wages yourself.
No, I didn't miss the point. You believe you are entitled to top tier talent, but because you don't have money, that somehow entitles you to not actually pay market rates for it. Thus, making you an entitled prick.
No, you're acting entitled. You believe that you are entitled to high quality labor for the shit wages you're offering.
I don't give a shit about your excuses of 'not having money'. I don't have money, but I really want a Ferrari. Does that mean I'm entitled to one, even though I can't pay for it? If not, then why are you entitled to top tier talent without paying for it?
Custom roms are cool, but I wouldn't count them as actual support.
The Samsung Windows 7 tablet comes with a Core i5 CPU. That's plenty of horsepower for the kinds of things people do on tablets and still nobody is buying them. For a business user, it should be a no-brainer to pick one of these over the iPad, but that isn't happening.
No it's not. Why would I pick one of those over any other laptop on the market? What does that tablet get me over a regular laptop? Further, what Windows applications are designed with touch as a first-class input option?
Windows 7 tablets are NOT meant for use with a finger. Windows 7 and, more importantly, just about every application that runs on it, were designed for use by a keyboard and mouse. Trying to shoehorn that experience onto a device that doesn't have a keyboard and mouse results in a flat out shitty, shitty, shitty experience.
Saying that you can put a keyboard on it doesn't change anything, as at that point, now you loose the portability of the tablet, and end up with just an underpowered laptop.
How many Asus Transformers were available at launch time? It doesn't really count as "not being able to keep them in stock" if each store only got a handful.
How many Transformers have been sold vs the iPad?
As long as the OS you're targeting has hooks for inserting keyboard/mouse/touch events, you can. I've done a similar thing using an iPhone as a trackpad/keyboard shortcut thingy for a Mac, by hooking into the Assistive Devices API. I know Windows has something similar.
The key phrase is "tablet-optimized". As in, the UI/UX is designed to take advantage of the additional capabilities of a tablet, rather than just looking like a larger phone app. Even for many of the apps you can find on both Android and iOS, this is true. The iOS app will take advantage of the tablet to present additional information in a way that makes sense, whereas the Android version will look exactly the same as the phone version. If that's the case, then why do I have an Android tablet?
Except it falls extremely short of the iPad in one very important department: Software. Most Android developers are not interested in optimizing their apps for tablet use. So you end up using the exact same applications on your tablet that you would on your phone, just slightly bigger, rather than actually taking advantage of the additional screen real estate you have.
You can do the same thing with the iPad. Just about any bluetooth keyboard works for it, as well as the Android tablets.
Because so many of them simply do not want to hear anything bad about Android.
As the owner of a Galaxy SII, I would tell the parent poster not to believe that story until it actually happens.
The vast majority of devices have not been upgraded to ICS. Most people only get 1 update, if that. Anything that didn't come with GB, it is highly unlikely that it will get ICS.
Google does not control when phones are moved from GB to ICS.
So? It doesn't really matter who's fault it is. At the end of the day, the iPhone still receives updates for up to 3 years. Most Android devices are lucky to get one update.
Because the other option, McCain, would have been sooooooooooooooooooo much better, right?
Not going to work because you have a headache or a cold (In Switzerland, that's not good enough - you're expected to go to work and take a pill if you really need it).
Because I totally want the guy at 7-11 who's handing me my taquitos to have to do this.
Oh wait, they already do.
Expecting people with the flu to stay home, stand far from them on the bus/subway, refuse shaking their hand... In Switzerland people don't care as much about avoiding germs. I definitely felt a stronger concern about avoiding germs when I moved to North America
A good amount of this is from people knowing that if they do get sick, they don't have any paid time off, and thus are either going to have to be completely miserable on top of working their shitty job, or be completely miserable while they get better and be miserable after because they don't have paid sick leave, and will just have lost a few days worth of pay, which is a big deal.
Yes, forcing someone to redo an entire year of high school because of one missed exam is the way to go.
As always, the best course is somewhere in the middle.
On the upside, people in Switzerland go to school or work if they have a cold or just a headache.
So do most people in the US. Especially ones who shouldn't when they have a cold: food service employees. The lack of paid sick time is a direct cause of this.
I agree that it's in both party's interest to not fuck the other over. However, that kind of long-term thinking seems to have no place in business anymore.