It rules for the same reason that when you look in the parking lot you see no two cars alike. They all have different versions of equipment, or different model years. Nobody cares....they come in every size, shape, color, style, feature combination and price that one could want. Openness. It appears that it may always win in the long run.
What is "open" about cars at all? I can't generally use parts between them, often not even within the same model line between years.
I have NGK spark plugs in my Honda.
I can choose between Firelli, Toyo or Khumo tyres. Hell, if I really wanted to I could take the K20 engine out and replace it with a 357 Chevy... not that it would work very well but I can. I'm not forced to use Honda oil, Honda petrol, Honda tyres, Honda Brake pads, Honda clutches, Honda seats, I can use any brand I can get.
Hell, next week I'm putting in an Apexi intake... Sure as shit not a Honda approved part but she's going in.
But perhaps it's just you trying to claim something the opposite of what is being demonstrated
Nope, the GP is right. You simply didn't understand, I suspect you don't know much about cars (not a flaw in itself, except when pretending to be an expert on cars). "openness" is very important to car buyers for maintenance reasons. If something breaks on a Honda Civic, you know you can take it to any mechanic who'll be able to source a part for you today, whether it be genuine Honda or aftermarket.
In other words, would you buy a car that has the bonnet (hood for the Yanks) welded shut that required a special key from the manufacturer just to open?
If Apple designed a car, in order to change a tyre you'd need to remove the drive train.
What good is HDD encryption when they have/had physical access to the device? If you get physical access tot he HW all you have to do is take a copy of the HDD (erm, DD will do this for you) and crack it at your leisure.
If you're that worried about corporate/govt espionage, there is only one defence... Don't keep the data on a mobile device. Yep it's a PITA doing everything via VPN, but it's the only secure way.
Besides this, the article is bollocks made up by people who have had too much pot/coffee and not enough exposure to the real world. China's govt doesn't give a shit about your crappy companies secrets. They don't bother stealing technology when it's cheaper and easier to buy it from the Russians. As for corporate espionage, once again not a big problem as it's cheaper to buy it than steal it and it's easier to steal it from the factory (where there are lots of low paid workers to bribe) than sneaking into some gwailo's room and rifling through his shit (also, people capable of stealing secrets from you are typically quite smart).
Microsoft has increased user CALs pricing 15 per cent; SharePoint 2013 pricing by 38 per cent; Lync Server 2013 pricing by 400 per cent; and Project 2013 Server CAL by 21 per cent."
Allow me to translate, for Australian license partners,
Microsoft has increased user CALs pricing 45 per cent; SharePoint 2013 pricing by 114 per cent; Lync Server 2013 pricing by 1200 per cent; and Project 2013 Server CAL by 63 per cent."
The Daily put them front and center in your face. People aren't used to paying for apps and being force-fed ads.
What did you think news papers were?
Have you never flipped past a newspaper ad without having to sit all the way through it once in your life? Try to keep u.
You do realise that newspapers are just vessels for advertisements, don't you? The paltry A$2 they charge for them doesn't even cover the cost of printing.
Why are you (or anyone else for that matter) surprised that a newspaper app is just a vessel for advertisement.
Car companies haven't figured out how to make power windows, seats, and locks keep working for 10 years
Erm, Honda has, I used to have a 1996 Honda Civic, it had power windows and locks, all original, all still working fine. Honda build shit to last, if you take care of it you'll die of old age before your Honda does. Same for Toyota and most other Japanese manufacturers. The head unit had been replaced by the time I got it though.
It's expensive European and American cars that tend to fall apart in a few years.
When I recently bought a car, I specifically searched for a model that does not have any touch screen jazzy GPS-smartphone-capable stuff thrown in. Apart from the slow upgrades that are offered by the manufacturers, I find it extremely distracting.
This,
As much as I love my gadgets, I hate them cluttering up my car.
I've had to move my mothers Holden Cruze a few times, I get in and the damn thing lights up like a Chrismas tree. Beeps for everything, lights and redundant controls. Bollocks that only serves to distract a driver from doing their job (driving). I prefer the minimalist styling of my Honda Integra. Four dials (Temp, Tacho, Speedo, Fuel gauge) and the standard lights (Indicator, oil, handbrake et al.) that stay off unless in use. I do like USB on my stereo (the stock head unit in an 05 upgrade Integra forces you to use these archaic devices called a Compact Disc) but don't want iWhatever connectivity, Bluetooth, electric shaver or what ever else they put in.
Ridiculous. So she had a brand new car, and then immediately mounted stuff on the dash...automakers just don't get it.
No, they get it.
They expect people to be dumb enough to pay more for crap like this. Paint protection, extended dealer warranty, 1st year of GPS maps are free, want to buy another 3 years for only $990?
Since the introduction of security codes, car stereo theft isn't as much of a problem as it used to be.
Without the security codes, stolen car stereos are paperweights.
Security codes can be bypassed, the majority of people and dealers don't even set them as they come back to bite you in the arse more often than they help.
This is not the reason car stereo theft is no longer popular.
New car stereo's from Australian retailers start at $49. This makes them practically worthless second hand. The effort required to steal a stereo is not worth the reward, you'll probably get more change out of the centre console, if they've left their MP3 player plugged in, it's probably worth more than the stereo.
They'll fix dangerous bugs, same as they do now. It's called a product recall. On cars, it usually amounts to taking your car to the dealer and waiting while they replace a part.
These days a recall doesn't even replace a part, a lot of flaws get fixed by re-flashing the ECU (which you have to go to the dealer to do, which is bollocks as you can re-flash an EPROM at home, lots of people do this to performance cars at home).
This is a completely new phenomenon with smart phones. At least I'll always have my 8-track player.
The first thing I did to modify my 05 Honda Integra (Acura RSX in the states) was to rip out the ancient original head unit and install a new one. Standard Double DIN (IS) 7736), fortunately the wiring was the same so I basically just dropped it in (after disassembling half the dashboard covers of course). Even re-wiring audio is not that difficult.
Admittedly not all manufacturers will follow the standards.
In 5 years, the expensive in car entertainment systems like Idrive (BMW, IIRC) will be hopelessly out of date and completely useless. If they are difficult or expensive to replace it will have a knock on effect on the cars resale value.
The junkyards are full of disposable cars and airplanes. Like the disposable razor, they last for a while then stop being useful. At that point, they're no longer economically repairable. It's just the time frame that's different.
Cars and airplanes aren't made to be single use or have single use components like all space launch vehicles today. Imagine what a car would cost if you needed to replace the camshaft after every trip (or even every 100KM), that's what cars would look like if they were designed like the space shuttle (yes, we'd have mass produced, drop in cam's, but they'd make motoring hellishly expensive).
What you are talking about is ordinary wear and tear. Whilst it cant be avoided but it's not a big problem as cars tend to run for decades. In Australia it's not unusual to see an 80's car on the road, 90's cars are common. Most of the cars in our junkyards are there because they don't work any more, the majority of them are that way due to crashes. In the US, your old cars aren't junked because they are worth money in poorer RHD countries. The US exports those old clunkers to places like the Philippines where it is more economical to repair and retrofit them due to the prohibitively high price of new cars. Japan does the same thing with places like Thailand and India... Which is why it's easier to get a good JDM sports car in Thailand than it is in Australia or the US.
Look up an Australian TV series called "Bush Mechanics" to find out just how long jury rigged and retrofitted cars can run.
Yelp's serious dearth of non-US info and the staleness of the data is bad, but besides the point as Apple's not rectifying the data properly.
Rectification in GIS is about aligning different data sets along common co-ordinates. Without this you end up with points of interest and lines seriously out of place on images.
Apple needs to get rectification correct before even considering putting data into maps... Then they need to worry about how useless Yelp is.
But I don't think Apple are capable of fixing this. I give it a year or two before they come back to Google with their tail between their legs.
It would have been wiser to let it mature a bit more like Google did.
Huh? Google maps was full of errors and omissions when it came out. It improved over the years.
When was Google Maps a drop in replacement for a working product?
I worked in GIS for years sunshine. Google maps was unprecedented, it didn't just replace paper maps and TomTom devices, it incorporated data and search technologies unknown to the average map user (even though it was relatively simple in terms of GIS). I couldn't open my paper map book to find Fred's Fish Supply, I first needed to look up Fred's Fish Supply in the phone book, then find the corresponding address on the map. No other commercially available product did this before Google Maps.
Point in Short. Google didn't need to meet previous expectations, Apple needed to meet the expectations of customers using Google.
Option D: They could have straight forward have bought Tom Tom and use their application. TomTom's own devices that use the same map information had no trouble navigating where Apple was leading you nowhere. At the current share price it would be affordable for Apple to buy it and it would buy them an entrance into the dashboard of several large brands, that are already using built-in TomTom navigation devices.
The problem is, TomTom doesn't have the same level of data as Google maps.
With TomTom/Garmin et al. I can ask it to navigate to "123 Fake St" and it'll work fine, with Google I can ask it to navigate to "The Dude's fish shop" and it'll find it and plot a course. With TomTom you cant use references like that as they don't have the data.
It's obvious you know nothing about GIS and are just blindly defending Apple.
Apple has started with a large data set nearly as good as Google,
Apple cant even rectify their datasets properly. This is why tube stations aren't appearing where they should.
This alone is proof Apple will not be able to match any other data package out there including Open Street Map.
Why is rectification so important. Well rectification is adjusting the co-ords of different datasets to match up. If Apple cant even get that right, the quantity of their dataset doesn't matter, as it cant be accurately placed on a map. Yes rectification is that basic and if you screw that up, you may as well not bother adding any data into your map.
Between Yelp updates
You know that Yelp is Extremerly US centric?
Google's data can find things in just about any country. Yelp has been a huge hindrance to Apple outside the US.
Sorry if it conflicts with your blind fanboyism, but Apple's data is at least 5 years off Google's. A decade is probably more likely and in that time Google will be improving both their data and their application of it. Apple is playing catch up in the mapping arena and catch-up a game Apple is very, very bad at.
I'm quite certain that this Mr. Williamson probably didn't say no to his bosses very often, and I don't particularly feel bad for him.
Quite certain? Really? Quite certain?
And on what, pray tell, do you base this certainty?
The fact his bosses have openly and publicly acted like complete self adsorbed sociopath and will attack people who tell them they are wrong. The saying "Steve Jobs did not suffer fools" means that Steve Jobs did not like hearing things that he didn't want to hear.
Look at Job's actions towards Google and Android OEM's, then get back to us. If that's not enough, go back to Antennagate when he told his own customers that they were the problem. If you don't understand the answer to your question by then, you have a problem.
The term you use, "denier", is a perfect example and is in fact a Godwin. The term was well known for Holocaust denier and once it became appropriately stained people started using it to label skeptics of their pet ideas when they didn't want to have to actually convince anyone.
Bollocks, "denier" is perfectly apt for someone who refuses to look at facts that they disagree with.
A sceptic will say, "What evidence do you have that you had breakfast this morning".
A denier will say, "I don't believe you had breakfast this morning" stick their fingers in their ears and shout "LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU".
You are right that denier is a term of ridicule, but these people bring the ridicule on themselves. If we didn't call them "deniers" they'd still be ridiculed all the same.
Open source is a philosophy, DRM is pure idiocy disguised as philosophy!
DRM isn't even a philosophy, it's pure snake oil.
DRM is a product, a product that is of dubious effectiveness. How many pirates has DRM actually stopped. Most schemes are broken by the release date. I think the best DRM has slowed pirates down by a matter of days. Companies like Thales (Tages), Macrovision (SafeDisc) and Sony DADC (SecuROM) are making a mint for a product that doesn't even work by selling fear.
Not true since Vista. Slashdot is full of folks who've last used Windows more than 10 years ago and thus complain of things like bluescreens, bloat etc. which makes them look like idiots.
Get with the times and at least update your hate machine.
Bluescreens still happen... My work HP laptop running Windows 7 could be relied upon to provide a couple each hour it was running a skype conference. Sound driver, I believe.
Which describes Windows for the last 10 years. Crappy drivers == lots of blue screens.
Any OS can be bought down by crappy drivers. Try running Linux on certain bits of proprietary HW, it struggles at best but a Kernel Panic is not unusual. OTOH, Windows will run for weeks with no problems if you've got decent drivers.
After poorly coded drivers, poorly coded applications are the most common ways to trash your OS. There's just more of both in the Windows world.
You can still jail break your brand new iPhone in 2012 and do whatever you want.
Can I install a custom IOS or Android ROM on the hardware?
No you say.
Well it appears you cant do whatever you want. Don't mistake the pitiful increase in rights "jailbreaking" an Iphone gives you for freedom, you are still bound to Apple. With Jailbreaking you're breaking out of your cell, but you're still inside the prison walls.
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It rules for the same reason that when you look in the parking lot you see no two cars alike. They all have different versions of equipment, or different model years. Nobody cares....they come in every size, shape, color, style, feature combination and price that one could want. Openness. It appears that it may always win in the long run.
What is "open" about cars at all? I can't generally use parts between them, often not even within the same model line between years.
I have NGK spark plugs in my Honda.
I can choose between Firelli, Toyo or Khumo tyres. Hell, if I really wanted to I could take the K20 engine out and replace it with a 357 Chevy... not that it would work very well but I can. I'm not forced to use Honda oil, Honda petrol, Honda tyres, Honda Brake pads, Honda clutches, Honda seats, I can use any brand I can get.
Hell, next week I'm putting in an Apexi intake... Sure as shit not a Honda approved part but she's going in.
But perhaps it's just you trying to claim something the opposite of what is being demonstrated
Nope, the GP is right. You simply didn't understand, I suspect you don't know much about cars (not a flaw in itself, except when pretending to be an expert on cars). "openness" is very important to car buyers for maintenance reasons. If something breaks on a Honda Civic, you know you can take it to any mechanic who'll be able to source a part for you today, whether it be genuine Honda or aftermarket.
In other words, would you buy a car that has the bonnet (hood for the Yanks) welded shut that required a special key from the manufacturer just to open?
If Apple designed a car, in order to change a tyre you'd need to remove the drive train.
Android 68.3 percent, well ahead of iOS at 18.8
So there are over 3 times as many Android phones as iPhones, yet internet usage by Android is *lower*?
Something is fishy here.
It's possible the Iphone is really, really inefficient.
Iphones using a lot of backgorund data...
Or that statistic includes all IOS devices including Ipads and Ipods and you're just misquoting the statistic.
I'mma going to go with inefficient.
Why doesn't your business mandate HDD encryption?
China isn't the only place this goes on...
What good is HDD encryption when they have/had physical access to the device? If you get physical access tot he HW all you have to do is take a copy of the HDD (erm, DD will do this for you) and crack it at your leisure.
If you're that worried about corporate/govt espionage, there is only one defence... Don't keep the data on a mobile device. Yep it's a PITA doing everything via VPN, but it's the only secure way.
Besides this, the article is bollocks made up by people who have had too much pot/coffee and not enough exposure to the real world. China's govt doesn't give a shit about your crappy companies secrets. They don't bother stealing technology when it's cheaper and easier to buy it from the Russians. As for corporate espionage, once again not a big problem as it's cheaper to buy it than steal it and it's easier to steal it from the factory (where there are lots of low paid workers to bribe) than sneaking into some gwailo's room and rifling through his shit (also, people capable of stealing secrets from you are typically quite smart).
Microsoft has increased user CALs pricing 15 per cent; SharePoint 2013 pricing by 38 per cent; Lync Server 2013 pricing by 400 per cent; and Project 2013 Server CAL by 21 per cent."
Allow me to translate, for Australian license partners,
Microsoft has increased user CALs pricing 45 per cent; SharePoint 2013 pricing by 114 per cent; Lync Server 2013 pricing by 1200 per cent; and Project 2013 Server CAL by 63 per cent."
The Daily put them front and center in your face. People aren't used to paying for apps and being force-fed ads.
What did you think news papers were?
Have you never flipped past a newspaper ad without having to sit all the way through it once in your life? Try to keep u.
You do realise that newspapers are just vessels for advertisements, don't you? The paltry A$2 they charge for them doesn't even cover the cost of printing.
Why are you (or anyone else for that matter) surprised that a newspaper app is just a vessel for advertisement.
OK, Murdoch couldn't even get money out of Apple users. I think it's time for him to admit he has no idea what he is doing.
The Daily put them front and center in your face. People aren't used to paying for apps and being force-fed ads.
What did you think news papers were?
Wow, an "ancient" 2005 model year car? I bought my current car before that car was even built, and it wasn't new either. You kids these days.
I see your sarcasm detector is in perfect working order.
Car companies haven't figured out how to make power windows, seats, and locks keep working for 10 years
Erm, Honda has, I used to have a 1996 Honda Civic, it had power windows and locks, all original, all still working fine. Honda build shit to last, if you take care of it you'll die of old age before your Honda does. Same for Toyota and most other Japanese manufacturers. The head unit had been replaced by the time I got it though.
It's expensive European and American cars that tend to fall apart in a few years.
When I recently bought a car, I specifically searched for a model that does not have any touch screen jazzy GPS-smartphone-capable stuff thrown in. Apart from the slow upgrades that are offered by the manufacturers, I find it extremely distracting.
This,
As much as I love my gadgets, I hate them cluttering up my car.
I've had to move my mothers Holden Cruze a few times, I get in and the damn thing lights up like a Chrismas tree. Beeps for everything, lights and redundant controls. Bollocks that only serves to distract a driver from doing their job (driving). I prefer the minimalist styling of my Honda Integra. Four dials (Temp, Tacho, Speedo, Fuel gauge) and the standard lights (Indicator, oil, handbrake et al.) that stay off unless in use. I do like USB on my stereo (the stock head unit in an 05 upgrade Integra forces you to use these archaic devices called a Compact Disc) but don't want iWhatever connectivity, Bluetooth, electric shaver or what ever else they put in.
Gee, it's a collaboration between Ford and Microsoft ... what did you expect? ;-)
I'd expect it to run slowly, crash, catch fire, and then reboot itself for no obvious reason.
If it could reboot after catching fire, I'd be very, very impressed.
Ridiculous. So she had a brand new car, and then immediately mounted stuff on the dash...automakers just don't get it.
No, they get it.
They expect people to be dumb enough to pay more for crap like this. Paint protection, extended dealer warranty, 1st year of GPS maps are free, want to buy another 3 years for only $990?
The sad part is, people fall for it.
Since the introduction of security codes, car stereo theft isn't as much of a problem as it used to be.
Without the security codes, stolen car stereos are paperweights.
Security codes can be bypassed, the majority of people and dealers don't even set them as they come back to bite you in the arse more often than they help.
This is not the reason car stereo theft is no longer popular.
New car stereo's from Australian retailers start at $49. This makes them practically worthless second hand. The effort required to steal a stereo is not worth the reward, you'll probably get more change out of the centre console, if they've left their MP3 player plugged in, it's probably worth more than the stereo.
They'll fix dangerous bugs, same as they do now. It's called a product recall. On cars, it usually amounts to taking your car to the dealer and waiting while they replace a part.
These days a recall doesn't even replace a part, a lot of flaws get fixed by re-flashing the ECU (which you have to go to the dealer to do, which is bollocks as you can re-flash an EPROM at home, lots of people do this to performance cars at home).
This is a completely new phenomenon with smart phones. At least I'll always have my 8-track player.
The first thing I did to modify my 05 Honda Integra (Acura RSX in the states) was to rip out the ancient original head unit and install a new one. Standard Double DIN (IS) 7736), fortunately the wiring was the same so I basically just dropped it in (after disassembling half the dashboard covers of course). Even re-wiring audio is not that difficult.
Admittedly not all manufacturers will follow the standards.
In 5 years, the expensive in car entertainment systems like Idrive (BMW, IIRC) will be hopelessly out of date and completely useless. If they are difficult or expensive to replace it will have a knock on effect on the cars resale value.
The junkyards are full of disposable cars and airplanes. Like the disposable razor, they last for a while then stop being useful. At that point, they're no longer economically repairable. It's just the time frame that's different.
Cars and airplanes aren't made to be single use or have single use components like all space launch vehicles today. Imagine what a car would cost if you needed to replace the camshaft after every trip (or even every 100KM), that's what cars would look like if they were designed like the space shuttle (yes, we'd have mass produced, drop in cam's, but they'd make motoring hellishly expensive).
What you are talking about is ordinary wear and tear. Whilst it cant be avoided but it's not a big problem as cars tend to run for decades. In Australia it's not unusual to see an 80's car on the road, 90's cars are common. Most of the cars in our junkyards are there because they don't work any more, the majority of them are that way due to crashes. In the US, your old cars aren't junked because they are worth money in poorer RHD countries. The US exports those old clunkers to places like the Philippines where it is more economical to repair and retrofit them due to the prohibitively high price of new cars. Japan does the same thing with places like Thailand and India... Which is why it's easier to get a good JDM sports car in Thailand than it is in Australia or the US.
Look up an Australian TV series called "Bush Mechanics" to find out just how long jury rigged and retrofitted cars can run.
Actually its both.
Yelp's serious dearth of non-US info and the staleness of the data is bad, but besides the point as Apple's not rectifying the data properly.
Rectification in GIS is about aligning different data sets along common co-ordinates. Without this you end up with points of interest and lines seriously out of place on images.
Apple needs to get rectification correct before even considering putting data into maps... Then they need to worry about how useless Yelp is.
But I don't think Apple are capable of fixing this. I give it a year or two before they come back to Google with their tail between their legs.
It would have been wiser to let it mature a bit more like Google did.
Huh? Google maps was full of errors and omissions when it came out. It improved over the years.
When was Google Maps a drop in replacement for a working product?
I worked in GIS for years sunshine. Google maps was unprecedented, it didn't just replace paper maps and TomTom devices, it incorporated data and search technologies unknown to the average map user (even though it was relatively simple in terms of GIS). I couldn't open my paper map book to find Fred's Fish Supply, I first needed to look up Fred's Fish Supply in the phone book, then find the corresponding address on the map. No other commercially available product did this before Google Maps.
Point in Short. Google didn't need to meet previous expectations, Apple needed to meet the expectations of customers using Google.
Option D: They could have straight forward have bought Tom Tom and use their application. TomTom's own devices that use the same map information had no trouble navigating where Apple was leading you nowhere. At the current share price it would be affordable for Apple to buy it and it would buy them an entrance into the dashboard of several large brands, that are already using built-in TomTom navigation devices.
The problem is, TomTom doesn't have the same level of data as Google maps. With TomTom/Garmin et al. I can ask it to navigate to "123 Fake St" and it'll work fine, with Google I can ask it to navigate to "The Dude's fish shop" and it'll find it and plot a course. With TomTom you cant use references like that as they don't have the data.
Apple cant even rectify their datasets properly. This is why tube stations aren't appearing where they should.
This alone is proof Apple will not be able to match any other data package out there including Open Street Map.
Why is rectification so important. Well rectification is adjusting the co-ords of different datasets to match up. If Apple cant even get that right, the quantity of their dataset doesn't matter, as it cant be accurately placed on a map. Yes rectification is that basic and if you screw that up, you may as well not bother adding any data into your map.
You know that Yelp is Extremerly US centric?
Google's data can find things in just about any country. Yelp has been a huge hindrance to Apple outside the US.
Sorry if it conflicts with your blind fanboyism, but Apple's data is at least 5 years off Google's. A decade is probably more likely and in that time Google will be improving both their data and their application of it. Apple is playing catch up in the mapping arena and catch-up a game Apple is very, very bad at.
Quite certain? Really? Quite certain?
And on what, pray tell, do you base this certainty?
The fact his bosses have openly and publicly acted like complete self adsorbed sociopath and will attack people who tell them they are wrong. The saying "Steve Jobs did not suffer fools" means that Steve Jobs did not like hearing things that he didn't want to hear.
Look at Job's actions towards Google and Android OEM's, then get back to us. If that's not enough, go back to Antennagate when he told his own customers that they were the problem. If you don't understand the answer to your question by then, you have a problem.
Bollocks, "denier" is perfectly apt for someone who refuses to look at facts that they disagree with.
A sceptic will say, "What evidence do you have that you had breakfast this morning".
A denier will say, "I don't believe you had breakfast this morning" stick their fingers in their ears and shout "LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU".
You are right that denier is a term of ridicule, but these people bring the ridicule on themselves. If we didn't call them "deniers" they'd still be ridiculed all the same.
Open source is a philosophy, DRM is pure idiocy disguised as philosophy!
DRM isn't even a philosophy, it's pure snake oil.
DRM is a product, a product that is of dubious effectiveness. How many pirates has DRM actually stopped. Most schemes are broken by the release date. I think the best DRM has slowed pirates down by a matter of days. Companies like Thales (Tages), Macrovision (SafeDisc) and Sony DADC (SecuROM) are making a mint for a product that doesn't even work by selling fear.
Not true since Vista. Slashdot is full of folks who've last used Windows more than 10 years ago and thus complain of things like bluescreens, bloat etc. which makes them look like idiots.
Get with the times and at least update your hate machine.
Bluescreens still happen... My work HP laptop running Windows 7 could be relied upon to provide a couple each hour it was running a skype conference. Sound driver, I believe.
Which describes Windows for the last 10 years. Crappy drivers == lots of blue screens.
Any OS can be bought down by crappy drivers. Try running Linux on certain bits of proprietary HW, it struggles at best but a Kernel Panic is not unusual. OTOH, Windows will run for weeks with no problems if you've got decent drivers.
After poorly coded drivers, poorly coded applications are the most common ways to trash your OS. There's just more of both in the Windows world.
You can still jail break your brand new iPhone in 2012 and do whatever you want.
Can I install a custom IOS or Android ROM on the hardware? No you say. Well it appears you cant do whatever you want. Don't mistake the pitiful increase in rights "jailbreaking" an Iphone gives you for freedom, you are still bound to Apple. With Jailbreaking you're breaking out of your cell, but you're still inside the prison walls.
Sure you can.
Sorry to maintain your bubble of Apple logic.
Got anything newer than the Iphone 3G. Apple locked the bootloader with the second revision of the 3G.
So if you've got a 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S or 5, I'm 100% correct.
Also, there were not custom IOS ROM's in your post, they were all Android or Linux.
Thank you, It's nice to receive my 350th consecutive "I was right" award.