I'm pretty sure Apple sells more than just iPhones.
I'm fairly certain that Apple is centred around the Iphone, with x million sold and up x percent from 12 months ago being bandied around a lot when Apple made the announcement.
Like I said, you cant have it both ways, either Android outsold Iphone in one of it's best quarters or Apple is lying.
By encouraging developers to write cross-platform apps that can be run directly from their own webserver instead of installing them through the app store?
How did you reach that conclusion. You do know Apple banishes you from the App Store for even mentioning a competitor, so how could your statement possibly make sense?
Existing HTML 5 applications using the Canvas tag do not work on Iphones. Apple maintains complete control over the Safari implementation of HTML 5, thus Theora, VP8 or anything that threatens Apple's store will be forbidden from working.
You've got to be delusional not to see that Apple is trying to take control of the HTML 5 standard (note: it's not a standard yet) and that banning flash is entirely to protect Apple's profits by not permitting another source of applications. With HTML 5, Apple controls what you can do on Apple devices because you have no choice but to use Safari and Apple controls the implementation of Safari.
I'll stick to Android. (iPhone works but you can't help but feel like your taking it up the ass from some guy in a turtle neck)
iLube is only 4.99 from the AppStore. You only need two tubes 3 ml tubes per session. Unfortunately GNULube was rejected due to a duplication of functionality
WebOS has a better UI than Android.
WebOS has Multitasking which even iPhoneOS only sort of kinda has.
In the real world, perfect has no advantage over good enough.
Android is highly innovative and has significant momentum, Iphone has marketing and numbers. WebOS was stillborn then purchased by HP, where good ideas go to die. I'd prefer WebOS to anything bar Android but it's not going to happen.
This competition has been driving standards forward like nothing else has.
Remember Netscape vs IE. Many of Microsofts fans said the same thing, this competition will help the web.
Nearly 15 years and we still haven't undone the damage that little "advancement" cost us. We've barely been able to contain it (Damn it IE 6, why wont you die). Apple is trying to do the same thing, take control of the HTML5 standard so Apple can decide what is and isn't permitted and push proprietary codecs. At least all MS wanted was money, not my obedience.
This only goes so far of course. It's based on a model in which both armies are engaged for the entire duration of the fight. If technology allows one army to strike the other from a distance with impunity, then the model does break.
"All warfare is based on deception" - Sun Tzu
"Battles are won by slaughter and manoeuvre, the more a general contributes in manoeuvre the less he demands in slaughter" - Winston Churchill.
Technology or numbers ultimately do not win wars. It's tactics and strategy that wins wars and in this respect we (all western nations, the collective "we" as I'm not a yank) are failing horribly in. It's no good fighting the enemy on paper.
Give the Art of War a read if you haven't already. Most of it still rings true today. The first 20 stanzas outline the keys to victory. This one is most important one is:
12. Therefore, in your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise:--
13. (1) Which of the two sovereigns is imbued with the Moral law? (2) Which of the two generals has most ability? (3) With whom lie the advantages derived from Heaven and Earth? (4) On which side is discipline most rigorously enforced? (5) Which army is stronger? (6) On which side are officers and men more highly trained? (7) In which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment?
1. Which side believes itself to be most right and will act in complete accordance with a leaders decision, Sun Tzu calls this "the Moral Law" but we'll use the modern term, "Morale".
2. Which general is most capable, coming up with unique strategies and adapting to changes on the battlefield.
3. Then are environmental conditions, rain/snow, higher ground and so forth.
4. Which side has better discipline.
5. Now we have an armies strength.
The whole chapter is worth reading, just don't get hung up on the meanings of words like "Moral" when applying it to your enemies. The book was written by a Taoist 2000 years ago and translated by an Englishman 100 years ago, some things are bound to get lost in translation so use context.
Remember that the NVA/Vietcong ultimately forced the US to withdraw not out of superior technology or superior numbers but by superior tactics, they kept the front well supplied, were able to use the land to their advantage, unique attacks that had circumvented existing defence doctrines.
Blackwater - when did the US citizenry decide it was actually okay for the country to hire mercenaries,
From the very beginning.
French and other military personnel were enlisted, borrowed or "bought" into the continental army to fill critical skill gaps. Most specifically the naval forces to which the colonies had practically no skilled personnel.
But all governments did this, the US were not exception, letters of marque, bounties, hiring armed merchantmen (pirates). Mercenaries only really fell out of favour in the 19th century. Skilled soldiers and sailors were hired by the hundreds in the Napoleonic wars, the US did the same when it blockaded Tripoli.
Hiring professional soldiers is a long standing tradition in all governments.
Note: The US currently has 11 carriers and is building more. Russia has one functional carrier. China bought an antiquated one from Russia and turned it into a casino but may be building two of its own. France has one as does Spain. The next largest fleet of carriers in the world after the US? The UK with 3 old carriers.
The one the UK is building, the Queen Elizabeth Class is one quarter the tonnage of the Gerald R Ford class of which the US is building three.
The fleet carrier is going the way of the battleship, with more advanced S/VTOL aircraft and increased reliance on UAV/UCAV's smaller, cheaper ships perform the same duties. Much in the same way that guided missile cruisers and Aircraft carriers saw the end of the Battleship, drone armed destroyers and assault (light) carriers will see the end of the fleet carrier.
We can do a hell of a lot more with a billion dollars spent on intelligence than a billion dollars spent on a jet.
Throwing money at something will not make it work. The US needs to get out of this mindset. You need more brilliant people having good ideas, like back in the 50's and 60's.
I believe that George W Bush is symptomatic of US governmental problems, he promised to "run the government like a businesses" and that part he did, he ran the government like a business straight into the ground. Governments are fundamentally different to businesses and not readily interchangeable and the US needs to eliminate this mindset.
I suspect that Android will end up with a similar rep to Windows - too many hardware platforms and compatibility issues.
And no-one develops software for Windows because it's too hard and 90% of the world runs Apple because it's simple.
Awaken from your dreamy state, the fragmentation in Windows isn't an issue and neither is it in Android. As with Windows you can expect a lot of third party development tools that will deal with the testing issues. In fact, you don't even need a phone in order to test a simple application, you can do that with the Virtual Machines provided in the Android SDK, which is free and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.
A quick Google has turned up that Motorola has already released a toolkit to help Android developers with Motorola handsets.
There's been anecdotal evidence that there isn't as much money to be made writing Android apps as there is to be made writing iPhone apps.
Anecdotal evidence is an oxymoron.
The simple fact is that if you've got a good idea, that people want to pay for (a wee bit of marketing may be involved) and manage to turn that idea into a reasonable applications ("perfect" has no advantage over "good enough" in the real world) then you will earn money on that idea. Whether you make a profit is dependent on the market and your costs. This is true for any platform.
Now the difference between Android and Iphone is that it is much easier to publish on the Android Marketplace. With Apple tightening the screws on Itunes most people would have an easier time with Android knowing that their application is guaranteed to be released.
What good is developing an Application if nobody can find it?
Perhaps you've heard of the Android marketplace.
It's not locked down like the Itunes store. You can browse it here, here and here. Androlib even has QR codes that you can scan with your Android phone that will take you directly to application in the Android Marketplace.
To be honest, I don't trust iWhateverApp
Because no phishing applications made it past the ever watchful censors at Apple?
NoThankYou.jpg to gateway only security. I'd rather have on-device security which informs me which services (API's, but in simple terms like "can send SMS", "accesses your contacts/personal data" or "can write and delete from the SD card"). Even third party APK's do this (because it's part of Android, not the thrid party software).
So stop spreading FUD and others stop modding up FUD.
So Apple having 20% of the market and being behind RIM and Android is different from an antitrust perspective than Apple having 20% of the market behind RIM and a bunch of other companies that share an OS?
The Anti-trust issue is with Apples abusive business practices. The Monopoly part is Apples stranglehold on the MP3 player and digital music distribution services.
By your reasoning I can conclude that Microsoft is not a monopoly because the Zune and Bing have tiny market shares in their respective markets.
Support remote desktop? I work in an enterprise environment and have found the feature very useful when away from my desk.
I'm in the same position (networking/support) in an SME. I have a Motorola Milestone (Droid for you yanks) which performs the task admirably. RDP Lite performs well even over VPN on 3G (for the most part, as always its dependent on your 3G signal), the full version is only 10 of your US dollars. Android also has VPN, which the Iphone lacks, granted it's only for PPTP/L2TP/IPSec VPN's as Cisco and Nortel haven't made clients for them. Tested on Server 2003 64 and 2008 32/64.
I bought a HTC Dream in February last year because I spend so much time working at other peoples desks and the boss started to complain that I took hours to answer his emails.
[This has nothing to do with] Waiting for the next iPhone coming in a month which everyone knows about due to the leak.
Didn't Apple just report Q1 2010 as their best quarter ever. with x million Iphones sold? Now the results in the article are for Q1 2010, which means Android outsold Apple during its best quarter ever. This is not just in the states, in Europe Android has always been strong, in Australia every telco now carries an Android phone and the Desire (on Telstra) is selling well. In China there are over a dozen handsets running Android.
I expect the Q2 results to follow the Q1 results, especially as business look at June to get rid of old assets and buy new ones (last ditch depreciation/tax benifits) but then again Apple is a consumer electronics company and not really a part of this market. Q3 when the predictable Iphone 4 is released is when Iphone sales will pick up, Android sales will not drop off so much as Android tends to be taking market share from everyone (WinMo, RIM, Iphone and Nokia).
I don't think it should be called a hung parliament until someone shows up with 6500 metres of good strong rope.
Sigh, Such a wasteful society we've become. There's only 600 of them, why do they need 150 Metres each?
What every happens to the old British tradition of beheading, off with his head I say. The good thing is you only need one axe and 600 pikes. Mount the pikes in parliament and no one would be able to tell the difference for a least a year.
"On the one hand, I hate not being able to copy my music across devices. I hate having to be connected to the internet to be able to play a certain game. On the other hand, people who create useful/entertaining/valuable things should be compensated for it, if they so wish."
So Mr Freeman, DRM puts you in the position of having to choose one or the other.
They've already set up distribution and a June release date which means this thing is already in production. Archos has been producing Android tablets for a while (as well as other OS's, note: not Windows) but prices have been pretty high.
So, the $200 ARM netbook market seems to be opening.
Presumably the author already knows that the UK listed prices are so high because VAT is included, since they're legally required to include VAT in the advertised price....right author?
UK Vat is 17.5%, so unless US sales taxes are over 25% and not listed in Apple's advertised $499 price tag then it matches the GBP 429 (US $637) price tag. BTW, US$499+ 17.5% VAT = US$586.50.
I cant wait to hear your justification on Australian prices, we only have 10% GST (Goods and Services Tax) and our prices are frequently higher then the UK. I bought my Motorola Milestone from the UK because it was a full A$140 cheaper then in Australia, and I only paid A$540 not incl delivery.
And what percentage of owners were affected by these glitches?
MS told people to live with the RROD for months, Sony recently tried to take the "other OS" option away from 100% of users. As far as problems go, the Nintendo Wii has had the least of this generation.
If you bothered to read the bit of my post you quoted, I said the need was "minimal" which means it is uncommon, not non-existent.
Having almost twice the number of consoles will do that to you. It makes statistics like these easy to skew. More games per console owner, that simply means that there are fewer consoles then games. Plus the Wii not being a loss leader means that this statistic is irrelevant. Even if the Attach rate is 40% lower, Nintendo are still shipping more games and don't have a deficit per console.
Your points do not prove anything, liars figure and all of that. The Wii is still the most phenomenally successful console Nintendo have ever produced, it's almost outsold both other consoles. Wii Play, Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii have all sold over 20 Million copies whilst the PS3 has managed 5.7 million and Xbox360 managed 8.01 Million whilst another 3 games sold over 10 million.
Really this doesn't detract from the point that the Wii sold because it was simple, easy and fun. The first two, Xbox and PS fanboys like to drag out in front of PC gamers, now with the Wii they are disadvantages but fun is the important part and why Sony and Microsoft are miles behind Nintendo.
* The old first rule, "give the reader what they want" not the new first rule, "screw the reader in every way possible for cash".
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I'm fairly certain that Apple is centred around the Iphone, with x million sold and up x percent from 12 months ago being bandied around a lot when Apple made the announcement.
Like I said, you cant have it both ways, either Android outsold Iphone in one of it's best quarters or Apple is lying.
How did you reach that conclusion. You do know Apple banishes you from the App Store for even mentioning a competitor, so how could your statement possibly make sense?
Existing HTML 5 applications using the Canvas tag do not work on Iphones. Apple maintains complete control over the Safari implementation of HTML 5, thus Theora, VP8 or anything that threatens Apple's store will be forbidden from working.
You've got to be delusional not to see that Apple is trying to take control of the HTML 5 standard (note: it's not a standard yet) and that banning flash is entirely to protect Apple's profits by not permitting another source of applications. With HTML 5, Apple controls what you can do on Apple devices because you have no choice but to use Safari and Apple controls the implementation of Safari.
iLube is only 4.99 from the AppStore. You only need two tubes 3 ml tubes per session. Unfortunately GNULube was rejected due to a duplication of functionality
In the real world, perfect has no advantage over good enough.
Android is highly innovative and has significant momentum, Iphone has marketing and numbers. WebOS was stillborn then purchased by HP, where good ideas go to die. I'd prefer WebOS to anything bar Android but it's not going to happen.
Remember Netscape vs IE. Many of Microsofts fans said the same thing, this competition will help the web.
Nearly 15 years and we still haven't undone the damage that little "advancement" cost us. We've barely been able to contain it (Damn it IE 6, why wont you die). Apple is trying to do the same thing, take control of the HTML5 standard so Apple can decide what is and isn't permitted and push proprietary codecs. At least all MS wanted was money, not my obedience.
Yes, Apple is heavily invested in H.264 patents. Using H.264 in a commercial venture is definitely not free.
But the real killing happens with the elimination of all applications that do not go through Apple's distribution channels.
"All warfare is based on deception" - Sun Tzu
"Battles are won by slaughter and manoeuvre, the more a general contributes in manoeuvre the less he demands in slaughter" - Winston Churchill.
Technology or numbers ultimately do not win wars. It's tactics and strategy that wins wars and in this respect we (all western nations, the collective "we" as I'm not a yank) are failing horribly in. It's no good fighting the enemy on paper.
Give the Art of War a read if you haven't already. Most of it still rings true today. The first 20 stanzas outline the keys to victory. This one is most important one is:
1. Which side believes itself to be most right and will act in complete accordance with a leaders decision, Sun Tzu calls this "the Moral Law" but we'll use the modern term, "Morale".
2. Which general is most capable, coming up with unique strategies and adapting to changes on the battlefield.
3. Then are environmental conditions, rain/snow, higher ground and so forth.
4. Which side has better discipline.
5. Now we have an armies strength.
The whole chapter is worth reading, just don't get hung up on the meanings of words like "Moral" when applying it to your enemies. The book was written by a Taoist 2000 years ago and translated by an Englishman 100 years ago, some things are bound to get lost in translation so use context.
Remember that the NVA/Vietcong ultimately forced the US to withdraw not out of superior technology or superior numbers but by superior tactics, they kept the front well supplied, were able to use the land to their advantage, unique attacks that had circumvented existing defence doctrines.
From the very beginning.
French and other military personnel were enlisted, borrowed or "bought" into the continental army to fill critical skill gaps. Most specifically the naval forces to which the colonies had practically no skilled personnel.
But all governments did this, the US were not exception, letters of marque, bounties, hiring armed merchantmen (pirates). Mercenaries only really fell out of favour in the 19th century. Skilled soldiers and sailors were hired by the hundreds in the Napoleonic wars, the US did the same when it blockaded Tripoli.
Hiring professional soldiers is a long standing tradition in all governments.
The one the UK is building, the Queen Elizabeth Class is one quarter the tonnage of the Gerald R Ford class of which the US is building three.
The fleet carrier is going the way of the battleship, with more advanced S/VTOL aircraft and increased reliance on UAV/UCAV's smaller, cheaper ships perform the same duties. Much in the same way that guided missile cruisers and Aircraft carriers saw the end of the Battleship, drone armed destroyers and assault (light) carriers will see the end of the fleet carrier.
Throwing money at something will not make it work. The US needs to get out of this mindset. You need more brilliant people having good ideas, like back in the 50's and 60's.
I believe that George W Bush is symptomatic of US governmental problems, he promised to "run the government like a businesses" and that part he did, he ran the government like a business straight into the ground. Governments are fundamentally different to businesses and not readily interchangeable and the US needs to eliminate this mindset.
Ahem, these are for Q1 2010. Didn't apple just state that Q1 2010 was its best quarter ever?
You cant have it both ways, either Android outsold Apple whilst it was doing well or Apple is lying.
And no-one develops software for Windows because it's too hard and 90% of the world runs Apple because it's simple.
Awaken from your dreamy state, the fragmentation in Windows isn't an issue and neither is it in Android. As with Windows you can expect a lot of third party development tools that will deal with the testing issues. In fact, you don't even need a phone in order to test a simple application, you can do that with the Virtual Machines provided in the Android SDK, which is free and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.
A quick Google has turned up that Motorola has already released a toolkit to help Android developers with Motorola handsets.
Anecdotal evidence is an oxymoron.
The simple fact is that if you've got a good idea, that people want to pay for (a wee bit of marketing may be involved) and manage to turn that idea into a reasonable applications ("perfect" has no advantage over "good enough" in the real world) then you will earn money on that idea. Whether you make a profit is dependent on the market and your costs. This is true for any platform.
Now the difference between Android and Iphone is that it is much easier to publish on the Android Marketplace. With Apple tightening the screws on Itunes most people would have an easier time with Android knowing that their application is guaranteed to be released.
Perhaps you've heard of the Android marketplace.
It's not locked down like the Itunes store. You can browse it here, here and here. Androlib even has QR codes that you can scan with your Android phone that will take you directly to application in the Android Marketplace.
Because no phishing applications made it past the ever watchful censors at Apple?
NoThankYou.jpg to gateway only security. I'd rather have on-device security which informs me which services (API's, but in simple terms like "can send SMS", "accesses your contacts/personal data" or "can write and delete from the SD card"). Even third party APK's do this (because it's part of Android, not the thrid party software).
So stop spreading FUD and others stop modding up FUD.
The Anti-trust issue is with Apples abusive business practices. The Monopoly part is Apples stranglehold on the MP3 player and digital music distribution services.
By your reasoning I can conclude that Microsoft is not a monopoly because the Zune and Bing have tiny market shares in their respective markets.
I'm in the same position (networking/support) in an SME. I have a Motorola Milestone (Droid for you yanks) which performs the task admirably. RDP Lite performs well even over VPN on 3G (for the most part, as always its dependent on your 3G signal), the full version is only 10 of your US dollars. Android also has VPN, which the Iphone lacks, granted it's only for PPTP/L2TP/IPSec VPN's as Cisco and Nortel haven't made clients for them. Tested on Server 2003 64 and 2008 32/64.
I bought a HTC Dream in February last year because I spend so much time working at other peoples desks and the boss started to complain that I took hours to answer his emails.
Didn't Apple just report Q1 2010 as their best quarter ever. with x million Iphones sold? Now the results in the article are for Q1 2010, which means Android outsold Apple during its best quarter ever. This is not just in the states, in Europe Android has always been strong, in Australia every telco now carries an Android phone and the Desire (on Telstra) is selling well. In China there are over a dozen handsets running Android.
I expect the Q2 results to follow the Q1 results, especially as business look at June to get rid of old assets and buy new ones (last ditch depreciation/tax benifits) but then again Apple is a consumer electronics company and not really a part of this market. Q3 when the predictable Iphone 4 is released is when Iphone sales will pick up, Android sales will not drop off so much as Android tends to be taking market share from everyone (WinMo, RIM, Iphone and Nokia).
Sigh, Such a wasteful society we've become. There's only 600 of them, why do they need 150 Metres each?
What every happens to the old British tradition of beheading, off with his head I say. The good thing is you only need one axe and 600 pikes. Mount the pikes in parliament and no one would be able to tell the difference for a least a year.
And replaced with the Ministry of Silly Ideas.
The Chinese military and thats how we ended up in this mess in the first place.
So Mr Freeman, DRM puts you in the position of having to choose one or the other.
Because a few days ago some Apple worshipping moron decided that Ipads were killing netbook sales.
Despite your obvious mental handicap, you are right, the Ipad is nowhere near as useful or functional as a netbook.
You were saying.
They've already set up distribution and a June release date which means this thing is already in production. Archos has been producing Android tablets for a while (as well as other OS's, note: not Windows) but prices have been pretty high. So, the $200 ARM netbook market seems to be opening.
UK Vat is 17.5%, so unless US sales taxes are over 25% and not listed in Apple's advertised $499 price tag then it matches the GBP 429 (US $637) price tag. BTW, US$499+ 17.5% VAT = US$586.50.
I cant wait to hear your justification on Australian prices, we only have 10% GST (Goods and Services Tax) and our prices are frequently higher then the UK. I bought my Motorola Milestone from the UK because it was a full A$140 cheaper then in Australia, and I only paid A$540 not incl delivery.
And what percentage of owners were affected by these glitches?
MS told people to live with the RROD for months, Sony recently tried to take the "other OS" option away from 100% of users. As far as problems go, the Nintendo Wii has had the least of this generation.
If you bothered to read the bit of my post you quoted, I said the need was "minimal" which means it is uncommon, not non-existent.
Having almost twice the number of consoles will do that to you. It makes statistics like these easy to skew. More games per console owner, that simply means that there are fewer consoles then games. Plus the Wii not being a loss leader means that this statistic is irrelevant. Even if the Attach rate is 40% lower, Nintendo are still shipping more games and don't have a deficit per console.
Not like game review sites can be paid off or need to pander to advertisers. Game review sites are made by and for angry little fanboys, not the average person (first rule of journalism is...*).
Your points do not prove anything, liars figure and all of that. The Wii is still the most phenomenally successful console Nintendo have ever produced, it's almost outsold both other consoles. Wii Play, Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii have all sold over 20 Million copies whilst the PS3 has managed 5.7 million and Xbox360 managed 8.01 Million whilst another 3 games sold over 10 million.
Really this doesn't detract from the point that the Wii sold because it was simple, easy and fun. The first two, Xbox and PS fanboys like to drag out in front of PC gamers, now with the Wii they are disadvantages but fun is the important part and why Sony and Microsoft are miles behind Nintendo.
* The old first rule, "give the reader what they want" not the new first rule, "screw the reader in every way possible for cash".