Because third party Windows software, especially from Apple, keeps losing features that users want/like. Upgrading to lose capability is stupid. Add to that the incredible amount of bloat and shit like embedded advertising and users have very little incentive to "upgrade" to new versions.
What bloat and embedded advertising does Apple place in its software, iTunes notwithstanding.
t is bad engineering to try and make a one-size-fits-all-devices OS. There is no overlap between a smartphone with a 3" touchscreen and a 3 monitor SLI desktop gaming computer, or a high-end graphics workstation. There is no benefit to the consumer to mash it all into one OS.
No, what Apple has always done is very good marketing, which is what they did with the iPad. The innovation had already come with the iPod and the music store innovation. An old, tired idea at the point where it became the "App Store." And really, they run repos for applications and charge you to buy them. That is innovation? No that is stealing the idea from linux and other unix derivatives and charging people for it. Charging people is not an innovation.
You're so full if shit I can't believe you even believe your own bullshit.
You realize, of course, that you switched in the middle of your rant from the iPad to Linux (which actually IS the OS that stole from Unix, instead of BEING a Unix, like OS X) to the App Store, right?
The GP didn't define it clearly, but from the context it's obvious s/he means warming induced by the greenhouse effect from adding carbon compounds (such as carbon dioxide and methane) to the earth's atmosphere.
And how many million years have dinosaurs fart? How many million years have plants and animals decomposed? How many million years have forest fires raged for months, and maybe even years, on end?
And all of this before man sprayed the first can of hairspray.
You DO realize that the level of CO2 used to be TEN TIMES what it is now (and Methane was higher, too, IIRC), and yet, somehow, plenty of plants and animals not only survived, but actually thrived. In fact, plants would LOVE it if the planet would return the damned CO2 to those levels, so they could get on with GROWING. As it is, they are basically STARVING for Carbon from the Atmosphere.
Anyone who has grown Pot indoors knows about CO2 enhancement.
You are wildly off. A Cat-5 hurricane sustains about 1 petawatt of power output, or ~50x the rate of humanity's fossil fuel consumption. A year's worth of human output could power this hurricane at full strength for about a week. These storms typically last at peak intensity for a couple days. In other words, humans are adding about two or three Cat-5 hurricanes' worth of energy per year to the global environment.
Why? How do you know that Anthropogenic Climate Change is a myth? How do you know more about the climate than 97% of the people who study it and 90% of scientists in general, and every national science body in the world? When the evidence is all around us, what makes you prefer to believe that the scientists are lying to us for grant money (which they don't even get to keep)? How can you be so sure that releasing 40 billion tonnes of CO2 per year can have no measurable effect on the atmosphere or the climate?
So, how much are you being paid to post this bullshit?
You obviously have absolutely no idea the scale of the energies at play here. Many times the Hiroshima Bomb per second.
How many times? Apparently the anthropogenic effects of climate change are currently causing the earth to accumulate and addition 4 Hiroshima Bombs per second. The grand total is now at around 2.2 billion bombs. So, I'm curious. Do you think this hurricane is 4 billion times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb?
> That's one of the many reason the LYING, money-sucking "Climatologists" had to drop the moniker "Global Warming" in favor of the "Well, we can always claim it" name "Climate Change".
To which the proper response is still: "What part of 'chaotic' do you not understand?"
I would say the same thing, to those who see "Patterns" of "Climate Change" where in reality, none exist.
It's not entirely happened yet so this is a fine time to say 'it's not much of a hurricane'. Please wait until all the people have been killed before coming around all 'climate change is a myth and this was no big deal'.
Cyclic Climate Change has been happening ever since there was an atmosphere on this planet.
How long is the recorded history of similarly accurate storm measurement? How old is the planet? Maybe we're just in a cycle that is a bit longer than the amount of time people have been able to measure hurricanes, or have been able to measure them as accurately.
This.
This is EXACTLY it.
We're like the blind men trying to describe the elephant. Caught in the weeds, trying to figure out how big the forest is.
But we've got PLENTY of people licking their chops, attempting to monetize FUD.
What's horrible is that some of them actually call themselves "Scientists".
No different than the "Scientists" during the Inquisitions. Go with the Flow. Get that Grant. Publish that Paper. Rinse, Repeat.
Science knows this would happen. Ever since we started unlocking the secrets of chaotic systems this has been well understood. Climate’s the biggest chaotic system there is.
There is nothing weird about this at all. This is the new direction. Not the new normal because that implies they’re all going to be like this from now on. The reality’s worse.
You're an idiot, entirely UNsupported by actual facts.
You got one thing right, though. Climates are big. REALLY big. So big that we would have to drop a few HUNDRED nuclear bombs (not spray a few thousand cans of hairspray, or suffer the farts of a few million cows), or have a couple of REALLY big Volcanic Eruptions nearly simultaneously, to effect more than a temporary and wholly-unmeasurable BLIP in Climactic Norms, even over a fairly small portion of the planet.
Mind you, this third world country has infrastructure that year after year withstands hurricanes on both coasts, and they are seldom "catastrophic" (i.e. one strong event per decade). The area where it is hitting is moderately populated, and has available shelter places with great resistance that have been used before (such as the touristic compounds in Puerto Vallarta region).
Our country has hurricanes volcanos, sismicity, poverty and whatnot. But is much better prepared for a Katrina-style event than the USA.
So why don't you go out and stand in it, then let us know on Monday (if you're still alive)?
Scientific community vs nihilist right-wing shills is a pissing contest now?
No, there is no equivalence between sane people and the destructive right-wing extremists who are driving us off a cliff.
And no equivalence between actual science and the grant-money-grubbing, lying "scientists" that will publish literally ANYTHING to get the next Grant.
And no, I am CERTAINLY no "Right-Wing" ANYTHING, let alone an "Extremist". If anything, it is the "Climate Change" mob (that is actually just the money-chasing mob) that is the "Extremists".
The belt of warm water feeding this late-season hurricane is from El Niño, which is a cycle independent of all other cycles, and not a part of any carbon warming that may be occurring.
> This is no pissing contest, this is called 'hard experimental evidence'.
This is called "a single data point". Hurricanes have been down in recent years.
That's one of the many reason the LYING, money-sucking "Climatologists" had to drop the moniker "Global Warming" in favor of the "Well, we can always claim it" name "Climate Change".
This is no pissing contest, this is called 'hard experimental evidence'.
This is what large scale chaotic systems do when you steadily add energy to them.
Don't believe me? There will be the same headline next year, same 'unprecedented and strongest on record', but next year we're talking cat 6 or 7. Just as Patricia exploded into cat 5 faster than ever seen before, our global climate is exploding into new categories of storm with exactly the same trajectory for the exact same reason.
Understand climate. Study chaos. Learn. There's very little more important than that at this point.
You're a moron.
First off, there is no such thing above a Category 5 Hurricane, sorry.
Second, all the extra energy caused by man-made so-called Climate Change (renamed, because it was patently obvious that the "Global Warming" lie wasn't working anymore) would be consumed in a fraction of a second in a storm such as this.
You obviously have absolutely no idea the scale of the energies at play here. Many times the Hiroshima Bomb per second.
Don't know that I'd go that far. I didn't see anywhere in the article where the company was claiming anything that they aren't providing. The phone is being sold as modular and easily repairable. They don't say anything about being able to use those modules in future phone models.
If that's what they wanted, then they merely had to make the display/digitizer easily replaceable (which I'd be personally all-for). 99.9999999% of the time, Nothing else on a phone actually BREAKS.
But no, judging from the comments on here, it seems like most of their potential customers are hoping for "modular UPGRADES", like on an old-school tower PC. Which of course really isn't going to happen...
Purely objectively, Apple has the most closed combination of hardware, software and ecosystem of any mobile platform, and it always has had, and the trend is clearly further in that direction including with the battery issue we're discussing here. I'm not "dragging Apple into this". They dragged themselves into it by making themselves by some way the best example of my point.
I think you are focusing on the wrong adjective.
Instead of "most closed", perhaps you mean "best thought-out". Seriously. Apple always maintained that the problem with replaceable batteries is that they take up too much space; space that could otherwise be filled with battery.
And so, after all this time, perhaps the other manufacturers are coming to the conclusion that maybe Apple was right after all, and the space you lose on battery-wells and connectors, and the design flexibility you lose trying to make an off-the-shelf battery fit, negates pretty much all of the advantage of a replaceable battery.
Instead, Apple poured those Development efforts into perfecting their batteries, and battery charging circuitry, to both maximize the "work-time" and battery lifespan, to the point where, by the time the battery was finally getting a little "tired", the Device was probably due for replacement, anyway. And we're talking five years or more, not two, like in a lot of non-Apple devices.
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Because third party Windows software, especially from Apple, keeps losing features that users want/like. Upgrading to lose capability is stupid. Add to that the incredible amount of bloat and shit like embedded advertising and users have very little incentive to "upgrade" to new versions.
What bloat and embedded advertising does Apple place in its software, iTunes notwithstanding.
From TFS, the biggest infection vector isn't "Apple", it is simply users who have failed to update.
Clickbait nonsense. Dice. But I repeat myself.
EXACTLY what I came here to say. How would the author propose to remedy the situation? FORCED Upgrades?
I can SEE that Slashdot Article Now: Apple Forcing Upgrades on Users Without Permission
I mean, REALLY.
Can you imagine the embedded ads now?
No, and HELL no!
t is bad engineering to try and make a one-size-fits-all-devices OS. There is no overlap between a smartphone with a 3" touchscreen and a 3 monitor SLI desktop gaming computer, or a high-end graphics workstation. There is no benefit to the consumer to mash it all into one OS.
Which is exactly why there is OS X and iOS.
No, what Apple has always done is very good marketing, which is what they did with the iPad. The innovation had already come with the iPod and the music store innovation. An old, tired idea at the point where it became the "App Store." And really, they run repos for applications and charge you to buy them. That is innovation? No that is stealing the idea from linux and other unix derivatives and charging people for it. Charging people is not an innovation.
You're so full if shit I can't believe you even believe your own bullshit.
You realize, of course, that you switched in the middle of your rant from the iPad to Linux (which actually IS the OS that stole from Unix, instead of BEING a Unix, like OS X) to the App Store, right?
WTF is "CARBON Warming"???
The GP didn't define it clearly, but from the context it's obvious s/he means warming induced by the greenhouse effect from adding carbon compounds (such as carbon dioxide and methane) to the earth's atmosphere.
And how many million years have dinosaurs fart? How many million years have plants and animals decomposed? How many million years have forest fires raged for months, and maybe even years, on end?
And all of this before man sprayed the first can of hairspray.
You DO realize that the level of CO2 used to be TEN TIMES what it is now (and Methane was higher, too, IIRC), and yet, somehow, plenty of plants and animals not only survived, but actually thrived. In fact, plants would LOVE it if the planet would return the damned CO2 to those levels, so they could get on with GROWING. As it is, they are basically STARVING for Carbon from the Atmosphere.
Anyone who has grown Pot indoors knows about CO2 enhancement.
So, Think of the Plants!
Stupid Git.
You are wildly off. A Cat-5 hurricane sustains about 1 petawatt of power output, or ~50x the rate of humanity's fossil fuel consumption. A year's worth of human output could power this hurricane at full strength for about a week. These storms typically last at peak intensity for a couple days. In other words, humans are adding about two or three Cat-5 hurricanes' worth of energy per year to the global environment.
And how much gets bled off into space?
Man-Made Climate Change is a myth.
Why? How do you know that Anthropogenic Climate Change is a myth? How do you know more about the climate than 97% of the people who study it and 90% of scientists in general, and every national science body in the world? When the evidence is all around us, what makes you prefer to believe that the scientists are lying to us for grant money (which they don't even get to keep)? How can you be so sure that releasing 40 billion tonnes of CO2 per year can have no measurable effect on the atmosphere or the climate?
So, how much are you being paid to post this bullshit?
You obviously have absolutely no idea the scale of the energies at play here. Many times the Hiroshima Bomb per second.
How many times? Apparently the anthropogenic effects of climate change are currently causing the earth to accumulate and addition 4 Hiroshima Bombs per second. The grand total is now at around 2.2 billion bombs. So, I'm curious. Do you think this hurricane is 4 billion times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb?
LOL! Where'd they pull THAT out of?
Oh, wait. Let me guess...
Why add plain nastiness to all your other foaming wrongness in other posts on this story?
Professional troll?
I wish.
No, just goofing off at work, like everyone else here.
> That's one of the many reason the LYING, money-sucking "Climatologists" had to drop the moniker "Global Warming" in favor of the "Well, we can always claim it" name "Climate Change".
To which the proper response is still: "What part of 'chaotic' do you not understand?"
I would say the same thing, to those who see "Patterns" of "Climate Change" where in reality, none exist.
Hence, Chaos.
Let me guess, they are communists trying to brainwash people against energy companies and destroy our economy?
No no, wait, they are zombie drones OF the communists who don't even realize they are being used to brainwash people against our economy?
Ah wait no, I get it ... YOU'RE a zombie drone who may or may not realize your paranoid delusions were carefully crafted by the energy companies!
Nope. None of that.
Just the usual boring prosaic goals of human beings seeking self-fortune and self-aggrandizement. Nothing special.
No Communist plots. Just run-of-the-mill Greed and Avarice.
Yep, basically a 100 mile (or more) wide F4 tornado. All buildings aren't really build to take that kind of hit.
FTFY.
When the facts dont meet the hype you adjust the facts?
So the rest of the data is wrong just the stuff we have collected in the last 28 years?
That's EXACTLY what is being done, and it SHOULD be CRIMINAL.
It's not entirely happened yet so this is a fine time to say 'it's not much of a hurricane'. Please wait until all the people have been killed before coming around all 'climate change is a myth and this was no big deal'.
Cyclic Climate Change has been happening ever since there was an atmosphere on this planet.
Man-Made Climate Change is a myth.
How long is the recorded history of similarly accurate storm measurement? How old is the planet? Maybe we're just in a cycle that is a bit longer than the amount of time people have been able to measure hurricanes, or have been able to measure them as accurately.
This.
This is EXACTLY it.
We're like the blind men trying to describe the elephant. Caught in the weeds, trying to figure out how big the forest is.
But we've got PLENTY of people licking their chops, attempting to monetize FUD.
What's horrible is that some of them actually call themselves "Scientists".
No different than the "Scientists" during the Inquisitions. Go with the Flow. Get that Grant. Publish that Paper. Rinse, Repeat.
Science knows this would happen. Ever since we started unlocking the secrets of chaotic systems this has been well understood. Climate’s the biggest chaotic system there is.
There is nothing weird about this at all. This is the new direction. Not the new normal because that implies they’re all going to be like this from now on. The reality’s worse.
You're an idiot, entirely UNsupported by actual facts.
You got one thing right, though. Climates are big. REALLY big. So big that we would have to drop a few HUNDRED nuclear bombs (not spray a few thousand cans of hairspray, or suffer the farts of a few million cows), or have a couple of REALLY big Volcanic Eruptions nearly simultaneously, to effect more than a temporary and wholly-unmeasurable BLIP in Climactic Norms, even over a fairly small portion of the planet.
Mind you, this third world country has infrastructure that year after year withstands hurricanes on both coasts, and they are seldom "catastrophic" (i.e. one strong event per decade). The area where it is hitting is moderately populated, and has available shelter places with great resistance that have been used before (such as the touristic compounds in Puerto Vallarta region). Our country has hurricanes volcanos, sismicity, poverty and whatnot. But is much better prepared for a Katrina-style event than the USA.
So why don't you go out and stand in it, then let us know on Monday (if you're still alive)?
Scientific community vs nihilist right-wing shills is a pissing contest now? No, there is no equivalence between sane people and the destructive right-wing extremists who are driving us off a cliff.
And no equivalence between actual science and the grant-money-grubbing, lying "scientists" that will publish literally ANYTHING to get the next Grant.
And no, I am CERTAINLY no "Right-Wing" ANYTHING, let alone an "Extremist". If anything, it is the "Climate Change" mob (that is actually just the money-chasing mob) that is the "Extremists".
The belt of warm water feeding this late-season hurricane is from El Niño, which is a cycle independent of all other cycles, and not a part of any carbon warming that may be occurring.
WTF is "CARBON Warming"???
Yet ANOTHER pseudo-science term!
> This is no pissing contest, this is called 'hard experimental evidence'.
This is called "a single data point". Hurricanes have been down in recent years.
That's one of the many reason the LYING, money-sucking "Climatologists" had to drop the moniker "Global Warming" in favor of the "Well, we can always claim it" name "Climate Change".
This is no pissing contest, this is called 'hard experimental evidence'.
This is what large scale chaotic systems do when you steadily add energy to them.
Don't believe me? There will be the same headline next year, same 'unprecedented and strongest on record', but next year we're talking cat 6 or 7. Just as Patricia exploded into cat 5 faster than ever seen before, our global climate is exploding into new categories of storm with exactly the same trajectory for the exact same reason.
Understand climate. Study chaos. Learn. There's very little more important than that at this point.
You're a moron.
First off, there is no such thing above a Category 5 Hurricane, sorry.
Second, all the extra energy caused by man-made so-called Climate Change (renamed, because it was patently obvious that the "Global Warming" lie wasn't working anymore) would be consumed in a fraction of a second in a storm such as this.
You obviously have absolutely no idea the scale of the energies at play here. Many times the Hiroshima Bomb per second.
Don't know that I'd go that far. I didn't see anywhere in the article where the company was claiming anything that they aren't providing. The phone is being sold as modular and easily repairable. They don't say anything about being able to use those modules in future phone models.
If that's what they wanted, then they merely had to make the display/digitizer easily replaceable (which I'd be personally all-for). 99.9999999% of the time, Nothing else on a phone actually BREAKS.
But no, judging from the comments on here, it seems like most of their potential customers are hoping for "modular UPGRADES", like on an old-school tower PC. Which of course really isn't going to happen...
Purely objectively, Apple has the most closed combination of hardware, software and ecosystem of any mobile platform, and it always has had, and the trend is clearly further in that direction including with the battery issue we're discussing here. I'm not "dragging Apple into this". They dragged themselves into it by making themselves by some way the best example of my point.
I think you are focusing on the wrong adjective.
Instead of "most closed", perhaps you mean "best thought-out". Seriously. Apple always maintained that the problem with replaceable batteries is that they take up too much space; space that could otherwise be filled with battery.
And so, after all this time, perhaps the other manufacturers are coming to the conclusion that maybe Apple was right after all, and the space you lose on battery-wells and connectors, and the design flexibility you lose trying to make an off-the-shelf battery fit, negates pretty much all of the advantage of a replaceable battery.
Instead, Apple poured those Development efforts into perfecting their batteries, and battery charging circuitry, to both maximize the "work-time" and battery lifespan, to the point where, by the time the battery was finally getting a little "tired", the Device was probably due for replacement, anyway. And we're talking five years or more, not two, like in a lot of non-Apple devices.
The point is that you no longer have choices with other products. Samsung has turned the Galaxy phones into no-choice iPhone clones.
Comparing TFA to an S4, which is no longer available, is pointless.
Sure you have a choice: Don't buy one.