I somehow doubt that you've tried them or that you're able to be objective. Who'd you think you're fooling?
I don't have an Android either. WTF are either of us doing in this thread besides shitting it up?
Hey, I wondered what happened to you!!! How're ya doin' buddy?!?
All kidding aside, I have tried a number of similar Apps to GoodReader, and it really IS wonderful. But it is iOS-only.
What am I doing in this thread, besides baiting the Karma-Eater? Turnabout is fair play, man! The FOSSies won't stay out of the Apple threads; and in fact, they are generally chock-full of AC Apple-Haters, adding absolutely NOTHING to ANYTHING but bile and hyperbolic vitriol.
In fact, I have scratched and clawed my Excellent Karma back from a punish-modding storm down to POOR (in ONE thread-space!!) not once, not twice, but THREE separate times!!!
But it IS a spectacular (albeit non-free) File Reader/Player/Manager. FAR better than anything on Android.
... for some fairly restrictive definitions of "file", "manager", "reader" and "player." Reminds me of a joke about hammers and nails...
Jus' sayin', too;-)
Not nearly as restrictive as you think. You pretty much can get/put any file you wish. Now, whether you have an App than can DO anything with that file is entirely a different matter, and not related to GoodReader's capabilities. But, having said that, I have been pretty surprised at how many different filetypes it can actually open natively, and of course, for the rest, there's the "Open In..." option.
Am I missing something? I'm on the latest version 4.05, and my lockscreen doesn't seem any different. I agree that the app has become bloated, and it annoyingly won't let you configure it to start out looking at the filesystem instead of their homepage, which has ads and nothing much of use. But it still works, and hasn't messed with my lockscreen in any way I can detect.
That said, I'm on Cyanogenmod 13, which installed its own File Manager that doesn't look half bad for basic functionality...
Honestly, IDK. I use iOS.
My comment came from reading TFS, which stated:
" ES File Explorer now bundles in adware. This adware comes in the form of DU Battery Booster, which adds in a lockscreen on your phone and brings ads directly to your lockscreen, irrespective of your choice. There was no intimation, no choice, no changelog to mention the same; all features which are characteristic of such deceptive "Booster" apps."
Ads within the app, WHILE I'M USING IT, are one thing. Going for the lame money grab of spamming my lockscreen with worthless, bandwidth robbing shit. Well, they can rot in the hottest, smelliest part of hell.
What is being missed here, and is of FAR MORE CONSEQUENCE, is that Android allows the SILENT REPLACEMENT OF THE LOCKSCREEN.
It's hard to imagine a more "one stop" way to direct someone into a "fake OS" that lures the user seamlessly from the FAKE Lockscreen right into a FAKE Password Screen, and then???
I can't even begin to fathom the security implications of being able to simply REPLACE A LOCKSCREEN with NO USER INTERVENTION!!!
Like there isn't any malware for the iPhone. What kind of shill calls out a competitor for something that plagues their product just as much?
1. In NO way is the iOS Malware list "Just as much" as the Android list.
2. If you look at the list you linked-to, nearly every single entry except possibly 3 of them, requires either a Jailbroken iPhone, an "Enterprise Certificate" download, or the explicit and knowing consent to install (like the various "parental keyloggers"). None of those count, period.
Now, do you want to compare that list with a similar one for Android? Didn't think so...
Not to reply to my own post; but I meant to say "I am a Certified MS SQL Server Admin, and until this version of my life, was an embedded developer for nearly four DECADES."
And they say Apple users have a Superiority Complex (rolls eyes)...
They do. More-so they have a very acute level of post purchase rationalisation. This is true with any expensive purchase where the added price is mostly due to brand though (ie. designer clothing). Case and point: your last comment. Your post purchase rationalisation is so high that you try to diffuse a difficult truth with adolescent dismissal. Judging from your username you've made this company a pretty big part of your identity though, so I'd imagine you have even more emotionally at stake than your run-of-the-mill fanboy.
Yeahrigtsure. An ad Hominem attack based on my username. Do you have any idea how UN-original that is?
Listen, Bub: I happen to write Windows Application software for a living; so I think I have some breadth of Platform Experience. I am also a CERTIFIED MS SQL four DECADES.
And you really think that Apple owners are the only ones who think their platform-choice is the best? That's human-nature, you ignorant fucktard!
Oh, and it's "Case IN Point"; but I'll excuse that if English is not your first language. Otherwise, you're a MAROON!!!
When your parents make all your decisions for you and hold your hand every step of the way you might glean a false sense of security from this. Of course this is unfavorable to critical thinking adults as we realize the added security is mostly emotional, false, and only ever as good as the parent providing it.
Apple people like to endlessly brag that their babysat user experience comes with added security. Not only is this erroneous, but it relies on the ridiculous assumption that an American for-profit company will always have their customers best interest in mind - over their employees, their country, their shareholders, and their profits. Adorable, but not surprising - people that purchase Apple products aren't known for their intelligence, solid ideals, or proficiency with logic.
And they say Apple users have a Superiority Complex (rolls eyes)...
Fuck off. You add nothing but butt-hurt whiny bitch shit. You don't need to respond to every Apple insult.
I don't.
And at least I put my Karma where my mouth is, unlike you, ANONYMOUS COWARD.
There's a reason why my Karma is Excellent, even though I NEVER Post as AC, and that I almost continuously get Mod Points 15 at a time; and, conversely, why most people simply ignore/filter ACs, like you.
And as far as "adding nothing" to the "conversation", in amongst your ridiculous, puerile, ad Hominem attack, the one thing I DIDN'T see was a FACTUAL REBUTTAL to my assertion that "not buying an iPhone" (with the tacit suggestion to buy an Android phone instead), actually exposed the user to FAR more Malware than an iPhone user.
In the more civilized regions of this world where women serve men the voice is female because that's the default servant gender, that's what nature designed the genders for.
In the regions where the feminists have taken over control and restrict how people live the voice is female because everything has to be female.
In the regions in between, the voice is male because the feminists have infected society harmfully enough that the man is the default servant gender there.
Of course, in the regions the feminists have their tight and grip over the servant gender is still male, but the woman gets labeled as the servant gender, as a justification for higher pay for the women and even more work for the men. See the barbie book about barbie being a computer scientist as an example feminist utopy (of course depicting the truth and without the treacherous feminist distortion of facts and therefore anti-feminist).
Comparing GIMP to Photoshop is like comparing the intelligence of your janitor to Steven Hawking. They are in such different leagues they aren't even playing the same sport.
They do operate under the same rules. The problem is that humans aren't robots. If you show two humans the same set of rules you will get two interpretations of what exactly they mean.
Actually, I believe each of the District Courts has "Local Rules", too.
Yep, in fact they not only have Local Rules, but they (no surprise) even have Local PATENT Rules! Three guesses as to who APPROVES THEM...
Youre fairly new on hete, right? I ask because that topic has pretty much been settled on here a long time ago; let's just say that the support for "imaginary property," while not nonexistent, has been steadily waning for nearly twenty years; you are most definitely in the minority.
Like we tell the musicians, "Want to get paid? Perform or STFU."
Said the person living for free in their parents' basement.
And although you can say "Perform or STFU" to a musician (but not to their face, I'll bet!); what do you say to a software (or hardware) Developer?
While there has CERTAINLY been some abuse of Software Patents; the entire concept is not without merit.
The main issue in this country is that judges can be bought just like any other elected official. Judges having the final say over bad laws and statutes should be held to even higher standards of electoral rules than either senators or presidents. They are potentially the most powerful people in the US, interpreting laws as they see fit, if they get "donations", it colors their judgment and is no longer impartial.
And yet, they enjoy some of the most far-reaching Immunity from Civil Suit there is. Even if their motives are "impure" and you can PROVE IT.
Yeah, we never actually lost the concept of a Sovereign "King". We just divided him up into a million little Fiefdoms and Viceroys, all with essentially the same power to "do bad with impunity" that King George had so much fun with.
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I understand.
*pets his Windows Phone lovingly while thinking about gay sex*
What? I'm trying to fit in. Hmm... Your UID is similar to mine. I got my 10 year retard-chip today. 10 years I've been putting up with your ass. ;-)
Wow, I never noticed that about our UIDs. Cool!
Mod parent troll, their username is macs4all, they often troll as pro-Apple, etc. I mean... just look at this account.
So how about we look at YOUR account?
Oh, wait...
FOAD, ANONYMOUS COWARD!
Or why don'tcha LOGIN and put your Karma where your MOUTH is, LIKE I DO, EVERY SINGLE DAY.
I somehow doubt that you've tried them or that you're able to be objective. Who'd you think you're fooling?
I don't have an Android either. WTF are either of us doing in this thread besides shitting it up?
Hey, I wondered what happened to you!!! How're ya doin' buddy?!?
;-)
All kidding aside, I have tried a number of similar Apps to GoodReader, and it really IS wonderful. But it is iOS-only.
What am I doing in this thread, besides baiting the Karma-Eater? Turnabout is fair play, man! The FOSSies won't stay out of the Apple threads; and in fact, they are generally chock-full of AC Apple-Haters, adding absolutely NOTHING to ANYTHING but bile and hyperbolic vitriol.
In fact, I have scratched and clawed my Excellent Karma back from a punish-modding storm down to POOR (in ONE thread-space!!) not once, not twice, but THREE separate times!!!
So yeah, it's a little bit "personal"...
And, like you, I like to see myself type...
But it IS a spectacular (albeit non-free) File Reader/Player/Manager. FAR better than anything on Android.
... for some fairly restrictive definitions of "file", "manager", "reader" and "player." Reminds me of a joke about hammers and nails ...
Jus' sayin', too ;-)
Not nearly as restrictive as you think. You pretty much can get/put any file you wish. Now, whether you have an App than can DO anything with that file is entirely a different matter, and not related to GoodReader's capabilities. But, having said that, I have been pretty surprised at how many different filetypes it can actually open natively, and of course, for the rest, there's the "Open In..." option.
Am I missing something? I'm on the latest version 4.05, and my lockscreen doesn't seem any different. I agree that the app has become bloated, and it annoyingly won't let you configure it to start out looking at the filesystem instead of their homepage, which has ads and nothing much of use. But it still works, and hasn't messed with my lockscreen in any way I can detect.
That said, I'm on Cyanogenmod 13, which installed its own File Manager that doesn't look half bad for basic functionality...
Honestly, IDK. I use iOS.
My comment came from reading TFS, which stated:
" ES File Explorer now bundles in adware. This adware comes in the form of DU Battery Booster, which adds in a lockscreen on your phone and brings ads directly to your lockscreen, irrespective of your choice. There was no intimation, no choice, no changelog to mention the same; all features which are characteristic of such deceptive "Booster" apps."
Oh Macfriend, you're so silly and witty!
But it IS a spectacular (albeit non-free) File Reader/Player/Manager. FAR better than anything on Android.
Jus' sayin'...
BULL. SHIT.
Ads within the app, WHILE I'M USING IT, are one thing. Going for the lame money grab of spamming my lockscreen with worthless, bandwidth robbing shit. Well, they can rot in the hottest, smelliest part of hell.
What is being missed here, and is of FAR MORE CONSEQUENCE, is that Android allows the SILENT REPLACEMENT OF THE LOCKSCREEN.
It's hard to imagine a more "one stop" way to direct someone into a "fake OS" that lures the user seamlessly from the FAKE Lockscreen right into a FAKE Password Screen, and then???
I can't even begin to fathom the security implications of being able to simply REPLACE A LOCKSCREEN with NO USER INTERVENTION!!!
This is the hands-down Best File Manager/Viewer/Player for mobile devices.
Oh wait... You said "Android", right?
So sorry!
https://www.google.com/search?...
Like there isn't any malware for the iPhone. What kind of shill calls out a competitor for something that plagues their product just as much?
1. In NO way is the iOS Malware list "Just as much" as the Android list.
2. If you look at the list you linked-to, nearly every single entry except possibly 3 of them, requires either a Jailbroken iPhone, an "Enterprise Certificate" download, or the explicit and knowing consent to install (like the various "parental keyloggers"). None of those count, period.
Now, do you want to compare that list with a similar one for Android? Didn't think so...
Not to reply to my own post; but I meant to say "I am a Certified MS SQL Server Admin, and until this version of my life, was an embedded developer for nearly four DECADES."
Slashdot somehow ate that, sorry.
And they say Apple users have a Superiority Complex (rolls eyes)...
They do. More-so they have a very acute level of post purchase rationalisation. This is true with any expensive purchase where the added price is mostly due to brand though (ie. designer clothing). Case and point: your last comment. Your post purchase rationalisation is so high that you try to diffuse a difficult truth with adolescent dismissal. Judging from your username you've made this company a pretty big part of your identity though, so I'd imagine you have even more emotionally at stake than your run-of-the-mill fanboy.
Yeahrigtsure. An ad Hominem attack based on my username. Do you have any idea how UN-original that is?
Listen, Bub: I happen to write Windows Application software for a living; so I think I have some breadth of Platform Experience. I am also a CERTIFIED MS SQL four DECADES.
And you really think that Apple owners are the only ones who think their platform-choice is the best? That's human-nature, you ignorant fucktard!
Oh, and it's "Case IN Point"; but I'll excuse that if English is not your first language. Otherwise, you're a MAROON!!!
When your parents make all your decisions for you and hold your hand every step of the way you might glean a false sense of security from this. Of course this is unfavorable to critical thinking adults as we realize the added security is mostly emotional, false, and only ever as good as the parent providing it. Apple people like to endlessly brag that their babysat user experience comes with added security. Not only is this erroneous, but it relies on the ridiculous assumption that an American for-profit company will always have their customers best interest in mind - over their employees, their country, their shareholders, and their profits. Adorable, but not surprising - people that purchase Apple products aren't known for their intelligence, solid ideals, or proficiency with logic.
And they say Apple users have a Superiority Complex (rolls eyes)...
Fuck off. You add nothing but butt-hurt whiny bitch shit. You don't need to respond to every Apple insult.
I don't.
And at least I put my Karma where my mouth is, unlike you, ANONYMOUS COWARD.
There's a reason why my Karma is Excellent, even though I NEVER Post as AC, and that I almost continuously get Mod Points 15 at a time; and, conversely, why most people simply ignore/filter ACs, like you.
And as far as "adding nothing" to the "conversation", in amongst your ridiculous, puerile, ad Hominem attack, the one thing I DIDN'T see was a FACTUAL REBUTTAL to my assertion that "not buying an iPhone" (with the tacit suggestion to buy an Android phone instead), actually exposed the user to FAR more Malware than an iPhone user.
In the more civilized regions of this world where women serve men the voice is female because that's the default servant gender, that's what nature designed the genders for.
In the regions where the feminists have taken over control and restrict how people live the voice is female because everything has to be female.
In the regions in between, the voice is male because the feminists have infected society harmfully enough that the man is the default servant gender there.
Of course, in the regions the feminists have their tight and grip over the servant gender is still male, but the woman gets labeled as the servant gender, as a justification for higher pay for the women and even more work for the men. See the barbie book about barbie being a computer scientist as an example feminist utopy (of course depicting the truth and without the treacherous feminist distortion of facts and therefore anti-feminist).
It's a user preference setting, retard.
Not having any crApple products I can't be sure, but on other people's ipwnes Siri is always male.
Is that a region specific thing?
Nit that you deserve a reply; but Siri's gender is a User Preference setting.
Or even better, don't buy an iPhone. Other added benefits are more user freedom, new technology earlier, and getting to keep more of your money.
And you forgot the mist important "advantage" of not using an iPhone: Have access to an almost exclusive library of Malware.
Oh, and top end Samsung phones and top end iPhones are virtually the same price.
Comparing GIMP to Photoshop is like comparing the intelligence of your janitor to Steven Hawking. They are in such different leagues they aren't even playing the same sport.
Unless it is this janitor...
apt-get install imagemagick
Hmmm. Isn't that the package that /. JUST had an article on about longstanding vulnerabilities?
Or get rid of Adobe for open software alternatives such as GIMP which is available for most operating systems.
The sad thing is, you're such a freetard that you probably actually believe that is a viable solution.
And even more that doesn't. The "just use Wine" solution is garbage. What Linux really needs is full support by major software vendors.
In the words of Dana Carvey (as George H.W. Bush) "Not gonna happen."
Really? The fisher price GUI w/ slow animations sucks quite a bit.
True. But I thought we were talking about OS X, not Windows.
Made by the same company that will silently upload your files to cloud and them delete them? Yeah, not using that either.
You do realize, if course, that that story has been completely discredited. Look around in this thread, and you'll see...
They do operate under the same rules. The problem is that humans aren't robots. If you show two humans the same set of rules you will get two interpretations of what exactly they mean.
Actually, I believe each of the District Courts has "Local Rules", too.
Yep, in fact they not only have Local Rules, but they (no surprise) even have Local PATENT Rules! Three guesses as to who APPROVES THEM...
Youre fairly new on hete, right? I ask because that topic has pretty much been settled on here a long time ago; let's just say that the support for "imaginary property," while not nonexistent, has been steadily waning for nearly twenty years; you are most definitely in the minority. Like we tell the musicians, "Want to get paid? Perform or STFU."
Said the person living for free in their parents' basement.
And although you can say "Perform or STFU" to a musician (but not to their face, I'll bet!); what do you say to a software (or hardware) Developer?
While there has CERTAINLY been some abuse of Software Patents; the entire concept is not without merit.
The main issue in this country is that judges can be bought just like any other elected official. Judges having the final say over bad laws and statutes should be held to even higher standards of electoral rules than either senators or presidents. They are potentially the most powerful people in the US, interpreting laws as they see fit, if they get "donations", it colors their judgment and is no longer impartial.
And yet, they enjoy some of the most far-reaching Immunity from Civil Suit there is. Even if their motives are "impure" and you can PROVE IT.
Yeah, we never actually lost the concept of a Sovereign "King". We just divided him up into a million little Fiefdoms and Viceroys, all with essentially the same power to "do bad with impunity" that King George had so much fun with.