Not a fanboy and never made the claim that everyone wants the same things I do. But if you want to seriously dispute that the iPhone singlehandedly revolutionized the mobile device market, I don't think I need to say anything in response; the argument speaks for itself.
Yes, the iPhone was the device that got all the tech semi-literates and illiterates to use web-enabled mobile devices. Thats the revolution of which you speak. However, many of us were already there well before the iPhone brought it to a level even the pre-verbal could use.
And BTW: painfully obvious fanboi is painfully obvious.
I'm sure that there are hundreds of thousands of people with long term depression who have never considered that, or rejected it because they hate leafy greens.
Good thing we don't need leafy greens to get our B-complex then.
But seriously, I don't doubt that people suffering from depression would be handicapped in learning about this. They have little motivation, by nature.
depression isn't made up shit that can be fixed with a magic diet.
Hardly, but your typical Apple hate has made you think that it is.
FYI, I actually had an iPhone 3GS for about 3 months. Couldn't stand it. Yes, it looked great, but with the sole exception of surfing the web I found it quite inferior to my Blackberry. And web surfing on a handheld is not my idea of a good time anyway. Within a week I was back to my old Blackberry for all my mobile needs.
Obviously, YYMMV. Those who are all about the browser, facebook, and so on probably prefer the iPhone. Not me. Why is it you fanbois can never understand that not everyone wants the same things you do?
When you can report that all the many studies done on this subject agree, you might actually have something. There are so many studies whose results contradict each other every day. This is why we need to learn to think critically, and not just swallow every bit of "information" we get from some "study". Do you think this particular study actually surveyed evey household in the US?:)
Yes, the crap quality phone lines are a huge issue for those of us in outlying areas without broadband options. I relocated to such an area last December, and my average connection speed hovers between 1.5 and 5.2 kbps. It's painful, and I can see how the average person simply wouldn't bother. Using a smartphone isn't much better when you're more than 4 miles from the nearest tower, either. AT&T took all that tax money 2 or 3 years ago to "rollout broadband to rural residents", but they haven't done a damned thing about the problem. Our phone lines are probably the same ones they installed in the early 60s.
Nonsense, many seniors are online and many kids are not. It's more an issue of education and class than age. We have a lot of people of all ages in the US who couldn't read a book or use a computer if their lives depended upon it.
As a thought experiment, take an iPhone 4S and stick Linux+GNOME 3 on it. Could totally be done in theory. Would render the device crap.
Straw man much? You could say the exact same thing about replacing iOS with OS X. Ever tried to use a Mac with no mouse? It's nearly impossible...
OTOH, replace iOS on an iPhone with cyanogenmod and what would you get?:D Okay, I'll admit it's a matter of personal preference, but your post reads like it was written by a giggling and squealing schoolgirl. Yeah, Jobs did a better job dumbing-down the interface for non-nerds. Personally, I was just fine with my PalmOS and Blackberry devices long before the iFad started. I even knew some people who were thrilled to death with their iPaq running winCE or whatever (though I've always lacked the patience for using Redmond's stuff for more than a few minutes at a time) .
Not everyone needs teh shiney sparkley to get useful things done.:)
Some people will not be able to get beyond their fear reaction and to them I'm sure I'm a monster. However, there is much more helpful information to be gleaned from this experience than "derp, nucular hain't a option". Yes, it sucks that it happened and the human tragedy is real. Does that mean we must now prioritize emotional reaction over scientific inquiry? That just leads to throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
I think the point is that fame is a "build 'em up, tear 'em down" game -- that's part of the entertainment as far as most "consumers" are concerned. All famous people know this, yet they often try to resist that inevitable equal yet opposite reaction... Don't we all just want to have our cake and eat it, too?:)
I apologize if what I said came off as insensitive, just trying to be objective. Ultimately, what happened in Japan should be an excellent learning experience for the engineers who design these facilities. I hope that can be said without people misunderstanding and freaking out, because in fact my heart goes out to those affected.
The Japanese situation has people like mdsolar doing the Chicken Little all over the web. In reality they should feel reassured because the worst has happened and it didn't mean the end of the world. Hell, it didn't even mean the end of one small set of islands. That's quite good news, isn't it?
That might be just a bit impractical, but certainly they are free to drop out of the cruel, pitiless public eye that helped them make a bazillion dollahs.:)
Bingo! How does a court injunction against a reporter have any bearing on anyone else? And how can such an injunction be enforced if the target discloses the "illegal information" (**sneer**) pseudonymously? The judge is obviously drunk on his own power if he imagines he can prevent gossip.
When a troll like the one I was responding to butts in and starts impersonating a competent user and telling lies about wmaker. it annoys me a bit. I don't tend to be very patient with bullshit or bullshitters, and happen to be quite good at spotting them. Couldn't really care less what people think of me or my posts, frankly. Mod me up, mod me down, ignore me -- whatever. This is just a discussion site for geeks, it ain't life or death.
On my Win 7 laptop I have full disk encryption, malware and anti-virus. Why because to safely use windows you need that protection. At home, I donâ(TM)t have any of those overheads on my Macs, not do I fear that someone will produce a bad piece of software that will knock out my router.
You've fallen into the trap that people who don't understand networks, security, and the law are prone to fall into -- that of believing that what's secure enough for home use is secure enough for corporate use. It isn't. Not even close.
Ultimately I foresee a solution which has people using their device of choice as a thin client, with security checking done by the server against the contents of the device's storage media. Of course, supporting every device under such a scenario is unlikely to occur, and devices which are already essentially administered via the manufacturer (iOS) would be harder to verify authoritatively, to the point where most sane admins won't want to bother with them. Especially since an iOS device is not a proper replacement for a workstation anyway.
Not claiming to have "the answer", I was just saying what I said. You've made a lot of rationalizations for the status quo, but I feel my opinion on this stands up well on its own merit. Lots of people have tried to "correct me" on this issue, but all they can ever really do is make excuses because what I said is true. Whether or not you're in favor of private property ownership is a completely separate issue, od course.:)
I know it's impractical, but what I said is still true. And I am not at all anti-taxation BTW, just anti-property tax. In reality, either you have private property ownership without an enforced property tax or you enforce property taxes so the government actually owns the land and will take it back if you don't pay property taxes. It's pretty simple.
I am curious which part you're talking about, though. The anti-phishing stuff is relatively harmless, for example. The idea that DPI for broad-scale monitoring and censorship is OK to protect us from child porn is terrifying.
Yes, exactly what I mean. The tracking and eavesdropping and DPI and warrantless seizures to "protect" us all from the bad guys is going to be what turns it into just another corporate/government outlet, like cable TV or FM radio. We're already seeing the foundation laid for going from a wide-open www to a glorified version of AOL (or compuserve, minitel, etc), but with added "enforcement" and "protection" features. The worst of all possible worlds, IMO.
Stop being an ass. I neither have nor want an iThingie. I'm just not irrational, so naturally expect that the way to deal with Foxconn is to (1) not knowingly buy anything made there and (2) put pressure on *Foxconn* directly, as they are the bad actor in question. But that's too rational for slashdot, probably... Contains no shame, hatred, or logical fallacies.
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Yes, the iPhone was the device that got all the tech semi-literates and illiterates to use web-enabled mobile devices. Thats the revolution of which you speak. However, many of us were already there well before the iPhone brought it to a level even the pre-verbal could use. And BTW: painfully obvious fanboi is painfully obvious.
Good thing we don't need leafy greens to get our B-complex then. But seriously, I don't doubt that people suffering from depression would be handicapped in learning about this. They have little motivation, by nature.
Not a magic diet, proper nutrition. Neanderthal.
FYI, I actually had an iPhone 3GS for about 3 months. Couldn't stand it. Yes, it looked great, but with the sole exception of surfing the web I found it quite inferior to my Blackberry. And web surfing on a handheld is not my idea of a good time anyway. Within a week I was back to my old Blackberry for all my mobile needs. Obviously, YYMMV. Those who are all about the browser, facebook, and so on probably prefer the iPhone. Not me. Why is it you fanbois can never understand that not everyone wants the same things you do?
Maybe you can sell the concept to what's left of AOL.
When you can report that all the many studies done on this subject agree, you might actually have something. There are so many studies whose results contradict each other every day. This is why we need to learn to think critically, and not just swallow every bit of "information" we get from some "study". Do you think this particular study actually surveyed evey household in the US? :)
Yes, the crap quality phone lines are a huge issue for those of us in outlying areas without broadband options. I relocated to such an area last December, and my average connection speed hovers between 1.5 and 5.2 kbps. It's painful, and I can see how the average person simply wouldn't bother. Using a smartphone isn't much better when you're more than 4 miles from the nearest tower, either. AT&T took all that tax money 2 or 3 years ago to "rollout broadband to rural residents", but they haven't done a damned thing about the problem. Our phone lines are probably the same ones they installed in the early 60s.
Nonsense, many seniors are online and many kids are not. It's more an issue of education and class than age. We have a lot of people of all ages in the US who couldn't read a book or use a computer if their lives depended upon it.
I'm a poor person who has a donkey. He's cute, but useless -- kicks if you try to ride him, and he bites too!
Straw man much? You could say the exact same thing about replacing iOS with OS X. Ever tried to use a Mac with no mouse? It's nearly impossible... OTOH, replace iOS on an iPhone with cyanogenmod and what would you get? :D Okay, I'll admit it's a matter of personal preference, but your post reads like it was written by a giggling and squealing schoolgirl. Yeah, Jobs did a better job dumbing-down the interface for non-nerds. Personally, I was just fine with my PalmOS and Blackberry devices long before the iFad started. I even knew some people who were thrilled to death with their iPaq running winCE or whatever (though I've always lacked the patience for using Redmond's stuff for more than a few minutes at a time) .
Not everyone needs teh shiney sparkley to get useful things done. :)
Or you could just supplement your diet with B-complex vitamins. Sometimes the simpler method really is best.
Some people will not be able to get beyond their fear reaction and to them I'm sure I'm a monster. However, there is much more helpful information to be gleaned from this experience than "derp, nucular hain't a option". Yes, it sucks that it happened and the human tragedy is real. Does that mean we must now prioritize emotional reaction over scientific inquiry? That just leads to throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
I think the point is that fame is a "build 'em up, tear 'em down" game -- that's part of the entertainment as far as most "consumers" are concerned. All famous people know this, yet they often try to resist that inevitable equal yet opposite reaction... Don't we all just want to have our cake and eat it, too? :)
I apologize if what I said came off as insensitive, just trying to be objective. Ultimately, what happened in Japan should be an excellent learning experience for the engineers who design these facilities. I hope that can be said without people misunderstanding and freaking out, because in fact my heart goes out to those affected.
The Japanese situation has people like mdsolar doing the Chicken Little all over the web. In reality they should feel reassured because the worst has happened and it didn't mean the end of the world. Hell, it didn't even mean the end of one small set of islands. That's quite good news, isn't it?
That might be just a bit impractical, but certainly they are free to drop out of the cruel, pitiless public eye that helped them make a bazillion dollahs. :)
Bingo! How does a court injunction against a reporter have any bearing on anyone else? And how can such an injunction be enforced if the target discloses the "illegal information" (**sneer**) pseudonymously? The judge is obviously drunk on his own power if he imagines he can prevent gossip.
When a troll like the one I was responding to butts in and starts impersonating a competent user and telling lies about wmaker. it annoys me a bit. I don't tend to be very patient with bullshit or bullshitters, and happen to be quite good at spotting them. Couldn't really care less what people think of me or my posts, frankly. Mod me up, mod me down, ignore me -- whatever. This is just a discussion site for geeks, it ain't life or death.
You've fallen into the trap that people who don't understand networks, security, and the law are prone to fall into -- that of believing that what's secure enough for home use is secure enough for corporate use. It isn't. Not even close.
Unlikely. IRL there are only two classes of people whose "time is their own": the filthy rich and the dirt poor.
Ultimately I foresee a solution which has people using their device of choice as a thin client, with security checking done by the server against the contents of the device's storage media. Of course, supporting every device under such a scenario is unlikely to occur, and devices which are already essentially administered via the manufacturer (iOS) would be harder to verify authoritatively, to the point where most sane admins won't want to bother with them. Especially since an iOS device is not a proper replacement for a workstation anyway.
Not claiming to have "the answer", I was just saying what I said. You've made a lot of rationalizations for the status quo, but I feel my opinion on this stands up well on its own merit. Lots of people have tried to "correct me" on this issue, but all they can ever really do is make excuses because what I said is true. Whether or not you're in favor of private property ownership is a completely separate issue, od course. :)
I know it's impractical, but what I said is still true. And I am not at all anti-taxation BTW, just anti-property tax. In reality, either you have private property ownership without an enforced property tax or you enforce property taxes so the government actually owns the land and will take it back if you don't pay property taxes. It's pretty simple.
Yes, exactly what I mean. The tracking and eavesdropping and DPI and warrantless seizures to "protect" us all from the bad guys is going to be what turns it into just another corporate/government outlet, like cable TV or FM radio. We're already seeing the foundation laid for going from a wide-open www to a glorified version of AOL (or compuserve, minitel, etc), but with added "enforcement" and "protection" features. The worst of all possible worlds, IMO.
Property taxes make true private ownership of private property impossible. Don't pay the (rent) tax, and the landlord (government) will evict you.
Stop being an ass. I neither have nor want an iThingie. I'm just not irrational, so naturally expect that the way to deal with Foxconn is to (1) not knowingly buy anything made there and (2) put pressure on *Foxconn* directly, as they are the bad actor in question. But that's too rational for slashdot, probably... Contains no shame, hatred, or logical fallacies.