Alienware, Alternate, CyberpowerPC, Falcon Northwest, iBuyPower, Next Spa, Scan, Digital Storm, Gigabyte, Materiel.net, Origin PC, Webhallen and Zotac all seem interested enough. Also, although they don't seem to have officially thrown their hat in yet, the CEO of Razer seems pretty interested. As it is, Valve have already got a couple of prominent gaming pc manufacturers on board, where did you get hardware manufacturers weren't interested in their platform from?
I believe you still have to support IE 7 and 8...the real fun starts when: 1. A corporate client wants a responsive intranet app to replace an old intranet app so that it can be used on tablets and cell phones, of course they also have ie7 deployed on all the company computers and you end up using all sorts of hacks to ensure that the said responsive intranet app doesn't fall on its face when the browser is ie7 or ie8. 2. Having to explain to a client why designing/supporting their responsive commercial website on ie 7 and 8 will cost them more.
Don't get me wrong, IE5.5 and IE6 were actually decent browsers back when they were released, it was what MS did after gaining a dominant position in the browser market that was wrong on so many levels (although I guess many slashdotters would have been happier if MS had succeeded in stagnating the internet and rich web apps hadn't been possible)...
Also, YotaPhone, the specs are similar to flagship phones but its not a tablet and it has a regular screen and an eink screen so not exactly what you probably had in mind but still:-), a full fledge android device with an eink display.
What was not inevitable about the iOS UI? Once the shift from a stylus-centric user interface to a finger-centric interface started with the reduction in the cost of capacitive touchscreens, icon-based interfaces were bound to replace the menu based interfaces found in WinCE and Symbian touchscreen devices. The LG Prada had an icon based interface and the icons were arranged in a grid (how was that particular patent granted? Even Windows 95 had icons arranged in a grid, was it just because the patent had 'on a phone'?) This patent seems to have been invalidated in Europe.
The unlock gesture patented by Apple clearly had prior art (on a phone, no less) and Dutch and German courts agreed with Samsung and invalidated that particular patent.
The only patent that was accepted and for which a couple of Samsung devices were banned was the bounce-back effect in the gallery app, I don't know why this patent claim was upheld but the bounce-back effect on overscrolling has been around for a while in terms of UI design (maybe it had something to do with 'on a phone'.). The rubber banding patent itself was apparently partially invalidated by the USPTO based on similarities to another patent filed by Apple itself and an even earlier patent filed by AOL.
So again, which court of law were you talking about?
Why claim that Android changed from looking like a Blackberry to looking like an iPhone when the LG Prada predates the iphone and had a similar interface? Plus there were substantial differences between the iOS UI and the Android UI. 1. Where upon unlocking the device in iOS you end up in the app screen, on Android you have multiple homescreens with app shortcuts and widgets and to get to the app drawer, you have to click an on screen icon (Huawei is the only Android OEM with a UI lacking a homescreen that I am aware of). 2. iOS lacked a notification drawer until recently while on Android, the notification drawer was always a central UI element. 3. iOS also seemed to try bundling 3rd party apps' settings in the settings app whereas on Android, you'd access app settings by pressing the menu button (initially a physical button replaced by a capacitive button in later incarnations) while inside that particular app (I found the iOS way confusing tbh when I got to play with a mate's iPhone 4 back when it was released, things might have changed in more recent versions of iOS).
So the Nokia 6600 should have implemented a technology that had not been developed yet? If it was implementing technology that hadn't been developed, I would have much rather Nokia had pulled all the stops and just added a teleporter to the 6600 instead, that would have been far more useful. But let's be realistic, shall we?
I never thought of the Samsung F700 as a smartphone, it was a glorified feature phone with a pretty nice interface and the convenience of a slideout qwerty keypad. It was a decent enough phone. For the record, it did pretty much everything the iphone 1st gen did (somethings better, somethings worse) but unlike partisan ifans, I am not claiming that the F700 set the direction the smartphones went in so I fail to see your point.
Motorola because having Jobs launch it would make big news, as it did. Jobs maybe wanted more licensees, or had something to prove to record companies
Please correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Apple claim that they had already started working on iphone concepts in 2005? If so, what were they doing looking for licensees? Also, what did Jobs have to prove to the record companies? By this point in time the ipod was almost synonymous with music players.
I mean the patents that they won with in a court of law. Leaving your opinion worthless.
Oh you mean like in Netherlands where the Dutch Supreme Court limited the applicability of that design patent, claiming prior art? Or maybe you meant UK where as a result of a High Court ruling Apple had to run ads saying Samsung had not infringed its rights? Apple's claims were also denied in several other courts across the globe but I'm not feeling like looking up all the references for you. The only courts which have ruled in favor of Apple are German and American (tbh that particular fiasco should have been classified as a mistrial what with the jury foreman's vested interest and the jurors getting manipulated). So which court of law were you talking about? I think I'll go with the British court, if that's alright with you.
The G1 iPhone wasn't even a smartphone. As it didn't have third party apps, there was no such thing as a bar on multitasking. iOS certainly was a multitasking OS even back then, and the in-built apps certainly multitasked.
As for all Symbian phones, you yourself claim that Symbian was almost an embedded system with huge constraints wrt power and memory, with powerful hardware getting cheap enough and becoming a viable alternative as it did, the direction the industry headed in was inevitable. Apple releasing the iPhone was irrelevant since Apple wasn't the only one learning from the mistakes and missteps of every phone manufacturer on the planet, most phone manufacturers were learning and their designs were evolving in pretty much the same direction or did Apple design the iPhone in a vacuum with Jobs pulling a 'let there be light'?
Symbian definitely had some great ideas, every phone manufacturer (including Apple) learned a great deal from the experiments in UI design that went into making smartphones in the late 90s to the mid-2000s, Symbian, WinCE (with all its custom OEM skins) and Blackberry were all pioneers. Learning from others while you sit on the sidelines and then trying to push everyone off the playing field through legal shenanigans when they were the ones who did all the pioneering work is downright skulduggery but since it's Apple doing it and apparently Jobs' reality distortion field is still alive and kicking even after Jobs kicked the bucket so lets cheer the douchebags on!
Are you mad? Have you ever tried playing an MMO? If every player in an MMO thought oh noos, if I attack this other random player to gain resources or xp or what have you, I might hurt their feelings, you'd be left with nothing but a facebookesque social network where people interact using 3d avatars instead of an MMO. The OBJECTIVE of MMOs is to build your character/base so you can annihilate your opponents ie other players...maybe you should go look for something with unicorns and rainbows instead of an actual MMO?
The ROKR was very much a Motorola phone, that had licensed the ability to play DRMed tunes from the iTunes store. It's physical form and UI had nothing to do with Apple.
Wrong, the ROKR was a collaboration between Motorola and Apple. If not, explain why Steve Jobs was unveiling the phone?
I'm well aware what direction the market was moving in. I'm in Europe and I already had a touchscreen phone in 2002. The Sony Ericsson P800. But since that's not the specifics of the Patent dispute it's not relevant.
Neonode N1M
Did you mean the patent with prior art in an actual product? Here's someone sliding to unlock their N1M. Please note that this phone was launched in Q1 2005, well before the iPhone 1st Gen. Neonode N1m ran a custom GUI (called Neno) on top of WinCE 5.
Also, please note that the iPhone 1st Gen wasn't that much of a smartphone, my Nokia 6600 from 2003, running Symbian, could multitask while the iPhone 1st Gen could not. Also, the Samsung F700 had 3G while iPhone 1st Gen did not.
Maybe iPhones should be banned from the market because Apple infringed patents that put the phone in the iPhone, just sayin...
LG Prada
The LG KE850, also known as the LG Prada, is a touchscreen mobile phone made by LG Electronics. It was first announced on December 12, 2006. It was the first mobile phone with a capacitive touchscreen when LG started selling it in May 2007 (iPhone first gen was released at the end of June 2007).
Samsung SGH F700
The SGH-F700 was a mobile phone manufactured by Samsung. Using Vodafone as its network provider, the phone was first introduced at the 3GSM World Congress that was held in February 2007. Sales to the European market started in November 2007.
The phone had a 3.2" color display and incorporated a touch screen/touch pad interaction system and a slide-out QWERTY key pad. The phone contained a 3 megapixel camera. Furthermore, the handset is HSDPA and Bluetooth 2.0 compatible and possessed mini-USB and microSD memory slots. A Korean design patent for this black, rectangular, round-cornered phone was filed by Samsung in December 2006 prior to the release of the image of the iPhone but after the release of the HTC TyTn which it resembled with its rectangular design and slide out keyboard.
I actually had this phone (got it in Dec. 2007) and while it had a resistive touchscreen instead of a capacitive one, it did not have any tiny icons.
Also of note here should be HTC Tytn which HTC released in June 2006. Looking at this phone, I think HTC T-Mobile G1 (which I purchased and had to unlock to use on the network I was on at the time) is a pretty linear progression of this design.
It is pretty obvious that touchscreens were the way the industry was moving in. Apple had nothing to do with the development of the underlying technology which made the shift to capacitive touchscreens possible and they weren't even the first company to release a phone with a capacitive touchscreen.
Oh and before you throw around what Android looked like in 2005, have a look at this collaboration between Motorola and Apple from 2005, the Motorola Rokr, a phone with a candybar form factor with physical keys on the front (where the physical keys are the num-pad) and here, you have Steve Jobs unveiling the phone.
Or maybe when the soviets propped up a government in relatively progressive Afghanistan of yore, a state that was in the Soviet sphere of influence anyway, America shouldn't have interfered and we wouldn't have these bigoted religious zealots running about blowing shit up across the globe! Something about reaping what one sows and all that...
Out of the remaining three countries making the top 10:
8. Austria has a very strong social democratic and socialist (not Marxist) presence.
9. Iceland is social democratic.
10. Australia has a mixed economy with an emphasis on private ownership, lower tax rates (when compared to Europe) and a universal safety net.
I was specifically comparing USA with social democracies to counter your comment where you gave the impression that any government intervention ends up benefiting the rich and powerful to the detriment of the little man. I have no idea how UAE is relevant or why you'd bring it up since it is ranked below the countries with social democracy, maybe you were trying to allude to the fact that even a monarchy is better then the American model?
Name the last competent American president? Bush Junior? Bush Senior? Reagan? Ford? Nixon? None of these fine gentlemen?
I never said you were comparing Obama to Engels or Marx, I said you wanted everyone to believe that Obama was the embodiment of what Marx and Engels preached and that was sarcastic. While I concur that you never mentioned anything of the sort, let me congratulate on choosing a pseudonym that perfectly matches your personality:-)
Since there were no real alternatives available and both parties are pretty much the same thing with different labels, different talking heads putting their own particular spin on the same ideas, I guess US based slashdotters should have refrained from voting altogether. I mean both parties are right wing and the only difference is their public image. Care to enlighten the rest of us who you voted for?
Riddle me this sumdumass, why are citizens of social democracies rated so much higher on happiness and satisfaction indexes? All these states have these things in common:
high tax rates
universal health care
free education
collective bargaining of wages through unionization
social security net
I know, you should start a campaign to bring freedom to these poor-enslaved-by-their-respective-governments-sheeple...Me? I think the governments of these countries do help and the problem with the US is that the left is so far skewed to the right that even the left-most American thinkers are center-right at best...of course you would have everyone believe that Obama is the embodiment of what Carl Marx and Friedrich Engels preached!
Dexpot
It works with windows 7 and 8.1;-) (also give QtTabBar or Clover a try if you ever have to use windows for an extended period of time, they add tabs to windows explorer).
I completely agree with your sentiments btw, I am just pointing out these extensions for anyone that might have a need for them, I had to mess about with several different freeware alternatives before finally settling for these since they helped recreate my kde environment best:-) ). Now if I could only get wobbly windows somehow, it would be perfect...
add to this the fact that several not-so-densely-populated areas in several developed nations still don't have 3g coverage and all you get is a crappy edge signal which is not ideal for anything other than web pages with plain text, and the idea of streaming music/videos and replacing voice telephony with voip seems ludicrous.
Also, in several under-developed countries, Edge/2G is still the standard (before anyone gets offended by the politically incorrect 'under-developed', I am a denizen of such a country and while the speeds of wired and wireless internet have improved tremendously, Edge and 2G are still the standard which is why when I was in the market for a new phone ~6 months ago, I chose a Samsung Galaxy S4 as opposed to a HTC One or Google Nexus 5 or an LG G2).
stop using ad-supported websites and the malicious advertising will go away...you do realise that these websites aren't free, right? if the website isn't paywalled and its not selling something, the owner of the site has to pay for hosting, bandwidth and maybe even development/maintenance (if they aren't developers themselves) somehow, care to propose a model which does not involve paywalling most of the internet and removes them malicious adverts at the same time? no? didn't think so!
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That-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named or You-Know-What
He is... They happen to be providing content that is useful in this particular case while he's not providing anything in return
Alienware, Alternate, CyberpowerPC, Falcon Northwest, iBuyPower, Next Spa, Scan, Digital Storm, Gigabyte, Materiel.net, Origin PC, Webhallen and Zotac all seem interested enough. Also, although they don't seem to have officially thrown their hat in yet, the CEO of Razer seems pretty interested. As it is, Valve have already got a couple of prominent gaming pc manufacturers on board, where did you get hardware manufacturers weren't interested in their platform from?
Your turn anonymous coward...kudos tepples
I believe you still have to support IE 7 and 8...the real fun starts when:
1. A corporate client wants a responsive intranet app to replace an old intranet app so that it can be used on tablets and cell phones, of course they also have ie7 deployed on all the company computers and you end up using all sorts of hacks to ensure that the said responsive intranet app doesn't fall on its face when the browser is ie7 or ie8.
2. Having to explain to a client why designing/supporting their responsive commercial website on ie 7 and 8 will cost them more.
Don't get me wrong, IE5.5 and IE6 were actually decent browsers back when they were released, it was what MS did after gaining a dominant position in the browser market that was wrong on so many levels (although I guess many slashdotters would have been happier if MS had succeeded in stagnating the internet and rich web apps hadn't been possible)...
its not Bill_The_Engineer, its BIIL_The_Engineer, someone's trying to pose as him to make him look like a spammer...
Onyx Book T68 and T96, full fledged android tablets with eink displays. The specs on the devices could have been better considering they're releasing them in 2014.
:-), a full fledge android device with an eink display.
Also, YotaPhone, the specs are similar to flagship phones but its not a tablet and it has a regular screen and an eink screen so not exactly what you probably had in mind but still
What was not inevitable about the iOS UI? Once the shift from a stylus-centric user interface to a finger-centric interface started with the reduction in the cost of capacitive touchscreens, icon-based interfaces were bound to replace the menu based interfaces found in WinCE and Symbian touchscreen devices. The LG Prada had an icon based interface and the icons were arranged in a grid (how was that particular patent granted? Even Windows 95 had icons arranged in a grid, was it just because the patent had 'on a phone'?) This patent seems to have been invalidated in Europe.
The unlock gesture patented by Apple clearly had prior art (on a phone, no less) and Dutch and German courts agreed with Samsung and invalidated that particular patent.
The only patent that was accepted and for which a couple of Samsung devices were banned was the bounce-back effect in the gallery app, I don't know why this patent claim was upheld but the bounce-back effect on overscrolling has been around for a while in terms of UI design (maybe it had something to do with 'on a phone'.). The rubber banding patent itself was apparently partially invalidated by the USPTO based on similarities to another patent filed by Apple itself and an even earlier patent filed by AOL.
So again, which court of law were you talking about?
Why claim that Android changed from looking like a Blackberry to looking like an iPhone when the LG Prada predates the iphone and had a similar interface? Plus there were substantial differences between the iOS UI and the Android UI.
1. Where upon unlocking the device in iOS you end up in the app screen, on Android you have multiple homescreens with app shortcuts and widgets and to get to the app drawer, you have to click an on screen icon (Huawei is the only Android OEM with a UI lacking a homescreen that I am aware of).
2. iOS lacked a notification drawer until recently while on Android, the notification drawer was always a central UI element.
3. iOS also seemed to try bundling 3rd party apps' settings in the settings app whereas on Android, you'd access app settings by pressing the menu button (initially a physical button replaced by a capacitive button in later incarnations) while inside that particular app (I found the iOS way confusing tbh when I got to play with a mate's iPhone 4 back when it was released, things might have changed in more recent versions of iOS).
So the Nokia 6600 should have implemented a technology that had not been developed yet? If it was implementing technology that hadn't been developed, I would have much rather Nokia had pulled all the stops and just added a teleporter to the 6600 instead, that would have been far more useful. But let's be realistic, shall we?
I never thought of the Samsung F700 as a smartphone, it was a glorified feature phone with a pretty nice interface and the convenience of a slideout qwerty keypad. It was a decent enough phone. For the record, it did pretty much everything the iphone 1st gen did (somethings better, somethings worse) but unlike partisan ifans, I am not claiming that the F700 set the direction the smartphones went in so I fail to see your point.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Apple claim that they had already started working on iphone concepts in 2005? If so, what were they doing looking for licensees? Also, what did Jobs have to prove to the record companies? By this point in time the ipod was almost synonymous with music players.
Oh you mean like in Netherlands where the Dutch Supreme Court limited the applicability of that design patent, claiming prior art? Or maybe you meant UK where as a result of a High Court ruling Apple had to run ads saying Samsung had not infringed its rights? Apple's claims were also denied in several other courts across the globe but I'm not feeling like looking up all the references for you. The only courts which have ruled in favor of Apple are German and American (tbh that particular fiasco should have been classified as a mistrial what with the jury foreman's vested interest and the jurors getting manipulated). So which court of law were you talking about? I think I'll go with the British court, if that's alright with you.
If the iphone 1st gen wasn't a smartphone, how did it set the bar for smartphones like so many Apple fans continuously claim?
There definitely was a bar on multitasking for 3rd party apps and the only apps exempt from this bar were the pre-installed apps. While the OS itself supported multitasking just fine and jailbreaking an iphone gave it the ability to multitask, officially the bar on multitasking was lifted with the release of iOS 4.0 and iPhone 1st gen and iPhone 3G never had multitasking for 3rd party apps.
As for all Symbian phones, you yourself claim that Symbian was almost an embedded system with huge constraints wrt power and memory, with powerful hardware getting cheap enough and becoming a viable alternative as it did, the direction the industry headed in was inevitable. Apple releasing the iPhone was irrelevant since Apple wasn't the only one learning from the mistakes and missteps of every phone manufacturer on the planet, most phone manufacturers were learning and their designs were evolving in pretty much the same direction or did Apple design the iPhone in a vacuum with Jobs pulling a 'let there be light'?
Symbian definitely had some great ideas, every phone manufacturer (including Apple) learned a great deal from the experiments in UI design that went into making smartphones in the late 90s to the mid-2000s, Symbian, WinCE (with all its custom OEM skins) and Blackberry were all pioneers. Learning from others while you sit on the sidelines and then trying to push everyone off the playing field through legal shenanigans when they were the ones who did all the pioneering work is downright skulduggery but since it's Apple doing it and apparently Jobs' reality distortion field is still alive and kicking even after Jobs kicked the bucket so lets cheer the douchebags on!
Are you mad? Have you ever tried playing an MMO? If every player in an MMO thought oh noos, if I attack this other random player to gain resources or xp or what have you, I might hurt their feelings, you'd be left with nothing but a facebookesque social network where people interact using 3d avatars instead of an MMO. The OBJECTIVE of MMOs is to build your character/base so you can annihilate your opponents ie other players...maybe you should go look for something with unicorns and rainbows instead of an actual MMO?
Wrong, the ROKR was a collaboration between Motorola and Apple. If not, explain why Steve Jobs was unveiling the phone?
Neonode N1M
Did you mean the patent with prior art in an actual product? Here's someone sliding to unlock their N1M. Please note that this phone was launched in Q1 2005, well before the iPhone 1st Gen. Neonode N1m ran a custom GUI (called Neno) on top of WinCE 5.
Also, please note that the iPhone 1st Gen wasn't that much of a smartphone, my Nokia 6600 from 2003, running Symbian, could multitask while the iPhone 1st Gen could not. Also, the Samsung F700 had 3G while iPhone 1st Gen did not.
Maybe iPhones should be banned from the market because Apple infringed patents that put the phone in the iPhone, just sayin...
LG Prada
The LG KE850, also known as the LG Prada, is a touchscreen mobile phone made by LG Electronics. It was first announced on December 12, 2006. It was the first mobile phone with a capacitive touchscreen when LG started selling it in May 2007 (iPhone first gen was released at the end of June 2007).
Samsung SGH F700
The SGH-F700 was a mobile phone manufactured by Samsung. Using Vodafone as its network provider, the phone was first introduced at the 3GSM World Congress that was held in February 2007. Sales to the European market started in November 2007.
The phone had a 3.2" color display and incorporated a touch screen/touch pad interaction system and a slide-out QWERTY key pad. The phone contained a 3 megapixel camera. Furthermore, the handset is HSDPA and Bluetooth 2.0 compatible and possessed mini-USB and microSD memory slots. A Korean design patent for this black, rectangular, round-cornered phone was filed by Samsung in December 2006 prior to the release of the image of the iPhone but after the release of the HTC TyTn which it resembled with its rectangular design and slide out keyboard.
I actually had this phone (got it in Dec. 2007) and while it had a resistive touchscreen instead of a capacitive one, it did not have any tiny icons.
Also of note here should be HTC Tytn which HTC released in June 2006. Looking at this phone, I think HTC T-Mobile G1 (which I purchased and had to unlock to use on the network I was on at the time) is a pretty linear progression of this design.
It is pretty obvious that touchscreens were the way the industry was moving in. Apple had nothing to do with the development of the underlying technology which made the shift to capacitive touchscreens possible and they weren't even the first company to release a phone with a capacitive touchscreen.
Oh and before you throw around what Android looked like in 2005, have a look at this collaboration between Motorola and Apple from 2005, the Motorola Rokr, a phone with a candybar form factor with physical keys on the front (where the physical keys are the num-pad) and here, you have Steve Jobs unveiling the phone.
Or maybe when the soviets propped up a government in relatively progressive Afghanistan of yore, a state that was in the Soviet sphere of influence anyway, America shouldn't have interfered and we wouldn't have these bigoted religious zealots running about blowing shit up across the globe! Something about reaping what one sows and all that...
Oh my word...that made me laugh...wish I had some mod points left...kudos
The top 7 countries are social democracies:
(Look into the Nordic Model (Nordic Capitalist Model or Nordic Economic Model) if you still think I have no idea what I am talking about.)
Out of the remaining three countries making the top 10:
I was specifically comparing USA with social democracies to counter your comment where you gave the impression that any government intervention ends up benefiting the rich and powerful to the detriment of the little man. I have no idea how UAE is relevant or why you'd bring it up since it is ranked below the countries with social democracy, maybe you were trying to allude to the fact that even a monarchy is better then the American model?
:-)
Name the last competent American president? Bush Junior? Bush Senior? Reagan? Ford? Nixon? None of these fine gentlemen?
I never said you were comparing Obama to Engels or Marx, I said you wanted everyone to believe that Obama was the embodiment of what Marx and Engels preached and that was sarcastic. While I concur that you never mentioned anything of the sort, let me congratulate on choosing a pseudonym that perfectly matches your personality
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i.kazmi
Since there were no real alternatives available and both parties are pretty much the same thing with different labels, different talking heads putting their own particular spin on the same ideas, I guess US based slashdotters should have refrained from voting altogether. I mean both parties are right wing and the only difference is their public image. Care to enlighten the rest of us who you voted for?
I hope your daughter is fine...here's to hoping the sad basket gets what he deserves and rots in prison for a long long time...
I know, you should start a campaign to bring freedom to these poor-enslaved-by-their-respective-governments-sheeple...Me? I think the governments of these countries do help and the problem with the US is that the left is so far skewed to the right that even the left-most American thinkers are center-right at best...of course you would have everyone believe that Obama is the embodiment of what Carl Marx and Friedrich Engels preached!
I suppose that's why on all the happiness and satisfaction indexes, Netherlands scores so much better than the US or did I miss something?
Dexpot ;-) (also give QtTabBar or Clover a try if you ever have to use windows for an extended period of time, they add tabs to windows explorer). :-) ). Now if I could only get wobbly windows somehow, it would be perfect...
It works with windows 7 and 8.1
I completely agree with your sentiments btw, I am just pointing out these extensions for anyone that might have a need for them, I had to mess about with several different freeware alternatives before finally settling for these since they helped recreate my kde environment best
add to this the fact that several not-so-densely-populated areas in several developed nations still don't have 3g coverage and all you get is a crappy edge signal which is not ideal for anything other than web pages with plain text, and the idea of streaming music/videos and replacing voice telephony with voip seems ludicrous.
Also, in several under-developed countries, Edge/2G is still the standard (before anyone gets offended by the politically incorrect 'under-developed', I am a denizen of such a country and while the speeds of wired and wireless internet have improved tremendously, Edge and 2G are still the standard which is why when I was in the market for a new phone ~6 months ago, I chose a Samsung Galaxy S4 as opposed to a HTC One or Google Nexus 5 or an LG G2).
stop using ad-supported websites and the malicious advertising will go away...you do realise that these websites aren't free, right? if the website isn't paywalled and its not selling something, the owner of the site has to pay for hosting, bandwidth and maybe even development/maintenance (if they aren't developers themselves) somehow, care to propose a model which does not involve paywalling most of the internet and removes them malicious adverts at the same time? no? didn't think so!
would have modded you funny but sadly, i posted a comment and now i can't moderate, please mod parent up
a person with a temper like yours owning a gun? now that's definitely scary.
Also, with a temper like that, you could probably be classified a lunatic!