I can't wait to hear from all the pundits why this means Apple—and only Apple—is doomed.
Actually the only real information is Apple AND Samsung are both having their market share eaten up by Android,
Someone else is better at ripping stuff off from Apple, and cheaper. Ouch.
Except the only thing ripped from Apple is the dog and pony show...they ripped off Samsungs business model. The reality is though Samsung have more to worry about from Lenovo, which seems the most likely to break from the pack of hopefuls.
I have just updated my Dualshock3 (to a Dualshock4) which although was wonderful and just worked out of the box...with the exception of bluetooth...which I didn't care about and rumble (although grumbels driver and Linux 3.15 now support it...now I don't have one). which I did . Where is joystick support on Linux last time I looked was a unnecessary nightmare...trivial to set up if the program has its own joystick configuration, a nightmare to get sensible universal settings.
The execs at M$ are shitting their pants over the anticipation of their failed Vista 9...
Hold on there tiger. I admire your spunk, and if this was the heady days of the Desktop, your post makes sense....except this is the failure of Heavyweight OS Vista, Windows/Office/IE Monopoly+Lock-in
If Microsoft had created a lightweight OS,platform independent tools and split up, been License agnostic, and been innovation hungry, we wouldn't be in a discussion where Samsung is not interested in paying "in kind" for for Windows Phone licenses it doesn't want to use.
The irony of your post is you don't understand the $ is your Micro$oft, Vista 9(sic) or Windows 8.X whatever is not only a massive success (from revenue not technical perspective) it has turned back its plummeting sales....by throwing its current (XP) customers under the bus....classic Microsoft.
People all over are arguing the *new* boss is different, and some signs are (maybe) there, Office on Android...One OS(if it means the speculated modular OS), but this is not anything like Microsoft "Shitting their pants) this is Microsoft acting like the arrogant bullying monopolist...only without the stick of and carrot of being the only vendor. It is simply another competitor...and a small one...Samsung is more worried about those damned Chinese manufactures.
Nobody wants to develop on Android
iOS Active / 1.2 million+ apps (As of June 2014) vs Google Play Active / 1.3+ million apps (as of July 2014)
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You could not be more wrong
something Apple did in 2007.
In context of this article, newer versions of iOS work less well on same hardware. Personally I like my Operating System to improve not degrade. Seriously though saying Dakvik is bad (and spelling it wrong)...shows naivete on your part, The compiled part just shows you don't know how languages work.
I'm going to go out on a limb and point out that neither Samsung, Apple, nor Google would give a rip if they DID get the rep for slowing down obsolete stuff intentionally.
Except it is not remotely true for Google, who want to make money from you doing more. They spend a lot of time making things faster to make more money.
Meanwhile 90% of ios devices are on ios 7.
The problem under discussion is Apples earlier products not being able to cope with the the latest version of its OS which means a massive percentage of those products should never have been upgraded to iOS7. It is a problem Android does not have.
You obviously don't know how slow and inefficient Dalvik is.....
Except that was never true; ART is going full steam ahead in replacing Dalvik.
ART will increase the speed and efficiency of apps on Android phones. However, it will use up a bit more space on a user's mobile phone, along with longer install times. ART is also said to be able to give a slight improvement on a phone's battery life.
Again further improvements only earlier versions.
The article is about Apple and particularly iPhones perceivably slowing down, as older hardware struggle with the latest versions of iOS. This has nothing to do with conspiracy. It is simply about Apples misguided attempt to pretend to have a product line, by selling older versions of its products to differentiate. It creates a crazy situation like Google selling the Moto E 540 x 960 pixels, 4.3 inches; 1 GB RAM; Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 and Apple selling 640 x 960 pixels, 3.5 inches; 512 MB RAM; 1 GHz Cortex-A8. They do this because they want to push consumers to the latest phones. Google on the other hand want everyone on there latest of OS which is why they are working on Project Butter and Project Svelte to optimize hardware.
Is not so much evil as Apple simply do not do software well.
I find it astonishing especially considering the clunkyness of the iPad, that it has any book sales at all. It is not good for books(pdf textbooks is a dream and Jobsy pushed a new standard based on fixed sized for obvious lock-in). The iPad mini is a lot better for books, but unlike its big brother is unattractive compared to the opposition (Android on Small tablets...Large Phones and ebooks), and it has nothing in the Phablet form factor.
The iPad has lost momentum already, even though the tablet market continues to grow. IDC's Latest figures http://www.businesswire.com/ne... How about you focusing on competing considering content seems to be a massive market as massive mark-ups don't work when they are not hidden in long term expensive contracts.
Really though we(here on slashdot...and the backrooms of Apple) should be talking about DRM free...Open format books, anything else is stupid for the underdog. It is what we want.
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