Comment Re:What really happens (Score 1) 483
mid thirties and just average users -- average meaning they have actual normal lives and would never ever be inclined to look at slashdot.
mid thirties and just average users -- average meaning they have actual normal lives and would never ever be inclined to look at slashdot.
I do tech support so I am always either getting questions or hearing about tech stuff from the clients I support. So a married couple (both just average Joe and Jane users) decide to upgrade to smart phones. She goes to BestBuy gets a new iPhone for her and the android model her hubby wants. That night she is busy setting up her phone - downloading some apps - taking pics and emailing them - etc. Meanwhile hubby is getting uber frustrated trying to get anything to work on the droid etc. The next day she returns the droid and buys another iPhone for hubby
I'm no fan boy and I have issues with many things Apple does - but they do understand the user / customer experience
- hard at work stealing our information and creative processes. People (that includes politicians + CEOs) just tend to forget that China is not some quaint country that has rules of law and enforces those laws. This is a state run government and economy - anything goes to enrich the state and acrue power. We've already sent most of our production machines over there - now they are coming back to collect any intellectual property they can grab as well.
They are starting to eat our lunch and will shortly just take our lunch money
And contrary to some comments -- Ford makes some damn fine vehicles -- I dearly miss my 2001 F-150 4x4 - great truck
A corporation serves only its self interest - it cares not about the local area(s) it operates in as long as it can get some sort of special tax treatment etc. They want full use of roadways - airports - water -etc by paying nothing or as little as possible. Yes they hire locals who have to make up the "sweetened tax deals" out of their own earnings.
I say let them move all their crap to crappy nations and see how that works out for them.
RE: The App Store
Walter Sobchak: Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
- OffShoring. Your original job with a living wage was shipped over-seas for someone to toil at for 1/4 your wage. Now after seeing whats left of our job market you are happy to go work hard for less money - in bum-fuck junction.
Yeah - thanks to our bought and sold politicians and the uber-wealthy who fund them. Fucking shweet dreams
If you are a terrorist and you already have surface to air missiles - and are near a major airport --- then the system has already failed. Any number of simple range finding devices would be all you need to ensure your target is in range. You would not need a credit card - an ATT account - or an iTunes account.
I want to thank the Slashdot community for comments - suggestions - perspective - etc. And yes even the zingers - diatribes - and "in my opinion
So this was a post to help me gather more input. While I was indeed swayed towards android briefly --- I will take a serious shot this Fall - Winter - Spring coding in iOS environment. This is partially driven by my current work in K12 (Apple and i-devices have a strong pull) but also because Apple understands that average consumers don't care whats "under the hood" (open or closed environments) they just want easy to use devices and a "safe" one stop shopping place for apps. For all their faults - Apple has had the "corporate fortitude" to build the iTunes realm and foresight to make the app store. This is the part of the android ecosystem I find most concerning. There is no doubt Google could pull such things off if they focused on it, but IMHO Google doesn't want to invest the effort into it.
Thanks for the all the fish
I'm glad someone besides humans are watching the store. I welcome our alien masters
it thinks BlueTooth is a dental disease
Its basically a Netbook without a keyboard and track-pad attached. And unless there are optimizations to the OS (reduced complexity) then when in tablet mode you're going to be all over that screen - pointing - clicking - dragging - etc.
I'm just saying that tossing a standard desktop OS on a tablets been done many times in the recent past (last decade) and they went nowhere. Cheap HW is great but you've got to have touch optimized OS and apps at a minimum or just go home. A recent lesson is HP dumping Win 7 for their Tablet PC in favor of Web OS by Palm.
Our school is demo'ing some iPads this Summer and I've had one for a few weeks. I have to say that iOS 4.0 is very easy to use and the device makes a helluva reader. Along with my other eval work I'm reading my second 300 page sci-fi novel via iTunes iBook app --- very easy and natural to read and use. Now for sure there are some huge issues with how Apple has handled DRM on the iPad (via the iTunes control / tether) - and totally hiding any trace of the file system - folders - etc. But Apple got a lot right in a fully touch driven device.
So back in the '40s Asimov had this idea of little satellites in Earth orbit and then put them in his sci-fi. Does that mean he could have litigated against NASA ?
Sounds loony tunes to me.
Your observation pretty much spot on. All through the '80s and into the '90s there was a lot of changes and options in both HW and OS (primitive OS's) development. In the early '90s Intel saw that it needed more control over the HW and started doing chipsets and open specs like PCI and memory specs. Since Apple was tied to Motorola a natural partner for Intel was Microsoft on the OS side. Together they worked to standardize the PC platform. And MS now dominates --- and stagnates the PC desktop. While MS did a lot of good work getting to XP
Little known fact - and interesting fork could have occurred around 1995 as the first "Pentium type" (meaning post x486) processors were in final testing
A typical example of delusion and denial in the upper food chain of a corporation. Rather than look at the real conditions in the factories - and the human condition of the workers. And then start to implement some real changes --- this would entail both real work AND admitting those who committed suicide had reason(s).
No - FoxConn is essentially saying those workers who committed suicide are "corporate terrorists" targeting the corporation, its image, and its bank roll. What a totally insane conclusion to come to. No doubt as as someones life descends
into a perfect hell and they are trapped or cannot see a way out --- they may think if I die this will end AND my family will get some good out of it.
BUT - they did not engage into a contract with Foxconn with that idea in their head. They were pushed to get to that point of desperation.
Another Epic Fail for FoxConn executives
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
