Comment Re:Will Edge be ported to Windows 7? (Score 1) 255
But its a tablet.
And the only way to interact with a tablet is using your finger on a touchscreen? I think not.
But its a tablet.
And the only way to interact with a tablet is using your finger on a touchscreen? I think not.
Do you have any suggestions for popularizing Free Software with consumers in this age where we are moving toward software and hardware being even more tightly integrated in devices such as smartphones, DVRs, tablets, watches, etc...?
To clarify further, I understand the issues with locked-down and proprietary hardware & software in so many consumer products but simply informing people of those issues is not enough. To sway people we need functionally (and ultimately aesthetically but that can come later) comparable Free Software -based products with the matching adequate user experiences that they have come to expect from the proprietary vendors. To go mainstream, those freedoms need to be a value-add to a good product, not the key feature of the product.
Well, that is something else entirely, then. They should call it touchscreen mode.
It's hardly entirely different, if you want to be pedantic they should probably call it "Finger Touchscreen Interaction Mode", because you might not necessarily use your finger on the touchscreen, you might use a stylus which is more precise and doesn't need control resizing. But tablet mode is probably enough of a generalization.
Tablet mode sounds like you would want to use it on a tablet.
You probably would want to use it on a tablet.
I have yet to figure out this obsession some people have with screen space. Bitching about three friggin' toolbars?
On a smaller tablet that screen space does come at a premium, but if that's the biggest complaint then it's pretty impressive.
The fastest way to launch a program is to click on a shortcut. The start menu is for discovering what programs are on the computer. Searching is useless if you don't know what is installed.
I'm sure you can come up with a contrived scenario but are you really just exploring a computer and looking for a program to run without knowing what you want to do that often that using the start screen rather than the start menu was that much of an inconvenience? Even if you have a file and you don't know what program you want to open it with the "Open with..." menu generally lists all the appropriate programs, again you can come up with a scenario where this doesn't happen but it's far from typical.
What! Windows 10 isn't sophisticated enough to figure out if it is running on a tablet?
It's less a "tablet mode" and more a "touchscreen mode", and no, Windows 10 isn't sophisticated enough to figure out if you're going to use your mouse or your touchscreen to interact with your computer before you do.
$30 this way or that won't sway people onto or away from your phone.
Right, so even if that $30 is completely profit off the top thanks to peoples' willingness to pay it, what's your point? Who cares?
Do you deny that the OnePlus One 64GB cost $50 more than its $16GB counterpart, while holding exactly the same specifications aside from an extra 48GB of NAND?
Yes. According to the summary: "If you don't mind handing over an extra $60, you'll receive 4GB of RAM to back the processor and 64GB of internal storage.". So it is an extra GB of RAM and extra 48GB of internal storage.
Severe problems like the ones I was thinking of above? No, to be fair to Microsoft, they have usually fixed those within a day or two.
Ok good so deferring the updates to not install immediately should alleviate a lot of the concern there.
Once again, the problem isn't just this specific issue, it's the uncontrolled risk associated with allowing anyone to force software changes on a PC you rely on.
So your proposed solution is what? I'm trying to work out what you're driving at here, is it that you're looking for a solution to a problem or you're just upset?
In the interest of looking for a solution
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