Can't you stipulate your app only works on ICS and certain phones?
Sure, he can. Last time I did some work on my app, I made a bunch of changes that require OS 4 and above. People with older phones still get the old version.
Even though Walmart has almost 3 times the revenue (447 billion vs 156) I know which company I'd rather be working for, or in charge of, or have stock in.
I suspect you haven't looked at AAPL's stock price recently.
I used to swear by the Pilot V5, but these days I prefer a Uniball Gel RT. They're smoother. Slightly better than the G2 as well.
Meanwhile, they're forcing Google+ instant-uploads on people to encourage them to use it.
No they aren't. You can turn that off.
Right now my options are:
1. Give complete control to Apple, who are already abusive assholes.
2. Give complete control to Microsoft, who are already abusive assholes.
3. Give complete control to the phone company, who are already abusive assholes.
4. Give very little control to Google, but maybe one day they'll start to be abusive.
5. Do without a phone.
From where I'm sitting, #4 looks like the least bad.
...but I want to be able to have the ability to use microSD cards to keep my media on and be able to easily change it in and out...
If you put your music on Google Music, you can tap-hold on an album or artist and select "Keep on device", and it'll cache it on the device for offline listening. When you're tired of it, uncheck the same option and it'll be garbage-collected.
Honestly, dicking around with sync programs and SD cards would be much harder work.
They need something like that for movies. I suspect it'll come eventually.
They're not going bankrupt, and they cover the whole country in the same way AT&T does — patchily outside urban areas.
Do PC games typically work well with a controller? I was under the impression that they generally needed a mouse and keyboard.
And buying a PS3 and Wii which last 5-6 years is still cheaper than a PC with upgrades every couple of years.
The Windows PC option has two big problems though.
1. Windows. So it's not going to be open for long, if Microsoft have anything to do with it. (See: Windows 8.)
2. PC. So I can't play it slumped on the couch on a big screen TV.
There's also the cost aspect.
It's always a little amazing to see how people cheer on the leaks and cracks when they appear in a closed system, yet continue to support these closed systems with their money and attention when open systems are available.
What open game console has a decent selection of games?
Actually, my BlackBerry was a fantastic phone, in 2004.
The problem was, they were still trying to sell the same phone in 2011.
It's their stock-ticker symbol. People often refer to companies by their stock-ticker symbols.
More importantly, there are some things no amount of personal compensation could provide: ethnic diversity, world class cuisine, sublime landscape, beautiful weather year round, municipal infrastructure (no boil orders for septically contaminated water), and a dozen other things even 50 years of economic development could not deliver to places like the one I lived in in Ohio.
Yeah, but I don't live in Ohio, and I already have those things.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
