Which US carrier lets you make all these changes? The phones are locked by the Carrier. The Carrier has way too much power in the current ISP relationship. They are the ones that won't let you be an admin. You can always buy a reference device (Nexus and unlock), or make your own.
I switched to a $200 Blackberry Z10 a few months ago after getting tired of Google's attitude w/ regard to my Nexus 4. Without any bloatware installed by the carrier, it still comes with about 10 different Google Apps that cannot be uninstalled.
Furthermore, it seems like Google has gone out of their way to give app developers the necessary permissions to basically know everything about me. Does an app 'really' need to see all of my contacts, SMS, and call history just so it knows when a call is incoming?
Even if I uninstalled every app on my phone, I'd still have Google's keyboard phoning home everything I type. And of course Android Lollipop is as much of a dud as was Windows 8.
My Z10 blows Android out of the water when it comes to actually dealing with emails, texts, messages, calendars, etc. On Android, I had to use three different mail apps to do the same thing. The browser always shows a full screen web page, while Chrome needs a root hack to do the same.
Why did you buy a Nexus 4? It seems like you changed more than the phone did.
The financial costs are only a part of the total cost of ownership when you get in bed with Windows.
Are you suggesting those who wrote the federalists papers were not involved with the writing of the Bill of rights or the Constitution, and that they were therefor incapable of stating what their intent was in framing them as such?
Under which administration did all of the domestic surveillance get started? The NSA was not started under Bush, and you might want to ask yourself what was it that the Church Committee was intended to accomplish.
Woodrow Wilson already did that when he was leaving office. It was quite direct and regretful of what he had done.
Which state is that? Seems insane to me.
You might want to actually read the Federalists papers before you spew this nonsense. The writers are quite explicit in the reasoning and intent. The comment you made is one bandied about by those wanting to misrepresent the truth.
Well if Windows becomes a rental system, then wouldn't that spell the immediate removal of the MS tax, and that the base OS can't essentially be pirated any longer? Meaning All hardware companies can freely put any OS or none on there without fear of reproach?
I too used to work for the Herbal supplement industry. What you are saying is true to my experiences as well. The barrels originating in China always required extra scrutiny. It was not uncommon to find things wholly foreign to the ingredient list in the shipped packages. It was disturbingly common to find Chinese/Indian suppliers being less that honest in their COA's.
My theory is China/India or another manufacturer/supplier failed to send what they claimed (ripped them off). The fact that the ingredients went to manufacturing none the less is a scary thought. I guess it is possible the manufacturing occurred over seas as well.
Edit: Every ingredient in an herbal supplement needs a COA... Should have written that more clearly.
Every herbal supplement that is going to be ingested in America needs a COA (Certificate of Authenticity) to verify their legitimacy. Disclosure: I used to work in the herbal supplement industry. This is not wholly uncommon. The biggest issue here is that the suppliers/manufacturers were ripping off the GNC etc. Someone along the way faile dto check the authenticity, and they got burned.
I'd be equally worried that a US made device would have the NSA back doors allowing my government to spy. I think the saddest part is that I am now more threatened of my own government (and their refusal to allow privacy) than I am of foreign powers...
It depends how you define success. Enterprise agreements hold that in order to install Win 7 you need downgrade rights, made available by purchasing Win 8 licenses.
How exactly are you defining success? Success in sales? Success in giving them a presence in mobile? Success in unifying two disparate paradigms of interface? Win 8 failed on many fronts as well.
BBM was made for Blackberry only and served precisely to keep people locked into the platform by not allowing other platforms to access the service. It wasn't until they had lost their user base that they cared about such things. It was as wrong when they did it, as when Apple does it now.
That does not compute.
