Comment Re:$30 Timex (Score 1, Funny) 389
My $30 Timex tells me the time just fine.
you're sooooo interesting! tell us more about your thoughts, concerns, and so on.
My $30 Timex tells me the time just fine.
you're sooooo interesting! tell us more about your thoughts, concerns, and so on.
As to "Why not Nexus".... Lack of SD card support and "small" internal storage. Tech specs that were (last I looked) a bit behind current flagship devices. In the case of the Note3 purchase: I can SSH into my servers when necessary and actually have a little bit of screen left after the keyboard is exposed because no one wants to make a device with a physical keyboard. And it didn't help that a friend had one of the Nexus phones that was RMA'ed 4 times in one year because the radio was crap. His wife's phone didn't have issues (another Nexus device), his did.
nexus 6 has a slightly larger screen than the note, it costs $150 less, and has a 64GB option. it's tech specs were top of the line when it was released (they may still be). i've owned a nexus one, galaxy nexus, nexus 10, nexus 7 1st and 2nd gen, and a nexus 6. the only problem i've had is w/ the nexus 10's wifi (and guess what, that's made by samsung).
if you need things like SD card that almost no one else wants, then you are limiting your options. that's just something you have to live with. seems like wiring UMS or connecting to a NAS, or cloud solutions would be workable options.
no, there's not. unless the system is hiding that process from the list of running processes and installed apps.
your pockets are big enough to purchase an HTC, samsung, etc. premium device, but not a discounted nexus? even the Nexus 6 is $150+ less than it's equivalent samsung counterpart.
Disabling isn't the same as removing. It's still there, unnecessarily eating up space.
the "space" it's eating is completely unusable for any other purpose. the binary exists in
Worse than that, if you do use that app you will incur a double penalty as soon as you install an update.
no you don't see above.
And of course all that baked in crapware means you won't be getting firmware / security updates for your phone in a timely fashion, if ever.
the existence of an APK installed into
Will the buyer of my phone be able to use it?
common sense to the rescue. of course there's a way to unlock it from your google account, but you have to enter your google credentials to perform that operation.
but yeah, maybe it's the case that google is making it such that phones can never, ever be changed to use a different google account. they can't be sold, or gifted to family member or friend, nothing. seems likely right? sheesh.
absolutely. why should do anything to stop any crime? the perps will just go out and commit a different crime. really, really sound thinking.
then that's something samsung did for you. any lesson to be learned here?
Every time I *stop* it
i'm not talking about killing the process. i'm talking about going into settings > apps > [app] > disable.
on my n6, there's no "google search" app. there is an app called "google play services" which is the heart of google. there's a big "disable" button right there for me.
From my experience with the Note3, yeah you can "disable" apps from showing, but not completely. They're still resident in memory most of the time
the "disable" feature that's available on any firmware-based app completely stops the app from running. i use it on my nexus 6 to disable the exchange crap from running in the background. works fine.
if samsung did something to mess with how that works (i'd be surprised if they did, but if you say so), then well, why the heck did you buy a samsung device? that's called just deserts. don't blame android for some terrible crap done by samsung. by the way, you paid 50% for samsung, right?
if people don't support the delivery model they want, how do you expect anything to change? carrier bloated, manufacturer bloated malware infested devices. why? stop falling prey to samsung, et. al's marketing barrage. you're a nerd, you know nexus exists, what's your excuse?
Will a thief return my device when they discover they can't use it?
no, but if thieves understand that modern smartphones, including android 5.1 devices, are worthless if stolen, they aren't going to bother stealing them in the first place. sure, until a sufficient % of the devices out there support this it's not as useful but you have to start somewhere right?
also, don't you feel a little better knowing that the thief didn't get compensated $300 for stealing your phone?
Sucks that Google hasn't made a requirement for a "clean" version of Android to be made available for major devices
you can disable any app, including apps packaged in the firmware. it won't even show up in the launcher after that. that's been in place since 4.0 (or so).
It's something like a 100:1 loss on electricity at $0.11/KWH by the way.
except they aren't paying for the electricity, so it's all profit. even if they are only making $100, that's still pretty great. considering they probably spent a week hacking together existing software
My point was more on par with that there is a need beyond illegal activities when it comes to online transactions and bitcoin.
what are those reasons?
BTC made a lot of money for the early adopters, but it still has not yet lost momentum as a currency, and only will gain in value over time.
it's 6-month high is ~484. it's currently ~269. as far as fluctuations go that is massive. using bitcoin for anything other than quick sales (cash -> bitcoin -> transfer) is really not smart.
not to mention, the entire market is in a constant state of algorithmic manipulation (yes, i know, so is the stock market).
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