Re: @Barry Shitpeas

@AC

"If you think that people hate Sony because Microsoft "manipulated" the media, and not because of Sony's high prices, episodes like the rootkit, the banning of Linux on the PS3, their use of proprietary connectors and cables with price-gouging replacement costs"

Are you for real?

1. The "Rootkit" wasn't a rootkit, wasn't even Sony (it was First4Internet" and Sony BMG), it predated the PS3 by 10 years, and only an idiot would let that affect a purchasing decision 10 years down the road. By that logic you also should avoid Microsoft's consoles for what they did to Netscape and all the other companies they crushed by their market monopoly and backhanded illegal tricks.

2. Linux was never "Banned" on the PS3. it was removed as it was being used as a method to crack the console to piracy. And everyone knows, if you console runs cracked games, developers run a mile the next gen (a problem Microsoft will suffer with the NextBox). To believe your "banning" sequence of events, you have demonstrated how the twisted reporting by the media has clouded your judgment so much that you have forgotten in what order the evens occurred. Removal of Linux was a reactionary move and of little consequence, as it was shite. Anyone that used YDL will know that. It took and age to boot and unless you were doing major number crunching, you were wasting your time when you could be playing games on it.

3. High Prices. Remind me how much Xbox360 owners have spent in Xbox Live fees, replacement consoles and play and charge kits/batteries/memory cards/HDD upgrades/HD DVD add-ons since 2006? The PS3 had all this out the box, nothing else to buy. To even suggest the PS3 was poor value for money is absolutely absurd, and shows us you are an idiot that can't understand the concept of TCO. I'm pretty confident to say that 90% of Xbox360 owners will have spent vastly more than a PS3 owner would have if they had bought their consoles in 2006, and the PS3 owner would have had not only a better gaming experience with better exclusives, but a better media experience too, and far better reliability.

4. proprietary connectors and cables. Come again? I can't think of a single connector on the PS3 that's not an industry standard. It's pure SATA HDD, USB, HDMI, RJ45... If you want to look at proprietary, take Microsoft's extensive tricks to stop you using off the shelves memory devices and hard disks, and forcing you to use their overpriced ones with special firmware... That right there is price-gouging....

Sorry for making you look a total tool for burning every single issue. I rest my case, you and many others have been brainwashed by the media into hating Sony and the PS3, simply because Microsoft needed to get their foot in the door. I suspect you read all the tripe you posted from an AMERICAN gaming website. Guess what their agenda is, yep, you know, that AMERICAN console.....

When you grow up a little bit more, think back to this post, and remember how naive you were..

Re: I give it a couple of months...

Google engineers are smart, that's why Nexus devices only have one storage partition.....

Re: "Microsoft honcho pleads with media: 'Stop picking on us!'"

Karmas a bitch eh Microsoft.. The very same media you mass manipulated into hating Sony and the PS3 so you could get your foot in the gaming door has now turned against you.

How's it like now the tables have turned?

Bob moment.

Is really more accurate, as Vista was nowhere near as bad as WIndows 8. Only Microsoft Bob really comes close.

Re: Siri: What's it like to have competition in your backyard?

It's not competition of course, as Apple have ensured all non-Apple products on iOS don't play on an even playing field.

Google could never integrate with iOS like Siri does so Siri is always more accessible, Chrome on iOS is forced to use WebKit and the non accelerated javascript engine, so Safari is always better.

Android of course doesn't have these imposed limitations. If Apple wanted to make a Siri for Android, they could simply hook onto the search intent and offer the user the option to replace the built in search with Apple's offering. Ditto for maps, ditto for web browsers..

See how evil Apple are? This is not dissimilar to what Microsoft did to Netscape.

Re: What is the point

Are you saying that Google search ISN'T the best search, and Google Maps aren't the best maps?

They are at the top of the search results because they are the best services, used my the most people, and therefore DESERVE to be at the top of he search results.

I have already demonstrated 2 examples (and someone else provided a 3rd), where Google clearly AREN'T promoting their services above others.

This quite clearly shows the case Microsoft brought to the EU is a crock of shit. The Google services that deserve to be at the top are at the top, those where other offerings are more, they are at the top.

Are you happy that the EU will be forcing Google to promote inferior products and demote their own better services down the search results, just because Microsoft said so?

All depends

and what US judge you have in your back pocket accepting party donations.

America likes to THINK it's moved on since Enron, but it's gone backwards, and Microsoft and Apple are they key corrupter on all this.

Re: This is akin to

The point is, if I search for the term "Maps", I EXPECT Google Maps to be at the top of the list, simply because it DESERVES to be at the top of the list, because it's the best product.

Today (before the EU recommendations are even implemented), a search for maps gives me the following results.

Google Maps (UK)

Bing Maps

Google Maps (Global)

OpenStreetMap

TFL

The AA

Wikipedia Maps

Now that seems like a perfectly rational set of search results based on POPULARITY (which is what PageRank uses).

Are you saying that just because Google made a great search engine, AND a great mapping solution that Google Maps should be artificially moved down the search results, so clueless idiots will use the rubbish Bing Maps? That's of course what Microsoft want, and that's what the EU are proposing.

If I take an area where Google doesn't have leadership, but does have a product, say picture hosting (Picasa), and search for "Picture hosting", guess what? Google doesn't even appear in the results... The results look like this:

PostImage

Photobucket

Imageshack

TinyPic

FlickR

ImgUR

So in short, Microsoft's case here is total and utter horsecrap that gives underdogs with inferior products an artificial bunk up....

Re: Old news

Because not only does Android warn you that applications want to send SMS on install (protection 1), all applications are sandboxed from each other (protection 2), Android also disallows untrusted non-Google Play installs by default -so no other nasties can be silently slipped in (protection 3), each app has it's own user account (protection 4), and finally, you can't send SMS to a unknown number without getting a warning (protection 5)

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/7624/screenshot2013042312200.png

So unless you intentionally disable all the above, this story it total and utter nonsense..

Re: Metro

Problem is. Metro is key to them selling you apps and locking you into everything Microsoft.

That's why metro whilst being obviously bad fit for Windows 8,is still with us.

Re: What gives ANY company the right...

December 2013:

"BWWAHHHHAAA I can't buy a Nexus4 for the RRP, but there are loads of them on ebay for silly money"

April 2014:

"BWWAHHHHAAA Google are preventing me selling Google Glass on ebay for silly money"

See the problem here? Am I the only person here that's not a total idiot?

Re: MS still chases Apple's tail lights - IN VAIN

As you sure he bought it? Microsoft have been giving out Surface tablets like free candy in exchange for anyone saying nice things or promoting them in the workplace. Usual Microsoft bullyboy tactics, when nobody wants your products, MAKE THEM.

Re: Missed the point of the OS chart

Not at all.

We all know Android ACTIVATIONS are contiuning to skyrocket, and activations are REAL data. Surveys are bullshit.

Re: Android Heaven

WP8 is secure for only two reasons.

1/ Nobody uses it.

2/ There are no apps for it.

Re: Given

The Android comparison is totally unfair.

What Microsoft did when the OS changed, was made all existing apps incompatible, and old phones incompatible with new apps, leaving Windows Phone 7.x owners out in the cold with nowhere to go (they did it several times before too)

Google have ensured pretty much all Android apps work on yoru phone REGARDLESS of it's OS version. 99% of apps will work all the way back to Android 2.1, 60% or so all the way back to Android 1.5

Re: Android's problems

Utter nonsense.

If you REALLY did application development

1) you would know that every time Apple make a new class of device, none of the old apps work, remember when you had to rewrite all your apps to make them work on tablets, and then again for the iPad3 and then again for the iphone5? Yep, that's REAL fragmentation for you. The OS doesn't deal with different aspec ratios AT ALL. Android deals with all of this, it allows you to include as many layout fragments as you need in your APK to handle all sorts of devices. If you didn't know this, or that there is a REALLY good compatibility library which backports all the cool stuff to versions of Android all the way back to 1.5, then you REALLY shouldn't be writing apps.

2) McAffee say lots of things, what they don't say is how many of these affect Google Play store, and how many affect some dodgy Chinese users with el-cheapo tablets where everything (including malware) has to be sideloaded. By the same token, nobody wants to talk about the massive piracy and malware problems that affect jailbroken iPhones... I wonder why,,, because Malware products aren't allowed on iOS, so there is nobody liek Mcaffee bleating about their snakeoil "solutions". Quite clearly you have fallen right into their trap set for gullible consumers.

3) Android allows you to load whatever browser you like, unlike iOS (where eveything is either Safari, or a Safari skin that's intentionally hobbled so it can never be as fast as the native browser). If you don't like Chrome (and I do, it's superb on my nexus4, but on slower phones, I can see why it might be a bit sluggish), then there is plenty of choice. Opera Mobile is REALLY good and renders very quickly even on 2-3 year old Android phones.

Re: Does the OS version matter?

Indeed, as regardless of Android version, you can run all the latest apps just fine... So really, what's the problem.

If you care about it, buy a Nexus. £159 gets you a Nexus7 that's always bang upto date (and not only much cheaper than the iPad Mini, better spec too). £259 gets you a Nexus4, which totally kills the iphone5 in pretty much every respect (aside from LTE/4G).

The guy is clearly a retard anyway, as he also claimed

"When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with,"

Which is rather funny, as when I signed into my Nexus4, I only had to sign into a single Google account. If he is making this stuff up, why should we believe anything else he is spewing out in a desperate attempt to stop the Apple exodus...

Re: Elop

I think she is right...

http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/2/comScore_Reports_December_2012_U.S._Smartphone_Subscriber_Market_Share

-0.7% drop month on month for the Windows Phone disaster.