are they required to say that....
.....as part of a patent settlement?
Just wondering........
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I think in this instance its a legitimate business move. However, the resellers are getting a bit dicked on the face of it. But ms apes Apple more and more these days. Less innovate, more copy imho. Why have resellers when direct means 100% of the spoils and you know who all of the customers directly.
Like others have pointed out, I'm sure Google will be more than happy to step in and fill a gap. In fact, its too good an opportunity to pass up.
....its about time the retarded morons that come up with these stupid patent ideas should have their useful organs removed and donated to a human who is worthy of a life. Oh, and without pain killers. Then when that's been done a quick trip to the patient office and repeat for the approver.
.....if you work in IT thats not an option. As we all know, swigging coffee, eating crap and wearing faded t-shirts that are too small to put ones modest belly in is what earns you the respect. Its always the same, the thin bloke who cycles everywhere never really fits in and you know the fatty bum bum with the 200+ plastic coffee cups stacked on his desk is the man to ask. (Except at lunchtime when he's sipping away on the fine amber nectar in a local boozery.)
But I'm guessing you are one of those thin guys who eats a couscous salad for lunch.....
Anyway, based purely on the register, thats now less yorkshire tea and an increase in coffee.....
DELETE FROM DIET WHERE BEVERAGE IN ('TEA','WATER');
INSERT INTO DIET (BEVERAGE, QUANTITY) VALUES ('COFFEE',10);
I think the general fiasco around the release of android tablets with manufacturers not being up front about when they will be released has harmed developer interest in the short term (I know that's the case for me) but once we start to see wide scale availability I'm sure things will return to growth.
It never fails to amaze me that when the exchange rate is in our favour that it is never passed on, but when it's the other way around it is. (Or isn't in this case. iygwim)
And it's not just sony. Seems all the big corporates are guilty. Have you seen how much cheaper a mac is in the us?
Good to see rip off Britain is still alive and well.
Jobs is clearly going to take this to an end-to-end apple product with profit at each and every turn. While I appreciate they are a business, like any other, and out to make profit (nothing wrong with that!) I do think they are being 'a bit mean' to developers and software houses. Its not the 30% that is the problem, its the total cutting off from your own infrastructure and customers. Its hard to market an app, if you can't see where your marketing is working and where its not. And while you *may* get a good listing in the app store, you also may get ignored. So its too much luck based, and that is a bad business model.
Apple need to make the playing field a bit more level.
And the reason this works is the user doesn't care. The techies do, the software companies do, but the customers don't. Unless the software companies start to ditch osx and get into bed with a linux vendor (ubuntu, redhat) at the same time and make the slow but sure transition to something else some will ultimately die.
And I imagine apple have already penciled in the date for when 'app store only' apps can be installed / access 100% of the underlying system.
Looks like my current mac will be my last. Shame, I was going to get one for the wife this year....
I get really hacked off with large companies just not doing that they are told to do. I know, technically they are not obliged, but the fact they just say no. Start a court case and get out of it for whatever reason.
And as for not having a database of the info. Thats just rubbish because how would they monitor and send engineers to equipment.
I'm also sick of Gov. organisations with no teeth. Why isn't the law just, if its not on the map, its not turned on. If it is, 1 very big fine which is outragiously large and disporportaional to the actual offence.
Mobile companies need to stop resisting everything (roaming charges, termination charges) and just be a bit more modern.
And if anybody from t-mobile is reading this, your service sucks and when my stupid contract expires (damn those 24 month contracts) I'm off to somebody who can provide some coverage. Did orange make you turn off 70% of your transmitters? (Which would explain the not having a map of the ones left on.)
Right, I'm off to sit in a darkened room until my blood pressure returns to normal.....
If it gets discounted to around the £300 as much as it doesn't matter, then at that kind of price I'll certainly get one. I was just about to replace my netbook but this has made me pause and think......
Mind you, samsung aren't exactly known for their firmware updates are they? so that may be the fly in the ointment.
No way I'm going to ever buy an ipad because
a) It just sings "I'm a twat and a sheep with more money than sense"
b) It just encourages steve jobs to keep acting like a twat and claiming everything is his and that he's brilliant (he's not btw).
c) I'd have to use that stupid stupid itunes with an interface so stupid a room full of monkeys who'd had their brains removed couldn't have invented anything that bad.
Mines the one with £300 in the pocket burning a hole.....
First off that license fee is well worth the money. Tbh, I'd happily pay a lot more. I actually resent the money I pay sky each month. (so much so I'm ditching it for freesat in the next month).
yes, the Android app is shit and they should be ashamed of themselves. but at least its recognized as a platform so when somebody finally releases a decent (xoom) Android tablet at a sensible price (yes Motorola, sort that out you bunch of plums ) then there will be enough market to justify a decent Android version. until then I think its just a case of waiting.
and yes, everybody else will get it cheaper, but so what. they won't get 100% of the programs and services because of the typical license restrictions. and if a couple of million people choose to buy it, just think how great our BBC can become with all that loot. you should be pleased Britain finally has something to export and bring cash into our cash strapped land.
Looks like the full desktop experience to me, slow boot up, plenty of crashes and updates making a mess of stuff that was working before.
I dare say if anybody manages to keep their phone for a year you'll find it running at 1/2 of the speed of when you got it and wondering where the bloody hell all the disk space has gone and wishing you had bought something else.
Oh, and it will be full of viruses just by a website drive by....
Mines the one with the android in the pocket....
A couple own and share a car. Mr A drives it very carefully and Mrs A has a lot of points and generally speeds and drives fast.
How does Mr A win the lottery?
Oh, that would need a tag per person, oh, and that would also conveniently mean that all that monitoring could be linked to road charges per mile, and reduced tax for those who only drive 4000 miles a year, screwing anybody who can't afford to live in a big city near their work anymore because of stupid house prices that were allowed to get beyond a joke, meaning moving to the sticks was the only answer to actually affording a home big enough to accomodate their family needs.
Looks like new new labour may be old new labour with a refreshed spin doctor who has had his thinking cap on during his period of being out of work.
Right load of bollocks, and I'll only [help] vote those bastards back in once all tories / lib dems / greens / monster raving party have all died and its them or the BNP. i.e. Never.
Rant over, I'll get my coat.
All that lego looked to be of the original kind from around the time when technical lego was first released, none of that modern crappy 'ben 10' shite.
Thats the best purist lego thing I've seen in ages. But then there is also the classic lego printer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX09WnGU6ZY which if we are honest, we all want to own!
Are you *really* suggesting that Android, backed essentially by the big pockets of Google, not to mention samsung, htc, motorola and anybody who's trying to make smart phone alternative to the iphone or a ipad rip off tablet is going to disappear as quickly as it came. Yes right, of course, that's why all the analysts are saying how Android is going to overtake apple in the smart phone market. Both iphone and android will both compete (along with RIM), and as long as they do, the smartphone market will be exciting and keep getting better. But clearly you are a iphone user who can't see that and thinks that everybody should just by an iphone.
It will be a shame to see java go from the mac. Its important to me as an android developer. I love my macbook pro, but jobs is clearly loosing the plot, wanting to make machines for the simple folk so they 'dont get all confused' (not to mention anything he can do to help destroy java [which oracle appear to be doing a good job of on their own] which in turn would threaten android). Its such a shame, apple, who you can't deny have innovated and changed the smartphone, tablet, and to a much lesser extent, laptop market have got a bit big for their boots lately.
I guess I won't be upgrading to Lion when it comes, and I also guess my next laptop won't be made by apple, as much as love the quality and the style, if it doesn't run eclipse its no use to me.
My last laptop was ubuntu (as is my current netbook) and I guess my next laptop will now be ubuntu too.
Penguin because thats where I'm heading....
Congratulations on what must be described as a pretty piss poor and a badly researched article. Can we send the YTS kid back to school now?
I can't believe you bothered to publish that. Don't get me wrong, the android market could be a whole heap better, but it works 99% of the time, and the odd download gets stuck, just reastart it and all is well. Oh, and the market is a bit too full of a lot 'hot babes' and 'farting' crap. As for the rest of it, I've had a G1 and now a HTC desire. Versions 1.5 and 1.6 of android were a bit basic in places, but I even had a go on my old G1 the other day, and actually thought it was still very useable. More than I can say about my old Nokia N95.
I wanted my father-in-law to get an android phone, but he ignored the advice and bought a nokia. I work in IT, and I will be fucked it I can work out how to use the bloddy thing. Its slow, and none of the settings are where they should be. And if the touchscreen would actually work where I press that would help.
I got my wife an android phone and she loves the thing. I hardly ever get asked 'how do I' and it seems to work for her even though she couldn't be less technical. (Did make me laugh when she asked why her photo's all looked a bit sepia, then I pointed out if you select sepia as a camera mode, it will do as you asked. - but thats user error)
Yesterday when we needed a wifi-hotspot for 10 minutes, my colleague who'd been flashing his new iphone 4 around the office for the last week looked absolutely gutted when I turned on the wifi sharing on my desire and said, we can use this. "Cant your phone do that" I smugly asked. "Not without jail breaking it" he reluctantly agreed. Haven't heard a single thing about his phone since. Oh, other than him grumbling because its dropped another call.
But, I supposed you're entitled to an opinion, just like me. But mine is based on personal usage rather than hot air......
Penguin ...just because.
You can't deny, the iphone has brilliant marketing, like all apple products are very nice to touch and have appealed to a previously unaware audience of how cool technology is.
But its all a bit like your first car. Yes, you can get some pretty stickers and funky cloth seats, but its still a small car. And there are a lot of people who still love their small cars and will never move on. (and there is nothing wrong with that)
And I bet most of us started in a small car. Then we discover bigger, faster cars, that come with satnav, air con and a more 'stuff'. Yes, the dash has a few too many buttons, but we grow to love the extra buttons.
And that is where android fits it. Its not as pretty to look at, but it goes faster than the others, and can be used for more things without a jobsworth telling you what you can and can't use it for.
I take your point about buggy software, there is some, but those don't tend to last long as the good stuff floats to the top.
I think you are perhaps feeling a bit hurt by the fact you are stuck with your iphone after jumping up and saying how good it is, and just watched the competition overtake.
Mine is the one with the HTC g1 in the pocket, and I'm going to use my free google sat nav to get me home :)
"I work for MS and this article made me chuckle. You get what you pay for and all that........."
Yes, and that's the point. I didn't pay for it. People are having a slight moan about something which has traditionally been one fantastic release after another fantastic release. People would have been more than a little peeved if they'd shelled out £100+ for a copy of Win7.
I've installed it (clean) on a Toshiba NB100. Wireless doesn't work properly but other than that its perfect. In fact, I installed both full and netbook remix versions (which is beautiful BTW). Installed via a USB stick (can windows do that...er..no) in less than 20 mins (can windows do that ... er no).
The other thing is that I would imagine that its all going to be fixed quick smart. No waiting 6 months for a service pack!
So take all that and stick it in your MS pipe and smoke it. (or do you need a paperclip and a 'wizard' pop up to help you).
Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox now......