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Another good one, titled "Mobile Computing Research Is a Hornet’s Nest of Deception and Chicanery" is at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/nes
by ColinCochrane 13y ago
Another good one, titled "Mobile Computing Research Is a Hornet’s Nest
of Deception and Chicanery" is at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/nestofhornets.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/nestofhor....
- philsnow 13y agoWow, _somebody_ doesn't like windows phones but seriously, that article had nothing to do with research. it seemed to be a rant at third-rate smart phones from 3 years ago.
- repsilat 13y agoFits my experience with my Nexus 7 pretty well. - The web-browsing experience is pretty bad (though web developers are as much to blame for this as the browser devs.) Mobile-optimised sites have text that's too large and advertising dialogs that forcibly redirect me to places I don't want to go. Buggy banner ads trying to stick to the bottom of the page bounce around the page as I scroll, take up too much of the viewport, and never dismiss when I hit the "X". - The touchscreen does play up from time to time, sometimes when I'm using it and sometimes when I'm not. Two days ago my tablet opened Facebook and tried to send "monkey with typewriter" messages to old friends... It doesn't make calls either, but I can forgive it for that... My heirarchy of needs begins with more "real computer" things, not "real phone" things. To type a short comment like this I'll first plug in a keyboard (which will cause all programs to crap themselves....) Anything more involved, though, and I'll consider spinning up an EC2 instance and doing it over SSH.
- brown9-2 13y agoIf you scroll down to the bottom of this page (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/) you'll see that the author intended these as humor pieces for USENIX magazine and not as research papers.