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Surprisingly sexy looking thing, except for the home button. Conspicuous lack of information about screen resolution, and a ridiculously high price given the s

Surprisingly sexy looking thing, except for the home button. Conspicuous lack of information about screen resolution, and a ridiculously high price given the specs relative to equivalent Androids and Windows devices. I'm a (fairly loud) FF OS detractor, and this flailing around looking for a niche (apparently this time Japanese web dev geeks that will prize ideology over function) betrays a complete lack of market demand for it. Google's Android 5.0 screw up is causing there to be the biggest opportunity for a mobile OS land grab in years, but you're not going to progress with an even more extreme version of the ultra-thin-client model.

colordrops 12y ago
> Google's Android 5.0 screw up Care to elaborate?
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- aroch 12y ago
  For inexplicable reasons, Lollipop removed silent mode. The new task switcher is an abomination and memory management is way too harsh (constant gc-ing)
  - colordrops 12y ago
    Seems that silent mode is still there, but the name is changed: https://gigaom.com/2014/11/17/silent-vibrate-do-not-disturb-android-priority-notifications/ https://gigaom.com/2014/11/17/silent-vibrate-do-not-disturb-... I haven't used lollipop so I don't know about the task switcher and memory management. These seem like they could be quite annoying, but fixable and not a complete failure. I haven't heard Lollipop being widely described as a boondoggle, so I'm wondering if it's as big of a failure as you are ascribing.
  - beaumartinez 12y ago
    Adding my own two cents here— - You can no longer put your phone into silent from the volume slider - You can no longer put your phone into vibrate or silent from the power menu - They removed the shortcut to "app info" from the most recents menu, and from the notifications menu (I used this to force-stop apps) - Apps randomly restart themselves; I assume this is a memory leak issue (this is on a Nexus 5, I'd never experienced this before) - Reduced battery life (night-time battery life is abysmal—my first night with Lollipop I missed my alarm because my phone died) I was so frustrated by Lollipop I reset my phone to Kit Kat. They removed a bunch of shortcuts, and I really don't understand why.
  - revelation 12y ago
    And this would be the reason for a "landgrab" in mobile? Most users hardly notice spyware hijacking their browser. I don't think they will be too concerned with harsh memory management.
    - aroch 12y ago
      I said nothing about landgrabing...Just pointing to some of the failings of lollipop.
  - agapos 12y ago
    I also heard that the new calendar is several steps backwards.
    - rspeer 12y ago
      I found Lollipop to be an improvement in general, but as for the calendar, get used to read ing like this .

colordrops 12y ago

> Google's Android 5.0 screw up Care to elaborate?

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aroch 12y ago
For inexplicable reasons, Lollipop removed silent mode. The new task switcher is an abomination and memory management is way too harsh (constant gc-ing)
- colordrops 12y ago
  Seems that silent mode is still there, but the name is changed: https://gigaom.com/2014/11/17/silent-vibrate-do-not-disturb-android-priority-notifications/ https://gigaom.com/2014/11/17/silent-vibrate-do-not-disturb-... I haven't used lollipop so I don't know about the task switcher and memory management. These seem like they could be quite annoying, but fixable and not a complete failure. I haven't heard Lollipop being widely described as a boondoggle, so I'm wondering if it's as big of a failure as you are ascribing.
- beaumartinez 12y ago
  Adding my own two cents here— - You can no longer put your phone into silent from the volume slider - You can no longer put your phone into vibrate or silent from the power menu - They removed the shortcut to "app info" from the most recents menu, and from the notifications menu (I used this to force-stop apps) - Apps randomly restart themselves; I assume this is a memory leak issue (this is on a Nexus 5, I'd never experienced this before) - Reduced battery life (night-time battery life is abysmal—my first night with Lollipop I missed my alarm because my phone died) I was so frustrated by Lollipop I reset my phone to Kit Kat. They removed a bunch of shortcuts, and I really don't understand why.
- revelation 12y ago
  And this would be the reason for a "landgrab" in mobile? Most users hardly notice spyware hijacking their browser. I don't think they will be too concerned with harsh memory management.
  - aroch 12y ago
    I said nothing about landgrabing...Just pointing to some of the failings of lollipop.
- agapos 12y ago
  I also heard that the new calendar is several steps backwards.
  - rspeer 12y ago
    I found Lollipop to be an improvement in general, but as for the calendar, get used to read ing like this .