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by mirsadm 12y ago
Not to be too rude but has your wife tried simply, well, not checking her phone after work? IMO most of these smartwatches are adding to the problem of constant interruptions, not solving it.
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by mirsadm 12y ago
From what I've seen iOS 7 runs pretty well on the 4S.
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by mirsadm 12y ago
His reasons are bullshit. I don't care how frustrated you are, learn to control your emotions. Its very much possible to be direct without being an ass. Probably more effective too.
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by mirsadm 12y ago
That's just not true. People forget that before smartphones we use to make applications that worked on lots of resolutions. It's not a new thing. In fact what Google is doing is fantastic. They provide the tools to make your app h
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by mirsadm 12y ago
They could be useful for sport activities. For eg: I could maybe see it replacing my cycling computer if it provided a heart rate monitor + support for extra speed/cadence/power sensors via ANT+ or Bluetooth LE
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by mirsadm 12y ago
My experience has been the opposite. In fact there were couple of articles with evidence of android apps being more stable than their iOS versions [0]. The difference wasn't large however. Its the same case with battery life. It seems
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by mirsadm 12y ago
I'm from Australia. There are a couple of low cost alternatives here for the moment. The plan I am on gives me 1.5gb/mo and pretty much unlimited talk/text for my use. When I was in Canada/US I couldn't really find
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by mirsadm 12y ago
At this point both devices do the core functionality just as well as each other (email, browsing and maps). Android still has better "Google" integration which is important for me. Also I have gotten use to paying $350 for a Nexus
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by mirsadm 12y ago
Not only that I believe Google contacted most of the popular SMS devs when they made huge changes to the SMS content providers in Kit Kat (which are private). They didn't really need to but did to let them know of the changes.
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by mirsadm 12y ago
It's exciting to think that for the younger people now those sorts of issues are likely to be "fixed" when they get older.
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by mirsadm 12y ago
Personally I find OsmAnd to be truly awful. The interface is stuck in the Android 1.6 era and I can't even get the online maps to show anything. Offline maps are nice but not that useful unless I am travelling overseas and don't b
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by mirsadm 12y ago
That's a great post, thanks for that. I'm currently using basically Amazon * for everything and was looking into docker a little bit yesterday. For a two man team I think I will continue to stick with Amazon since my strength is n
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by mirsadm 13y ago
iOS doesn't support custom pop up windows outside of your app. Which means for an IM app you need to be running it for a popup to appear (sort of making the whole popup window pretty useless IMO). On Android you can display a custom po
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by mirsadm 13y ago
Syncing and resolving conflicts is one of those things that everyone thinks is initially easy then realizes how difficult it is.
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by mirsadm 13y ago
Success in anything is rarely just about luck.
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by mirsadm 13y ago
I'm from Australia as well. I lived in Canada for a while and we use to joke that when there was snow there'd be signs saying you can't play in the snow.
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by mirsadm 13y ago
I don't think 'safe mode' is an Android thing. Are you referring to a Sony device? They seem to have some sort of safe mode.
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by mirsadm 13y ago
I'm glad we have this guy to tell Google how to run their completely unsuccessful business that missed the boat.
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by mirsadm 13y ago
That's because its not. I can't even tell if I'm running 4.1/2/3/4. I have a Nexus 5.
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Flashlight app kept users in the dark about sharing location data(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by mirsadm 13y ago|0 comments
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by mirsadm 13y ago
I manage to use the Nexus 7 (2013) with one hand. I had a Nexus 10 before and it was barely used. The Nexus 7 gets used for hours almost every day.
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by mirsadm 13y ago
I think this is completely reasonable. If people want to sideload the app then by all means go for it. The Play Store shouldn't allow apps that can potentially damage your device (or void your warranty).
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by mirsadm 13y ago
I can play my Xbox360 / PS3 games just fine without installing them. So a 'next-gen' console has a worse experience in that regard. The excitement of a new toy is significantly reduced when you have to wait a couple of hours
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by mirsadm 13y ago
Pretty poor form to down vote this comment without a response. Seriously, what the hell? I pretty much agree with this. There may be cases outside of gaming that this will be useful though. It's funny how on the desktop market everyone
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by mirsadm 13y ago
This sort of stuff is just not very exciting to me. Latency is very important in gaming. Unless the servers are in the next room the latency will be probably be crappy. Companies have enough issues launching AAA titles these days without st
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by mirsadm 13y ago
That really applies to most other fields. Some people are just bad at their job. Some people are good and some are amazing.
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by mirsadm 13y ago
I hear that comment often when it comes to microsd. I don't think it has anything with google wanting you to use their cloud services. External storage is horrible for the user experience. Where do my photos go when I take them? What a
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by mirsadm 13y ago
How about a cheap Android tablet? If it is just for watching videos then there are plenty of very cheap Chinese tablets that will work.
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by mirsadm 13y ago
As usual Anandtech has one of the best reviews. My only complaint is the CPU benchmarks are more or less useless. I understand there aren't any good cross platform benchmarks right now but using JS benchmarks is completely inaccurate.
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by mirsadm 13y ago
I am also pretty disappointed with Chrome these days. I switched to Safari because it's just way smoother/faster for me. It's annoying because the sluggishness is still evident on Android.

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