rbarooah

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by rbarooah 16y ago
I assume you think that the bailouts of the financial system were earned, and that school is optional for kids who don't like following silly or time-wasting instructions.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
What hardware specs? Battery life? Gyroscope? Graphics Performance?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Pushing prices up or margins down would make them less competitive. More importantly, they have to be able to manufacture with quality in increasingly gigantic volume. Sure they're making choices, but that's not the same as holding back.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
How can that be arranged?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Are you seriously arguing that Google and Zappos are representative of many companies?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I'd like to see a list of these 'many' different systems that have been tried. It seems to me as though we've tried 'kings/dictators' lots of times, and we've watched communism devolve into 'kings/dictators', and we may very well be in the
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Does anyone seriously think they are deliberately holding back?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Motorize the switch ;-)
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by rbarooah 16y ago
To run new apps that won't work on the lesser hardware?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
"Remember, the Android Market is open, which can be great and unfortunate in different circumstances. Always read user reviews before you download; and if you have any doubts, play it safe." This is how Apple's approach is good for develope
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50,000 users install malware from the Android Market(mashable.com)
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Oh - and why do you care about what Apple does, when you have Android giving you what you want?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I'm not going to bother to look up references about malware or scareware etc. on Windows. Seriously? You've never heard of spyware or people having to reinstall windows, or registry corruption, etc. etc.? Also several of those companies we
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by rbarooah 16y ago
You're right that I'm expecting a lot. If the 'openness' that is claimed for Android is only accessible to expert enthusiasts and tinkerers, that's fine, but then those people have what they want already so why are they complaining about t
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by rbarooah 16y ago
You're not breaking anything to me. You're agreeing with me - the current situation isn't open in any meaningful way. Given they can install apps, non enthusiasts could certainly deal with a one-click install of an alternative OS if it had
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Actually that would be a pretty interesting mode. Presumably alternative app stores would spring up - Cydia would probably be repurposed immediately. As long as there's a clear division between 'closed' and 'open' modes so that people who
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Not true. Look at the mess windows is in because of bad software. If you've ever had to help a non-tech-savvy user who has messed up their computer by installing bad software that was recommended to them by a well meaning friend, you'll kn
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Nice. If this rule forced real open devices to come into existence then it would be very interesting. To me a genuinely open device would be one where we can reasonably fork Android and make a real open source variant. The idea of a much
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I am a developer. With Apple's model I gain from having an environment where users feel safe to buy apps. I don't fear an open model, but it has not been proven to be better for users - windows was open and look where that got us in the 'l
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Although you could just keep running leopard.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Obviously not everyone agrees that devices that can install software from anywhere would be a good thing. Why not let the market decide? If the 'open' android model is so great then won't they inevitably win? It seems to me that using laws
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Along with autosaving, restore, and instant quitting, I imagine they are moving to a model where the OS can quit apps for you to manage resources, as they do on iOS. Having said that, it'll probably be a while before eclipse and photoshop p
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Not really. Extensions can be part of web apps. They are just code from the web that can run even when you aren't navigated to their origin site.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Sure - I think the concern applies to any browser becoming seriously dominant and being controlled by a single corporation. We've seen what an effect even a neglected dominant browser can have. Clearly an actively developed one would have
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Suggesting that the only harms that can occur in the future are ones that have happened in the past doesn't seem very reasonable. However your argument raises an interesting point. What if Microsoft hadn't just let IE rot, but had actually
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Sure but it's the non-standard part that matters. If they keep going like this and get mass adoption the web will end up defined as "whatever Google puts in chrome", which will presumably be chosen to maximize their own interests. The fact
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Am I wrong, or is Google basically making a progressively more tailored and non-standard browser in the hope of enticing web app developers to make apps that only run properly in chrome?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
How is this 'not wanting dishonesty'?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Does that mean you'll never write your apps, since the old ones will always exist? The new ones will outnumber the old ones within 6 months.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Nothing against hushmail. Just seemed funny that after a page of statements about how they aren't doing anything wrong, they use a service designed to conceal their identities. I'm not criticizing them - it's just funny.

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