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Curious that Alphabet thinks that all the work Apple did producing the iPhone should be free to copy because it was the right way to do it, and obvious in hindsight. But protects it's own IP furiously and completely.

Oh jeez, here it comes from the apple haters:
I owned an iPhone and and the original iMac (and ever apple model since) but Im trading my iPhone for android now.  Apple ecosystem is loosing now, its a a walled prison where you can't even decide what OS you want to run. they are horrible, ever since Steve died... They are looser.... -o crap-... Eeeeiiiiiiiiiii!
(frantically running around in circles as the samesung phone in back pocket bursts into flames) ;-)

ihatescreennames said:

foggyhill said:

ihatescreennames said:

I still want to see a video that times opening, in sequence, all the “same” apps on each phone (twice) like we used to get every year. 

Their not the "same", you have a huge dependency on how shitty the current release is, and if they're actually doing the same thing on startup.

There is a hell of a lot of setup that's done on startup of an app and assuming it's the same between releases and OS's is not wise.

For example, if on IOS/Android you could do a lot of things up front that you can't in Android (and vice versa), it would be penalized using this kind of things.

That's why you have to go for benchmarks where you actually know they're actually mostly doing the same small tasks and you have access to the source code.

Except it shows good real world examples of how fast using each phone is. Like someone mentioned in another thread, it doesn’t matter if your car can go over 200 mph when you’re driving it around town.  

The poster "in the other thread" sounds like someone who hasen't actually driven a car that can go over 200MPH. Nope, even around town the feel of "nearly instantly responsive" has real benefits.

yuck9 said:

loopless said:

Bad AppleInsider.   Stop posting misleading nonsense clickbait. Turn off location services. “Problem”solved. 

If this was Google,would you still be saying that ?  Oh, If It's Apple then it's ok right. 

Sort of... The difference is business models. Apple wants to sell you Electronics hardware and online services, whereas google wants to sell you. To anyone with cash.
It is in apple best interests (both optically and fiduciary)  to respect your private data, Alphabet is just the opposite, it is in their fiduciary interest to sell you down the river privacy be dammed.
Scary thing it, is appears they have been collecting personal health information without Doctors nor patients knowledge or permission (HIPAA be dammed) And again because of their differing business models it is a concern that goog is collecting healthcare data apple, not so much.

"Samsung new hot sales" takes on new meaning given the last samsung debacle. ;-)

This is getting ridiculous: "Samsung's related capacity has jumped from 30,000 to 45,000 panels per month a year ago to 105,000, ETNews said on Friday." And it's not even sourced (in original ET story it is "is reported") It is a story about an unsourced story by a another new agency. Tech news has become like the debate on the existence of a transcendent being. While I can't definitively say this story is false, there is not a single shred of evidence that any of it is true. Actually... I take that back, it would be far easer to argue the existence of god than it would be the accuracy or truthfulness of this news echo of a Electronic times yarn.

volcan said:

ericthehalfbee said:

Besides thieves who download music/movies, who else uses BT?

Most of the major Linux distros who use it for downloading OS updates. All the mirrors, even those at universities offer BT versions of Linux.

Functionally (but not completely) false

All those who defend the torrent, usually cite these kinds of uses (though you didn't mention that the torrent is a option for any distro that I have ever seen (with mirrors being by far the preferred method) But... what you fail to disclose is that the overwhelming bulk of torrent traffic IS wares, video (copyrighted) and music (copyrighted) You can pretend that it has legitimate uses (and perhaps it COULD) but for now it is (almost completely) a channel for pirated goods.

 

True... bit in reality none of the "gates" actually represented actual problems that significant % of users were having

Antenna gate simply demonstrated that (all) cell phones reception can be affected by wrapping your hand around them. (like that was a mystery) 

This "small cadre" of users has damaged their screen by applying something to it (hydrofluoric acid?)

Why they did this is questionable, that they aren't admitting that the damage was inflicted (while other purport that this is "normal" when it isn't) I find rather -dubious-

Im going to build a fleet of flying drones to automatically deliver packages, what could possibly go wrong? Hubris is so often the downfall of those who achieved success via lucky happenstance.

volcan said:

ericthehalfbee said:

Besides thieves who download music/movies, who else uses BT?

Most of the major Linux distros who use it for downloading OS updates. All the mirrors, even those at universities offer BT versions of Linux.

Functionally (but not completely) false All those who defend the torrent, usually cite these kinds of uses (though you didn't mention that the torrent is a option for any distro that I have ever seen (with mirrors being by far the preferred method) But... what you fail to disclose is that the overwhelming bulk of torrent traffic IS wares, video (copyrighted) and music (copyrighted) You can pretend that it has legitimate uses (and perhaps it COULD) but for now it is (almost completely) a channel for pirated goods.