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Rarely are things built into Android OS that aren't working very well. The openness, though, allows the third-party vendors to use customers like lab rats/beta testers. I don't think the desktop OS comparisons quite work. There are shades of Windows and Linux. It is like Linux to the extent that there are lots of versions, it is appealing to developers and tweakers, and there is an active community trying to build new features itself and/or fix annoyances in the OS. But, like Windows, it is the un-glamorous and widely available option. Much like Windows has usually come to describe "all which is not Mac," that is close to true with Android as well. Like Windows, more features are there but haven't always been well-marketed or super-refined when they reach the end user. Design hasn't always been a priority, much like Windows. The reputation that comes with running on low-end devices is there, too. I know a bunch of people who will never touch an Android device because they bought a s***ty phone that ran Gingerbread in 2011 and they assume everyone's experience must be like that.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 12:14 PM) I was watching the cubs yesterday because of the Blue Jays starting pitcher and Len Kasper seems to almost be over the top in trying to use advanced metics to explain the game. He was trying at one point to explain how Jose Bautista was clutch but that there is no such thing as clutch he is just a very good hitter. There seems to be this growing crowd that feels that baseball is a mathematical problem to be solved with each pitch and the game itself and score is secondary. kasper is damn good but sometimes I was like......huh? Sounds like the only thing worse than preferring SABR or old school stuff is trying to simultaneously endorse both philosophies wholeheartedly

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/09/09/ip...right-by-users/ A more sober Android-centric look at iPhone 6/+/iOS 8:

Saw this on Twitter and I can't resist...and yes, of course it's not a legitimate comparison yada yada

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 08:45 AM) We want to think of 16 year olds as having the mental development of adults all the time, but there's plenty of evidence that says they don't. Particularly when it comes to things like privacy. A colleague of mine did some research on how young adults and older adults differ on perspectives on privacy and they actually found that young people are more privacy-minded...except that young people were only use their aptitude to remain private to elude their parents. They didn't, by and large, think about the general public as someone to hide from

Everyone, including Apple so far, have been trying to sell their smart watch. Nobody is investing the time/effort in selling smart watches in general. A lot of people scoffed at smartphones as a luxury or toy, but then their utility was demonstrated. If smart watches want to catch on, they have to sell the idea of the device before they can sell the specific device. I showed my girlfriend the Apple Watch, the Moto 360, the Samsung watches, the Pebble. Her take was, basically, "meh." Then I showed her the lone Android Wear commercial made by Google - she suddenly goes, "I want a watch with that." Google wasn't selling a particular watch so they could make an ad that was all about how we might find a smart watch useful rather than "this watch is round/has a leather strap/is shiny/etc"

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 04:19 PM) I own 4 wireless chargers. I use them all the time. I hate plugging the USB cable into my phone, especially in the car, which is why I have a wireless charging dock. I also have two chargers near my bed for my phone and tablet. You just set them on the charger and that's it. Much easier than finding a cord, making sure it's oriented correctly, and then plugging it in. It's a solution to a small inconvenience, but I feel like it's worth it considering you can get a wireless charger for like $20. See my thing, I guess, is that I often want to operate and charge my phone simultaneously

It's hard to believe that people would do something so cruel, particularly to such an undeserving victim. With that said, I'm pretty uncomfortable with some of the vigilante justice that folks appear to be asking for.

I'd rather pay Scherzer 7/200 than Shields 5/100

Tyler Flowers = John Buck

I think wireless charging is a big waste of time. A neutral development at best from a practical standpoint. I'd love to be convinced otherwise but I just don't see it. Was necessary on the watch, of course, given the form factor

IMO, the future of the laptop looks a lot like the MS Surface Pro 3. It would raise an interesting semantic question as to whether that means tablets or laptops "won."

A 5.5" phone is no replacement for a tablet. With that said, larger phones will increase the demand for smart watches - the watch will seem more and more useful as the phones become unwieldy. One thing I do think is essentially true is this: there is a fight going on between phones, tablets, and laptops. Two can win, but one must lose. I'm not sure which it will be. Will our main computers become very tablet-like (Surface Pro) with larger phones, with no dedicated tablets? Will our phones get big and we stick with conventional laptops for heavier tasks, with no tablets? Will phones get enormous, essentially becoming tablets, while we leave the heavy tasks to laptops? Do we find tablets acceptable for computer tasks and ditch computers as we currently know them entirely?

Oh, and it is not called "iWatch" - it will be Apple Watch

Will be $349 sometime in early 2015. From the sound of it, it might not last more than just a day. They haven't said anything definitive about battery life, but have talked about charging at night as if it will be a nightly ritual

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 02:17 PM) Gotta disagree with you here, with the sheer options, some of them looked really great. Still not my thing though, I have no use for a smartwatch. The thing I've learned about smart watches is that they look much more massive in person than they do in the pictures, which is part of my observation re: iWatch. I have little doubt, given similar Android and Tizen-based watches, that this thing will look like a big goofy calculator watch on a person's arm. The scale never looks right until you get it up close. I'd like Android Wear to become compatible with iPhone, but I doubt the APIs will be there for that.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 02:14 PM) I like iOS default email client far more than Gmail. I'm unaware of whether it's changed much since iOS 6 - the last one I used extensively. Are there no longer any restrictions with file attachments, etc.? My mother reports it still won't play nice with her hotmail account, though I wouldn't rule out user error. It treats it as a POP3 account.

And since I mentioned the iWatch, I should also add that Motorola screwed the pooch with the great white hope for Android Wear, the Moto 360. It's still beautiful, but they put a 4-year-old bulky and inefficient processor in there along with a small battery and the reviews are predictably very negative in regard to battery life. People basically saying that if you do more with it than just look at it now and then, it won't last the day. That's the ONE minimum thing a smart watch needs to do - provide worry-free single day battery life. Ideally, far longer than that.

One of the things I always hated when using iOS (and I believe this is becoming less of the case) was that, even when a fully functional replacement for a system app existed, you could not change the default. I was stuck with their poor browser and email client for too long.

Holy s*** is the iWatch ugly. Looks just like the Samsung Gear Live. I thought I could count on a small, round, watch face. QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 01:55 PM) Because I'm tired of the slight hiccup that comes along with owning an Android device and the issues that plague all of them in their inability to age well. Also, I want to be able to FaceTime with my wife when she's on business trips. Also, they released a Google Music app for iPhone which was the last thing keeping me tied to my Android. Aging poorly in a flagship is a Samsung thing. Awful software

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 01:30 PM) Why? Victims of abuse move past it somehow all the time... Sure - the question isn't whether she has or ever will so much as whether his presence and/or the memory of the incident continued to traumatize her

Part of the reason I'm attracted to the iPhone 6 is that it looks like my HTC One, particularly from the back. There are still some big problems with iOS 8 for me, though, so I don't know if I can pull the trigger.

Whether you consider him as someone who has repeatedly inflicted abuse upon her lies in whether you think she was able to just go back to normal after that night - whether the victim was able to simply move past it.

I'm not too far from an upgrade and I'm willing to consider all options. Having a MacBook changes up the game a little bit, though it's easy to overstate what those benefits are

The average AL 5th starter has an ERA of around 6, so let's not sit here and pretend 4.28 is bad