Why Android is better than iPhone.

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/246362/flash_player_111_arrives_for_android_ice_cream_sandwich.html

[h=1]Flash Player 11.1 Arrives for Android Ice Cream Sandwich[/h]By Daniel Ionescu, PCWorld Dec 16, 2011 6:06 AM

The first owners of the Galaxy Nexus smartphone can finally enjoy Flash-based websites and videos across the Web. Adobe updated the Flash Player in the Android Market to version 11.1, which supports Google’s latest mobile OS, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).
The release, now available in the Android Market, does not include any major features, except bug fixes related to stability, performance, and device compatibility, Adobe says in the release notes. Instead the headline feature is support for ICS, which coincides with the U.S. launch of the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon.
The latest Android Flash player has a few known issues, however. StageVideo using On2 and Sorenson does not work on ICS devices, and Seeking while video is paused will not update the frame on ICS device. Also, the OS does not prioritize incoming calls, so audio remains playing before and after call is received, and the enter key does not work on the multi-line text input field.
[h=2]Flash for Android’s Last Breath[/h]Flash Player 11.1 could well be the last version of the plug-in for Android devices, as Adobe said last month that it is axing development of Flash for mobile phones and tablets, refocusing on HTML5, as well as mobile apps and content.
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Most users probably won’t miss Flash on Android devices either, once Google releases another major OS update and leaves Flash compatibility behind. In most cases, reviewers and pundits found that the mobile plug-in is a performance and battery hog, just like Steve Jobs said in a now-famous open letter in 2010, addressing the lack of Flash compatibility in iOS.
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[h=1]RIM gets kicked while down, sued over BBM trademark[/h]It's been a long December for RIM, and there's reason to believe this year won't be any better than the last. This month, the companywas sued for its use of the BBX trademark and was forced to change its name to BlackBerry 10; then, it all hit the fan when co-CEO Mike Lazaridis broke the news that phones running the aforementioned OS won't arrive until late in 2012. And let's not even get started on the quarterly earnings report. Sadly, it's not over: BBM Canada, a Toronto-based broadcast industry group that has used the BBM moniker in one way or another for six decades, wants to reclaim its name -- used and made popular by RIM's BlackBerry Messenger service -- and has filed a lawsuit against the phone maker for trademark infringement. BBM Canada CEO Jim MacLeod says he's made several attempts to resolve the matter with them in hopes of avoiding the courtroom -- even to the extent of offering to rebrand his own company as long as RIM footed the bill -- to no success.

MacLeod told The Globe and Mail that "I find it kind of amazing that this wouldn't have been thought about before they decided to use the name -- the same thing goes for BBX." And according to court documents, it actually was: in February 2010, RIM attempted to apply for the BBM trademark with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, was told that it wasn't registerable, and still went ahead and used it for its BlackBerry Messenger service anyways. We'll see what kind of explanation the company has for going ahead and using the three-letter acronym in a couple weeks, since a hearing has been scheduled for January 11th.
 
Android isn't looking so good right now. They released ICS and there are so many bugs, they had to stop the update. people are complaint about losing wifi, some phones not working at all, battery draining to fast, ect. I updated my Nexus S to ICS, and all seems good, except the loss of battery performance. I haven't noticed too much difference from gingerbread to ICS. I wouldn't advise anyone to upgrade until all the bugs are fixed. Looks like they really blew it this time. This will be a good test to see how fast they get it fixed. On a good note. I got my Symbian Anna upgrade 2 weeks ago for my n8 and it's perfect. I guess all the other os companies can learn from Nokia how to produce a great os.

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Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Jan 2012 19:12 UTC
Late last year, president Obama signed a law that makes it possible to indefinitely detain terrorist suspects without any form of trial or due process. Peaceful protesters in Occupy movements all over the world have been labelled as terrorists by the authorities. Initiatives like SOPA promote diligent monitoring of communication channels. Thirty years ago, when Richard Stallman launched the GNU project, and during the three decades that followed, his sometimes extreme views and peculiar antics were ridiculed and disregarded as paranoia - but here we are, 2012, and his once paranoid what-ifs have become reality.Up until relatively recently, it's been easy to dismiss Richard Stallman as a paranoid fanatic, someone who lost touch with reality long ago. A sort of perpetual computer hippie, the perfect personification of the archetype of the unworldly basement-dwelling computer nerd. His beard, his hair, his outfits - in our visual world, it's simply too easy to dismiss him.
His views have always been extreme. His only computer is a Lemote Yeelong netbook, because it's the only computer which uses only Free software - no firmware blobs, no proprietary BIOS; it's all Free. He also refuses to own a mobile phone, because they're too easy to track; until there's a mobile phone equivalent of the Yeelong, Stallman doesn't want one. Generally, all software should be Free. Or, as the Free Software Foundation puts it:
As our society grows more dependent on computers, the software we run is of critical importance to securing the future of a free society. Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us.
I, too, disregarded Stallman as way too extreme. Free software to combat controlling and spying governments? Evil corporations out to take over the world? Software as a tool to monitor private communication channels? Right. Surely, Free and open source software is important, and I choose it whenever functional equivalence with proprietary solutions is reached, but that Stallman/FSF nonsense is way out there.
But here we are, at the start of 2012. Obama signed the NDAA for 2012, making it possible for American citizens to be detained indefinitely without any form of trial or due process, only because they are terrorist suspects. At the same time, we have SOPA, which, if passed, would enact a system in which websites can be taken off the web, again without any form of trial or due process, while also enabling the monitoring of internet traffic. Combine this with how the authorities labelled the Occupy movements - namely, as terrorists - and you can see where this is going.
In case all this reminds you of China and similarly totalitarian regimes, you're not alone. Even the Motion Picture Association of America, the MPAA, proudly proclaims that what works for China, Syria, Iran, and others, should work for the US. China's Great Firewall and similar filtering systems are glorified as workable solutions in what is supposed to be the free world.
The crux of the matter here is that unlike the days of yore, where repressive regimes needed elaborate networks of secret police and informants to monitor communication, all they need now is control over the software and hardware we use. Our desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and all manner of devices play a role in virtually all of our communication. Think you're in the clear when communicating face-to-face? Think again. How did you arrange the meet-up? Over the phone? The web? And what do you have in your pocket or bag, always connected to the network?
This is what Stallman has been warning us about all these years - and most of us, including myself, never really took him seriously. However, as the world changes, the importance of the ability to check what the code in your devices is doing - by someone else in case you lack the skills - becomes increasingly apparent. If we lose the ability to check what our own computers are doing, we're boned.
That's the very core of the Free Software Foundation's and Stallman's beliefs: that proprietary software takes control away from the user, which can lead to disastrous consequences, especially now that we rely on computers for virtually everything we do. The fact that Stallman foresaw this almost three decades ago is remarkable, and vindicates his activism. It justifies 30 years of Free Software Foundation.
And, in 2012, we're probably going to need Free and open source software more than ever before. At the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin late last year, Cory Doctorow held a presentation titled "The Coming War on General Purpose Computation". In it, Doctorow warns that the general purpose computer, and more specifically, user control over general purpose computers, is perceived as a threat to the establishment. The copyright wars? Nothing but a prelude to the real war.
"As a member of the Walkman generation, I have made peace with the fact that I will require a hearing aid long before I die, and of course, it won't be a hearing aid, it will be a computer I put in my body," Doctorow explains, "So when I get into a car - a computer I put my body into - with my hearing aid - a computer I put inside my body - I want to know that these technologies are not designed to keep secrets from me, and to prevent me from terminating processes on them that work against my interests."
And this is really the gist of it all. With computers taking care of things like hearing, driving, and more, we really can't afford to be locked out of them. We need to be able to peek inside of them and see what they're doing, to ensure we're not being monitored, filtered, or whatever. Only a short while ago I would've declared this as pure paranoia - but with all that's been going on recently, it's no longer paranoia. It's reality.
"Freedom in the future will require us to have the capacity to monitor our devices and set meaningful policy on them, to examine and terminate the processes that run on them, to maintain them as honest servants to our will, and not as traitors and spies working for criminals, thugs, and control freaks," Doctorow warns, "And we haven't lost yet, but we have to win the copyright wars to keep the Internet and the PC free and open. Because these are the materiel in the wars that are to come, we won't be able to fight on without them."
This is why you should support Android (not Google, but Android), even if you prefer the iPhone. This is why you should support Linux, even if you use Windows. This is why you should support Apache, even if you run IIS. There's going to be a point where being Free/open is no longer a fun perk, but a necessity.
And that point is approaching fast.




except for that whole rootkit thing but that's besides the point.
 
New from Apple. The iSlap.

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[h=1]2011 Was the Second-Worst Year for U.S. PC Sales in History, Except at Apple[/h]Last year, for the first time since 2001, the U.S. market for personal computers shrank, according to separate research reports issued yesterday by the research firms Gartner and IDC. The year 2011 was, by IDC’s reckoning, the second-worst year in the PC industry’s history.
U.S. consumers and businesses bought 71.3 million PCs, representing a drop of nearly 5 percent over 2010, when they bought more than 75 million, IDC said. So much for the year.
And the fourth quarter, traditionally one of the industry’s strong points, wasn’t much help. Shipments of PCs in the fourth quarter declined by nearly 7 percent, according to IDC; Gartner said they fell by 6 percent. Hewlett-Packard saw its U.S. shipments drop by 25 percent in the IDC report; Dell by 5 percent; Acer by 14 percent; and Toshiba by 2 percent.
HP’s flirtation with spinning off its PC division last year hurt sales, as businesses and consumers lost confidence in the company. The main beneficiary of that appears to have been China’s Lenovo, the world’s No. 2 PC maker, which saw its shipments, on a global basis, surge by 37 percent, though it’s not much of a player in the U.S. market.
For the full year, HP saw its shipments fall by nearly 5 percent; Dell’s fell by more than 8 percent; and Acer’s fell 30 percent in the U.S.
So who grew? Apple. It saw its shipments grow by 18 percent in the quarter, according to IDC, and by 21 percent in the Gartner report. As of the end of the year, IDC said, Apple’s share of the U.S. market amounted to 10.7 percent, which is up from 8.8 percent a year ago.



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HP’s flirtation with spinning off its PC division last year hurt sales, as businesses and consumers lost confidence in the company. The main beneficiary of that appears to have been China’s Lenovo, the world’s No. 2 PC maker, which saw its shipments, on a global basis, surge by 37 percent, though it’s not much of a player in the U.S. market.
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HP never flirted with it, they hired a CEO that wanted to change the direction of the company from a hardware company to a software company and sprung it on the public with out consulting the board while killing the tablet business. It didn't take long for HP to give him the axe. Why they hired him in the first place I don't know...
 
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“My primary phone is the iPhone, I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do,” said Woz

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/17/woz_praises_android_highlights_iphone_limitations/
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Everyone has different needs in a smart phone, which is why having healthy competition is good for everyone. What I like about Woz is he is a real geek, he likes tech, be it Apple or not. I remember some reality show he was on, he was dating or is some comedian girl and he was talking about how he jail broke is iPhone. For many the iPhone is not the right choice, for many others it is. Its a debate that will never end, just look at how long the PC vs Mac debate has been going on.
 
Woz is a pretty huge nerd... so it doesn't surprise me that he's attracted to Android. He apparently loves phones in general and gets like every new model of every smartphone.
 
look at the computers he created apple with - the apple 2 series. they were hacker machines, fully expandable machines that pushed the ability of the chips in them. There is no wonder that he likes the android machine for playing with. though expect GPS and siri to improve after this (though i've heard conflicting things about siri/vs android it may be a user thing).

the way he and Jobs worked was amazing, Woz would be working on a project and Jobs would ask him if he could make it do more things and Woz would find a way to do that. If he had designed the Mac it would have been an entirely different machine yet done the same thing.
 
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At $620+ a pop for an iPad, no wonder they are raking in the profits.


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The word is spreading, and people just want the best.

A tiny note from today’s Apple earnings: 37 million iPhones were sold in Q1 of 2012, meaning that Apple is the top SmartPhone manufacturer in the world. The number one spot has previously been held by Samsung. There seemed to be no way that Apple could take the crown so soon.
Samsung said that it shipped (not sold) 35 million smartphones in the last quarter (analyst estimates were a more conservative 32 million), and Apple just sold 37 million iPhones. Way to go, Apple.
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The iPhone 4S is such a hit, they had to cancel the launch in China.....for safety reasons.

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"We thought we were betting bold," Cook said about sales of the device in China on a conference call yesterday. "We didn't bet high enough."

After a near riot broke out at its Beijing Store on the iPhone 4S' launch day, local police determined that the situation wasn't safe and ordered Apple to close the location. The company rushed to control fallout out from the incident and halted the in-store sale of iPhones in all its Chinese stores.

With sales halted at its China retail outlets, Apple is now offering the iPhone through China Unicom and its online store.

Chinese demand for the handset is "off the charts," said Cook.
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Everybody wanna be like Mike....Steve Jobs.

Obama;
You see, an economy built to last is one where we encourage the talent and ingenuity of every person in this country. That means women should earn equal pay for equal work. It means we should support everyone who's willing to work; and every risk-taker and entrepreneur who aspires to become the next Steve Jobs.
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Among the many topics discussed by Tim Cook at today’s Town Hall session with employees, the Apple CEO revealed some new Apple employee benefits. Giving a little more back to the people who worked so hard to make Apple one of the wealthiest corporations in the world, Cook announced that Apple employees will soon be given $500 discounts on purchases of new Macs and $250 discounts on purchases of a new iPad.
The new discount program will officially kickoff at some point during the month of June. A major caveat is that Apple employees may only utilize this opportunity every three years, and employees must have been working for Apple for at least 90 days. The Mac discount side of the program excludes the Mac mini, which is already close to that $500 of credit. Apple employees currently have a 25% discount on Macs, so in many cases the $500 is a big deal.
 
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