Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Dec 2012 09:50 UTC
"For a seventh consecutive month, the Samsung Galaxy S III is the most popular smartphone in the United Kingdom. The data compiled by uSwitch is based on live searches, pre-orders, as well as postpaid sales. Curiously, Apple's current smartphone flagship is not even second. The iPhone 5 is outperformed by its predecessor, whose lower price and improved contract offers helped it remain appealing. The Samsung Galaxy S II completes the quartet at the top. The rest of the top ten smartphones is entirely an Android party. It includes the Google Nexus 4, who entered the rankings a solid fifth. The second half of the top ten includes the Samsung Galaxy Ace, Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Sony Xperia U, HTC One X, as well as the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2." This is getting ridiculous, and it's not good for the market. For the love of Fiona, people, buy something that's not Android. I don't want to live in an Android-dominated smartphone world.
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Member since:2011-05-12
My son mostly plays with devices, not actually use them. He did create his own folder in my iPad and moved his favorite games there and he discovered iMessages creating some confusing between my wife and me.
Kids have all these gadgets these days, while I spend a lot of time waiting for the computer to load my game from cassette.
Member since:2006-05-30
My son mostly plays with devices, not actually use them. He did create his own folder in my iPad and moved his favorite games there and he discovered iMessages creating some confusing between my wife and me.
Oh, yeah. They mainly play games. But my eldest regularly does her homework on the computer, as has my son before. My youngest loves painting packages (seriously, MS Paint kept her absorbed for hours, as did Mac Paint on my Mac Classic.) Kids learn best through absorbing information, and by using the devices they learn tricks, techniques and patterns they can apply elsewhere. Example - my youngest made her own folder on my accursed Nexus 7 with games, because she had seem me do similar on the iPad. She transferred that knowledge. That was pretty cool to see.
Kids have all these gadgets these days, while I spend a lot of time waiting for the computer to load my game from cassette.
Yep. Me too. Slooow. I was Sinclair then Commodore 64 then Amstrad CPC 464 (loved computers and programming in Basic as a kid.) Then I went all floppy disk 16/24/32 bit with Amiga / Acorn Archimedes /IBM PC (literally, it was a colosus branded with an IBM BL2 made 486 clone processor and PCDOS! It was crazy at the time because the BIOS soft configured the graphics card, sound card and processor frequency - this was back when most PC's and cards had jumpers and a big "speed" button on the front to do that kind of thing.)
Member since:2005-07-06
Kids have all these gadgets these days, while I spend a lot of time waiting for the computer to load my game from cassette.
A-HA! So you did use cassettes, not everybody had floppy drives at your place after all! ;P (what we discussed in Amiga page2 news from few months ago, IIRC)
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/13/13 14:35 UTC
The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/11/13 17:07 UTC
We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/10/13 23:13 UTC
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/08/13 14:57 UTC
And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/07/13 11:40 UTC
This story is getting bigger and bigger. Even though most Americans probably already knew, it is now official: the United States government, through its National Security Agency, is collecting the communications and data of all American citizens, and of non-Americans using American services, through a wide collaboration with the large companies in technology, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on. Interestingly enough, the NSA itself, as well as the US government, have repeatedly and firmly denied this massive spying on Americans and non-Americans took place at all.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/04/13 12:45 UTC
Ah, patents - the never-ending scourge of the technology industry. Whether wielded by companies who don't actually make any products, or large corporations who abuse them because they can't compete in the market place or because they're simply jerks, they do the industry a huge disservice and are simply plain dangerous. According to The Wall Street Journal (circumvention link), president Obama is about to take several executive actions to address patent trolls - which may seem like a good idea, but I am very worried that all this will do is strengthen the positions of notorious patent system abusers such as Apple and Microsoft.
Linked by nfeske on 05/31/13 10:12 UTC
With version 13.05, the developers of the Genode OS Framework take measures to ensure that Genode continues to scale well with a growing number of users and the steadily broadening platform coverage. Further highlights are the improved SoC support for Exynos 5, OMAP4, Raspberry Pi, i.MX, and new components for realizing headless systems.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/29/13 16:59 UTC
At the D11 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook once again took the stage to be interviewed by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. While most of the interview can be replicated by picking and reading 10 random Apple fanblog stories - there were still a number of very interesting things that warrant some closer scrutiny.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 17:26 UTC
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!More Features »
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My kids have used:
XP / Vista / Windows 7 at home and in school. They've also use Lion on the Mac Mini and they used to love playing with my old Mac Classic running System 7.0. My eldest has an Android phone (Galaxy Y), my middle child plays XBOX 360 and PS2, so has experience with both of those OS, youngest is obsessed with mobile phones, so has a few old one with no sim card (she uses the video/camera functions mainly) but knows her way round their little OS (mainly Ericson.) They all use iOS and have all used Android. All three have a DSi. They've probably also used my PSP and PS1 at some point.
I love opening them up to new OS and experiences, because it will help them be better with technology in general as they grow up.