The brightness at 100% doesn’t seem to be as bright now. The hard button lights don’t seem to turn on at the right times now. The new FM Radio is a lot better although I don’t like the 3D swiper carosel, I was use to the straight list of stations. I wish they woudl allows blue tooth head sets, it would be alot better.
Groups is nice, although as always the setup of it will take me some time
Well yesterday I downloaded Gingerbread on my Droid X. Took about 30 minutes to download the 111 meg file. Install took about 5 minutes.
At first it looked quite cool. Everything seems to now POP at you and the 3D spin on objects looks real nice but now I have to see about how battery life is and the new features and what did they cut out or make better.
Time will tell. I’ll post a bit what I find.
Wait. Apple says it requires In App Purchases but the real issue is that purchase in app can only be used on that device! So if you buy it in app you can’t take it to any other device. DRM anyone!
It really looks like Apple is really getting on the “right” people nerves by demanding things like this. I wonder how long before a “real” anti-trust suits begin. Apple demands that everyone pay Apple for use of “their” devices. Apple controls the making, saleing, the use of the devices. They control how you buy, who you buy from, how you buy. They control what you buy when it comes to their products. This seemed ok when they were the small little tech company that wasn’t doing so good. But at what point do they have to stop this type of control. Microsoft never had it this good and look what happened to them.
http://www.conceivablytech.com/5473/business/apple-vs-sony-playing-chicken-with-anti-trust/
People always hate Microsoft because of things like this. But when a product becomes so big what can you do. You grown to the age of Microsoft. Big and massive. With a turn around that is longer than expected. I guess the next thing is that it will cut back on features, as Microsoft does, so it can get it out to the door. When software matures it’s harder to develop for it.
I just love how they are blaming Hotmail for some of the delay. So Microsoft should change how they do things for this company? That’s like asking Apple to allow another app store other than itunes on it’s products.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/03/mozilla_firefox_4_more_betas_possible_delay/
What can I say but “Thanks Apple” Verizon apprently could keep up with out Apple products but since the iPhone has data hogs Verizon is a little worried that it’s service may suffer once those Apple prodcuts come to them.
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/verizon_starts_data_throttling_content_optimization/
Let’s see the only things you could be certian of was Death and Taxes, but now there’s one more Apple’s 30% cut out of what you do and all the restrictions that you can’t change but Apple can at the drop of a terms of use revision.
Some of this sounds good, Apple holding the keys to your credit card information and addresses and making it so that publishers can’t junk mail you. Which means they can’t sale your names and addresses to make up more of their income. Companies have come to rely on this and with Apple holding it back things will have to change, some businesses may go out of business, other will find a new avenue or revenue. Only time will tell.
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101203/apple-publishers-still-miles-apart-on-itunes-subscriptions/
Could developers finally be getting the picture and getting ready to start leaving Apple Development?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/technology/09charity.html?src=mv
Here’s another one that makes it look like Google is pulling the wool over our eyes. Some one in the media questioning Googles 300,000 a day activations. And it is activations not shipping or some other generic term that could mean something else. Unless I miss understand what the term activations mean, or if Google’s engineering vice president and Android development director Andy Rubin doesn’t know what it means and used the term incorrectly.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/71427.html?wlc=1291992824
People are getting more ticked that Apple wants more of the pie.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/02/european_publishers_feel_betrayed_by_apples_ios_app_subscriptions.html