Posts by eksodos

Quote: Originally Posted by kevt    You've quoted the 2 extra - a Samsung and DropBox account. I'm curious, if anyone knows what the nine are - or is this exaggeration?   I wouldn't crow...

Quote: Originally Posted by hill60    A kindle is not a phone, what are YOU on about?   When you boot a Samsung phone (after signing up to some sort of phone plan so it works), you are...

Even MG Siegler is describing this as "strange". I'm genuinely looking at my Android phone right now trying to think of the nine accounts I needed to bring my experience up to iOS levels. I have Facebook and Twitter, but you need the...

Quote: Originally Posted by igriv  "When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with," he said. "They don't work seamlessly...

I have a Sony Xperia S and their WIndows/Mac client software is appalling. If you think iTunes is a bad way to sync media, trying syncing your podcasts and music using Sony PC Companion software. There is no automated way to sync new...

This is incredible actually. What the hell were Apple thinking sending these requests without encryption in the first place? Especially when this stuff is central to the experience on mobile products that you'd expect to at least...

Android does do a pretty good job telling you exactly what data an app is requesting from you before you install them from the Play Store. iOS doesn't tell you a thing really. You just have to hope nothing bad is going on in the...

Quote: Originally Posted by msimpson    Exactly.  I met and worked with Kawasaki when he was the developer evangelist way back when.  He is nothing special.  Typical silicone valley blow-hard...

Good luck to him. You can sense he's clearly still passionate about technology whenever you hear him speak.   I'm not understanding the idea that if you've done important work for Apple in the past you owe them your...

Quote: Originally Posted by Galbi  I love it how people on here think they know more than what the analysts know and easily dismiss them ass "a$$hats", "idiots", "morons" or "crock of s***" just because their opinions...