Android is an Open Source and I do not need the Google Market/Play Store to use and/or install apps. That is a wonderful and freedom feeling. If anyone is concern about installing apps outside the official Google Play Store just install an antivirus like in Windows OS. A good one for android is Avast. STOP EXCHANGING YOUR FREEDOM FOR SECURITY. Take control over your life and your technology and stop crying like little girls. Thank you Cyanogenmod for creating this Google Free version of android and all this new privacy features.
Shut up and go away, you worthless imbeciles. Don't you have Galaxy orgies to attend?
Because its free, because its open source, because it can be modified and because it can be fix easily. Because we android users know how to protect from with different tools including antivirus. We are smart enough to perform our own system updates, not apple, not our carrier, but ourselves. We own our phone and we control it at our wish. You iphone user purchase a phone, we android users purchase a computer.
iphone is for people that can afford it. Its expensive. Iphone users pay extra for cables and connections or cellphone service. There is no surprise developers start where the money is.
I think if you check "Corrections" prior posts you will find:
they are all posted to articles written by DED
they support the content/opinion in the article
they ridicule/demean anyone/anything that does not agree
they often include ad homs
In his defense he has never denied that he was Corrections. He has also thanked people for pointing out certain typos from time to time. He has never once denied that this was his account and the name alone makes it fairly obvious.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
If that's the case, which we've never been able to prove, the account needs banned for most of what it has said to users here, as well as for the deception involved.
And some morons actually wanted me to have a "separate account" for moderation. Like I'd fall into that trap.
I am pretty sure most people wanted you to separate ( the verb form pronounced sep??r?t not the adjective) from ever posting on AI again. I would be careful asking AI to ban DED's account since he actually draws viewers here especially so soon after your account was just unbanned for the 2nd time in as many weeks. I am pretty sure he has a lot more pull here than you.
I think if you check "Corrections" prior posts you will find:
they are all posted to articles written by DED
they support the content/opinion in the article
they ridicule/demean anyone/anything that does not agree
they often include ad homs
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed that.
I'm sure there are many users that hate my guts also, but one thing I've never done and actually find quite despicable is being two people at once on the same forum. It's just patently unfair. I'm not entirely sure if being an author as well as a commentator qualifies, but having been on the pointy end of "Connections'" wrath a few times, I have little sympathy for that account.
Like many people on this forum, I haven't always posted under the same name, but never at the same time and never overlapping. Also, I know I get under a lot of people's skin, but despite what many may think of me, I've never been banned and if I was, I certainly wouldn't come back under a different name later. I see the forum as a game of sorts and being punished or banned is like being "tagged." It's a lesson, and an indication that you've gone too far. if you immediately log in as someone else, then you aren't learning anything. You certainly aren't going to "win" the forum that way.
So IMO all those losers that play multiple accounts and jump around form account to account are just shooting themselves in the foot and destroying whatever tiny amount of credibility they have.
Because its free, because its open source, because it can be modified and because it can be fix easily. Because we android users know how to protect from with different tools including antivirus. We are smart enough to perform our own system updates, not apple, not our carrier, but ourselves. We own our phone and we control it at our wish. You iphone user purchase a phone, we android users purchase a computer.
And you are showing us your deep technical skills and your commitment to customisation by using a different font?
You are very much in the hater camp. And given that you've put yourself among those few droidlolz accounts whose biggest complaint with the article is picking at the word "interview" to describe asking a series of questions at that meeting, it just shows what a desperate, groveling hater you are. Quite embarrassing really.
Wow, you read me completely wrong as usual. You assume I'm some kind of "droidlolz" account? (weird term) when I'm one of the most anti-Android, pro-Apple posters on the forum?
You shouldn't just swoop down and insult someone so personally when you don't even have background on who they are or what their motivations are. You're too quick on the draw by far.
Also, I consistently support your "alter-ego" shall we say, with the exception that I don't think he's perfect, and as a result I deserve this level of vitriol? You're not the only writer who posts to the forum "Mr. D". My slight critiques of your writing style are perfectly valid and mine to make.
I think I know which of the two of us is embarrassing themselves.
Popular Photography's app recommendation lists, for example, are always "iOS only, iOS only, iOS only, iOS and Android, iOS only..." Occasionally an "Android only", but they're the worst of the bunch.
And that's the best you can do? Some obscure photography apps.
His first complaint to Apple was in MAY. Issue addressed in JULY. Figure out how that's MORE THAN ONE DAY then tell me who's a dick who doesn't know what he's talking about. Yeesh.
Are you having a bad day? Everything you've posted on this thread has been insults and shots at others. Maybe you should turn off the computer and go outside.
He reports that he noted a problem and then ineffectually complained about it for a while, but the day after publishing his piece and correctly reporting the issue to Apple Legal it was handled immediately.
As opposed to say, having a huge vulnerability reported to you in February that affects your entire installed base and not even making a comment on it while you scramble to make a fix that you can't even deploy to your own pure google Nexus users, let alone the 66% of the installed base on an ancient version of Android.
But yeah, lets scrape the bucket to dredge up some no longer existent problem as a distraction from serious, ongoing issues you deny to exist.
Then after posting comment after comment of personal attacks and bemoaning about how AI persecutes your religion with facts, write some foot stomping complaints in all caps about how somebody else has insulted you and how offended you are about it.
And that's the best you can do? Some obscure photography apps.
Sorry the joke is on you. Android doesn't have any cool development going on and you know it. You get some second run Flash applet games with ads and you get a port of major apps, often a cycle or two late. How many years was it before Instagram was out? There's no edu apps, little safe for kids, nothing that takes any real advantage of tablets, but lots of wallpapers and apps that are pretending to be stuff you can get on iOS.
Sorry the joke is on you. Android doesn't have any cool development going on and you know it. You get some second run Flash applet games with ads and you get a port of major apps, often a cycle or two late. How many years was it before Instagram was out? There's no edu apps, little safe for kids, nothing that takes any real advantage of tablets, but lots of wallpapers and apps that are pretending to be stuff you can get on iOS.
I mean come on, get real.
I'll give you the tablet apps, but IG is just a bunch of people taking selfies. I'm too busy out living my life to see what other people are doing.
DED, You may have to go back to posting these exceptional and insightful posts on your own website. I enjoy Appleinsider, and the AI staff seems to be first rate. However, the readership is not particularly discerning - as evidenced by the pedestrian-at-best comments on this article. As a longtime reader of your personal site, I find this piece to be up to your usual quality standards, which is to say top notch. Best, Macsdounix (the user name indicating when I came along and what mattered to me about OS X at the time.)
DED,
You may have to go back to posting these exceptional and insightful posts on your own website. I enjoy Appleinsider, and the AI staff seems to be first rate. However, the readership is not particularly discerning - as evidenced by the pedestrian-at-best comments on this article. As a longtime reader of your personal site, I find this piece to be up to your usual quality standards, which is to say top notch.
Best,
Macsdounix
(the user name indicating when I came along and what mattered to me about OS X at the time.)
I have always just taken it as a given that this entire site was a one-man operation by DED. All the articles are bylined by obviously made-up names...It never occurred to me to think that they weren't all written by DED himself. I don't intend this as any kind of criticism—I admire his energy and dedication.
As for his "bias": unfortunately, reality has an anti-Android bias. Maybe the fandroids should (here's a thought) hang out at an Android-oriented site (assuming they exist) instead of an Apple-oriented one. That way their pwecious widdle fee-fees won't get hurt quite so much.
I find it interesting that you consider that post in any way "anti-Apple." I just re-read it and found it to be rather impassionate and balanced. Debunking myths is not criticism.
Y'know, I'm starting to get really sick of the zealots who try to shout down every post that includes anything that is in any way critical of Apple. The noise is annoying, the comments often betray a lack of critical thinking, and the insults are juvenile. I don't know how certain contributors expect to carry on anything more meaningful than a circle-jerk when the fundamental tenet is Apple as deity. It *IS* possible to be pro-Apple without being a bloody drooling disciple.
Is there a way to activate a filter on the forum that will automatically bozobin every post that includes the word "troll?"
Google is, at least in part, responding to Android security flaws. But then the fragmentation problem becomes evident: What Android smartphone manufacturers are going to push this patch out to their customer's phones? How many Android phones will remain forever vulnerable to this security flaw?
When can I get banned? I'm feeling left out. I berate KD, Macrulez and all the new trolls regularly and haven't even racked up any warnings. I must be doing something wrong.
DED, good job on another article. Nothing brings out the trolls quicker then a few stinging comments about the poor state of affairs of some or another aspect of Android.
It's not a rant against Android if it's presented in a factual way with supporting arguments. That's just how editorials work. If it was all negative with no truth behind it, then you would have a rant. And if you don't present the counter example and its flaws, you wouldn't even know which side the author leans towards, I.E., the point of the editorial.
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Mmm. I tend to agree, but without a hard tie, not even mods can do anything. Not that they could do anything anyway, given his position.
Shut up and go away, you worthless imbeciles. Don't you have Galaxy orgies to attend?
Because its free, because its open source, because it can be modified and because it can be fix easily. Because we android users know how to protect from with different tools including antivirus. We are smart enough to perform our own system updates, not apple, not our carrier, but ourselves. We own our phone and we control it at our wish. You iphone user purchase a phone, we android users purchase a computer.
iphone is for people that can afford it. Its expensive. Iphone users pay extra for cables and connections or cellphone service. There is no surprise developers start where the money is.
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Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum
I think if you check "Corrections" prior posts you will find:
they are all posted to articles written by DED
they support the content/opinion in the article
they ridicule/demean anyone/anything that does not agree
they often include ad homs
In his defense he has never denied that he was Corrections. He has also thanked people for pointing out certain typos from time to time. He has never once denied that this was his account and the name alone makes it fairly obvious.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
If that's the case, which we've never been able to prove, the account needs banned for most of what it has said to users here, as well as for the deception involved.
And some morons actually wanted me to have a "separate account" for moderation. Like I'd fall into that trap.
I am pretty sure most people wanted you to separate ( the verb form pronounced sep??r?t not the adjective) from ever posting on AI again. I would be careful asking AI to ban DED's account since he actually draws viewers here especially so soon after your account was just unbanned for the 2nd time in as many weeks. I am pretty sure he has a lot more pull here than you.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum
I think if you check "Corrections" prior posts you will find:
they are all posted to articles written by DED
they support the content/opinion in the article
they ridicule/demean anyone/anything that does not agree
they often include ad homs
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed that.
I'm sure there are many users that hate my guts also, but one thing I've never done and actually find quite despicable is being two people at once on the same forum. It's just patently unfair. I'm not entirely sure if being an author as well as a commentator qualifies, but having been on the pointy end of "Connections'" wrath a few times, I have little sympathy for that account.
Like many people on this forum, I haven't always posted under the same name, but never at the same time and never overlapping. Also, I know I get under a lot of people's skin, but despite what many may think of me, I've never been banned and if I was, I certainly wouldn't come back under a different name later. I see the forum as a game of sorts and being punished or banned is like being "tagged." It's a lesson, and an indication that you've gone too far. if you immediately log in as someone else, then you aren't learning anything. You certainly aren't going to "win" the forum that way.
So IMO all those losers that play multiple accounts and jump around form account to account are just shooting themselves in the foot and destroying whatever tiny amount of credibility they have.
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Originally Posted by ejavi
Because its free, because its open source, because it can be modified and because it can be fix easily. Because we android users know how to protect from with different tools including antivirus. We are smart enough to perform our own system updates, not apple, not our carrier, but ourselves. We own our phone and we control it at our wish. You iphone user purchase a phone, we android users purchase a computer.
And you are showing us your deep technical skills and your commitment to customisation by using a different font?
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Originally Posted by Corrections
You are very much in the hater camp. And given that you've put yourself among those few droidlolz accounts whose biggest complaint with the article is picking at the word "interview" to describe asking a series of questions at that meeting, it just shows what a desperate, groveling hater you are. Quite embarrassing really.
Wow, you read me completely wrong as usual. You assume I'm some kind of "droidlolz" account? (weird term) when I'm one of the most anti-Android, pro-Apple posters on the forum?
You shouldn't just swoop down and insult someone so personally when you don't even have background on who they are or what their motivations are. You're too quick on the draw by far.
Also, I consistently support your "alter-ego" shall we say, with the exception that I don't think he's perfect, and as a result I deserve this level of vitriol? You're not the only writer who posts to the forum "Mr. D". My slight critiques of your writing style are perfectly valid and mine to make.
I think I know which of the two of us is embarrassing themselves.
And that's the best you can do? Some obscure photography apps.
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Originally Posted by v5v
READ THE DAMN POSTING!
His first complaint to Apple was in MAY. Issue addressed in JULY. Figure out how that's MORE THAN ONE DAY then tell me who's a dick who doesn't know what he's talking about. Yeesh.
Are you having a bad day? Everything you've posted on this thread has been insults and shots at others. Maybe you should turn off the computer and go outside.
He reports that he noted a problem and then ineffectually complained about it for a while, but the day after publishing his piece and correctly reporting the issue to Apple Legal it was handled immediately.
As opposed to say, having a huge vulnerability reported to you in February that affects your entire installed base and not even making a comment on it while you scramble to make a fix that you can't even deploy to your own pure google Nexus users, let alone the 66% of the installed base on an ancient version of Android.
But yeah, lets scrape the bucket to dredge up some no longer existent problem as a distraction from serious, ongoing issues you deny to exist.
Then after posting comment after comment of personal attacks and bemoaning about how AI persecutes your religion with facts, write some foot stomping complaints in all caps about how somebody else has insulted you and how offended you are about it.
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Originally Posted by dasanman69
And that's the best you can do? Some obscure photography apps.
Sorry the joke is on you. Android doesn't have any cool development going on and you know it. You get some second run Flash applet games with ads and you get a port of major apps, often a cycle or two late. How many years was it before Instagram was out? There's no edu apps, little safe for kids, nothing that takes any real advantage of tablets, but lots of wallpapers and apps that are pretending to be stuff you can get on iOS.
I mean come on, get real.
I'll give you the tablet apps, but IG is just a bunch of people taking selfies. I'm too busy out living my life to see what other people are doing.
You may have to go back to posting these exceptional and insightful posts on your own website. I enjoy Appleinsider, and the AI staff seems to be first rate. However, the readership is not particularly discerning - as evidenced by the pedestrian-at-best comments on this article. As a longtime reader of your personal site, I find this piece to be up to your usual quality standards, which is to say top notch.
Best,
Macsdounix
(the user name indicating when I came along and what mattered to me about OS X at the time.)
Easy fix, don't read the comments.
I have always just taken it as a given that this entire site was a one-man operation by DED. All the articles are bylined by obviously made-up names...It never occurred to me to think that they weren't all written by DED himself. I don't intend this as any kind of criticism—I admire his energy and dedication.
As for his "bias": unfortunately, reality has an anti-Android bias. Maybe the fandroids should (here's a thought) hang out at an Android-oriented site (assuming they exist) instead of an Apple-oriented one. That way their pwecious widdle fee-fees won't get hurt quite so much.
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Originally Posted by MacBook Pro
Apple iOS has several distinct and important advantages which make all the difference in the world:
[snip]
No Multiple Abstraction Layers, i.e. Dalvik Virtual Machine on Linux kernel with every abstraction layer providing potential vulnerabilities
iOS has multiple abstraction layers too. Do you have some data such as LOC figures showing that Android's are more complex?
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Originally Posted by Lord Amhran
KDarling, ever the anti-Apple troll.
I find it interesting that you consider that post in any way "anti-Apple." I just re-read it and found it to be rather impassionate and balanced. Debunking myths is not criticism.
Y'know, I'm starting to get really sick of the zealots who try to shout down every post that includes anything that is in any way critical of Apple. The noise is annoying, the comments often betray a lack of critical thinking, and the insults are juvenile. I don't know how certain contributors expect to carry on anything more meaningful than a circle-jerk when the fundamental tenet is Apple as deity. It *IS* possible to be pro-Apple without being a bloody drooling disciple.
Is there a way to activate a filter on the forum that will automatically bozobin every post that includes the word "troll?"
July 4th:
New Android Vulnerability Affects 99% of Devices
http://blog.malwarebytes.org/whats-in-the-news/2013/07/new-android-vulnerability-affects-99-of-devices/
July 9th:
Google quickly patches the '99%' Android malware hole, ball is now in phone makers court
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-quickly-patches-the-99-Android-malware-hole-ball-is-now-in-phone-makers-court_id45081
Google is, at least in part, responding to Android security flaws. But then the fragmentation problem becomes evident: What Android smartphone manufacturers are going to push this patch out to their customer's phones? How many Android phones will remain forever vulnerable to this security flaw?
DED, good job on another article. Nothing brings out the trolls quicker then a few stinging comments about the poor state of affairs of some or another aspect of Android.