the.bear

Sigh. Why assume that every move that everyone makes is in response to something that Apple does or may do?

Ask yourself. Is Microsoft competing with some future Siri speaker product that Apple may or may not release? Are they competing with the few million Apple TVs that Apple pushes a year that Apple may or may not add Siri to? Or are they trying to compete with Nintendo and Sony in the video game console market like they have been for nearly 20 years?

Look, the next Nintendo console is being delayed to add VR capability. You can be certain that the next Playstation will integrate with Android Daydream VR also. How does Microsoft fight back? Making sure that the next XBox - or XBox refresh - supports both their HoloLens VR platform, which Sony and Nintendo can compete with ... and the digital assistant/AI app that Sony and Nintendo cannot.

But sure, go ahead and think that Microsoft is trying to grab a slice of that booming 3 million units a year smart speaker market from Amazon, Google and Apple instead of being primarily concerned with the long existing competition in one of their long existing product lines. Wow ... step into a place where a product that one company may or may not ever introduce and may or may not commercially succeed if they do is more important than a business that a company has been in for nearly 20 years. And that place, that wondrous realm, is called ... the Twilight Zone!

But then again, I guess that you can perhaps say that Microsoft was following Apple when they created the XBox in the first place because Apple had the Pippin gaming system first. Right?

ncil49 said:

9secondkox2 said:

No he's not. 

Ali was racist. There is no dispute. But he wasn't in your face about it. 

There the was nothing good about Nation of Islam either. 

And cheating on your wife is bad. Ali did that too. 

As as a person, everything be has good and bad. Ali had a lot of his good and bad known because he was a public figure. 

To to me he was a man fortunate to make a name for himself and a lot of money in sports. I can't think of anything he did to actually help people at large. 

But it he was larger than life, was not free funny and provided people with tremendous entertainment. 

Hes left behind a family, some of whom ARE trying to help people at large and 

hes he's now gone. And it's polite to pay respect. But he was simply a man, faults and all. No reason to pretend otherwise. 

That said, I see no reason for anyone to point out his faults at this time as its very sensitive to his family and loved ones. No more than we'd like folks to do it to our family members when they pass on. 

I point it out only because I believe most people see only one side and never look for another 

Unless you are evenhanded and do this both to people that you admire and support and to people that you dislike then you are pretty much what your accusers say you are. I agree that a lot of the people who are sweeping Ali's failures under the rug are quick to point out the flaws of public figures that they disagree with. I am merely stating that you are no better than those that you accuse.

ireland said:

the.bear said:

Hmmm. Do you remember the hateful things that were said about Jerry Falwell, Nancy Reagan and Margaret Thatcher when they died? When famous conservatives die, liberals attack them. When famous liberals and famous nonwhites die, conservatives attack them.

The people who are attacking Muhammad Ali right now aren't factually wrong, of course. But all of them would get very angry if people were just as "honest" about John Wayne.

I don't get why you bring politics into it? I'm up for talking about anyone who's being idolised and examining them when they are put on a pedestal. John Wayne was a coward, Obama is a coward, I don't care what party they are in.

Go look at reply 3, which is where this thread went sideways. Then there was post 11, where someone actually called recognizing a prominent figure "PC." So I stated what was going on, and why it was going on. And incidentally, your bringing up Obama - who has nothing to do with this thread - and then decrying politics is classic.

First, Lenovo is nowhere near the top seller of Android devices. They aren't even in the top 3 in China: Oppo, Xiaomi and Huawei sold more last quarter. Second, while we hear a ton about security vulnerabilities on Android, the truth is that almost none of them affect the end user. 95% of the reports are potential attack vectors that are discovered and closed before anyone exploits them. The rest are attacks on devices that lack Google Play Services. There are only 2 Android security issues that actually affected end users that I can remember: one affecting non-Google Play devices in China, and another affecting about 200,000 users in Russia, which incidentally was the biggest security issue on Android by far. Also, both those security issues involved infected apps. None of them involved exploits against the OS itself. Google does remove infected apps - mostly spyware - from the Google Play Store all the time but so does Apple and the App Store: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/apple-removes-300-infected-apps-app-store/ Android security holes are a much bigger issue for people who adamantly inform you that they would never use an Android device than for the nearing 2 billion people who actually do. As far as the Windows issues ... well that is exactly why the Android security talk is so much noise with very little substance. We all remember in the late 90s and early 00s how Windows had actual security issues that affected anywhere from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of users on a daily basis. Scores of people had their identities stolen, bank accounts drained, systems hi-jacked, files stolen or corrupted and hard drives bricked. SQL Slammer, Melissa Virus, Doom, Code Red, Poison Ivy ... you name it. It was common to see "do not open this email!" and "do not download this file!" warnings from IT departments and in the media. The best part? For years, Microsoft did absolutely nothing. Their position FOR YEARS was that security was not their responsibility, and they actually told people to go out and get third party software! Things got a little better with Windows 7, and even though Windows 8 was a total disaster otherwise, that was when the security software included with Windows was good enough to not require buying third party software for most people. But seriously, if anywhere near as many security issues were on Android as there were on, say, Windows XP back in the day, Android would have collapsed long ago. Android users would have abandoned it for - gasp! - Windows Mobile, which is regarded as #2 behind iOS for security, and has had a much easier time being certified for sensitive government and enterprise users for this reason. As for why Windows Mobile is far more secure than Windows PC who knows ... you will have to ask Microsoft about that.

creativeone said:

I hope no one falls for these cheap af looking earbuds. Just buy the Bragi and you get the original ones with much more features, more battery and quality.
I can't with Samesung sometimes. 

The Bragi one will have fewer features, less quality and won't be commercially available in anywhere near as many channels or regions as the Samsung ones will be. And as iPhones are becoming more and more similar to the Samsung Galaxy with each iteration (some are even calling it "the iPhone Galaxy", and when future iPhones have curved OLED screens with multi-window and stylus that will increase, not decrease) the "Samesung" tag will become more and more ridiculous over time. In any event, appropriating a good idea from a smaller company is very common. Lest we forget Apple has been known to do it too (i.e. Apple Music = Spotify).