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anton zuykov said:

JoeBee said:

Economic boom, lol. Imaginary numbers while wages are down, jobs are vanishing, our schools are war zones and real people are suffering on the street. If Turkey is a disaster waiting to happen, it's only because they are a few steps further down the same road we are on.

Wages are down? Really? Everywhere I go it says they are hiring. The economy grew quite a bit better for the last two years. UNemployment is really low. 
The fact that schools are war zones is a responsibility of those who vote for local politicians and determine, what is done in those schools. In any free country there will be people on streets that suffer, if that was their choice. You CANT do anything about it for precicely that reason alone.

The economy has not grown more in the last 2 years than it had over the previous 6. Or 2 for that matter. Take into account it takes a minimum of 18 months for any changes made to effect the economy, unless you cut stimulus checks which have not been done. So any trends you are seeing were already in place by the previous policies. Just like it took 18 months to start seeing the effects of changes made in 2009. Notice the trend when you factor in the time for changes to take effect.  The Trump tax cuts weren’t passed until December of 2017, so nothing so far has been it’s result.  Allowing the one time tax free repatriation of off shore money was more about allowing the rich easier access to their money before protectionist policies could effect them  few corporations actually passed that money to employees even Apple spent a huge portion of theirs on stock buy back like everyone else, but because they had so much cash to bring, the minimal things announced sounded enormous, but it was a fraction of what they spent on their own stock just last quarter  Don’t be fooled be the media spin and distracts.  I find they will tell you most of the truth, but leave out key info or spin it so it sound like something completely different.  The numbers and trends tell the real story  

gmgravytrain said:

nunzy said:

Google does nothing but steal. They steal your information. They stole Android from Apple. Google is nothing but a thief.

Very few consumers see Google as a thief. Most believe Google is a generous company giving away free services to the poorest people in the world. You do realize that Android OS is the most prolific OS in the world and used by billions of consumers around the globe. Those consumers are happily giving their information to Google and almost no one is complaining about it. Most consumers would always go with free services over personal privacy. 88% mobile market share percentage is proof enough of that.

Most consumers have no idea how much they give to Google and will never read the 40 page terms of service agee. Google also does a lot of sneaky things that unless you frequent non Google loving sites you will never hear about since they control search and I turn the internet. Any articles critical of them will be way down the search pages unless you are very specific In your search and sometimes even then you get nothing on the top page. 

They also hold power over companies because search rankings especially for new agencies and blogs etc determines their visibility and income. Some companies have experienced down grades in ranking for no reason when they are not in Googles favor 

Just because Android has billions of users doesn’t mean they aren’t thieves. They steal products then give it away for their benefit. They can give it away because they didn’t have the 5-6 year investment in resources to create it. They pretend it’s their idea and because they can control what 99% of their customers see, no one will be the wiser. 

KITA said:

foggyhill said:

But, but, but, but... I love crap, I love chromebooks,

I love saving $50 bucks up front and paying $200 dollars off the back and getting less,

were will we be without the craptastic in our lives.

(yes, this is sarcasm).

Why the hate for Chromebooks? They seem to be very successful for K12.

I think the implementation this school has done with their iPads is interesting, but in university, an actual macOS or Windows laptop would still be required.

I can't imagine an engineering student at this school using an iPad Pro as their only device. This is one area a 2-in-1 computer, such as Microsoft's Surface, would be very well suited for (take notes in OneNote, type on a real keyboard in Word, open up a model in SolidWorks, etc.).

Because they are crap 💩 just like the netbooks they replaced. There are hundreds of better accessory keyboards available for and IPad than  a Surface. There is a reason these devices with all the ads and heavy placement do not sell on any real scale after 6 years of trying. For instance Microsoft is estimated to have sold a whopping 1.5 million it’s first year, topping out at 6 million 2 years ago. For a little perspective, the original IPad sold its first million in 28 days, bettering the original IPhone’s 74 days. So, basically Microsoft may finally pass the 20 million mark in 6 years of estimated cumulative sales that the IPad achieved in its first year on the market. While Apple was already at 360 million reported sakes in March of last year. It is just not selling because it is a niche product. 

gatorguy said:

jbdragon said:

gatorguy said:

Oh I SO look forward to @ericthehalfbee 's reaction to Apple finally buying into the Google-led royalty-free alternative to HEVC.  We've had numerous discussions in the past about this, some relatively recently.

Apple didn't do that!!! Google's is VP8 which went no where, and now followed by VP9. Which is what Google is using for YouTube in HD and why Apple doesn't support it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9

AV1 which is what Apple has finally signed onto is being developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) In which Amazon, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, and now Apple have signed onto as Founding Members. Along with others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Open_Media

It's not Google-led. As for royalty-free, give it time, I'm sure someone will be suing them, maybe the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).

As I read it Google rolled their next version VP10 into AV1 and serves as basis for the codec being finalized by the Open Media Alliance. 
https://www.xda-developers.com/av1-future-video-codecs-google-hevc/

So yeah Apple is buying into into Google's vision, and that's OK. The more rabid Apple fans and loudest Google-haters have more of an issue with that than Apple themselves do, so trust what Apple chooses as several of the most vocal members here would normally suggest. . 

Not really Google’s Vision. Apple rightly choose not to use anything that Google controlled. They got burned with maps when they decided to complete on phones and held back features like turn by turn for years to make Apple look bad. They are supporting this because it is a merger of three platforms and Google’s control will be limited. Here is a quote from the article you linked. “Cisco was developing Thor for use in their videoconferencing products, and Xiph was developing Daala (a codec designed to be substantially different from all previous codecs, in order to prevent any possibility of patent claims). All three codecs (Thor, Daala, and VP9/VP10) were looking quite promising, but the split efforts were stifling their development and adoption, so the three organizations came together and merged their codecs into one (AV1), and created the Alliance for Open Media to further the development and adoption of this joint codec. AV1 aims to take the best parts of each of those three codecs, and merge them into a royalty-free package that anyone can implement.”

gatorguy said:

Soli said:

gatorguy said:

Comparing OS versions between iOS and Android is a bit misleading anyway. With iOS new features are delivered only via an OS update. With Android many of the very latest features are available to nearly every user.  Android owners aren't as dependent on the latest OS version as iOS users might assume.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3216104/android/android-upgrade.html

The foundation counts. You can't Bolt the spoiler of a Ford GT supercar onto a Ford Pinto and then claim the Pinto is just as good as the GT.

Of course it matters just as I said. But if you are looking forward to some announced new Apple Maps feature there's only one way to get it. Same if you want an updated Calendar app. Or any other update of an Apple feature. With Google you can update to the very latest Google app features whenever Google offers them rather than waiting for your annual iOS update. Don't want to update some specific feature? No problem if you are on Android.  

Here's what I suspect will be a surprising list of the Android enhancements that have been made available in just the past four months, totally independent of any OS update and available to almost any Google Android user regardless of OS version.

Contacts	8/14/17
Photos	8/14/17
Allo	8/14/17
Duo	8/14/17
Google	8/11/17
Calendar	8/10/17
Gmail	8/10/17
Google Play Services	8/10/17
Translate	8/10/17
Docs	8/9/17
Android Pay	8/9/17
Phone (limited to Google's own devices)	8/9/17
Maps	8/9/17
Trusted Contacts	8/9/17
Chrome	8/8/17
Android System Webview	8/8/17
Sheets	8/7/17
Slides	8/7/17
Keep	8/7/17
Clock	8/7/17
News & Weather	8/4/17
Street View	8/3/17
Android Messages	8/2/17
Play Books	8/2/17
Play Movies	8/1/17
Drive	7/31/17
Gboard	7/28/17
Play Games	7/28/17
Trips	7/28/17
Android Device Policy	7/26/17
Cloud Search	7/25/17
Play Music	7/7/17
Cloud Print	7/5/17
TalkBack	6/21/17
Calculator	6/14/17
Play Newsstand	6/13/17
Pixel Launcher (limited to Google's own devices)	6/6/17
Find My Device	5/17/17
Wallpapers	5/2/17
Text-to-speech	4/10/17

It's two different ways of trying to accomplish the same goals and both have advantages. 

You a completely in accurate. Apple releases updates to products including security updates all year long. Some additional features come as well without major updates. In fact the maps app and Siri have gained a tremendous amount of functionality over the last year in the current version. The difference is Both companies do major updates once a year. For us Apple pretty much makes it like the gift of a new phone for free without having to buy a new phone. They create whole new platforms and APIs for developers to be able to make better apps and actually make money from them. On the other hand when Google makes them it's only for the most recent devices not the ones that are 4 years old.