The great combined Smrtphone OS thread

[xor]

Anyone experienced issues with Ipads/Iphones causing the exchange server to spike in CPU utilisation?

Exchange user monitor showing one particular user causing the issue. Ze internet points to corrupt contact or calendar entry but I can't see anything

[p01s0n]

try turning off contacts and calendar on the device so it wipes the items from it, then turn them back on so it pulls down the info again.

[xor]

Sweet, done that and haven't seen it since.

Love how easy it is to support.

[p01s0n]

owns eh

[Furry Crew]

All I can say is that all this is cyclical.
Remember when EVERYONE had the same Nokia brick phone....
Then the Razr was THE phone to have and it was everywhere....
Once upon a time if you wanted email on your phone it was a Blackberry and daylight 2nd.....

In afew years time <Unknown China brand Cellphone manufacturer> may be dominating the market.

You just never know

[Whiplash]

Cyclical?

[p01s0n]

Originally Posted by Furry Crew

All I can say is that all this is cyclical.
Remember when EVERYONE had the same Nokia brick phone....
Then the Razr was THE phone to have and it was everywhere....
Once upon a time if you wanted email on your phone it was a Blackberry and daylight 2nd.....

In afew years time <Unknown China brand Cellphone manufacturer> may be dominating the market.

You just never know

sounds like poors-talk to me

[Foggerty]

Originally Posted by Heresy

Vanity Fair investigate just how weird Ballmer is, how much he has ruined MS, and write a massive article about it.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2...-steve-ballmer

The comments are great; a few people pointing out (minor) flaws in the article (and trying to make it seem as if they make the article totally wrong), and a bunch of ex employees all saying "yep, that's pretty much it, but let me tell you about something extra...."

[ipee]

Originally Posted by Charismo'

where's ipee? I wanted to post this:

Faster, higher, stronger: the rise and rise of Samsung

Even mentions our favourite little Asymco analyst in this article. I could be wrong but i don't think he's a really big fan of Samsung. Maybe because his beloved Nokia was driven into the ground by Samsung? Who knows.

[crocos]

An unsubstantiated fluff-piece from ipee? Whodathunkit?

[ipee]

It's actually from a Sydney Herald tech writer idiot

[CCS]

A picture of an ipee in the wild:

[ipee]

[Ab]

Originally Posted by ipee

It's actually from a Sydney Herald tech writer idiot

Most of whom are on the Samsung payroll in one form or another.

[ipee]

Yep.....big, nasty Samsung trying to enslave the world.

[CCS]

Trying to enslave the world by paying everyone? Funny idea of slavery you got there. Still, sounds like it pays well; I wonder how I can become enslaved and get some of that sweet Samsung cash.

[p01s0n]

Originally Posted by ipee

It's actually from a Sydney Herald tech writer idiot

hey there slugger, how was school today?

[Golden Teapot]

Originally Posted by ipee

It's actually from a Sydney Herald tech writer idiot

Does calling the tech writer an idiot really help your argument?

[Ab]

Originally Posted by ipee

It's actually from a Sydney Herald tech writer idiot

Originally Posted by Ab

Most of whom are on the Samsung payroll in one form or another.

Originally Posted by ipee

Yep.....big, nasty Samsung trying to enslave the world.

Allow me to explain.

The Fairfax reporting and editorial team are collectively a bunch of lazy hacks who will report whatever is easiest and who will publish whatever gets them paid. Usually this takes the form of copying and pasting material from other sources where someone else has already done all the work.

For example, since we're talking about the tech section, let's do a google search for the byline "This post was originally published on Mashable":

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=%...ite:smh.com.au

oh lol.

That appears to be the case for the article that ipee linked to - it was a copy and paste from The Guardian, and even then the author is a feature writer with no apparent tech background (his most recent work consists of puff pieces about the Olympics and a book about butterflies). I note that when originally posted at the Guardian's site, the Samsung article was tweaked for eyeballs looking for sports news - the original headline was

Samsung: Olympic smartphone firm aims for big global wins

Strangely enough that headline had been removed by the time the article was copied and pasted by the Fairfax repeaters - sorry, reporters - and when it appeared in the SMH the headline was

Faster, higher, stronger: the rise and rise of Samsung

Now the "lazy hack" phenomenon is even more pronounced among the tech "journalists" because they've often been hired because they know about this interweb thing and I hear we need to do that stuff, rather than coming from an actual reporting background. One thing that's very obvious is the way that Samsung buys good coverage in Australia, particularly around product launches and trade shows. Samsung has decided that bribing journalists is a way to catch up as fast as it can. I'm not dissing Samsung for it, that's just part of their marketing plan. That's Asia for you.

Samsung flies SMH tech repeaters around the world to attend tech events and report on how awesome Samsung is. Everyone in the tech and media industries knows this. That's why I made that comment about them being on the Samsung payroll. However in Australia there's now a bit more visibility of this sort of stuff thanks to what became known as the "Cash for Comment" scandal, and so now even the repeaters have to acknowledge how they managed to fly business class to Las Vegas during CES and stay in a suite at the Venetian on Fairfax journos' salaries.

Just for fun let's google for the phrase "guest of Samsung" on the SMH site. I'm sure that will be an uncommon phrase and hardly return any results, especially from the tech sectio--

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=%...Asmh.com.au+au

Oh.


So bearing all that fun in mind, ask yourself why that particular Guardian article got chosen to be copied and pasted onto the SMH site, and what influences might have been at play in the way the headline got mysteriously re-written to "THE RISE AND RISE OF SAMSUNG".

[p01s0n]

Originally Posted by Ab

So bearing all that fun in mind, ask yourself why that particular Guardian article got chosen to be copied and pasted onto the SMH site, and what influences might have been at play in the way the headline got mysteriously re-written to "THE RISE AND RISE OF SAMSUNG".

hey man, the kid probably has enough homework already no need to pile more on the lil guy

[Saladin]

Originally Posted by Ab

Just for fun let's google for the phrase "guest of Samsung" on the SMH site.

Less hits than "guest of apple" Though looks like Samsung have only been doing it since 2010, while Apple started in 2007.. Samesung playing catchup again!

[CCS]

[p01s0n]

[TnT]

Interesting articles have emerged in the last day or so regarding the iPhones security

[Ab]

As of today new installations of Flash are disabled on Android.

[p01s0n]

Lol.

[Bent]

Can't miss what you never had I suppose. Still, thanks Steve for providing an incentive for developers to create non-shit websites, and thanks Adobe for providing something that worked in the mean time.

[ipee]

Well another of the major analysts has just posted their "estimates". Pretty much come to same conclusion as every other so far.

[Icarus]

I really hope Apple don't fuck up the IP5 and they have something in it that sets it apart from Android, it's only the competition between the two platforms that enables us all to have cool stuff..
I don't give a fuck who makes what.. as long as I get more innovative shit.

[Ab]

Originally Posted by ipee

Well another of the major analysts has just posted their "estimates". Pretty much come to same conclusion as every other so far.

Quote from article:

Samsung’s Galaxy line of devices accounted for more than half of all Android sales, reaching 45.6 million devices sold

That's the point at which a sensible reader would realise that all the numbers are guesses.

[CCS]

I found another picture of ipee. Or, rather, his footwear.



After he's done wearing his shoes, he eats them with soup.

[ipee]

Originally Posted by Icarus

I really hope Apple don't fuck up the IP5 and they have something in it that sets it apart from Android, it's only the competition between the two platforms that enables us all to have cool stuff..
I don't give a fuck who makes what.. as long as I get more innovative shit.

Couldn't agree more. Upcoming launch is a very crucial time for Apple. I certainly wouldn't want to see them bomb the release of it's next IP. The world needs Apple to stay strong, heck...Samsung needs Apple to stay strong! Apple at the moment provides that benchmark that Samsung has always required to perform strongly, tends to lose it's way once it gets ahead as seen in it's TV division.

[Charismo']

Originally Posted by CCS

[Charismo']

Originally Posted by ipee

Couldn't agree more. Upcoming launch is a very crucial time for Apple. I certainly wouldn't want to see them bomb the release of it's next IP. The world needs Apple to stay strong, heck...Samsung needs Apple to stay strong! Apple at the moment provides that benchmark that Samsung has always required to perform strongly, tends to lose it's way once it gets ahead as seen in it's TV division.

Some more homework for you kiddo:

http://garyes.stormloader.com/its.html

[ipee]

Yeah somehow I don't think my nexus 7 gives a shit lol

[Charismo']

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/15/32...te-10-1-review

5.4/10 from Nilay. Ouch - touchwiz to blame.

I know stylus is last decade but there is something about them that I like, which as the review says:

"It’s no secret that I’ve been excited to review the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 for weeks now. I spend all day editing and critiquing documents, and I’ve been imagining a parallel world created by the Note’s stylus: a world where I edit articles with red ink instead of a track changes dialog, where I suggest layout revisions with a quick dash of a pen instead of screenshots and email, and where I am really good at drawing cars that turn into airplanes."

[p01s0n]

anything below a 7/10 on the verge is basically "don't go near this/we didn't get paid enough to ignore it's flaws".

[Charismo']

true. although those guys wouldn't take pay to give a good review (if you listen to their podcasts, they are completely irreverent to their sponsors).

[p01s0n]

Lol thanks, I needed a good laugh this morning

[Charismo']

right. so have you like.. ever listened to one of their podcasts, or not?