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Apple Rumored to Debut 4.8-Inch 'iPhone Math' in June
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As long as they continue to sell the regular 4 inch version alongside. I hate using my dad's Galaxy SIII, it's like holding a brick to my face, but I know Apple will probably gain back a lot of sales.
Wait just a moment there. Anyone who wants to say Mac OS X is Unix thus more stable than Windows is equally as naive. First, OS X has no roots in the actual Unix code that originated at Bell Labs, Apple do not own nor use any parts of the original SysV codebase which is held for license by Novell these days.
What OS X is an implementation that is compatible to the SUSv3, and thus is certified UNIX '03 by having successfully completed the OpenGroup's testsuite for such a certification. By passing a certification saying your systems calls are compatible and you have all the proper userland and kernel land components does not mean your system is in anyway stable or anything.
UNIX has nothing to do with OS X's stability. If you want to attribute it to anything, attribute it to the proper choices NeXT and Apple did which led to Darwin, the Operating System that powers the OS X distribution.
Or Best Buy... or Fries'... or your college Campus' coop store... or simply borrowing your friends' Mac.
You could have also said "and what about Steam ?".
Still, just saying, posting a screenshot of you using a Mac is not proof you own a Mac. It's only proof you posted to MacRumors using a Mac.
Guess again... Please verify your supposed facts before posting. Warnings were posted for both Apple maps and Google maps by Australian authorities for different areas of Australia.
KnightWRX - surely you can see that the poster you're replying to is here to rabble rouse.
LagunaFool is a little too close to LagunaSol. Opposite ends of the spectrum - and by design I have little doubt.
After having used ios for a few years before switching to a galaxy nexus and nexus 7, I can tell you which is better, although this is subjective and my opinion. There is a lot more you can do from a productivity standpoint on android, while on iOS there are many lacking features, but better apps. Also, the build quality on apple products is great, and so is the customer support and optics. I personally find the iPhone 5 screen a little small, but it isn't a huge issue. Also, unless you have the top of the line android phone, iPhones are better for gaming , with great GPU's. On android you can switch defaults, customize, add storage, change drivers, over clock, etc. and really make it yours. You can do some of this on a jail broken iPhone, but it is not the same. It is down to what you want. I might get an iPhone math.
Why not ...
Just make it so people go to an ordering site and enter a size within whatever range specified, then custom cut that thing. Custom iPhones. Dude, you're getting a Dell. What can we build for you today? Need need need need need. Damn, my 4S is a fricking dinosaur, what will the bros think of me?
Just make it so people go to an ordering site and enter a size within whatever range specified, then custom cut that thing. Custom iPhones. Dude, you're getting a Dell. What can we build for you today? Need need need need need. Damn, my 4S is a fricking dinosaur, what will the bros think of me?
They do enter the suspended state after a certain period of time, but from what I've heard, apps can wake themselves up while in the background and execute code. The GPS tracking app, for example, is not only checking the location but dropping a pin in its database at my location, thus executing app-specific code. There is also the VoIP category (like Skype), which appears to run in the background, according to those documents.
EDIT: Found this on a blog (since I don't remember where it says these things on Apple's site):
http://speirs.org/blog/2012/1/2/misconceptions-about-ios-multitasking.html
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True, but the Motorola thing that attempted to do this flunked and I don't even think Asus padfone is selling very well, not sure if people would want an Android based computer. A windows phone would work and could run Windows 8 etc in a computer dock thing.
It's a matter of taste yes. But why should your taste over rule mine? I want a phone with a bigger screen but I want it with iOS. So what larger phone would you suggest I buy?
What facts ? Where is your study ? This article is about APPS, not the OS.
Macs are unstable POS... facts or your opinion ?
Citation needed for both your "facts". Until then, they are your opinion only.
...or the apps are. But hell, you're talking about a difference of less than 1% between platforms. That's an academic distinction at best.
Having written my fair share of iOS code, I can tell you a lot of problems have to do with the programmer. Most of my crash bugs have been over releasing objects (thus creating zombies), not checking if allocations actually worked before performing operations on an instance or simply leaking memory until you run out and the OS crashes your app. Xcode provides very good tools to debug such occurences.
Android is the same.
BTW if "Neither OS crashes/shuts down randomly", then why not just say both are modern OSes with solid foundations and design that provide much needed stability on these always connected devices we use ?
Why must one "win" and the other "lose" ? Both the Linux kernel (used by Android) and the XNU kernel (used by Darwin and thus OS X and iOS) are splendid from an engineering stand point and are solid pieces of software.