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Mark_Wallace wrote:
I wouldn't want a computer or laptop running Android |
I dunno about that, to be honest.
I'd say it's down to the apps to a large degree, and the input methods. I've not tried android with a keyboard and mouse, and I'd love to see VSDroid! 
But...the "full screen only" bit would be frustrating if it was carried through.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I've not tried android with a keyboard
I bought a bluetooth keyboard for $15 on amazon and I was extremely pleased when I connected it to my Nexus 7. There is an alt-tab feature for cycling through apps that you don't even know exists.
My Nexus 7 feels almost like a laptop with Google Drive and Docs and the keyboard. Very cool.
I am very happy with Android OS and hope they don't bloat it up too much. It seems it's at the sweet spot right now.
Also, I've tried to use my other family members' iOS devices at times and I find the swipe, touch, etc to be non-intuitive to do what I'm trying to do. I think Android is a bit better at that.
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Works great with a mouse (just plug one in, and off it goes), but I've never connected a full-sized keyboard.
I use the hacker's keyboard[^] app, anyway, which is actually better than any of the bluetooth keyboards I've seen, because it has a full key set.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: a computer or laptop running Windows 8 (which is essentially Windows Phone + bloat).
 It is actually Win7 + some bloat meant for phone/mobile, which made it to Win8, not the other way round. The operating system part is actually quite efficient and stable, probably the best I have ever had.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: operating system part is actually quite efficient and stable, probably the best I have ever had
I agree. I really like Android, but I also like Windows8.
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Win 7 + Win 8 + Win Phone ain't exactly what I'd describe as "one Windows".
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I wouldn't want a computer or laptop running Android,
Some people[^] thought it'd be worth porting over to x86.
I have it running in a Hyper-V VM.
Whether it's worth tinkering with or not is left as an exercise to the reader. 
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"Wednesday, Jun 20, 2012".
Um. OK.
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ed welch wrote: App Store generates double the revenue of Google Play
Very good point.
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That was 2.5 years ago. Gozillions of Android devices have been bought, since then, but the number of new istuff users has remained comparatively static, because sales of most new iphones are to existing users.
And google play has recently started accepting PayPal. That'll make a lot of difference outside the US (which is where most of the people in the world live).
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All very good points and I'm glad you pointed that out. I saw your message about it being older stats right after I posted my other reply.
Android is taking over the world!!! I knew I'd finally be right about something. 
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There are a few places where open-source is bound to thrive while corporations wither.
The smartphone is just about a perfect place for it. I've been watching various corporations fail at improving phones for decades. Then Android came along, looking like it had been doing it forever, and blowing the biggest OS developers in the world out of the water.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I am writing another article and it involves hardware that uses Bluetooth LE under Win8.1
Ok, so it is new territory for me, but compared to the ultrabook sensors a couple of years back, this is like trying to raise the Titanic using nothing more that a roll of dental floss. (ok, that wasn't my first choice of phrase, but had to keep it clean for the lounge  )
I keep ending up in tying myself up in knots and get frustrated and walk away. I must have started a test app about 1000 times now.
I'm sure it will come together soon.......but that is 'soon' in the life of the universe in relation to the end of our Sun.
Edit: Probably doesn't help that everywhere I look it says it isn't supported....except on Windows Phone 8.1 
modified 31-Oct-14 7:08am.
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I understand your frustration. We often get technologies marketed at us as if they are (basically) mature and ready for development. Then when you go after the thing and try to actually develop against it, you find that they are little more than a marketing strategy.
Can be really frustrating waste of time as you hit the thing from every angle with no success.
Good luck.
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I was looking at the MS API for that.
Good luck getting it to work.
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Until Halloween ... next year ...
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
modified 2-Nov-14 1:19am.
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BillWoodruff wrote: There slowly bobbed to the surface the luminescently pale white of a woman's corpse: first her nose, then the tips of her breasts, then her full breasts,
So they must have been fake for the tips to appear first. Did her full breasts appear while her head was still under water with only her nose showing? I'm trying to picture the scene to better follow the story. 
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Dear Bassam, In your imagination the story's rising, or falling, is higher, or deeper, than any mere words of mine can cast but a shallow shadow of. However, I will admit that the scene of the woman rising to the surface was "toned down" for posting here.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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Looks like Bill got into the Halloween 'candy' a bit early this year.
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Oh, Richard, I could swear I checked to make sure I'd never posted that story here before ... Oh, what demonic force has possessed me on this night of dark spirits rising.
I'm just going to have to rip it out and put in another story !
cheers, Bill
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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BillWoodruff wrote: Oh, what demonic force has possessed me on this night of dark spirits rising.
It's still very good, though - that's why I remembered it from last year.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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So you're saying Charon was a Scotsman? I dunno if I can picture that...
And seriously, five bucks? Back in the old days, it only took two cents...
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Look here[^] to see more than meets the eye.
click on the album cover for the larger (alternative) picture.
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