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You don't maintain CPU's. 1,000,000,000+ parts and it just works.
But they do degrade over time (slowly).
Expensive items are an exception - I want my car to last long, not to avoid maintaining it. But there is space for very few exceptions.
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It amazes me when Android users say that the answer to fleeing a walled garden where one company controls the hardware, the software, and the app store is by buying a phone (a Nexus) where one company provides the hardware and software and if you want to stay safe, only use their app store.
>one company provides the hardware Nexus devices have a variety of manufacturers. The current 9 is made by HTC, the 5X by LG, and the 6P by Huawei >one company provides the software Nexus devices all come with unlockable bootloaders that allow you to flash custom Android ROMs such as Cyanogenmod. Past that, other operating systems such as Firefox OS and Ubuntu Touch could be flashed on Nexus phones such as the Nexus…
Obviously only the latest matters?
And those are manufacturers, not the company designing it, which what matters. Otherwise Apple uses a variety of manufacturers too, not just Foxconn.
Wow. I'm a long time Android user and probably pay more attention than most, and I had no idea web apps had gotten quite this nice. Currently the only web app / web shortcut I have installed is the HackerWeb app[0], which is nice but clearly not taking advantage of all of the functionality it could. I "installed" Flipkart Lite and the Voice Memos demo app to see the state of the world. Clearly it's possible to build…
This is my reddit client. https://reddit.premii.com/ - You can login, upvote, reply, save, and tons of other things.
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> Google makes money selling you to advertisers. That's a little misleading. Google makes money showing you ads. It's not like I can call up Google and buy billyhoffman's data.
Governments can however. And with Apple they have a demonstrated history of protecting privacy at any cost. Google not so much.
I worry far more about things like getting into a car wreck, falling in the shower, and my crappy diet.
I hate any title that begins with why. Seriously, no one cares. People have opinions. Even seeing 'why' makes certain I will not read your article. Let me guess the following without even reading... * several paragraphs of whining about things that are just personal preference. * making broad/generalized wide sweeping statements and stating them as fact * tons of rhetorical questions followed by over simplified answe…
But that said, please don't post comments of pure grumpiness. It just makes this a sour place.
>So, instead of opening my text editor I placed an order for a Nexus 6P Nexus 6P is notorious for atrocious build quality. It bends easier than a bar of chocolate. [0] Google should do a recall on these things. It bends a lot easier than an old iPhone 6 plus. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3cWVdLqXCg Edit: I see Google fanboys decided to downvote this comment instead of engaging in a debate. This is not in the…
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Maintainability is the feature of unreliable equipment. Not necessarily. Modern airliners are highly reliable, so long as you follow the maintenance schedule. Disposable equipment is a feature of markets driving costs down. It's a sign of commoditization and convenience+short-term reliability winning over long term reliability.
Modern airliners are highly redundant. Stuff breaks on them constantly though.
I did the opposite and can't believe how much better my life had gotten because my iPhone is just a simple tool that I use for communications and don't think about it as a project. With Android, I always wanted to tweak silly things and run Cyanogenmod because the handset firmware was always so bad and vulnerable. On several occasions I'd bricked my phone requiring hours of recovery, or had transient failures of cell…
These things that you mentioned, you didn't really have to do. Buy a nexus, and it's as clean as it gets. What you're saying is that you left the freedom of your device to jail yourself into simple interface...? I do agree though, that those samsung/lg/etc phone have lots crapwares + carrier crapwares.
It's always a matter of trade offs. For some people, tinkering with their device is more important. And for the rest, they just want to get their work done and for their devices to get out of the way. I have come to terms with the freedom in the latter category now.
From my perspective, the two platforms (and when I talk about Android, I mean Android-on-a-Nexus) are pretty much homogenous. They look and feel very similar, behave similarly, etc, etc.