Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system

Post by tyfon » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 1:14 PM UTC

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I don't really understand this metric at all. I've heard it colloquially, but I highly doubt anyone was scanning IP address ranges so often that you could be passively attacked on the internet without any interaction by two minutes in. Even more so, people are often behind NAT, which acts as a good firewall on its own. Maybe it's related to browsing habits? IE? I mean, you aren't going to get hit by a drive-by attack…

Dial up and early high speed internet both gave you a public IP address. The expectation you will have multiple internet devices is more recent behind a nat is more recent. And yes I dealt with an XP box that would get compromised before you could download the update. Windows even included a utility to let people use it as a router on home networks to "share internet connections". https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/…

Post by NoGravitas » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 1:35 PM UTC

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> Microsoft put OS/2 Actually regarding OS/2, IBM had lots of blame as well. They didn't managed the whole situation properly and trying to use OS/2 to get back into the game of selling their own PS2 architecture didn't help win the hearts of the buyers. I would have had to pay almost 500 € extra, on today's money to get a PC capable of running OS/2 properly, instead of the one I got with Windows 3.1.

I had read that OS/2 Warp was considered a pretty good OS technically, though I don't remember the details now, as to what made it an improvement over Windows. I remember that PC Quest, an Indian PC magazine, gave out OS/2 Warp on a CD [1] in one issue. [1] They often bundled a CD with lots of free software with their magazine issues, e.g. different distros of Linux, server software, utilities, etc. All free or trial…

Post by 3131s » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 2:34 PM UTC

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When I was a kid, I was frustrated for most of the adults can't use the computer so our society is very inefficient at daily life. I was thinking, since our generation has affordable personal computers, when our generation become adults, the world will finally embrace the efficiency of computer where everything is computer-friendly and everyone can write code. I was wrong. The birth of so called "smartphone" made eve…

> I refuse to own a smartphone. That is your loss. You're blaming the tool instead of the people. And then you renounce said tool, when it could be used (as the tool it is) to improve your life and your work. To create greater things. Before the smartphones, people were made dumb by the TV. And before that, by the radio, and before that it was something else, and something else. People that want to passively waste th…

Post by WorldMaker » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 2:48 PM UTC

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I'm curious how many of the Chinese forks label themselves as "Android" and if the Chinese have a different mental model of what "Android" means. Without any first hand knowledge, I'd assume that the balance of things towards WeChat and away from Play Store/Play Services in China might mean that "Android" really does mean something different in Chinese markets? It's easier to sell an "Android" device if the benchmark…

I am Chinese and I've been living in the U.S. for a couple of years, so I know both worlds. Everyone I know in China who use an Android has ton of apps on their phones. I'd say there are at the very least tens to hundreds of thousands of apps to choose from either in the various third party app stores or directly from first party websites, and it's very common for people to have multiple apps with similar functions,…

Post by marsrover » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 4:16 PM UTC

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> I refuse to own a smartphone. That is your loss. You're blaming the tool instead of the people. And then you renounce said tool, when it could be used (as the tool it is) to improve your life and your work. To create greater things. Before the smartphones, people were made dumb by the TV. And before that, by the radio, and before that it was something else, and something else. People that want to passively waste th…

> That is your loss. There is no loss. Everything a smart phone can do, a laptop can do better. All a smart phone does is keep people bound to their online lives in an unhealthy way -- constantly beeping at you, notifying you of pointless shit, and spying on you. No thanks. I don't own any phone, but if I did it would be a dumb phone with week-long battery life.