11-13-2012, 09:03 AM | #406 | |
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To the contrary, widgets actually add simplicity to an OS. That's their whole appeal. And, again, you're conveniently dismissing the fact that SD cards add cost and size -- reasons alone for Apple not to add them to an iOS device. --Pat |
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11-13-2012, 09:06 AM | #407 | |
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There is plenty of space in an iPad3 to add an SD card and Apple would have no issue eating the cost. To my mind, the UI implications are what deter Apple from both SD cards and widgets (and the battery life implications of widgets), but it isn't something either of can prove to be right about. |
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11-13-2012, 09:13 AM | #408 | |
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And what battery life implications are there for widgets??? Widgets can help save battery life tremendously. Also don't understand how an SD card can have significant UI implications. Huh? --Pat |
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11-13-2012, 09:13 AM | #409 | |
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11-13-2012, 09:21 AM | #410 | |
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They are sitting running all the time, a badly written one could chew up quite a bit of battery life. Compare that to the very controlled task switching that iOS has currently.
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When I buy an app, I have to choose whether to put in on memory or the SD card. I have to choose whether its data is stored in memory or the SD card. Do home screen icons for SD-stored apps reside along with memory-stored ones? What happens if I remove the SD card, should those icons go away, or stay? What happens if I have multiple SD cards with different version of an app, should they get different icons? What happens if an SD-stored app is registered for 'Open In...' for a particular file type and the card is removed, should the app vanish from the list or stay with some indication next to it? Ditto for different versions of apps. None of these are rocket science, but they are all significantly more complicated than the current iOS interface, where none of these decisions exist. Apple have chosen to hide any 'computer like' aspects of iOS from the user, in their quest for simplicity. |
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11-13-2012, 09:28 AM | #411 | |
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You think Samsung isn't plotting now how to beat Apple in every which way possible in the coming years? Raising Apple's costs is a pretty good place to start. --Pat |
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I think at this point we are just disagreeing with each other, and are unlikely to progress much further, so I think I'll just stand by what I've said before.
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That's not a Samsung option - it's the base version of Android underneath (for some reason, Google decided they wanted to complicate things by treating external SD cards as internal in ICS & JB)
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Are you saying ICS and JB disallow apps on the SD card? If so, that just shows there is no need to allow apps on the SD card, making the argument of resulting GUI complexity moot. --Pat |
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No. Saying they *DID* allow it - as far as I've been able to find out - by treating internal and external SD storage as the same storage device. I could be wrong. Only owned an Android device for a couple of days (crappy Nextbook Premium 8 with ICS; had to return it because it just wouldn't stay connected to my comp through USB when trying to copy large or multiple files in a single batch :/), so I have to go by what my weak search fu turned up last month...
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This. There is a huge margin on the extra capacity, what costs the consumer $100 costs apple only a tiny fraction of that. Offering an SD card would mean more people would gravitate towards lower capacities, knowing they can always use an SD card if needed, hurting the bottom line.
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