Posts by mbf199t

'Google's crap for business' - CIOs give ad giant dose of reality

Unfinished (for) Business

My issue with most Google products isn't the execution itself, it's the polishing afterward. Google seems to have turned into an art form the process of creating a product but never quite finishing properly. Take Google Drive as an example..it's an improvement on Dropbox in terms of the free space on offer, but every other aspect of the service sucks in the most basic terms (the interfac online, the client software, the sync), and that example is a product that Google could easily have "borrowed" some ideas for from its competitors because it was so late to market!

If you then factor in Google Docs, Android, Chromebooks and that awful Nexus Q (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/01/nexus_q_preorders_halted/) thing that they actually halted and revised they don't look ready for enterprise at all.

Ten reasons why you shouldn't buy an iPhone 5

Ridiculous Article

Whilst there are a ridiculous number of Apple "fanboi's" out there, this article is clearly written by someone of the exact opposite mentality. The article is not a balanced, sensible or justified view.

Granted, like many products iPhones are expensive, and the hysteria is a little ridiculous when release day comes around. But actually, iPhones perform better than most other smartphones, and allow the non-technical masses to complete tasks that they wouldn't be able to achieve on a computer. My mum uploaded a video (of her dog, for the more filthy minded among you) to Youtube from her iPhone, a task she would never achieve on a computer.

And to address the very silly points about changeable batteries and the closed nature of the platform:

a)

i) Unlike most other smartphones, my iPhone battery has last reliably for two years, it's still going strong.

ii) The reason you need a removable battery on most other smartphones is to reset them when they crash. iPhones don't have a "pin hole" reset button either. THAT. RELIABLE.

b) The closed nature of the platform ensures reliability and control for a group of users who do not want, or more importantly need, to change any "under the cover" settings, modify software or "tweak" things like you need to with Android/cheap alternatives. They just like products that work. There's a very good reason that companies like TomTom only currently develop for iPhone, be it said in the public domain or not...it's the only platform that is currently reliable enough for them to confidently charge £ for their product, it just works.

This is a bad article by TheReg standards. Get a grip.