I really never had a problem with non user-replaceable batteries, but here we also have a fixed amount of RAM and disk space that either you choose to upgrade via Built-To-Order customisation (paying a handsome price) or you’ll have to live with it throughout the entire life-cycle of the machine. Which, by the way, is being artificially shortened year after year.
Category: viewpoints
He’s right!
Software developers need to look at privacy the same way we’ve learned to look at security: it’s not an add-on or a feature that customers have to turn on, it’s something built-in that shouldn’t be turned off.
space efficiency ≠ readability*
*in my opinion, anyway
Firefox 7 kills ‘window.resizeTo()’
Among my most useful bookmarklets are those I use to resize my main browser window. With Firefox 7, they no longer work. Some config changes made them work again, but only temporarily. This does not necessarily benefit the user. In some cases, it interrupts one’s workflow.
‘some other purpose’
Why I’d never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook
Google+ isn’t about sharing cat pictures, it’s about serving ads. Twitter’s massive network of 140-character bits of information isn’t about connecting people across the globe or to view current trends in worldwide thinking, it’s about serving ads. Facebook isn’t about entertaining yourself with games or sharing interesting links, it’s about serving ads.
