N8ter
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Software and Services cannot fix issues between the keyboard and the chair.Wow so much here anyway:
1. Google docs isn't nearly as good or as compatible as SkyDrive and Microsoft office docs. I know this because I had a group project last semester and we used google docs, they couldn't even open the .docx files I uploaded,I had to reupload them in standard .doc format in order for them to be able to open it. That wouldn't have been the case with SkyDrive which supports collaboration as well.
Everyone who does colaborative editing on documents knows that unless you know everyone uses Microsoft Office (which can be safely assumed in a CORPORATE environment, but not necessarily anywhere else esp not in College they can have a Linux box for all you know) you should share Office Documents in Office 2003 .DOC format.
This isn't exclusive to Google Docs or SkyDrive (the latter of which will limit the kinds of edits you can do to a document that isn't in the latest Office XML format, and doens't even support pre-2010 versions of Desktop OneNote) - that goes for pretty much all non-Microsoft Office productivity software. In almost all cases, they will import the Office 2003 document in a superior quality to the Office 2010 document. Support for that version is simply superior because Office 2003 was on the market so damn long that everyone pretty much perfected their import filters.
It has been that way since Office 2007 released.
Additionally, even if you uploaded it in .doc (Word 2003) format functionality in Google Docs would be severely limited (just like using an old document format in SkyDrive) to the point that you couldn't do much with it until you converted it to Google Docs format. IIRC, you can't even edit the document which for all intents and purposes (unless it was just reference material) completely negates the whole point of putting it up there for a "group project" (that sounds so cute, though!).
2. Google music in the play store isn't free either, some songs are free while others you have to pay to even be able to stream them. Only thing that's free is muve music which is included in a cricket subscribers plan.
I'm talking about the services, not the music store.
If you want something similar to Zune Pass (a completely different type of *service* than Google Play Music), then you need to subscribe to a service like Sony Music Unlimited:
https://music.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/
And then you can use it's associated app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sony.snei.mu.phone
To access the service. Alternatively, OEMs like Samsung have their own Music Hub services that they launched and is built into their phones.
Point is, Google Play Music is not comparable to Zune Pass, so I'm not sure why you even used it as a counter-example. You should have used something like Samsung Music Hub, which actually trumps Zune Pass for Value. All of these allow music purchasing without a subscription. Google charges for Storage, not services (like Streaming and Caching of DRM'd music to devices, or music matching like Music Hub or iTunes in the Cloud).
The same Intel that only produces single core x86 smartphone SoCs and competes with ARM SoC manufacturers? Say this isn't so? Aren't their Mobile Processors known for terrible battery life, BTW? Tit for tat...3. for that I'm going based off an analysis that Intel did on dual core androids. It was proven that android devices have inefficient use of the cores and it does more harm than good to have another core.
In the future please provide a reference. Quoting without a reference amounts to a rumor. I found it, though.
It wasn't an analysis. It was some statements someone in head of Intel's Mobile division made in an interview. Only as reliable as you think it is because you think it supports whatever point you're trying to make.
Everyone knows you can regress performance of an app with poor multi-threaded application programming compared to a single-threaded version. We know this. That's basically what he said. It's nothing new and we've known this for decades, now.
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