Re:The X Attitude
by D_Drake on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @03:44AM
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You call it the X Attitude, I call it taking six thousand milliseconds to draw a five megabyte graphical email interface in order to read a five kilobyte email.
You say your computer is "fast enough"? Imagine how little power your phone's processor would draw if it only needed the performance of, say, a PXA270 from 2005. What does your phone do that a seven year old PDA doesn't have the horsepower for? High def video and flash video, and that's about it. Software bloat is a pox upon computing technology. Something is very wrong when it takes a hundred times the computation to read the same email ten years later.
You say your computer is "fast enough"? Imagine how little power your phone's processor would draw if it only needed the performance of, say, a PXA270 from 2005. What does your phone do that a seven year old PDA doesn't have the horsepower for? High def video and flash video, and that's about it. Software bloat is a pox upon computing technology. Something is very wrong when it takes a hundred times the computation to read the same email ten years later.