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He may be looking to pursue a green card which is not possible with TN status.

Sure, he is technically correct, which is the best kind of correct, if you get off on pedantry.

He isn't technically correct. The GP provided a factually correct statement.

That is clearly what’s driving the business.

By no interpretation is that statement even technically correct.

Apple pays well.

A company requires more than 'pays well' to be a great company to work for, if that's what you're suggesting.

They sell expensive products. They care about design. They represent a way of living. They're Apple in another market.

Except they don't care about quality, which is one of Apple's strongest selling points.

Not the GP, but I was able to pick up a new 4gb model from the Acer online store a few weeks ago (the Canadian store - I don't think Acer is selling it new in the US anymore).

If you're unable to find one I believe the new Dell Chromebook 11 is fairly similar.

For developers, installing Crouton turns the Chromebook into a fantastic portable machine. My Acer c720 has been able to handle everything I've thrown at it, and generally lasts a full day (10-12 hours) between charges.

I don't see the problem. Google is letting people pay to beta test their product. They aren't forcing anyone to buy anything nor are they marketing it as a finished product.

Many larger companies pay experienced interns fairly close to what they pay new graduates, which can easily end up being $40+ / hour.

I'd be very interested to hear how you think brute forcing my 22 character password is easier than stealing my laptop and fooling the fingerprint sensor.

It depends what I'm doing.

I generally have two different Linux installs on each of my computers: A Gentoo + XMonad environment for development, and a Debian + KDE environment for anything else (other school work, movies, word processing, etc).

I believe you can simply remove Facebook Home from the HTC First to return to stock Android, though I'm not sure that guarantees updates like the Nexus devices do.

To be fair, Apple (and I'm sure Google) does this too. There is no doubt in my mind that Apple is going to announce a milestone of it's own tomorrow[0], a day that just happens to be the day of the Google I/O keynote.

[0] https://www.apple.com/itunes/50-billion-app-countdown/

Value is an opinion. The Nexus 4 provides me with more value than an iPhone 5, yet costs nearly half. Therefore the iPhone is overpriced, right?

I'd argue that Google does updates right as well. Both my Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 were updated a few weeks ago within a few days of the update being released.

It's Samsung, HTC, etc. who are doing updates wrong (though carriers may have some part in that).

Edit: I should say Google is getting better with updates. I'm still a bit disappointed with how they handled the Nexus S update to 4.0.

Weird, I must be imagining the 16+ hours of battery life I've been getting nearly daily for the past 3 and a half months.

I know different people have different usage patterns, but the Nexus 4 battery is far from "horrendous", especially when compared to other flagship devices.

> no LTE

Fair enough.

> battery life

Benchmarks never demonstrate typical use cases, which is especially true for battery life. Unless all you do is load web pages for hours on end at fixed intervals. Personally, I have better things to do with my time. Based on what I've witnessed with my Nexus 4 and iPhone 5s in my family, battery life is very comparible.

> screen quality

When compared to the iPhone 5, the Nexus 4 has better blacks, better contrast ratio, but poorer whites. Color reproduction could be calibrated better, but hey, this is just a mid range phone, right?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review/6

> gets destroyed by the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S3 in every performance benchmark.

Geekbench measures CPU performance, and the quad core Krait bests both the Galaxy S3 (quad core Exynos) and the iPhone 5 (dual core "Swift").

Galaxy S3: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1488418

iPhone 5: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1488555

Nexus 4: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1488266

In fact, the quad core Krait is arguably the best CPU you can find in a smartphone, performance wise. The only existing (ARM-based) CPU that is better is the Exynos 5250 found in the Nexus 10 (dual core A15).

The GPU is the Adreno 320, which absolutely wrecks the Mali GPU in the Galaxy S3. It still isn't as good as the PowerVR SGX543MP3 found in the iPhone 5, but calling it a mid range GPU is laughable.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review/3

Seriously. You have no idea what you're talking about.

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I've been using ConnectBot[1] for the past year or so and it has worked great. I've never used it with a physical keyboard, though, so YMMV.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.connectbot

Yes. You should be able to run any software that runs on Windows 8 (not to be confused with RT). In addition, you can connect a monitor to it through the Mini DisplayPort and mouse/keyboard through the USB 3.0 port.

> Just don't go thinking you're going to make the next Linux out of this.

I don't think many people that decide to build an OS, regardless of C/asm experience, have the goal of making the next Linux. Most (myself included) get into OS development because it's interesting and a great learning experience.

No. THIS is rubbish. Did you even read the article you linked, or did you just scroll through the pretty pictures?

> typical usage

Are you serious? This pretty much affirms my point that you didn't read the article, unless you consider constantly refreshing web pages at a fixed interval with fixed brightness 'typical usage'.

> If you disable LTE it will be even better.

Apparently you didn't look too closely at the pictures, either. The article contains an entire paragraph (that I'm not going to repeat) that explains why LTE provides better battery life in this particular benchmark. In fact, if you look at the exact same chart you're referencing the iPhone 5 is at 4.55 with LTE disabled, a mere 0.40 more than the Nexus 4.

Your blatant Apple propaganda is getting pretty old.

What a load of absolute crap. Have you ever even picked up an Android phone? In no way does Google "push ads in your face". In fact, none of the Google apps included with Android have ads. Third party apps may have ads, but that is no different from any other mobile platform.

Google funds Android to promote Google services. Whether Google services pushes ads in your face or not has absolutely nothing to do with Android.

Ah, yes. The old game of taking a perceived flaw of a product that is competitive to a product you like, and blowing it way out of proportion. I'll play a round.

- The camera on the iPhone 5 has the 'purple haze' issue.

- The iPad mini has an embarrassingly low resolution display for (almost) 2013, despite also having a larger display than the Nexus 7.

- The iPad 4 doesn't run as hot as the iPad 3, and no longer makes me scrambled eggs for breakfast while I play Infinity Blade.

Seriously. All products have flaws, and therefore there is no perfect product. Pointing out flaws to prove that your favorite company is better than their competitors is counter-productive. I really wish people would stop this childish debate and just agree that both Google (with their hardware partners) and Apple make fantastic, competing products.

In the past, I'd agree with you. However, comparing Google's latest lineup with Apple's latest lineup tells a much different story (all 16GB):

Nexus 4: $349; iPhone 5: $699

Nexus 7: $199; iPad Mini: $329

Nexus 10: $399; iPad: $499

Of course, Apple and Google aren't in the same business, but they are very much competitors.

I'd be very careful claiming that LTE provides an "enormous boost to battery life" based on a benchmark that loads web pages at a fixed interval, with fixed brightness, and with minimal caching.

In this particular benchmark, it is very clear that LTE is the winner across the board. In 'real world usage', I have to disagree. I'm sure anyone with an LTE phone will tell you that disabling the LTE radio absolutely gives a boost in day-to-day battery life.

From the same article:

> As always we test across multiple air interfaces (3G, 4G LTE, WiFi), but due to the increased network load we actually find that on a given process technology we see an increase in battery life on faster network connections. The why is quite simple to understand: the faster a page is able to fully render, the quicker all components can drive down to their idle power states.

If you compare the Nexus 4 on 3G (4.18) and the iPhone 5 on 3G (4.55), the scores are actually very close.

I assume it's the same as the Kindle, where you pay a one time premium on the device.

So that warrants a 'Screw Amazon'. Really?

Amazon is subsidizing the cost of the device through the advertisements. Google subsidizes the cost of email through advertisements. AT&T subsidizes the cost of cell phones through contracts.

I don't understand. Why is subsidizing a device with advertisements suddenly evil?

Jelly Bean was released for the AT&T Nexus S in the middle of July. I have the exact same phone and I got the OTA update the day it was released.

I'm not quite sure why exactly you're not seeing any updates available, but if you're interested Google does provide factory images for all Nexus devices: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#sojuajro0...

Please, explain to me how the Galaxy Nexus is the result of "flagrant copying".

What? Phones with 720p displays have been available since last year. I'd say that qualifies as "Retina".