The Apple of My Iphone, Google My Heart at Wounded Screen & Amazon Women in the Avocado Jungle of Bytes

Regarding all Android tablets and their forebearer, the Iphone. Everybody else is like "oooh ahhhh" like all this  is the cat's pajamas (or meow or bark for cross-calling aficionados). They argue with me and ignore and over talk me, defending the crap like I'm a KU Klux Klan picketer  at a gathering of gay, wheelchair-bound black women mid-level executives making half the pay of their white male counterparts or condemning their religion. Indeed for the average jerkwad, criticizing Google is the same or worse as a personal attack on them and their families.

So this criticism is for all Android based tablets which apparently I find extremely less wonderful than most less discerning, less demanding consumers who invariably argue with me and defend this garbage and ultimately refuse to listen or acknowledge my experience as if their life depends on them blindly defending corporations and their products at all costs.

Apple (at least the phones), Google and Amazon (both Android) all  copies of each other with the same shortcomings which derive from their unbridled greed to corral and control consumer spending within their respective digital domains via their devices. 

For instance, THERE IS STILL NOT A FORWARD BUTTON on Lollipop  like is found on ALL PCs and PC internet browsers since the beginning of multi-color windowed GUIs and I ask WTFudge  is up with that? Well this is what is up: It is the ultimate proof of this Android and Apple crap is 1st foremost devised to imprison our electronic lives and  make these corporations tons of money. 

My Mom's Galaxy 3 DIDN'T even come with an internet browser! To get on the internet with it, one had to go through the Google search app! Then I tried to download a browser for it for her and clicked on a bogus link for Firefox that automatically started downloading something and charging my moms phone account. And I couldn't find any settings to change the behavior, nor could I ever locate where her pictures were stored EVEN when I took her SD card out and connected it to my PC! 

Finally, at Lollipop version, control over the apps and access to meaningful settings is available, but the other shortcomings still remain.

And DON'T EVEN  believe the claims about sharing all your stuff with your tablet, that's from it, but not to it. If i connect the Amazon tablet to my computer,  all I can get off it are pictures &I can't transfer anything to it that way like I could with a computer! And the transfer methods they provide don't seem to work, such as the various "clouds".

From my friend: "yes, I have an HP tablet and an iPad. they don't communicate with each other at all, and they are useless to me to transfer from computer to ipad or vice versa"

With all the vaunted self promoted clouds I've tried, It takes like days and days and then  to upload 8 gigs of music and then days and days of being tied up to download it making the operation unfeasible. I tried the Windows Cloud and amazingly there is no pause and if I stop it, there is no continuing it. So I cannot get my music from my PC to my tablet. I have my music on my PC in Itunes, but on my tablet I cannot get Itunes. I cannot bank with my tablet because there is not an Amazon app from my bank. Amazon and Apple are all copied versions of each other creating the ultimate walled (for profit) gardens for themselves instead of being the a usable, customer friendly device like they all advertise.

Original review of $50 Amazon tablet:

As they said, how can you go wrong with a $50 tablet? Well one thing is to get rid of advertising screens, they want $15 more. Do the ads bother me much. No they don't. So it's worth the $15 savings. One thing though, forget Goggle Play apps. With it's tablets, Amazon uses a heavily modified android operating system that eliminates EVERYTHING Google and replaces it with Amazon versions. So ,like Google and Apple before it, Amazon, with it's tablets, seeks to corral users in a walled garden reminiscent of the old America On Line (AOL) but on steroids& make money every single time we click on anything on the tablet with a total, Amazon experience with email, a play store, etc. But you can access your gmail on it from the Silk browser. Overall good performance for the money, no complaints, except, personally, I got it specifically for depositing pay checks in my bank account, which doesn't have an Amazon version of it's app. So since I cold not deposit my checks with it, I initiated a return, got a refund and was not required to return the tablet and so wound up getting it for free. The reason I put on the form  for the refund (it could be anything) was  "doesn't have the google play store." it is claimed on the internet that one can hack the tablets and get google play, but I tried it and google play installed but doesn't start. So don't get this tablet if you absolutely have to have Google Play (like I did). But if you are happy with the offerings in the Amazon store, you can't beat this little tablet for $50. and you can increase it's storage by up to 128 GB with a micro SD card. The Android operating systems are finally (after many years, I point out) getting semi-usable as well with control over and abiltiy to uninstall applications. I used to loath Android.

PC Personalities

  I've been saying lately, from experience over the last 10 years that said all PC motherboards have their unique quirks when running Windows & software. Furthermore, it is my contention that the MBs in name brand MBs like Dell are more reliable than aftermarket ones one can build oneself. 

But I  deviate from subject here out of total frustration because composing here on this infernal "blog" that is supposed to be optimized FOR EXACTLY WHAT I AM DOING  is a FRIGGING NIGHTMARE & GOOGLE SUCKS! They come out with products and add all kinds of bells and whistles we don't need and NEVER FINISH THE  program with the key features we needed and never got, nor do they EVER fix the glitches that I constantly run into such as my mail that I am writing in G-Mail SENDING WHEN I HIT THE TAB KEY TO INDENT A PARAGRAPH.

     That is my experience after ditching my Dell for aftermarket ones years ago and having nothing but trouble afterword. Meanwhile, I gave the Dell to a PC enthusiast/friend who repairs them. he cracked the proprietary problems with the Dell, for instance, it wouldn't allow anything but it's  Dell Windows operating system disk to be installed on it first. he got it to accept regular Windows disks.  The result: over the next 6 years, he said, the Dell was his best computer. Furthermore, his overall experience always using used the name brand PCs has been rather good, to my ensuing 6 years of total frustration  using two aftermarket  MBs, a Supermicro one and an Intel one.Plus Supermicro has a total ripoff scheme when I asked for a replacement. But on the rare occasion when HP or Dell manufactures a total turkey, they will replace it without hassle. 

     So now I am back to my original Dell in a custom tower for which I manufactured a 5.25-inch  "Dell Tray" with the Dell proprietary front I/O board mounted in it and a csutom made hybrid power swithc using the Dell power board with a Pentium 3 era HP power button hot glued in front of it.

This 8300 Dimension MB has it's unique quirks when running, but it runs my audio editing software properly and doesn't blue screen at random like my otehr two MBs did for 6 years.

     A specific one with only this MB, when I upload, say a photo and I have to scroll through the contents of a folder to the item I want to upload using the arrows in the window  the mouse wheel, it bolts to the other end of the list every time. It always did that with the 8300 and never did that with my other two motherboards.

     My theory is that since no human endeavor is close  to perfect, but in the PC digital world, the way PS work, it is supposedly designed largely to run on everything happening in order, perfectly, no exceptions. Knowing this is impossible, especially on the web, the PC has been intricate checks and balances to try to keep something imperfect at least emulating perfection enough to function in its "perfect" world.

     However, with each individual piece of hardware, among the billions of lines of code programmed into it, when it interacts with the uniquely imperfect hardware has characteristic flaws either small enough to be labelled "quirks" or large enough to be "junk" and all are different.   With that  understanding, then the hypothesis can be put forward that with PCs its impossible for each not to have it's own "eccentricities" to put it mildly.

     To conclude, it is my contention that MBs used by the well known, companies who maintain a good reputation with customers like HP and Dell, those flaws are kept to a minimum, or are replaced for us becaused these big names have a huge stake in their reputations among consumers, whereas not so much when some PC enthusiast walks shops for the best deal for a motherboard to build his own system.

     Finally, my conclusion is that since NOBODY(that I know of, anyway) is saying anything about this but me I must be right about it. That's because when I think of something like this that is based on my experience and observations even though I am not qualified to judge the situation in most if not all cases, I still  turn out to be right because, invariably, later I find that somebody else has researched, documented and elaborated on exactly what I'd been saying all along. Nobody says anything about this yet & its staying a dirty little corporate secret that they don't want known until somebody publishable writes or talks about it on air, so I must be correct.

      I mean this must be so because the alternative for the PC manufacturers is advertising their products as "Our computers have fewer flaws, suck less than our nearest competitor." People don't want to hear that, so they never say it.