He may be looking to pursue a green card which is not possible with TN status.
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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.
A company requires more than 'pays well' to be a great company to work for, if that's what you're suggesting.
Except they don't care about quality, which is one of Apple's strongest selling points.
If you're unable to find one I believe the new Dell Chromebook 11 is fairly similar.
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).
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.
I know different people have different usage patterns, but the Nexus 4 battery is far from "horrendous", especially when compared to other flagship devices.
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.
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.connectbot
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.
> 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.
Google funds Android to promote Google services. Whether Google services pushes ads in your face or not has absolutely nothing to do with Android.
- 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.
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.
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.
> 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.
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?
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...