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Dude Google bought Motorola for the patents, not for any propulsion whatsoever. They sold the hardware arm to Lenovo and kept the patents.

Please tell him.

It's funny seeing some comments here on NL. Vowiski presents one side of the story here, Google is presently sitting on top of various Motorola patents that may well be future cash cows. The sale to Lenovo did not include those patents.

Meanwhile aren't people here tired of saying Nokia should have embraced Android even when they see that with the Nokia XL series the phone drowned in the sea of other Android phones?

I still think Nokia and Win Phone 8 was/is the right move.

Bob's Burgers.

This is what I have been saying, when many people want to tell you why they don't like Win 8 they point to old articles on the internet or grossly misinterpret the available statistics out there. You rarely hear any valid personal accounts of why these people shun the OS. Are we all lemmings or what? Can people no longer form valid personal opinions or are they entirely dependent on the viewpoint of web articles?

[Here we are talking computers but I have noticed this behaviour also reveals itself in other issues in life]

Thanks Fulaman198 my Win 8 buddy

Lets show these people that Win 8 is anything but a failure.

ITbomb: Sir, check this from PC World

Checked it out. It does not show that Win 8 is a failure as many people here are shouting

You need to put it all in perspective. Consider:

XP was released in 2001- that's 13 years ago and still has a market share of 23%. Win 7 was released in 2009 - that's 5 years ago with a share of 51.21%. Win 8 was released in 2012 - 2 years ago with a 6.28% (Win 8.1 - 7.09%)

Without doubt Win 7 still commands the greater share of computers in use today - it is a great OS - but if you think that Win 8 is failure with those numbers then you must be joking.

emmatok: LOL, You are probably not in PC business.

Just a user.

OEMs are still releasing WIN7 PC.
http://www.wpcentral.com/hp-brings-back-windows-7-pc-due-popular-demand

http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Desktops/Desktops

http://www.cnet.com/news/dell-still-has-windows-7-pcs-and-theyre-on-sale/

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/shared/windows7/experience/index?c=us&l=en&cs=19

You are very funny.

You are giving us links for computers made last year and the year before - of course there are still Win 7 products in the market, nobody expects that they will disappear just like that. My challenge still stands: show me a 2014 product that comes with Win 7. No leading OEM is releasing new computers with Win 7 in 2014.

^ Moderator ban this guy straight!

emmatok: Win 8 sales is very slow according to MS.

Most PC makers are actually going back to Win 7.
Win8 reminds me of VISTA.

Oga are you manufacturing these stories? Win 8 has sold more than 200 million licenses as of date, and while this is behind Win 7, it is anything but a slow sale.

Which PC manufacturer in 2014 is making news devices with Win 7?

Trust most people here with their Win 8 hate, they bought into the largely unfounded hate from the internet with little or no personal experience of their own.

Over 25 per cent of these subscribers can spend as much as US$10 monthly to view Nollywood movies on their smart phones and tablets and that will be over US$250 million monthly and US$3 billion annually in Nigeria alone. And there are more than twice more viewers of Nollywood movies in other countries in Africa and the Diaspora where there are over 100 million potential viewers of Nollywood movies. Therefore, we can estimate that Nollywood movies can generate over US$7 billion annually.

This is pure conjecturing...

... and it is a terrible way to make a claim that desires to be taken seriously. OP has let his imagination run amok even when there is no evidence to back all this up.

Here is a guide so next time when you attempt another research your results will be taken seriously. http://www.richmond.gov.uk/research_proposal_guide.pdf

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kultimate009: Globacom with more subscribers than Etisalat Joke of the Year.... I probably have about 3 glo users in my contact list out of over 500 contacts....

And your contact list is the basis for which the subscriber base is measured?

I like the iPhone 6 with its 4.7" screen, that's just about the sweet spot of being big but not too big.

I must say I find the iwatch to be quite tacky, its design is a disappointment to me.

Expect the association of unhappy phone owners to show up on this thread with their drive by silliness soon.

4llerbuntu: except that you haven't talked about the practicability of using desktop apps on such a small touchscreen with such weak hardware.

how are you going to navigate app menus? have u used windows on a netbook or old PC with hardware with similar specs? do u know how shitty that is?

have you even thought about the app management on such hardware?


hmmnn. i just hope u will put your money where your mouth is .....

A power computer user may find the hardware on this Toshiba unsatisfactory, true, but for the bulk of casual users,i.e more than half of android users especially here on Nairaland their needs will be easily met with this. This is a low end device, certainly no one will expects to run AutoCAD or do heavy video editing on it but it's Intel Atom processor can hold its own in the league of low end devices.

This is part of Window's foray into the low end market and while we await the performance review of this particular tablet any talk that Windows 8.1 is inferior or sub par in a mobile form factor can be dismissed. I currently use a windows 8.1 system, the Dell Inspirion 11 3000, it's a mid tier 2-in-1 laptop and even in tablet mode I have not found any major issues to gripe about regarding the OS. It handles beautifully! Not perfect but beautiful still.

A great deal of people here cannot see beyond their android devices and even though it is a great OS there are several limitations that put it behind robust and full fledge OSes like Windows. Then again many of these people are fine with those limitations so we won't begrudge them. Windows that is traditionally a desktop OS is continually evolving and entering into the mobile device space (and it is doing so gracefully) this is something android cannot achieve, to become robust enough to support legacy/desktop applications.

Idrismusty97: Rubbish! Why would i use a tablet with Windows 8.1 OS? These people better swallow their pride and add the "Android OS" in their device or crash down like BlackBerry. I go buy tablet wey no get single app ne. How many apps/games widows OS get self. All those 1gb ram, quad core blahblah na for waste!

Such ignorance.

People who make comments like this are under the delusion that mobile OSes like Android and iOS are the the be-all and do-all of computing systems. FYI all desktop applications are supported on Win8.1 in addition to its growing array of mobile apps. I mean, what else can match MS Office - in all it's feature rich glory - on a tablet?

Many people are stuck in their straitjacket outlook so these comments shouldn't really surprise me.

At 5" I find the Lumia 830 to be on the large side. Would have loved this better if it fell within the 4.5"- 4.7" range. Great mid tier phone though.

Nobody would be foolish enough to believe that the photos above are watches from Apple. The interwebs is full of daring bloggers who are peddling Apple rumours for web traffic. 2015 is still a while off for images of Apple's wearable device to be floating about.

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Kindly excuse that my questions are skewed towards the non technical aspects of the subject of this thread

I went through the links you provided and even skimmed through the European Data Act and I didn't see it stated explicitly that companies MUST keep their data in the EU. Indeed there is a clause that permits the use of countries outside the EU as long as they can ensure adequate data protection. While companies will try to allay the fears of users that their data is safe and within the EU they are not mandated by law to keep the data within EU regions.

For companies desirous of offering datacenter services in Nigeria I imagine it will be the level of data protection and cheaper rates that will help them better than a ruling from the government.

Funny thread. OP should consider buying data from resellers, it's way cheaper. N2000 for 650MB is so 2011.

Skywalker5: i hope by the time we have datacenters in Nigeria, there should be regulations from the government to stop using foreign datacenters. Thats how its done.Data from Uk would never go outside EU and i think data from USA stays in USA.

Is this a statement of fact or are you speculating? I ask because I find it hard to believe that government in the US or UK will dictate how and where private organisations store their data, especially in this post Snowden era. Google, Facebook and the likes have datacenters in various places around the globe, are you saying that all data from their, say, UK site is stored in its UK datacenter by law? Hard to believe.

I am doubtful how government regulation can help this industry in Nigeria. The core bane of cloud computing services in this country is infrastructure; bandwidth and power. But I think many SMEs - and big coys too! - are still wondering how cloud services are relevant to them and why they should consider it over the legacy systems that are in place.

Nice thread though.

The way many people think here is shocking. They conveniently overlook their own country's shortcoming in not having a strong scientific/pharmaceutical base so as to develop medicines that will benefit them, instead these people have the effrontery to demand abuse or talk down foreign countries that are making progress in this regard.

This effontery is followed by an unjust sense of entitlement and all of these are the hallmarks of indolence.

Nairalanders use your brains!

phreakabit: American apologist. What do you stand to gain or prove by insulting one stating his own opinion?

Opinions are overrated. Even though insults should be avoided people should not showcase stupídity under the guise of airing opinions.

lilprinze: Nice 1 I pray it works shame on US and their ZMAPP if they think we would come and kneel down and beg them for their ZMAPP God has proved them wrong to hell with their ZMAPP .

There is no point in dragging the name of the Almighty in this your display of imbecility.

obua: How can you be in Lagos and buy laptop from Adamawa ?
Na bokoharam dey sell am. Abeg no talk this thing for outside.

My sides are aching o. Funniest comment for the week hands down.

Everyday foolishness increases on this forum.

adaobi123: Breaking bad is not a much watch ?

Dude was just pulling our legs. (I hope)

Omo it has tayed o.


Where are all the Linux guys on Nairaland? Seems they have been relegated to the underworld of computing despite all the huffing and puffing of yesteryears. Linux here continues to be the focus of just hobbyists and no one else.

There is something that can reduce a 1GB file to 1MB - it's called the delete key!


OP nothing in this world compresses files in the ratio you've stated. That's why your question and by extension this thread verges on the ludicrous.