Hi everyone,
I bought my first PC in the early eighties (forgotten the actual year!), an Apple II, marketed in Europe by ITT and re-badged as an ITT2020. I've still got it and it still works! Since then I've progressed through many technologies eventually arriving at today running a desktop on Windows XP, a Dell Laptop on Windows XP and my new Acer Iconia A500 now running on Android 4.0.3.
When I bought the A500 two weeks ago it was running Android 3.1. Since then it has reliably updated automatically to the current version of Android. Having read the various tales of misfortune from many Android users I can only sympathize.
However, I remember the early days of personal computing, when everything seemed to be a bit 'hit-and-miss'. This includes today's big boys: Apple and IBM.
There were times, when I was working for a Civil Engineering company (Taylor Woodrow), when I had to use Assembler to modify our IBM PC DOS BIOS in order to obtain the functionality we needed from the PC. Oh the joys of flying by one's pants in the concealed nether regions of IBM's code!
Anyway, the upshot is that I have experienced nothing abnormal from Android or my A500 - perhaps there is something lurking in the not too distant future
.
At 70 years of age I'm still enjoying the bits and bytes, and loving my little tablet.
All the best.
I bought my first PC in the early eighties (forgotten the actual year!), an Apple II, marketed in Europe by ITT and re-badged as an ITT2020. I've still got it and it still works! Since then I've progressed through many technologies eventually arriving at today running a desktop on Windows XP, a Dell Laptop on Windows XP and my new Acer Iconia A500 now running on Android 4.0.3.
When I bought the A500 two weeks ago it was running Android 3.1. Since then it has reliably updated automatically to the current version of Android. Having read the various tales of misfortune from many Android users I can only sympathize.
However, I remember the early days of personal computing, when everything seemed to be a bit 'hit-and-miss'. This includes today's big boys: Apple and IBM.
There were times, when I was working for a Civil Engineering company (Taylor Woodrow), when I had to use Assembler to modify our IBM PC DOS BIOS in order to obtain the functionality we needed from the PC. Oh the joys of flying by one's pants in the concealed nether regions of IBM's code!
Anyway, the upshot is that I have experienced nothing abnormal from Android or my A500 - perhaps there is something lurking in the not too distant future
.At 70 years of age I'm still enjoying the bits and bytes, and loving my little tablet.
All the best.
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