One PITA for developers here ...
... you can't install it on Windows 7. Way to nobble take-up, Microsoft.
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... however to cite it as the only reason is just incorrect - many of these companies are just as interested in the fact that Ireland is the only English-speaking country in the Euro currency area. And in the event of Brexit, it'll be the only English-speaking country in the EU.
Rotherham. 1992. On placement for 6 months from a college course. Siemens PLC controlling a machine that put steel bands around flat reels of steel 'tape' to hold it together during transport. A similar situation saw me doing a 24-hour straight shift to get a new ladder program working. When I got home the Freddie Mercury tribute concert had just started.
IE is still cack on it. Also many websites don't seem to test on it, so a lot of times you just get a blank page. Then there's the app gap, and more specifically midlevel apps like your local travel company, who will have an iOS and Android app, but never bother with WinPho. And it just errs too much on the 'walled garden' side for me in general. So back to Droid.
"Is big data really just about gathering enough information about a consumer to target ads to them that they’ll block as unneeded and annoying?"
In my case I try my utmost to stop them getting the data at all, before I even start with the blocking as unneeded and annoying.
Present company excepted of course. Ad-blockers off on nice sites like the Reg that don't take the piss.