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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by audible.com hello Internet welcome back to another episode of ask the Buffalo the show where you can ask me Ashley it's gather any question you might have in the wide world of Technology every Tuesday we put up a call for questions on TechnoBuffalo comm you can leave your question in the post comments otherwise you can send them to me any time of the day or night at TechnoBuffalo or at Ashley ask either on Twitter make sure you use the hashtag ask the bee so I can see it and I'll usually answer between 3 and 5 questions every episode let's get answering because this is ask the Buffalo TechnoBuffalo poster Paul asks hi Ashley should I upgrade my HTC One X to HTC One or butterfly ass or should I wait one more year a lot of people ask these questions about upgrading their phones but at the end of the day if you keep waiting for that next upgrade that next upgrade you're gonna end up with like a five year old phone and you'll have never upgraded it which is a super big bummer so I say live in the moment upgrade now if you have access to the butterfly it's a great device they just reviewed it but if you don't the HTC One is just the delightful it really boils down to two things number one if you like aluminum and that beautiful machined unibody that the HTC One has go with that if you really like plastic but you also like having expandable storage and a huge battery go for the butterflies ocurro's asks hi there Ashley do you think that the HTC One Maxx will have a removable back for more storage and the option to switch batteries like the leaked images suggest or do you think that it will maintain the full metal unibody design that the one and the one Mini has I don't know that HTC would go out of its way to make something that was different than the design language of the one in the 1 Mini however the butterfly ass has a plastic back but it's still not removable you can't remove that battery on the HTC butterfly yes so I don't know I think that they're gonna stick with what they've been doing thus far which is no removable battery but I do think they'll have expandable storage on something as large as the HTC One Maxx fancy tape or Vita says considering the iPhone already has mid-range specs will the phone 5c be a low-end phone or even a toy well I don't think it'll be a toy I don't think I'll be considered that however I do think that if it does come to the US which I would imagine it would this will be the phone that replaces the iPhone 4s so on the spectrum you have the iPhone 4s for free once the 5s comes out then you have the five for $99 on contract and then the newest iPhone 5s for 199 on contract to me it would make sense for Apple to replace the 4s with the iPhone 5c because the production cost for the iPhone 5c are gonna be way less than the iPhone 4s or equivalent and it would also make it extremely attractive for parents to add that extra line on an account to give a phone an iPhone to their kids without having to say god I'm spending $200 on this phone and I think you're probably gonna break it or you know leave it at school but if it's really an expensive and even off contract I think it's one of those things that's really gonna catch on like wildfire here in the States Josh asks hey Ashley are you excited for the jobs movie coming out soon in a word no next question Andrew asks do you think there needs to be more mobile os's it seems that only having the few basic os's iOS Android Windows and Blackberry make the mobile markets stale after a few years besides Linux OS Steve predict there will be more OS in the near future to shake things up a bit add competition and to give consumers more options thanks well there are other OSS I mean we have Tizen we have Firefox OS there are other OSS out there but really what it boils down to is developer willingness to develop for a platform that isn't established and the other part of it is is all of the OSS that exists right now are from huge companies blackberry aside because I think they're in a little bit of trouble it's been very tumultuous for them and they're going through a lot of change Microsoft Google and Apple are huge companies that back these OSS so I think that there's a lot of trust involved and a lot of time and energy that goes into developing these things and especially after the history of webOS even getting bought by a company like HP and then crashing and burning in flames after their CEO at the time Leo Apotheker I will never forget that name ruined HP's chances at making webOS a viable operating system I think that there definitely sort of a hesitancy to sort of latch on to anything new so it'll be a while but I definitely think there's always something that comes up I mean years and years ago we thought myspace would just be at the top of social media for a long time and we all know how that ended I love about 60 miles from TechnoBuffalo headquarters it's a huge commute every day 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