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Android Kinect Projector Interface
An anonymous reader writes "A guy who goes by the online handle DDRBoxman decided it would be fun to blow up his Samsung Galaxy Nexus display onto the wall by connecting his phone to a projector. He then connected the whole thing to a PC and, thanks to Microsoft's open-source Kinect platform for Windows, he was able to create a custom ROM that mapped out the phone interface to the Kinect sensors. Pretty neat!"
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http://blog.recursivepenguin.com/?p=70
This was done using https://code.google.com/p/simple-kinect-touch/ not the microsoft SDK.
Relevance to the current topic? Absolutely none as this isn't a story on sales of anything. Secondly I do see one huge flaw in the articles view of marketshare. If you are going purely by sales that is also not a good comparison. Android users are far less likely to repeatedly upgrade their phone when it works for everything they need. 1 person 1 sale unless it breaks. Apple fans on the other hand are more likely to buy every model that comes out. So 1 person, 4 sales still only 1 phone actually being used, 3 rotting in a drawer somewhere.
The links GP provides don't really support GP's proposition (certainly I was surprised at his claims since they differed from the other reports I'd seen). For one thing, this talks ONLY about Q4 sales, not market share per GP's claim. Of course sales is a leader of market share, and if you can be dominant in sales, market share follows eventually. However, owning one quarter's worth of dominance can't exactly be called a pattern, particularly when there's a demonstrated strong pattern of customers holding out for the new product launch that happened for iOS in this quarter.
Apple certainly had a good quarter, and made up some of the gap between themselves and Android, but still 51% of Q4 new smartphone sales belonged to Android (compared to 37% for iOS). This is according to GP's own link. Another of GP's links has iOS at 43% of the new sales compared to Android's 47% of new sales, but still Android is outselling iOS by that report; just not by as wide of a margin. The only report to actually support GP's claim of the three provided by GP has a difference in sales of 0.1% - far, far less than any margin of error could have been, so at best it could be claimed by this report that it can't be shown that iOS is still losing market share to Android; no claim that one or the other is dominant could be made from such a narrow margin.
It still has jack squat to do with an interesting hardware/software hack between a phone, a projector, and a Kinect. A little more responsive, and something like this would make a fantastic presentation platform.
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This might be great for some type of whiteboard app.
If I need a whiteboard at work, I just plug in my phone to a projector and scribble w/e I want down. If I have a meeting later in the day I can just plug my phone into the projector in the conference room and can have my co workers instantly collaborate on my earlier notes. If I get home and feel like looking over or adding to my work notes, I can easily do so.
Of course the downfall to this whole idea is the fact that each location would need an available kinect and projector. I wonder how long until we can cram similar technologies into a phone though.
If what I just said sounded like a troll, it was probably just a failed attempt at humor.
The sentence should have stopped there.
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You are reading those reports all wrong. You're infected with confirmational biast. Those are reports for a single quarters worth of sales. During that quarter, there were more new iOS phones being sold than new android phones being sold. The install base for android dwarfs iOS. Don't fool yourself.