Except that branded laptops Windows is fully licensed. Sure they reinstall a "better" version of Windows, but it's still a Windows license sold...
Also, it would take a massive effort to create a general purpose smartphone that could get any OS installed on it.
PS: Samsung is the biggest player in Chinese smartphone market. Making iOS portable would change nothing...
China and India don't have that much of an issue with mobile broadband... US on the other hand.
I'm sure most don't know or care what apps are. There are many iPhone users that don;t care for apps as well... But when the legions of Android users start exploring their smartphones they are not going to just switch to iOS...
And if you pull you head out of your ass and look around, you'll notice that Verizon can sell to at most 311mil people. While Asia is several billion... See the word "global" in the title?(Just like World Series doesn't actually have to do with the world outside US)
There is no way in hell they can get to anything close of 40%. Even if they double the sales, at the cost of Android sales, and set an all time record they will still be at 28%. In short - selling 70mil iPhones in 2012 Q4 is a pipe dream...
iPhone4 acquired a slight input lag in some cases... But I suspect that it's only due to the fact that it's single core and iOS6 is built primarily for multicore.
I disagree completely. When the first all Lenovo laptops rolled down the line - they were just plain terrible. However, they fixed that and the newer ones are no less durable than the IBM one's(comparing IBM ThinkPad T42 with Lenovo ThinkPad W500 and T430s).
Well.... Actually when they announced the retina MacBook Pro they allowed for a hands-on. When they announced iPad, they allowed for a hands-on. I can't really think of any Apple announcement that wasn't followed by a video of a hands-on within 24hrs.(And I'm no fanboi)
Desktop PC - Run Apache Hadoop on it.... is this now a cloud computer? Or Not....?
Yeah.... Right.... Hadoop makes a desktop PC into a cloud.
Next time when you try to mock something you don't really understand, at least make an effort to know why it's bad.
my CV has real Specific Applications on it some of which are generally thought of as "Cloud"
Based on your first statement, I will keep my doubts.
Also, cloud isn't a meme it's a buzzword.
Virtualization hasn't been replaced by the term cloud neither has it changed it's meaning, with that you are mistaken.(There are some people that refer to virtualization as cloud, but those are mostly people that want to mock both terms)
I'm just waiting for someone to throw in "The cloud is just a bunch of servers". Just like it was quite usual for some people to say "SOA is a bunch of SOAP web services."
And I used to denote the internet as the cloud, simply because of the elasticity of the resources it referred to. And that migrated into the cloud successfully. I also denoted many external providers of facilities management in a shape of a cloud in a departmental diagram.
The answer is simple, the person that was dictating the names of the menus was a very loud one. So his assistant wrote exactly what he was DICTATING!!!
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Except that branded laptops Windows is fully licensed. Sure they reinstall a "better" version of Windows, but it's still a Windows license sold...
Also, it would take a massive effort to create a general purpose smartphone that could get any OS installed on it.
PS: Samsung is the biggest player in Chinese smartphone market. Making iOS portable would change nothing...
China and India don't have that much of an issue with mobile broadband... US on the other hand.
I'm sure most don't know or care what apps are. There are many iPhone users that don;t care for apps as well... But when the legions of Android users start exploring their smartphones they are not going to just switch to iOS...
I suspect that you're not an Android app developer. Because hardware related issues aren't the one's that you listed...
And if you pull you head out of your ass and look around, you'll notice that Verizon can sell to at most 311mil people. While Asia is several billion... See the word "global" in the title?(Just like World Series doesn't actually have to do with the world outside US)
There is no way in hell they can get to anything close of 40%. Even if they double the sales, at the cost of Android sales, and set an all time record they will still be at 28%. In short - selling 70mil iPhones in 2012 Q4 is a pipe dream...
Why selective? Just because it does not support your wold view?
"Nope, Amazon app store has momentum (on Android)"
How would you know? You're an iOS developer... Amazon's store is crap.
iPhone4 acquired a slight input lag in some cases... But I suspect that it's only due to the fact that it's single core and iOS6 is built primarily for multicore.
Switch iOS and Android in your post and you get how I feel. It's mostly a matter of preference.
open to trolls, as well.
Less pr0n, my dearie.... (I'm still good with a 50GB HDD in my T42)
You use page break?!?!?!?
I disagree completely. When the first all Lenovo laptops rolled down the line - they were just plain terrible. However, they fixed that and the newer ones are no less durable than the IBM one's(comparing IBM ThinkPad T42 with Lenovo ThinkPad W500 and T430s).
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A fine is not royalties. A fine is a fine.
Well.... Actually when they announced the retina MacBook Pro they allowed for a hands-on. When they announced iPad, they allowed for a hands-on. I can't really think of any Apple announcement that wasn't followed by a video of a hands-on within 24hrs.(And I'm no fanboi)
Obviously Ctrl+Alt+Del is teh essential functionality of Windows system known as 3KC.
And I quote "OS support for Windows, with Mac OS X and Linux to follow;"
Eh.. What do you think Orange SanDiego runs? http://www.gsmarena.com/orange_san_diego-4588.php
S3 is Mali-400MP as well.
It's obvious that the satisfaction rating within a dedicated following is higher than in general population.
It also says that killing an innocent person is a horrible sin, but since you can redefine innocence any time you wish....
Desktop PC - Run Apache Hadoop on it .... is this now a cloud computer? Or Not ....?
Yeah.... Right.... Hadoop makes a desktop PC into a cloud.
Next time when you try to mock something you don't really understand, at least make an effort to know why it's bad.
my CV has real Specific Applications on it some of which are generally thought of as "Cloud"
Based on your first statement, I will keep my doubts.
I believe NIST has a definition of what the cloud is - http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf
It will go through several iterations, just like SOA did.
Also, cloud isn't a meme it's a buzzword.
Virtualization hasn't been replaced by the term cloud neither has it changed it's meaning, with that you are mistaken.(There are some people that refer to virtualization as cloud, but those are mostly people that want to mock both terms)
I'm just waiting for someone to throw in "The cloud is just a bunch of servers". Just like it was quite usual for some people to say "SOA is a bunch of SOAP web services."
And I used to denote the internet as the cloud, simply because of the elasticity of the resources it referred to. And that migrated into the cloud successfully. I also denoted many external providers of facilities management in a shape of a cloud in a departmental diagram.
The answer is simple, the person that was dictating the names of the menus was a very loud one. So his assistant wrote exactly what he was DICTATING!!!