C++ and OpenGL ES are respectively the most used language and graphics API for development of 3D applications on mobile devices. These are not available on WP7 phones.
Is this locking developers in or out of WP7 app development?
My guess is that corporation fights, messy and confusing APIs, software patents and changing standards should drive most intelligent and creative people away from programming. Calling it "technology" doesn't help either.
Have a look at the OIN website and feel their strength. IBM is one of the members, they're standing up 100% for Linux and Microsoft simply does not have a chance.
Now this is the cue for anti-patent people to start listing a litany of cases where patents didn't protect some little guy. But that doesn't change the millions of cases where it does, that doesn't get the publicity.
Then please just tell us about one of those cases where patents did protect some little guy.
Er.. no. Patents are good. The fact that Bell was able to patent his invention means that (1) he was able to profit from it, and (2) his invention was fully disclosed and available to the rest of humanity.
Yes, patents are good for 'inventors' like Bell but bad for real inventors like Meuci who couldn't afford them.
Well, maybe she is cleverer than you are.
I find both texts equally well written and understandable. Capacity for abstraction is a quintessential human quality, and not just for engineering students.
K.
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Microsoft doesn't like price wars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
Has no teen hacker rooted the WP7 Lumias so that Android or Linux can be installed? That would make them start selling like hot cookies.
...(naive European mobile phone) companies
Microsoft has a history of scamming (naive mobile phone) companies
http://slashdot.org/story/02/12/26/1423247/sendo-accuses-ms-of-stealing-smartphone-ip
"Microsoft must be getting rather frustrated with the Nokia partnership and its inability to break through in smartphones."
http://www.unwiredview.com/2012/10/01/microsoft-is-working-on-its-own-branded-wp8-device-windows-phone-surface-to-launch-in-h1-next-year/
Should we make plans so that our species can be reintroduced if it ever gets extinct?
C++ and OpenGL ES are respectively the most used language and graphics API for development of 3D applications on mobile devices. These are not available on WP7 phones. Is this locking developers in or out of WP7 app development?
...and Direct3D is still the universally supported 3D API that every wise programmer wants to use.
It looks like Microsoft has achieved something that dogs have unsuccessfully been trying to do for centuries: it bit its own tail!
My guess is that corporation fights, messy and confusing APIs, software patents and changing standards should drive most intelligent and creative people away from programming. Calling it "technology" doesn't help either.
> It appears TomTom bowed to the pressure and settled with Microsoft
I don't believe this to be a true account of what happened.
http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/about_members.php
Have a look at the OIN website and feel their strength. IBM is one of the members, they're standing up 100% for Linux and Microsoft simply does not have a chance.
Now this is the cue for anti-patent people to start listing a litany of cases where patents didn't protect some little guy. But that doesn't change the millions of cases where it does, that doesn't get the publicity.
Then please just tell us about one of those cases where patents did protect some little guy.
k007
Er.. no. Patents are good. The fact that Bell was able to patent his invention means that (1) he was able to profit from it, and (2) his invention was fully disclosed and available to the rest of humanity.
Yes, patents are good for 'inventors' like Bell but bad for real inventors like Meuci who couldn't afford them.
k007
It could go Pyramid, Matrix or 8 ball, I don't really care. K.
Well, maybe she is cleverer than you are. I find both texts equally well written and understandable. Capacity for abstraction is a quintessential human quality, and not just for engineering students. K.
I hate Apple NOW, and I'm a happy Mac and iPod user.