I, like many others, had not heard of Popcorn Time before it was so successfully advertised by the British Legal system. I now wonder where the source code is hosted, and under which open source licence.
This is a major problem for desktop applications too.
In the company I work for, we still use C++/MFC for our development. (We only need to support Windows.) I have always felt that C#/.Net was not going to be around for long, and it seems I was right. Silverlight. Ditto. HTML/JavaScript? I can't see that being used for high-performance desktop applications (data acquisition, data display, analysis etc.).
I thought Qt might be the way to go. Then Nokia got their grubby little hands on it. Then Microsoft got their grubby little hands on Nokia. Now, bizarely, Qt is "free" again (not controlled by any Evil empire), and I'm starting to feel happier about switching to Qt.
You're absolutely right, however, I think Apple might be doing just this... many sources are saying that Apple is looking at producing a touch-screen netbook. My bet is that they'll produce a device exactly half way between the MacBook and the iPod Touch. It could use the recently released multi-core ARM cpu. Basically, a iTunes App Store connected netbook/tablet. Pretty cool. It could obviously use the new ultra-ultra-low-power Atoms, or even the Nano. Apple, being in control of software and the hardware can do anything they want... and at the moment, it appears that people are willing to spend more on Apple gear. It could of course go hollibly "pear" shaped, and end up as the next Newton (no pun intended).
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Yes, of course. Just like the man on the stairs. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...
I, like many others, had not heard of Popcorn Time before it was so successfully advertised by the British Legal system. I now wonder where the source code is hosted, and under which open source licence.
You obviously haven't programmed using Visual Studio 2005 or later! ;)
This is a major problem for desktop applications too. In the company I work for, we still use C++/MFC for our development. (We only need to support Windows.) I have always felt that C#/.Net was not going to be around for long, and it seems I was right. Silverlight. Ditto. HTML/JavaScript? I can't see that being used for high-performance desktop applications (data acquisition, data display, analysis etc.). I thought Qt might be the way to go. Then Nokia got their grubby little hands on it. Then Microsoft got their grubby little hands on Nokia. Now, bizarely, Qt is "free" again (not controlled by any Evil empire), and I'm starting to feel happier about switching to Qt.
You're absolutely right, however, I think Apple might be doing just this... many sources are saying that Apple is looking at producing a touch-screen netbook. My bet is that they'll produce a device exactly half way between the MacBook and the iPod Touch. It could use the recently released multi-core ARM cpu. Basically, a iTunes App Store connected netbook/tablet. Pretty cool. It could obviously use the new ultra-ultra-low-power Atoms, or even the Nano. Apple, being in control of software and the hardware can do anything they want... and at the moment, it appears that people are willing to spend more on Apple gear. It could of course go hollibly "pear" shaped, and end up as the next Newton (no pun intended).
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