People talk about problems with android, and yet these problems are precisely where companies like RIM can differentiate themselves, by solving these problems.
The nice thing about android is that you don't have to get googles permission to use it in whatever form factor you want. With Apple you are stuck with their form factor and with Microsoft you have to meet their requirements.
the issue is how much does it cost facebook to change the name of the company in their database. If they say it costs them thousands of dollars to update a database entry do you believe them? What does it cost you to change an entry in your addressbook? Even if you are a highly paid trial lawyer on hourly rates it will only cost you a couple of dollars.
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does that invalidate my assertion that you can use as much or as little of it as you want?
People talk about problems with android, and yet these problems are precisely where companies like RIM can differentiate themselves, by solving these problems.
"most Android phones that come with keyboards are not that great--a distinction which you seem to have missed."
So did RIM, they could have filled that market nicely with, as you say, no competition.
Wow you just described a great new business opportunity that RIM could have taken advantage of, if they had chosen android
just think of how many nice little android keyboard devices they could have sold with the market all to themselves.
"ALL" basically identical
do you mean to say that?
there are NO exceptions?
The nice thing about android is that you don't have to get googles permission to use it in whatever form factor you want. With Apple you are stuck with their form factor and with Microsoft you have to meet their requirements.
"running a custom Linux build, not Android."
that's exactly the point
with android you don't have to take the whole stack of software
it's all GPL so you can use as much or as little of it as you want
you can make an e-ink reader or a refrigerator screen or a 787 seatback computer or a phone or whatever you want with android
android devices work great with keyboards
check out the new fangled "bluetooth" technology
amazon e-ink kindle and google nexus phone are both android based.
They couldn't be more different!
"no wiggle room" what is he talking about???
you burn it onto a USB stick
oh great
code that depends on windows for no good reason
quality isn't free
cross-platform means you can make more customers happy
between higher quality and more customers and future-proofing, cross-platform is clearly worth the extra costs
This will eventually cause a huge bottleneck once games starts making use of multiple cores..
You're aware that adding thread safety SLOWS DOWN software and makes it LESS EFFICIENT, right???
The place to ensure thread safety is in the application, which is perfectly capable of scheduling updates to non-threaded code, much more efficiently!
last I checked Linux doesn't do that.
I guess you missed out on the whole "why doesn't gnome shell work on my computer" thing
what do they have to lose?
Maybe a lawsuit to the company that wrote it?
sell it to hardware vendors just like any other os would do
so you are saying I am right, there were no devices on the market
today we use virtual machines for developing operating systems, you don't need hardware for application development.
so you see, lack of hardware doesn't have to slow down development of a new platform
the real question is are they doing anything which would warrant hope that tomorrows pad's will ship with gpu's with non-proprietary drivers?.
You are putting the cart before the horse. It's pointless to start targeting hardware before any vendors make commitments to hardware.
There's no point in developing drivers for a framework if you don't have a stable and solid framework in the first place.
Having a solid framework is how you sell the vendors on the software, THEN you can start talking about hardware and drivers.
When android development was started, there weren't ANY devices available that would run it.
Do you really assert that this is a vaild reason?
The process you describe can be done in a week, it sure doesn't take a month
Nvidia has released on a week's notice in the past.
There's plenty of horsepower on the card
Platform-agnostic api, super-duper-thin wrapper libaries
It also solves all the whinging about binary blobs
TwinView doesn't work in nouveau
the issue is how much does it cost facebook to change the name of the company in their database. If they say it costs them thousands of dollars to update a database entry do you believe them? What does it cost you to change an entry in your addressbook? Even if you are a highly paid trial lawyer on hourly rates it will only cost you a couple of dollars.
gaming is lots of fun when everyone makes up their own rules
all of this data has always been available to those who ask for it
they have just made it easier for people to get at it
what is your complaint again?
census data has been public all along
before now you had to go to washington and look it up yourself
now it's easier to get at