GP: Pull your head out of your ass and recognize that iPads are used in a LOT of industries as incredibly viable tools that increase productivity.
Erm like what? Bonus points if those tasks cannot be performed on a PC, laptop or Android tablet. Further, as I said it's good for grandmas and other folks, just not kids.
OK last week I was working on an applications for integrated disposal of medical waste. It checked off which bags / boxes were supposed to be where and allowed people to photo and record anything out of place. Applications is written in Cocoa. Hardware wise main requirements were: long batter life, tablet form factor, capacitive touch screen and good quality camera. iPad won so Cocoa won so now it is iPad only.
The school can load programming languages on. Cupertino doesn't restrict anything for people under the enterprise management systems. They can load whatever they want.
e-readers generally come with displays designed for text not graphs. They work well for novels not well for non fiction and especially not well for the interactive books needed for children's education.
Purposefully is not really the right word. There are huge tradeoffs for maintaining long term comparability. It restricts what a company can do and how best to take advantage of their system. Microsoft's big problem is a customer base that is mostly satisfied with lower performance They are buying ever cheaper hardware, they are buying less of it and replacing it with cell phones and tables, and they care keeping their PCs longer. Microsoft needs to make end users dissatisfied and to do that they need applications to be pushing against hardware limits.
So I'm not sure what problems you think Microsoft has but it is unclear given the alternatives how Microsoft is harmed by reducing backwards computability. Apple is obviously far far worse.
Most of OpenGL is not approved for use on Win8-ARM (WinRT). Which means that game developers that switch to OpenGL kiss away what could potentially be a large percentage of the laptop market.
I don't think they are. I don't think they care. The answer is to slowly turn up the temperature until their home / small business customer base starts moving to: Win 8/9, Windows 8 hardware, Windows 8 (metro) applications.
There is no guessing here. Microsoft has been clear as day they intend to bring features to Win 8 and not backport to Win 7. They are transitioning their platform and Win 8 is the first step in that direction.
They do not want to go through the effort of backporting because they want to start making faster / cleaner breaks with the past. They don't need to be moving as fast as Apple but they need to move their customer base much faster than they do today.
Given that Nokia cash balance has been increasing rapidly for almost 2 years. How exactly is Nokia losing money on each phone. Where is this money coming from, the money fairy?
You aren't the first 4 people who I've seen memorize a formula without understanding it. Try smacking your head into a brick wall and then smacking your head equally fast into the same wall with a pillow to slow you down. I understand you don't think there is a difference in energy.
Finally. RPM does not mean more power it means more rotations. Power / energy is torque and that is the rate of acceleration i.e. how fast you can increase the RPM not what RPM you are traveling at.
Microsoft has spent billions on Windows Phone 8 marketing, and that hasn't exactly worked out well for them, has it?
They haven't spent billions on windows phone marketing unless you are counting subidies which were mainly being offered by carriers to counter the threat of an Apple monopoly. And yes that worked out very well for them. It created a situation where Windows phone in 2012 was supply not demand constrained.
I don't see how this has much to do with Apple. Apple's strategy is at the $600 price point. The more complex it becomes for applications to target $600 Android phones that more that helps Apple.
Microsoft wanted to go up market. But Nokia has chosen to focus mid-market because Windows Phone runs better on worse hardware than Android. Tizen could potentially be a counter move there, but I'm not sure Tizen will be ready in time. I'd suspect that Nokia is down at the $120 price point by 2015 and I don't think Tizen will be able to counter soon enough.
The installation does work. The instructions are a bit sparse but it allows you to both a KNOPPIX image and a linux file system for extra storage. All the space needs to be consumed though I assume afterwards you can adjust that. The EFI did boot an older iMac fine but did not boot my rMBP. When Knoppix booted from USB I had a weird German / English hybrid that was hard to use (some items in English, keyboard was German...) so it doesn't appear to have completely preserved language settings. Moreover the boot sequence doesn't give you boot options like you would have from DVD.
I think this is very close to an ideal solution and it wouldn't shock me if in 6 months this works perfectly.
Tizen runs Android applications. Besides we know from sales data that very few people have an investment in Android applications.
As for the UI... over 1/2 the people using Android are using Samsung's UI (TouchWiz) which may be part of Tizen. Anyone who doesn't like TouchWiz and likes the official UI and cares, they aren't possible to switch.
Samsung has a larger marketing budget then all other cell phone companies combined. If people not knowing what Tizen is presents a problem Samsung can fix it.
I saw all the Ubuntu stuff and tried but I couldn't get it to work. Ubunut worked fine on older Macs but not on the retina. Also tried various rEFI loaders. The problem I had was most of the rEFIs didn't work well with the Linux images so they couldn't boot Linux and the Linux boot loaders couldn't be configured properly. I definite felt like I was close but I'd love a slightly more "all in one" type solution. If it has gotten better good, otherwise I'm SOL as far as Ubuntu solutions.
It is a bit frustrated that Ubuntu doesn't just have instructions for all the models. It ain't there are that many options when we talk Apple.
You ask hookers, strippers.... there are 2 types of conventions they love: IT and Republicans. Geeks love hot girls who are getting paid to be nice to them.
I love Knoppix as my boot to DVD linux. I'm have a Macbook retina which means no internal DVD. I'd like to have Linux that boots. I've tried some of the EFI solutions... Does anyone have a Linux that works well on the retina for USB boot? Is there some variant of Knoppix that's tested to work?
Well I'd define legacy as being maintained for compatibility. Windows 7 exists to run on hardware designed the way Windows hardware was up until 2011 running the Win32 code. Windows 8 exists for hardware with high end touchpads, touchscreen, movable hinges... primarily runs Metro apps but can still use legacy Win32 code... Etc...
Very similar to what Gnome did with Mate. People understand that Gnome Foundation isn't going to be updating Mate much.
Many many times. The consumer's interests and the business interests often conflict. In Microsoft's particular case their consumer base has been:
a) reducing their frequency of upgrades for over a decade b) reducing the ratio of Windows computers to people rapidly as smartphones and tablets move in c) reducing their spend on the computers they do buy d) using more free software on the web
Consumers presumably like all 4 of those trends. And Microsoft needs to undermine all 4 of those trends. The consumers are perfectly happy driving Microsoft into the ground selling the same old OS forever at lower and lower prices less and less frequently. Why would Microsoft be interested in helping them achieve that vision?
You may hae the opinion that cloud based remote apps are the wave of the future, but that should be the decision of the consumers and should not be dictated from above
Everything is dictated from above. Either you choose to have scalable OS elements or you choose the features and speed of bitmaps. Whichever way the OS goes is choosing for consumers. There is no neutral here. The way consumers choose is by choosing a platform.
Besides consumers have chosen. They have been increasing their use of web applications by 30% annually for almost 20 years running. Conversely they've done far less investment in more complex desktop applications.
. Right now there are 1M plus apps available to me online with phones, and I want to use maybe two of them.
I understand. And you also understand that this is atypical behavior. Most people, especially iOS users have many apps and spend quite a bit to get applications with a rate of phone application growth in the 40-+% range.
Maybe most people don't understand the hierarchical menu, but why does that mean it must be removed from everyone including those who want it? Can't it just be left on the desktop where the new batch of users will never see it?
First off not really because they need to break the paradigm of applications being "installed". But shorter term, Microsoft has an adjustable GUI. They did do that. Powerusers can add these things back in. They can do what they want. Microsoft isn't stopping you from reconfiguring your GUI they are just changing the default. Stardock, etc... are still there.
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OK last week I was working on an applications for integrated disposal of medical waste. It checked off which bags / boxes were supposed to be where and allowed people to photo and record anything out of place. Applications is written in Cocoa. Hardware wise main requirements were: long batter life, tablet form factor, capacitive touch screen and good quality camera. iPad won so Cocoa won so now it is iPad only.
The school can load programming languages on. Cupertino doesn't restrict anything for people under the enterprise management systems. They can load whatever they want.
e-readers generally come with displays designed for text not graphs. They work well for novels not well for non fiction and especially not well for the interactive books needed for children's education.
Purposefully is not really the right word. There are huge tradeoffs for maintaining long term comparability. It restricts what a company can do and how best to take advantage of their system. Microsoft's big problem is a customer base that is mostly satisfied with lower performance They are buying ever cheaper hardware, they are buying less of it and replacing it with cell phones and tables, and they care keeping their PCs longer. Microsoft needs to make end users dissatisfied and to do that they need applications to be pushing against hardware limits.
So I'm not sure what problems you think Microsoft has but it is unclear given the alternatives how Microsoft is harmed by reducing backwards computability. Apple is obviously far far worse.
They are going to go much further than that. Win32 is going to be treated more and more like a guest OS on the WIn8+/Metro OS.
Most of OpenGL is not approved for use on Win8-ARM (WinRT). Which means that game developers that switch to OpenGL kiss away what could potentially be a large percentage of the laptop market.
I don't think they are. I don't think they care. The answer is to slowly turn up the temperature until their home / small business customer base starts moving to: Win 8/9, Windows 8 hardware, Windows 8 (metro) applications.
There is no guessing here. Microsoft has been clear as day they intend to bring features to Win 8 and not backport to Win 7. They are transitioning their platform and Win 8 is the first step in that direction.
They do not want to go through the effort of backporting because they want to start making faster / cleaner breaks with the past. They don't need to be moving as fast as Apple but they need to move their customer base much faster than they do today.
Given that Nokia cash balance has been increasing rapidly for almost 2 years. How exactly is Nokia losing money on each phone. Where is this money coming from, the money fairy?
Finally someone who gets it here on /. BTW desktop is fine if it has a new generation input device like a http://www.wacom.com/en/creative/products/pen-displays/cintiq
You aren't the first 4 people who I've seen memorize a formula without understanding it. Try smacking your head into a brick wall and then smacking your head equally fast into the same wall with a pillow to slow you down. I understand you don't think there is a difference in energy.
Finally. RPM does not mean more power it means more rotations. Power / energy is torque and that is the rate of acceleration i.e. how fast you can increase the RPM not what RPM you are traveling at.
They haven't spent billions on windows phone marketing unless you are counting subidies which were mainly being offered by carriers to counter the threat of an Apple monopoly. And yes that worked out very well for them. It created a situation where Windows phone in 2012 was supply not demand constrained.
I don't see how this has much to do with Apple. Apple's strategy is at the $600 price point. The more complex it becomes for applications to target $600 Android phones that more that helps Apple.
Microsoft wanted to go up market. But Nokia has chosen to focus mid-market because Windows Phone runs better on worse hardware than Android. Tizen could potentially be a counter move there, but I'm not sure Tizen will be ready in time. I'd suspect that Nokia is down at the $120 price point by 2015 and I don't think Tizen will be able to counter soon enough.
Well test is complete.
The installation does work. The instructions are a bit sparse but it allows you to both a KNOPPIX image and a linux file system for extra storage. All the space needs to be consumed though I assume afterwards you can adjust that. The EFI did boot an older iMac fine but did not boot my rMBP. When Knoppix booted from USB I had a weird German / English hybrid that was hard to use (some items in English, keyboard was German...) so it doesn't appear to have completely preserved language settings. Moreover the boot sequence doesn't give you boot options like you would have from DVD.
I think this is very close to an ideal solution and it wouldn't shock me if in 6 months this works perfectly.
Tizen runs Android applications. Besides we know from sales data that very few people have an investment in Android applications.
As for the UI... over 1/2 the people using Android are using Samsung's UI (TouchWiz) which may be part of Tizen. Anyone who doesn't like TouchWiz and likes the official UI and cares, they aren't possible to switch.
Samsung has a larger marketing budget then all other cell phone companies combined. If people not knowing what Tizen is presents a problem Samsung can fix it.
I saw all the Ubuntu stuff and tried but I couldn't get it to work. Ubunut worked fine on older Macs but not on the retina. Also tried various rEFI loaders. The problem I had was most of the rEFIs didn't work well with the Linux images so they couldn't boot Linux and the Linux boot loaders couldn't be configured properly. I definite felt like I was close but I'd love a slightly more "all in one" type solution. If it has gotten better good, otherwise I'm SOL as far as Ubuntu solutions.
It is a bit frustrated that Ubuntu doesn't just have instructions for all the models. It ain't there are that many options when we talk Apple.
I have another Mac with a drive I can use for installation so I can do the DVD test. I'll let you know how it goes.
You ask hookers, strippers.... there are 2 types of conventions they love: IT and Republicans. Geeks love hot girls who are getting paid to be nice to them.
I love Knoppix as my boot to DVD linux. I'm have a Macbook retina which means no internal DVD. I'd like to have Linux that boots. I've tried some of the EFI solutions... Does anyone have a Linux that works well on the retina for USB boot? Is there some variant of Knoppix that's tested to work?
Well I'd define legacy as being maintained for compatibility. Windows 7 exists to run on hardware designed the way Windows hardware was up until 2011 running the Win32 code. Windows 8 exists for hardware with high end touchpads, touchscreen, movable hinges... primarily runs Metro apps but can still use legacy Win32 code... Etc...
Very similar to what Gnome did with Mate. People understand that Gnome Foundation isn't going to be updating Mate much.
Many many times. The consumer's interests and the business interests often conflict. In Microsoft's particular case their consumer base has been:
a) reducing their frequency of upgrades for over a decade
b) reducing the ratio of Windows computers to people rapidly as smartphones and tablets move in
c) reducing their spend on the computers they do buy
d) using more free software on the web
Consumers presumably like all 4 of those trends. And Microsoft needs to undermine all 4 of those trends. The consumers are perfectly happy driving Microsoft into the ground selling the same old OS forever at lower and lower prices less and less frequently. Why would Microsoft be interested in helping them achieve that vision?
Everything is dictated from above. Either you choose to have scalable OS elements or you choose the features and speed of bitmaps. Whichever way the OS goes is choosing for consumers. There is no neutral here. The way consumers choose is by choosing a platform.
Besides consumers have chosen. They have been increasing their use of web applications by 30% annually for almost 20 years running. Conversely they've done far less investment in more complex desktop applications.
I understand. And you also understand that this is atypical behavior. Most people, especially iOS users have many apps and spend quite a bit to get applications with a rate of phone application growth in the 40-+% range.
First off not really because they need to break the paradigm of applications being "installed". But shorter term, Microsoft has an adjustable GUI. They did do that. Powerusers can add these things back in. They can do what they want. Microsoft isn't stopping you from reconfiguring your GUI they are just changing the default. Stardock, etc... are still there.
Yes. Windows 7 should be the OS for traditional desktops and laptops. That sends a clear message that non-touch is legacy hardware.
True. But then you should use the command line and just have them use their phone and/or tell them what to type. The GUI just gets in the way.