According to countless research, no one multitasks between 5 apps well. Factually, the human brain can only "multitask" between 2 things with any skill, add more and productivity drops dramatically. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.
Actually, we don't know the answer to that yet either way. In the end it will most likely be up to what a developer does and if MS links the stores together.
I am not a Microsoft fan (search my comments) but I am a HUGE Metro/Modern/RT/Windows Store App fan. I agree with MS that the real-world metaphors shoehorned onto computers have limited their usefulness and I LOVE the total embrace of Fitt's Law.
Windows app developers choosing closed source doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft any more than Mac app developers choosing closed source has to do with Apple. Both Microsoft and Apple contribute a large amount to open source projects themselves.
Windows RT runs on x86 and x64 in addition to ARM. ARM has everything to do with energy consumption. Intel is just not getting there with x86/x64. The future is battery powered and frankly, Intel needs the competition of ARM to get them moving even if ARM can't touch raw performance of x86/x64.
If people didn't care so deeply about MS Office there wouldn't be an OpenOffice or an iWork. It's also asinine to insist that only Office keeps people on Windows. Intensely extensive hardware support, Exchange, Active Directory and many other things that other operating systems don't even try to compete with are also MASSIVE factors.
Windows on ARM already had an "ecosystem" it's called Windows. USB has delivered on its promise. Bluetooth has delivered on its promise. This is not Android, iOS world where connecting anything other than a memory card is both frowned upon and difficult/expensive.
I will give you that Windows Phone 7 was a failure by all accounts. I have an HTC Titan that I love and I am crushed that it will not receive proper system software support but I understand why Microsoft did it. There is a level of hardware features that every WP device must have, in both WP7 and 8. This lets Microsoft declare things like taking pictures on Windows Phone is both faster and easier and not mean "just the Nexus Windows Phone". Live tiles blow notifications and most widgets away in my opinion and you can search my posts on XDA under Dragon_76 to see how long and extensively I have used Android (I had a G1 and left Android Phones at Moto Atrix).
Windows 8 is going to make everyone ask why Apple didn't do the same thing with Mac OS/iOS.
And all adulteresses should be forced to wear a scarlet "A"!
Children are not fully-formed adults, we can't treat them as such. They do not have full control over their lives as adults do. If you believe that children should be treated as adults than whatever age you believe that begins they should be allowed to drink, smoke, gamble and vote.
From Wikipedia: "The French Revolution (French: Révolution française; 1789–1799), was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a major impact on France and throughout the rest of Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years. French society underwent an epic transformation, as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from radical left-wing political groups, masses on the streets, and peasants in the countryside. Old ideas about tradition and hierarchy – of monarchy, aristocracy, and religious authority – were abruptly overthrown by new Enlightenment principles of equality, citizenship and inalienable rights."
Now, do you think that the upheaval of the aristocracy was sugar cookies and lemonade for the economy of France? What about all the merchants employed by the Aristocracy? How evil of those revolutionaries to do such a thing to the Aristocracy because it affected merchants!
"The system" is not some magical entity with all the right answers or outcome. It lets people off that are guilty and convicts people who are innocent. Justice is not arbitrary, that's why laws are different in every country, state and city and also why they change so often. If you are looking for "justice" as opposed to "procedure" than you have to admit that Anonymous has just as much chance at justice as the system.
Anonymous is not one person, nor a group in one country. Let's be realistic here. Expecting a citizen of one country to know, follow and respect the laws of another country simply because you think that's the "right thing" is asinine at best.
As devil's advocate no one says that you are entitled to any specific standard of living. You could also choose to live in a small apartment with other people and choose inexpensive food and clothing and deny yourself needless devices and subscription tv all while stashing a sizable chunk of your income into savings and investments, but are you?
In 2002 about 75 million people were connected to sewers and 35 million people had their waste water treated through small-scale waste water treatment devices called jÅkasÅs. They are common in areas not connected to sewers, but also exist in areas connected to sewers. There is even a specific jÅkasÅ law that regulates their construction, installation, inspection and desludging. JÅkasÅs use different technologies and serve different sizes of buildings from single-family homes to high-rise buildings, public or commercial buildings. Treated water can be easily reused for various purposes such as toilet flushing, watering gardens or car washing. Sludge from jÅkasÅs can be used as fertilizer
Your assumption is that life on Earth is the standard by which to measure all life. There is every bit the possibility that life on Earth is actually incredibly fragile and that the norm is "hardiness"...
I didn't read the article but you don't think it is possible that a cataclysm destroying a planet could send fragments containing this life form's ancestor hurtling into space? You're acting like it left of its own accord.
Occam's razor would actually lead one to think that because we have so little knowledge of life on our own planet, we don't have enough data to speculate about life on other planets. That's actually the simplest explanation.
Ugh! Why do you keep insisting that the Earth is not the centre of the universe, Copernicus! It has been proven by both God and Science that Everything revolves around God's pinnacle of creation!
Android is really just missing the desktop-style apps. Everything about the OS and the hardware lends itself to be a more than competent netbook replacement device but too many application authors are trying to ape iOS concepts.
I'm not sympathetic to Samsung but Apple employees are so busy rimming each other with delight over the sheer fact they work for Apple, that the smell of shit is such a part of their daily life they have no clue when the service they are giving is shitty.
I don't know anyone who has a positive experience about going to the Apple store with a problem. Apple is so busy fellating iOS, they have sold the same basic OS to desktop customers 4 times now and no one is calling them on it. I didn't really think an iOS-style launcher was worth paying $29 for nor do I believe waiting an hour after my "appointment" at an Apple Store is acceptable, so I stopped using my mid-2010 Core-i5 MacBook Pro and bought a Samsung Series 7 Slate. Problem Solved
A Microsoft account is required to use a Windows Phone the same way a Google account is required to use a Google experience Android device and an Apple ID is required to use an iPhone... NEXT
Email is cloud based FOR EVERYONE FROM ITS INCEPTION. NEXT
You mean to tell me you have a home server running and you can't figure out how to put a photos web page on an intranet? N008
It's not your own phone or your own PC, you just license the use...don't even lie and say you've read every EULA of every piece of software you've ever used...
Frankly, the music player was enough. Even now, except for possibly Zune on WP7 depending on your tastes, media handling on cell phones is dismal AT BEST.
Then there was that web browser...you mean I can actually use the web on a phone? The G1 came out a year after the iPhone and looked positively archaic even at the time. It was Mobile Safari and Mobile Safari alone that has driven the development of the mobile web, quite literally since all other mobes are based on MOBILE webkit and not just website.
This is coming from a ridiculously happy WP7 user.
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According to countless research, no one multitasks between 5 apps well. Factually, the human brain can only "multitask" between 2 things with any skill, add more and productivity drops dramatically. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.
_.-* The More You Google.
Actually, we don't know the answer to that yet either way. In the end it will most likely be up to what a developer does and if MS links the stores together.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/windows-phone-8-and-windows-8-share-lots-of-code-nt-kernel/
I am not a Microsoft fan (search my comments) but I am a HUGE Metro/Modern/RT/Windows Store App fan. I agree with MS that the real-world metaphors shoehorned onto computers have limited their usefulness and I LOVE the total embrace of Fitt's Law.
Windows app developers choosing closed source doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft any more than Mac app developers choosing closed source has to do with Apple. Both Microsoft and Apple contribute a large amount to open source projects themselves.
Windows RT runs on x86 and x64 in addition to ARM. ARM has everything to do with energy consumption. Intel is just not getting there with x86/x64. The future is battery powered and frankly, Intel needs the competition of ARM to get them moving even if ARM can't touch raw performance of x86/x64.
If people didn't care so deeply about MS Office there wouldn't be an OpenOffice or an iWork. It's also asinine to insist that only Office keeps people on Windows. Intensely extensive hardware support, Exchange, Active Directory and many other things that other operating systems don't even try to compete with are also MASSIVE factors.
Windows on ARM already had an "ecosystem" it's called Windows. USB has delivered on its promise. Bluetooth has delivered on its promise. This is not Android, iOS world where connecting anything other than a memory card is both frowned upon and difficult/expensive.
I will give you that Windows Phone 7 was a failure by all accounts. I have an HTC Titan that I love and I am crushed that it will not receive proper system software support but I understand why Microsoft did it. There is a level of hardware features that every WP device must have, in both WP7 and 8. This lets Microsoft declare things like taking pictures on Windows Phone is both faster and easier and not mean "just the Nexus Windows Phone". Live tiles blow notifications and most widgets away in my opinion and you can search my posts on XDA under Dragon_76 to see how long and extensively I have used Android (I had a G1 and left Android Phones at Moto Atrix).
Windows 8 is going to make everyone ask why Apple didn't do the same thing with Mac OS/iOS.
Totally different meme.
http://slashdot.org/story/04/11/30/0034259/In-Korea-Email-Is-Only-For-Old-People
And all adulteresses should be forced to wear a scarlet "A"!
Children are not fully-formed adults, we can't treat them as such. They do not have full control over their lives as adults do. If you believe that children should be treated as adults than whatever age you believe that begins they should be allowed to drink, smoke, gamble and vote.
You can't have it both ways.
From Wikipedia:
"The French Revolution (French: Révolution française; 1789–1799), was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a major impact on France and throughout the rest of Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years. French society underwent an epic transformation, as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from radical left-wing political groups, masses on the streets, and peasants in the countryside. Old ideas about tradition and hierarchy – of monarchy, aristocracy, and religious authority – were abruptly overthrown by new Enlightenment principles of equality, citizenship and inalienable rights."
Now, do you think that the upheaval of the aristocracy was sugar cookies and lemonade for the economy of France? What about all the merchants employed by the Aristocracy? How evil of those revolutionaries to do such a thing to the Aristocracy because it affected merchants!
"The system" is not some magical entity with all the right answers or outcome. It lets people off that are guilty and convicts people who are innocent. Justice is not arbitrary, that's why laws are different in every country, state and city and also why they change so often. If you are looking for "justice" as opposed to "procedure" than you have to admit that Anonymous has just as much chance at justice as the system.
Anonymous is not one person, nor a group in one country. Let's be realistic here. Expecting a citizen of one country to know, follow and respect the laws of another country simply because you think that's the "right thing" is asinine at best.
There's no consensus over how much sleep a person needs and 9 hours is definitely on the excessive side.
As devil's advocate no one says that you are entitled to any specific standard of living. You could also choose to live in a small apartment with other people and choose inexpensive food and clothing and deny yourself needless devices and subscription tv all while stashing a sizable chunk of your income into savings and investments, but are you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Japan
3.2 Sanitation
In 2002 about 75 million people were connected to sewers and 35 million people had their waste water treated through small-scale waste water treatment devices called jÅkasÅs. They are common in areas not connected to sewers, but also exist in areas connected to sewers. There is even a specific jÅkasÅ law that regulates their construction, installation, inspection and desludging. JÅkasÅs use different technologies and serve different sizes of buildings from single-family homes to high-rise buildings, public or commercial buildings. Treated water can be easily reused for various purposes such as toilet flushing, watering gardens or car washing. Sludge from jÅkasÅs can be used as fertilizer
Your assumption is that life on Earth is the standard by which to measure all life. There is every bit the possibility that life on Earth is actually incredibly fragile and that the norm is "hardiness"...
I didn't read the article but you don't think it is possible that a cataclysm destroying a planet could send fragments containing this life form's ancestor hurtling into space? You're acting like it left of its own accord.
Occam's razor would actually lead one to think that because we have so little knowledge of life on our own planet, we don't have enough data to speculate about life on other planets. That's actually the simplest explanation.
Ugh! Why do you keep insisting that the Earth is not the centre of the universe, Copernicus! It has been proven by both God and Science that Everything revolves around God's pinnacle of creation!
Not only the patent pool but the entire container format is based on QuickTime.
Android is really just missing the desktop-style apps. Everything about the OS and the hardware lends itself to be a more than competent netbook replacement device but too many application authors are trying to ape iOS concepts.
Hurray, some nobody from what basically amounts to a local band has been reduced to gimmicks to get any sort of attention.
I'm not sympathetic to Samsung but Apple employees are so busy rimming each other with delight over the sheer fact they work for Apple, that the smell of shit is such a part of their daily life they have no clue when the service they are giving is shitty.
I don't know anyone who has a positive experience about going to the Apple store with a problem. Apple is so busy fellating iOS, they have sold the same basic OS to desktop customers 4 times now and no one is calling them on it. I didn't really think an iOS-style launcher was worth paying $29 for nor do I believe waiting an hour after my "appointment" at an Apple Store is acceptable, so I stopped using my mid-2010 Core-i5 MacBook Pro and bought a Samsung Series 7 Slate. Problem Solved
Is Windows going to be the new CP/M?
Someone is going to come and copy it but make the commands and devices incompatible? Pretty sure Linux has already tried that...
Nobody buys the playbook because it's not competitive with other tablets in its class. Does it have email and calendar yet?
A Microsoft account is required to use a Windows Phone the same way a Google account is required to use a Google experience Android device and an Apple ID is required to use an iPhone... NEXT
Email is cloud based FOR EVERYONE FROM ITS INCEPTION. NEXT
You mean to tell me you have a home server running and you can't figure out how to put a photos web page on an intranet? N008
Please, I need a good laugh tonight, tell us the funny story about trying to explain "pairing" to your mother...
It's not your own phone or your own PC, you just license the use...don't even lie and say you've read every EULA of every piece of software you've ever used...
Frankly, the music player was enough. Even now, except for possibly Zune on WP7 depending on your tastes, media handling on cell phones is dismal AT BEST.
Then there was that web browser...you mean I can actually use the web on a phone? The G1 came out a year after the iPhone and looked positively archaic even at the time. It was Mobile Safari and Mobile Safari alone that has driven the development of the mobile web, quite literally since all other mobes are based on MOBILE webkit and not just website.
This is coming from a ridiculously happy WP7 user.
Which is exactly the reason Microsoft or Apple doesn't allow any of that nonsense.
How long do you think that is going to last if the US gov't certifies another platform for gov't use? Because you know that is happening...