And that is called inovation. The orignal PC "Standard" sucked. You had to asigne memory spaces, interrupts, and IO ports when you added cards. Not every card worked with every PC. PC compatibility was hit or miss. The magazines would use Lotus 123 and Microsoft Flight Simulator as the benchmarks. If both of those ran then it was PC compatible. Of course if you bought anything but a real IBM PC or at you could still find software that didn't run. Then you had the x86 CPU which also was terrible. Segmented memory was with us until the 386 and even that was register starved. The 68k line of CPUs was much better. Then you had the companies that dared to make better computers than IBMs. Both the Zenith Z-100 and the Tandy 2000 where much better computers than the standard PCs of the time. They used the x86 but with better graphics. Thing is that they where not PC compatible. And then you had to hope that your software would support your printer and video card if you got a better card then an MDA or CGA card. Hercules was a pretty safe bet. We where stuck in PC hell for years even when better solutions where available like the Mac, Atari ST, and Amiga. The reason was simple. You developed software for seats and more people that bought software bought PCs. We can use the same solution that finally made PC less of a steaming pile of dung. It is called an OS. You make a board and put an OS on it. To make Linux better at embedded I would suggest that standards need to be developed for GPIO, SPI, I2C "sort of have that now", and CAN. That would solve so many issues on the applications side it wouldn't be funny. For goodness sakes do not trap us into the Lowest Common Denominator hell that was the PC for way too long! USE THE OS!
It was all find until they networked them. Once they got the internet net things got worse. Now every computer is more or less connected to every other computer. So we now have one huge network of computers running an OS that was never really meant to be secure being run by a huge number of amateur sys admins. If we had mostly VAXen running VMS and IBM 390s on the internet we would all be complaining about all the zombie attacks coming from people running Unix boxes.
Your right. Way to many people wrote VB apps and they only run on Windows. Now they are all using C# Microsoft has done a good job locking people in. There is a solution that will work for workstations. Just use Citrix or Windows terminal server for those apps. Combine that with VMs and you have a system where you can actually migrate people to a new machine with ease. Of course not every business will have the IT talent to pull it off but it is very workable. Using that you could keep all mission critical apps locked down tight as a drum on WIndows and then allow end users to use Linux, OS/X, or Windows on the workstations. You will have issues with mobile workers unless they can get really good internet every where they go and run a VPN back to your data center. Now what I wonder about is why don't people run workstations in a VM? Set up the machine with say Linux and run WIndows on a VM on Linux. You could image the VM every night on the network and have an easy way to roll back any virus or malware. And in some type of network monitoring software on the Linux side to look for malware like behaviors and you should have a pretty secure system and easy to repair system. It would also make it really easy to give someone a new machine as well since you just copy the VM over.
Yep I am using the EVO 4G and it works great. Love the phone. Before that I used the Samsung moment. My wife has a WebOS phone and I do IOS development. Hey there are websites dedicated to fans of the AMC Pacer. One happy user does not success make. And as the the design? Really I have used a WP7 and I found the interface rather bland but the phone was snappy. Things like the turn by turn navigation I use all the time it works well and is free. I use Google tracks for my hikes. I use the Google Voice intergeneration as well. Love the transcribed voice mails. The intergeneration for Google+ is very good as are the Facebook and The twitter app I use. Oh and I can multitask any apps I want and do tethering. I have heard that the DroidX had lots of issues but then the Samsung WP7 phones where selfbricking during one of the software update pushes. The DroidX used the Blur skin which I hear is very bad. Stock Android and HTC sense are both much better IMHO.
"Aw, maybe you have to live in the Bay Area. I see guys who look like that every day. He looks pretty desperate, if you ask me. Our streets are crawling with crazy drunks, addicts, homeless, and the mentally ill." And you do not find an armed crazy drunk, addict, or mentally ill person worthy of concern? I would say that you have an under developed sense of self preservation.
Wow what about the other people at the station? Really? That isn't summary execution. This guy threw a bottle at an officer and then pulled a knife! Taser maybe but did the office that shot have a taser or was the one hit by the bottle have the tazer. Did you even watch the video I linked too? A guy throwing a bottle at you and then pulling a knife in a station with innocent people is far from saying Boo.
You mean the crazy guy with a knife? Yes he looks scary as hell to be honest. Also do you have any sources for your keystone cops story? I suggest you look at the video again.
First line of defense? The officer was already hit by a bottle? You don't think that being hit by a bottle isn't life threatening? Ask someone to shit you with a bottle sometime. These are not movie props. There where innocent people in that station including a child. Yes I know was thrown it was visible in the video or did you watch it? They also found a second knife at the scene. As I said vigilantly justice. No investigation needed and looks like you didn't bother to watch the video. And I will make this statement. There was NO NEED TO PROTEST AT ALL! There hasn't even been an investigation yet! The Officer may have made an error but if so it was a very understandable human error and not a cold blooded killing! I suggest you watch the video and see how fast this all happened. I doubt that it will change your mind since you seem to have feel no need to question the mob.
Interesting but annoying. From the news stories I read the person shot was said to be armed with a knife and one of the officers involved was treated for cuts. Is that not true? What is your source? In fact there is a video of him throwing a knife at the officer. A drunk throwing bottles and knives at officers in a train station where their are other passengers seems like a real threat to me. The bottle stuck to officer and the Officer fired on the man after he threw the bottle and was coming at him with a knife. http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/bay-area/2011/07/bart-shooting-video-shows-thrown-knife-not-threat-man-posed Frankly that data points to the officers reaction being reasonable IMHO. It isn't proof but there does seem to be some data that points in that direction and very little that points to this being an unjustified shooting. Second where does someones rights end? Why do the protesters rights to free speech matter more than peoples rights to use public transit? The protesters set out to shut down the stations. They have every right to protest outside the stations but once they interfere with people using the station they are violating others rights.
I do not see what there is to protest about. It almost seems like vigilantly justice towards the police.
I was thinking the same thing. The orignal white book was only 228 pages. C++ made C into a huge language that makes Ada look compact! Some of the additions are handy but so much of it seems to be just tricks. Smaller and simpler seem to be a better way to go.
One does wonder. Samsung is a huge cell phone makers and their Galaxy line is a huge seller. They brought into the WP7 and it flopped. Don't say wait for Mango because I heard, wait for WM6.5 and I heard wait for WP7! HTC was a HUGE WM developer. The best Windows Mobile phone made was the HD2 which really didn't do all that well until HTC put Android on the same basic phone and called it the Supersonic/Evo. So these two pioneers are playing second fiddle to Nokia? So lets see Microsoft has failed to produce a competitive phone OS for four years now and they have adopted a favored OEM in Nokia. vs Google has given them a smash hit OS but has a phone making arm that they say will be independent. A bird in the hand. I am sure that HTC and Samsung will still make WP7 phones just as they do now. They will still make as many Android phones as they can sell as well. The only question is which one will sell more?
You are in love with the past. Our forefathers where not anymore noble than we are today. The vast majority where interested in just getting rich. But just as today there where a few that cared more and had the resources to do it. I now that it isn't a popular thing to say but Bill Gates has grown into one of those people. He has all he needs and now is trying to give back. Odds are that 100 years from now people will remember Bill Gates as a great man but will only remember Microsoft as the company that made Bill Gates rich.
This is you typical self loathing dribble that has been stock and trade of the self absorbe elitists since the start of time. I am sure that Zug made a very in depth study on how cave man culture had declined since they started farming instead of going out on mammoth hunts. There is nothing wrong with studying the past the problem is when we worship it. You want some big ideas http://www.space.com/11200-nasa-100-year-starship-interstellar-travel.html. Not to mention that we have learned so much about what can work and not. We are sending space probes to Pluto. We have been sending rovers to mars. I wonder when we will send rovers to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, We are search for and have found planets around other stars. It is easy to dismiss what happens in ones own life time. I had a friend who's grandmother was born in 1900. She went from no airplanes to men landing on the moon and to see the shuttle. When I was young I thought that I would never seen such wonders. In the year that I have been born men had even landed a probe on the moon. Now we have sent probes to most of the solar system. When I was in college people lost touch with old friends because they went to other colleges. You couldn't just call them and most of them didn't have email. Those that did often where on a fido net BBS and it could take a day or so for email to get there. Compuserve was expensive and by the hour. Today we can send messages to friends and make voice calls for next to nothing. When I was a kid cars used leaded gas and no emissions controls to speak of, rivers in the US caught on fire, lake Erie was considered dead, and everyone was sure that the Bison would be extinct in just a few years. Lake Erie isn't pristine and still has problems but it isn't dead and is better than it was. We still have Bison, our cars pollute less, and our water is cleaner. Thing have actually gotten better. Yes we live in an age of wonders and big dreams the only problem we have today is the same one we had yesterday and that seems to be that knowledge seems to come easier than wisdom. Thing is that those before tended to have less of both.
This doesn't make me happy or sad. I do not work for Motorola or Google and I don't own a Motorola phone that is just my view of what happened. 1. Well Google has said this will help defend them and Android makers from lawsuits. Motorola pretty much invented mobil electronics. 2. Apple and Microsoft have been going after the "weak sisters" and not confronting Google head on. Now they really have no choice. 3. Google has stated that it isn't a fan of skins. I doubt that they will keep Motoblur since it really isn't very popular. 4. The Nexus line of Google phones all had stock android. Every carrier carries Motorola in the US now so it makes sense for Google to supply them with a selection of stock Android phones. 5. Was a guess but everyone was asking why that phone didn't have Blur on it. 6. Google needs a good tablet strategy and depending on tablet makers has failed. If you do not think they will go after the iPad?
Is this good or bad all depends on who you are. For Apple it probably doesn't matter a whole lot. They will keep making money hand over fist for a long time. For Microsoft this is terrible news. Their mobile program is a disaster. They make more money off of Android than they do WP7 and if Google can defend the makers that will come to a screeching halt. Mango is probably going to be as good as the current Android and iPhone offerings more or less but with fewer apps and a small installed base it just isn't good enough. WP7 needed to be a homerun and it wasn't. Mango looks to be a single at best and in today's market that isn't good enough.
Frankly Microsoft should go into services for Mobile. I have heard that Mobile Bing and Zunepass are both great. Put mobile office in the mix and Microsoft has some very compelling products. They are not enough IMHO to get people to jump to WP7 but If they where available for Android I would probably try them. Nokia should have kept MeeGo the N9 looks great but Nokia is just going to be another WP7 maker and will not get a cut of the market or have control over the OS. That will kill them in the long run if WP7 isn't a smash hit which so far it is not.
Actually you left out Palm. My guess is that they and a metric ton of patents on smartphones. Notice that Apple never went after them. In fact I wound if they hold a patient on syncing a mobile device with a PC.
Here is my guess as to what it means. 1. Google has cellphone patents. 2. Apple and Microsoft can no longer avoid directly going after Google. 3. Blur is dead. 4. Every carrier now will have a selection of stock android cell phones that get regular updates. 5. Now i know why the Motorola Triumph has stock Android. 6. Tablets. Google can go after the iPad. The locking of the bootloader is because of the extorsion that is tethering in the US. For the companies that have killed their unlimited plans "Everyone but Sprint" this is the biggest scam I have ever seen. If I am buying x Gigabytes of bandwidth why do they care how I use it. The number one reason that people root is not custom roms, it is tethering. You can bet that it is the carriers that want it. I use an HTC phone and I like Sense a lot. I think it is a good interface but I love the idea of having a choice.
Let me make a guess. You don't program do you? 1. AAA games already cost a lot to make. You want to spend $200 for a game? 2. Hardware is changing fast. If you write for the hardware what hardware do you write for? Which card? All of them? What about the cards that come out while you are spending the three years developing the game?
Now you may be confusing drivers with game engines but even then you would be wrong just not insane.
The go failed because it did less and cost more. Oh yes the retailers will not like it but I doubt that like the iPod touch but they carry it. People don't want to carry a bunch of carts, manufactures don't want to make expensive carts. Downloads are cheap for the manufacture and make really easy for the consumer. I said that legacy would prevent Nintendo from innovating the product into what people want. They may end up as the next Sega.
Dot net looks to be dying on the vine and you are kind of stuck in the Windows/WinPhone world which is not growing. Mobile is the growing market and there you have C++, Objective C, and Java. Objective C isn't bad and the IOS SDK is very nice. I guess if you want to be using the new Cobol then C# is the way to go but I believe it has a does not have much of a future.
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And that is called inovation.
The orignal PC "Standard" sucked.
You had to asigne memory spaces, interrupts, and IO ports when you added cards. Not every card worked with every PC.
PC compatibility was hit or miss. The magazines would use Lotus 123 and Microsoft Flight Simulator as the benchmarks. If both of those ran then it was PC compatible. Of course if you bought anything but a real IBM PC or at you could still find software that didn't run.
Then you had the x86 CPU which also was terrible. Segmented memory was with us until the 386 and even that was register starved. The 68k line of CPUs was much better.
Then you had the companies that dared to make better computers than IBMs. Both the Zenith Z-100 and the Tandy 2000 where much better computers than the standard PCs of the time. They used the x86 but with better graphics. Thing is that they where not PC compatible.
And then you had to hope that your software would support your printer and video card if you got a better card then an MDA or CGA card. Hercules was a pretty safe bet.
We where stuck in PC hell for years even when better solutions where available like the Mac, Atari ST, and Amiga. The reason was simple. You developed software for seats and more people that bought software bought PCs.
We can use the same solution that finally made PC less of a steaming pile of dung. It is called an OS. You make a board and put an OS on it.
To make Linux better at embedded I would suggest that standards need to be developed for GPIO, SPI, I2C "sort of have that now", and CAN. That would solve so many issues on the applications side it wouldn't be funny.
For goodness sakes do not trap us into the Lowest Common Denominator hell that was the PC for way too long! USE THE OS!
It was all find until they networked them. Once they got the internet net things got worse.
Now every computer is more or less connected to every other computer. So we now have one huge network of computers running an OS that was never really meant to be secure being run by a huge number of amateur sys admins.
If we had mostly VAXen running VMS and IBM 390s on the internet we would all be complaining about all the zombie attacks coming from people running Unix boxes.
Your right. Way to many people wrote VB apps and they only run on Windows. Now they are all using C# Microsoft has done a good job locking people in.
There is a solution that will work for workstations. Just use Citrix or Windows terminal server for those apps. Combine that with VMs and you have a system where you can actually migrate people to a new machine with ease. Of course not every business will have the IT talent to pull it off but it is very workable.
Using that you could keep all mission critical apps locked down tight as a drum on WIndows and then allow end users to use Linux, OS/X, or Windows on the workstations. You will have issues with mobile workers unless they can get really good internet every where they go and run a VPN back to your data center.
Now what I wonder about is why don't people run workstations in a VM? Set up the machine with say Linux and run WIndows on a VM on Linux. You could image the VM every night on the network and have an easy way to roll back any virus or malware. And in some type of network monitoring software on the Linux side to look for malware like behaviors and you should have a pretty secure system and easy to repair system. It would also make it really easy to give someone a new machine as well since you just copy the VM over.
The FBI isn't that dumb. Sorry folks nothing to see here it never happened.
Yep I am using the EVO 4G and it works great. Love the phone. Before that I used the Samsung moment. My wife has a WebOS phone and I do IOS development.
Hey there are websites dedicated to fans of the AMC Pacer. One happy user does not success make.
And as the the design? Really I have used a WP7 and I found the interface rather bland but the phone was snappy.
Things like the turn by turn navigation I use all the time it works well and is free.
I use Google tracks for my hikes.
I use the Google Voice intergeneration as well. Love the transcribed voice mails.
The intergeneration for Google+ is very good as are the Facebook and The twitter app I use.
Oh and I can multitask any apps I want and do tethering.
I have heard that the DroidX had lots of issues but then the Samsung WP7 phones where selfbricking during one of the software update pushes. The DroidX used the Blur skin which I hear is very bad. Stock Android and HTC sense are both much better IMHO.
"Aw, maybe you have to live in the Bay Area. I see guys who look like that every day. He looks pretty desperate, if you ask me. Our streets are crawling with crazy drunks, addicts, homeless, and the mentally ill."
And you do not find an armed crazy drunk, addict, or mentally ill person worthy of concern? I would say that you have an under developed sense of self preservation.
And where was the Keystone cops comment?
Wow what about the other people at the station? Really? That isn't summary execution. This guy threw a bottle at an officer and then pulled a knife! Taser maybe but did the office that shot have a taser or was the one hit by the bottle have the tazer. Did you even watch the video I linked too?
A guy throwing a bottle at you and then pulling a knife in a station with innocent people is far from saying Boo.
I am expressing my desire to go someplace. They are restricting my freedom of expresion.
You mean the crazy guy with a knife?
Yes he looks scary as hell to be honest. Also do you have any sources for your keystone cops story?
I suggest you look at the video again.
Yes I did see the head line. It said that it didn't show the threat that the man was.
No hospital report but this news story. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/04/bart-shooting-san-francisco-transit-officers_n_889934.html
First line of defense?
The officer was already hit by a bottle? You don't think that being hit by a bottle isn't life threatening? Ask someone to shit you with a bottle sometime. These are not movie props.
There where innocent people in that station including a child. Yes I know was thrown it was visible in the video or did you watch it? They also found a second knife at the scene. As I said vigilantly justice. No investigation needed and looks like you didn't bother to watch the video.
And I will make this statement. There was NO NEED TO PROTEST AT ALL! There hasn't even been an investigation yet! The Officer may have made an error but if so it was a very understandable human error and not a cold blooded killing! I suggest you watch the video and see how fast this all happened. I doubt that it will change your mind since you seem to have feel no need to question the mob.
Interesting but annoying.
From the news stories I read the person shot was said to be armed with a knife and one of the officers involved was treated for cuts. Is that not true? What is your source? In fact there is a video of him throwing a knife at the officer. A drunk throwing bottles and knives at officers in a train station where their are other passengers seems like a real threat to me. The bottle stuck to officer and the Officer fired on the man after he threw the bottle and was coming at him with a knife.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/bay-area/2011/07/bart-shooting-video-shows-thrown-knife-not-threat-man-posed
Frankly that data points to the officers reaction being reasonable IMHO. It isn't proof but there does seem to be some data that points in that direction and very little that points to this being an unjustified shooting.
Second where does someones rights end? Why do the protesters rights to free speech matter more than peoples rights to use public transit? The protesters set out to shut down the stations. They have every right to protest outside the stations but once they interfere with people using the station they are violating others rights.
I do not see what there is to protest about. It almost seems like vigilantly justice towards the police.
I was thinking the same thing. The orignal white book was only 228 pages. C++ made C into a huge language that makes Ada look compact! Some of the additions are handy but so much of it seems to be just tricks.
Smaller and simpler seem to be a better way to go.
One does wonder. Samsung is a huge cell phone makers and their Galaxy line is a huge seller. They brought into the WP7 and it flopped. Don't say wait for Mango because I heard, wait for WM6.5 and I heard wait for WP7! HTC was a HUGE WM developer. The best Windows Mobile phone made was the HD2 which really didn't do all that well until HTC put Android on the same basic phone and called it the Supersonic/Evo.
So these two pioneers are playing second fiddle to Nokia?
So lets see Microsoft has failed to produce a competitive phone OS for four years now and they have adopted a favored OEM in Nokia.
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Google has given them a smash hit OS but has a phone making arm that they say will be independent.
A bird in the hand. I am sure that HTC and Samsung will still make WP7 phones just as they do now. They will still make as many Android phones as they can sell as well. The only question is which one will sell more?
You are in love with the past. Our forefathers where not anymore noble than we are today. The vast majority where interested in just getting rich. But just as today there where a few that cared more and had the resources to do it. I now that it isn't a popular thing to say but Bill Gates has grown into one of those people. He has all he needs and now is trying to give back. Odds are that 100 years from now people will remember Bill Gates as a great man but will only remember Microsoft as the company that made Bill Gates rich.
This is you typical self loathing dribble that has been stock and trade of the self absorbe elitists since the start of time. I am sure that Zug made a very in depth study on how cave man culture had declined since they started farming instead of going out on mammoth hunts. There is nothing wrong with studying the past the problem is when we worship it.
You want some big ideas http://www.space.com/11200-nasa-100-year-starship-interstellar-travel.html.
Not to mention that we have learned so much about what can work and not. We are sending space probes to Pluto. We have been sending rovers to mars. I wonder when we will send rovers to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, We are search for and have found planets around other stars. It is easy to dismiss what happens in ones own life time. I had a friend who's grandmother was born in 1900. She went from no airplanes to men landing on the moon and to see the shuttle. When I was young I thought that I would never seen such wonders. In the year that I have been born men had even landed a probe on the moon. Now we have sent probes to most of the solar system. When I was in college people lost touch with old friends because they went to other colleges. You couldn't just call them and most of them didn't have email. Those that did often where on a fido net BBS and it could take a day or so for email to get there. Compuserve was expensive and by the hour. Today we can send messages to friends and make voice calls for next to nothing. When I was a kid cars used leaded gas and no emissions controls to speak of, rivers in the US caught on fire, lake Erie was considered dead, and everyone was sure that the Bison would be extinct in just a few years. Lake Erie isn't pristine and still has problems but it isn't dead and is better than it was. We still have Bison, our cars pollute less, and our water is cleaner. Thing have actually gotten better. Yes we live in an age of wonders and big dreams the only problem we have today is the same one we had yesterday and that seems to be that knowledge seems to come easier than wisdom. Thing is that those before tended to have less of both.
This doesn't make me happy or sad. I do not work for Motorola or Google and I don't own a Motorola phone that is just my view of what happened.
1. Well Google has said this will help defend them and Android makers from lawsuits. Motorola pretty much invented mobil electronics.
2. Apple and Microsoft have been going after the "weak sisters" and not confronting Google head on. Now they really have no choice.
3. Google has stated that it isn't a fan of skins. I doubt that they will keep Motoblur since it really isn't very popular.
4. The Nexus line of Google phones all had stock android. Every carrier carries Motorola in the US now so it makes sense for Google to supply them with a selection of stock Android phones.
5. Was a guess but everyone was asking why that phone didn't have Blur on it.
6. Google needs a good tablet strategy and depending on tablet makers has failed. If you do not think they will go after the iPad?
Is this good or bad all depends on who you are. For Apple it probably doesn't matter a whole lot. They will keep making money hand over fist for a long time. For Microsoft this is terrible news. Their mobile program is a disaster. They make more money off of Android than they do WP7 and if Google can defend the makers that will come to a screeching halt. Mango is probably going to be as good as the current Android and iPhone offerings more or less but with fewer apps and a small installed base it just isn't good enough. WP7 needed to be a homerun and it wasn't. Mango looks to be a single at best and in today's market that isn't good enough.
Frankly Microsoft should go into services for Mobile. I have heard that Mobile Bing and Zunepass are both great. Put mobile office in the mix and Microsoft has some very compelling products. They are not enough IMHO to get people to jump to WP7 but If they where available for Android I would probably try them. Nokia should have kept MeeGo the N9 looks great but Nokia is just going to be another WP7 maker and will not get a cut of the market or have control over the OS. That will kill them in the long run if WP7 isn't a smash hit which so far it is not.
Also Motorola has been making "rugged" phones for years for the IDEN market.
Actually you left out Palm. My guess is that they and a metric ton of patents on smartphones. Notice that Apple never went after them. In fact I wound if they hold a patient on syncing a mobile device with a PC.
Here is my guess as to what it means.
1. Google has cellphone patents.
2. Apple and Microsoft can no longer avoid directly going after Google.
3. Blur is dead.
4. Every carrier now will have a selection of stock android cell phones that get regular updates.
5. Now i know why the Motorola Triumph has stock Android.
6. Tablets. Google can go after the iPad.
The locking of the bootloader is because of the extorsion that is tethering in the US. For the companies that have killed their unlimited plans "Everyone but Sprint" this is the biggest scam I have ever seen. If I am buying x Gigabytes of bandwidth why do they care how I use it. The number one reason that people root is not custom roms, it is tethering. You can bet that it is the carriers that want it.
I use an HTC phone and I like Sense a lot. I think it is a good interface but I love the idea of having a choice.
CUDA and OpenCL are driver dependent. That is still not writing to the hardware.
Let me make a guess. You don't program do you?
1. AAA games already cost a lot to make. You want to spend $200 for a game?
2. Hardware is changing fast. If you write for the hardware what hardware do you write for? Which card? All of them? What about the cards that come out while you are spending the three years developing the game?
Now you may be confusing drivers with game engines but even then you would be wrong just not insane.
The go failed because it did less and cost more.
Oh yes the retailers will not like it but I doubt that like the iPod touch but they carry it. People don't want to carry a bunch of carts, manufactures don't want to make expensive carts. Downloads are cheap for the manufacture and make really easy for the consumer.
I said that legacy would prevent Nintendo from innovating the product into what people want. They may end up as the next Sega.
Dot net looks to be dying on the vine and you are kind of stuck in the Windows/WinPhone world which is not growing. Mobile is the growing market and there you have C++, Objective C, and Java. Objective C isn't bad and the IOS SDK is very nice. I guess if you want to be using the new Cobol then C# is the way to go but I believe it has a does not have much of a future.
How about this complaint.
It is fiction. It violates the laws of physics. It is snake oil.