Uh, that's not Agile. Nearly everything you mentioned there is so anti-agile I can't even start breaking it down. Slapping an Agile tag on it doesn't make it agile. No mater what most companies think.
I have seen frequently referenced that the switch to agile takes up to 18 months to produce results. And even then there have been studies that find no significant enhancement in productivity.
As far as I can see there is no actual benefit in productivity at all moving to agile. It just gives greater clarity to the current state of development and should produce software with lower levels of faults through automated testing and continuous integration.
The transmission is no more complicated than the Prius.
And the car is a totally serial hybrid 99% of the time. If you read the information the car will only use the gas engine for some driving force at over 70mph when the battery is depleted. So under special circumstances it switches to being a parallel hybrid.
As the GM Chief engineer says, the Volt can accelerate to top speed using only electric power. The Prius cannot.
Since 99% of the commentators on the internet are complete bozos it doesn't make any difference how many times you mention QT they all see Symbian == bad. But of course they only read that once three years ago and are completely incapable of making any change in opinion. So I guess then it is left to the rest of us to make a bundle writing apps for the 40% plus (and growing) share of the smartphone market.
Seems that the definition in Wikipedia is covered pretty damn well by Symbian. There is not one single thing that is possible in Android or iOS that isn't possible in Symbian. In fact it is the other way around. Symbian offers services that neither of the others have.
And I think that LightSail was started because NASA gave up on the NanoSail-D project. So what gives? Did NASA change their mind about this and what about the LightSail project?
That 3 million included everyone who had pre-ordered. So actually the per-day figures are much lower if you take into account the time you were able to pre-order.
Apple has a nice trick of calculating all the pre-order sales into the first weekend which makes it look like there was 1 million people passing through their stores in the opening weekend. Of course this is totally bogus.
Why would anyone buy an N8 - obviously going to be another orphan.
How long are you going to keep the thing anyway?! The average lifespan of a phone is less than 18 months and in many countries is approaching 12 months.
So, what difference does it make if it is an orphan? Does everyone whinge when Apple produces a new model every 12 months? Does the new model make your current one immediately stop working?
Unless there is a damn good looking Meego model out before the end of the year I will probably get the N8 knowing full well that Symbian^4 models will be coming 2011. And the reason for that is that it has the best camera ever installed in a mobile device.
You were describing the situation one year ago. That is not the same as the situation now. So it was FUD.
The fact that the framework isn't the same as Symbian C++ has nothing to do with it. You have to start from scratch with the iPhone since it only supports Objective C. At least with Qt and OpenC/C++ libraries you can port nearly all Linux software.
QT works on all Symbian/S60 3.1, 3.2 and 5.0 devices. I think you will find that covers quite a huge number of devices including everything from the N95 onwards. So that is literally anything later than 2007, so actually rather more devices that there are existing iPhones.
So, is this like the calculation where Apple says that there are X million iPhones in existence and quietly ignores the fact that even AT&T says that only 75% of all activated iPhones are still active?
In any case the number of Symbian devices shipped is an several times greater than iPhone and Android every month. So even counting only the latest devices they are still far ahead.
* A beautiful middle ground is Python for S60. I tried to install it recently on my Nokia N73. A huge bag of fail.
So, let me get this right. You are complaining that you had problems developing for a phone that is nearly 1 year OLDER than the original iPhone?!?! The same iPhone that Apple dropped support for. And now you expect that Nokia still supports that 4 year old model?!
And you can't get QT Creator to run?!
From the sounds of it I wouldn't want you anywhere near a phone SDK.
But by the looks of things Apple has again, taken an idea that has been around for some time and made it easy enough to use that the level of convenience is nearly the same as a phone call. By the looks of things it's just another option when you are calling someone (and on WiFi), a video option appears and you are video conferencing. There's no setup by the end user, and they can video chat on the device they always have with them.
That leaves the other factors remaining - will people want to receive video calls at random times? When it's as easy to video as call, will people do so? That remains to be seen. But the first, necessary, step to adoption was to make it no harder than a phone call.
Uh, no Apple haven't improved anything except maybe the picture quality.
3G video calls require absolutely no configuration and are just as easy to make as a voice call. The only requirement is that your service provider support them, but since they are a standard part of the 3GPP spec since 1999 pretty much everyone does and that includes international calls. Video calls were intended to be the main hook for getting people to move to 3G in Europe and they are basically a solution in search of a problem.
People just don't use it, even when it is the same price as voice calls. For example here in Finland most plans include free video calling minutes just like voice minutes. I would guess that 99% of them go unused. I get my bill paid by work and I have made one single video call. On the other hand I use Skype video quite often.
There is a standard for making video calls. It is part of the 3GPP specifications and has been since before 2000. And it is supported by every 3G phone with a front camera. Every one, that is, except for the iPhone.
Nearly everyone in Europe and Asia has had video conferencing on their phones for over 5 years and funnily enough it is just as easy as making a call, because it is just making a call!
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Iterations should be on the order of a week or two, not 3 months.
Uh, that's not Agile. Nearly everything you mentioned there is so anti-agile I can't even start breaking it down. Slapping an Agile tag on it doesn't make it agile. No mater what most companies think.
I have seen frequently referenced that the switch to agile takes up to 18 months to produce results. And even then there have been studies that find no significant enhancement in productivity.
As far as I can see there is no actual benefit in productivity at all moving to agile. It just gives greater clarity to the current state of development and should produce software with lower levels of faults through automated testing and continuous integration.
What the hell. I'm in Finland and I don't have any holiday?!
You mean to tell me that we all came to work for no reason?
It is basically the same planetary transmission as used in the Prius, but reversed in a quite novel way.
So you get the advantage of a serial hybrid in most cases and a parallel hybrid in the edge cases.
http://scobleizer.com/2010/10/12/chevy-volts-chief-engineer-says-this-aint-no-hybrid/
I think that it actually makes the design more interesting.
The transmission is no more complicated than the Prius.
And the car is a totally serial hybrid 99% of the time. If you read the information the car will only use the gas engine for some driving force at over 70mph when the battery is depleted. So under special circumstances it switches to being a parallel hybrid.
As the GM Chief engineer says, the Volt can accelerate to top speed using only electric power. The Prius cannot.
http://scobleizer.com/2010/10/12/chevy-volts-chief-engineer-says-this-aint-no-hybrid/
Exactly. If you follow the US media and commentators it is obvious they expect that only rich white people deserve smartphones.
Since 99% of the commentators on the internet are complete bozos it doesn't make any difference how many times you mention QT they all see Symbian == bad. But of course they only read that once three years ago and are completely incapable of making any change in opinion. So I guess then it is left to the rest of us to make a bundle writing apps for the 40% plus (and growing) share of the smartphone market.
Uh, that would be Meego then?!
Define a smartphone.
Seems that the definition in Wikipedia is covered pretty damn well by Symbian. There is not one single thing that is possible in Android or iOS that isn't possible in Symbian. In fact it is the other way around. Symbian offers services that neither of the others have.
Uh, dropping like a stone?!
Maybe you should check your facts a bit.
http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/F/07/GLB_SMPHN0710.gif
This seems to be almost exactly the same as the Planetary Society's LightSail project, http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/solar_sailing/
And I think that LightSail was started because NASA gave up on the NanoSail-D project. So what gives? Did NASA change their mind about this and what about the LightSail project?
That 3 million included everyone who had pre-ordered. So actually the per-day figures are much lower if you take into account the time you were able to pre-order.
Apple has a nice trick of calculating all the pre-order sales into the first weekend which makes it look like there was 1 million people passing through their stores in the opening weekend. Of course this is totally bogus.
The sad truth is that the market is growing faster than Apple is. They are losing market share every quarter and have been since Q3 2009.
Except that Android has almost nothing to do with Linux except for using a hacked up version of the kernel.
Why would anyone buy an N8 - obviously going to be another orphan.
How long are you going to keep the thing anyway?! The average lifespan of a phone is less than 18 months and in many countries is approaching 12 months.
So, what difference does it make if it is an orphan? Does everyone whinge when Apple produces a new model every 12 months? Does the new model make your current one immediately stop working?
Unless there is a damn good looking Meego model out before the end of the year I will probably get the N8 knowing full well that Symbian^4 models will be coming 2011. And the reason for that is that it has the best camera ever installed in a mobile device.
You were describing the situation one year ago. That is not the same as the situation now. So it was FUD.
The fact that the framework isn't the same as Symbian C++ has nothing to do with it. You have to start from scratch with the iPhone since it only supports Objective C. At least with Qt and OpenC/C++ libraries you can port nearly all Linux software.
QT works on all Symbian/S60 3.1, 3.2 and 5.0 devices. I think you will find that covers quite a huge number of devices including everything from the N95 onwards. So that is literally anything later than 2007, so actually rather more devices that there are existing iPhones.
Total FUD.
Surely you mean
1 Go to http://forum.nokia.com/
2 Click "Download Nokia QT SDK"
3 Run installer
4 Regsiter as Ovi Individual Developer
5 ????
6 Profit
Come on, you can't be serious. The largest single category in the "apps" store are books! Just how many versions of "Jane Eyre" do you need?
The number of "apps" that are quoted by Apple are a complete joke.
And it seems that most of those things are solved now.
You can write normal C++ with QT using GCC and QT Creator and you can use the standard OpenC libraries and port just about any Linux/Unix app.
So, is this like the calculation where Apple says that there are X million iPhones in existence and quietly ignores the fact that even AT&T says that only 75% of all activated iPhones are still active?
In any case the number of Symbian devices shipped is an several times greater than iPhone and Android every month. So even counting only the latest devices they are still far ahead.
* A beautiful middle ground is Python for S60. I tried to install it recently on my Nokia N73. A huge bag of fail.
So, let me get this right. You are complaining that you had problems developing for a phone that is nearly 1 year OLDER than the original iPhone?!?! The same iPhone that Apple dropped support for. And now you expect that Nokia still supports that 4 year old model?!
And you can't get QT Creator to run?!
From the sounds of it I wouldn't want you anywhere near a phone SDK.
But by the looks of things Apple has again, taken an idea that has been around for some time and made it easy enough to use that the level of convenience is nearly the same as a phone call. By the looks of things it's just another option when you are calling someone (and on WiFi), a video option appears and you are video conferencing. There's no setup by the end user, and they can video chat on the device they always have with them.
That leaves the other factors remaining - will people want to receive video calls at random times? When it's as easy to video as call, will people do so? That remains to be seen. But the first, necessary, step to adoption was to make it no harder than a phone call.
Uh, no Apple haven't improved anything except maybe the picture quality.
3G video calls require absolutely no configuration and are just as easy to make as a voice call. The only requirement is that your service provider support them, but since they are a standard part of the 3GPP spec since 1999 pretty much everyone does and that includes international calls. Video calls were intended to be the main hook for getting people to move to 3G in Europe and they are basically a solution in search of a problem.
People just don't use it, even when it is the same price as voice calls. For example here in Finland most plans include free video calling minutes just like voice minutes. I would guess that 99% of them go unused. I get my bill paid by work and I have made one single video call. On the other hand I use Skype video quite often.
My, the RDF is strong here.
There is a standard for making video calls. It is part of the 3GPP specifications and has been since before 2000. And it is supported by every 3G phone with a front camera. Every one, that is, except for the iPhone.
Nearly everyone in Europe and Asia has had video conferencing on their phones for over 5 years and funnily enough it is just as easy as making a call, because it is just making a call!
RDF strikes again.
Isn't it ironic that the company responsible for opening up the smartphone market is now offering the most closed platform?
In the US. Everyone else has been using smartphones for 10 years.
And they are not even close to being the biggest game in any town. That would be Nokia.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/05/mobile-operating-systems-and-b.html