To me, it only makes sense if the screens get better than most tablets at the same price range. I do not think it is a good experience to go with a non 1080p screen these days. However, with so little profits to be made, I assume it is going to be another race to the bottom, again.
It is hard to sell a netbook these days. After all, many people just want to browse the e-mail. They want something that is easy to pick up and use, without maintenance. The common people also want to have a device that can do everything a mobile phone can do in a convenient manner (example: take a photo, modify it with snapchat, publish into Facebook).
In my opinion, netbooks went into oblivion when Windows became the OS of choice by the manufacturers. There are other factors to take into as well, like very slow HDDs that hold more data (nice for marketing purposes) rather than SDDs, and poor TN-film screens.
Hey, I listen to public broadcast radio here. It is the only place where you get one or two hour slots with dedicated programming. You have one slot dedicated to 1930s records, another one for world music, another one for heavy rock, another one for present day pop, another one that is a mix of recent releases with old releases, another one for jazz, another one for garage and surf rock, another one for avantgard music - whatever that is. You even have electronica and rap late night. And the best of it is that it is advert free because everyone in the country is paying for it through taxation - except maybe the ones that do not pay any taxes at all. You just tune in whenever the music suits to your ears, or like me, download the podcasts. The public broadcast radio is not afraid of doing something special on specific days, like remembering David Bowie through all of his records and covers made by other people the whole day after he died.
Commercial radio is just like music for the masses, with the same top chart songs every two hours. Even the stations that broadcast years old music (mostly 90s and 00s) end up repeating the same songs as if the artist only have one or two hits. The radio DJs sound like Homer J. Simpson, the cuisine critic. Everything is a delight, everything is great. Sorry man - that is not my cup of tea. I like diversity, I like discovery (and also Daft Punk's record too).
I went to ISSCC once. The 20 minute talks only cover a very tiny portion of the whole design, and details are usually missing. However, they can put you on track on what are the usual approach for a given problem, if not showing you something different. The forums - series of longer informative tasks - were far way more interesting. Networking is something that people do in these conferences, too. Including people in your own large company.
As if any millenial knows what a letter is! Most of the letters that end up in my letterbox are (a) from the bank or any utility company or (b) unwanted and uncalled for.
The thing is, most people ask for convenience. A PC is a very sofisticated tool, and nobody is RTFM anymore. Desktops and laptops are prone to get infected with viruses, and OS and software updates are seen as cumbersome to most people. The fact that just installing Adobe Flash might lead to ransomware being installed because of one shitty advertisiment network tells you a lot. The public thinks that tablets and mobiles are less prone to viruses, and for some walled garden it might be more true than on the other.
And by the way, the article is wrong. The first PCs were not easy to code for. Sure, MSDOS 3.3 did include gwbasic, but for anything complex you had to license compiler software from somebody else. TurboC and the like were not free, you know. Or you could always code in assembly.
'Member GWbasic? 'Member shareware? 'Member BBS? I 'member. (South Park reference)
How about: wtf, a mobile only application? I really like the idea of typing text messages in my browser of choice. Anyhow, it looks like Hangouts will still be there, it is just the APIs that third parties use that will be gone.
Well, it was not a fan favourite iPhone but a mediocre HTC. I do not believe the aftermarket for HTC spare parts is too lucrative, even if the police told so.
I find it odd that these guys let Google put its brand on the TVs. After all, TV manufacturers gave us Viera Link, Bravia Sync, Anynet+, etc. instead of HDMI CEC.
Netflix is 12x as popular as other competing solutions
Microsoft Windows is 2x as popular as other competing solutions (not here obviously)
Microsoft Office is 10x (?) as popular as other competing solutions (not here obviously)
Adobe Photoshop is 100x (?) as popular as other competing solutions
Cadence Virtuoso is 3x as popular as other competing solutions
Facebook is too popular compared to other competing solutions
Whatsapp is 40x as popular as other competing solutions, depending on country
Tinder is 5x as popular as other competing solutions
World of Warcraft is 4x as popular as other competing solutions (popularity is down)
We, as average users, tend to follow what is trendy. It just happens that it looks like most people are watching TV series right now, and Netflix is the largest legal avenue. And you know, you see the Netflix logo in many appliances these days.
RTOS does not mean fast in my book. What I understand by RTOS is that any given task happens in its allocated time slot - not faster and not slower. It can even take days and still be RTOS. From a consumer point of view, the only place where I would like something like that to happen is in my smartphone with regards phone calls.
Does this article - you know the thing you shall never read - consider Netflix and other stream-only subscriptions? My take is that people want to watch new series at their own pace, maybe recall what the 90s were with Friends. What nobody wants is to sit through comercials. After all, are not subscribers paying for the content already?
As other people will tell, default TV settings might be too aggressive regarding reducing power usage. It is similar to WD green HDDs that have a 7 second timer to park their heads and turn itself off. That reduces the average power usage if you use the drive as a secondary unit in Windows. It also makes it slower, and that is OK for storage of files. However, if you happen to insert this kind of drive into a Synology Diskstation, another 15 second timer will wake up the drive, thus stressing the HDD so much that it breaks after a few months. (Note that a workaround is in place these days: Diskstation will extend the 7 second timer by issuing a vendor specific command through the HDD interface)
Unless they are talking about 2D rendering or 4K video, I doubt a console that is basically an x86 computer can do much better than computers twice or thrice the price of a console.
From the top of my head, excluding videogames: Email reader, messaging app, web browser, calendar, notes taking, video stream player (YouTube, Netflix), RSS aggregator, camera and photo viewer. Most times I use the default app from my phone. I would be very very worried if I had to use an e-mail client from an unknown third party, someone that shares usage data with third parties.
Let me play the devil's advocate. It is not just the jack, you also need to have an audio DAC on board. There are various circuits needed around the DAC: protection, DC to DC converters, etc. These ones take space too. And none of these analogue circuits have had a noticeable reduction in size for the last few years. Plus, the 3.5mm jack is not standard and it seems hard to waterproof. As my own personal experience, I had an old Nexus S mobile phone that had its receptacle disconnected from the PCB, as I probably had been putting this one under too much pressure. That is another point of risk of failure.
I am not convinced of wireless for everything. Batteries are expensive, bulky and a fire hazard (ask any Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owner). They also reinforce the market position of the rare earth materials hoarders like PRC.
I always thought the real reason for Adobe to switch to a subscription model is to make regular income a reality. As you told us, the upgrade cycle happened every 18 months. Companies then decided if it was worth updating or not, as not every version has a killer feature. So, many people decided to upgrade every 36 months. Income spikes happening every 18 and 36 months look fairly bad to investors.
Non professional people like me do not like subscription software - paying for things that I am not using is something I try to avoid.
I still remember that earlier versions of Chrome had this feature (some may call it a bug) that modified a tic count in Windows such that Chrome became faster and more responsive by trading off consumed power. Whether the application was being shown or not was not part of the equation. Chrome devs are having a change of heart now that Microsoft, none the less, has beaten them in at least one metric.
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To me, it only makes sense if the screens get better than most tablets at the same price range. I do not think it is a good experience to go with a non 1080p screen these days. However, with so little profits to be made, I assume it is going to be another race to the bottom, again.
In my opinion, netbooks went into oblivion when Windows became the OS of choice by the manufacturers. There are other factors to take into as well, like very slow HDDs that hold more data (nice for marketing purposes) rather than SDDs, and poor TN-film screens.
Does Apple manufacture computers? It looks like they are focusing on tablets and phones.
Not if Johnny Cash pays you a visit.
Commercial radio is just like music for the masses, with the same top chart songs every two hours. Even the stations that broadcast years old music (mostly 90s and 00s) end up repeating the same songs as if the artist only have one or two hits. The radio DJs sound like Homer J. Simpson, the cuisine critic. Everything is a delight, everything is great. Sorry man - that is not my cup of tea. I like diversity, I like discovery (and also Daft Punk's record too).
It is a pity HTC is late - there are already various players at the high end market too. If you are neither number one or two, then you should bail.
We are not living in the 60s anymore.
I went to ISSCC once. The 20 minute talks only cover a very tiny portion of the whole design, and details are usually missing. However, they can put you on track on what are the usual approach for a given problem, if not showing you something different. The forums - series of longer informative tasks - were far way more interesting. Networking is something that people do in these conferences, too. Including people in your own large company.
I wonder how RHEL and my local IT group can keep the workstation I use in working condition without asking to restart the workstation at all...
As if any millenial knows what a letter is! Most of the letters that end up in my letterbox are (a) from the bank or any utility company or (b) unwanted and uncalled for.
And by the way, the article is wrong. The first PCs were not easy to code for. Sure, MSDOS 3.3 did include gwbasic, but for anything complex you had to license compiler software from somebody else. TurboC and the like were not free, you know. Or you could always code in assembly.
'Member GWbasic? 'Member shareware? 'Member BBS? I 'member. (South Park reference)
How about: wtf, a mobile only application? I really like the idea of typing text messages in my browser of choice. Anyhow, it looks like Hangouts will still be there, it is just the APIs that third parties use that will be gone.
Well, it was not a fan favourite iPhone but a mediocre HTC. I do not believe the aftermarket for HTC spare parts is too lucrative, even if the police told so.
I find it odd that these guys let Google put its brand on the TVs. After all, TV manufacturers gave us Viera Link, Bravia Sync, Anynet+, etc. instead of HDMI CEC.
Netflix is 12x as popular as other competing solutions
Microsoft Windows is 2x as popular as other competing solutions (not here obviously)
Microsoft Office is 10x (?) as popular as other competing solutions (not here obviously)
Adobe Photoshop is 100x (?) as popular as other competing solutions
Cadence Virtuoso is 3x as popular as other competing solutions
Facebook is too popular compared to other competing solutions
Whatsapp is 40x as popular as other competing solutions, depending on country
Tinder is 5x as popular as other competing solutions
World of Warcraft is 4x as popular as other competing solutions (popularity is down)
We, as average users, tend to follow what is trendy. It just happens that it looks like most people are watching TV series right now, and Netflix is the largest legal avenue. And you know, you see the Netflix logo in many appliances these days.
And now it is rigging elections like Florida in the year 2000.
RTOS does not mean fast in my book. What I understand by RTOS is that any given task happens in its allocated time slot - not faster and not slower. It can even take days and still be RTOS. From a consumer point of view, the only place where I would like something like that to happen is in my smartphone with regards phone calls.
Does this article - you know the thing you shall never read - consider Netflix and other stream-only subscriptions? My take is that people want to watch new series at their own pace, maybe recall what the 90s were with Friends. What nobody wants is to sit through comercials. After all, are not subscribers paying for the content already?
As other people will tell, default TV settings might be too aggressive regarding reducing power usage. It is similar to WD green HDDs that have a 7 second timer to park their heads and turn itself off. That reduces the average power usage if you use the drive as a secondary unit in Windows. It also makes it slower, and that is OK for storage of files. However, if you happen to insert this kind of drive into a Synology Diskstation, another 15 second timer will wake up the drive, thus stressing the HDD so much that it breaks after a few months. (Note that a workaround is in place these days: Diskstation will extend the 7 second timer by issuing a vendor specific command through the HDD interface)
Why don't they focus on 1080p@60fps?
From the top of my head, excluding videogames: Email reader, messaging app, web browser, calendar, notes taking, video stream player (YouTube, Netflix), RSS aggregator, camera and photo viewer. Most times I use the default app from my phone. I would be very very worried if I had to use an e-mail client from an unknown third party, someone that shares usage data with third parties.
They got what they wanted, so no point in replacing it unless it stops and cannot be repaired anymore.
I am not convinced of wireless for everything. Batteries are expensive, bulky and a fire hazard (ask any Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owner). They also reinforce the market position of the rare earth materials hoarders like PRC.
Non professional people like me do not like subscription software - paying for things that I am not using is something I try to avoid.
I still remember that earlier versions of Chrome had this feature (some may call it a bug) that modified a tic count in Windows such that Chrome became faster and more responsive by trading off consumed power. Whether the application was being shown or not was not part of the equation. Chrome devs are having a change of heart now that Microsoft, none the less, has beaten them in at least one metric.