Yes, and when Elop became Nokia's CEO it was entirely for the benefit of Nokia, their staff and shareholders. The fact it just happened to benefit m$ so much once the dust had settled is just a happy co-incidence for them.
Yeah, and regarding the second one - lets hope HTC's first touchscreen phone in 2002 wasn't doing any of the "real time serial signal processing" Apple say they invented and started using with their first phone in 2007. HTC are probably ok, since as everyone knows phones couldn't deal with real time signals before Apple's miracle, and users had to be content with being told they "don't need that" until its triumphant descent from the heavens to the earth.
Motorola, the actual inventor of the cellphone (first call 1973), must have a patent or two under its belt. Why doesn't this newcoming upstart try throwing its weight around with them? Its one thing to piddle about with UI stuff, but does their arrogance stretch beyond that to the actual guts of phones and networks of the kind widely in use way back even when Steve Jobs was lying in court that he was a father? Oh, wait... they're American.
Google pull out of China because censorship is evil, so in steps m$, the outfit Google coined their motto from originally. But wait... m$ don't have a search engine of their own, so can the Google servers take the load from them merely throwing up a wrapper round theirs?
As much as I hate to admit it, and I have more reason to champion Honeycomb than most since I wrote CoolNote which is clearly designed to appeal to both phone and tablet users, the emulator sucks. I *want* to optimise my apps for Honeycomb but 5 minute load times, 30 sec response times make this impossible. Its not the PC either as the other emulators are fine.
Incidentally, I Installed Windows 7 recently and was asked to choose between Google, Yahoo and Bing as a search engine. No wonder Google wins everything when it gets listed twice like that.
Breaking patents every day without knowing it huh? I noticed you used the word NOT there. Well, try that in code and see how long m$'s protection racket goons take to come knocking.
Anyway, isn't Elops mission complete now? He's just waiting for Ballmers command to become RIM's CEO so they can all start using some crappy toy xbox-controller OS for the phones.
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Care to comment on how successful Linux has been on handsets compared to its Windows equivalent? Or how about servers. Big servers. Like, oh I dunno, maybe you've heard of Google? m$ sure have - they just shell out all their searches to it.
And please, keep up the good work of including the URL so its real easy to add to the ban list. Then, if this ever becomes a real business with useful, well-priced products it will still go bust because no-one will know about it.
When Apple was smartphone king, just a couple of short years ago, it wouldn't have dreamt of this. Now its lost the war it's just resorting to the desperate tactics m$ deploys to start with, seeing as they never had any market share to speak of and never will.
Your trick of comparing religious faith with uncertainties, by definition, from concepts at the leading edge of science is stupid. 50 years ago you would have said ""Have you ever travelled faster than sound, or seen an Angel?" 100 years ago it was "Have you ever seen a colour moving image with sound, or seen an Angel?" 150 years ago: "Have you ever travelled in a carriage without horses, or seen an Angel?"
As time goes on, science evolves, whereas religion just ties itself up in bigger knots trying to square its increasingly ludicrous circle.
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Look what they did to Nokia. m$ watchers knew a leopard can't change its spots, and it was all flowers and roses at the start...
"Its not like they can sneak something in". Hi, Nokia here - you called?
Yes, and when Elop became Nokia's CEO it was entirely for the benefit of Nokia, their staff and shareholders. The fact it just happened to benefit m$ so much once the dust had settled is just a happy co-incidence for them.
"Hi! I noticed you're trying to schedule your kernel processes using a constant time algorithm. Would you like some help with that?"
Yeah, and regarding the second one - lets hope HTC's first touchscreen phone in 2002 wasn't doing any of the "real time serial signal processing" Apple say they invented and started using with their first phone in 2007. HTC are probably ok, since as everyone knows phones couldn't deal with real time signals before Apple's miracle, and users had to be content with being told they "don't need that" until its triumphant descent from the heavens to the earth.
Motorola, the actual inventor of the cellphone (first call 1973), must have a patent or two under its belt. Why doesn't this newcoming upstart try throwing its weight around with them? Its one thing to piddle about with UI stuff, but does their arrogance stretch beyond that to the actual guts of phones and networks of the kind widely in use way back even when Steve Jobs was lying in court that he was a father? Oh, wait... they're American.
based on Linux, a set of modular OS components for different platforms that work together when need be. Since 1991.
That's how they got it running so fast, like they do with Bing
Once they start waving the patents they just inherited around its time to really panic.
Or as the Germans would say - "but it already is a sports drink" .
Every one of those has prior art - the text selection one most likely before m$ even existed.
Seems strange - the revenue from the handful of WP7 Samsung phones sold will amount to a rounding error compared to that from their Android sales.
The new m$ mobile business policy: if you can't beat 'em, extort 'em.
Google pull out of China because censorship is evil, so in steps m$, the outfit Google coined their motto from originally. But wait ... m$ don't have a search engine of their own, so can the Google servers take the load from them merely throwing up a wrapper round theirs?
As much as I hate to admit it, and I have more reason to champion Honeycomb than most since I wrote CoolNote which is clearly designed to appeal to both phone and tablet users, the emulator sucks. I *want* to optimise my apps for Honeycomb but 5 minute load times, 30 sec response times make this impossible. Its not the PC either as the other emulators are fine.
You said "not".
Let's see how robustly you defend patents once you've had a call from the m$ lawyers.
Incidentally, I Installed Windows 7 recently and was asked to choose between Google, Yahoo and Bing as a search engine. No wonder Google wins everything when it gets listed twice like that.
Breaking patents every day without knowing it huh? I noticed you used the word NOT there. Well, try that in code and see how long m$'s protection racket goons take to come knocking.
Anyway, isn't Elops mission complete now? He's just waiting for Ballmers command to become RIM's CEO so they can all start using some crappy toy xbox-controller OS for the phones.
Not me, that's for sure.
or has my blind fanboi reverence gotten me Stoned?
Care to comment on how successful Linux has been on handsets compared to its Windows equivalent? Or how about servers. Big servers. Like, oh I dunno, maybe you've heard of Google? m$ sure have - they just shell out all their searches to it.
And please, keep up the good work of including the URL so its real easy to add to the ban list. Then, if this ever becomes a real business with useful, well-priced products it will still go bust because no-one will know about it.
The rape of Nokia is well under way. He'll return to m$ from its smouldering ashes with a fucking sackful of them.
When Apple was smartphone king, just a couple of short years ago, it wouldn't have dreamt of this. Now its lost the war it's just resorting to the desperate tactics m$ deploys to start with, seeing as they never had any market share to speak of and never will.
All this talk of companies copying other companies is really confusing.
Your trick of comparing religious faith with uncertainties, by definition, from concepts at the leading edge of science is stupid.
50 years ago you would have said ""Have you ever travelled faster than sound, or seen an Angel?"
100 years ago it was "Have you ever seen a colour moving image with sound, or seen an Angel?"
150 years ago: "Have you ever travelled in a carriage without horses, or seen an Angel?"
As time goes on, science evolves, whereas religion just ties itself up in bigger knots trying to square its increasingly ludicrous circle.