A couple of years ago, a BlackBerry fan posted a comment saying that Google and BlackBerry were working on a new OS that would replace Android and BB10. It now looks to me like he may have been right. And that may have been why David Kleidermacher, BlackBerry's former director of security, left BlackBerry to work for Google. I imagine he's in charge of the securing the new OS.
When I read that BB fan's post, I imagined that the data-mining code would be put into modules that would be loaded by Google for their devices, and unloaded by BlackBerry for their devices.
I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
The last I heard, more than 90% of computers don't run MacOS and more than 80% of the smartphones being used in the world are not iPhones. That means that less than 10% of desktop and laptop computers, and less than 20% of smartphones, being used today, have Apple Music pre-installed. Based on that alone, it doesn't appear to be a given that Apple Music would win.
So, it must have to do with which users are using iPhones and Macs. Also, keep in mind that before streaming services started being offered, iTunes was the biggest music retailer, and iTunes did allow you to stream the content you bought (IIRC, it was called iTunes Match). So Apple just had to get their existing iTunes customers to start paying for Apple Music. I suspect that that, as well as Apple's long-standing entrenchment in the music industry, was what determined whether Apple Music would win or not.
So they're going to create tech jobs in a country that has been so chronically short on qualified tech workers, that they've had to import workers and open offices in other countries. I'll bet that a significant amount of those new jobs will go unfilled, or cause currently-filled jobs (either at Apple or other companies) to become vacant, depending on how many of those new jobs will require technical skills.
And the politicians and media will fall for it. Unbelievable.
We're metric in Canada and you can still buy a foot long hotdog, as well as quarter pounders etc. Just the receipts (if measured and not just sold as an unit) have to show metric. So if you buy 10 feet of rope, it'll actually be rung up as 3 meters or so of rope.
In Canada, restaurants still list their drinks and meat in ounces, people still use the imperial system when talking about a person's weight and height, and grocery stores still advertise the prices of their produce and most of their meats predominantly as dollars per pound, even though the country officially switched to the metric system decades ago. It's a real mess. e.g. fresh blueberries are listed as dollars per pint and frozen blueberries are listed as dollars per 600gram bag.
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A couple of years ago, a BlackBerry fan posted a comment saying that Google and BlackBerry were working on a new OS that would replace Android and BB10. It now looks to me like he may have been right. And that may have been why David Kleidermacher, BlackBerry's former director of security, left BlackBerry to work for Google. I imagine he's in charge of the securing the new OS. When I read that BB fan's post, I imagined that the data-mining code would be put into modules that would be loaded by Google for their devices, and unloaded by BlackBerry for their devices. I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
The last I heard, more than 90% of computers don't run MacOS and more than 80% of the smartphones being used in the world are not iPhones. That means that less than 10% of desktop and laptop computers, and less than 20% of smartphones, being used today, have Apple Music pre-installed. Based on that alone, it doesn't appear to be a given that Apple Music would win. So, it must have to do with which users are using iPhones and Macs. Also, keep in mind that before streaming services started being offered, iTunes was the biggest music retailer, and iTunes did allow you to stream the content you bought (IIRC, it was called iTunes Match). So Apple just had to get their existing iTunes customers to start paying for Apple Music. I suspect that that, as well as Apple's long-standing entrenchment in the music industry, was what determined whether Apple Music would win or not.
So they're going to create tech jobs in a country that has been so chronically short on qualified tech workers, that they've had to import workers and open offices in other countries. I'll bet that a significant amount of those new jobs will go unfilled, or cause currently-filled jobs (either at Apple or other companies) to become vacant, depending on how many of those new jobs will require technical skills. And the politicians and media will fall for it. Unbelievable.
We're metric in Canada and you can still buy a foot long hotdog, as well as quarter pounders etc. Just the receipts (if measured and not just sold as an unit) have to show metric. So if you buy 10 feet of rope, it'll actually be rung up as 3 meters or so of rope.
In Canada, restaurants still list their drinks and meat in ounces, people still use the imperial system when talking about a person's weight and height, and grocery stores still advertise the prices of their produce and most of their meats predominantly as dollars per pound, even though the country officially switched to the metric system decades ago. It's a real mess. e.g. fresh blueberries are listed as dollars per pint and frozen blueberries are listed as dollars per 600gram bag.