Call me a pessimist, but I am not sure if it really is that great especally since the display used does not have any head tracking whatsoever, which means if you want 3d you have your head in a certain focus point relative to the display, while it looks neat as a gimmic, I can imagine it being a major pain in the long run.
I assume it will be the same as with the DS and the Wii, the first years lineup will be strong with first party support and to some degree second party support, the second year will shine with second party support, after that 3-4 decent games per year which will be drowned in hundreds of shovelware games per year.
Tell that to Nokia who is currently in an infight with Apple because Apple violated their patents blatantly without paying them. Tell that to HTC which is older than Apple in the mobile phone arena which apple currently is suing for stuff they have copied themselves.
Easy, the minute you bring this onto the market you have bazillion of laywers on your back who sue you into poverty. 90% probably coming from Apple 10% coming from patent troll companies who seek an easy cash in. Face it innovation is crippled, a modern apple would not even stand a chance in the US if you look at apples phone breaking/ garage innovation / xerox copying history. One of the main reasons why the western industry goes down the gutters currently, we are strangeling our still possible small garage innovation in a sea of lawsuits.
.Net is aheas in the language itself, all I can say is if you miss things use Scala..Net however is far behind on the framework side. Did you notice that they started to copy from the JEE area left and right, to the dismay of the people who were actually porting over the opensource frameworks for.Net. Their third approach at getting ORM working is simply a hibernate copy, and closed source, which made the nhibernate people angry who worked for years to get hibernate to.net. Their build system is a blank ant copy, even to the extend that they did not even change the commands just made them uppercase. Their web mvc framework is a plain copy of Spring MVC etc...
Actually yes, not directly a patent license fee, but Microsoft paid Sun a boatload of cash for violating the Java contracts they signed. I am not sure if part of the deal was a general patent license agreement, nevertheless, the Microsoft money was a huge cash influx which kept Sun floating 1-2 more years, and yes Microsoft deliberately back then broke the contract because they wanted to use their embrace and extend tactics which failed and ultimately resulted in.net instead of hitchhiking java. The court agreed there as well.
The myth of growth has been hammered into the brains of literally all western business people politicians and to some degree as well into the general public, it is hard to relearn, there is no such thing as unlimited growth and to the worse if you try to enforce it you basically just enforce an only the strongest survive and not even those approach, there is a reason why evolution first followed this approach but at the turning point of introducing the mammals changed to a common goal and group helps eath other approach in species, because it works better. Problem is our business point of view is still in the area of the dinosaurse of the strongest survive, the dinosaurs did not (at least not in the predatory form) the mammals did...
ChromeOS as far as I can judge from what I have seen on the pictures and the emulation is pointless for tablets the entire ui is centered around a mouse and a smallish screen estate. Trying to push chromeOS on a tablet would be a huge mistake. I personally dont think google is that stupid, and I beliefe their arguments the OS simply needs a tablet refinement to work fine. Heck apple did the same for iOS on the ipad, you need to change the aspects of various distances, better even introduce resolution independence, you have to ajust the layout system of the apps so that they can use the bigger real estate better than just presenting themselves blown up (the classical example is the mail menu system on the iPad) and you also have to adjust the market apps decently. I would be surprised if google would come up with ChromeOS as solution for Tablets, I rather expect a Gingerbread reference design given first to the Google Employees on christmas with decent Android based tablets following the upcoming months from HTC and co.
It will come down to, if you know the old intel address modes to things called segments, which means you have so called segments of max 4 gigs you have to juggle around. This system on assembly level was quite evil because you had to shift around with segments for code data stack and whatsoever.
The + side it offered another layer of code injection protection. But for complexity reasons it was very unpopular, and when the segment spaces became big enough most compilers just rolled one huge segmetn and placed code and data there.
For a processor designer this approach however is very elegant because they can increas the memory range ad inifnitum while keeping the register size the same and thus keeping backwards compatibility.
From a programmers point of view segments are hell because you never know when you run into the boundary set by the segment and then the shuffeling beings. Also if you have data bigger than the segment you have to press it into multiple ones.
I am not sure if I like the way arm is going there just to keep the backwards compatibility. One point in time they will have to break it to keep the power consumption low (Intel just added on top of everything the next fluff), and I guess given their current success in the mobile phone area, they shun it a little bit to roll out the next breach in backwards compatibility like they had done in the past.
Yes back to segmentation:-) but seriously it is good enough for the lifetime of this processor which is 2-4 years and good enough for many but not all server purposes.
Heck I am not sure what Brightstar is, probably a carrier right. Ok first, carriers do not manufature phones neither does Google, carriers just sell existing phones sometimes rename them and add junk under the name branding and lock them in.
There is lots wrong with the ipad as well. Frankly having to go through itunes for everything simply sucks. Also the lack of a real folder system, so ever app must know itself what do do with its files. Also the keyboard input clearly spoken is subpar to android and the lack of flash and even itunes streaming support unforgivable, especially the second issue - for an apple device. The got two things absolutely right, the form factor which resembles a book and the build quality.
But overall it simply feels lacking in most areas of its OS compared to Android, the problem with Android is worse, there is no reference design and frankly spoken what I have seen for this years tablets also had its fair share of problems in the areas price, build quality and company behind it. I guess once google has rolled out an official reference pad things will pick up.
Archos over here is know to have shoddy support, if you can reach the right person the support can be great but they are clearly understaffed, add to that that their software long term support is severely lacking and you have one hell of a troublesome combination.
Ask the people who have bought the last years tablet what they think of Archos.
You still have the chance, google is selling it over its developers shop worldwide. One of the many reasons why I did not go for an Android Tablet yet, the Google reference device is still missing.
To sum things up, I tried to avoid it, but so far I am not going for an Android Tablet. To sum things up Archos: Cheap but Archos sucks Toshiba: Nice Tablet comes close to what I want but the build quality sucks Samsung: Too small for my needs, and costs a whopping 700 Euros for half the screen estate of the ipad, they outpriced it for me, but the screen size also is too small.
Only the Samsung one allows access to the Android market directly, the others need hacks to open the access.
In other words I finally gave in and ordered an ipad... Sorry Android but this year you only have made it to my mobile phone!
Same here, put it on demand and you have a great experience, I even watched bbc iplayer that way.. The screen however is too small to make a nice movie experience, and once the resolution gets higher than the screen res the videos can become somewhat choppy. But that is more the problem of the measly snapdragon graphics chipset than flashes.
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Call me a pessimist, but I am not sure if it really is that great especally since the display used does not have any head tracking whatsoever, which means if you want 3d you have your head in a certain focus point relative to the display, while it looks neat as a gimmic, I can imagine it being a major pain in the long run.
I assume it will be the same as with the DS and the Wii, the first years lineup will be strong with first party support and to some degree second party support, the second year will shine with second party support, after that 3-4 decent games per year which will be drowned in hundreds of shovelware games per year.
Btw. do you remember digital research which was sued by Apple for implementing a deskop ui with moving windows (which Apple itself stole from Xerox)
Zune :-)
Tell that to Nokia who is currently in an infight with Apple because Apple violated their patents blatantly without paying them. Tell that to HTC which is older than Apple in the mobile phone arena which apple currently is suing for stuff they have copied themselves.
Easy, the minute you bring this onto the market you have bazillion of laywers on your back who sue you into poverty. 90% probably coming from Apple 10% coming from patent troll companies who seek an easy cash in.
Face it innovation is crippled, a modern apple would not even stand a chance in the US if you look at apples phone breaking/ garage innovation / xerox copying history.
One of the main reasons why the western industry goes down the gutters currently, we are strangeling our still possible small garage innovation in a sea of lawsuits.
.Net is aheas in the language itself, all I can say is if you miss things use Scala. .Net however is far behind on the framework side. Did you notice that they started to copy from the JEE area left and right, to the dismay of the people who were actually porting over the opensource frameworks for .Net. .net.
Their third approach at getting ORM working is simply a hibernate copy, and closed source, which made the nhibernate people angry who worked for years to get hibernate to
Their build system is a blank ant copy, even to the extend that they did not even change the commands just made them uppercase. Their web mvc framework is a plain copy of Spring MVC etc...
Actually yes, not directly a patent license fee, but Microsoft paid Sun a boatload of cash for violating the Java contracts they signed. I am not sure if part of the deal was a general patent license agreement, nevertheless, the Microsoft money was a huge cash influx which kept Sun floating 1-2 more years, and yes Microsoft deliberately back then broke the contract because they wanted to use their embrace and extend tactics which failed and ultimately resulted in .net instead of hitchhiking java. The court agreed there as well.
The myth of growth has been hammered into the brains of literally all western business people politicians and to some degree as well into the general public, it is hard to relearn, there is no such thing as unlimited growth and to the worse if you try to enforce it you basically just enforce an only the strongest survive and not even those approach, there is a reason why evolution first followed this approach but at the turning point of introducing the mammals changed to a common goal and group helps eath other approach in species, because it works better. Problem is our business point of view is still in the area of the dinosaurse of the strongest survive, the dinosaurs did not (at least not in the predatory form) the mammals did...
Isn't Chrome OS already dead on arrival?
One word: Yes... since the netbook market is dying, there is not a big point for chromeos anymore.
ChromeOS as far as I can judge from what I have seen on the pictures and the emulation is pointless for tablets the entire ui is centered around a mouse and a smallish screen estate. Trying to push chromeOS on a tablet would be a huge mistake. I personally dont think google is that stupid, and I beliefe their arguments the OS simply needs a tablet refinement to work fine. Heck apple did the same for iOS on the ipad, you need to change the aspects of various distances, better even introduce resolution independence, you have to ajust the layout system of the apps so that they can use the bigger real estate better than just presenting themselves blown up (the classical example is the mail menu system on the iPad)
and you also have to adjust the market apps decently.
I would be surprised if google would come up with ChromeOS as solution for Tablets, I rather expect a Gingerbread reference design given first to the Google Employees on christmas with decent Android based tablets following the upcoming months from HTC and co.
Problem is the memory mapped IO, add 2 gigs of graphic card data mapped into memory and you have a problem...
It will come down to, if you know the old intel address modes to things called segments, which means you have so called segments of max 4 gigs you have to juggle around. This system on assembly level was quite evil because you had to shift around with segments for code data stack and whatsoever.
The + side it offered another layer of code injection protection. But for complexity reasons it was very unpopular, and when the segment spaces became big enough most compilers just rolled one huge segmetn and placed code and data there.
For a processor designer this approach however is very elegant because they can increas the memory range ad inifnitum while keeping the register size the same and thus keeping backwards compatibility.
From a programmers point of view segments are hell because you never know when you run into the boundary set by the segment and then the shuffeling beings. Also if you have data bigger than the segment you have to press it into multiple ones.
I am not sure if I like the way arm is going there just to keep the backwards compatibility. One point in time they will have to break it to keep the power consumption low (Intel just added on top of everything the next fluff), and I guess given their current success in the mobile phone area, they shun it a little bit to roll out the next breach in backwards compatibility like they had done in the past.
Yes back to segmentation :-) but seriously it is good enough for the lifetime of this processor which is 2-4 years and good enough for many but not all server purposes.
The cortex15 line extended the address range for memory to 40 bits which ought to be enough for the next few years.
They extended the addressing to 40 bit... but only for the memory, the register addressing still is 32 bit for backwards compatibility reasons.
Heck I am not sure what Brightstar is, probably a carrier right. Ok first, carriers do not manufature phones neither does Google, carriers just sell existing phones sometimes rename them and add junk under the name branding and lock them in.
Either way here is a link on how you can order the nexus one a http://www.intomobile.com/2010/09/08/nexus-one-available-sell-out-on-google-developer/
The first batch outsold quickly over at googles dev shop, the second one just seemed to have rolled in.
You are right software nazis is the correct expression
I am talking about the Nexus One, Google is still selling it over its dev shop as reference phone.
There is lots wrong with the ipad as well. Frankly having to go through itunes for everything simply sucks. Also the lack of a real folder system, so ever app must know itself what do do with its files.
Also the keyboard input clearly spoken is subpar to android and the lack of flash and even itunes streaming support unforgivable, especially the second issue - for an apple device.
The got two things absolutely right, the form factor which resembles a book and the build quality.
But overall it simply feels lacking in most areas of its OS compared to Android, the problem with Android is worse, there is no reference design and frankly spoken what I have seen for this years tablets also had its fair share of problems in the areas price, build quality and company behind it. I guess once google has rolled out an official reference pad things will pick up.
Archos over here is know to have shoddy support, if you can reach the right person the support can be great but they are clearly understaffed, add to that that their software long term support is severely lacking and you have one hell of a troublesome combination.
Ask the people who have bought the last years tablet what they think of Archos.
The Toshiba Folio 100 lacks build quality as lots of people already reported, just check the videos on the web, it is pure plastic.
You still have the chance, google is selling it over its developers shop worldwide.
One of the many reasons why I did not go for an Android Tablet yet, the Google reference device is still missing.
To sum things up, I tried to avoid it, but so far I am not going for an Android Tablet. To sum things up
Archos: Cheap but Archos sucks
Toshiba: Nice Tablet comes close to what I want but the build quality sucks
Samsung: Too small for my needs, and costs a whopping 700 Euros for half the screen estate of the ipad, they outpriced it for me, but the screen size also is too small.
Only the Samsung one allows access to the Android market directly, the others need hacks to open the access.
In other words I finally gave in and ordered an ipad... Sorry Android but this year you only have made it to my mobile phone!
Same here, put it on demand and you have a great experience, I even watched bbc iplayer that way..
The screen however is too small to make a nice movie experience, and once the resolution gets higher than the screen res the videos can become somewhat choppy. But that is more the problem of the measly snapdragon graphics chipset than flashes.