Not surprising, as for instance the only Opera browser found for iOS is Opera Mini. Apple have specifically denied anyone from making a Safari competitor (closest you get is a bunch of UI wrappers around the Webkit engine provided by iOS).
Also, a good bunch of these alternative browsers allow the user to mask them as iOS Safari. This because various sites push one site to iOS and a much more limited one to just about anything else (or just toss the desktop site at anything non-iOS). It is like a repeat of the IE only era...
Only company i know that uses linux for their featurephones is Samsung, in their Bada platform.
Others use something homegrown that they have bolted various features to over the years, likely starting out with something not that different from something found on top of microcontrollers.
Opera Mini offloads much of the traffic and render work to external servers (yep, it breaks the https chain so i would not recommend it for online banking and such). The latest version has a data traffic display that shows that it has reduced the traffic amount by 90% over the usage period since install.
Opera Mini makes for a much better browser than my phones built in one (much of it helped by the offloading nature of its design), and lately i have found myself using a facebook j2me that the site itself promoted.
And this is why i cringe whenever i read a article on mobile tech from a US tech site (and lets face it, most english language tech new is US centric. And the non-english often just translate the english stuff). The US mobile phone market is so ass backwards that it can only really be compared to Japan, if one limits ones view to places that at least try to appear democratic.
And do what, veto the bill so that the whole thing goes back to congress, only to show up again basically verbatim? My understanding, as a outsider, is that the US president can't block a bill forever.
I think the real evil here is the ability to tack any kind of rider onto a bill. This means that if one can stitch together a bill and rider combo that either sinks a bill one do not want, or get a rider in the door because the bill it is attached to is too important to let fall.
And if Steve Keen is right, monopoly may be no worse, economically speaking, than the fabled free-market capitalism that most economists go on about. This because the theories they hold to back up this belief is no better, in scientific terms, than scientology...
Or it just simply ran the most convenient set of hardware at the time for booting a *nix kernel and run a modified OSX environment. That the same hardware proved itself capable of running native apps do not signify that Apple had any intention of actually allowing that. Then again, ol' Jobs was a master of subterfuge.
Perhaps we may never know what they really had planned at the time. All we do know was that they made a big fuzz about webapps (tho badly handled, as one could not keep a web app open beside a browsing session), and only after jailbreakers released videos of phones running native code did they release the app store. If this was planned all along, or simply a "oh crap, the cat's out of the bag" reaction, has even odds. Hell, they kept a tight leach on multitasking until very recently. And even then only certain kinda of apps are allowed to multitask. Any other need to dump state once the home button is pressed as they risk being shut down to free ram at any moment. This is behavior not seen on Android, nor was it normal behavior on a desktop PC back when similar ram amounts was common.
All in all the app environment of a iphone is more like a swiss army knife (or a electric drill with interchangeable bits). Multiple tools, only one of which can be used at any one time.
But the hardware is locked down so that joe random user can't tell the CPU to process a random sequence of binary codes easily.
The hardware may be GP, but the user facing interface is locked into doing specific tasks. And locks can be used both to lock a thief out, and a agitator in.
Doctorow brings up the Sony rootkit. Or a DRM locking system on audio CDs that installed automatically and went into hiding via tricks not that different from what Malware of various kinds use.
If they want appliances, i am sure there is some company out there that is very happy to sell a bunch of dumb terminals to replace all those wintels on peoples desks. Oh wait, that is where all this cloud hoopla is heading...
This is because the typical MBA training makes management view the workers as just another input into the process. That is, workers are no different in their view to whatever parts, chemicals, or IP that goes into the production of the product. The more they can save on any of those, the more profit for the company and bonus for management.
Also why i get a sour taste in my mouth whenever the "think of the artists" are paraded by the entertainment industry as a reason for more draconian IP laws. Where was that line of thinking when some production line or similar was downsized or automated? Hell i suspect more and more said industry would love to replace their flesh and blood artists for vocaloid software, and motion capture animated models skinned to look like famous people of the past.
Are not places of learning as much as places of certification.
Industry loves the latter, as they can claim that events was not because of personal screw ups (the person(s) were after all certified in their field). This then makes for a "airtight" insurance claim.
Best guess, being a male lineage society there was a real need to ensure that the male child was of his fathers "blood". Similarly the objection towards masturbation may be the negation of the drive towards marriage and offspring, resulting in less "excess" people to use as fodder for military campaigns.
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That, or they have it masking as iOS to get the more worked on mobile site.
Not surprising, as for instance the only Opera browser found for iOS is Opera Mini. Apple have specifically denied anyone from making a Safari competitor (closest you get is a bunch of UI wrappers around the Webkit engine provided by iOS).
Also, a good bunch of these alternative browsers allow the user to mask them as iOS Safari. This because various sites push one site to iOS and a much more limited one to just about anything else (or just toss the desktop site at anything non-iOS). It is like a repeat of the IE only era...
Could be that Android users use more apps than web for various services.
Only company i know that uses linux for their featurephones is Samsung, in their Bada platform.
Others use something homegrown that they have bolted various features to over the years, likely starting out with something not that different from something found on top of microcontrollers.
Opera Mini offloads much of the traffic and render work to external servers (yep, it breaks the https chain so i would not recommend it for online banking and such). The latest version has a data traffic display that shows that it has reduced the traffic amount by 90% over the usage period since install.
Opera Mini makes for a much better browser than my phones built in one (much of it helped by the offloading nature of its design), and lately i have found myself using a facebook j2me that the site itself promoted.
And this is why i cringe whenever i read a article on mobile tech from a US tech site (and lets face it, most english language tech new is US centric. And the non-english often just translate the english stuff). The US mobile phone market is so ass backwards that it can only really be compared to Japan, if one limits ones view to places that at least try to appear democratic.
And do what, veto the bill so that the whole thing goes back to congress, only to show up again basically verbatim? My understanding, as a outsider, is that the US president can't block a bill forever.
I think the real evil here is the ability to tack any kind of rider onto a bill. This means that if one can stitch together a bill and rider combo that either sinks a bill one do not want, or get a rider in the door because the bill it is attached to is too important to let fall.
And if Steve Keen is right, monopoly may be no worse, economically speaking, than the fabled free-market capitalism that most economists go on about. This because the theories they hold to back up this belief is no better, in scientific terms, than scientology...
Are you sure it never happened before Patriot?
Correction, companies screw their employees as much as their customers (tho the preferred word there is consumers, moo)...
Or it just simply ran the most convenient set of hardware at the time for booting a *nix kernel and run a modified OSX environment. That the same hardware proved itself capable of running native apps do not signify that Apple had any intention of actually allowing that. Then again, ol' Jobs was a master of subterfuge.
Perhaps we may never know what they really had planned at the time. All we do know was that they made a big fuzz about webapps (tho badly handled, as one could not keep a web app open beside a browsing session), and only after jailbreakers released videos of phones running native code did they release the app store. If this was planned all along, or simply a "oh crap, the cat's out of the bag" reaction, has even odds. Hell, they kept a tight leach on multitasking until very recently. And even then only certain kinda of apps are allowed to multitask. Any other need to dump state once the home button is pressed as they risk being shut down to free ram at any moment. This is behavior not seen on Android, nor was it normal behavior on a desktop PC back when similar ram amounts was common.
All in all the app environment of a iphone is more like a swiss army knife (or a electric drill with interchangeable bits). Multiple tools, only one of which can be used at any one time.
And this is why MS Office have taken on the trappings of a RAD over the years, and why the "desktop" market is so hard to enter...
How quickly we forget that the iPhone initially did not allow locally installed apps.
Real money? Step away from the monetarist cool-aid...
Even without copyright, OSS could work. Copyright just gives the contract language of the licenses more weight.
Adds a extra layer of trouble for anyone trying to bypass it tho.
Just like covering a chip in resin to inconvenience mod chip installations.
But the hardware is locked down so that joe random user can't tell the CPU to process a random sequence of binary codes easily.
The hardware may be GP, but the user facing interface is locked into doing specific tasks. And locks can be used both to lock a thief out, and a agitator in.
Heh, even those Palm PDAs quickly developed into handheld GPCs. That is, if the available programs can be used as a indicator.
Interesting, what brand tablet was that? Pushing AR software to a tablet seems odd.
Doctorow brings up the Sony rootkit. Or a DRM locking system on audio CDs that installed automatically and went into hiding via tricks not that different from what Malware of various kinds use.
If they want appliances, i am sure there is some company out there that is very happy to sell a bunch of dumb terminals to replace all those wintels on peoples desks. Oh wait, that is where all this cloud hoopla is heading...
This is because the typical MBA training makes management view the workers as just another input into the process. That is, workers are no different in their view to whatever parts, chemicals, or IP that goes into the production of the product. The more they can save on any of those, the more profit for the company and bonus for management.
Also why i get a sour taste in my mouth whenever the "think of the artists" are paraded by the entertainment industry as a reason for more draconian IP laws. Where was that line of thinking when some production line or similar was downsized or automated? Hell i suspect more and more said industry would love to replace their flesh and blood artists for vocaloid software, and motion capture animated models skinned to look like famous people of the past.
Are not places of learning as much as places of certification.
Industry loves the latter, as they can claim that events was not because of personal screw ups (the person(s) were after all certified in their field). This then makes for a "airtight" insurance claim.
Best guess, being a male lineage society there was a real need to ensure that the male child was of his fathers "blood". Similarly the objection towards masturbation may be the negation of the drive towards marriage and offspring, resulting in less "excess" people to use as fodder for military campaigns.