Chrome is running on Linux too, so the real difference is whether you like your apps local or webified. With HTML5 the boundaries may be blurring. For example, many Android apps (and iOS and Windows Phone too) are actually just websites in an app wrapper.
The nearest Fry's from me is 45 minutes away. When it's time to go on an electronics spending spree we make a trip of it. We drive past 2 Best Buys to get on the freeway, and 3 more on the way.
When companies start getting in financial trouble they cast desperately about for ways to improve the "bottom line". Usually they light on access, inventory and returns as places to cut losses, presumably without changing volume. Also "building the ticket" and pushing customers to higher margin products.
You saw this at Blockbuster when they implemented sally ports on entry and employee gauntlets on exit. Future Shop, CompUSA and others all went the same way.
But there is no limit to these measures and they drive customers away. In that their end is writ.
At this point the US designs and test data have probably been stolen so many times that even the Los Alamos crew finds it easier to find them on bittorrent than to locate the proper file in their own system.
It's more like looking for pee in the pool right next to the kid with the sheepish look on his face. It seems likely we'll find life on one of planets of the closest stars on the plane of the ecliptic first, because that is the soonest we will arrive to have a close look.
Oh, if only there were a third choice. Torn between torment and damnation we might glance about for some saving grace, some true escape from our peril but it is not to be. The choice is either run botnets, or migrate to a newer version of Windows. There is no third course. Alas, we are lost!
The rest of their profits are no slouch either, but nowhere near the margins they get on Android product. iThing components hardly pay anything over costs. TV and other CE components are notoriously thin margins and not doing so well, and so on... For a profit center that came out of nowhere a couple years ago Android has done very well for them thus far. They certainly shouldn't be looking to kick it to the curb any time soon.
Intel has a "cannibalization" problem. If they push an IA tablet that costs $50 they're not going to sell as much of their product into $500 laptops. This is actually the vulnerability the new mobile paradigm is attacking them through.
They also have a Windows problem. The minimum requirements for Windows is much higher, which means a higher BOM, which means a higher retail cost. But Intel's OEM partners are for the most part dependent on their income from Windows PCs to maintain their method of business and can't commit to a non-Windows system. There is some belief that Windows 8 will cure this ill, but it seems unlikely to me.
So the OEMs can't transition off of Windows, Intel can't find somebody to launch low-cost low-performance delightful devices like the Transformer, and formerly mobile device makers like Samsung, HTC and Motorola Mobility are starting to cut off the air supply of the PC OEM industry.
The fear of "cannibalization" may kill Intel eventually if they don't get over it. This is technology and the direct translation of "cannibalization" is "progress". For a company like Intel to fear progress is a terrible thing.
This is correct. It's important to note that while right now the tablets are seen as "companion" devices, they do cost money that people might put toward a PC. Since the PC is already adequate at its job and its technology is not progressing as fast as the tablet, it's more natural to upgrade your tablet instead of your PC. People are finding that they get more "facetime" with their tablet than the PC, which pushes PC replacements even further down the priority list relative to, say, an additional tablet form factor.
For comparison, all of HP earned income of $1.47B for the quarter before (we don't have HP Q1 figures yet, but the holiday quarter is typically high). This is not just for client devices, but all of HP: Servers, storage, networking, services, thin clients, software and so on. This means that for the three months Samsung's Android devices business alone likely provided them more profits than the entire client PC OEM industry earned over Christmas. That's a lot of cabbage.
Now other Android device makers had profits too - though not as much. Android is shaping up to be be a major force in tech.
Of course as the article notes, Apple made several times more too - and will remain a major force. But other OEMs don't have the option to make iOS devices so they have to do what they can to survive the transition to mobile, and that means Android.
Apple is notoriously tight-fisted with suppliers. Samsung doesn't make a ton of money on components supplied to Apple. The lion's share of their profits from the first calendar quarter (about $4B) came from Android handsets alone. That's pretty amazing considering all the other stuff they make.
Obviously TVs, Windows laptops and the other stuff they make is likewise very low margin product. But on Android handsets they get 20%.
I think this is a reaction to the DataWind Aakash tablet. The Aakash is a 7" Android slate that's ruggedized. The original one was sold for $35 to India, for school children. It had a resistive display and wasn't quite as acceptable as they were hoping for. A newer model is in production with a capacitive display at the same price. They are having some political issues with follow-through, but they will probably sort that out.
The tablets come with a K-12 education content pack localized for the region (India has many different languages).
India is looking to provide these to "all" students in the next 10 years. Given the demographics of India, that's a half-billion units.
As for the overall philosophy of putting the technology in the hands of children, I'm for it. As others here will speculate, I'm sure not every child will use the information to their best advantage. But some will, and the literacy rates will improve. The general education will improve. Some, who could not otherwise, will use the benefit to improve their lives and the life of their community.
With so many Android tablets, and Android tablet developers in India it seems likely they will discover the opportunity of publishing apps and this might turn into an amazing thing.
Whether it's Intel or ARM based tablets, the day when everyone can have their own library is fast approaching.
My god, all these people could exchange ideas, pron and copyrighted material and there'd be no way to stop them other than to jam their wireless connections.
Jamming all the wireless connections on a nationwide mesh network would be impractical.
There are already people at work on this. It turns out to be not as hard as you might think.
Well imagine a world in which technical DRM is about 10X stronger to put up even higher barriers to prevent you from copying the software since there's no legal recourse to go after commercial piracy.
If it were technically possible to make a functional DRM system, it would have been made already. Since it isn't possible, 10x stronger isn't really a concern.
Well, they do unless they're binary stars where the planets were so huge they condensed into a star. And the planets go from so close they're in danger of being consumed, to so far out that the the material they would have been made of was flung out of the stellar system instead - in orbits of the maximum closeness that you couldn't fit another planetary orbit between them. Since every reasonable sized star has a habitable zone, and given the distribution of mass, between 2 and 4 planets have to be in it. Time makes the orbits regular. If the planet in the right spot is too large for Men, it will have a moon of the appropriate size.
This is obvious from the distribution of prestellar masses and the forces that cause stars and planets to form. Who doesn't know this? It's Bode's Law.
See those stars in the sky? They have planets. All of them, near enough as makes no difference. And all of them have planets where liquid water could form. And water is so common that there is water on all of them. And so the Fermi Paradox becomes more intriguing. The stars in the sky where Men cannot live are passing rare - if we can get there.
No, you I might want to talk to. It's the rest of these idiots that bore me. I'm really tired of the/. astroturf brigade, and the defenders against such.
The Hubble constant. Let's start there. Share your thoughts. Myself, I think it's less a constant than a function, and we look at it as a constant because we have a limited temporal view.
Lobbying the law enforcement agencies to investigate others seems to be the most effective use of a lobbyists time. Get 'em to just look will slow the opposition quite a bit, and a full-blown investigation will set their development back half a year. Microsoft, having been passed through the finest screen available, knows this quite well. They had to buy a Bush presidency to get clear of their antitrust investigation. Once upon a time Microsoft's policy was "we do business, and we let politicians do politics" but they got abused by other corps that worked the body politick to mess with Microsoft's business that Microsoft had to change that policy to compete. Unfortunately, you don't just refocus your Microsoft: they get bitter about such things.
They've learned their lesson well and put their lawyers into the DOJ so they have no worries on that now. There's nobody there now who cares to investigate them. But they forgot that out here we still demand progress, or they thought that didn't matter. Politicks matter, but they're not the only thing that matters. We still demand new tech. We expect it. They forgot that.
If it's a suit in the EU against an EU company, with manufacturing distribution and sales in the EU then we won't hear about it here because it's a local thing. Much like local fights about water use rules for Boise, Idaho don't make the front page of/. If it has to do with Microsoft, Novell, or some other big multinational company, then it may come to the fore. Or not. Based on how relevant it is. The rule is "news for nerds, stuff that matters" and the rule is pretty bendy.
We all know who is behind the complaint, and pretending we don't know slows justice. Did they remember to filter their involvement through a proxy like RBC again? Who knows, or cares. It's all transparent at this point. Did they remember to engage their plausible deniability?
Frankly I don't care any more. The base problem is patent and copyright. If Y'all won't fix the real problem you're doomed to deal with the derivaties of your lack. That's just how it is.
Do away with copyrights and patents and all these suits are moot. Me and the judges can toddle on down to the corner tav for some beers.
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Chrome is running on Linux too, so the real difference is whether you like your apps local or webified. With HTML5 the boundaries may be blurring. For example, many Android apps (and iOS and Windows Phone too) are actually just websites in an app wrapper.
Software projects are never done. Netware went into receivership with a considerable to-do list, as did every other retired project.
Android and Chrome may converge one day.
The nearest Fry's from me is 45 minutes away. When it's time to go on an electronics spending spree we make a trip of it. We drive past 2 Best Buys to get on the freeway, and 3 more on the way.
When companies start getting in financial trouble they cast desperately about for ways to improve the "bottom line". Usually they light on access, inventory and returns as places to cut losses, presumably without changing volume. Also "building the ticket" and pushing customers to higher margin products.
You saw this at Blockbuster when they implemented sally ports on entry and employee gauntlets on exit. Future Shop, CompUSA and others all went the same way.
But there is no limit to these measures and they drive customers away. In that their end is writ.
We are all aware that patents do this, and it's not an accident. This is what patents are for.
At this point the US designs and test data have probably been stolen so many times that even the Los Alamos crew finds it easier to find them on bittorrent than to locate the proper file in their own system.
It's more like looking for pee in the pool right next to the kid with the sheepish look on his face. It seems likely we'll find life on one of planets of the closest stars on the plane of the ecliptic first, because that is the soonest we will arrive to have a close look.
Oh, if only there were a third choice. Torn between torment and damnation we might glance about for some saving grace, some true escape from our peril but it is not to be. The choice is either run botnets, or migrate to a newer version of Windows. There is no third course. Alas, we are lost!
If you need antivirus you're doing it wrong.
The rest of their profits are no slouch either, but nowhere near the margins they get on Android product. iThing components hardly pay anything over costs. TV and other CE components are notoriously thin margins and not doing so well, and so on... For a profit center that came out of nowhere a couple years ago Android has done very well for them thus far. They certainly shouldn't be looking to kick it to the curb any time soon.
Intel has a "cannibalization" problem. If they push an IA tablet that costs $50 they're not going to sell as much of their product into $500 laptops. This is actually the vulnerability the new mobile paradigm is attacking them through.
They also have a Windows problem. The minimum requirements for Windows is much higher, which means a higher BOM, which means a higher retail cost. But Intel's OEM partners are for the most part dependent on their income from Windows PCs to maintain their method of business and can't commit to a non-Windows system. There is some belief that Windows 8 will cure this ill, but it seems unlikely to me.
So the OEMs can't transition off of Windows, Intel can't find somebody to launch low-cost low-performance delightful devices like the Transformer, and formerly mobile device makers like Samsung, HTC and Motorola Mobility are starting to cut off the air supply of the PC OEM industry.
The fear of "cannibalization" may kill Intel eventually if they don't get over it. This is technology and the direct translation of "cannibalization" is "progress". For a company like Intel to fear progress is a terrible thing.
This is correct. It's important to note that while right now the tablets are seen as "companion" devices, they do cost money that people might put toward a PC. Since the PC is already adequate at its job and its technology is not progressing as fast as the tablet, it's more natural to upgrade your tablet instead of your PC. People are finding that they get more "facetime" with their tablet than the PC, which pushes PC replacements even further down the priority list relative to, say, an additional tablet form factor.
Of Samsung's $5.1B profits for the first quarter, $4B was from Android handsets alone.
For comparison, all of HP earned income of $1.47B for the quarter before (we don't have HP Q1 figures yet, but the holiday quarter is typically high). This is not just for client devices, but all of HP: Servers, storage, networking, services, thin clients, software and so on. This means that for the three months Samsung's Android devices business alone likely provided them more profits than the entire client PC OEM industry earned over Christmas. That's a lot of cabbage.
Now other Android device makers had profits too - though not as much. Android is shaping up to be be a major force in tech.
Of course as the article notes, Apple made several times more too - and will remain a major force. But other OEMs don't have the option to make iOS devices so they have to do what they can to survive the transition to mobile, and that means Android.
Apple is notoriously tight-fisted with suppliers. Samsung doesn't make a ton of money on components supplied to Apple. The lion's share of their profits from the first calendar quarter (about $4B) came from Android handsets alone. That's pretty amazing considering all the other stuff they make.
Obviously TVs, Windows laptops and the other stuff they make is likewise very low margin product. But on Android handsets they get 20%.
I think this is a reaction to the DataWind Aakash tablet. The Aakash is a 7" Android slate that's ruggedized. The original one was sold for $35 to India, for school children. It had a resistive display and wasn't quite as acceptable as they were hoping for. A newer model is in production with a capacitive display at the same price. They are having some political issues with follow-through, but they will probably sort that out.
The tablets come with a K-12 education content pack localized for the region (India has many different languages).
India is looking to provide these to "all" students in the next 10 years. Given the demographics of India, that's a half-billion units.
As for the overall philosophy of putting the technology in the hands of children, I'm for it. As others here will speculate, I'm sure not every child will use the information to their best advantage. But some will, and the literacy rates will improve. The general education will improve. Some, who could not otherwise, will use the benefit to improve their lives and the life of their community.
With so many Android tablets, and Android tablet developers in India it seems likely they will discover the opportunity of publishing apps and this might turn into an amazing thing.
Whether it's Intel or ARM based tablets, the day when everyone can have their own library is fast approaching.
Jamming all the wireless connections on a nationwide mesh network would be impractical.
There are already people at work on this. It turns out to be not as hard as you might think.
There are magnetic shielding bracelets that protect you from toxic wifi signals.
Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
If it were technically possible to make a functional DRM system, it would have been made already. Since it isn't possible, 10x stronger isn't really a concern.
Well, they do unless they're binary stars where the planets were so huge they condensed into a star. And the planets go from so close they're in danger of being consumed, to so far out that the the material they would have been made of was flung out of the stellar system instead - in orbits of the maximum closeness that you couldn't fit another planetary orbit between them. Since every reasonable sized star has a habitable zone, and given the distribution of mass, between 2 and 4 planets have to be in it. Time makes the orbits regular. If the planet in the right spot is too large for Men, it will have a moon of the appropriate size.
This is obvious from the distribution of prestellar masses and the forces that cause stars and planets to form. Who doesn't know this? It's Bode's Law.
See those stars in the sky? They have planets. All of them, near enough as makes no difference. And all of them have planets where liquid water could form. And water is so common that there is water on all of them. And so the Fermi Paradox becomes more intriguing. The stars in the sky where Men cannot live are passing rare - if we can get there.
Let's go already.
No, you I might want to talk to. It's the rest of these idiots that bore me. I'm really tired of the /. astroturf brigade, and the defenders against such.
The Hubble constant. Let's start there. Share your thoughts. Myself, I think it's less a constant than a function, and we look at it as a constant because we have a limited temporal view.
Lobbying the law enforcement agencies to investigate others seems to be the most effective use of a lobbyists time. Get 'em to just look will slow the opposition quite a bit, and a full-blown investigation will set their development back half a year. Microsoft, having been passed through the finest screen available, knows this quite well. They had to buy a Bush presidency to get clear of their antitrust investigation. Once upon a time Microsoft's policy was "we do business, and we let politicians do politics" but they got abused by other corps that worked the body politick to mess with Microsoft's business that Microsoft had to change that policy to compete. Unfortunately, you don't just refocus your Microsoft: they get bitter about such things.
They've learned their lesson well and put their lawyers into the DOJ so they have no worries on that now. There's nobody there now who cares to investigate them. But they forgot that out here we still demand progress, or they thought that didn't matter. Politicks matter, but they're not the only thing that matters. We still demand new tech. We expect it. They forgot that.
If it's a suit in the EU against an EU company, with manufacturing distribution and sales in the EU then we won't hear about it here because it's a local thing. Much like local fights about water use rules for Boise, Idaho don't make the front page of /. If it has to do with Microsoft, Novell, or some other big multinational company, then it may come to the fore. Or not. Based on how relevant it is. The rule is "news for nerds, stuff that matters" and the rule is pretty bendy.
We all know who is behind the complaint, and pretending we don't know slows justice. Did they remember to filter their involvement through a proxy like RBC again? Who knows, or cares. It's all transparent at this point. Did they remember to engage their plausible deniability?
Frankly I don't care any more. The base problem is patent and copyright. If Y'all won't fix the real problem you're doomed to deal with the derivaties of your lack. That's just how it is.
Do away with copyrights and patents and all these suits are moot. Me and the judges can toddle on down to the corner tav for some beers.