It would be shocking for Windows phone to gain momentum at this point. In addition to the other things I wrote, if an ecosystem hasn't taken off by year 3 it generally is not disruptive enough to do so ever. Android had 56% share of sales by year 3, but if it had been up against as strong a contender as Android is now it would have withered on the vine by the second year. Things are different now.
If you look at the partner ecosystem Windows Phone launched with you can see they are selling fewer units than ever - roughly none. They have grown their market to zero units. The only thing keeping Windows Phone above 3% is the infusion of and drawdown of rabid Nokia fanatics, which has also destroyed Nokia. That process is now nearly complete and Windows Phone will vanish from view shortly as the more you like Nokia's legacy the less you like Microsoft today.
They are very young to be handling delicate electronics. I can teach them fear of harming delicate technology later. Or teach them the benefit of preferring robust technology instead.
Yeah I know, and have soldered them before. The kids are so violent with the cables they have broken the sockets themselves not just the solder. I am still saving them for robotics projects and whatnot where the industrial design is not so tough. I could order the socket components but am unlikely to get the right one. These older tablets were pretty low end anyway, and the Nexus 7 is so cheap... The kids will be much happier with a modern tablet.
I have 5 dead Android tablets. 4 are dead because of charging port abuse. Kids aren't particularly mindful of good care of delicate electronics. So wireless charging will definitely help prolong the life of the next set of tablets.
So they tried dozens of different controller sizes, optimizing for the best size that most people could at least use, even if it was not ideal. It never occurred to them to do the obvious thing: sell small, medium and large.
Not really. Somebody computed the likelihood of Chicxulub material making its way to the nearest stars and found it not only a certainty, but they were able to estimate the total mass per neighboring star, the time en-route, and so on. In the roughly 3.5 billion years since life arose on Earth the sun has made 17 laps around the Milky Way. The Oort cloud is fairly well polluted with life. Sometimes a star comes a little too close, and we do some border trade on the frontier. Interstellar comets pass through every year gathering up a little bit on their lonely journey. Sometimes they run into things, and leave a little litter from what they've picked up on their road trip. Consider that the Milky Way had an 8 billion year head start on us, and the conclusion is obvious.
Space is big. Really, really mind-bogglingly big. But time is also long.
Charging ridiculous fees to home solar was tried in Europe. Homeowners said "OK. Batteries.". Then disconnected from the grid entirely. In remote areas where grid power is unreliable people have whole home backup generators anyway.
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Because that AC works on the Windows Phone OS, silly. One of his WinRT coworkers will be along shortly to discuss his ignorance and personal habits.
You may find this related article amusing. Also, the relevant part of the YouTube video: http://blogs.computerworld.com/windows/23205/tech-guy-explains-windows-tablets
It would be shocking for Windows phone to gain momentum at this point. In addition to the other things I wrote, if an ecosystem hasn't taken off by year 3 it generally is not disruptive enough to do so ever. Android had 56% share of sales by year 3, but if it had been up against as strong a contender as Android is now it would have withered on the vine by the second year. Things are different now.
If you look at the partner ecosystem Windows Phone launched with you can see they are selling fewer units than ever - roughly none. They have grown their market to zero units. The only thing keeping Windows Phone above 3% is the infusion of and drawdown of rabid Nokia fanatics, which has also destroyed Nokia. That process is now nearly complete and Windows Phone will vanish from view shortly as the more you like Nokia's legacy the less you like Microsoft today.
Well here you see the job creators rewarded for making things better than they might have been. They could have adopted Windows Phone.
If I wanted to live in a van down by the river, I would have majored in Humanities or Art History.
They are doing their own silicon designs using a properly licensed MIPS instruction set.
China is doing some amazing stuff in HPC, and with homegrown IP.
If you are going to run a silicon foundry business then telling your customers what not to invent is not a strong position.
Why would these huge companies hate Microsoft? What did Microsoft ever do to them? /s
Enjoy the irony of somebody complaining about poor little bullied Microsoft.
There is a Google Hangout with the principal investigators on this going on right now. Search for "supernova" in Hangouts or catch the YouTube later.
They are very young to be handling delicate electronics. I can teach them fear of harming delicate technology later. Or teach them the benefit of preferring robust technology instead.
Yeah I know, and have soldered them before. The kids are so violent with the cables they have broken the sockets themselves not just the solder. I am still saving them for robotics projects and whatnot where the industrial design is not so tough. I could order the socket components but am unlikely to get the right one. These older tablets were pretty low end anyway, and the Nexus 7 is so cheap... The kids will be much happier with a modern tablet.
IE doesn't need marketing either. Their victims cannot escape.
Both are pocket sized and plug into the same USB power supply. Why do people try so hard to say "new is bad"?
I have 5 dead Android tablets. 4 are dead because of charging port abuse. Kids aren't particularly mindful of good care of delicate electronics. So wireless charging will definitely help prolong the life of the next set of tablets.
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Assume a spherical data center...
So they tried dozens of different controller sizes, optimizing for the best size that most people could at least use, even if it was not ideal. It never occurred to them to do the obvious thing: sell small, medium and large.
Anybody know how to strip the art assets out of a .fla file? It seems Google offers a service called Swiffy to turn the .swf into HTML5 elements.
Exit, stage right.
Not really. Somebody computed the likelihood of Chicxulub material making its way to the nearest stars and found it not only a certainty, but they were able to estimate the total mass per neighboring star, the time en-route, and so on. In the roughly 3.5 billion years since life arose on Earth the sun has made 17 laps around the Milky Way. The Oort cloud is fairly well polluted with life. Sometimes a star comes a little too close, and we do some border trade on the frontier. Interstellar comets pass through every year gathering up a little bit on their lonely journey. Sometimes they run into things, and leave a little litter from what they've picked up on their road trip. Consider that the Milky Way had an 8 billion year head start on us, and the conclusion is obvious.
Space is big. Really, really mind-bogglingly big. But time is also long.
eBay.
Life is absurdly contagious.
Charging ridiculous fees to home solar was tried in Europe. Homeowners said "OK. Batteries.". Then disconnected from the grid entirely. In remote areas where grid power is unreliable people have whole home backup generators anyway.