Apple has discovered that the X86 instruction set is a trap they don't have to trip. The only reason that old dog still hunts is that Windows props it up. Even Microsoft is wandering away from it now.
Your estimate of the strength of racist strength is apposite my experience of its conflict with personal interest. I have considerable experience in this regard and while racism and ethnic strife can persist in political units with well-defined borders, once these cells experience fast communication with the outside world they realize their neighbour isn't that much different from them relative to the rest of the world.
I bought the TF101 on launch day over a year ago. It has HDMI output and can drive the same monitors you and I are looking at. I have acquired three Windows cloud desktops through services like OnLive. Through Citrix and VMWare View I have access to an unlimited number of desktops with this tablet. Because my support crew is first rate they support every version of every Windows OS back to DOS 5.1 - and prior versions I can run or simulate locally. Anything your PC can do, my tablet can do. I use it to administer 100+ servers.
My phone has LTE and hotspot, so I can do this anywhere I happen to be by tethering this old tablet to my phone's wifi.
My tablet has the dock, so I can attach Wacom tablets, keyboards, mice, trackballs, and even Microsoft's Kinect if I want to. Bluetooth too. Connecting a peripheral to a device is becoming a network problem and the network software guys make short work of that.
Microsoft's Surface tablet has encryption to prevent loading of alternate operating systems. That would be protective of their OS franchise if Nexus 10 didn't have more storage, a 300 DPI screen, and cost less. Nobody in their right mind would pay more for a Surface intending to defang the prevention of choice implicit in it when they could just buy a Nexus 10 and do what they want without the uncrippling step instead, and also have resolution beyond the limit of their visual acuity.
Traditional desktops and laptops sold in US brick-and-mortar chains don't make the manufacturer hardly anything. The Windows OEM operating margin into retail is below 5%. The retailers for the most part make about 2%, hoping to sell accessories and software - and marketing incentives from OEMs for shelf space who don't have the margin to improve these incentives. Its actually hard to not make more return on investment than this. Since this year Microsoft is taking away their brick-and-mortar retail software business with their Windows 8 App Store, they're left with accessories - which is not enough money to make the whole thing worthwhile. With good 30%+ margins on software they could keep that boat afloat but no more. There is no profit for the OEM or the retailer, or in the entire manufacturing chain, in a $300 Windows laptop - especially for the department store retailer who could put an earner product in that spot with lower product returns, like basketballs or pillows. The bulk of the profit dollars for that device go to UPS for delivering it when ordered online, or the shipping company who moved the parts around. There are just not enough folk left dumb enough to pay $50 for a 2m HDMI cable (and $20 more for the extended warranty!) to make this work financially for a retailer who must pay rent or mortgage, staff payroll and electric, and tax, to maintain the debt burden taken to get where they are now.
Since these stores are also suffering from the migration away from physical media based distribution of games and movies, look for more of them to fail or simply close the PC department. Frankly it's long overdue. PC focused stores have been closing for a long time: ex, Future Shop. I remember once long ago standing in front of a CompUSA one cold Thanksgiving morning. As I stared in wonder at its lifeless beauty another customer wandered up and joined me. We were there for a little while admiring the rich storefront with the lights out and I said to him in an awestruck voice: "They close." His reply: "Wow." They have other problems too - the unpleasant customer experience of staff trained to optimize the corporate bottom line to the detriment of the consumer who pays for it all is one.
The death of the desktop will come quickly now not because Linux or Apple killed it but because Microsoft sucked all of the oxygen, all of the profit, out of its environment. Microsoft is killing their golden goose. Even without this in an era of instant streaming delivery of bits, or next-day delivery of almost anything physical every brick and mortar was going to have trouble.
This is not the YOTLD. It is the YOTLPT - the Year Of The Linux Palm Top. We have gone mobile and 1.5 million people a day choose to put Linux-based Android in their pocket and compute at their convenience, wherever they happen to be, because they're humans and where they want to be is more important again than the needs of their IT gear now that some IT gear can do its bit wherever the humans happen to be. Half a billion people so far and growing at a half-billion a year, doubling every year - take their Linux-based Android palmtop computer with them everywhere they go - to work, on vacation, to bed, to school...
I'll make a technology prediction: cubicle farms are dead. As humans take back ownership of their content consumption and creation environments enabled by these fully mobile devices there is going to be a vast tranformation in office space throughout the world. You want to short whatever company it is that makes those cloth-covered office space divider units and buy calls in anybody who makes couches and coffee tables.
But back to the topic: Steam games was the last thing keeping my oldest son from dual-booting Linux. Now that Valve has gone there he's going to join me on the Linux side in a trial. If it works out he'll use the Windows side less and less until eventually I wean him off the crippled system his mother insisted we get for him. Our younger kids like Linux and And
This is handled the same way as "block breaking" in the US in an era when ethnicity of homeowners was subject to "gentleman's agreements". A Japanese subsidiary would be set up with appropriately Japanese staff and concealed corporate ownership. A distressed seller is motivated to not look too close at an enthusiastic buyer willing to pay full price.
If only it were that easy. A number of patent cross-licenses and other contracts go void in the event of a change in control. That's why nobody has bought AMD yet.
Now that Samsung needs their own display output there is no other display vendor but Sharp Apple can turn to who can produce the quality of displays Apple needs in the appropriate volume. This will only get worse as other vendors' Android tablets, TVs and Chromebooks compete for this constrained supply. The only appropriate response for Sharp is to increase their prices to Apple and others to all the market will bear. This turns into a huge win for Sharp.
There doesn't need to be laws to handle that. That is what judges are for. Before when this was done any mutually acceptable citizen could judge the matter in dispute. If the parties couldn't agree on a judge there were volunteer judges to settle those issues and mete court costs to be approved by a citizen jury - even if the jury had to be rousted from the nearest tavern, or pressed from the street for a few minutes of query.
That's because Symbian is being discontinued. There will be no more new phones coming out with Symbian. All existing Symbian phones are scheduled to have only one or two more updates before EOL.
Nokia has deprecated Symbian. Nokia won't be making any more Symbian phones due to the exclusive nature of their relationship with Microsoft, even though the number of Symbian users converted to Windows Phone were essentially zero - as any but a fool would have expected. The deal essentially eliminated all of Nokia's considerable Symbian profits and revenues, replacing them with not a darned thing. But Symbian is open source, and those things have a way of springing back from the dead. Long after BSD was written off it lives on in OS X and iOS. If carriers want a third ecosystem Symbian with an installed base of still over 300 million is a good bet for it - far better than BB10 or Windows Phone. Symbian needs an open app store ecosystem, and a facelift, a few handset OEM sponsors, a community build that will go onto extant phones for the transition. But that's easier to do than selling 300 million Symbian users Windows Phone when they bought it because it was "not Microsoft".
Nokia got their half-billion Symbian units sold from a bygone era when smartphone sales were much lower. It took them a long time of huge market share to lift that bar so high, it wasn't even until last year that both iOS and Android combined could reach it and just this year that both did - due to the huge growth of the smartphone market.
It's late and the thread is old so you're likely the only one left reading this. I'll gift you with some historical juice: Counting coup on Nokia was one of the boxes Bill Gates left unchecked when he retired. He had Nokia envy for a decade. Besting Nokia was an undone task he had to let go to get away. Steve Ballmer, gifted with the CEO slot on the top of a tech and financial bubble, and then cursed with maintaining dividends and share price while the largest stockholder divests felt he didn't have a fair shot at success. Pressed on all sides and ridiculed in every corner Ballmer needed a win like wrecking Nokia to restore his self esteem. So he cheated. One day maybe the tale of how he cheated by subverting the Nokia Board and especially the Chairman in the critical CEO selection moment will be laid bare in some court somewhere. Or not. The connection should be well protected. But that's what happened. Wrecking Nokia by putting a puppet in, destroying the economy of Finland by deliberately bankrupting their biggest taxpayer, impoverishing the many retirees whose retirements rely on Nokia investments is just an intended consequence, a byblow, of Steve Ballmer proving to himself that he can do something even the legendary strategist he subconsciously knows is superior to him - Bill Gates - couldn't do. Steve Ballmer needed a win at any cost, and he got it.
Bill Gates really could have done it, and more gracefully, but it was out of phase with his retirement plan.
I could maybe propose some hypotheticals about how SteveB cheated. You see, as a multibillionaire CEO of what was then the world's largest technology company he travelled in rarified circles and rubbed elbows with movers and shakers. He could suggest, for example, that if some banks invested in a company dedicated to suing users and publishers of the cancerous Linux, they might make good their losses with favorable future tips. He could suggest to US bankers and financiers that they contact Nokia chairman Jorma
This investment was temporary, and part of a lawsuit settlement between the companies. If Microsoft has retained that investment its value would now be one third of their market cap.
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Apple has discovered that the X86 instruction set is a trap they don't have to trip. The only reason that old dog still hunts is that Windows props it up. Even Microsoft is wandering away from it now.
Pretty good actually.
Your estimate of the strength of racist strength is apposite my experience of its conflict with personal interest. I have considerable experience in this regard and while racism and ethnic strife can persist in political units with well-defined borders, once these cells experience fast communication with the outside world they realize their neighbour isn't that much different from them relative to the rest of the world.
Nothing. I was just pointing out that AT&T paid well to participate in your advertisement, and they're entitled to recognition in the prescribed form.
I bought the TF101 on launch day over a year ago. It has HDMI output and can drive the same monitors you and I are looking at. I have acquired three Windows cloud desktops through services like OnLive. Through Citrix and VMWare View I have access to an unlimited number of desktops with this tablet. Because my support crew is first rate they support every version of every Windows OS back to DOS 5.1 - and prior versions I can run or simulate locally. Anything your PC can do, my tablet can do. I use it to administer 100+ servers.
My phone has LTE and hotspot, so I can do this anywhere I happen to be by tethering this old tablet to my phone's wifi.
My tablet has the dock, so I can attach Wacom tablets, keyboards, mice, trackballs, and even Microsoft's Kinect if I want to. Bluetooth too. Connecting a peripheral to a device is becoming a network problem and the network software guys make short work of that.
Microsoft's Surface tablet has encryption to prevent loading of alternate operating systems. That would be protective of their OS franchise if Nexus 10 didn't have more storage, a 300 DPI screen, and cost less. Nobody in their right mind would pay more for a Surface intending to defang the prevention of choice implicit in it when they could just buy a Nexus 10 and do what they want without the uncrippling step instead, and also have resolution beyond the limit of their visual acuity.
Traditional desktops and laptops sold in US brick-and-mortar chains don't make the manufacturer hardly anything. The Windows OEM operating margin into retail is below 5%. The retailers for the most part make about 2%, hoping to sell accessories and software - and marketing incentives from OEMs for shelf space who don't have the margin to improve these incentives. Its actually hard to not make more return on investment than this. Since this year Microsoft is taking away their brick-and-mortar retail software business with their Windows 8 App Store, they're left with accessories - which is not enough money to make the whole thing worthwhile. With good 30%+ margins on software they could keep that boat afloat but no more. There is no profit for the OEM or the retailer, or in the entire manufacturing chain, in a $300 Windows laptop - especially for the department store retailer who could put an earner product in that spot with lower product returns, like basketballs or pillows. The bulk of the profit dollars for that device go to UPS for delivering it when ordered online, or the shipping company who moved the parts around. There are just not enough folk left dumb enough to pay $50 for a 2m HDMI cable (and $20 more for the extended warranty!) to make this work financially for a retailer who must pay rent or mortgage, staff payroll and electric, and tax, to maintain the debt burden taken to get where they are now.
Since these stores are also suffering from the migration away from physical media based distribution of games and movies, look for more of them to fail or simply close the PC department. Frankly it's long overdue. PC focused stores have been closing for a long time: ex, Future Shop. I remember once long ago standing in front of a CompUSA one cold Thanksgiving morning. As I stared in wonder at its lifeless beauty another customer wandered up and joined me. We were there for a little while admiring the rich storefront with the lights out and I said to him in an awestruck voice: "They close." His reply: "Wow." They have other problems too - the unpleasant customer experience of staff trained to optimize the corporate bottom line to the detriment of the consumer who pays for it all is one.
The death of the desktop will come quickly now not because Linux or Apple killed it but because Microsoft sucked all of the oxygen, all of the profit, out of its environment. Microsoft is killing their golden goose. Even without this in an era of instant streaming delivery of bits, or next-day delivery of almost anything physical every brick and mortar was going to have trouble.
This is not the YOTLD. It is the YOTLPT - the Year Of The Linux Palm Top. We have gone mobile and 1.5 million people a day choose to put Linux-based Android in their pocket and compute at their convenience, wherever they happen to be, because they're humans and where they want to be is more important again than the needs of their IT gear now that some IT gear can do its bit wherever the humans happen to be. Half a billion people so far and growing at a half-billion a year, doubling every year - take their Linux-based Android palmtop computer with them everywhere they go - to work, on vacation, to bed, to school...
I'll make a technology prediction: cubicle farms are dead. As humans take back ownership of their content consumption and creation environments enabled by these fully mobile devices there is going to be a vast tranformation in office space throughout the world. You want to short whatever company it is that makes those cloth-covered office space divider units and buy calls in anybody who makes couches and coffee tables.
But back to the topic: Steam games was the last thing keeping my oldest son from dual-booting Linux. Now that Valve has gone there he's going to join me on the Linux side in a trial. If it works out he'll use the Windows side less and less until eventually I wean him off the crippled system his mother insisted we get for him. Our younger kids like Linux and And
And then you say "It's like Android but with a desktop like XP." Just enough link from the familiar to the familiar for them to get over their fear.
Velcro. Available at the hardware store.
You forgot to say "Exclusively from AT&T"
Even Kin was made by Elcoteq, who jobbed it for Sharp.
This is handled the same way as "block breaking" in the US in an era when ethnicity of homeowners was subject to "gentleman's agreements". A Japanese subsidiary would be set up with appropriately Japanese staff and concealed corporate ownership. A distressed seller is motivated to not look too close at an enthusiastic buyer willing to pay full price.
If only it were that easy. A number of patent cross-licenses and other contracts go void in the event of a change in control. That's why nobody has bought AMD yet.
Now that Samsung needs their own display output there is no other display vendor but Sharp Apple can turn to who can produce the quality of displays Apple needs in the appropriate volume. This will only get worse as other vendors' Android tablets, TVs and Chromebooks compete for this constrained supply. The only appropriate response for Sharp is to increase their prices to Apple and others to all the market will bear. This turns into a huge win for Sharp.
It's long past time for this. China is doing MIPS servers too.
Yeah, like infiniband, Linux, high performance high volume storage. Which if you read further you will find they also have.
They assembled it and it works. What more could they want?
But in a consumer environment you simply return the boards for exchange.
The funniest static comment was the one expecting latent esd failures to appear weeks later.
There doesn't need to be laws to handle that. That is what judges are for. Before when this was done any mutually acceptable citizen could judge the matter in dispute. If the parties couldn't agree on a judge there were volunteer judges to settle those issues and mete court costs to be approved by a citizen jury - even if the jury had to be rousted from the nearest tavern, or pressed from the street for a few minutes of query.
Probably the last time that happens though.
That's because Symbian is being discontinued. There will be no more new phones coming out with Symbian. All existing Symbian phones are scheduled to have only one or two more updates before EOL.
Nokia has deprecated Symbian. Nokia won't be making any more Symbian phones due to the exclusive nature of their relationship with Microsoft, even though the number of Symbian users converted to Windows Phone were essentially zero - as any but a fool would have expected. The deal essentially eliminated all of Nokia's considerable Symbian profits and revenues, replacing them with not a darned thing. But Symbian is open source, and those things have a way of springing back from the dead. Long after BSD was written off it lives on in OS X and iOS. If carriers want a third ecosystem Symbian with an installed base of still over 300 million is a good bet for it - far better than BB10 or Windows Phone. Symbian needs an open app store ecosystem, and a facelift, a few handset OEM sponsors, a community build that will go onto extant phones for the transition. But that's easier to do than selling 300 million Symbian users Windows Phone when they bought it because it was "not Microsoft".
Nokia got their half-billion Symbian units sold from a bygone era when smartphone sales were much lower. It took them a long time of huge market share to lift that bar so high, it wasn't even until last year that both iOS and Android combined could reach it and just this year that both did - due to the huge growth of the smartphone market.
It's late and the thread is old so you're likely the only one left reading this. I'll gift you with some historical juice: Counting coup on Nokia was one of the boxes Bill Gates left unchecked when he retired. He had Nokia envy for a decade. Besting Nokia was an undone task he had to let go to get away. Steve Ballmer, gifted with the CEO slot on the top of a tech and financial bubble, and then cursed with maintaining dividends and share price while the largest stockholder divests felt he didn't have a fair shot at success. Pressed on all sides and ridiculed in every corner Ballmer needed a win like wrecking Nokia to restore his self esteem. So he cheated. One day maybe the tale of how he cheated by subverting the Nokia Board and especially the Chairman in the critical CEO selection moment will be laid bare in some court somewhere. Or not. The connection should be well protected. But that's what happened. Wrecking Nokia by putting a puppet in, destroying the economy of Finland by deliberately bankrupting their biggest taxpayer, impoverishing the many retirees whose retirements rely on Nokia investments is just an intended consequence, a byblow, of Steve Ballmer proving to himself that he can do something even the legendary strategist he subconsciously knows is superior to him - Bill Gates - couldn't do. Steve Ballmer needed a win at any cost, and he got it.
Bill Gates really could have done it, and more gracefully, but it was out of phase with his retirement plan.
I could maybe propose some hypotheticals about how SteveB cheated. You see, as a multibillionaire CEO of what was then the world's largest technology company he travelled in rarified circles and rubbed elbows with movers and shakers. He could suggest, for example, that if some banks invested in a company dedicated to suing users and publishers of the cancerous Linux, they might make good their losses with favorable future tips. He could suggest to US bankers and financiers that they contact Nokia chairman Jorma
Also shorter lifespan for the roof of a professional sports venue.
You argument is that Office is the least compatible software on Earth. By design. Sony tried that. We are tired of that now. It worked for a while.
This investment was temporary, and part of a lawsuit settlement between the companies. If Microsoft has retained that investment its value would now be one third of their market cap.
Nokia is losing a billion dollars a quarter focusing on Windows Phone, and you think Android is a race to the bottom.
Every few years he comes out of hiding to remind us that ain't gonna happen. Then he sees his shadow, and we get three more years of Ballmer.