Who cares about low latency audio? It isn't an issue for regular users and most of us aren't composers. In contrast all the other options you derided actually have mass market appeal.
"Limited" is like half a dozen top cellphone models or more. Apple has one top cellphone model. Innovation is relative. For people used to a RAZR the iPhone was innovative. For people used to Windows CE devices not really.
There are plenty of high end Android devices. The Samsung Galaxy SIII and Galaxy Note II, the Nexus, LG's Optimus G, HTC Droid DNA, Sony XPeria TL, etc.
Ubuntu has actually taken a couple of steps backward but Microsoft did a big mistake with their Windows 8 transition. I used to find this more difficult to believe than I do not. The Ubuntu gaming push is critical for this to happen. My main use for Windows is playing games and video editing. I do everything else with FLOSS apps.
It's a matter of time really. The source is available and the base platform is the same. In fact I was surprised Google themselves didn't go themselves this way instead of dabbling with Chrome OS. If you could run Android apps on the desktop it would make that platform a lot more palatable. If you could run Dalvik binaries on the desktop you could make simple easily portable desktop apps.
If you carefully select your hardware you don't need to use the command line at all. I doubt a lot of the devices you have to use the command line to configure on Linux are even supported by MacOS X. In fact some of them aren't even supported in recent versions of Windows.
I have an iPhone 3GS and I can't use it for a full day either because the battery isn't up to it. The feature phones I had the battery lasted like a week.
Good luck. Intel seems mostly to be interested in fabbing products which do not compete with their own range such as FPGAs. Not to mention that changing manufacturing process will require a whole new chip design which will probably take 2 years to complete. Apple are better off changing to production to TSMC assuming they can fullfill the demand.
RMS himself has said the license doesn't matter if all you want is to compile code using GCC. The GPL doesn't forbid using a GPLed tool to create proprietary works. RMS only added the exception to placate the FUD you are repeating here. For more information try reading about the Electronics Arts Deluxe Paint case from several decades back when EA added a license clause to their paint program stating that all artwork created using the paint program was the property of EA. That didn't fly very well with the judge...
Clang provides lower performance binaries than GCC for my code and other pieces of code I have benchmarked. Sure Clang compiles fast on the equivalent of -O0 and has ANSI colored error messages but that isn't the only criteria I have for a compiler.
The Portuguese brought sugar cane production from the southern Iberian Peninsula to Madeira island and later on to Brazil. Why is there no sugar cane production in southern Portugal today? Because sugar cane used to be planted during the Medieval Warm period and as climate got cooler the sugar cane didn't have the proper conditions anymore.
Apple is pulling the same kinds of bullshit Microsoft pulled before the anti-trust trial. In the age of too big to fail and when the US President points to Apple as an example of a a successful company during the elections they are so full of hot air they are probably floating higher in their gas balloon than the Red Bull Stratos guy did.
I would just order the Apple UK domain name to be redirected to a government server webpage explicitly stating what I wanted to say with a link at the bottom to the actual Apple server.
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Who cares about low latency audio? It isn't an issue for regular users and most of us aren't composers. In contrast all the other options you derided actually have mass market appeal.
"Limited" is like half a dozen top cellphone models or more. Apple has one top cellphone model. Innovation is relative. For people used to a RAZR the iPhone was innovative. For people used to Windows CE devices not really.
There are plenty of high end Android devices. The Samsung Galaxy SIII and Galaxy Note II, the Nexus, LG's Optimus G, HTC Droid DNA, Sony XPeria TL, etc.
None of which can compete with a vertically integrated entity like Samsung.
So do you think Apple's pricing is making them lose market share or not? That is the definition of overpriced even from a business perspective...
Verizon is offering the iPhone 4 free. Make of that what you will.
Ubuntu has actually taken a couple of steps backward but Microsoft did a big mistake with their Windows 8 transition. I used to find this more difficult to believe than I do not. The Ubuntu gaming push is critical for this to happen. My main use for Windows is playing games and video editing. I do everything else with FLOSS apps.
It's a matter of time really. The source is available and the base platform is the same. In fact I was surprised Google themselves didn't go themselves this way instead of dabbling with Chrome OS. If you could run Android apps on the desktop it would make that platform a lot more palatable. If you could run Dalvik binaries on the desktop you could make simple easily portable desktop apps.
Samsung has sold Windows devices for yonks. In fact even before iOS devices came out. The problem is they are crap and don't sell.
If you carefully select your hardware you don't need to use the command line at all. I doubt a lot of the devices you have to use the command line to configure on Linux are even supported by MacOS X. In fact some of them aren't even supported in recent versions of Windows.
I have an iPhone 3GS and I can't use it for a full day either because the battery isn't up to it. The feature phones I had the battery lasted like a week.
Good luck. Intel seems mostly to be interested in fabbing products which do not compete with their own range such as FPGAs. Not to mention that changing manufacturing process will require a whole new chip design which will probably take 2 years to complete. Apple are better off changing to production to TSMC assuming they can fullfill the demand.
IV and V were well done. VI was Ewoks and was mostly a repeat of the Death Star battle in IV.
Ever heard of Open64? It's not like GCC and Clang are the only C++ compilers out there.
RMS himself has said the license doesn't matter if all you want is to compile code using GCC. The GPL doesn't forbid using a GPLed tool to create proprietary works. RMS only added the exception to placate the FUD you are repeating here. For more information try reading about the Electronics Arts Deluxe Paint case from several decades back when EA added a license clause to their paint program stating that all artwork created using the paint program was the property of EA. That didn't fly very well with the judge...
Clang also produces lower performing binaries than GCC but try to find that on their comparison page...
CCache helps when compiling large source trees.
Clang provides lower performance binaries than GCC for my code and other pieces of code I have benchmarked. Sure Clang compiles fast on the equivalent of -O0 and has ANSI colored error messages but that isn't the only criteria I have for a compiler.
LLVM is more like a JIT engine than a compiler. Clang is the C/C++ compiler frontend that uses LLVM as the backend to generate an executable.
It is cooler than it used to be back then.
There are also large tar sands reserves in the Orinoco in Venezuela but I am guessing they aren't being explored properly for political reasons.
The Portuguese brought sugar cane production from the southern Iberian Peninsula to Madeira island and later on to Brazil. Why is there no sugar cane production in southern Portugal today? Because sugar cane used to be planted during the Medieval Warm period and as climate got cooler the sugar cane didn't have the proper conditions anymore.
Apple is pulling the same kinds of bullshit Microsoft pulled before the anti-trust trial. In the age of too big to fail and when the US President points to Apple as an example of a a successful company during the elections they are so full of hot air they are probably floating higher in their gas balloon than the Red Bull Stratos guy did.
I would just order the Apple UK domain name to be redirected to a government server webpage explicitly stating what I wanted to say with a link at the bottom to the actual Apple server.
Even POWER has more units than Itanium. All present generation consoles (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo), IBM servers, etc.