The first (and only) MeeGo-based phone came out in 2011. The market was still open, so it could have succeeded - if only Stephen Elop weren't actively, publicly sabotaging it.
The first Sailfish phone, on the other hand, only came out in 2013. By this point, the market had pretty much stabilized on Android. It's much harder now for an alternative system to take off. Even Tizen is only a niche system, and you know Jolla is much smaller than Samsung.
As we witness the end of this sad tale, let us not forget that Microsoft tried to hijack Nokia's rabidly loyal userbase by planting one of their own as CEO and switching the company to WP, only to be universally rejected. They killed the top-selling smartphone system of the time (Symbian) and the new system that everyone was hyped for (MeeGo), all to peddle a late, rushed, still unfinished piece of crap that no one wanted.
So, good fucking riddance to stillborn WP, the mobile equivalent of "this is why we can't have nice things" (and by "nice things" I mean MeeGo).
Laptop usually means: small screen, crappy keyboard, awful trackpad, poor durability, and little expandability, but more expensive than an equivalent desktop machine.
I recall watching an interview in which Jobs explained why the Lisa cost so much. Remember that Apple hired a bunch of PARC people back then? That's the thing, their fatal mistake was that they retained a Xerox mindset. They thought their clientele was still upscale offices for whom a $10,000 workstation was a very reasonable expense.
OLED still has durability issues. After a couple of years of use, the blue diodes will degrade, leaving the screen yellowed. You can see this in many smartphones.
Of course a desktop PC is the best game machine of all, except for the little detail that it doesn't fit inside your pocket. On the other hand, if you have a decent smartphone (and pretty much everyone does nowadays), just add a $20 bluetooth gamepad and that makes it a nice portable console / emulator.
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I was not even thinking of Android, but mainframes, supercomputers, internet servers, render farms, embedded devices...
A matter of timing and moneying.
The first (and only) MeeGo-based phone came out in 2011. The market was still open, so it could have succeeded - if only Stephen Elop weren't actively, publicly sabotaging it.
The first Sailfish phone, on the other hand, only came out in 2013. By this point, the market had pretty much stabilized on Android. It's much harder now for an alternative system to take off. Even Tizen is only a niche system, and you know Jolla is much smaller than Samsung.
This is the mobile equivalent of the mid 1990s. Unix dying, commodore dead, Apple II dead, Apple dying, OS/2 dying. Windows was the answer and won.
Then Linux showed up and now rules everything that is not a desktop. And the Mac is still selling pretty well too.
MeeGo didn't ahve a playstore
It sure did, never heard of the Ovi Store?
As we witness the end of this sad tale, let us not forget that Microsoft tried to hijack Nokia's rabidly loyal userbase by planting one of their own as CEO and switching the company to WP, only to be universally rejected. They killed the top-selling smartphone system of the time (Symbian) and the new system that everyone was hyped for (MeeGo), all to peddle a late, rushed, still unfinished piece of crap that no one wanted.
So, good fucking riddance to stillborn WP, the mobile equivalent of "this is why we can't have nice things" (and by "nice things" I mean MeeGo).
Imagine Usenet, only full of semiliterate Brazilians and Indians. What a glorious clusterfuck that was.
I actually liked Orkut because it was built around communities rather than people. It was like a collection of subject-specific message boards.
Sounds like an AIO is worst of both worlds: not portable, not expandable, and not cheap.
Come on, that's logical: carrying a machine around all the time causes mechanical stress, affecting its weak points, such as hinges and connectors.
And I really can't imagine many kids acting like that.
1. Why would kids do that? Last minute "oh shit I forgot to do the homework"?
2. That's related to the "poor durability" bit I had mentioned.
$600 is a rather high end price. There are good Android phones for less than $200.
Laptop usually means: small screen, crappy keyboard, awful trackpad, poor durability, and little expandability, but more expensive than an equivalent desktop machine.
There are tons of unsold Windows phones.
Yes, because they had MIDI ports, which was unique. Nowadays an USB/MIDI adapter costs less than $10 on eBay.
If the software you want to use runs on Windows... you can try Wine.
I recall watching an interview in which Jobs explained why the Lisa cost so much. Remember that Apple hired a bunch of PARC people back then? That's the thing, their fatal mistake was that they retained a Xerox mindset. They thought their clientele was still upscale offices for whom a $10,000 workstation was a very reasonable expense.
What was that joke again? If Commodore tried to sell fried chicken, they would advertise it as dead warm bird.
A $10,000 home computer? What's that, a goddamn Apple Lisa? Most home computers of old were far cheaper than that.
You mean her ahegao face?
ArcaOS, as the company's name is Arca Noae.
I understand 8 as "packing for distribution".
OLED still has durability issues. After a couple of years of use, the blue diodes will degrade, leaving the screen yellowed. You can see this in many smartphones.
How is this ignorant shit modded insightful, goddamn, the intellectual level here is lower than I thought.
Clear Channel killed the radio star.
Of course a desktop PC is the best game machine of all, except for the little detail that it doesn't fit inside your pocket. On the other hand, if you have a decent smartphone (and pretty much everyone does nowadays), just add a $20 bluetooth gamepad and that makes it a nice portable console / emulator.
Designated slapping streets?