Do your own research!:) I am content not to own a $1,000 flagship but choose from a number of different OEMs that offer a mix of features at various budgets, which the Android ecosystem allows.
(p.s. Since I'm a tech-hoarder, there's a box full of old partially working LG, Moto, HTC, Samsung, Nokia models and even an old Symbian I mean to put out for recycling. Maybe I'd get $20 a pop on gumtree/ebay...)
I'm quite happy with my 2017 era smartphone with removable battery, dual SIM, headphone jack, sdcard, fm radio and possibly other features Tim Cook decided I didn't need.
A laptop with a fixed hinge? Agreed that a touchscreen doesn't add much if you're using it primarily as a desktop.
But I could definitely see myself using a Surface or equivalent, with a removable keyboard cover. i.e. doing what I'd do most on an iPad - sitting on the couch or on the train surfing the web or as a PDF viewer. apps? I have a phone for that.
Then keep 2 different GUIs but use a single technology to implement it.
HTML5 doesn't care if it's running on a smartphone or a 50" TV. Nor does Qt, which Nokia transplanted from the desktop to a touch environment. However, different form factors require different skins, e.g. mobile CSS.
Where UWP failed was companies writing apps for Lumia and then publishing that same app to the Windows store without tailoring the user interface - a big screen abomination. And since WP10 was a distant third place behind iOS and Android, apps were unlikely to receive the same love in the first place.
But neither should Apple run up the white flag saying its an impossible task to create Cocoa Revisited, Marzipan?, a toolkit that is a first class citizen on both GUIs.
Slashdot should really stop post clickbait articles on what Apple *aren't* doing, although I'm sure it's a major coup for the journalist at the Green Guide to interview one of the world's most influential CEOs from the other side of the planet.
If he's not interested in marketing products we basement dwelling nerds would be interested in, that's okay. We have differing tastes and companies that pursue our ideas of innovation will gladly take our money.
Microsoft developers had so much fun implementing WSL.
Take it a step further and you have Linux Subsystem for Windows Subsystem for Linux (LSWSL), pronounced Lasso Weasel - the acronym is a palindrome. It basically amounts to Windows 10 running inside a bare metal Linux hyper-visor, with WSL running atop that.
Currently WSL operates by the Windows 10 (NT) kernel emulating Linux syscalls. Linux -> Win. This obviously creates complexity in the Windows environment, translating paradigms and so forth. So such a new environment would initially perform Linux -> Win -> Linux but at some point you'd hope to eliminate the Windows translation layer, viz Linux -> Linux.
The articles link a whitepaper of 7 security features they wanted, on die. The idea is there's a hidden Cortex-M4F running firmware to control a regular Cortex-A7 with a couple of additional user-programmable Cortex-M4F thrown in.
It's all mumbo-jumbo to me but presumably an off the shelf rPI wouldn't support that *in silicon*, hence the custom design.
The Sopris whitepaper mentions "renewable security" running some sort of secure fortress to prevent attacks such as Broadcom wifi from compromising the system as a whole.
Are Mediatek and MS willing to publish the source to this inner firmware on github, along with flashing instructions? I wouldn't think so. So put on your tin-foil hat, remember the Intel management engine Minix scandal and be very afraid!
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Do your own research! :) I am content not to own a $1,000 flagship but choose from a number of different OEMs that offer a mix of features at various budgets, which the Android ecosystem allows.
(p.s. Since I'm a tech-hoarder, there's a box full of old partially working LG, Moto, HTC, Samsung, Nokia models and even an old Symbian I mean to put out for recycling. Maybe I'd get $20 a pop on gumtree/ebay...)
Lenovo is the owner of Moto, the all American smartphone company that Google pumped and dumped after collaborating on the Nexus 6.
I'm quite happy with my 2017 era smartphone with removable battery, dual SIM, headphone jack, sdcard, fm radio and possibly other features Tim Cook decided I didn't need.
Didn't Hawking send a message to himself on his deathbed back to the point in time he created time travel?
"Dear Steve, they'll have a memorial service for us in a couple of months. Love Steve"
What language would you prefer they be written in?
I'd be concerned by Google. They're the "don't be evil" guys and I'm typing this on a Google branded device but food for thought.
Almost every consumer Linux device includes Google Play, first on Android and now Chrome OS.
Chrome OS now running desktop Linux apps in a container. So your choices for a 'Linux' laptop are bare metal, a surface pro WSL or a pixel book.
You dandy yanky-doodles might want to get out of your bubble occasionally.
'maths' is correct in various Englishes other than en_US.
"this fall"
This autumn. Furthermore, it's already autumn here in the southern hemisphere.
I thought the whole point of Arrival was to showcase an attractive ginger Uhura.
Enough of the male-bashing.
XBox basically *is* an AMD PC, running a Xbox OS skin atop a Windows 10 hypervisor.
1991?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
FSP.
A portable Linux machine with 4 gigs of RAM sounds handy.
Ireland
Complain to Tim Cook! :-)
Hey Tim, "user" wonders why there's no touchpad on the iPad keyboard. Android supports mouse input.
As an Apple 'hater', I could certainly live with that.
Compare a Macbook and an iPad Pro side by side - the iPad wins easily on 'sexiness'. But I need to buy the fugly Macbook to get "real work" done?
A laptop with a fixed hinge? Agreed that a touchscreen doesn't add much if you're using it primarily as a desktop.
But I could definitely see myself using a Surface or equivalent, with a removable keyboard cover. i.e. doing what I'd do most on an iPad - sitting on the couch or on the train surfing the web or as a PDF viewer. apps? I have a phone for that.
The iPad Pro already has a hardware keyboard.
Yeah the Chrome tablets are an interesting development - a platform that merges a WIMP environment with an app platform.
'Users' have convinced themselves they don't want a touchscreen laptop, even when I point out that an iPad Pro is a touchscreen laptop.
Then keep 2 different GUIs but use a single technology to implement it.
HTML5 doesn't care if it's running on a smartphone or a 50" TV. Nor does Qt, which Nokia transplanted from the desktop to a touch environment. However, different form factors require different skins, e.g. mobile CSS.
Where UWP failed was companies writing apps for Lumia and then publishing that same app to the Windows store without tailoring the user interface - a big screen abomination. And since WP10 was a distant third place behind iOS and Android, apps were unlikely to receive the same love in the first place.
But neither should Apple run up the white flag saying its an impossible task to create Cocoa Revisited, Marzipan?, a toolkit that is a first class citizen on both GUIs.
Slashdot should really stop post clickbait articles on what Apple *aren't* doing, although I'm sure it's a major coup for the journalist at the Green Guide to interview one of the world's most influential CEOs from the other side of the planet.
If he's not interested in marketing products we basement dwelling nerds would be interested in, that's okay. We have differing tastes and companies that pursue our ideas of innovation will gladly take our money.
Microsoft developers had so much fun implementing WSL.
Take it a step further and you have Linux Subsystem for Windows Subsystem for Linux (LSWSL), pronounced Lasso Weasel - the acronym is a palindrome. It basically amounts to Windows 10 running inside a bare metal Linux hyper-visor, with WSL running atop that.
Currently WSL operates by the Windows 10 (NT) kernel emulating Linux syscalls. Linux -> Win. This obviously creates complexity in the Windows environment, translating paradigms and so forth. So such a new environment would initially perform Linux -> Win -> Linux but at some point you'd hope to eliminate the Windows translation layer, viz Linux -> Linux.
The articles link a whitepaper of 7 security features they wanted, on die. The idea is there's a hidden Cortex-M4F running firmware to control a regular Cortex-A7 with a couple of additional user-programmable Cortex-M4F thrown in.
It's all mumbo-jumbo to me but presumably an off the shelf rPI wouldn't support that *in silicon*, hence the custom design.
The Sopris whitepaper mentions "renewable security" running some sort of secure fortress to prevent attacks such as Broadcom wifi from compromising the system as a whole.
Are Mediatek and MS willing to publish the source to this inner firmware on github, along with flashing instructions? I wouldn't think so. So put on your tin-foil hat, remember the Intel management engine Minix scandal and be very afraid!
What battery?
The promotional video shows a smart fridge.