Yes, I think FUD of RIM's demise is premature, even if the incompetent management of HP and Nokia managed to destroy webOS, Symbian and Meego in the space of 12 months.
A RTOS that supports HTML5, Qt and Android apps seems like a fair alternative to the current Apple/Samsung duopoly.
Whether they sell at sufficient numbers is something the market will decide but for the moment there is hope.
Retrofit your monolithic binary blob into a wayland capable architecture and you'll have addressed many concerns such as KMS, EGL, etc.
Supporting it on Tegra would be a step towards running standard accelerated Linux on an ARM phone or tablet and you'll be the slashdot nerd's platform of choice ahead of Adreno, Mali, PowerVR, VideoCore etc.
Yeah I wondered about the emulation required for their 'android player'. It sounds like a virtual machine (dalvik) running inside a virtual machine (player).
If they don't already implement dalvik natively on QNX and in the process shoehorn native libraries compiled for bionic/linux, it might make the integration less "shitty".
Some here bleat on about 'Google bought Motorola for the patents'. Nevertheless, Motorola is in the doldrums as far as stealing back market share from the likes of Samsung.
Either Google closes down Moto's manufacturing division or they start pumping out Nexus models to revive them.
Sure, I understand home ownership but real estate generally doesn't include infrastructure.
Roads, public spaces, power, sewage, water are generally either provided by a democratically elected municipality, or corporation in terms of privatisation. Such regional governments have the ability to impose taxation on residents, whereas the supreme owner of an island might rely on rental only.
Such infrastructure could be quite expensive for Mr Ellison and the residents would be at the mercy of him improving the facilities while keeping rents low. Offset by the various businesses that operate on the island.
What does 'owning' an Island actual mean? Is it part of the state of Hawaii and thus the USA?
Can Larry declare independence, make the island an international tax haven, issue its own currency and move Oracle's head office outside US jurisdiction?
Or is it more just he's now the owner of a pineapple plantation with 3000 worker slaves?
A friend, and Nokia fan, bought a Symbian (Nokia Belle) phone after Elop's Windows announcement. The reason being that it was a mature platform and he didn't want to be an earlier adopter - however shiny and modern the Lumia seemed.
He might have been right - His phone might receive software updates (through Accenture) after WP7 is EOLed...
If it's a concept-UI only, perhaps the feeling is they wanted to share concepts with the fussiest group of guinea pigs - Apple users.
iOS enjoys market penetration and a fan base picky about software that doesn't gel with the look and feel of the host platform. In this sense, it's a reasonable strategy - if you want a killer browser for mobile, to out-safari safari is a good start.
If this thing smashes all expectations amongst Apple fans, its conceptual UI could migrate to Mozilla's fledgling boot to gecko project. B2G is a nice idea but it's not ideal to prototype ideas to a mass user base - which currently consists of a maybe a handful of people outside Mozilla who decided to void their Galaxy S2's warranty.
More than likely it's just the work of a couple of bored Firefox for OS X developers wanting to hone their skills on iOS, and potentially sharing some of the non-gecko, darwinesque infrastructure. The effort might not necessarily be wasted should Apple ever unify iOS and OS X by applying a Metro-like veneer to the Mac!
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Yes, I think FUD of RIM's demise is premature, even if the incompetent management of HP and Nokia managed to destroy webOS, Symbian and Meego in the space of 12 months.
A RTOS that supports HTML5, Qt and Android apps seems like a fair alternative to the current Apple/Samsung duopoly.
Whether they sell at sufficient numbers is something the market will decide but for the moment there is hope.
Retrofit your monolithic binary blob into a wayland capable architecture and you'll have addressed many concerns such as KMS, EGL, etc.
Supporting it on Tegra would be a step towards running standard accelerated Linux on an ARM phone or tablet and you'll be the slashdot nerd's platform of choice ahead of Adreno, Mali, PowerVR, VideoCore etc.
Which is not to say workers are not underpaid in the US as a whole.
e.g. the national minimum wage in Australia is $AU15.51
265km ?
Yeah I wondered about the emulation required for their 'android player'. It sounds like a virtual machine (dalvik) running inside a virtual machine (player).
If they don't already implement dalvik natively on QNX and in the process shoehorn native libraries compiled for bionic/linux, it might make the integration less "shitty".
The latest hipster word mashup for a PHone-tABLET. Essentially a phone with a screen > 5".
e.g. the Galaxy Note.
Some here bleat on about 'Google bought Motorola for the patents'. Nevertheless, Motorola is in the doldrums as far as stealing back market share from the likes of Samsung.
Either Google closes down Moto's manufacturing division or they start pumping out Nexus models to revive them.
Sure, I understand home ownership but real estate generally doesn't include infrastructure.
Roads, public spaces, power, sewage, water are generally either provided by a democratically elected municipality, or corporation in terms of privatisation. Such regional governments have the ability to impose taxation on residents, whereas the supreme owner of an island might rely on rental only.
Such infrastructure could be quite expensive for Mr Ellison and the residents would be at the mercy of him improving the facilities while keeping rents low. Offset by the various businesses that operate on the island.
What does 'owning' an Island actual mean? Is it part of the state of Hawaii and thus the USA?
Can Larry declare independence, make the island an international tax haven, issue its own currency and move Oracle's head office outside US jurisdiction?
Or is it more just he's now the owner of a pineapple plantation with 3000 worker slaves?
A friend, and Nokia fan, bought a Symbian (Nokia Belle) phone after Elop's Windows announcement. The reason being that it was a mature platform and he didn't want to be an earlier adopter - however shiny and modern the Lumia seemed.
He might have been right - His phone might receive software updates (through Accenture) after WP7 is EOLed...
Yes, they're crazy all right. Vector graphics are designed to scale. Pixels are so last century.
The one where Vader hacks off his son's hand with a laser sword.
The predecessor, the S2 is used by developers of boot to gecko.
If you want Qt, wait for the new BlackBerry.
Nemo Mobile, part of Mer which also targets KDE (Plasma Active) and Hildon (Cordia)
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If it's a concept-UI only, perhaps the feeling is they wanted to share concepts with the fussiest group of guinea pigs - Apple users.
iOS enjoys market penetration and a fan base picky about software that doesn't gel with the look and feel of the host platform. In this sense, it's a reasonable strategy - if you want a killer browser for mobile, to out-safari safari is a good start.
If this thing smashes all expectations amongst Apple fans, its conceptual UI could migrate to Mozilla's fledgling boot to gecko project. B2G is a nice idea but it's not ideal to prototype ideas to a mass user base - which currently consists of a maybe a handful of people outside Mozilla who decided to void their Galaxy S2's warranty.
More than likely it's just the work of a couple of bored Firefox for OS X developers wanting to hone their skills on iOS, and potentially sharing some of the non-gecko, darwinesque infrastructure. The effort might not necessarily be wasted should Apple ever unify iOS and OS X by applying a Metro-like veneer to the Mac!
Vandals didn't enter Spain until 409 AD.
This article is about art dated to roughly forty millennia before they arrived.
Unless there's a legion of games written in assembly language, I think you're exaggerating the frustration.
Developers eager to make a sale will recompile their C-based native code - no ARM emulation required.
Don't ask me. An Apple rep obviously sweet-talked the administration that there were hundreds of educational 'apps' for different ages.
Yuppie private school sets its own rules, parents pick up the cost.
Balsa wood, glue, done.
Raspberry pi? $35 per student plus screens and peripherals.
Get the woodworking kids to design cases for them.
My nephew, 11, and niece, 6, were both required to purchase iPads for the school year.
Computing is rapidly replacing blackboards and pencil&paper.
If you're hoping for an ARM SoC with a radeon gpu, it's possible they have a don't-compete agreement with Qualcomm - who bought the Adreno off ATI.
Funny you mention android, if they expose the cortex A chip to user programs then one could develop on the amd64 and run the emulator on the ARM core.