A minority player like RIM will never compete on the number of apps. It's basically a 2 horse race between iOS and Android (and perhaps a late challenge from MS-Nokia).
What they need to focus on is building 'killer' phones and focus on their strengths in the enterprise. And selling them at a reasonable price point to consumers. i.e. not $60/m on a 2 year contract as per the flagship Samsung/Apple models - which is a fair wad of cash for the average consumer in tough economic times.
The flash people already donated Tamarin to Mozilla, which uses NanoJIT in their current JavaScript VM. So speed should be similar to the flash plugin.
Some of the suggestions are really lame. Pandas - Chinese names transliterated into random phonemes that few can pronounce let alone remember. Sports - cool idea when it's snowboarding or beach volleyball but who's going to code for fedora 28, lawn bowls?:-)
She's the Queen of Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Well at least Mozilla is proposing standards to advance web apps through its b2g project and coffeescript-inspired extensions to ecmascript do trickle into javascript.
Apple, nokia(wp7 division not Qt) and Google might not care (native app stores generate the $$$).
But hopefully smaller players like HP (open webOS), KDE (plasma active), Intel (tizen) and RIM (BB10) will add the necessary support to webkit.
Was using Gnome after the KDE 4.0 debacle. Repulsed by Unity. Tried Enlightment, found it lacked polish. Tried LXDE and gave up after the utility to configure my non-US keyboard was broken (patched upstream). XFCE works pretty well. Mate isn't too bad.
Try KDE again. No, seriously. It's looking more polished and although it lost a lot of fans post 3.x, it has matured. The 'Activities' provide a nice separation between traditional desktop and touchscreen environments and plasmoids look cool. This seems like a better approach than the Unity-everywhere of Ubuntu.
If I understand correctly, LPDDR2 draws significantly less power than DDR3.
DDR4 will be competitive with LPDDR2.
But in turn, LPDDR3 will draw significantly less power than DDR4.
So manufacturers will have the choice of preserving today's mobile power levels by going with DDR4. Or they can use a more expensive LPDDR3 with lower power but, presumably, lower performance.
This fanfare over piracy, thinking of the children, and terrorism is just masking the real issue. Follow the money trail - it leads to mobile phone carriers.
If everyone had open access wifi, there would be reduced need for 3G data plans in major cities. Handsets would use VOIP.
Well, some technical and poitical challenges about basing 'Goobuntu' on Android: When Canonical proposed running Android apps on Ubuntu, they received a lukewarm response from Google. Google have been reticient about getting their Android patches merged into the main Linux kernel (occuring slowly). Android uses a cut-down C library (bionic) which would make porting desktop apps. I'm not sure whether Android would build against glibc or whether there's any impetus to add missing features to bionic. Android uses a custom framebuffer to display graphics rather an Xorg. Making it difficult for hackers to run standard linux desktops on phones because of hardware drivers. Perhaps Google could collaborate with Canonical about using components from Wayland in a future version of Android. As far as I know, Android has been hacked together to NOT support multiple users.
To me, if I was buying a tablet such as the Asus Transformer, I'd want to be writing apps on it. Quad core tablets have, or will soon have, adequate resources to develop on. Porting SWT to Dalvik would be the first step to running Eclipse and associated toolchains.
QNX required commercial licensing whereas Linux was 'free' for Maemo and Android. QNX is regarded by über-nerds as being pretty amazing - e.g. read a few OSNews threads.
RIm might attract a cult following by exposing the full QNX stack to legions of new BBX enthusiasts. e.g. it provides an X11 server with xphoton and a free software repository via NetBSD's pkgsrc. With a bit of polish, Blackberry devices could become self-hosting - plug your blackberry into an HDMI display, attach a keyboard and mouse and hey-presto you can develop BB apps. Try that on an iPad...
Only a value-add, certainly but an alternative to Canonical's efforts of promoting Ubuntu on Android devices.
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I think you're thinking of Be Inc.
A minority player like RIM will never compete on the number of apps. It's basically a 2 horse race between iOS and Android (and perhaps a late challenge from MS-Nokia).
What they need to focus on is building 'killer' phones and focus on their strengths in the enterprise. And selling them at a reasonable price point to consumers. i.e. not $60/m on a 2 year contract as per the flagship Samsung/Apple models - which is a fair wad of cash for the average consumer in tough economic times.
The old Blackberry, or the new QNX-based phones?
IIRC, BB 10 has HTML5 with Qt under the covers on top of a RTOS. If they pitch it right, it's a pathway for both webOS and Meego/Symbian devs.
Perhaps 2 years late to the party but give them some credit for trying...
BB 10, Tizen, Boot to Gecko, etc.
The flash people already donated Tamarin to Mozilla, which uses NanoJIT in their current JavaScript VM. So speed should be similar to the flash plugin.
'Apple' is not a food name.
Steve and Steve named it after a record company.
Some of the suggestions are really lame. Pandas - Chinese names transliterated into random phonemes that few can pronounce let alone remember. Sports - cool idea when it's snowboarding or beach volleyball but who's going to code for fedora 28, lawn bowls? :-)
They are abandoning the traditional bb os in favour of the qnx platform used in playbook. That does run android apps.
The article makes no mention of whether those hard-working Britons in Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man get the day off either. :)
UK centric much?
She's the Queen of Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Yes, with Cinnamon and Mate - 2 alternative desktops that Ubuntu doesn't bundle. Even mentioned in the summary.
Poor attempt at trolling.
Well at least Mozilla is proposing standards to advance web apps through its b2g project and coffeescript-inspired extensions to ecmascript do trickle into javascript.
Apple, nokia(wp7 division not Qt) and Google might not care (native app stores generate the $$$).
But hopefully smaller players like HP (open webOS), KDE (plasma active), Intel (tizen) and RIM (BB10) will add the necessary support to webkit.
Agreed but luckily someone has come up with a nice screen protector.
Yeah, they should do a study on the correlation between drinking hot beverages and obesity.
For many people that's 8+ teaspoons of sugar a day. (Including my late father, a tea drinker switched to substitutes later in life)
If the coffee tastes so bad people need to sweeten it, they're doing it wrong.
Was using Gnome after the KDE 4.0 debacle. Repulsed by Unity. Tried Enlightment, found it lacked polish. Tried LXDE and gave up after the utility to configure my non-US keyboard was broken (patched upstream). XFCE works pretty well. Mate isn't too bad.
Try KDE again. No, seriously. It's looking more polished and although it lost a lot of fans post 3.x, it has matured. The 'Activities' provide a nice separation between traditional desktop and touchscreen environments and plasmoids look cool. This seems like a better approach than the Unity-everywhere of Ubuntu.
I thought the only thing keeping his career alive was guest appearances as himself on Big Bang. :)
Speaking out on behalf of nerds only adds to his onscreen persona.
If I understand correctly, LPDDR2 draws significantly less power than DDR3.
DDR4 will be competitive with LPDDR2.
But in turn, LPDDR3 will draw significantly less power than DDR4.
So manufacturers will have the choice of preserving today's mobile power levels by going with DDR4. Or they can use a more expensive LPDDR3 with lower power but, presumably, lower performance.
Hence the word 'reduced'. But for a lot of cases, wifi would suffice.
Where I am it's about $10 a month for an extra 1GB of data on top of a voice plan.
This fanfare over piracy, thinking of the children, and terrorism is just masking the real issue. Follow the money trail - it leads to mobile phone carriers.
If everyone had open access wifi, there would be reduced need for 3G data plans in major cities. Handsets would use VOIP.
ReactOS replacement explorer.exe has 4 desktops from memory, though the file manager needs work.
Works on xp
Why not just install every available DE and let individual users select xmonad from the login screen?
Offer everything; *support* only Unity.
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Well, some technical and poitical challenges about basing 'Goobuntu' on Android:
When Canonical proposed running Android apps on Ubuntu, they received a lukewarm response from Google.
Google have been reticient about getting their Android patches merged into the main Linux kernel (occuring slowly).
Android uses a cut-down C library (bionic) which would make porting desktop apps. I'm not sure whether Android would build against glibc or whether there's any impetus to add missing features to bionic.
Android uses a custom framebuffer to display graphics rather an Xorg. Making it difficult for hackers to run standard linux desktops on phones because of hardware drivers. Perhaps Google could collaborate with Canonical about using components from Wayland in a future version of Android.
As far as I know, Android has been hacked together to NOT support multiple users.
To me, if I was buying a tablet such as the Asus Transformer, I'd want to be writing apps on it. Quad core tablets have, or will soon have, adequate resources to develop on. Porting SWT to Dalvik would be the first step to running Eclipse and associated toolchains.
QNX required commercial licensing whereas Linux was 'free' for Maemo and Android. QNX is regarded by über-nerds as being pretty amazing - e.g. read a few OSNews threads.
RIm might attract a cult following by exposing the full QNX stack to legions of new BBX enthusiasts. e.g. it provides an X11 server with xphoton and a free software repository via NetBSD's pkgsrc. With a bit of polish, Blackberry devices could become self-hosting - plug your blackberry into an HDMI display, attach a keyboard and mouse and hey-presto you can develop BB apps. Try that on an iPad...
Only a value-add, certainly but an alternative to Canonical's efforts of promoting Ubuntu on Android devices.
Yet the Symbian loyalists I know favoured compact design and physical hardware keyboards such as the E7 - something the WP7 models don't offer.