You fail to provide any solid argument linking all those phenomena with your chosen bogeyman, the patents.
And totally dismiss any other factors. For example - one would expect that carriers have necessarily quite good standing with authorities, considering batshit insane amounts they had to pay to be able to use 3G spectrum. For them to not have such good standing would be simply indecent. That had nothing to do with patents, everything to do with control of the authorities. And is just one example.
IC, so you seem to think that it is sensible to expect, from an OS, enabling full multitasking only for those apps where it makes "sense"...like the rest couldn't simply stay idle, heh. That's BTW the most straightforward thing to do it; Apple chose to do it in more limiting way, not allowing many things. But seems you also think people shouldn't be allowed to simply point that out... (really, try a bit harder with strawmans next time, those with Oracle and MS are quite poor)
The reception problem is not a new issue; Apple has demonstrated again and again that they do now have the competence in designing cellular radio interfaces.
Generally quite close to classic joysticks, only much better. They are slightly on the expensive side, but OTOH will be, most likely, the only link with you for your great-great-great-great-grandchildren / etc.
Actually, the move to a Via x86 chip was motivated also by cost cuts (and few other hardware changes due to them too, certainly - simplified touchpad for example); initially used hardware simply wasn't getting cheaper anymore. It's like with EDO - SDR - DDR - DDR2- DDR3 memory.
Move to ARM will also surely cut costs. Tablet has a potential of cutting them, too - much simpler mechanically, for starters.
How convenient for you to say that, from behind a keyboard and living in place where virtually anybody who wants can have at least rudimentary access to a computer & the web.
With Android added it barely makes a difference. Start with a webpage; if that's not enough (unlikely), then perhaps j2me app - once you have vast majority of the market covered with this one, you can think about niche devices.
Many people being able to afford it (nvm how such decisions would influence their lifestyles at large) doesn't change that it's expensive.
Personal anecdote time - I certainly don't have what many people here would call "great" income...but OTOH I'm quite frugal, also I don't have to nearly exhaust myself in the process, and I still have comfortable savings; life is fine (what crisis?). But all of this depends on certain outlook about what actually matters, and how much things are actually worth (or when they become acceptable bang for the buck); among other things.
And you know, one of the apps was for a job centre; for people typically living on the dole, to help them find a job... (usually lower paying one, from such place). From what I see, reckless spending on "shiny" is one of the major faults to which such people succumb (BTW, I've heard iPhones have actually become quite popular also among low-income people in the US; have become another kind of jewelry basically? How, possibly, getting into even greater debt is working for them?)
Though didn't the BCC also have (perhaps still has) a strong role in regards to maintaining radio spectrum and underlying technology? So it's not quite as clear as "paying them for TV even if not using their services."
(and hey, somehow they produce better output than most broadcasters around the world...)
A bit fuller quote is quite telling... (also how the case seems to go on for over 2 months by now)
This particular site openly flaunts its ability to acquire our property. Yes, we have to take a look at ourselves, and we are diligently hunting down the source of these leaks. Frankly, we pride ourselves on trust at Nokia, and someone has greatly betrayed that.
However, whilst we are determined to protect our intellectual property and maintain the surprise when a shiny new gadget is introduced, we are not going to do so at the expense of the working conditions we enjoy here at Nokia. We are not the Secret Police, and we want to maintain our culture of openness. We won't let days like yesterday alter that.
So now that the official news is out, we'd like our prototype back. Please.
(emphasis mine)
So - ignoring Nokia requests to return their property ever since, even seems taunting them quite openly, gets in the way of launch plans, offers what reads as conclusions about an upcoming product based on an early prototype (how can one not mean all of this?), plus all that "consultancy" for some other manufacturers? The case looks pretty simple (and generally, is it just my impression that such tech "journalists" are quite universally starting to feel way too cocky, for what they are worth, recently?)
And then you have multiple walled gardens with multiple consoles.
Note - you can, of course, have few of them on the PC at the same time; but I don't think that's of any concern for any possible Activision plans... (especially not if potentially teaming with big hardware manufacturers to have "plug'n'play" HTPC)
So, a support for sort of European (they of course have quite a lot of presence throughout the world, also in the US; and even one manufacturing plant quite close to Cupertino...) entity suddenly takes over/. just in stories about this entity? (are there not enough anti-EU types here? Not enough (largely deserved of course) Android fans?)
He wasn't talking about smartphones, but phones; where Nokia has been pretty steady , at 37% now (actually there was a slight growth in the last year IIRC); Apple has 2%, RIM likewise (rounding of from below 2.5...), HTC 1% (whole, that includes their WinMob and BREW devices).
Nokia smartphone sales are 45%, still much greater proportion than their overall share of phone market. With fluctuations to be sure, but you have to remember that it's not a zero sum game - the segment is simply expanding, also in places where it was prevented from that / phones were historically preferred to be castrated by carriers.
It's going to have Qt as its API (which also became available for their devices up to around 3 years old), possibly the nicest toolkit there is. Ovi, et al...I like something is "boring."
Did you try to ignore that the recommended way of development is via Qt now, or just don't know? (for both Meamo/MeeGo and Symbian) And seems recently that iTunes App Store is quite a joke in itself...
...the most environmentally friendly car is one that you already own. There's no pollution involved in making the new car, you're not disposing of the old car, and you won't have car payments...
Though this isn't as universal as you make it to be - ideally, one can often effectively trade a not very optimal vehicle (no "disposing" here really), passing it on to somebody who will make good use out of it, for a car which is much more appropriate (which didn't even have to be necessarily made for that purpose; for example also "passed on" by somebody who needs something different now)
Oh, "business" so...pretty much normal boards without unnecessary bling? I don't see why put them specifically into "business" category.
Though I would be cautious with ECS TBH; there are other choice not really more expensive, but usually safer. And manufacturers of motherboards don't have much to do with drivers, anyway.
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Unless one tells it's the best choice and the way forward for new apps... (and srsly, wut? :> )
Ah, yes, "choice is bad" (hey, you don't have to develop in Qt if you don't want to...)
You fail to provide any solid argument linking all those phenomena with your chosen bogeyman, the patents.
And totally dismiss any other factors. For example - one would expect that carriers have necessarily quite good standing with authorities, considering batshit insane amounts they had to pay to be able to use 3G spectrum. For them to not have such good standing would be simply indecent. That had nothing to do with patents, everything to do with control of the authorities. And is just one example.
IC, so you seem to think that it is sensible to expect, from an OS, enabling full multitasking only for those apps where it makes "sense"...like the rest couldn't simply stay idle, heh. That's BTW the most straightforward thing to do it; Apple chose to do it in more limiting way, not allowing many things. But seems you also think people shouldn't be allowed to simply point that out... (really, try a bit harder with strawmans next time, those with Oracle and MS are quite poor)
The reception problem is not a new issue; Apple has demonstrated again and again that they do now have the competence in designing cellular radio interfaces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_controller#In_the_home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco_Arcade_Stick
etc. (there are also resources to build them)
Generally quite close to classic joysticks, only much better. They are slightly on the expensive side, but OTOH will be, most likely, the only link with you for your great-great-great-great-grandchildren / etc.
Actually, the move to a Via x86 chip was motivated also by cost cuts (and few other hardware changes due to them too, certainly - simplified touchpad for example); initially used hardware simply wasn't getting cheaper anymore. It's like with EDO - SDR - DDR - DDR2- DDR3 memory.
Move to ARM will also surely cut costs. Tablet has a potential of cutting them, too - much simpler mechanically, for starters.
Right, because the movies you learned from had only two kinds of people - those who have basically anything, and those who are starving.
How convenient for you to say that, from behind a keyboard and living in place where virtually anybody who wants can have at least rudimentary access to a computer & the web.
With Android added it barely makes a difference. Start with a webpage; if that's not enough (unlikely), then perhaps j2me app - once you have vast majority of the market covered with this one, you can think about niche devices.
It very much is...since early 2009.
Gizmodo had every right to buy the phone. You don't hold the purchaser responsible for the item.
Wait, there are no laws about fence there?
Many people being able to afford it (nvm how such decisions would influence their lifestyles at large) doesn't change that it's expensive.
Personal anecdote time - I certainly don't have what many people here would call "great" income...but OTOH I'm quite frugal, also I don't have to nearly exhaust myself in the process, and I still have comfortable savings; life is fine (what crisis?). But all of this depends on certain outlook about what actually matters, and how much things are actually worth (or when they become acceptable bang for the buck); among other things.
And you know, one of the apps was for a job centre; for people typically living on the dole, to help them find a job... (usually lower paying one, from such place). From what I see, reckless spending on "shiny" is one of the major faults to which such people succumb (BTW, I've heard iPhones have actually become quite popular also among low-income people in the US; have become another kind of jewelry basically? How, possibly, getting into even greater debt is working for them?)
Though didn't the BCC also have (perhaps still has) a strong role in regards to maintaining radio spectrum and underlying technology? So it's not quite as clear as "paying them for TV even if not using their services."
(and hey, somehow they produce better output than most broadcasters around the world...)
Cost effective in comparison to developing a j2me app or simply a website? Unlikely.
Naming of what presumably happens was very secondary to my post - it was, first and foremost, asking how it's supposed to be happening here?
A bit fuller quote is quite telling... (also how the case seems to go on for over 2 months by now)
This particular site openly flaunts its ability to acquire our property. Yes, we have to take a look at ourselves, and we are diligently hunting down the source of these leaks. Frankly, we pride ourselves on trust at Nokia, and someone has greatly betrayed that.
However, whilst we are determined to protect our intellectual property and maintain the surprise when a shiny new gadget is introduced, we are not going to do so at the expense of the working conditions we enjoy here at Nokia. We are not the Secret Police, and we want to maintain our culture of openness. We won't let days like yesterday alter that.
So now that the official news is out, we'd like our prototype back. Please.
(emphasis mine)
So - ignoring Nokia requests to return their property ever since, even seems taunting them quite openly, gets in the way of launch plans, offers what reads as conclusions about an upcoming product based on an early prototype (how can one not mean all of this?), plus all that "consultancy" for some other manufacturers? The case looks pretty simple (and generally, is it just my impression that such tech "journalists" are quite universally starting to feel way too cocky, for what they are worth, recently?)
And then you have multiple walled gardens with multiple consoles.
Note - you can, of course, have few of them on the PC at the same time; but I don't think that's of any concern for any possible Activision plans... (especially not if potentially teaming with big hardware manufacturers to have "plug'n'play" HTPC)
So, a support for sort of European (they of course have quite a lot of presence throughout the world, also in the US; and even one manufacturing plant quite close to Cupertino...) entity suddenly takes over /. just in stories about this entity? (are there not enough anti-EU types here? Not enough (largely deserved of course) Android fans?)
He wasn't talking about smartphones, but phones; where Nokia has been pretty steady , at 37% now (actually there was a slight growth in the last year IIRC); Apple has 2%, RIM likewise (rounding of from below 2.5...), HTC 1% (whole, that includes their WinMob and BREW devices).
Nokia smartphone sales are 45%, still much greater proportion than their overall share of phone market. With fluctuations to be sure, but you have to remember that it's not a zero sum game - the segment is simply expanding, also in places where it was prevented from that / phones were historically preferred to be castrated by carriers.
It's going to have Qt as its API (which also became available for their devices up to around 3 years old), possibly the nicest toolkit there is. Ovi, et al ...I like something is "boring."
Or, more precisely, a limited success despite Nokia being quite clear it's not a mass market device at this stage?
Did you try to ignore that the recommended way of development is via Qt now, or just don't know? (for both Meamo/MeeGo and Symbian)
And seems recently that iTunes App Store is quite a joke in itself...
...the most environmentally friendly car is one that you already own. There's no pollution involved in making the new car, you're not disposing of the old car, and you won't have car payments...
Though this isn't as universal as you make it to be - ideally, one can often effectively trade a not very optimal vehicle (no "disposing" here really), passing it on to somebody who will make good use out of it, for a car which is much more appropriate (which didn't even have to be necessarily made for that purpose; for example also "passed on" by somebody who needs something different now)
More to the point, he is surely frustrated that he can't really pursue his own 'walled gardens' on consoles; for that he needs 'open' PC.
Oh, "business" so...pretty much normal boards without unnecessary bling? I don't see why put them specifically into "business" category.
Though I would be cautious with ECS TBH; there are other choice not really more expensive, but usually safer. And manufacturers of motherboards don't have much to do with drivers, anyway.