That's basically saying "we meant only their proprietary standards which remained exclusive to them" - well duh, the measure of popularity and success is that others started using it
And again, Sony is not a monolith; indeed, many of its divisions basically fight against each other (some of them providing quite open or with great bang-for-the-buck products in the process)
Really, a custom app for accessing web page keeps the data in a dedicated area in phone's memory? Custom app for accessing one internet radio station fetches the stream from local flash, too? There is a difference between an e-book file or audiobook file opened in suitable universal application vs. an e-book packaged as singular app, or audiobook packaged like that?
That is what very large part of appstores have become. This is the kind of useless multiplication of efforts rampant also on Android 1.x (though it's not the worst of course), which doesn't show at all how "application ecosystem is crucial."
And it has some relevance to games, too; doesn't need to fully follow on every point of an analogy / feature phones can have local apps, too (yes, typically not so integrated, not fully multitasking - but it's not much of a problem for games)
Oh yeah, they are part of the DVD consortium, too.
Most importantly, Sony is far from a monolithic entity; it is essentially a consortium in itself - something people constantly forget. Some parts are very open.
XNA, Windows, XBOX360 and Windows Mobiles on the other hand are lovely to develop for
...and here's the reason why we have to put up with "hybrid" games, not showing strengths of any platform on which they run (well, not because of lazy devs of course - publishers wanted it, so MS provided; if only it weren't for tons of people happy about their entry back then)
How is that relevant, when drawing analogies with mobile phones, in the context of appstores with custom apps for every little thing which can be handled by web browser (vs. custom apps for accessing one webpage) or universal internet radio application (vs. one app for each radiostation)? Yes, some things are better as a local application, I'm not saying they're not; just that "huge library of apps" is an aberration. And demonstrably so also on a PC; where, even in the case of games, large part happens in the browser nowadays (which is an example)
Not only SE uses microSD in new phone models for over a year, you might also learn about some of the "proprietary" (like SD is open...) "unpopular" standards with which Sony was heavily involved: Bluray HDV miniDV Hi8 DAT FDD (the "standard" 3.5' one) CD S/PDIF (what do you think "S" stands for?)
That assumption is simply not strictly true. Nokia does give updates; the new Symbian Qt SDK supports phones which are 4 years old at this point. S^1 devices basically got S^2 through gradual updates.
There are limits of course - and with good reasons, considering how rapid the improvement of mobile phone hardware was for the last decade+ (or, alternatively, how that progress went towards lower prices for barely more capable hardware, which doesn't leave much room for better software). That might be only nearing to an end (in the sense of hardware getting "good enough"), and only in some segments of the market (ironically, those most often upgrading phones)
What you're saying, is in large part about some carriers.
With the last data available, it had biggest gains in the number of units shipped. "Percentage of growth" is a bit deceiving, greatly depends on the current position in the market (high marketshare diluting this measure of gains); and with ceilings hidden.
Unless of course one subscribers to the view that exponential growth in a finite world can go on forever...
That was about desktop / PCs. Doesn't need to be exactly like that on mobiles; but with HTML5 "offline" capabilities - why not? And Flash on mobiles essentially has such capability already - one of the kinds of apps of few non-smartphone platforms are flashapps.
And anyway, the point wasn't how nothing will be a local app ("even" feature phones have their flavors of those too, after all), but how some platforms took the concept way overboard (while using those meaningless numbers in PR)
A temperature close to all other Galilean moons (or indeed all moons of Jupiter) - that's because of small size and hence tenuous atmosphere (also magnetosphere of Jupiter stripping it) unable to retain heat, not lack of heating.
It's ordinary people, generally (not some nerdy kids, wishing for games to be "understood"...and apparently complaining when their wish was granted; while ignoring huge library of "hardcore" games)
Well, for part of Europe... (yes, they were ultimately much lesser evil, but that's not too great of a consolation) Still, worth remembering of course how T34 was not only numerous, but also probably the best tank of the war.
Remember all those pains involved in having such ignored and even ridiculed way of spending time? How "games were only for kids", and only weird and awkward ones at that? How, if only the masses would really try, they would understand and like it?
Well, it happened. So now many games are made for them, not you. Deal with the consequences of what we wanted (this is extremely easy, considering huge numbers of great "hard" games made also now; even if limiting oneself to what's available, more than can be played in a lifetime)
It was quite typical for their excessive Ordnung to come bite them in the ass, in that war.
Another example: carefully chosen, way too descriptive (using characteristics from germanic mythology) codenames. Or one joke, AFAIK circling among the polish resistance, about how it was possible for a black man with a Panzerfaust to enter the chancellory of the Reich - if only he had proper papers (yes, a joke, but surely grounded in something). Or making sure the postal services will deliver, despite the circumstances.
Heck, one german soldier helped my grandmother to carry down, from a train, the stroller with my aunt. Well, it was the proper thing to do, I guess. Plus it was quite heavy. Contraband in the form of half pig probably contributing (though to be fair, from his comment it would seem it was also a deliberate neglecting of the war effort on his part / he knew what was going on)
Or maybe that was supposed to be some peculiar comet that got nearby Earth in ancient times? Anyway, doesn't stop it from being funny / weird / complicated in the future, when we have long-duration photographs... (when the spiral structure of Andromeda isn't very apparent anyway)
You look around you you climate does influence those things...and, I guess, keep telling yourself how since you can't conceive modeling that - nobody can.
That's not what I mean, and quite certainly not what would happen... (and at the off chance it would - we have few interesting recent & semi-recent examples of how "smooth" fighting is in a hard terrain / conditions / not-desert)
For all we know, all manned fighters would be obsolete by then anyway. Generally - funny (again, IIRC), considering your sig.
That misses greater point. Not only scientific method is indeed able to lead to a very small set of recommendation - also a lot for a lot of people outside the scientific community the issue is a pure old political theater.
Again - no; you miss that the "authority" is in the form of the developed method. And large part of the potential "issues" you mention are precisely political in nature.
...you know, that was long before the practice of scientific method was developed (with quite rigorous standards of "decisively"), so I'm not sure what was that "scientific community" that you speak of.
(never mind how it's a case of relativity of wrong...and how geocentric is just a different, less convenient in the end, frame of reference; BTW, the barycenter of Sun-Jupiter lies slightly outside the Sun)
That needs to be described more directly than "tragedy of the commons" - it's also a case of some societal cycle convincing us what is the preferred standard of living...while demonstrably not being the best even on the level of individuals, in some important areas.
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That's quite strongly the case for DS series, too. Especially foolproof pausing of any DS game when the console is closed.
Oh my, what times we live in - 2 days being a benchmark.
That's basically saying "we meant only their proprietary standards which remained exclusive to them" - well duh, the measure of popularity and success is that others started using it
And again, Sony is not a monolith; indeed, many of its divisions basically fight against each other (some of them providing quite open or with great bang-for-the-buck products in the process)
Really, a custom app for accessing web page keeps the data in a dedicated area in phone's memory? Custom app for accessing one internet radio station fetches the stream from local flash, too? There is a difference between an e-book file or audiobook file opened in suitable universal application vs. an e-book packaged as singular app, or audiobook packaged like that?
That is what very large part of appstores have become. This is the kind of useless multiplication of efforts rampant also on Android 1.x (though it's not the worst of course), which doesn't show at all how "application ecosystem is crucial."
And it has some relevance to games, too; doesn't need to fully follow on every point of an analogy / feature phones can have local apps, too (yes, typically not so integrated, not fully multitasking - but it's not much of a problem for games)
Oh yeah, they are part of the DVD consortium, too.
Most importantly, Sony is far from a monolithic entity; it is essentially a consortium in itself - something people constantly forget.
Some parts are very open.
XNA, Windows, XBOX360 and Windows Mobiles on the other hand are lovely to develop for
...and here's the reason why we have to put up with "hybrid" games, not showing strengths of any platform on which they run (well, not because of lazy devs of course - publishers wanted it, so MS provided; if only it weren't for tons of people happy about their entry back then)
How is that relevant, when drawing analogies with mobile phones, in the context of appstores with custom apps for every little thing which can be handled by web browser (vs. custom apps for accessing one webpage) or universal internet radio application (vs. one app for each radiostation)?
Yes, some things are better as a local application, I'm not saying they're not; just that "huge library of apps" is an aberration. And demonstrably so also on a PC; where, even in the case of games, large part happens in the browser nowadays (which is an example)
Not only SE uses microSD in new phone models for over a year, you might also learn about some of the "proprietary" (like SD is open...) "unpopular" standards with which Sony was heavily involved:
Bluray
HDV
miniDV
Hi8
DAT
FDD (the "standard" 3.5' one)
CD
S/PDIF (what do you think "S" stands for?)
Sony Ericsson switched to microSD in new products over a year ago...
That assumption is simply not strictly true. Nokia does give updates; the new Symbian Qt SDK supports phones which are 4 years old at this point. S^1 devices basically got S^2 through gradual updates.
There are limits of course - and with good reasons, considering how rapid the improvement of mobile phone hardware was for the last decade+ (or, alternatively, how that progress went towards lower prices for barely more capable hardware, which doesn't leave much room for better software). That might be only nearing to an end (in the sense of hardware getting "good enough"), and only in some segments of the market (ironically, those most often upgrading phones)
What you're saying, is in large part about some carriers.
With the last data available, it had biggest gains in the number of units shipped. "Percentage of growth" is a bit deceiving, greatly depends on the current position in the market (high marketshare diluting this measure of gains); and with ceilings hidden.
Unless of course one subscribers to the view that exponential growth in a finite world can go on forever...
That was about desktop / PCs. Doesn't need to be exactly like that on mobiles; but with HTML5 "offline" capabilities - why not? And Flash on mobiles essentially has such capability already - one of the kinds of apps of few non-smartphone platforms are flashapps.
And anyway, the point wasn't how nothing will be a local app ("even" feature phones have their flavors of those too, after all), but how some platforms took the concept way overboard (while using those meaningless numbers in PR)
A temperature close to all other Galilean moons (or indeed all moons of Jupiter) - that's because of small size and hence tenuous atmosphere (also magnetosphere of Jupiter stripping it) unable to retain heat, not lack of heating.
It's ordinary people, generally (not some nerdy kids, wishing for games to be "understood"...and apparently complaining when their wish was granted; while ignoring huge library of "hardcore" games)
Fortunately (for us in Europe) they had the T34.
Well, for part of Europe... (yes, they were ultimately much lesser evil, but that's not too great of a consolation)
Still, worth remembering of course how T34 was not only numerous, but also probably the best tank of the war.
Remember all those pains involved in having such ignored and even ridiculed way of spending time? How "games were only for kids", and only weird and awkward ones at that? How, if only the masses would really try, they would understand and like it?
Well, it happened. So now many games are made for them, not you. Deal with the consequences of what we wanted (this is extremely easy, considering huge numbers of great "hard" games made also now; even if limiting oneself to what's available, more than can be played in a lifetime)
At least at some point it weren't mistake, but deliberate falsifications:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
(just look at the names involved...)
It was quite typical for their excessive Ordnung to come bite them in the ass, in that war.
Another example: carefully chosen, way too descriptive (using characteristics from germanic mythology) codenames. Or one joke, AFAIK circling among the polish resistance, about how it was possible for a black man with a Panzerfaust to enter the chancellory of the Reich - if only he had proper papers (yes, a joke, but surely grounded in something). Or making sure the postal services will deliver, despite the circumstances.
Heck, one german soldier helped my grandmother to carry down, from a train, the stroller with my aunt. Well, it was the proper thing to do, I guess. Plus it was quite heavy. Contraband in the form of half pig probably contributing (though to be fair, from his comment it would seem it was also a deliberate neglecting of the war effort on his part / he knew what was going on)
Or maybe that was supposed to be some peculiar comet that got nearby Earth in ancient times? Anyway, doesn't stop it from being funny / weird / complicated in the future, when we have long-duration photographs... (when the spiral structure of Andromeda isn't very apparent anyway)
You look around you you climate does influence those things...and, I guess, keep telling yourself how since you can't conceive modeling that - nobody can.
That's not what I mean, and quite certainly not what would happen... (and at the off chance it would - we have few interesting recent & semi-recent examples of how "smooth" fighting is in a hard terrain / conditions / not-desert)
For all we know, all manned fighters would be obsolete by then anyway. Generally - funny (again, IIRC), considering your sig.
That misses greater point. Not only scientific method is indeed able to lead to a very small set of recommendation - also a lot for a lot of people outside the scientific community the issue is a pure old political theater.
Again - no; you miss that the "authority" is in the form of the developed method.
And large part of the potential "issues" you mention are precisely political in nature.
...you know, that was long before the practice of scientific method was developed (with quite rigorous standards of "decisively"), so I'm not sure what was that "scientific community" that you speak of.
(never mind how it's a case of relativity of wrong...and how geocentric is just a different, less convenient in the end, frame of reference; BTW, the barycenter of Sun-Jupiter lies slightly outside the Sun)
That needs to be described more directly than "tragedy of the commons" - it's also a case of some societal cycle convincing us what is the preferred standard of living...while demonstrably not being the best even on the level of individuals, in some important areas.