True enough, but some push back is required. Some of these clients are finding out that the bottom of the barrel perform on the phones much worse than they perform on their bathroom breaks.
So, their angle is to offer a "truly open platform" and pair up with hardware vendors to sell cheap devices to "emerging markets" instead of taking on iOS and Android directly. And I should think not since they are 5 years behind both of them.
But yet again what we see is another potential contender pay lip service to users by claiming that what they are clamoring for is an "open, flexible platform" that they're not getting in an iOS/Android world. And again when we read between the lines we see the true focus being put upon pleasing a handful of developers and ignoring what users are buying.
Is it easier on developers to write just an HTML5 app instead of writing to iOS, Android, Windows Phone and this platform? Perhaps.
Do users want a phone full of HTML5 apps? The trend right now is not likely. Most notably is Facebook dumping their HTML5 app for native.
Do customers really want a sluggish, bulky, battery eating device with things like Ogg Theora playback all for the sake of some ideal or do they want a solid, quick, battery efficient device? After 5 years since the emergence of iOS and Android the market has spoken.
Is this "emerging market" of low budget phones truly a viable market to fit in between feature phones and smartphones? Even if it is, what in the world does Firefox OS offer that is truly unique? There's nothing disruptive about it that I can see.
All I see are press releases, no phones. What exactly is so "disruptive" about this? Existing smartphones available in stores now are already running HTML5 applications.
Facebook is a webpage, not a 3D game that pushes the hardware. Is it possible he is blaming the technology for the failure of his coders? After all, we're talking about an app that when you viewed the comments on a photo you had to back out and come back several times in order for it to "refresh". Or sometimes clicking on a friend's name would take you to an entirely unrelated part of the app. And photos would take ages to load. Sometimes entering in a comment would work, sometimes it would say "you can't comment on something that doesn't exist" even though you could open up Facebook on a desktop computer and make a comment in the same place without a problem. I don't know of any other "webpage" app on the iPhone that performed that poorly, and granted I don't know what the Google+ app used but in comparison it blew the doors off of the Facebook app. Was it really the technology to blame?
Set up a VPN to the UK, use the BBC iPlayer to bypass NBC.
For those less technically inclined (yes even on Slashdot), go over to tunnelbear.com and install. Follow directions, visit BBC iPlayer site again. Bypass NBC.
And earlier Apple designs (even the Apple II) were inspired by Braun. I'm sure if you were to chat with Jony Ives he'd tell you about Dieter Rams and his designs in the 1960s. But "inspired by" doesn't mean make an exact copy.
"Images of the device appeared on websites such as Engadget Mobile on December 15, 2006.[3] An official press release showing an image of the device appeared on January 18, 2007.[1]"
LG didn't announce anything until a week after the iPhone announcement. And even when they did ship the thing it was not a smartphone, it wasn't even multitouch. It was a feature phone with a capacitive touchscreen.
Furthermore Samsung didn't even ship their first Android phone until 2009.
He posted an app with an iOS exploit to the App Store and made it known publically afterwards. He claims he informed Apple beforehand but went ahead and posted his app anyway. Whatever point he was trying to make he lost it when it when he submitted the app to retail and then acted shocked when his developer access was pulled.
We all know "the PC isn't going anywhere" because "they aren't toys and get work done".
But thats exactly what was said about the PC itself when it came along. It was a toy, real work was still done on big iron. And the last 30 years has proved how wrong that was.
Yes, there will always be those who will need a PC, just as there are still those who need big iron. But it will more quickly become a smaller niche. The larger world out there doesn't care much about the plight of software developers or AutoCAD users who will continue to be anchored to their physical keyboards and screens. The larger world has been distancing itself from desktop PCs for years now, the signs have all been there if one chooses to look. Laptop sales overtook desktops in 205 and netbook sales took over in 2008. Smart phones outnumber PCs, and in just a few years will number 1 BILLION worldwide. People are going mobile and they are ditching the whole Windows PC paradigm. For those of us here who lived through the rise of Microsoft's dominance here we should be enjoying a bit of Schadenfreude, not moping about how they'll have to pry the IBM Model M from my cold dead hands.
Some people have been claiming for years that Apple needed to go back to the clone days and allow other OEMs to sell Mac OS X on their PCs too.
Now that it appears Microsoft will be getting directly into the Windows-on-hardware business I suppose we'll find out if that above demand makes business sense.
(Yes these are tablets but I believe the tablets are tomorrow's PCs)
Wolfenstein 3D was interesting to me as a kid but the real revelation was when I finally got ahold of Doom II (on a CD!). That game changed my young life.
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True enough, but some push back is required. Some of these clients are finding out that the bottom of the barrel perform on the phones much worse than they perform on their bathroom breaks.
So, their angle is to offer a "truly open platform" and pair up with hardware vendors to sell cheap devices to "emerging markets" instead of taking on iOS and Android directly. And I should think not since they are 5 years behind both of them.
But yet again what we see is another potential contender pay lip service to users by claiming that what they are clamoring for is an "open, flexible platform" that they're not getting in an iOS/Android world. And again when we read between the lines we see the true focus being put upon pleasing a handful of developers and ignoring what users are buying.
Is it easier on developers to write just an HTML5 app instead of writing to iOS, Android, Windows Phone and this platform? Perhaps.
Do users want a phone full of HTML5 apps? The trend right now is not likely. Most notably is Facebook dumping their HTML5 app for native.
Do customers really want a sluggish, bulky, battery eating device with things like Ogg Theora playback all for the sake of some ideal or do they want a solid, quick, battery efficient device? After 5 years since the emergence of iOS and Android the market has spoken.
Is this "emerging market" of low budget phones truly a viable market to fit in between feature phones and smartphones? Even if it is, what in the world does Firefox OS offer that is truly unique? There's nothing disruptive about it that I can see.
All I see are press releases, no phones. What exactly is so "disruptive" about this? Existing smartphones available in stores now are already running HTML5 applications.
@SilenceDogood Men are just as guilty as us RT @New-England-Courant Seeking comments on female vices
(insert young Ben Franklin troll face)
Facebook is a webpage, not a 3D game that pushes the hardware. Is it possible he is blaming the technology for the failure of his coders? After all, we're talking about an app that when you viewed the comments on a photo you had to back out and come back several times in order for it to "refresh". Or sometimes clicking on a friend's name would take you to an entirely unrelated part of the app. And photos would take ages to load. Sometimes entering in a comment would work, sometimes it would say "you can't comment on something that doesn't exist" even though you could open up Facebook on a desktop computer and make a comment in the same place without a problem. I don't know of any other "webpage" app on the iPhone that performed that poorly, and granted I don't know what the Google+ app used but in comparison it blew the doors off of the Facebook app. Was it really the technology to blame?
Well, there are virus scanners and then there are VIRUS scanners.
And yet people buy one and couldn't care less about the other one. I wonder what the reasons are.
I suppose that would make sense if the App Store was the only way to install software on a Mac. But it's not.
Steam already coexists with the App Store on OS X.
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Too often I see people using Youtube or Pandora to play music they already own just because they forgot to sync it to their phone.
Set up a VPN to the UK, use the BBC iPlayer to bypass NBC.
For those less technically inclined (yes even on Slashdot), go over to tunnelbear.com and install. Follow directions, visit BBC iPlayer site again. Bypass NBC.
After a bit of Google I found this to illustrate my point
And earlier Apple designs (even the Apple II) were inspired by Braun. I'm sure if you were to chat with Jony Ives he'd tell you about Dieter Rams and his designs in the 1960s. But "inspired by" doesn't mean make an exact copy.
From your link:
"Images of the device appeared on websites such as Engadget Mobile on December 15, 2006.[3] An official press release showing an image of the device appeared on January 18, 2007.[1]"
LG didn't announce anything until a week after the iPhone announcement. And even when they did ship the thing it was not a smartphone, it wasn't even multitouch. It was a feature phone with a capacitive touchscreen.
Furthermore Samsung didn't even ship their first Android phone until 2009.
Quit your whining, kid! Back in my day we kept pumping more quarters into the machine no matter how many times the game cheated us and we liked it!
Write off or not the fact is they still lost billions of dollars. And that was due to a very bad business decision.
He posted an app with an iOS exploit to the App Store and made it known publically afterwards. He claims he informed Apple beforehand but went ahead and posted his app anyway. Whatever point he was trying to make he lost it when it when he submitted the app to retail and then acted shocked when his developer access was pulled.
We all know "the PC isn't going anywhere" because "they aren't toys and get work done".
But thats exactly what was said about the PC itself when it came along. It was a toy, real work was still done on big iron. And the last 30 years has proved how wrong that was.
Yes, there will always be those who will need a PC, just as there are still those who need big iron. But it will more quickly become a smaller niche. The larger world out there doesn't care much about the plight of software developers or AutoCAD users who will continue to be anchored to their physical keyboards and screens. The larger world has been distancing itself from desktop PCs for years now, the signs have all been there if one chooses to look. Laptop sales overtook desktops in 205 and netbook sales took over in 2008. Smart phones outnumber PCs, and in just a few years will number 1 BILLION worldwide. People are going mobile and they are ditching the whole Windows PC paradigm. For those of us here who lived through the rise of Microsoft's dominance here we should be enjoying a bit of Schadenfreude, not moping about how they'll have to pry the IBM Model M from my cold dead hands.
Hey now, Creepy Cloud is my exotic dancer stage name.
Some people have been claiming for years that Apple needed to go back to the clone days and allow other OEMs to sell Mac OS X on their PCs too.
Now that it appears Microsoft will be getting directly into the Windows-on-hardware business I suppose we'll find out if that above demand makes business sense.
(Yes these are tablets but I believe the tablets are tomorrow's PCs)
Nobody remembers last summer's HTC ChaCha. Which is why people are doomed to repeat it.
It's a conspiracy, man!
Wolfenstein 3D was interesting to me as a kid but the real revelation was when I finally got ahold of Doom II (on a CD!). That game changed my young life.
So in other words, it's a browser.