On x86, it shouldn't. They all have 2d acceleration (on hardware level) which covers the acceleration features a video player would need too.
What matters is RAM. XP should run on at least 768/1GB RAM and Linux overhead must be calculated along with it. It should be prevented from swapping (real swapping, not tactical one). The ''Virtual GPU'' should have 16 or 32MB of RAM too.
Another thing is, if CPU has virtual machine acceleration, it should be enabled (disabled by default).
Sun's Virtualbox comes with _very_ conservative settings, at least on a Mactel OS/X.
One thing bugs me is... The DRM layer. Even some software (e.g. Symantec Home) are coded in a way that they will reject to run on Virtual machines. I guess site must have a test clip so it should be tested.
Well, a company named Real Networks ships a fully supported Linux player and you see the feedback they get. I don't know if they can DRM on Linux, on OS X and Symbian they can.
He will probably accept 10s of MS patents in process, have a Mono framework but he will likely watch it with that Moonlight thingie. It is not evil right?
MS missed a huge opportunity by not shipping official Silverlight 2 to Linux and PPC/OS X right from Microsoft.com. Some could really believe they have changed their 1990s model. If they have managed to ship a 64bit player for Linux before Adobe did, imagine the feedback they would get.
They spend their money and power to bribe the low ethics ''sports'' admins and suits instead. It is the 1990s for you, ''Watch it with our exclusive (insert dead dotcom codec) technology!''. H264 and MPEG4 SP and even simple http streaming took over, it is only MS not admitting it. Even Real moved to AAC (plus) and some variant of h264 in rv10.
It is because the story is written by people who has deep political beliefs and knowledge along with the religious roots of the series.
The series give ideas about how future human/politics relations may become and how some stuff would never change at all. I can guarantee you that a good Roman senator brought to 2008 could win USA or any election with same tactics, tricks as he did 2000 years ago.
The series aren't really pure sci-fi stuff, don't let the spaceships fool you.
They aren't giving their message, they are giving the series message. So, they are still acting.
The series have way deep political and even religious background, if you check biography of creators and writers, you can get surprised. It is a very unique thing in that sense. Some even say you can figure what are the real beliefs of mormons by just watching it.
Evil Real (!): 15-20% CPU usage on G4 without any hickups whatsoever even while it is on Slashdot front page, almost live forward&skip at 225 kbps.
Nothing above is true for Google Youtube (base 4% CPU hits 100% when flash inits) and people thank him and the first genius to post that basic ''people still use realmedia'' karma whoring post gets +5 insightful. Well, according to download site numbers THEY DO.
I wonder if this Web 2.0 fashion at Slashdot have also gathered those professional commenters which infested the digg etc.
Would I prefer a plain mpeg4 file or even a plain SD mpeg-2 for wget downloading overnight? Hell yes but NOT youtube, flash.
I started to feel sad for Real Networks. They open sourced player, offer a legal mp3 license, offer their multi million dollar patents free to open source and people are only busy with karma whoring. They should have focused more on OS X and Windows instead. Let Linux guys wonder around with their unlicensed, reverse engineered hacks and Silverlight port trojan monkeys.
Some wise people use so I can watch it at 225 kbps with 15-20% CPU load on a Apple Mini G4 1400 upscaling to 1280x720. Let me don't start to mention my experience of Flash FAKE streaming along with wmedia junk.
If I was on a EDGE/3G network and road, I would be happily streaming it to my cell which is one of 120 million Symbian phones.
Or if I have chosen Linux as my OS, I would be watching it on a fully supported, fully functional, fully legal player.
What was wrong with real media again?
The real question is: does people still bitch about open source based real player and get +5? Even when it is chosen as format?
No, UN should spend millions, rm -rf working real server (probably helix) and offer windows media or silverlight to satisfy your coolness needs.
Aren't both most successful Java desktop apps which are Limewire and Vuze (ex Azureus) both using SWT? Both are open source too. Could be indicator of how Sun ignores the real world regarding how Java is used.
Limewire and Vuze are in top 50 list of Versiontracker/OS X, just imagine. Mac users with that (you know) JRE picks them.
I mean, if IBM looks to the desktop scene and few games which are successful, even the very interesting usage on OS X (e.g. Cyberduck ftp client), they can pick which technlogies to push. It wouldn't be their own NIH syndrome.
I keep telling that IBM decision is even connected to Apple not getting a 3 Ghz G5 and going nuts and not getting a mobile CPU (not G5!) option from IBM.
IBM stays away from consumer market. Console CPUs are fine for them, MS and Sun does the caring and in MS case, even the entire capability design with sw support.
You probably know there is POWER6 which hits amazing Mhz and benchmark levels and massively scalable. It is a server chip (not mainframe) but guess what? There is also POWER6UL which is suitable for Desktop. I am not saying Apple will give up Windows/x86 compatibility boost, I am just saying for people who have mistaken IBM NOT being capable of making a 3Ghz processor and hand to Apple.
Regarding Java/Sun. Remember IBM shipping end user focused JVM for Windows which performed way better than Sun one? They gave up it too while they ship Java6 stable to Linux/PPC64 for years. A thing which Apple still couldn't (or wouldn't) ship.
I am not exactly sure but a good guess is, MMS is just a SMS message pointing to the data on a authenticated http server. Provider sends the SMS containing that link, phone downloads it and beeps etc, whatever. The specs are so low end that they are called "embarrassing" for todays technology.
What kind of sick person at Apple decides not to give it to a phone which has similar CPU/RAM specs to legendary Nokia N95? Weird, really weird and I am not trolling or something, I just fail to get it. I didn't get the MMS thing first time either.
Bluetooth Stereo can be explained, it is all electronics. It doesn't have that chip doing the A2DP thing. I just can't get Apple's issue with MMS.
I forced a friend to buy iPod touch 2.x upgrade and guy loved it. Of course, it was hard to convince him as he owns a Nokia N95 which got amazing new stuff just by getting updated for free (same day).
As justification, I said "Well, it seems you will pay one time only". That was a big mistake, I forgot the "3".
Now I feel responsible for it and will likely send $10 from Paypal when it ships. Damn Apple.
What makes me, a Nokia user (and Apple computer user) sad is, there are some amazing inventions there which will be copied by every smart phone vendor and yet, what will matter to people is "copy and paste", "MMS", "bluetooth stereo". If Apple was wise to add such trivial features to iPhone 1.0, we would be all discussing the real thing now.
In fact, if Apple showed good intentions back in 1.0 just by adding flash lite, J2ME and even MMS (at least receive!)... I would have iPhone by now as many Symbian etc. owners out there.
They trust to millions of "fans" and even Developers who will take all measures to defend their illogical decisions. How hard was to add MMS exactly? Even we, cell phone users know that it is a simple mix of SMS and HTTP technologies and nothing else.
Just wondering how many millions of messages around bitching about "No MMS" and how many unpaid PR guys (aka fans(!)) defending it. I bet they think Nokia just LOVES MMS or there is a secret cell phone gang who keeps pushing it. No, it is there just like 160 character limit SMS which was _never designed_ to do that is there. Because everyone, down to basic colour phones have it. The only place where everyone has e-mail and getting push notifications is Starbucksland. When you sell a product to 80 countries even including Africa, you gotta get out of that Starbucksland.
For people like me who sends MMS every once in year, iPhone not having MMS meant one thing: Control. It was basic as that and when I heard Apple distributing FUD about poor J2ME, I completely gave up thinking to buy one. I saw Apple going back to 1984 to be exact, making same mistakes which prevented them to be dominant on Desktop. If we dig enough, I bet we can find some BBS etc. archives where Apple fans defending their decisions back in 1980s.
Macbook Air is half concept machine with smaller and weaker CPU while it is not clearly a Netbook.
What Apple trusts while designing, shipping air is this: 0.01 CPU load while idling. A massively optimised system that won't even run on non SSE CPUs. Zero tolerance to old/depreciated frameworks, even Apple Finder gets a slap from OS X saying "This functionality is depreciated".
It is the OS and people know how OS X works so they buy Macbook Air. It is not just (or even) Logo. Sony had/have way better machines than Apple regarding hardware and features but they run Windows along with all the 3rd party crap they added.
What about people buying regular ISP account and use the entire bandwidth (both up and down) 24/7?
Are they ethical? You clearly know what kind of service and contract you have to get for such usage. Even on dial up days, you would have to buy leased line or ISDN for such usage. They are buying regular ISP account and expect corporate line qualities from a async consumer level junk. Worse, they are using it that way.
It looks like 40GB cap others suggest sounds very reasonable for today. If he does heroic thing and resign, would the people I mentioned above care? I don't think so.
I know there are very complex propositions to make P2P easier to handle on ISPs but I didn't check them too deeply.
What about the most obvious solution? Squid cache all.cab (or whatever MS uses) on windows update and Apple software update respectively? I don't say HTML or anything else, they have potential privacy concerns and sometimes issues but why should all 400 guys download the exact same huge binary file? A single quicktime update means 70MB sometimes. Should it be just 70 MB or 70MB*400? No security threatened too, both uses file signatures.
If Real and Apple didn't mess up with streaming, they both have proxy solutions but you gotta look to Flash caching these days as everyone is on Youtube downloading 40 mb files and call it ''streaming''. Well, the obvious popular ones like Quicktime trailers, mp3 files (over plain http, like podcasts) can be cached too.
He must have tuned 1 or more hours earlier than actual launch, I did too and man it was really really boring. I didn't want to lose my spot on realserver so I kept it open.
You don't air any live event like that. They aired the media feed to NASA TV watchers. It was like definition of ''dead air'' for TV broadcast newbies.
Speaking of the Fox, CNN style broadcasting, there was a guy on NASA TV, trying to explain (why?!) what it means to have 30KW power. Man, it is NASA TV, you don't have to explain 30KW especially as ''30 homes''. If there is a house using 1000 watts of power at idle time, owner should be given to Greenpeace to get executed.
I had that page open along with Realplayer live stream at 4 AM in the morning on my poor G4 Mini 1.42 Ghz.
As poor thing doing live stream same time and java, there was some glitch in communications from NASA and I actually heard it like 8bit Atari 800xl explosion effect. Same time, Java not having enough CPU power made shuttle disappear instead of moving it.
Funny is, I had another friend in same setup using dual core Macbook and he swears same thing happened on his machine.
Lets not forget the technical users are getting pretty sick of Google's big brother tactics, their lame ''ooops, mistake'' tricks, their ignorance of the true king of phones (it is J2ME) and so on.
These days, the only EULAs I read in super paranoid mode comes with Google software since I am one of guys who doesn't buy ''we are good guys'' type of childish promises.
I used harsh words on purpose. It seems Google fan developer scene has no clue about how mad people (including non technical users) have become because of their recent policies. Do I want Google OS on my phone? No, not. Is it open source? I don't care. I don't like the company and its philosophy.
Why not mention the other option? Have a guy/gal along with bunch of PR and lawyer people to review your application, decide it is not a threat to vendor and decide whether it will create (financial) armageddon for their cell network partners or not.
Dare to say ''Jailbreak''? Come on! What is the percentage? What is the guarantee that people happily cracked their phone OS will pay for yours?
Self signed apps have limitations, they are apps equivalent to desktop apps which can happily run from ''home dir'' (in regards to their power) but they can at least be installed! They had to choose between viruses/worms, fascistic app store schemes and came up with symbian signed.
I wonder why nobody blames the root of the problem. I mean the asshole who wrote Cabir crap.
(from Wiki) 'The Cray T3D MC cabinet had an Apple Macintosh PowerBook laptop built into its front. Its only purpose was to display animated Cray Research and T3D logos on its color LCD screen.'
You better ask them, not me. Also several AV vendors who either uses ActiveX or signed java applet. Signed and admin installed activex control may have super user powers (like sudo without pwd) even while running as normal user. Or somehow they get way more access than a netscape (safari, firefox, google) plugin can achieve. I am sure they wouldn't want to lose 25% of market by not providing such plugin.
Nokia basically knew (a good guess) that Apple will enter smart phone market and become the ultimate rival to their smart phone business but that didn't stop them from implementing Webkit S60 Browser to near hundred million phones giving Apple the ultimate credibility.
Of course, Nokia is a company which is run by market rules. If there is an opportunity, no matter where it comes from, they will pick it.
Somehow, MS can keep acting like a spoiled kid and keep pushing a technological and PR disaster since first ever IE exploit was released and it was proven that it is not a fixable thing, it was design flaw.
They are acting like an insane person who tries the same thing and expect different results. Ask Windows Mobile owners about their browsing experience with IE. They ported the very same junk to their mobile OS who runs on things that doesn't even have the power to run a full feature security suite like on Windows. That is the insanity.
Have a stupid blogger who could say things like ''This new engine will supposedly be more secure than Firefox or even Chrome''
That is 30% of entire Web browser market, you have guaranteed that they will do everything to joke about your code without being even released to public.
Also very advanced coders who are talented enough to work on Mozilla or Google will come up with real information debunking your allegations. They may ask a very basic question: ''How can people review your code?''. Mozilla, Google and even Apple has answer, you don't.
It seems people think ActiveX is just ''Netscape plugin'' like thing while it is way more powerful than many would assume.
They should see (non malicious) http://www.pcpitstop.com/ to see what is really possible with ActiveX or better use Seagate Hard Disk tools in IE (seagate.com). Both sites doesn't do what they are really capable of since it would make some users really paranoid.
It is UID0 access level, inside browser. Pure C code. No sandboxes.
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On x86, it shouldn't. They all have 2d acceleration (on hardware level) which covers the acceleration features a video player would need too.
What matters is RAM. XP should run on at least 768/1GB RAM and Linux overhead must be calculated along with it. It should be prevented from swapping (real swapping, not tactical one). The ''Virtual GPU'' should have 16 or 32MB of RAM too.
Another thing is, if CPU has virtual machine acceleration, it should be enabled (disabled by default).
Sun's Virtualbox comes with _very_ conservative settings, at least on a Mactel OS/X.
One thing bugs me is... The DRM layer. Even some software (e.g. Symantec Home) are coded in a way that they will reject to run on Virtual machines. I guess site must have a test clip so it should be tested.
Well, a company named Real Networks ships a fully supported Linux player and you see the feedback they get. I don't know if they can DRM on Linux, on OS X and Symbian they can.
He will probably accept 10s of MS patents in process, have a Mono framework but he will likely watch it with that Moonlight thingie. It is not evil right?
MS missed a huge opportunity by not shipping official Silverlight 2 to Linux and PPC/OS X right from Microsoft.com. Some could really believe they have changed their 1990s model. If they have managed to ship a 64bit player for Linux before Adobe did, imagine the feedback they would get.
They spend their money and power to bribe the low ethics ''sports'' admins and suits instead. It is the 1990s for you, ''Watch it with our exclusive (insert dead dotcom codec) technology!''. H264 and MPEG4 SP and even simple http streaming took over, it is only MS not admitting it. Even Real moved to AAC (plus) and some variant of h264 in rv10.
It is because the story is written by people who has deep political beliefs and knowledge along with the religious roots of the series.
The series give ideas about how future human/politics relations may become and how some stuff would never change at all. I can guarantee you that a good Roman senator brought to 2008 could win USA or any election with same tactics, tricks as he did 2000 years ago.
The series aren't really pure sci-fi stuff, don't let the spaceships fool you.
They aren't giving their message, they are giving the series message. So, they are still acting.
The series have way deep political and even religious background, if you check biography of creators and writers, you can get surprised. It is a very unique thing in that sense. Some even say you can figure what are the real beliefs of mormons by just watching it.
Evil Real (!): 15-20% CPU usage on G4 without any hickups whatsoever even while it is on Slashdot front page, almost live forward&skip at 225 kbps.
Nothing above is true for Google Youtube (base 4% CPU hits 100% when flash inits) and people thank him and the first genius to post that basic ''people still use realmedia'' karma whoring post gets +5 insightful. Well, according to download site numbers THEY DO.
I wonder if this Web 2.0 fashion at Slashdot have also gathered those professional commenters which infested the digg etc.
Would I prefer a plain mpeg4 file or even a plain SD mpeg-2 for wget downloading overnight? Hell yes but NOT youtube, flash.
I started to feel sad for Real Networks. They open sourced player, offer a legal mp3 license, offer their multi million dollar patents free to open source and people are only busy with karma whoring. They should have focused more on OS X and Windows instead. Let Linux guys wonder around with their unlicensed, reverse engineered hacks and Silverlight port trojan monkeys.
Some wise people use so I can watch it at 225 kbps with 15-20% CPU load on a Apple Mini G4 1400 upscaling to 1280x720. Let me don't start to mention my experience of Flash FAKE streaming along with wmedia junk.
If I was on a EDGE/3G network and road, I would be happily streaming it to my cell which is one of 120 million Symbian phones.
Or if I have chosen Linux as my OS, I would be watching it on a fully supported, fully functional, fully legal player.
What was wrong with real media again?
The real question is: does people still bitch about open source based real player and get +5? Even when it is chosen as format?
No, UN should spend millions, rm -rf working real server (probably helix) and offer windows media or silverlight to satisfy your coolness needs.
Aren't both most successful Java desktop apps which are Limewire and Vuze (ex Azureus) both using SWT? Both are open source too. Could be indicator of how Sun ignores the real world regarding how Java is used.
Limewire and Vuze are in top 50 list of Versiontracker/OS X, just imagine. Mac users with that (you know) JRE picks them.
I mean, if IBM looks to the desktop scene and few games which are successful, even the very interesting usage on OS X (e.g. Cyberduck ftp client), they can pick which technlogies to push. It wouldn't be their own NIH syndrome.
I keep telling that IBM decision is even connected to Apple not getting a 3 Ghz G5 and going nuts and not getting a mobile CPU (not G5!) option from IBM.
IBM stays away from consumer market. Console CPUs are fine for them, MS and Sun does the caring and in MS case, even the entire capability design with sw support.
You probably know there is POWER6 which hits amazing Mhz and benchmark levels and massively scalable. It is a server chip (not mainframe) but guess what? There is also POWER6UL which is suitable for Desktop. I am not saying Apple will give up Windows/x86 compatibility boost, I am just saying for people who have mistaken IBM NOT being capable of making a 3Ghz processor and hand to Apple.
Regarding Java/Sun. Remember IBM shipping end user focused JVM for Windows which performed way better than Sun one? They gave up it too while they ship Java6 stable to Linux/PPC64 for years. A thing which Apple still couldn't (or wouldn't) ship.
I am not exactly sure but a good guess is, MMS is just a SMS message pointing to the data on a authenticated http server. Provider sends the SMS containing that link, phone downloads it and beeps etc, whatever. The specs are so low end that they are called "embarrassing" for todays technology.
What kind of sick person at Apple decides not to give it to a phone which has similar CPU/RAM specs to legendary Nokia N95? Weird, really weird and I am not trolling or something, I just fail to get it. I didn't get the MMS thing first time either.
Bluetooth Stereo can be explained, it is all electronics. It doesn't have that chip doing the A2DP thing. I just can't get Apple's issue with MMS.
Wow, speaking of millions of dollars wasted than. I couldn't think that Dell could dare to ship even a weaker CPU with Vista 64 on a $2k laptop.
I forced a friend to buy iPod touch 2.x upgrade and guy loved it. Of course, it was hard to convince him as he owns a Nokia N95 which got amazing new stuff just by getting updated for free (same day).
As justification, I said "Well, it seems you will pay one time only". That was a big mistake, I forgot the "3".
Now I feel responsible for it and will likely send $10 from Paypal when it ships. Damn Apple.
Forget the scoop or "live blogs", watch the real thing there in its full.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/keynote/ (not stable URL, will change in future)
What makes me, a Nokia user (and Apple computer user) sad is, there are some amazing inventions there which will be copied by every smart phone vendor and yet, what will matter to people is "copy and paste", "MMS", "bluetooth stereo". If Apple was wise to add such trivial features to iPhone 1.0, we would be all discussing the real thing now.
In fact, if Apple showed good intentions back in 1.0 just by adding flash lite, J2ME and even MMS (at least receive!)... I would have iPhone by now as many Symbian etc. owners out there.
They trust to millions of "fans" and even Developers who will take all measures to defend their illogical decisions. How hard was to add MMS exactly? Even we, cell phone users know that it is a simple mix of SMS and HTTP technologies and nothing else.
Just wondering how many millions of messages around bitching about "No MMS" and how many unpaid PR guys (aka fans(!)) defending it. I bet they think Nokia just LOVES MMS or there is a secret cell phone gang who keeps pushing it. No, it is there just like 160 character limit SMS which was _never designed_ to do that is there. Because everyone, down to basic colour phones have it. The only place where everyone has e-mail and getting push notifications is Starbucksland. When you sell a product to 80 countries even including Africa, you gotta get out of that Starbucksland.
For people like me who sends MMS every once in year, iPhone not having MMS meant one thing: Control. It was basic as that and when I heard Apple distributing FUD about poor J2ME, I completely gave up thinking to buy one. I saw Apple going back to 1984 to be exact, making same mistakes which prevented them to be dominant on Desktop. If we dig enough, I bet we can find some BBS etc. archives where Apple fans defending their decisions back in 1980s.
Macbook Air is half concept machine with smaller and weaker CPU while it is not clearly a Netbook.
What Apple trusts while designing, shipping air is this: 0.01 CPU load while idling. A massively optimised system that won't even run on non SSE CPUs. Zero tolerance to old/depreciated frameworks, even Apple Finder gets a slap from OS X saying "This functionality is depreciated".
It is the OS and people know how OS X works so they buy Macbook Air. It is not just (or even) Logo. Sony had/have way better machines than Apple regarding hardware and features but they run Windows along with all the 3rd party crap they added.
I guess Dell wasted their money.
What about people buying regular ISP account and use the entire bandwidth (both up and down) 24/7?
Are they ethical? You clearly know what kind of service and contract you have to get for such usage. Even on dial up days, you would have to buy leased line or ISDN for such usage. They are buying regular ISP account and expect corporate line qualities from a async consumer level junk. Worse, they are using it that way.
It looks like 40GB cap others suggest sounds very reasonable for today. If he does heroic thing and resign, would the people I mentioned above care? I don't think so.
I know there are very complex propositions to make P2P easier to handle on ISPs but I didn't check them too deeply.
What about the most obvious solution? Squid cache all .cab (or whatever MS uses) on windows update and Apple software update respectively? I don't say HTML or anything else, they have potential privacy concerns and sometimes issues but why should all 400 guys download the exact same huge binary file? A single quicktime update means 70MB sometimes. Should it be just 70 MB or 70MB*400? No security threatened too, both uses file signatures.
If Real and Apple didn't mess up with streaming, they both have proxy solutions but you gotta look to Flash caching these days as everyone is on Youtube downloading 40 mb files and call it ''streaming''. Well, the obvious popular ones like Quicktime trailers, mp3 files (over plain http, like podcasts) can be cached too.
He must have tuned 1 or more hours earlier than actual launch, I did too and man it was really really boring. I didn't want to lose my spot on realserver so I kept it open.
You don't air any live event like that. They aired the media feed to NASA TV watchers. It was like definition of ''dead air'' for TV broadcast newbies.
Speaking of the Fox, CNN style broadcasting, there was a guy on NASA TV, trying to explain (why?!) what it means to have 30KW power. Man, it is NASA TV, you don't have to explain 30KW especially as ''30 homes''. If there is a house using 1000 watts of power at idle time, owner should be given to Greenpeace to get executed.
I had that page open along with Realplayer live stream at 4 AM in the morning on my poor G4 Mini 1.42 Ghz.
As poor thing doing live stream same time and java, there was some glitch in communications from NASA and I actually heard it like 8bit Atari 800xl explosion effect. Same time, Java not having enough CPU power made shuttle disappear instead of moving it.
Funny is, I had another friend in same setup using dual core Macbook and he swears same thing happened on his machine.
Lets not forget the technical users are getting pretty sick of Google's big brother tactics, their lame ''ooops, mistake'' tricks, their ignorance of the true king of phones (it is J2ME) and so on.
These days, the only EULAs I read in super paranoid mode comes with Google software since I am one of guys who doesn't buy ''we are good guys'' type of childish promises.
I used harsh words on purpose. It seems Google fan developer scene has no clue about how mad people (including non technical users) have become because of their recent policies. Do I want Google OS on my phone? No, not. Is it open source? I don't care. I don't like the company and its philosophy.
It is almost tragicomic that people who lives in Googleland can't figure the true size of Symbian or even Windows Mobile.
They are NOT struggling to compete with Android, they are setting their OS to open and free. You know, the OS which is installed to 100M+ devices.
We are speaking about World leader smart phone OS having a road map declared.
Why not mention the other option? Have a guy/gal along with bunch of PR and lawyer people to review your application, decide it is not a threat to vendor and decide whether it will create (financial) armageddon for their cell network partners or not.
Dare to say ''Jailbreak''? Come on! What is the percentage? What is the guarantee that people happily cracked their phone OS will pay for yours?
Self signed apps have limitations, they are apps equivalent to desktop apps which can happily run from ''home dir'' (in regards to their power) but they can at least be installed! They had to choose between viruses/worms, fascistic app store schemes and came up with symbian signed.
I wonder why nobody blames the root of the problem. I mean the asshole who wrote Cabir crap.
Cray did even a more weird thing, on a multi million supercomputer which at most 4-5 super security cleared technicians would see in physical form.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_T3D
(from Wiki)
'The Cray T3D MC cabinet had an Apple Macintosh PowerBook laptop built into its front. Its only purpose was to display animated Cray Research and T3D logos on its color LCD screen.'
And it was 5th on Top 500 back in 1998.
You better ask them, not me. Also several AV vendors who either uses ActiveX or signed java applet. Signed and admin installed activex control may have super user powers (like sudo without pwd) even while running as normal user. Or somehow they get way more access than a netscape (safari, firefox, google) plugin can achieve. I am sure they wouldn't want to lose 25% of market by not providing such plugin.
Nokia basically knew (a good guess) that Apple will enter smart phone market and become the ultimate rival to their smart phone business but that didn't stop them from implementing Webkit S60 Browser to near hundred million phones giving Apple the ultimate credibility.
Of course, Nokia is a company which is run by market rules. If there is an opportunity, no matter where it comes from, they will pick it.
Somehow, MS can keep acting like a spoiled kid and keep pushing a technological and PR disaster since first ever IE exploit was released and it was proven that it is not a fixable thing, it was design flaw.
They are acting like an insane person who tries the same thing and expect different results. Ask Windows Mobile owners about their browsing experience with IE. They ported the very same junk to their mobile OS who runs on things that doesn't even have the power to run a full feature security suite like on Windows. That is the insanity.
Have a stupid blogger who could say things like ''This new engine will supposedly be more secure than Firefox or even Chrome''
That is 30% of entire Web browser market, you have guaranteed that they will do everything to joke about your code without being even released to public.
Also very advanced coders who are talented enough to work on Mozilla or Google will come up with real information debunking your allegations. They may ask a very basic question: ''How can people review your code?''. Mozilla, Google and even Apple has answer, you don't.
It seems people think ActiveX is just ''Netscape plugin'' like thing while it is way more powerful than many would assume.
They should see (non malicious) http://www.pcpitstop.com/ to see what is really possible with ActiveX or better use Seagate Hard Disk tools in IE (seagate.com). Both sites doesn't do what they are really capable of since it would make some users really paranoid.
It is UID0 access level, inside browser. Pure C code. No sandboxes.