Most likely the Google supplied apps will be tied to Google web API's so obviously a GMail or Google Maps type application will not be easily ported to other web service providers.
It might however be an open platform in the sense that UNIX is an open platform, meaning is fully specified and anyone is allowed to develop freely for it without paying royalties, signing applications, etc.
It doesn't need to be open source to be successful, it just needs to be well engineered, available free of charge to handset manufacturers and open to develop on without stupid restrictions like needing to have applications signed.
The goal for Google is not to make money directly off of this product or even to use it to collect information, but to make mobile internet access widely available which would create a much wider market for the web apps which are its core business.
Well and I guess we should just take your work for it, don't we? I've actually used C# Express Edition Beta that was available a few month ago and it was unusable. Which means it crashed every five minutes for no apparent reason at all. Granted, this was the beta, but you insist that even the betas were great.
I don't know about 2005, but when I set myself to use 2003 to develop a small accounting application I was amazed to discover the lack of basic things in the.NET api, e.g. layout managers for Windows Forms and custom controls in DataGrid.
Basic UI components were not available except as petty 15 dollars packages or stupid shareware.
Also the project and IDE configuration is cumbersome, things that should have been straightforward were hidden in obscure menus and so on.
Have fun with your crappy Visual Studio and.NET comunity, I'll be happy to stick to the freedom and quality of Eclipse and Java for now.
You might want to check out GoboLinux, an ongoing effort to build a distribution who tries to move away from the legacy filesystem structure.
Here is an interesting read about the rationale behind the project, which explains why this is necessary and also
perfectly possible.
You do not take something that doesn't belong to you. You copy something that doesn't belong to you. If it would exist a device capable of replicating physical objects with practically no cost at all would the unauthorized use of it be stealing ?
When I returned home, i stole 3 movie off the internet... and I never download movies from the internet.
According to the marginal theory of value the value of a movie is determined by its usefulnes AND scarcity.
Now because digital information multiplication is practically free and limitless, scarcity approaches zero. This means that the REAL economical value (price) of a movie has to be very low.
What the industry is trying to do is to artificially introduce scarcity to be able to maintain its business model and high margins.
In other words, what their trying to do is price fixing.
So, when you download a movie, you just pay for it a little less than what is really worth.
Yes, you are breaking the law, but you are breaking an injust law meant for the profit of a few. If it's law it doesn't mean it's right.
Someone will surely argue: "if we cannot sell digital entertainment, then we'll have no entertainment at all!"
The truth is digital entertainment can still be sold but at much lower prices (and margins) and still make a decent profit. The people who will do that will be the real artists who will do it not
for the obscene ammounts of cash of today but for their art and to make a living.
There is no real need for an entertainment
industry. All we need are artists, and we'll always have that.
Actually there's a better way: pirate the damn thing. All revolutions are by definition efforts to overthrow the system in place and all revolutionaries are first outlaws. Do you *really* feel like stealing when you're copying mp3's ? I know I don't... it's just distributing *entertainment* for Christ's sake!
I think the key sentence here is "Dreams are hollow." I had a sudden revelation about a year ago (I'm 22): I realized I spent 50 to 60% of my life leaving other's people experiences or fantasies, through books, TV and in the last 4 years computer games. Frightening... 50 to 60% of my life wasn't really mine!
Since then I go out more often and I'm even able to talk to people I once disconsidered, because they weren't what I expected.
Now I fortunately developed some kind of "fantasiometer" that triggers a "red alert" when I forget myself in front of the TV or computer and kicks me out the door at once:)
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Most likely the Google supplied apps will be tied to Google web API's so obviously a GMail or Google Maps type application will not be easily ported to other web service providers.
It might however be an open platform in the sense that UNIX is an open platform, meaning is fully specified and anyone is allowed to develop freely for it without paying royalties, signing applications, etc.
It doesn't need to be open source to be successful, it just needs to be well engineered, available free of charge to handset
manufacturers and open to develop on without stupid restrictions like needing to have applications signed.
The goal for Google is not to make money directly off of this product or even to use it to collect information, but to make mobile internet access widely available which would create a much wider market for the web apps which are its core business.
Well and I guess we should just take your work for it, don't we? I've actually used C# Express Edition Beta that was available a few month ago and it was unusable. Which means it crashed every five minutes for no apparent reason
.NET api, e.g. layout managers for Windows Forms and custom controls in DataGrid.
.NET comunity, I'll be happy to stick to the freedom and quality of Eclipse and Java for now.
at all. Granted, this was the beta, but you insist that even the betas were great.
I don't know about 2005, but when I set myself to use 2003 to develop a small accounting application I was amazed to discover the lack of basic things in the
Basic UI components were not available except as petty 15 dollars packages or stupid shareware.
Also the project and IDE configuration is cumbersome, things that should have been straightforward were hidden in obscure menus and so on.
Have fun with your crappy Visual Studio and
You might want to check out GoboLinux, an ongoing effort to build a distribution who tries to move away from the legacy filesystem structure. Here is an interesting read about the rationale behind the project, which explains why this is necessary and also perfectly possible.
You do not take something that doesn't belong to you. You copy something that doesn't belong to you.
If it would exist a device capable of replicating physical objects with practically no cost at all would the unauthorized use of it be stealing ?
When I returned home, i stole 3 movie off the internet... and I never download movies from the internet.
According to the marginal theory of value the value of a movie is determined by its usefulnes AND scarcity.
Now because digital information multiplication is practically free and limitless, scarcity approaches zero. This means that the REAL economical value (price) of a movie has to be very low.
What the industry is trying to do is to artificially introduce scarcity to be able to maintain its business model and high margins.
In other words, what their trying to do is price fixing.
So, when you download a movie, you just pay for it a little less than what is really worth. Yes, you are breaking the law, but you are breaking an injust law meant for the profit of a few. If it's law it doesn't mean it's right.
Someone will surely argue: "if we cannot sell digital entertainment, then we'll have no entertainment at all!" The truth is digital entertainment can still be sold but at much lower prices (and margins) and still make a decent profit. The people who will do that will be the real artists who will do it not for the obscene ammounts of cash of today but for their art and to make a living.
There is no real need for an entertainment industry. All we need are artists, and we'll always have that.
Actually there's a better way: pirate the damn thing. All revolutions are by definition efforts
to overthrow the system in place and all revolutionaries are first outlaws. Do you *really* feel like stealing when you're copying mp3's ? I know I don't... it's just distributing *entertainment* for Christ's sake!
OK, you can burn some flags now...
Soooooo... it's South Ural, RUSSIA, actually... Oh, well, gotta remember, I'm reading Slashdot :)
Since then I go out more often and I'm even able to talk to people I once disconsidered, because they weren't what I expected.
Now I fortunately developed some kind of "fantasiometer" that triggers a "red alert" when I forget myself in front of the TV or computer and kicks me out the door at once :)
Are you sure you are ALLOWED to post on ./ ? ...
Maybe you should've asked permission
Because we CAN
The question is "will this be better or worse for us ?" This question has been asked again and again since the atom bomb.
The answer didn't really mattered. They built it anyway. Somebody will , now, too. Because they can.
Sorry for the spelling. My native language is latin derived :)