Motorola tried Linux phones with RAZR beign the most successful. Good looks let down by substandard software and design. It tries Symbian based phones... no real impact there. Lots of Symbian licencees released great, successful phones especially Nokia. This leads to the conclusing that there's some wrong with Motorola itself, not the OS it chooses to use.
How many of those companies you listed above are also members of LIMO or the new Symbian Foundation?
The company is fighting for survival and is grasping at straws. It has nothing to offer, Nokia owns its own mapping company and can distribute free music with new phones coming out. What can Motorola do to differentiate itself from the competition? It'll take a while for these new engineers some time to get up to speed with mobile development if they haven't done it already and by that time their experience competitors will have passed them out.
If Nokia successfully break into North America that'll be the end of Motorola's mobile phone division. Sad but true.
The American companies are putting their efforts behind everyone. AT&T jumped on the Symbian bandwagon, which is quite a big deal. Motorola has also been on it for years. It's a pity their phones sucked.
You're right, the x86 instruction set doesn't have special Javascript instructions. All these benchmarks are completely dependent on the compiler. Some compilers are considered 'optimising' compilers which is utter nonsense. They make a really really good effort at producing efficient code but, unless you're willing to wait hours (instead of seconds) for your program to compile, chances are there's nothing 'optimal' about the code.
I am a programmer.
Have you any idea how difficult this is to do? Battery life is a huge factor for phones, if one company (who uses Linux) really figures out a cool way that saves shit-loads of power do you think they'll just give it away to their competitors?
You can put anything you want on a Nokia phone and it will play. It doesn't only just pay DRM'd content, it supports them. If you download DRM'd content the DRM restrictions will apply, if you download raw content you can do what you want with it.
As for SIM locks, the operators want them. Operators have a massive say in how a phone operates (especially in Japan where DoCoMo specify everything for manufacturers.) If you don't comply the operators won't allow your make of phone on their network, no attraction then for customers to buy the phone because it won't work.
I work in the industry, mobile OS developers hate DRM as much as end users do! It's a necessary evil. You're not going to get a Linux phone if operators won't allow it so Linux too must dance to their tune unfortunately.
The iPhone has been 'lived up to' outside of the US for a few years now! It's yesterday's technology being sold to fan-boys very well by Apple's marketing dept.
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Being able to parrot off a language's APIs doesn't make you a Computer Scientist. Being able to write those APIs makes you a Computer Scientist.
WTF? People will just stick a 'Make it a success' story on the backlog
But where's the source code???
Because I've seen some TI driver source code and it's frankly, shit. No wonder they left the camera module off
What about the handle leak that will render your machine unusuable if you leave it on overnight? Still waiting for PGP to fix it.
Motorola tried Linux phones with RAZR beign the most successful. Good looks let down by substandard software and design. It tries Symbian based phones... no real impact there. Lots of Symbian licencees released great, successful phones especially Nokia. This leads to the conclusing that there's some wrong with Motorola itself, not the OS it chooses to use. How many of those companies you listed above are also members of LIMO or the new Symbian Foundation? The company is fighting for survival and is grasping at straws. It has nothing to offer, Nokia owns its own mapping company and can distribute free music with new phones coming out. What can Motorola do to differentiate itself from the competition? It'll take a while for these new engineers some time to get up to speed with mobile development if they haven't done it already and by that time their experience competitors will have passed them out. If Nokia successfully break into North America that'll be the end of Motorola's mobile phone division. Sad but true.
Jumping on every OS bandwagon going out of pure desperation! How many 'alliances' is it a member of?
An open-source OS does not mean the end-user can do what they want. It means the phone manufactures can do what they want.
The American companies are putting their efforts behind everyone. AT&T jumped on the Symbian bandwagon, which is quite a big deal. Motorola has also been on it for years. It's a pity their phones sucked.
You're right, the x86 instruction set doesn't have special Javascript instructions. All these benchmarks are completely dependent on the compiler. Some compilers are considered 'optimising' compilers which is utter nonsense. They make a really really good effort at producing efficient code but, unless you're willing to wait hours (instead of seconds) for your program to compile, chances are there's nothing 'optimal' about the code. I am a programmer.
If you don't like Michael O'Leary you definitely won't like O'Brien
In C/C++/Java braces are a statement in themselves, they're a statement that contains other statements and define scope.
Ya you're probably unaware of the memory alignment issues with ARM processors. Not Symbian's fault.
Have you any idea how difficult this is to do? Battery life is a huge factor for phones, if one company (who uses Linux) really figures out a cool way that saves shit-loads of power do you think they'll just give it away to their competitors?
Symbian can be run on one CPU, this includes the baseband and applications. Linux cannot.
There'll be Symbian SMP phones from 2010.
You can put anything you want on a Nokia phone and it will play. It doesn't only just pay DRM'd content, it supports them. If you download DRM'd content the DRM restrictions will apply, if you download raw content you can do what you want with it. As for SIM locks, the operators want them. Operators have a massive say in how a phone operates (especially in Japan where DoCoMo specify everything for manufacturers.) If you don't comply the operators won't allow your make of phone on their network, no attraction then for customers to buy the phone because it won't work. I work in the industry, mobile OS developers hate DRM as much as end users do! It's a necessary evil. You're not going to get a Linux phone if operators won't allow it so Linux too must dance to their tune unfortunately.
Spot on. Nokia use DRM because the would never sell phones to network operators (who massively subsidise phones for the end-user)
So yes, there's nothing to see here, move on!
Because the iPhone was a flop outside North America.
SSE is an extension to Intel x86 CPU instruction set and has nothing to do with C++
The ISPs should switch off the internet for a day. That'll learn 'em.
Does your job involve adding to and maintaining an OS? Mine does, your post is utter bollocks
The iPhone has been 'lived up to' outside of the US for a few years now! It's yesterday's
technology being sold to fan-boys very well by Apple's marketing dept.