The optimism for Windows Phone in the press really does surprise you? Why? It may be distinctly mediocre, but it is backed by massive advertising and connections.
People said this 2 years ago when WP7 first came out. 1 year ago when the first Nokia WP7 phones came out and 6 months ago when Nokia's flagship WP7 phone came out.
You're right, when it comes to the consumer market. But Microsoft is still firmly entrenched in business. I predict large corporations will eat up Microsoft's new tablet.
Yeah. Microsoft is like RIM. Entrenched in business. They have nothing to worry about from Apple.
Right now MS Office compatibility, lack of mouse support and USB host file access on an iPad are the only things stopping me from taking away the laptops from our sales force, so for now they're getting both a laptop and an iPad. They're all leaving their laptops at home and using them at the end of the day.
Apple have every chance to kill Microsoft if they so choose, they just don't know it yet.
I'm just going to leave this here, so I can come back to it a couple years from now, when Apple unveils their "revolutionary" iPhone Ink, with a big display and the ability to accept both capacitive touch and pen input.
"This changes everything again... again"
The catch is that since there are multiple JVM implementations, on top of a wide variety of different operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Solaris, NetWare, HP-UX, and Mac OS, there can be subtle differences in how a program may execute on each JVM/OS combination, which may require an application to be tested on various target platforms. This has given rise to the joke among Java developers, "Write Once, Debug Everywhere".
To claim that Android, which is the most open mainstream OS by far, could be problematic for Free Software, would be disingenous at best, it's like claiming that non alcoholic beer could lead to alcoholism!
I'm sure the success of an Open Source OS in the market would clearly doom us all, Preservinig MSFT's monopoly on the other hand is the path to salvation because well, better the devil you know, right?
The Honeycomb source wasn't released because it was a mess, it's been explained to death. Every other version had its source code released in record time.
The HTML4 standard was not some arbitrary standard, it was the foundation on which the modern web was built. Microsoft chose to ignore a good chunk of it pushing its own agenda instead with the objective of both protecting its monopoly and expanding it to the web.
Also, by pushing IE into every new computer or Windows Installation, Microsoft drove Netscape out of business, this is something for which they were criminally convicted.
They're not just evil, Apple can be considered evil and Microsoft are the fucking devil compared to them.
MS including a browser with the OS that had no regard for existing standards set the web back some 5-6 years. If it hadn't been for Opera, Firefox and later Chrome and Safari (on mobile) web developers all over the world might have hanged themselves by now. Yeah, they were evil then, they are evil now.
I guess you have not tried a high end Android device. The GUI doesn't lag, it is fast and responsive. Occasionally on medium or low end devices there will be a little bit of stutter in the animation due to other tasks needing CPU time and triple buffering will help with that.
I have tried high end Android devices, I got a transformer tablet last year for example, which I ended up swapping for an iPad as it was not quite there yet. Anything using Gingerbread and below is laggy by default because there is not hardware acceleration for the UI. If you've never used an iPhone or a WebOS device you might not be aware of it, but Android, even on the highest end devices can be laggy as hell, in particular whenever the garbage collector kicks in.
When they introduced hardware acceleration in Honeycomb for tablets and then ICS for the rest of devices things improved a bit but it was not what you could call "buttery smooth", it was better by miles but still not that great compared to the experience you get in iOS for example, which is quite frankly, flawless. And this isn't me being an Apple apologist, if you go through my previous posts you'll see I'm a massive Android fanboy.
If you watch the keynote you'll see a demonstration on a Galaxy Nexus. which will show the difference better than I can explain:)
Yeah it's far too expensive, and it won't even stream stuff stored on the devices connected to it, it has to be streamed from Google Play. My guess is that was due to licensing issues. I do like the idea behind it though, queueing up songs Jukebox style from the phone would be a pretty cool thing at parties, as long as you take away people's ability to jump the queue!
I see huge barriers towards the mass adoption of a device like that, but you have to apreciate them having the balls to pull off that stunt, genuinely glad I got to see it live.
I'm genuinely curious - is there any independent video from outside the building? Something that shows the whole thing was indeed shot live, and happened as described (e.g. not someone else doing the skydiving)?
It didn't really feel like a prerecorded video, Sergey Brin looked genuinely unnerved at times and kept reminding the audience that there was a good chance stuff could go wrong, and the way he fist pumped at the end you could tell he was genuinely relieved everything worked out.
I see huge barriers towards the mass adoption of a device like that, but you have to apreciate them having the balls to pull off that stunt, genuinely glad I got to see it live.
As far as Android goes it's about time they put the time and effort to make the UI fast and smooth, I'm amazed it's taken them so long to realize how much a laggy UI can hurt the user experience.
It's early tech, they're going to get thinner, lighter, they're going to accept touch and pen input,... couple that with the development on technologies like E-Ink and Foldable displays and in some 10 years they'll be ubiquitous, not just in education but pretty much everywhere.
More importantly the work in UX design that companies like Apple, Palm and Google have been doing has allowed users who are not entirely comfortable with the desktop paradign to stop thinking of these devices less as computers and more as standard household items, like TVs or VCRs.
So what, Microsoft have been in the hardware business for ages and nobody seems to mind. They've gone hand in hand with Nokia in the phone market and nobody seems to mind. Now the've announced their own tablet and nobody seems to mind.
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That's an issue with the charger not the connector.
The optimism for Windows Phone in the press really does surprise you? Why? It may be distinctly mediocre, but it is backed by massive advertising and connections.
People said this 2 years ago when WP7 first came out. 1 year ago when the first Nokia WP7 phones came out and 6 months ago when Nokia's flagship WP7 phone came out.
You're right, when it comes to the consumer market. But Microsoft is still firmly entrenched in business. I predict large corporations will eat up Microsoft's new tablet.
Yeah. Microsoft is like RIM. Entrenched in business. They have nothing to worry about from Apple.
Right now MS Office compatibility, lack of mouse support and USB host file access on an iPad are the only things stopping me from taking away the laptops from our sales force, so for now they're getting both a laptop and an iPad. They're all leaving their laptops at home and using them at the end of the day.
Apple have every chance to kill Microsoft if they so choose, they just don't know it yet.
If there's no travel you might as well save your money and type on the screen.
I'm just going to leave this here, so I can come back to it a couple years from now, when Apple unveils their "revolutionary" iPhone Ink, with a big display and the ability to accept both capacitive touch and pen input. "This changes everything again... again"
So, what you're saying is that it's "write once, run anywhere but android"?
No, but you already knew that,p... doesn't even hold up to scrutiny on the Java VM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once,_run_anywhere
The catch is that since there are multiple JVM implementations, on top of a wide variety of different operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Solaris, NetWare, HP-UX, and Mac OS, there can be subtle differences in how a program may execute on each JVM/OS combination, which may require an application to be tested on various target platforms. This has given rise to the joke among Java developers, "Write Once, Debug Everywhere".
couldn't keep quiet about it could you
Well maybe others were doing it but Google did get caught red handed.
To claim that Android, which is the most open mainstream OS by far, could be problematic for Free Software, would be disingenous at best, it's like claiming that non alcoholic beer could lead to alcoholism!
I'm sure the success of an Open Source OS in the market would clearly doom us all, Preservinig MSFT's monopoly on the other hand is the path to salvation because well, better the devil you know, right?
The Honeycomb source wasn't released because it was a mess, it's been explained to death. Every other version had its source code released in record time.
But it's ok if they steal the pull down notification bar from Google? :)
where Leslie Nielsen's nose starts growing after he says there's nothing to worry about :)
The HTML4 standard was not some arbitrary standard, it was the foundation on which the modern web was built. Microsoft chose to ignore a good chunk of it pushing its own agenda instead with the objective of both protecting its monopoly and expanding it to the web.
Also, by pushing IE into every new computer or Windows Installation, Microsoft drove Netscape out of business, this is something for which they were criminally convicted.
They're not just evil, Apple can be considered evil and Microsoft are the fucking devil compared to them.
MS including a browser with the OS that had no regard for existing standards set the web back some 5-6 years. If it hadn't been for Opera, Firefox and later Chrome and Safari (on mobile) web developers all over the world might have hanged themselves by now. Yeah, they were evil then, they are evil now.
I guess you have not tried a high end Android device. The GUI doesn't lag, it is fast and responsive. Occasionally on medium or low end devices there will be a little bit of stutter in the animation due to other tasks needing CPU time and triple buffering will help with that.
I have tried high end Android devices, I got a transformer tablet last year for example, which I ended up swapping for an iPad as it was not quite there yet. Anything using Gingerbread and below is laggy by default because there is not hardware acceleration for the UI. If you've never used an iPhone or a WebOS device you might not be aware of it, but Android, even on the highest end devices can be laggy as hell, in particular whenever the garbage collector kicks in.
:)
When they introduced hardware acceleration in Honeycomb for tablets and then ICS for the rest of devices things improved a bit but it was not what you could call "buttery smooth", it was better by miles but still not that great compared to the experience you get in iOS for example, which is quite frankly, flawless. And this isn't me being an Apple apologist, if you go through my previous posts you'll see I'm a massive Android fanboy.
If you watch the keynote you'll see a demonstration on a Galaxy Nexus. which will show the difference better than I can explain
Yeah it's far too expensive, and it won't even stream stuff stored on the devices connected to it, it has to be streamed from Google Play. My guess is that was due to licensing issues. I do like the idea behind it though, queueing up songs Jukebox style from the phone would be a pretty cool thing at parties, as long as you take away people's ability to jump the queue!
I see huge barriers towards the mass adoption of a device like that, but you have to apreciate them having the balls to pull off that stunt, genuinely glad I got to see it live.
I'm genuinely curious - is there any independent video from outside the building? Something that shows the whole thing was indeed shot live, and happened as described (e.g. not someone else doing the skydiving)?
It didn't really feel like a prerecorded video, Sergey Brin looked genuinely unnerved at times and kept reminding the audience that there was a good chance stuff could go wrong, and the way he fist pumped at the end you could tell he was genuinely relieved everything worked out.
I see huge barriers towards the mass adoption of a device like that, but you have to apreciate them having the balls to pull off that stunt, genuinely glad I got to see it live.
As far as Android goes it's about time they put the time and effort to make the UI fast and smooth, I'm amazed it's taken them so long to realize how much a laggy UI can hurt the user experience.
And as usual Microsoft moving to where the ball is instead of where it's going to be.
Than anything else, reminds me of the Facebook Instagram acquisition.
And for the record I know Palm is now HP and pretty much defunct, I'm talking about the UI work they did with WebOS.
It's early tech, they're going to get thinner, lighter, they're going to accept touch and pen input,... couple that with the development on technologies like E-Ink and Foldable displays and in some 10 years they'll be ubiquitous, not just in education but pretty much everywhere.
More importantly the work in UX design that companies like Apple, Palm and Google have been doing has allowed users who are not entirely comfortable with the desktop paradign to stop thinking of these devices less as computers and more as standard household items, like TVs or VCRs.
So what, Microsoft have been in the hardware business for ages and nobody seems to mind. They've gone hand in hand with Nokia in the phone market and nobody seems to mind. Now the've announced their own tablet and nobody seems to mind.
Great, I've only waited a good chunk of a year for it.
It amazes me that this isn't a bigger issue for the Android base.
Users who care about that stuff flash their own ROMs if they don't feel like waiting.