Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Dec 2012 23:18 UTC
"Sources familiar with the ongoing negotiations between Apple and Microsoft tell AllThingsD that the companies are at loggerheads not over the 30 percent commission Apple asks of storage upgrade sales made through SkyDrive, but over applying that same commission to Office 365 subscriptions sold through Microsoft Office for iOS, which is expected to launch sometime next year." iOS could end up being the only mobile platform without Office.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 11:29 UTC
The day has finally come! Jolla has finally announced the launch device for its Sailfish operating system - and by god this is a looker. It's decidedly different from other phones out there, but it has good specifications and carries a relatively reasonably price tag - EUR 399, and it's up for pre-order today, shipping in the fourth quarter of this year.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:33 UTC
Why does Google get so much credit in the technology industry? Why, despite the company's many obvious failings, do many geeks and enthusiasts still hold a somewhat positive view on the all-knowing technology giant? A specific talk at Google I/O this week provides the answer.
Linked by David Adams on 05/16/13 4:23 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/11/13 21:41 UTC
"Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening." That's one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows' performance isn't up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later deleted but reposted with permission on Marc Bevand's blog, paints a very dreary picture of the state of Windows development. The root issue? Think of how Linux is developed, and you'll know the answer.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/08/13 14:22 UTC
This is one of those news items that's fun to write, fun to read, fun to comment on, and where no one will be able to say anything unkind. It's all just one big ball of awesome fluffiness. TuneTracker, the BeOS radio automation software, has just released something very special: TuneTracker System 5, the first version designed entirely and specifically for Haiku. In fact, it actually includes Haiku in the software package. Better yet, TuneTracker also unveiled several system-in-a-box products - which have Haiku and TuneTracker pre-installed.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/02/13 15:28 UTC
Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/29/13 21:06 UTC
Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/24/13 22:24 UTC
They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/18/13 11:21 UTC
Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/16/13 9:29 UTC
The day has finally come: Google has started shipping Google Glass to the lucky few early adopters. Now that it's shipping, Google has also unveiled a lot more about the API and the specifications of the device itself. While the company had already given out substantial details at earlier occasions, there are still a few surprises here.More Features »
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Not really. A Mac is a PC.. *head explodes* This is a bit like the 1970's "Pepsi challenge" in the UK. At the time, Pepsi were not allowed to name another brand in their advertising, so they used the term "another leading cola". Equally, what would one call a consumer Windows PC if one wanted to remove the word "Windows(tm)" and were trying to be "generic"? Errr... PC. What would one Call a Macintosh branded personal computer if one wanted a similar level of simplicity? Mac. This is the common parlance, after all. No matter what the factual truth of the definitions are.
OS X. It helps if you know what you are talking about. And, no, it's a long way away from iOS.
Arm or IA32/x64? With ARM we might believe you... with Intel you might run "some" apps with major caveats due to the native extensions being in ARM. But then again, Dalvik is a VM - running the majority of Android apps that make no use of the NDK is pretty straight forward, so long as you've ported the runtime. This is no different to running any Windows app compiler with MS.Net under Mono on Linux or Mac OS X.
Both of what? Processor? No it doesn't. It does nothing more than LINUX does when you run a PowerPC distro, or BeOS did on both PowerPC and Intel or Android does on ARM, MIPS or Intel. You seem to have not gleaned the simple idea that one OS can run on different platforms quite happily. As an example, I used BeOS on PowerPC then Intel... I didn't think the Intel port was "pretending to be BeOS" because it couldn't run PowerPC apps. I also used Openstep on Intel hardware, but I didn't go around thinking that the 68000 or RISC based versions (SPARK/HP and fabled PowerPC) were imitations or pretending to be anything more than fully functioning ports. You comments seem pretty naive.
Desktop PC's are struggling, but tablets have still got a long way to go before the oust Laptops. And the most popular Tablet I see commuting in the London every day is the iPad (iPad 1's, and the newer shape that could be a 2, 3, or 4 - not seen a mini yet.) I see as few Android tablets as to make them seem extremely niche and I have seem maybe 1 Blackberry Playbook and zero surface so far. I see more eBook readers, such as Kindles, than anything else though.
You can argue in circles, but the circles seem a bit wonky from where I'm standing.