Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Aug 2009 16:02 UTC
Apple's iPhone has completely destroyed the status quo that existed in the mobile operating system world before the iPhone arrived on the scene. The iPhone made it easier for people to get on the web while on the go, and despite ridicule before it was even released, it has revolutionised the industry, forcing other manufacturers to get a move on.
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RE[2]: Comment by Kroc
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Thu 20th Aug 2009 16:40
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Member since:2006-07-14
In their defense, they did make it easy to port desktop apps to mobile. The bad news is that they look and feel like desktop apps. I've been looking for a pda like device for 8 years or so. Windows mobile's sucky interface is the reason its been so long. I'm seriously considering the next nokia tablet.
Member since:2007-02-17
Indeed, that's a lot of time if you're playing catch-up. It's incredible how MS manages to be so successful while being extremely slow to react to market changes at the same time. It took them forever to finally update their browser
They still have a long, long way to catch up when it comes to their browser.
On this site:
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/working-with-theora
Ogg Theora is becoming a big deal, and that's exactly what we hoped for when we launched the PlayOgg campaign in May 2007. The free, patent-unencumbered video codec now works in over 24% of the world's web browsers with no plugins required. The latest 1.1 release of the Theora encoder is coming out any day now. And when it does, the huge improvements in quality and functionality made over the past year with support from Wikimedia and others will percolate out into the major GNU/Linux distributions, arriving at the fingertips of those who build and maintain the world's biggest video sites. Most of all, people are excited, releasing new tools that make the Theora easier to use, as well as jaw-dropping demos of what free formats and web standards can do.
Links to this demo:
http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/DynamicContentInjection/pl...
... which works with the functionality that comes embedded within Firefox 3.5, no need for plugins.
Microsoft's IE8 browser is a still long, long way short of this type of capability.
Indeed it did take Microsoft "forever" to update their browser, and even when they did so, they only made up a small part of the large gap to their opposition.
Given the pace of open source development (witness the Thusnelda encoder for Theora), and given the pace of Microsoft (and indeed the many retrograde steps they take, such as Vista), it is already abundantly clear that Microsoft will never catch up.
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2006-09-22
Indeed, that's a lot of time if you're playing catch-up. It's incredible how MS manages to be so successful while being extremely slow to react to market changes at the same time. It took them forever to finally update their browser, and now they finally woke up from their mobile space nap. It always amazes me.