Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Jan 2010 19:45 UTC
In what everybody already saw coming for weeks (months) now, Apple has just unveiled its latest product, a tablet called the iPad. Basically a bigger version of the iPhone, Steve Jobs presented the iPad during a press event in San Francisco. The most interesting news? It's powered by... An Apple processor, called the A4. The most shocking news? The price.
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RE[4]: viral marketing
by Thom_Holwerda on Thu 28th Jan 2010 13:40
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Member since:2005-06-29
C’mon. The whole computer business has changed because of the iPhone. You may like it or not, but that’s something that anyone can see. There’s an after and before the iPhone in the tech industry. Computers are no exception.
Holy... Just... Wow.
You really believe that, don't you? I like my Iphone but... Dude, you need to lay off the IV.
Member since:2005-07-03
Holy... Just... Wow.
You really believe that, don't you? I like my Iphone but... Dude, you need to lay off the IV.
You might want to know that I do not own an iPhone (although many co-workers here do, so I have access to the device). I had a 1st Gen one for about a month, then it broke and didn’t feel like buying another, given that I really only use the phone as phone and even then, I rarely use it.
I also had an iPhone 3GS for a couple of weeks (courtesy of a friend). It’s a very nice device, and I still think that it has changed the computer industry as a whole (and the phone industry as well). Now I’m back at my old Nokia (and pretty much useless) but very small and simple to use as a Phone. Also I can drop/lose this cheap nokia and they give me another one for free.
I insist, iPhone changed it all. Google, Nokia, LG, Motorola? started to think in terms of iPhoneish…
RE[4]: viral marketing
by dylansmrjones on Thu 28th Jan 2010 16:42
in reply to "RE[3]: viral marketing"
Member since:2005-10-02
I haven't seen a single thing that the iPhone has inspired on desktop computers. Nor have I seen anything related to iPhone apps.
I think you are overestimating the impact of the iPhone, unless you can come with a list of iPhone elements commonly found on the desktop. Which part of the interface (and device) can be commonly found?
Personally I have the opinion that the iPhone has had zero impact on the desktop. It has however had major impact on cellphones.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 15:53 UTC
The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 22:43 UTC
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
"This is my NeXTstation Turbo Color booting the Mac System 7.1 Operating System using a hardware add-on called 'Daydream'. The Daydream has a Mac ROM and a few custom ICs in it and hooked up to the NeXTs DSP port. Turns your NeXT into a full fledged 68k powered Mac." So cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:11 UTC, submitted by Drumhellar
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."More News »
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But perhaps you meant something else?
Clearly… a lot of applications, devices, developers, etc. are not extracting ideas, copying; empowering, altering and god knows what else, taking the iPhone (UI and Device) as a model…
C’mon. The whole computer business has changed because of the iPhone. You may like it or not, but that’s something that anyone can see. There’s an after and before the iPhone in the tech industry. Computers are no exception.
I’ve seen a few applications add micro details based upon ideas that came from the iPhone UI. Heck we did that in our own Windows application for Dentists. You may not like the device or Apple or whatever, but as the Mouse changed things back then, the iPhone UI and multitouch surfaces are changing it now.
The iPad, is the 1st iteration of what might be very common in the future. Time will tell.
I personally would have added a Camera (for video conference) and it’s a very good companion for travelers interested in their media and staying online while on the road. Multitasking would’ve been nice (to keep, for example, an IM Session running in the background without resorting to “push”).