Well, this certainly isn't particularly surprising. The rising popularity of Android leaves more victims in its wake than just Windows Mobile. Sony Ericsson, one of the major manufacturers of Symbian phones (other than Nokia) has just announced it will pretty much abandon the platform to focus entirely on Android - leaving Nokia as the sole person cheering for team Symbian.
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Why do you think this is the case? Give us something concrete please, like "this stack can't reach 60fps on average application" - because that stuff can be proven to be false.
I'm sorry it failed to amuse you.
Android is proof point for Java. It doesn't say much about Linux since it's hardly Linux at all. Mac OS X is more Linux than Android is.
Companies are here to make business, in whatever collaborative setting is appropriate. They are not here to amuse you.
Member since:2006-12-16
"It doesn't say much about Linux since it's hardly Linux at all. Mac OS X is more Linux than Android is."
Repeating a wrong doesn't make it right. Linux is the kernel - even if Google has made changes to the kernel, it's basically linux.
OSX doesn't have anything near a linux kernel.
The argument that usually comes next, that "people mean the whole thing when they're talking about linux" is totally pointless.
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Meego was already chosen to be the standard (with a grain of salt) operating system for cars. It's hardly a failure.
http://www.osnews.com/story/23597/MeeGo_Chosen_by_Automotive_Techno...
Member since:2006-10-03
I hardly think Maemo was a failure. Technology wise it was actually pretty darn good.
Compared to Android phones it wins hands down. (I have no experience with iPhones but from what I see and hear I'm not impressed)
Mind-share wise yeah, Nokia and thus Maemo has lost there. But technology wise Maemo is not bad and the N900 as a phone proofs that.
After being forced to spend two weeks on a Android (Cupcake) phone it was clear that this platform is technically inferior to the N900 on many levels. (As well as not being very user friendly IMHO)
Now you can argue that cupcake is old, but then again the phone is locked to this version and there is no means to upgrade without voiding all warranty. Also several of the major bugs I found there still open on 2.x so no gain there.
Sure I've got my share of gripes with Nokia; about Maemo's stale userland, slow development of Maemo, more or less letting it bleed to die, the idiotic reasonings of Maemo community about security (they do not want to implement shadow file and strong crypto on passwords because the a phone device is inheritly insecure ? sorry but that's just stupid), and how things went with the hole Meego move.
But Maemo as an OS and Phone is hardly a failure.
Considering the small amount of N900 phones that where made in the beginning and it being targeted to developers/geeks it could actually be called a success.
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It is not? Why don't I see it as widespread as iOS and the droid? To me that indicates a failure. Sure the technology might be good but that doesn't necessarily indicate success.
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I'm still a little up in the air over the Meego merger though. I have a lot of .deb that have been carried across two previous devices which may get cut off unless Meego manages to support deb and rpm (I hear it'll at least be rpm with apt-get/aptitude managers).
After playing with two Iphones in the house and looking seriously at three Android devices (to the point of looking up howto for planned uses), N900 hardware is fantastic and Maemo on it blows the other's away for my needs. I really hope they don't stuff the Maemo community any more than they already have.
(Why they agreed to have Meego based on Moblin's RPM rather than a direct fork of Debian; I'll never figure out.)
Official Apple statement on PRISM and privacy: "Regardless of the circumstances, our Legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities. In fact, from time to time when we see inconsistencies or inaccuracies in a request, we will refuse to fulfill it." This is basically Apple re-publishing their earlier statement in a more official manner. You either believe it, or you don't.
The open source Contiki operating system and its commercial Thingsquare distribution are making strides towards the connected home. According to a Computerworld article, a new LED light bulb manufacturer is putting small computers into their light bulbs. Each computer runs the Contiki OS, which gives each bulb an IP address and allows them to be controlled with a smartphone application. To connect the bulbs to the application, the bulbs use both Wi-Fi and the much lower power IEEE 802.15.4 mesh technology.
"Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. The legal filing, which cites the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech, is the latest move by the California-based tech giant to protect its reputation in the aftermath of news reports about sweeping National Security Agency surveillance of Internet traffic." Draining the ditch after the cow has drowned in it."I can't find one person who has been using the Nexus 7 for an extended period of time, and hasn't seen a massive downgrade in performance. Just what kind of downgrade are we talking here? I cannot pick up my Nexus 7 without experiencing problems like a lag of ten seconds, or more, just to rotate the display; touches refusing to acknowledged; stuttering notification panel actions; and unresponsive apps." Fully and utterly agreed. My Nexus 7 was blazing-fast and awesome for a few months, and at some point, it just started sucking. Just like that. I've tried loads of ROMs, and nothing helps.A new release of the hobby operating system MenuetOS! The release notes are a bit non-descript, but you'll have to take what you can get: "updates and improvements (picview, httpc, ehci, ...)"."The Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem. There are many terrestrial challenges to Internet connectivity - jungles, archipelagos, mountains. There are also major cost challenges. Right now, for example, in most of the countries in the southern hemisphere, the cost of an Internet connection is more than a month's income. Solving these problems isn't simply a question of time: it requires looking at the problem of access from new angles. So today we're unveiling our latest moonshot from Google[x]: balloon-powered Internet access." Insane.
"MineAssemble is a tiny bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 assembly. I made it first and foremost because a university assignment required me to implement a game in assembly for a computer systems course. Because I had never implemented anything more complex than a 'Hello World' bootloader before, I decided I wanted to learn about writing my own kernel code at the same time. Note that the goal of this project was not to write highly efficient hand-optimized assembly code, but rather to have fun and write code that balances readability and speed. This is primarily accomplished by proper commenting and consistent code structuring." Just cool.Jon Rubinstein, former CEO of Palm: "Well, I'm not sure I would have sold the company to HP. That's for sure. Talk about a waste. Not that I had any choice because when you sell a company you don't get to decide that. Obviously, the board and shareholders decide that. If we had known they were just going to shut it down and never really give it a chance to flourish, what would have been the point of selling the company? I think the deal we had with Verizon really hurt us, but who knew that at the time? These things are all hindsight.""And so it is with Dell's Alienware X51 R2, a small form factor gaming PC in console digs. It's shaped similar to Microsoft's Xbox 360 Slim, and though it's slightly larger than either a 360 or PlayStation 3, the X51 R2 would be right at home in a living room setting nestled next to a large screen TV. Indeed, it's adept at running Steam's Big Picture mode, and if your primary objective is to play games in the living room, go ahead and consider the X51 R2 a hybrid game console." This is obviously not the only machine like this - still, these are very valid console alternatives even for those that don't like being hunched over with a cramped WASD-claw. Also, PC gamers among us: could you get away with the $699 model for gaming?
From Bloomberg: "Microsoft, the world's largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes." The lid has officially been blown off.
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While it's true that Nokia did mistakes and and did not move fast enough, it is completely wrong that Nokia "did NOTHING!"
Don't have a clue? I think you assume I don't have a clue. I am well aware Nokia bought out Trolltech and I am also well aware when Trolltech relaxed the license *before the Nokia buyout* and before that the KDE community was restless I think it was around the year 2000. I am also aware of Maemo - a platform that Nokia developed - based on Debian Linux and Moblin developed by Intel which have now become MeeGo. So, no I am not clueless as you may think.
My prediction of the future: Maemo was a failure, Moblin was also a failure and the new MeeGo will also fail. Basically everything based on a "typical Linux/XFree86/XOrg" will fail. I have used MeeGo on my PC, I do not find it amusing at all. Google Android on the other hand is a different story - a true example that Linux can be successful among general consumers if done correctly. And no I still disagree. Creating yet another typical Linux distro to me is NOTHING. Creating something different such as Android IS something.
Edited 2010-09-25 12:17 UTC