Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Dec 2010 22:56 UTC, submitted by fran
Very light on details, but this is interesting nonetheless - very interesting, and potentially one of the biggest things to have hit the operating systems business this decade. Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft plans to announce Windows for ARM processors at CES in January 2011.
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RE[10]: what's the point?
by TheGZeus on Wed 22nd Dec 2010 22:38
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RE[11]: what's the point?
by Nelson on Wed 22nd Dec 2010 22:43
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RE[10]: what's the point?
by oiaohm on Wed 22nd Dec 2010 22:54
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Absolutely right, to an extent, familiarity helps, but especially with Java you're going to run into some limits as to what you can do with the platform. There's really not a presentation platform on Android anywhere near as rich as Silverlight, and this is coming from someone who desperately wishes there was.
Don't get me wrong, Android is very nice and the platform is very well thought out, but it's just not the same.
Don't get me wrong, Android is very nice and the platform is very well thought out, but it's just not the same.
I should have read this first. Really Android NDK is currently richer than Silverlight due to the toolkits it can host. Code in Java like language is not your only option. Existing QT in the NDK is way more rich than Silverlight presentation platform.
Interesting that you were bagging that it was not ready. All it proves to me is that you had not tried it. Also proves that you don't know Android. Android has two levels NDK and Android form of the Java language.
Android is well thought out. Java like language for simple applications. NDK for complex ones needing fancy displaying. The NDK is well on its way to matching the requirements of http://www.khronos.org/openkode/ opengl es, opensl es and openvg are all exposed only openmax is missing for android ndk to be a openkode platform,
Yes native code for android is mostly not as platform locked as it use on almost every platform that allows building of native binaries that has openkode.
Extra note. http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ is also almost an openkode platform. So really NDK android is more a web platform than what silverlight is these days
Edited 2010-12-22 22:57 UTC
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Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
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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."
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Absolutely right, to an extent, familiarity helps, but especially with Java you're going to run into some limits as to what you can do with the platform. There's really not a presentation platform on Android anywhere near as rich as Silverlight, and this is coming from someone who desperately wishes there was.
Don't get me wrong, Android is very nice and the platform is very well thought out, but it's just not the same.