Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 23rd Sep 2012 01:05 UTC
"It's no secret that Mozilla has been working on a mobile OS. Previously codenamed Boot2Gecko, the project focused on a purely HTML5 based system that worked in many ways like current mobile devices. As the project grew into Mozilla OS, the company has laid out a partnership with ZTE that will have real world devices in certain markets early next year. Testing for this OS had previously consisted of a compiled ROM that would be flashed over a handful of Android devices. Now, Mozilla has moved into full fledged product evaluation mode with their own custom developer phone." Looks decent - and a better solution for testers and developers than custom ROMs.
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WP7 has over 100k apps. In who's reality is that a failure ?
Also WP8 will still primarily use C# with C++ being used by games and for WinRT components.
In Windows 8 where devs can use C++, 80% of Store apps are C# and XAML based.
As someone who participated in XBLIG, the problems was not the choice of C#, but rather boneheaded decisions by Microsoft with regards to cost, agility, and awareness. It was just a very badly run program.
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A lot has changed and almost any API Mozilla makes for Firefox is also proposed at the W3C and discussed there to be specified as a proper standard.
Which means even if Firefox OS does not work out, all the APIs will be made available for others to work on (so the new Tizen, WebOS or whatever does not have to reinvent the wheel).
It also will allow browsers to adopt these standards.
Pretty much everything you can imagine has al ready been standardised, proposed as a standard or is being heavily worked on.
Just have a look at WebRTC for example.
There has been massive leaps since Apple tried to promote WebApps
Edited 2012-09-23 22:58 UTC
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There has been massive leaps since Apple tried to promote WebApps
Agreed. River Trail is an interesting project, for instance:
https://github.com/rivertrail/rivertrail/wiki
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
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.More Features »
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No, it _doesn't_ matter at all. "ready" is too broad of a term and irrelevant to this situation. Let's recheck history.
-Palm moved from m68k to ARM, tried to still promote m68k development by running it in an emulator. Failed, developers preferred native. Then PalmOS6 was supposed to be native, but good old Palm died.
-J2ME sucked, no one did anything woth playing for it.
-WebOS was html based, developers didn't like it and pushed for native. Finally native was allowed but it was too late.
-XBox Indie Arcade is .net only, totally flopped. XBLA is native, was successful.
-Nintendo tried something similar by allowing you to run javascript games in the browser, failed.
-Nokia n-gage was java, failed.
-iPhone was also supposed to be html5 only based, developers complained and then went native.
-Android was Java only, developers complained and Google had to release the NDK.
-Microsoft released WP7, .net only, flopped. WP8 is native.
-Flash is ActionScript, now when fading in popularity, Adobe concedes and goes native with Alchemy.
After ALL THIS, Firefox has the balls to go and announce their HTML5-only based phone.
I'm sorry, denying developers of native access simply doesn't work. It never did. It's been proven again and again and again ad infinitum. C is still the most popular programming language, period. It's one of those things that shouldn't be that difficult to understand by most people and companies, yet they keep thinking they can reinvent the wheel.
Edited 2012-09-23 19:35 UTC