Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Dec 2012 11:51 UTC
"Google has revealed that it has no plans to develop dedicated apps for Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 for its business app products such as Gmail or Drive." Product management director for Google Apps, Clay Bavor, told V3 that Google "will go where the users are but they are not on Windows Phone or Windows 8". Ouch - but for now, hard to argue with.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/13/13 14:35 UTC
The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/11/13 17:07 UTC
We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/10/13 23:13 UTC
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/08/13 14:57 UTC
And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/07/13 11:40 UTC
This story is getting bigger and bigger. Even though most Americans probably already knew, it is now official: the United States government, through its National Security Agency, is collecting the communications and data of all American citizens, and of non-Americans using American services, through a wide collaboration with the large companies in technology, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on. Interestingly enough, the NSA itself, as well as the US government, have repeatedly and firmly denied this massive spying on Americans and non-Americans took place at all.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/04/13 12:45 UTC
Ah, patents - the never-ending scourge of the technology industry. Whether wielded by companies who don't actually make any products, or large corporations who abuse them because they can't compete in the market place or because they're simply jerks, they do the industry a huge disservice and are simply plain dangerous. According to The Wall Street Journal (circumvention link), president Obama is about to take several executive actions to address patent trolls - which may seem like a good idea, but I am very worried that all this will do is strengthen the positions of notorious patent system abusers such as Apple and Microsoft.
Linked by nfeske on 05/31/13 10:12 UTC
With version 13.05, the developers of the Genode OS Framework take measures to ensure that Genode continues to scale well with a growing number of users and the steadily broadening platform coverage. Further highlights are the improved SoC support for Exynos 5, OMAP4, Raspberry Pi, i.MX, and new components for realizing headless systems.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/29/13 16:59 UTC
At the D11 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook once again took the stage to be interviewed by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. While most of the interview can be replicated by picking and reading 10 random Apple fanblog stories - there were still a number of very interesting things that warrant some closer scrutiny.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 17:26 UTC
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.
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!More Features »
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Ok, some WebGL is constantly changing and you want Microsoft to implement it NOW? How about finish it first, take it to the appropriate standards bodies, and then come back?
These things should be debated in the open, and I'm sure there are more than a fair amount of people who think WebGL is a laughably bad idea. It's a ridiculous shim between JS and OpenGL which should never exist.
Especially, if, as you said, it destroys battery life. So no, WebGL isn't enabled on iOS. You're just making shit up, AGAIN.
The point is, its there and constantly improving. In Firefox, in Opera, in Safari, in Chrome. They all work on it, make it better, make it great and once the Tim is come (and I am sure that is ore winner then later) it I'll be enabled as default.
So it's not enabled by default. Okay. No need for a long paragraph, just say its not enabled by default, and don't try to argue with me as if I was wrong before. You were wrong, you misled, and you got caught. AGAIN.
But the IE team does not do anything like that. They not even work on it, push it to the public (disabled as default too) so public CAN TEST, give feedback and help to make there implementation fast, per formant and compatible.
Microsoft does not generally implement "standards" that are in a state of flux. Internet Explorer releases come with an implicit guarantee of support for years to come. It isn't like Firefox 87 or Chrome 215.
Microsoft just ignores it. Rejects it. Case of political reasons since WebGL does not fit into there ActiveX/DirectX vendor lock in strategy. No, its a danger even to enable interoperability.
And DirectX does not fit into Khrono's OpenGL strategy. Its two sides to one coin.
Why don't browser vendors implement XAML? An ISO standard for application markup? Why do they continue to put resources into HTML5?
Because it runs contrary to their core position as a technology. What you're asking for is unreasonable. I'm sure that Microsoft would love an immediate API for the Web, but it will never, EVER be OpenGL.
Make it platform agnostic and you may have something that Microsoft can accept. And if people don't do it soon, they risk Microsoft doing it their own way, submitting it to a standards body, and doing an end run around WebGL. And it'll be all Khrono's fault.
You and people who believe that WebGL should be everywhere have, or are destroying any possibility of an interoperable API for 3D on the web by refusing to play ball with the biggest player in the room.
Its the same Microsoft certified creates own standards to not be compatible with open standards story we saw and still see for decades.
If Microsoft creates their own standards, test suites, and submits them to a standards body, there is NOTHING wrong with that. Just because they don't cherry pick YOUR standards, doesn't mean they're not still open.
You're being ridiculous.
After all this years, after multiple anti-trust cases and official public law-punishment cause of that strategy you not really like to argue against that. Or do you? Is your point that all the judges, the law and the antitrust cases are wrong?
I keep re-reading this thicket of bullshit, but I can't find sense of any of it.