Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Jan 2013 22:38 UTC
"Acer, the Taiwanese computer maker that's suffered two consecutive annual losses, posted strong sales of notebooks using Google's Chrome platform after the release of Microsoft's Windows 8 failed to ignite the market. Chrome-based models accounted for 5 percent to 10 percent of Acer's U.S. shipments since being released there in November, President Jim Wong said in an interview at the Taipei-based company's headquarters. That ratio is expected to be sustainable in the long term and the company is considering offering Chrome models in other developed markets, he said." HP is also planning a Chrome OS laptop, and it's been at the top of Amazon's charts (whatever that means) for a while now. In case you haven't noticed - the desktop world, too, is changing. Nobody wants Windows 8 (touch or no), so OEMs are finally looking elsewhere. We're finally getting what we wanted 13 years ago.
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RE[3]: Comment by Laurence
by pgeorgi on Tue 29th Jan 2013 09:38
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If just in case of emergencies (loss of internet, backing up stuff from the cloud, etc)
loss of internet is mostly worked around by html5 local storage - which will take another 2 years or so for widespread use.
But I actually expect chromeos, firefox, etc to push this forward.
For backup, downloading a zip with all data is probably the way to go.
RE[4]: Comment by Laurence
by Laurence on Tue 29th Jan 2013 09:56
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HTML5 local storage is insecure[1] and ZIP files aren't as easily searched as a client with built in search tools against indexed content.
Of course, there will always be ways you can work around the limitations of the web; Javascript runtimes have come a long way and many web apps these days are pretty sophisticated. Plus I'm not ignorant to some of the unique benefits they offer (eg easy to roll out bug fixes). But native apps have their own benefits as well; they're generally more responsive, can be better secured for offline content and they integrate with the host OS better (this is even the case on many platforms that are internet orientated devices; eg smartphone and tablet OSs).
So while I do appreciate that you're trying to demonstrate that you can replicate some functionality in HTML5, it's really not at a stage where it's ready to replace native binaries entirely.
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbOaRle4Pw8
Edited 2013-01-29 10:01 UTC
RE[4]: Comment by Laurence
by lucas_maximus on Tue 29th Jan 2013 13:17
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One caveat though, local storage has a size limits of a sort.
http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html#limitations
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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.
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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.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/16/13 9:29 UTC
The day has finally come: Google has started shipping Google Glass to the lucky few early adopters. Now that it's shipping, Google has also unveiled a lot more about the API and the specifications of the device itself. While the company had already given out substantial details at earlier occasions, there are still a few surprises here.More Features »
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It helps you getting your data from everywhere, and to everyone _you_ want to give it.
True. I do run some services myself (eg Subsonic, my own hosting photo gallery, etc).
Even then though, I still dislike OSs that push processing away from native binary clients. eg webmail is great - possibly the best example of the 'cloud' in fact - but I still want a binary client that I can run locally. If just in case of emergencies (loss of internet, backing up stuff from the cloud, etc)
Edited 2013-01-29 09:32 UTC