You've got to realize we're seeing 1.5+ GHz, quad-core tablets with 2GB RAM come down to a couple hundred dollars now. That's genuinely a lot of power no matter how you slice it, enough to serve most people's needs if only it had the interface they need.
I have a 1.5GHz quad-core tablet with 2GB of RAM. And no, it's not 'enough to serve most people's needs'. It still feels like running Windows XP on a 90MHz Pentium.
'Search' was the Big New Shiny Thing before 'Mobile' became the Big New Shiny Thing. When Google became enormously rich from 'Search', everything had to do 'Search'. Now Apple have become enormously rich from iPhone and iPad, everything has to do 'Mobile'.
It's tiresome, but the fads die when a new fad comes along. Unfortunately, we'll be stuck with the crap created during the old fad for years to come.
When all tablets come with USB-A ports (people want to use thumb drives, and their SD cards, etc) and RJ45 ports (not all networking is wireless), then they could make a run at laptops and desktops.
Dude, they're tablets. You're supposed to carry them around in your pocket and use them when you're not at a desk. Why would anyone in their right mind want a USB port and RJ45 port on a 7" tablet?
Why this insane desire to build 'one size fits all', when it just results in a horrible kludge that no-one wants? Your attitude is precisely why Window 8 has been such a failure.
If what you say is true, that's exactly what you can tell the Linux zealots who claim that if you just put a Linux PC on the store shelves, people will buy them.
Gnome 2 (and now MATE) looks pretty much like Windows XP. No-one I've put in front of my Linux machines who's previously used Windows XP has had any problem with using it.
Window 8 looks nothing like Windows XP. Most people can't even start Notepad in Window 8.
Try using it for once in your life.
We have. That's why we hate it.
Yeah, so? That's a heck of a long way from 'people just aren't buying new PCs at all'.
BTW, aren't Mac sales up significantly? I know several people who've dumped Windows and gone all Apple in the last few years.
The current slow take up of Win8 has more to do with Moores Law running out.
No,. it's due to Joe Sixpack going to their local computer store, looking at the screen of a Window 8 PC and going 'WTF is this crap? Where's Windows?' and going home.
Business is far less impacted because they can just install Windows 7 instead. And they probably upgrade once the old PCs have been written off against their taxes, not when they wear out.
What I genuinely don't understand is - why break backward compatibility? Why not just layer touch on top of the existing UI?
Microsoft are desperate to get into mobile.
No-one wants a smart phone with no apps.
No-one wants to write apps for a smart phone OS with no users.
Hence Microsoft had to push the smart phone OS onto the desktop so developers might think they'd have a market for their apps.
Except no-one wants to buy a desktop PC with a smart phone OS.
Actually, if the sales numbers are to be believed, people just aren't buying new PCs at all.
Well, if you ignore the nearly one million PCs sold every day last quarter.
Since it is well known fact that Linux is GPLv2 only, what's your intent in denying that?
Trolling?
Since your response has nothing to do with the post I was replying to, which stated that Linus had removed the clause from the GPL, what's your intent in posting that? Or are you just unable to comprehend English?
Actually no, the Linux kernel is stuck on the GNU GPL v2 because Linus made that decision on purpose. The default GNU license allows for relicencing under any later version, but Linux removed that clause on purpose.
[citation needed]
Later in the very email thread you linked to, he said:
"For example, in the GPLv3 discussions, I've seen more than one person claim that I've used a special magic version of the GPLv2 that doesn't have the "v2 or any later" clause. Again, those people don't have a _clue_ about what they are talking about."
Certainly the COPYING file at the top level of kernel.org's linux repository appears to include that clause. I didn't look in indvidual kernel tar files.
Do read up on what happens to girls who are fascinated by CS studies and work hard at them. I've posted links in the past.
A lack of women and minorities in a field means the talent pool isn't as large as it could be. I like working with good people. You're more likely to find good people if you have more candidates to choose among.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
