I did a project for the Android Challenge.
I'm working with a Mac and Eclipse is not the most user friendly IDE on this platform.
The process is smooth enough, forget about Linux, it's all Java based. I do Java stuff 10h a day so I felt right at home. It takes a couple of days to feel right about the suggested class design. Appart from that, I felt it was all very standard stuff, nothing really amazing, persistence is nice enough with sqlite but that's about it. You won't find any major revolution in there, it's very close to a simple standard Java application. So I didn't do more code since (it was based on SDK 1.1 if I remember correctly) and since I didn't even win the right to carry on with the Challenge, I left everything as it was (I got good technical marks, but the profitability of the idea wasn't there...). You see, if you didn't win somehow you didn't have access to the new SDK, unlike all the other lucky bastards. So why bother...
Now I've got to get back to the Web SDK of the iPhone and the CSS transformations, these are rocking my days (actually more my nights).

Let's wait for the 75$ netbook then. Don't hold your breath.
And good luck to you if you feel like an entrepreneur and start a business renting netbooks for what 2$ an hour ? What would be the purpose for an hour ? Quick Word document ? I just left my doc on this netbook ! Quick Google doc ? Oups, you have to pay for the Internet.
I'm all for technology to help fight poverty, but even netbooks are out of this league. If you talk about telephones now that might be interesting (not smartphones).

I think you missed the fine title of my comment : what is the reason ?

The article doesn't mention why they fired him. Might not even be related. If it is, maybe we should wait for an explanation ?

Don't want to break your dreams there, but there is still today about 3 billions people living with less than 2$ a day, the moderate poverty range. I don't think your netbooks will appeal to these people. But the reasoning is correct I believe, it's just that only a billion and half are in-between...

I didn't realize this. Even if Intel didn't announce these new processors yet (well, that's according to the media) ? That's something I didn't know. Very interesting.

Actually I checked the references available in your link and it looks like I can't find the one used by Apple (E5500 and E3500). Maybe they are just family references used by Apple, as your link goes to a E5520...

This little discussion could have been avoided as well if you checked the Mac Pro which was the subject of this thread, that you quickly forgot by the way.

I don't think I attacked anybody. And if you feel insulted be careful there is people out there really insulting others.

Now I'll have to go, I get tired of reading long comments based on silly word picking.

I forgot to write Intel as well...
You know what you should write :
"A Mac Pro doesn't have a Nehalem, it has an Intel Xeon Nehalem"
Then I'll start to believe you have half a brain.

But yes, there is other Nehalem PC out there, just not the one you can find in the Mac Pro... And I heard there is even other Intel based PC out there. Amazing isn't it !

First, I'm no mac fanboy, just correcting wrongful statements
Second, please refrain commenting on things you know nothing about.

You are showing that you don't know what's in a Mac Pro and what a XEON Nehalem processor is.
So let me do a quick crash course :
- Dell = 1 CPU = Nehalem (you got that part)
- Mac Pro = 2 CPU = Xeon Nehalem
Nehalem without Xeon means no 2 CPUs possible
Are you starting to get the picture as well?

Sure, sending me to the homepage of Dell is a strong argument. And don't tell me you didn't realize we were talking about Xeon Nehalem because that would mean that didn't even check the spec of the Mac Pro !
Here, I'll help you a little :
http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/03/03/Apple_jumpstarts_Nehalem_launch_for_Intel_1.html
Now please go back playing with your toys.

You'll have to look for a while as the Mac Pro is the only PC available today on the market with a Nehalem processor. But keep shouting, somebody might believe you.

Wrong, Apple has a real Web API for the iPhone. Check iPhone SDK for Web Developers video and Safari on iPhone Part 1, 2 and 3 in ADC on iTunes (iPhone Tech Talks).
They even have extensions to CSS (submitted to the W3C) allowing you to create animations programmatically which are _hardware_ accelerated when rendered in Safari, only works on iPhone.
Daringfireball.net has a blog entry about this lately. Looks like a lot of people are just picking up this amazing API. I'm finishing my app for the app store based in this.