One man. Closing, all the windows.
It looks like there is no chance of a teaching position this spring so I will put more effort into gardening. My wife should not be able to kill off stuff in my absence north.
I have 50 caragana bushes sprouted and ready to put outdoors in a couple of weeks. Global warming has improved our growing season here. I also have about 25 bell peppers, a dahlia and some lilies. Continue reading ‘Gardening’
The video from the “Click” programme on the BBC, touches on the M$/Intel “schism”, the ARM/Intel competition and speculates on what that other OS will be doing on ARM. They speculate that “8″ will operate more or less in the familiar mode on netbooks and docked smart phones but retreat to something like Phoney 7 on smart phones or tablets. There is some hint that there will be a mechanism for existing applications to run on the ARMed systems. Good luck with that. Major changes in that other OS take lots of time and it is doubtful they can bring all the vapour-ware into existence befor the end of 2012 by which time Android/Linux and GNU/Linux will have their own rich environment of applications.
see BBC
Recent news is that Android is activating on 350000 devices per day. A year of that is 128 million smart devices. Even if M$ can intrude in this space with its partners and channels aligned, it may never have a monopoly or near-monopoly. There is no way M$ can lock-in OEMs, retailers and consumers this time, the way they did the PC. I predict these devices will actually intrude in the PC space in several ways and eat M$’s cash-cows.
Ubuntu has a roll-out on 10K PCs at LVM insurance in Germany. The company was already using Java for its main application built in-house so the migration was simple and will get the company off the Wintel treadmill forever.
See Techworld.
Canonical does have sales-people and they do know how to sell to businesses. While the desktop is a mature market which M$ owns, it is theirs to lose and this is one more step. Insurance like many businesses is very competitive and any advantage that reduces costs like this will catch on.
“Jeff Huber – SVP of commercial and local services under Google’s recently announced new management structure – said mobile search had increased by more than 500 per cent in the past two years, while 350,000 Android devices were being activated a day. More than three billion Android Market apps have been installed to date.”
see TheRegister
TFA article describes recent litigation initiated by Apple as a sign of desperation amid the gathering mass of suppliers of Android. Apple is trying desperately to increase the length of time while it might be on top of tablet shipments. Apple has already been overtaken by Android smart phones.
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