A case of sour grapes that one could not have imagined happening to Microsoft a decade ago. What goes around…
Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle moan to EC about Google Android dominance – IT News from V3.co.uk.
Category: Technology
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Apple Outsider » Home Turf
Yup, that’s pretty much it:
However, the Google – Facebook war is sure to be more vicious than the Google – Apple war because Google and Facebook have the same customers: advertisers. Users are their currency, and Facebook is about to rob the bank.
Of course, the icing on the cake will be if facebook forks Android and buys HTC eventually.
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Who’s Going To Buy The Facebook Phone?
Wonder whether this will prompt Google to give a similar treatment to Android with Google+ and its plethora of services? Or “better” yet, to the next Nexus device. After the Google+ification of search, anything’s possible.
But that’s hardly the entire phone market. It’s actually only a fraction of it.
- What about those millions of people who have bought Android phones — and some iPhones, probably — who don’t really care that they’re Android phones, or even smartphones?
- The types of people who, every couple of years, go into the Verizon or AT&T shop and walk out with whatever newish thing the store rep says they should buy? (All those people who buy Android phones but don’t really show up in usage logs.)
- Or even first-time smartphone buyers?
My guess is that many — most? — of these people are Facebook users, and could easily see some utility in having Facebook features highlighted on their phones. And — bonus — Facebook’s software looks good. Much better than the junk that ships with typical low-end Android devices.
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Interplanetary Cessna
We could all be Superman on Titan, but we’d have to beat the cold first (72 K):
In fact, humans on Titan could fly by muscle power. A human in a hang glider could comfortably take off and cruise around powered by oversized swim-flipper boots—or even take off by flapping artificial wings. The power requirements are minimal—it would probably take no more effort than walking.
via xkcd – what if.
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How Fast is Your Smartphone/Tablet in PC GPU Terms
GPUs are definitely a step ahead of the CPUs, and they need to be given the kind of display resolutions in play on mobile devices. So, here we have a comprehensive benchmark of the mobile GPUs against desktop GPUs from 2004-2007:
Given that most of the ARM based CPU competitors tend to be a bit slower than Atom, you could estimate that any of the current crop of smartphones delivers CPU performance somewhere in the range of a notebook from 2003 – 2005. Not bad. But what about graphics performance?
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At the end of the day I’d say it’s safe to assume the current crop of high-end ultra mobile devices can deliver GPU performance similar to that of mid to high-end GPUs from 2006.
AnandTech | The Great Equalizer 3: How Fast is Your Smartphone/Tablet in PC GPU Terms.
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The Death of RIM (Infographic)
Not much hope for RIM despite Blackberry 10 which seems to be a long way from being finished.
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