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Looks sweet. Small spelling mistake 'available to you as and Android app on Google Play Store' Should be 'available to you as an Android app on Google Play Store'
I'm always a little miffed when I see natural language being the input, because now in order to use the tech I need to also play the "guess the verb" games. This is especially bad in Wolfram Alpha.... I can clearly see that all parts of a query are supported but I have to get the NLP part to parse my sentences right. Though there is Mathematica I guess.... Not that I dislike all natural language stuff (far from it) b…
For example, I exclusively use Siri to set reminders for times and places, because to do so using a typical touch interface is much more painful.
Whether or not this CAP idea will meet the bar is an open question for me.
I find it very amusing when people name other brands/apps etc on their homepage especially those where you don't have any business connection. Case in point here is naming Pocket App on the homepage prominently. It gives on impression that Pocket is some big successful app but in reality has merely 22M users (active users must be lot lower). I hope I am right to assume that MS has nothing to do with Pocket app.
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And to think, the Android guys originally wanted to use C# as the native Android language, but were worried about being sued by MS for it. Instead they went with Java and got sued by Oracle for it, whereas MS open sourced it all. * Yes I know parts of .NET are still closed source/proprietary.
Microsoft even made the C# language specification ECMA and ISO standards. The ECMA process started shortly after the first commercial release. I'm pretty sure if they had just talked to the Microsoft guys, they would have realized everything would be fine.
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And to think, the Android guys originally wanted to use C# as the native Android language, but were worried about being sued by MS for it. Instead they went with Java and got sued by Oracle for it, whereas MS open sourced it all. * Yes I know parts of .NET are still closed source/proprietary.
It's also possible that Microsoft might have been less willing to open the language if it had become an integral pillar of the Android ecosystem.
I think however that this may be one of those cases when perception is stronger than reality: perception of what Microsoft is and what Java is.
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Microsoft even made the C# language specification ECMA and ISO standards. The ECMA process started shortly after the first commercial release. I'm pretty sure if they had just talked to the Microsoft guys, they would have realized everything would be fine.
You have to remember that Microsoft is a very different beast today than they were back in 2005.
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...
There's also a standard for CLI (Common Language Infrastructure), which is the underpinning of the .NET platform:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...
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And to think, the Android guys originally wanted to use C# as the native Android language, but were worried about being sued by MS for it. Instead they went with Java and got sued by Oracle for it, whereas MS open sourced it all. * Yes I know parts of .NET are still closed source/proprietary.
It's also possible that Microsoft might have been less willing to open the language if it had become an integral pillar of the Android ecosystem.