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Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by hrktb »

adam-a wrote: post #103
hnarn wrote: post #99

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The company is called Jingling which seems to be a Chinese city, so I highly doubt they named it after some obscure English expression.

While I agree it's probably not intentional the word is pretty common in British English.

I did know what jingoism is, but only barely, and mostly from history lessons and didn't think about it at all looking at the OS name.

I agree that is still used, but arguably in very specialized contexts, and has many better and less idiomatic alternatives that make it a poor choice in many publication, helping it become rarer.

I expect a lot of concept names not directly bound to the concept itself to slowly disappear, the same way calling dinnerware "china" won't stand for a lot more generations I think.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by pjmlp »

emteycz wrote: post #121
bbekiaris wrote: post #108

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Well in my experience people who don't complain about the App store never used any other app store in their life. For what I know they even think that the app store is Apple's invention.

Because it actually is... Android Market was introduced months after App Store. Obviously programmers know that fundamentally it's extension of some ideas from the Linux world, but that is very irrelevant to the users, and the basics of "download an application from a registry" are not what makes the great App Store experience.

Today I learned that the app stores for Windows CE/Pocket PC, Symbian, J2ME, BREW, Blackberry never existed.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by gammalost »

Grustaf wrote: post #146
gammalost wrote: post #134

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Looked up that book on two different online stores in Sweden cdon and bokus. On both of them the book had zero reviews. Are swedish people not literate?

How many books at all have reviews on Bokus? Never seen any. Not that I’d want to put Pratchett in the literary canon, just making a point about Bokus.

Yeah bokus is kind of weird. I meant adlibris, my bad

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by pjmlp »

tgv wrote: post #128
epse wrote: post #71

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Isn't the app store and development experience exactly what people keep complaining about for Ios?

Devs complain about XCode, but the libraries/frameworks are great. Publishing to the app store is pretty easy, and there are hundreds of millions of potential customers, which are there because the curation of the app store is good (enough). If you want to know what happens when your IDE is OK-ish, but the other aspects fail, look at Microsoft's presence in the mobile phone market.

If Microsoft kept WP 8 compatible with WP 7, just adding the C++ support game studios were asking about (NDK style), without rebooting the whole thing into an incompatible mess across mobile, tablets and desktop, it would have had much more developer love.

But Sinosfky and his supporters had to push their anti-NET agenda, followed by clever decisions like killing C++/CX as well, and here we are.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by footrot »

tomc1985 wrote: post #27

I wonder if this is going to be the OS of choice for flea-market iPad counterfeits/knockoffs... the Files screen even says "On my Pad" in the shown screenshot. Everything looks close enough to be able to possibly fool an untrained eye.

Pad is also a star trek throw back, and a word. I don't see why apple should have dominion on that word. Short and succinct.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by pjmlp »

herbst wrote: post #96
Toutouxc wrote: post #52

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They're copying the iPad because it's the only tablet that doesn't suck and sells in any meaningful numbers.

What are people doing with their tablets that a iPad is a meaningful benefit? I could read my shitter news on any device with a screen, as well as control my smart home.

Desktop replacement for pen based workflows, like drawing, designing diagrams, architecture sketches, UI mockups,...

When coupled with keyboard, office like workflows, coupled with the pen to do the drawings instead of trying to use the mouse as pencil since many users have done during the last couple of decades.

Programming on the go with environments like Playgrounds, Pythonista, Continuous, Shaderific.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by monsieurbanana »

throwaway4good wrote: post #81
monsieurbanana wrote: post #74

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Who from HN would install a Chinese OS by choice? We have our own privacy issues from western companies, but at least we can hold them (minimally) accountable.

If you are in Europe or any other place than the US, you are basically powerless to American big tech. Encouraging competition and using software from smaller companies, Chinese or not, is our only chance to level this.

I wouldn't say Europeans are powerless against american companies. Legally speaking, yes, but then so are Americans themselves. The only thing we can do nowadays is public outrage. Doesn't matter who writes the medium blog post, as long as it hits MAJOR_SOCIAL_NETWORK frontpage.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by pjmlp »

Grustaf wrote: post #107
hindsightbias wrote: post #49

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> turn off Speaking as a hacker or a consumer? “Apple's domination of the global tablet market continued in the third quarter of 2020, according to market research firm Canalys, with iPad shipments seeing an estimated 47% year-over-year growth rate thanks to coronavirus trends.” The market is speaking, and consumers don’t care about what the OS is. They never have, and never will. https://appleinsider.com/articles/20…

On the contrary, people care very much about the OS and they want iOS.

They are also quite happy using devices with Windows, ChromeOS, WebOS and Android.

Just not pure GNU/Linux or BSDs (other than those packaged by Apple and Sony).

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