still waiting for ubuntu car what taking them so long...
Ubuntu for Android
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Re: Ubuntu for Android
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That's too complicated a solution. Linux has had excellent boot time detection of hardware for years now- dock your phone in the desktop chassis, hit reboot, the OS gets loaded from the phone's storage and runs on the tower's CPU and GPU.
Why even reboot? Treat the dock as a hot-pluggable processor: dock your device and the OS can migrate processes to the dock's faster processor.
Mostly because it's simpler- hot pluggable processors offer more and more varied ways of shotgunning your feet.
Re: Ubuntu for Android
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> Microsoft doesn't agree, and Win8 is a hybrid that supports both interactions. Ubuntu is showing it will do the same. Yes, why do one thing well when you can do two things adequately ? I think this fundamental difference separates Apple from nearly everyone else in the markets in which they compete. Apple's vision is similar to Sun's: one ID that allows you to transport your data (incl. apps for appropriate platfor…
I think it's a little early to say that Windows 8 will only make for an adequate tablet interface. Windows Phone shows they know what they're doing when they put their heart into it. I don't think Apple wants to sell desktops at all. I think they'd like OS X gone in 5-10 years.
How would you write your iOS apps?