I don't think MS is in as bad a shape long term in mobile as reported, but they certainly have missed the easy money. Still, there will be a reckoning in the future where mobile will mostly replace the PC and if MS doesn't screw that up, and if they can keep clawing back mobile marketshare, they will be a viable player.
Whose big in mesh networks? That's who I would watch for disruption. Billions of current mobile devices can play, and it could very well end up being the people's network without all the corporation involvement.
Wireless mesh network abilities would indeed be very viable in education and WAN access could be gated.
...<span style="line-height:1.4em;">However, thanks to AI for teaching me a new word: "tendentiously". I had to look that one up! </span>
Nice to know (I suppose) what is meant so I don't have to enquire whilst consuming fine beverages and conversing with my gentleman friends at 'the club' although I fear they may incorrectly opine my utterance to be a foreshortened bout of Tourette's syndrome ¡
The manifest persiflage evinced in your rejoinder demonstrates desultory discomfiture with the repartee ...
Wireless mesh network abilities would indeed be very viable in education and WAN access could be gated.
The problem with mesh, management of devices, security, not sure people have really solved that. They're mostly looking in the connectivity / handoff / routing aspect for now.
The Internet of things is still a buzz word now, but within 10 years it will explode massively. A kind of (1995 Internet), (2007 mobile) like explosion.
The Internet of things has two main vectors : the house, manufacturing / retail.
The expansion of bluetooth's capability at a low power is part of the reason things will explode.
@foggyhill : Indeed, and that's where Chromebooks have a TCO advantage over just about anything else in a managed environment. That said, the LAUSD contract appears to have been padded with a lot of overhead, so it's not surprising that law enforcement is looking into it.
Man this guy certainly defines the term fanboy, he absolutely hates things that even remotely look like they might be successful. Let it go DED, we get it, nothing is better than Apple.
thank you, kind tool, for proving that you, in fact, cannot read English. either that, or you simply didn't read the story.
Even when he's just discussing numbers, his pieces are usually written from the viewpoint that the there is an unfair media bias against Apple - that the media tries to undermine Apple and support competing products.
This is just not true. The portrayal of Apple in the mainstream media is, on balance, positive. But pretending it isn't in order to adopt a siege mentality stirs up the hive so much more effectively.
nope. it's true. Apple gets an extreme amount of "they're doomed!" press, as well as double standards.
case in point - MSM reported on the unsupported-by-evidence iPhone 6 bending thing, but not the Samsung gap thing.
Sometimes I forget why I visit this site and then I see another joke of an article by Daniel and that's why I come. His articles are typically good for a laugh...
so's your posting history. come back when you've made some contribution to the discussion.
Wireless mesh network abilities would indeed be very viable in education and WAN access could be gated.
The problem with mesh, management of devices, security, not sure people have really solved that. They're mostly looking in the connectivity / handoff / routing aspect for now.
The Internet of things is still a buzz word now, but within 10 years it will explode massively. A kind of (1995 Internet), (2007 mobile) like explosion.
The Internet of things has two main vectors : the house, manufacturing / retail.
The expansion of bluetooth's capability at a low power is part of the reason things will explode.
The IOT has at least one more vector -- the scary one ...
Today, we can get chips embedded in our pets -- that ID them for lost and found, shots ...
In not too many years, governments will try to do the same with humans -- lotsa' so-called benefits will be attractive ... tempting ... All we need do is sacrifice our individuality and control of our lives in exchange for goodies and convenience.
Sadly, much of this is already in place! If you carry a smart phone (which hasn't been reported as stolen) -- the means exist to determine who you are, where you are, who you are with and what you are doing ... without you even being aware of it.
Given the above, it is not too much a leap to where our behavior can be [will be] controlled.
"I don't believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius
and we're very skeptical." - Arthur C. Clarke -
nope. it's true. Apple gets an extreme amount of "they're doomed!" press, as well as double standards.
case in point - MSM reported on the unsupported-by-evidence iPhone 6 bending thing, but not the Samsung gap thing.
They also get a lot of positive commentary regarding their hardware designs, sales figures, etc.
Apple is a really high profile company and is prominent in the public consciousness. In other words, people will read about Apple. That's why everything Apple-related tends to get reported - good or bad, well-founded or spurious.
Anyone else notice that the 32bit K1 Nvidia Shield Tablet beats out all the other tablets including the latest ipad air 2. Wasnt this tablet release 6 months ago? How is it beating the ipad air 2?
At native resolution, the Shield is pushing about 35% fewer pixels than the iPad, iPad 2, and Nexus 9. If you look at 1080P resolution, the iPad 2 is a bit better than the Shield and quite a bit better than the Nexus 9. I'd speculate that the latter is due to the Nexus 9 not being fully optimized to the K1 64bit processor, and that the Shield is probably poor on battery life, but these are benchmarks, YMMV.
@foggyhill : Indeed, and that's where Chromebooks have a TCO advantage over just about anything else in a managed environment. That said, the LAUSD contract appears to have been padded with a lot of overhead, so it's not surprising that law enforcement is looking into it.
Oh, really, seriously, no teacher training, no IT support, free software "educational" for a Chromebook and you'll get the same thing as with an Ipad, are you even serious. That's a totally off the wall pants on fire fabulation.
In fact, Chromebooks are NOT a good idea. There are full on Windows 8.1 solutions that are more powerfull and certainly easier to manage than Google's kludge.
Not to mention that the build quality on Chromebooks is abysmal (and yes I've seen and used many of them)... Because I had to, not because I wanted to...
You put a decent cover on a Ipad and you can make it quasi indestructible. Keyboards and hinges on chromebooks go FAST and there is no solution to that.
...However, thanks to AI for teaching me a new word: "tendentiously". I had to look that one up!
Nice to know (I suppose) what is meant so I don't have to enquire whilst consuming fine beverages and conversing with my gentleman friends at 'the club' although I fear they may incorrectly opine my utterance to be a foreshortened bout of Tourette's syndrome ¡
The manifest persiflage evinced in your rejoinder demonstrates desultory discomfiture with the repartee ...
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Wireless mesh network abilities would indeed be very viable in education and WAN access could be gated.
I even read it as tenaciously! But for your comment I would never have picked up on that.
The manifest persiflage evinced in your rejoinder demonstrates desultory discomfiture with the repartee ...
poo poo pee doo
$1.3 BILLION strikes me as a pretty significant piece of change for LAUSD.
The actual IPAD sales was 500 million, the rest was for software, training, support, etc.
Wireless mesh network abilities would indeed be very viable in education and WAN access could be gated.
The problem with mesh, management of devices, security, not sure people have really solved that. They're mostly looking in the connectivity / handoff / routing aspect for now.
The Internet of things is still a buzz word now, but within 10 years it will explode massively. A kind of (1995 Internet), (2007 mobile) like explosion.
The Internet of things has two main vectors : the house, manufacturing / retail.
The expansion of bluetooth's capability at a low power is part of the reason things will explode.
@foggyhill : Indeed, and that's where Chromebooks have a TCO advantage over just about anything else in a managed environment. That said, the LAUSD contract appears to have been padded with a lot of overhead, so it's not surprising that law enforcement is looking into it.
thank you, kind tool, for proving that you, in fact, cannot read English. either that, or you simply didn't read the story.
nope. it's true. Apple gets an extreme amount of "they're doomed!" press, as well as double standards.
case in point - MSM reported on the unsupported-by-evidence iPhone 6 bending thing, but not the Samsung gap thing.
Sometimes I forget why I visit this site and then I see another joke of an article by Daniel and that's why I come. His articles are typically good for a laugh...
so's your posting history. come back when you've made some contribution to the discussion.
The IOT has at least one more vector -- the scary one ...
Today, we can get chips embedded in our pets -- that ID them for lost and found, shots ...
In not too many years, governments will try to do the same with humans -- lotsa' so-called benefits will be attractive ... tempting ... All we need do is sacrifice our individuality and control of our lives in exchange for goodies and convenience.
Sadly, much of this is already in place! If you carry a smart phone (which hasn't been reported as stolen) -- the means exist to determine who you are, where you are, who you are with and what you are doing ... without you even being aware of it.
Given the above, it is not too much a leap to where our behavior can be [will be] controlled.
"I don't believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius
and we're very skeptical." - Arthur C. Clarke -
They also get a lot of positive commentary regarding their hardware designs, sales figures, etc.
Apple is a really high profile company and is prominent in the public consciousness. In other words, people will read about Apple. That's why everything Apple-related tends to get reported - good or bad, well-founded or spurious.
Chromebook is not for games, that's for sure, but why should they complain if they shouldn't be playing games in school anyway?
Anyone else notice that the 32bit K1 Nvidia Shield Tablet beats out all the other tablets including the latest ipad air 2. Wasnt this tablet release 6 months ago? How is it beating the ipad air 2?
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At native resolution, the Shield is pushing about 35% fewer pixels than the iPad, iPad 2, and Nexus 9. If you look at 1080P resolution, the iPad 2 is a bit better than the Shield and quite a bit better than the Nexus 9. I'd speculate that the latter is due to the Nexus 9 not being fully optimized to the K1 64bit processor, and that the Shield is probably poor on battery life, but these are benchmarks, YMMV.
I don't keep too close an eye on the industry anymore so was surprised to see that article a few days ago, but now I "get it".
Thanks for sharing.
@foggyhill : Indeed, and that's where Chromebooks have a TCO advantage over just about anything else in a managed environment. That said, the LAUSD contract appears to have been padded with a lot of overhead, so it's not surprising that law enforcement is looking into it.
Oh, really, seriously, no teacher training, no IT support, free software "educational" for a Chromebook and you'll get the same thing as with an Ipad, are you even serious. That's a totally off the wall pants on fire fabulation.
In fact, Chromebooks are NOT a good idea. There are full on Windows 8.1 solutions that are more powerfull and certainly easier to manage than Google's kludge.
Not to mention that the build quality on Chromebooks is abysmal (and yes I've seen and used many of them)... Because I had to, not because I wanted to...
You put a decent cover on a Ipad and you can make it quasi indestructible. Keyboards and hinges on chromebooks go FAST and there is no solution to that.
...However, thanks to AI for teaching me a new word: "tendentiously". I had to look that one up!
Nice to know (I suppose) what is meant so I don't have to enquire whilst consuming fine beverages and conversing with my gentleman friends at 'the club' although I fear they may incorrectly opine my utterance to be a foreshortened bout of Tourette's syndrome ¡
The manifest persiflage evinced in your rejoinder demonstrates desultory discomfiture with the repartee ...
poo poo pee doo
Damn... no Scrabble with you!