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Quote: Originally Posted by TNSF Playbook's "true" multitasking allows apps to run at full speed in the background, which is neither necessary nor useful. iOS limits the functions that apps can perform in the background as a compromise between t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jensonb Face it, RIM bought the wrong company. It's more than apparent they probably actually should have bought Palm, and re-used the webOS as Blackberry 7. But HP got Palm, so RIM picked up the next embedded OS that …
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht My bet is a 32nm Cortex A9 based A5 for 2011. That gives them a process node advantage over the Android competitors (read as more battery life). Can they get the yield high enough for the 32nm process for the m…
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The rumor about a 64 bit ARM chip never materialized and the Marvell server chip is for the "home server" environment.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum I agree http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/ri...on-scam/101480 Apple also settled with the SEC on backdating --- might as well asked Steve Jobs to step down.
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Might be difficult to convince server customers to go back to a 32 bit cpu.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jca666us Rim can prove him wrong by releasing the playbook q1 2011 - if it's delayed, we know why.. There are a million items that haven't been shown --- like it was never demonstrated in portrait mode, it never sh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jca666us This certainly validates Apple's current approach to multitasking - which as been criticized for not being "true" multitasking, but works well within the constraints of a mobile device. But even RIM talked …
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Quote: Originally Posted by -AG- And because of this they are not going to put multiple users access into the current iPads. It would mean that people would only NEED one and not HAVE to buy 2 or more for the family. Its smart marketing. Bi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TNSF Its unfair to blame it on QNX as a whole, but I believe the implementation of QNX on the Playbook could definitely contribute to poor battery life. There are many choices that can be made when implementing the OS…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips I'm guessing but perhaps he was hoping to dent iPad sales over Christmas and also maybe to excite share holders? Pretty stupid move though, whatever the reason. Large number of enterprise customers got…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Onhka First of all, they are not CEOs but co-CEOs. QNX used to have alternating CEO's between the two founders. One guy is the CEO and the other guy is the president --- and they flipped the positions every year.
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Well, he might be right there. The PlayBook?s resource heavy OS is designed to run HW that Apple won?t need in the iPad for another decade. The resource heaviness is an adobe flash problem --- which is rea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gary54 They were touting how speedy the browser was .. using a dual core processor. In a tablet? More powerful processors of any given generation typically use more power. Why would anyone be surprised at battery life …
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Plenty of "mobile" stuff are embedded with QNX without a large battery --- from handheld military radios to highend logitech universal remotes. http://onqpl.blogspot.com/2010/05/30...nger-into.html QNX made a demo of running their OS in the co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro You are quick to reply. Do you wait at the keyboard for my every post? You do have my original text, but you sat on it for awhile didn't you? Because I changed it about three minutes later, softening it a bit, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro Wow, you really buy into the marketing hype. "Quadroid" A catchy term maybe, but not all that and a bag of chips. 70-80% of Android phones using it? Once again you are completely pulling numbers out your…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum That sounds similar to the current implementation in iOS... Don't know about Android. Unfortunately, the demos shown: HD video player in the bg plus a few others; browser dominating a core; give the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by 1st try to get any bill out of gate is not easy. More on the fact someone is admit at fault. BeOS did have advantages that competitor willing to risk "wrong doing" to copy it. (settlements are few years back after B…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Are you saying that a bg AIR app will continuously consume resources (cycling) even when it is not doing anything? Isn't that a drain on resources and the battery? Shouldn't the system participate i…