The TV news this morning sounds related to your topic. 1. iPhone 4 goes on sale today for Verizon, which can also be purchased at Best Buy and WalMart.
2. HP is selling a device like an iPad, same size, with one big advantage. It can run Flash. On Feb 10, 7:49 am, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > "7 inch tablet ideal reading devices" (Dick) > In my mind, not true if you read PDFs (books, articles, paper) - you > need 10 inch tablet for this. > > "iPad 2 not powerful enough for retina display" (Joe) > Rumors suggest that iPad 2 will have twice the CPU power and 2-4 times > the graphic power of iPad 1. So while this is probably not enough to > drive a retina screen, I think availability of screens is a much > bigger hurdle. Apple will sell north of 20 millions iPad 2 this year, > and nobody can produce that many high resolution screens (2048x1528 on > 9.7 inch) at acceptable yields and therefore with acceptable costs. > Look at Samsung's comparatively small AMOLED screens - HTC used them > for a while and then had to switch to LCD last summer because Samsung > couldn't make enough of them. Now even Samsung switches back (Nexus S > will supposedly launch with LCD in Germany). Apple announced recently > that they'll spend $3.9 billion over the next years to buy production > capacity in advance (like they did with Flash in 2005), and most > analysts think this is for displays. > > "Honeycomb is as simple as (current) iPad UI" (Tor) > Honeycomb has widgets and live wall papers and 3-4 soft buttons (and a > system bar, but that may be the soft buttons). iPad has just a list > of apps and one "get me out of here" button, so to me, that is a lot > simpler. I guess that folders and "home button double click" are > power user features that most of the iPad users don't use. Now I think > we'll see widgets and improved notifications in iOS 5, but I bet that > Apple still tries to keep it as simple and as similar to iPhone as > possible. As Steve Jobs once remarked, Apple trained millions of users > on how to use the iPad - the "boring wall of icons" is well- > understood. I find it fascinating to watch which approach (Android or > Apple) will be more successful. > > JavaFX discussion (Tor) > Even leaving aside the unmitigated disaster that is "JavaFX Mobile", I > think Sun followed the wrong strategy for JavaFX by chasing the > consumer ("all the screens of your live") and Flash. Sun just didn't > get the consumer (if you ever read the "What is Java" description in > the JRE installer, you know what I mean), and Flash was ubiquitous on > the desktop, which even Microsoft couldn't touch. I didn't get the > priorities either - there was a chart library, but no data grid or > tree control, and the graphic stack was re-written, but the tool > support was insufficient and "not production quality" until late. That > Apple and Android both put mobile apps and HTML 5 on the developer's > agenda, didn't help either. Now it seems Oracle does what Sun should > have done from the beginning - making it easier to write more > attractive, more connected Swing applications. After all, corporate > applications are Swing's stronghold. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
