I've admittedly been absent. I was off having fun tuning ScalaBuild so I'm just catching up.
You know as hardware platforms are becoming ungluded from MS we're seeing a huge amount of fragmentation out there. We've got tons of phones, tablets, ultra-light notebooks, CES demonstrated a number of new windows devices, I was just looking at Apple sales breakdowns and phones and tablets are responsible for an insane amount of their revenues. The iTouch has been almost completely squished out of the picture as have laptops and desktops. The 17" laptop is gone and I'll admit, it's all pretty confusing trying to sort out just what's really happening. I've always said that desktops and laptops are devices that escaped from the lab and some how made it back into the hands of everyday people. Phones and tablets are pushing them back into the labs where they belong. Yeah, they're not quite there yet but I'm looking at how my kids are using all the tech that we have hanging around the house. They move pretty fluidly between laptop, tablets and phones. They use windows, OSX, and used to use Linux.. but mostly they use a browser or an app that is a browser in disguise which is why all of those os'es don't matter. In all cases there are intended uses and then unintended uses or abuses ;-). I was interested in how Chrome fit in as I've neither touched nor seen one and of course, how far can it be pushed. I had fun with Raspberry Pi at Devoxx. The ARM JVM ran on it quite nicely so I suspect that it would run on this notebook also. I also see that things like Raspberry Pi being very disruptive to those that markets that don't need full powered laptops or desktops. So, is the Chromebook part of that disruption? -- Kirk On 2013-01-16, at 5:31 AM, "Fabrizio Giudici" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:17:49 +0100, Rakesh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Guys, >> >> I think you're missing the point - Chromebooks are meant to be a 'gateway' >> to the cloud. Running Java apps locally defeats the point of the device. > > Absolutely right. But I think that Kirk's question was about "misusing" :-) > the device, I mean, it sounds as a reasonably good hardware product and it's > relatively cheap. I presume Kirk is also interested in the lightweight > aspects and the alternatives are usually much more expensive. > > > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. > "We make Java work. Everywhere." > http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog - [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "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.
