I really don't know anything about camera makers' plans. Having said that, there are any number of useful little system components, ranging from system-on-a-chip CPUs, to various little codecs & so on, that are pre-qualified and known to work well out of the box with Android. -T
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Doug, > What I remember was how closed Apple was with their system versus how > open IBM was. > Didn't they want 3rd parties to add to their system versus Apple not really... > Regards, Bob S. > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Doug Franklin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2011-08-10 22:33, Doug Franklin wrote: >> >>> The analogy it reminds me of is that Android is trying to do for phone >>> software what the IBM PC did for commodity hardware: define the extent >>> and form of the commodity. The PC did it by publishing the BIOS source >>> code and hardware/software interface specs, and /de facto/ establishing >>> a public programming interface for the software that would ride atop the >>> hardware and BIOS. >> >> In passing, I should mention that was /not/ IBM's intention, based on what >> I've learned about it. To this day, I've never heard from anyone, inside or >> out, a reasonable justification for some of the information they freely >> published, other than simply a (catastrophic) strategic miscalculation. >> >> An IBM PC Technical Reference Manual in 1984 or so (or PC XT, PCjr, PC AT >> manuals, as they came out) cost around $250, if my memory serves me. It was >> freely available to any buyer with the cash if they called IBM. Those >> manuals contained: >> >> * all of the hardware signalling interfaces, electric, electronic, and >> timing >> >> * all of the hardware physical characteristics, down to the drill centers, >> diameters, and threading for the mounting screws >> >> * the complete assembly language source code for the BIOS in the machine >> (and thus all of the hardware interfacing information necessary for a >> cloner) >> >> * full interface specs for all of the ancillary hardware in the machine >> (serial ports, parallel ports, ISA bus add-on cards, etc.) so that was >> easily duplicated, too. >> >> It's like they designed the offering to be cloned. >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> DougF (KG4LMZ) >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
