Pharo can and does run beautifully on much lesser hardware requirement than Android does.
Combine Pharo with tiny core linux or put it on top of Raspberry Pi.. I am sure for a 128 MB RAM, 256MB Pharo can offer the best experience. We may have a need to optimize the performance etc.. but that is work underway and I am sure in another year we will have something workable. Even if not, provided a good enterprise funding it can be done in less time than it took to get Android to shape. Future will obviously provide 1GB RAM Tablet at 60$ or less.. but not visibly in the next couple of years.. We should push for adoption in these yet available opportunities of linux variants, Raspberry pi to offer a cleaner / leaner Pharo Kernel. As for all the predictions of Web taking over, I have yet to comprehend Web as a means to have best user experience. It offers a major advantage of all of the server processing with just the client view presentation or minimal view code on the browser, but if you look at Gmail with ever increasing javascript base, the Dart, the HTML 5 elements specially the sqllite, video tag, canvas, it is just slowly converting browsers to general purpose presentation engine, with as much power of desktop app. But this generalization of presentation will remain a compromise. I for one do believe that server side focus though is very important for Pharo, the desktop is where with Morphic cleaned up, multi touch enabled, Open GL integration, newer paradigm of interactive user interface blurring the line of dev/ runtime, complete flexibility, ductile, elastic.. throw in all adjectives it can throw open a totally new frontier. This is all not tablets, multi touch will rule all of large screen displays in future from banks, hospitals to any place. Useful greatly for medical presentations, manipulations, but equally usable in corporate world of the future.. Segregate the concept of server side from delivering web browser apps. That is a bit of enterprise fallacy. Yes nice in social context, but I do believe its been a marketing overkill to make browsers the default client for enterprise, but half driven by drabness of widgetry from Java world and the complexity of the Windows UI toolkit. Still the richness of widgets on a GUI app is not trifling work to replicate in a web and we can easily do a client-server app with all the business executed on the server and / or agent network delivery of parcelled code sections that clients trade with and complete their tasks. This code section transfer can be same model as the javascript transfers on a browser. Web has as yet not delivered on its promises for Office Suite, even a comparable email client to Outlook, Thunderbird and others.. it may have killed also rans of the past but not comparable to feature / capability of desktop. I doubt if I will ever see MS Office vanish.. perhaps Star Office is the only alternative but not web really. photo viewing the most ubiquitous of web apps, are a pain developing compared to a morphic app if we indulge ourselves in.. ,Yes it will require a year or more of effort coming up with ecquvivalents to javascript libraries.. but when done, or lets say custom done it is neater, easier , flexible than using those libraries. I do not rate Picassa as great.. at all, with morphic you can have all jazz custom built as in flash but lot more fun.. I forsee, the possibility given a good start up with decent funds, can work out more out of Morphic in couple of years, that can make desktop the fun place to be in.. Why not think of Pharo on the TV screen/ other such devices to present all the complex UI's, menu's that are primarily morphic widgets that get you through to playing the streaming video, disks et all.. but all of its UI layer can easily be a fun work with Morphic.. it can offer all the fun of twisting morphs, decorated and intelligent morphs placed/ floating / animation or whatever is your raging thought.. on these large screens.. Of course I wish we could ensure perfection in rendering a la Cuis. for that to be not just fun but perfect. Look at all the devices that are in hospitals that do cry for a UI revamp, I am sure with half decent effort we can make the UI on devices greater fun..for everyone, the user, the developer and ofcourse the enterprise making money, than what we see in there. All of PoS apps in VB and its ilk.. are generation old, With my little dev interface I have now cobbled up with three Worlds/ Panels, I have seen a glint in the eyes of the newbies that they are working on something ahead of the current world, but the crashes, glitches do get them doubting..!, which I intend to smoothen and even cloak around a bit so that they do not feel the rough edges unless they are experienced smalltalkers to comprehend all of it. On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Tobias Pape <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 2012-02-22 um 10:30 schrieb Milan Mimica: > > > Pharo is an IDE. IDEs don't run on tablets. > > Then see the lively kernel… >
