As ambitious as this is... if it ends up working and giving them a source of recurring revenue, all the better.
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Originally posted by edwaleni View PostSounds like they are simply picking up where Blackberry failed.
If Blackberry was able to apply what they accomplished on BBos onto Android, they would still be around.
Librem seems to picking up on a niche.
Til date no other OS can compete with BB10..
But for that, and to create a state-of-the-art Hub, BB invested years, and years on it... when it come to market, Androids and IOs were already with lots of applications around them..
BB had almost none..
So bottom line..
People prefer junk OSes, to the most beautiful OS implemented till date..
Also BB committed a second grave mistake,
Instead of continuing to Launching good devices BB10 based...they finished their user-base( only launching devices sh*ty Android based.. )
So they ended without user-base, has expected by such move..
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Originally posted by tuxd3v View PostSo bottom line..
People prefer junk OSes, to the most beautiful OS implemented till date..
Windows 3.x won over other graphical environments because it was compatible with people's existing DOS applications. Windows 9x bent over backwards to support people's existing DOS and Windows 3.x applications. Windows XP was the first NT-based Windows marketed to home users because it was the first one Microsoft felt had sufficient backwards compatibility with Windows 3.x and 9x applications. etc. etc. etc. (Ever wonder why doing floppy disk access in Windows 95 caused the system to slow to a crawl? It's because it goes through slow BIOS routines to ensure that any backup TSRs for DOS which are hooking the floppy interrupts will continue to work.)
This principle is well-enough known that IBM originally tried to license CP/M (the DOS of the business ecosystem in the 8-bit microprocessor era) and DOS internals like the Program Segment Prefix were designed to make it easy for applications to be ported from CP/M. (I remember hearing that there was a lawsuit over that.)
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Originally posted by ssokolow View Post
It's not really a surprise. "Will I know how to run my existing software on it?" is the number-one determining factor of whether a platform will succeed.
Windows 3.x won over other graphical environments because it was compatible with people's existing DOS applications. Windows 9x bent over backwards to support people's existing DOS and Windows 3.x applications. Windows XP was the first NT-based Windows marketed to home users because it was the first one Microsoft felt had sufficient backwards compatibility with Windows 3.x and 9x applications. etc. etc. etc. (Ever wonder why doing floppy disk access in Windows 95 caused the system to slow to a crawl? It's because it goes through slow BIOS routines to ensure that any backup TSRs for DOS which are hooking the floppy interrupts will continue to work.)
This principle is well-enough known that IBM originally tried to license CP/M (the DOS of the business ecosystem in the 8-bit microprocessor era) and DOS internals like the Program Segment Prefix were designed to make it easy for applications to be ported from CP/M. (I remember hearing that there was a lawsuit over that.)
To BB10, a new platform, a state-of-the-art-os, but new..
They took 2 years, only to design the marvellous HUB, of BB10.
And it his marvellous indeed..
It his beautiful, practical,fast, long battery life, and plenty of features..
The problem was that this change could be done in parallel with BB7 devices..in the moment Apple/Google arrival with their OS..
Instead BB ported around 1000 features per year, but Started too late doing so..
If they have done it in time, today the market would be different..
And we could get real smart devices..not like what we have today, the devices that sells today seems prototypes..unfinished devices..
BB10 used in version 10.2,
If I recall it correctly, 400MB of RAM, with 400-600 for cache for the marvellous Hub.. it was amazingly fast, with a processor from 2011..
You could have dozens of apps open and it would be consuming around 1.4GB of RAM, including browsers, and all that stuff..
Amazing but dead..because people choose a phone by the number of CPU cores it has, and by amount of RAM..
They lack the Option about the quality of the OS that is running their..
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Originally posted by ssokolow View Post
It's not really a surprise. "Will I know how to run my existing software on it?" is the number-one determining factor of whether a platform will succeed.Last edited by Vistaus; 01 May 2019, 12:24 PM.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
In that case, webOS wouldn't have failed as it was able to run PalmOS (its predecessor) apps for a long, long time. Same goes for Microsoft's W10M. So no, not the #1 determining factor.
The #1 and #2 spots do swap when an ecosystem is just getting started, with the #2 spot for an established ecosystem being selection of new options available for purchase/download. (Hence exclusives being so critical with consoles, where compatibility with previous generations has been a bonus rather than an expectation.)
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Originally posted by ssokolow View Post
I never said it was the only factor, I said it was the primary factor. That said, I'll admit that I was thinking primarily in terms of established ecosystems.
The #1 and #2 spots do swap when an ecosystem is just getting started, with the #2 spot for an established ecosystem being selection of new options available for purchase/download. (Hence exclusives being so critical with consoles, where compatibility with previous generations has been a bonus rather than an expectation.)
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