http://liliputing.com/2016/09/oct-4th-rumors-google-show-off-merged-androidch...

    looks like organic growth personified, don't it?



Well, how opportune ....  during the first big public furor over the Walled Garden somebody states they are going to be showing the first public examples of the conjoined Android/Chrome OS in about a week's time.



Last week we learned that FOSS had just pushed all the current modern ARM chipsets (yup, the bigger boys that have good processor speed, USB C support, large memory capability, etc. etc.) over into the Linux Kernel.   That implies that the root Linux OS kernel will be able to support all of them, and that somebody had actually requested and supported all that detailed effort as it is DONE at this point in time.    Putting stuff into the Linux Kernel is step one of Google support, since Android/Chrome are all actually Linux softwares that are supported out of the kernel.

Since all these Oriental guys used to sit as "to the death" Hockey Stick competitors to each other, and some are actually sorta slack and very Chinese in their outlooks on this sort of stuff, they all likely needed a band leader to get them all organized.    

Me, I suspect Google was the organizer and the carrot offered to the processor builders was to get new vistas opened up for each of the affected companies for added sales of new equipment.   The stick was that their most hated competitor was in there already, just waiting to jump on the new market opportunities.  

So, they all joined up .....  willingly enough, but with some hockey sticks clacking together sporadically as they sat together in the meetings.

Do you see a counter move to the Walled Garden being made?    A "open fields" approach where everyone gets a chance to grow?

One hopes for a Googlish conjoined OS to be shown that is light and fast and requires about half the resources that Win 10 requires (and works twice as fast as Win 10 to actually get stuff done).

Next, expect ARM to come out with a new class of new, more powerful larger core designs, with the new Cortex A-? cores having more processing power and bigger power requirements, intended to run off of LARGER batteries (or wall socket power).    

A laptop core, instead of a phone core so to speak.    Please remember, this laptop super core may be physically the same size and pull the same current that older "powerful" cores used to pull because when the lithography gets to 10nm and below and you get more output power and throughput for your milliwatt/hour.

This plays for AMD's Zen processors, as AMD is a Global Foundries customer and will buy the 10nm and the 7nm process from Global as soon as they can.
AMD will certainly arrive at 10nm and 7nm before Intel does, unless Intel wants to  have some of their processors actually built by Samsung, Global or TSMC.

Expect Apple to perhaps go over to an AMD Zen processor or to cook their own laptop processor design around the A-11x Apple chipset family about at this same point in time, as Apple will have to respond to this sort of market shift or else APPLE WILL LOSE EVEN MORE (50% so far in the last 3 years) MARKET SHARE TO THE NEW CHROMEBOOKS*.   Not responding would be a poor business decision.

*or whatever Google is going to be calling them now -- Pixels ???    Pixel OS ???  Nope, how about Andromeda ???


We are about a week away from this next revelation .....   and as you think about it, remember this info from the past 3 years of trending change .....

Microsoft started a YEAR ahead of Google Android on the Continuum thing, but Microsoft has been completely lapped now by Android and has fallen further behind since then.    

On top of that, the new Win 10 phone softwares have no backwards compatibility to old Window phones and their current Win 10 phone sales figures run around 0.4 of 1 percent (%) of all the cell phones currently being sold.

http://liliputing.com/2016/09/multi-window-support-coming-windows-10s-continu...

Microsoft’s Continuum for phone feature sounded awesome on paper: you could supposedly connect your Windows 10 Mobile smwayartphone to a display, mouse, and keyboard and use it like a desktop PC.

In practice, though, the feature has some serious limitations. Only a very few phones could ever handle it.  Only Windows Store apps are supported.  And these apps can only run in full-screen mode on your desktop display… for now.






When using an external display on the few supported Windows Phones in April, 2017 you’ll supposedly be able to resize the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, move them around the screen, and view multiple apps at the same time. Screen snapping will also supposedly work then too.

This "already a year late" April, 2017 Continuum update, code-named Redstone 2, isn’t expected to officially launch until April, 2017 at the earliest. But a preview version should begin rolling out to members of the Windows Insider program sometimes before then.

Note that you’ll need a Continuum-friendly phone like the Microsoft Lumia 950, Lumia 950 XL, Acer Liquid Jade Primo, or HP Elite x3 to get the new features.

Last year's generation of Android phones have caught most of these features with the now rolling out Nougat update, with Jide and Superphone available in the Play Store along with docking stations to hook your current Android phone on up today.

Whatever Google calls the next generation of Android past Nougat  (Andromeda ???)  it will support these sorts of things natively.     MS requires a post-processing cabling station to do their Continuum tricks, a cabling station that by itself costs as much as most mid range Android phones cost.

Xerox had a small copier that had a drum unit with a counter.
When it hit a certain copy count it popped a hair width fuse link.
It could be making perfect copies, BUT, because Xerox didn't want to see Their copier producing low quality copies, they just obsoleted the drum module. I was able to jumper the thing on one out of three or four, but I gave up..
The customers were Pissed at Xerox.. and I don't blame them.

HP SCREWS UP AGAIN ..... promises to reverse their controversial "over the web update" and then DOES NOT ACTUALLY GO DO IT.

Once again, a Walled Garden guy tries to defend his turf so he can still go around doing the same old shite he has always done -- I think this is called "sticking your head in the sand" like an Ostrich supposedly does.

There are alternatives out there you know.

http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tech-news-pixma-ink-efficient-g1000-g2000-and-...





https://www.walmart.com/ip/Epson-WorkForce-ET-4500-EcoTank-All-in-One-Printer...

If someone could demonstrate that Chevrolet was sabotaging the cars they sold last year so they could sell more next year, people would , people would WHAT?
We already Know that the government brought drugs in, which created crime, which necessitated more cops, more prisons.

Gee, it's Almost looking like the system is rigged.

OF, at the risk of displaying even greater tech illiteracy. What do those things do?

You go inside the game, and you swing a sword or a light saber or shoot a gun, while you are all up close and gore splashin' personal.

Example:  you are exploring a dark cave by flashlight and you get bitten by a snake, you look down and see the snake attached to your boot.    You now see the other snakes coming for you across the floor ......  you look up and see the bats and spiders headed for you too.    Retreat and get a couple of flaming torches before returning.

You learn to look down and up and all around all the time, since evil can come at you from any direction in VR space.

Tourist stuff comes off especially well in VR, since you can look around you in any direction.

VR = virtual reality