I find it the right thing that canonical focus on the user interface, so unity is a good idea for them to focus on what matters the most, the end users. as a developer I don't care much about desktops, I find them all interesting.
I will be surprised if IBM soon becomes the most valuable company, a very small probability for example...if iphone-n turns out to be a flop microsoft struggles in post of era.
Hope all unity, gnome 3 and kde4 will mature more. I m using all of them on different machines to see what is happening. All of them look fine. Hope a focus on performance, memory footprint and cpu processing will make them better and better. I still didn't make mind what to use next.
This last wave of startups has brought an incredible number of successful ones, and innumerable number ones waiting for monetization. As you said, the audience grew to billions of people. I remember in 2000, we were still trying to convince people that Internet is here to stay,to shop and to do business.
The programmers like D Rithchie and his generation are like the philosophers of ancient greece, they are profound, mystical, and have a large effect on our present.
This type health news confuse people; everything we think will make us healthy is later claimed as an unhealthy exercise in some other research, should we distrust health news in mainstream media totally?
"The great revolution that AMD has been talking about... an eight-core desktop processor", is it really a revolution?
an 8-core smartphone would be next..
just watched social network movie the first time fully; apparently some people are motivated by a failed attempt to date a dream girl. I totally agree, the passion of what you want to work on, that is what I feel too.
in a similar fashion, i am having more and more problems in handwriting, and it is funny to see my Samsung android tablet offer a note taking based on handwriting.
It is interesting to see how Facebook, Google, Apple collide on mobile by bring their core competencies onto their own mobile offering. Each one also tries to lock down users, based on their advantages. If competition wins, we shall have the same exciting ground on mobile too.
I m afraid there are uncountable number of possible mistakes, on top of the ten you have stressed. And all those mistakes usually occur due to sticking to rigid rules rather than trying to be flexible at different stages of business lives, but some occur due tho being flexible rather than having rigid principles.
Ohh blackberry, my lovely 9000 bold is standing in the drawer for 6 months already because i use my android, wish at least you succeeded in the enterprise game; such downtime really came in bad times.
go & dart, they are bold attempts if you are from a java background, however now that most of us code in Ruby, Python, PHP etc, they don't appear quite state of the art. The syntax does not appeal unfortunately.
SGS 8.9 is better in this regard, 36 grams help a bit though to hold it in my left hand. Ipad lacks widgets, and requires too many user unfriendly button touches. my dad enjoys seeing the emails, twitter and weather all open at once on galaxy tab.
My point is; good androids alternatives came mainly in last few weeks. I suggest you all ipad lovers take a look at objectively to new tablets from sony, samsung...