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1. You cannot distribute an interpreter that can be used for running program code downloaded from the internet. So, for example, your user can save their script and use it themselves but they cannot give it to others (except perhaps through the app store bundled as an app itself).

2. Your interpreter cannot dynamically generate binary code so JIT compilers that generate binary code on-the-fly are not allowed.

edit: For example, LuaJIT cannot do JIT compilation on iOS but it can do JIT compilation for higher performance on Android.

As for double-precision performance, it is also well known that the GTX 680 is only for consumers. The HPC version of Kepler is due later this year and I will not be surprised to see it offer much improve double precision performance compared to current Teslas. Intel MIC is not a consumer product, so it is unfair to compare it to consumer products like GTX 680.

I think part of the problem can be solved if there was some nice hardware that came with Linux preinstalled, with all the driver configuration work already done for you. That will still not solve the printer issue you described, but the "install graphics/sound/wifi driver" issue can be dealt with that way. Sure Linux is not properly compatible with every wifi device out there, but neither is, say, OSX. OSX gets around the problem by the fact that it only ships on Apple hardware. It would be great if we had Canonical computers for example.

edit: FWIW, I do commend companies like System76 and ZaReason that ship linux based systems but we need bigger players in the space to make a difference.

Confirms 1/1.2'' sensor size. Approximately 2.5 times larger sensor than the one in the Nokia N8.

So its not just the megapixels, it is backed up an actually physically large sensor. Add in the great Xenon flash (which gives out much larger amount of light than say the tiny LED flash on the 4S) and you get a great cameraphone.

In this case, it is the court which is responsible for such sweeping judgement and not a single ISP. I guess the fact that Reliance also owns an ISP resulted in a confused title.

It is unfortunate that it is not more well-known. However, it is used by a lot of compiler research groups to prototype new ideas.

(Sure, it is not a popular platform, but just pointing it out.)

Yes, this cannot be emphasized enough.

1. Adobe is continuing the development of AIR and AIR 3 is coming to QNX.

2. RIM's Torch browser is one of the most standards compliant browsers out there, if not the leader. Even WebGL is coming to the platform.

3. RIM is also going to offer a native UI toolkit called Cascades and the demos look promising. You can also use Qt for native development.

edit: 4. ANd of course, there is also the Android app player supporting Android's UI framework.

I hope everything turns out all right.

1. Windows phone is currently not suited for mid-range phones, and wont be till the next version. However, long term plan is to definitely push Windows phone towards a wide spectrum of price points and replace Symbian. This will take 2-3 years.

2. For now, till the time WP is ready for mid-range, Symbian is still alive. New devices are still coming out, primarily targeted at mid-range. Nokia aims to sell around another 100 million symbian devices, all of which will run Qt. I would expect Symbian sales to continue for another 7-10 quarters.

3. Even below smartphones, the so-called "feature phones", the space is evolving to accomodate even smarter devices. Nokia sees a big opportunity in making the sub-$100 devices smarter (we are talking unlocked prices here, not american subsidized ones). Those price points will be achieved with Nokia's own software stack. Currently, this includes S40 where you can write applications using J2ME. This will be evolved so that in the future you can write applications for such devices using Qt which is vastly better than J2ME. As an example of this space, Nokia recently released a sub-$100 small touchscreen featurephone with inbuilt offline Nokia Maps. Nokia calls this low-end effort as its connect "the next billion" effort. Likely Qt will debut on these devices next year, when Qt 5 will be ready.

Trolltech/Nokia employees remain inside Nokia, and continue contributing actively to Qt (they are the largest contributors by far currently, I remember reading 85% of contributors being Nokia). Nokia continues to use Qt for Symbian/Meego as well as their future low-end platform, which currently only offers J2ME. They have officially announced that Qt will be used for "the next billion" which has been referred to as Meltemi software in leaks.

Blog post explaining this: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/