OpenEmbedded is a cross compiler toolkit that allows for the creation of distributions. I wouldn't call it a standard Linux distribution.
but regardless. WebOS itself. Right now. can you point me to a binary for any of the standard Gnome applications that are built for any existing WebOS device?
Part of my point is that the interfaces that these mobile operating systems expose for application developers all seem to be very very specific and different. Unlike "standard" linux distributions WebOS and Android seem to require porting of existing applications which use standard toolkits to use their particular UI framework. None of this porting work is being done. What we are seeing is a growth of new application gardens which conform to the constructs on the new independently developed UI frameworks for each and every mobile OS out in the market place.
The conclusions are bogus if you compare them with their numbers. iPad sales are growing, but netbook sales are not really reducing either. But for some weird reason they decide to bunch those numbers and treat iPad sales as lost netbook sales and then proclaim that ipads are killing netbooks. It is similar to comparing lion and tiger populations in Africa and India respectively and then somehow coming to the conclusion that lion population increase is hampering the tiger population.
Market analysis is weird stuff. In a majority of cases they're wrong, but they will obviously highlight only cases that they were (accidentally) right.
And that is exactly one of my concern. If slates are an outgrowth from mobile-device thinking.. then OEM's maybe reluctant to offer price-competitive unlocked versions of these devices. This is especially true if they are linked to OEM/device specific revenue generating application stores. Time will of course tell.
Its a little more complicated because of the nature of the hardware, being ARM-ish, and undoubtedly relying on some proprietary hardware drivers for some functionality..like graphics.
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but regardless. WebOS itself. Right now. can you point me to a binary for any of the standard Gnome applications that are built for any existing WebOS device?
Part of my point is that the interfaces that these mobile operating systems expose for application developers all seem to be very very specific and different. Unlike "standard" linux distributions WebOS and Android seem to require porting of existing applications which use standard toolkits to use their particular UI framework. None of this porting work is being done. What we are seeing is a growth of new application gardens which conform to the constructs on the new independently developed UI frameworks for each and every mobile OS out in the market place.
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Market analysis is weird stuff. In a majority of cases they're wrong, but they will obviously highlight only cases that they were (accidentally) right.
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Its a little more complicated because of the nature of the hardware, being ARM-ish, and undoubtedly relying on some proprietary hardware drivers for some functionality..like graphics.
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