You don't think there's a really big difference between a full featured OS and a supposedly real-time operating system?
I think you and I may sit on the other side of an idealogical divide in that respect. I think if you do something on a phone and it's sluggish, you need to stop doing that and figure out what you can do. That's how we go about computer game design at my company. I'm kind of filled with fear that phones would ever become something like XP. Minutes to boot, system trays, the whole UI and properties system etc. I quite like XP on a desktop but it's pretty much nothing like what I'd want on a phone and I mean the low level OS in that as well. The whole registry system, the services model... it's just not great.
I think mobile phones need to come at implementing an OS from the UI level and because you don't need all this crazy backwards compatibility, and the myriad of features, it's easy enough just to roll something suitable up. Microsoft has truly vast resources. If Google can lash up a seriously impressive phone OS in next to no time and plan out a timetable of truly major updates in time scales of months... that's what MS is dealing with.
I thnk their best approach is to leave the team on doing WM which are doing it and build a new team to do kick out something new. The market is moving too quickly for them to patch over WM I think. Just take a look at the updates kicking out from Apple and Android and wonder if playing catch up to nimble teams like that is going to deliver the goods.
P.S. Me wiping flash cards, no need to apologies that it's a reasonable place to put them. I was being too hasty. Incidentally I tried some ROMs with 6.5. It's kind of amusing really, pop up boxes are finger operable and strange semi-modern UI features appear in ancient UI elements like shaded scroller bars and stuff like that. In the end though the front end issue was an utter ballache, Titanium has to be hacked by 3rd party tools just to put your stuff in it. Phone was definately faster though! In the end I plumbed for Dutys which is a 6.1 build with all the newest stuff from other HTC unreleased models etc. It's way better than the ROM I was using before and it's faster too.
Time to work through 2,000 HSK cards to see which ones I remembered... MIke while I think of it, is there a way to sort of export cards you don't know in a category? I'm guessing you can use the search functions which seem pretty powerful. My thought was that it'd be very useful to be able to get back onto the PC a list of words which I've not remembered (often having trouble with) so I can print them out and shove on my monitor at work or something.
Ultimately I'd like to create some system where I take my top 20 cards which are somehow causing me difficulty and print them out to cram on. Bit off topic this...
I think you and I may sit on the other side of an idealogical divide in that respect. I think if you do something on a phone and it's sluggish, you need to stop doing that and figure out what you can do. That's how we go about computer game design at my company. I'm kind of filled with fear that phones would ever become something like XP. Minutes to boot, system trays, the whole UI and properties system etc. I quite like XP on a desktop but it's pretty much nothing like what I'd want on a phone and I mean the low level OS in that as well. The whole registry system, the services model... it's just not great.
I think mobile phones need to come at implementing an OS from the UI level and because you don't need all this crazy backwards compatibility, and the myriad of features, it's easy enough just to roll something suitable up. Microsoft has truly vast resources. If Google can lash up a seriously impressive phone OS in next to no time and plan out a timetable of truly major updates in time scales of months... that's what MS is dealing with.
I thnk their best approach is to leave the team on doing WM which are doing it and build a new team to do kick out something new. The market is moving too quickly for them to patch over WM I think. Just take a look at the updates kicking out from Apple and Android and wonder if playing catch up to nimble teams like that is going to deliver the goods.
P.S. Me wiping flash cards, no need to apologies that it's a reasonable place to put them. I was being too hasty. Incidentally I tried some ROMs with 6.5. It's kind of amusing really, pop up boxes are finger operable and strange semi-modern UI features appear in ancient UI elements like shaded scroller bars and stuff like that. In the end though the front end issue was an utter ballache, Titanium has to be hacked by 3rd party tools just to put your stuff in it. Phone was definately faster though! In the end I plumbed for Dutys which is a 6.1 build with all the newest stuff from other HTC unreleased models etc. It's way better than the ROM I was using before and it's faster too.
Time to work through 2,000 HSK cards to see which ones I remembered... MIke while I think of it, is there a way to sort of export cards you don't know in a category? I'm guessing you can use the search functions which seem pretty powerful. My thought was that it'd be very useful to be able to get back onto the PC a list of words which I've not remembered (often having trouble with) so I can print them out and shove on my monitor at work or something.
Ultimately I'd like to create some system where I take my top 20 cards which are somehow causing me difficulty and print them out to cram on. Bit off topic this...
