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Put another way, why has the UK taxpayer-funded BL made its initial offering only for Apple customers?

by vixen99 15y ago

smcl 15y ago
Probably the same reason the UK license-fee-funded BBC initially supported iPlayer on Windows only - it's the most popular tablet platform (or so I believe). The Kindle\Android flavours are apparently on their way, let's give them a chance eh.
- chrisjsmith 15y ago
  However there are totally open formats which you could use on all platforms... I'm not sure the popularity of the iPad is actually as high as everyone thinks. I think that's the Apple marketing reality distortion field. I see WAY more Kindles and Android phones than I see iPhones and iPads on trains in and out of London where I live.
  - Retric 15y ago
    The iPad is by far the most popular tablet and still makes up over 50% of the market. The iPhone is a vary popular phone, but there are far more options for phones out there than tablets.
    - chrisjsmith 15y ago
      Incorrect. It makes up 50% of the SALES of an unclearly defined MARKET and term TABLET.
      - Terretta 15y ago
        Forget 50%. iPad has 53 TIMES the online usage of the nearest competitor: http://mashable.com/2011/06/02/ipad-web-usage/ http://mashable.com/2011/06/02/ipad-web-usage/ Your certainty that reality is otherwise seems to be in want of a citation.
        chrisjsmith 15y ago
        Mashable as a citation... whatever next. Define "competitor" and "popularity". It's all damn lies and statistics. My old Windows tablet could be a competitor. Dell do a tablet Windows machine. Motorola do a hybrid device. Is an ebook reader a tablet? Is an iPod touch a tablet? Perhaps people with iPads hammer web sites? Perhaps people without iPads don't? Perhaps some mobile browsers identify themselves as desktop ones? There is no defined taxonomy to classify things in either. It's all pirates vs global warming.
ZeroGravitas 15y ago
Every time I read about the BL they're doing something inanely anti-web, though usually Microsoft-centric, like putting interesting audio online as .WMA files, or buiding things in silverlight that would have been as easilydone in javascript, or supporting OOXML for fast-track ISO standardisation.
chrisjsmith 15y ago
Spot on.

Put another way, why has the UK taxpayer-funded BL made its initial offering only for Apple customers?

by vixen99 15y ago

Put another way, why has the UK taxpayer-funded BL made its initial offering only for Apple customers?

smcl 15y ago

Probably the same reason the UK license-fee-funded BBC initially supported iPlayer on Windows only - it's the most popular tablet platform (or so I believe). The Kindle\Android flavours are apparently on their way, let's give them a chance eh.

chrisjsmith 15y ago
However there are totally open formats which you could use on all platforms... I'm not sure the popularity of the iPad is actually as high as everyone thinks. I think that's the Apple marketing reality distortion field. I see WAY more Kindles and Android phones than I see iPhones and iPads on trains in and out of London where I live.
- Retric 15y ago
  The iPad is by far the most popular tablet and still makes up over 50% of the market. The iPhone is a vary popular phone, but there are far more options for phones out there than tablets.
  - chrisjsmith 15y ago
    Incorrect. It makes up 50% of the SALES of an unclearly defined MARKET and term TABLET.
    - Terretta 15y ago
      Forget 50%. iPad has 53 TIMES the online usage of the nearest competitor: http://mashable.com/2011/06/02/ipad-web-usage/ http://mashable.com/2011/06/02/ipad-web-usage/ Your certainty that reality is otherwise seems to be in want of a citation.
      - chrisjsmith 15y ago
        Mashable as a citation... whatever next. Define "competitor" and "popularity". It's all damn lies and statistics. My old Windows tablet could be a competitor. Dell do a tablet Windows machine. Motorola do a hybrid device. Is an ebook reader a tablet? Is an iPod touch a tablet? Perhaps people with iPads hammer web sites? Perhaps people without iPads don't? Perhaps some mobile browsers identify themselves as desktop ones? There is no defined taxonomy to classify things in either. It's all pirates vs global warming.

ZeroGravitas 15y ago

Every time I read about the BL they're doing something inanely anti-web, though usually Microsoft-centric, like putting interesting audio online as .WMA files, or buiding things in silverlight that would have been as easilydone in javascript, or supporting OOXML for fast-track ISO standardisation.

chrisjsmith 15y ago

Spot on.