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"It's so funny how phones made 10 years ago were more real-time than those today." Oh come on that's just not true. Phones 10 years ago barely had color displa

by nkassis 15y ago

"It's so funny how phones made 10 years ago were more real-time than those today." Oh come on that's just not true. Phones 10 years ago barely had color displays and 0 apps other than contacts,phone and maybe music and I don't even think java games were there yet. As far as I know, getting contacts synced between your phone and computer meant buying some huge palm or blackberry and hooking it up to your computer with a special cable. No Real time over the web syncing of contacts between your email client and phone like you have today.

peterwwillis 15y ago
You don't understand the concept of real-time devices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing Really java made the phones less real-time, but it was 10 years ago that one of the first Java phones in the US was sold by Sprint. Nextel I85s came out in 2001, and the Sanyo SCP-4900 (with 12-bit color!) came out in 2002. All those apps and games and syncing? Means diddly squat if the god damn phone is locking up from apps clogging the CPU and preventing me from pressing the "Pick up" button when i'm receiving a call. Phones today are (in general) overrated, overpriced, hardly usable pieces of shit.
- nkassis 15y ago
  I understand what you mean but I'm just making the point that phones were a lot simpler and in my view much less useful. It's obvious that somethings might have been loss since then like how my phone reacts less well to me answering the phone or pressing number but the amount of new functionality in my view more than make up for that small annoyance. Real-time as in real-time computing isn't as big a selling point today as it was pre-iphone. RIM is making that mistake. QNX is awesome for what it does but I don't think people care about it's strong points as much as they do with the strong points of Android and iOS.(And that's what I meant when I twisted the definition of real-time to fit my syncing example. It's a different unrelated concept to what you were implying.)

by nkassis 15y ago

peterwwillis 15y ago

You don't understand the concept of real-time devices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing Really java made the phones less real-time, but it was 10 years ago that one of the first Java phones in the US was sold by Sprint. Nextel I85s came out in 2001, and the Sanyo SCP-4900 (with 12-bit color!) came out in 2002. All those apps and games and syncing? Means diddly squat if the god damn phone is locking up from apps clogging the CPU and preventing me from pressing the "Pick up" button when i'm receiving a call. Phones today are (in general) overrated, overpriced, hardly usable pieces of shit.

nkassis 15y ago
I understand what you mean but I'm just making the point that phones were a lot simpler and in my view much less useful. It's obvious that somethings might have been loss since then like how my phone reacts less well to me answering the phone or pressing number but the amount of new functionality in my view more than make up for that small annoyance. Real-time as in real-time computing isn't as big a selling point today as it was pre-iphone. RIM is making that mistake. QNX is awesome for what it does but I don't think people care about it's strong points as much as they do with the strong points of Android and iOS.(And that's what I meant when I twisted the definition of real-time to fit my syncing example. It's a different unrelated concept to what you were implying.)