beatle

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   by beatle 15y ago

   I bet Samsung, HTC, Sony, etc. all want to reduce their reliance on Android now that Google will soon own Motorola.
2. 182.▲
   by beatle 15y ago

   Fantastic news. WebOS > Android
3. 183.▲
   by beatle 15y ago

   The man doesn't want to develop for Android. leave him alone.
4. 184.▲
   by beatle 15y ago

   The availability of the iPhone 4S in Sprint is responsible for the 30% drop i would assume. The evo was a top seller for Sprint last year.
5. 185.▲
   by beatle 15y ago

   Yeah. A crappy choice. I would not be saying this if Android was such a beacon of software quality. Android is just Google's tool to serve users ads. Nothing more.
6. 186.▲
   by beatle 15y ago

   The numbers are from the latest quarter.
7. 187.▲
   by beatle 15y ago

   Saw this before. The key words are....annualized and revenue. They did not report mobile quarterly figures or costs and profits. But. we can extrapolate: $2.5 Billion annualized == $625 million quarterly mobile revenue. Elsewhere in the ear
8. 188.▲
   by beatle 15y ago

   who said Android's cheap? Real cost of Android = Android acquisition price + Motorola acquisition price ($12.5 Billion) + Lawsuits
9. 189.▲
   by beatle 15y ago

   Google's Android Market earn just 7% of what Apple's App Store makes despite larger market share. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/11/21/piper-jaffray-android...
10. 190.▲
    by beatle 15y ago

    What goldmine? They just replaced Nokia. Android is the new Nokia. Lots of worthless Market share, Zero profit. EDIT: I realize i'm going to be down voted for this. But if you don't think it's true, you're delusional.
11. 191.▲
    by beatle 15y ago

    yeah pthreads is implemented using futex. I don't care about the implementation details. It doesn't matter since it's still lock-based (albeit more efficient due to fewer system calls). My original point is, threading is still lock-based.
12. 192.▲
    by beatle 15y ago

    HeapWorker.c uses pthreads. doing a quick check on one of the functions dvmLockMutex (in Thread.h) uses pthread_mutex_lock. // Grab a plain mutex. INLINE void dvmLockMutex(pthread_mutex_t pMutex) { int cc __attribute__ ((__unused__)
13. 193.▲
    by beatle 15y ago

    Android's garbage collection is handled by Dalvik.
14. 194.▲
    by beatle 15y ago

    Here's another problem with HeapWorker.c (The android code that does garbage collection, etc.). This is just poor programming imo. Android's thread management is stuck in the 90s. With this type of thread management they're required to trap
15. 195.▲
    by beatle 15y ago

    nothing beats Window Maker.
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    by beatle 15y ago

    Users don't distinguish between poor UI performance and"code stutters". The "negligble" sub-1ms stutters are a real problem in practice. and it's not just limited to poor code. Sometimes, no matter what you'll see GC being called, there's n
17. 197.▲
    by beatle 15y ago

    Garbage collection in Android is another performance bottleneck. ICS "fixes" this by allowing the garbage collector to run on a different thread but imo that's a kludge.
18. 198.▲
    by beatle 15y ago

    Billionaires (like Larry Ellison) borrow money against his stocks. No tax, no hassles.