On 03/29/2016 01:54 PM, Xen wrote:
Anton Aylward schreef op 29-03-16 19:41:
But Wayland looks to be severely delayed; what is going on with that project and when can we expect it? Wayland has been diverted to the "phone and tablet" world. See, for example, https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/enlightenment_of_wayland/attachments/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/samsung-tizen-market-share-2015/
The question, therefore, is when will we see Tizen on PCs?
Are you serious? From the looks of it Tizen will never be popular on a smartphone although it might get to drive other devices where it doesn't have to compete with Android.
You are displaying ignorance of what Tizen and Android each are. They are closer to each other than, say, the Linux, BSD, OSX triad. You'd be better of saying that Android isn't competing with iOS. Reality is both Android and Tizen are Linux and OpenSource, and there are people taking that source and hacking it and putting it up on other phones. There's plenty of that about. Some of it is feeding back; Linux has always "cross pollinated". How soon people forget.. At one time Windows was bomb and the talking heads said that business would never accept it and replace MS-DOS with it. Long before Android and iOS there were cell phnes with 'features'. If we go back to 1983, the DynaTAC mobile phone launched on the first US 1G network by Ameritech. It cost $100m to develop, and took over a decade to reach the market. The phone had a talk time of just thirty-five minutes and took ten hours to charge. What a bummer! Who would want THAT!?!? But yes there was a demand for it. So if the first Tizen phone is a bummer, its in a good tradition.
And at the same time .... it is also not a desktop OS at all.
By the same criteria Android isn't a desktop OS, "laptops" (if you'll pardon the broad category for clamshells with screens and keyboards) running chrome, windows or ubuntu aren't desktop OS either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook (which is really Linux) http://mylinuxexplore.blogspot.ca/2014/06/ubuntu-on-touch-screen-laptop-sett... (which is really Linux again) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface All of which are being pushed as "desktop replacement".
If Wayland has been derailed by this, that is a very bad thing. I THINK.
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