Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: > I have said before, but it bears repeating, the thing that makes > mobile devices appealing to use with a touch interface, is that > the apps do not have nearly the functionality that a full blown > laptop or workstation does, and therefore less things to "touch". > Using a t

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
I have said before, but it bears repeating, the thing that makes mobile devices appealing to use with a touch interface, is that the apps do not have nearly the functionality that a full blown laptop or workstation does, and therefore less things to "touch". Using a touch interface in OS X or Wi

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
My niece got me a cover like that for my iPad. The inserts were made of cardboard however, and it fell to pieces in 6 to 8 months and I didn't use it all that hard. Bob On Jun 20, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > I have an iPad cover, and it sort of can act like a stand, but it's not

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: I don't know who I like less: Balmer or Leo... You might want to add Larry Ellison to that list, a true contender for the Most FUBAR CEO award, with special achievements in the area of Annoying the Open Source Community with his Open Office shenanigans, and in the Wastef

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Terry Judd
On 21/06/2012, at 01:18 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: I never was too crazy on those new magnetic iPad covers. I like mine more: http://www.speckproducts.com/tablet-ipad-cases/magfolio-for-ipad2.html STM Skinny. And, I don't know if a flex keyboard will work, but this one seems to, so perhaps MS's w

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Chipp Walters
I never was too crazy on those new magnetic iPad covers. I like mine more: http://www.speckproducts.com/tablet-ipad-cases/magfolio-for-ipad2.html And, I don't know if a flex keyboard will work, but this one seems to, so perhaps MS's will: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/740785012/touchfire-the

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Chipp Walters
Still, I doubt it runs LC out of the box. Remember, LC never did work properly on Win Tablet that I'm aware. Just too many different types of controls. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Windows RT which looks like Windows Phone 8 and runs the > same apps and the other runs o

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Chipp Walters wrote: > Shades of when MS bought Danger for $500 million only to take years and > reportedly over a billion dollars to redesign the two facebook friendly > phones they called Kin. The sales after the first weekend launch was in the > low hundreds. They k

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > No, it runs Windows Phone 8, which "shares a core" with Windows 8. In > theory you can write code once for W8 and WP8, but I've heard that > story somewhere before... > Actually there are two versions of the Surface tablet. One is an ARM vers

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
I have an iPad cover, and it sort of can act like a stand, but it's not so strong, especially after a few months. The Microsoft tablet has a cover that doubles as a keyboard, and it has a separate flat to prop up the screen. ___ use-livecode mailing lis

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > Oh yeah, Balmer. MS is dead until they get rid of that guy. Please RR, > don't spend any time trying to compile for that thing! > I don't know who I like less: Balmer or Leo... -- http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. http://

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Roger- Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 7:01:28 PM, you wrote: > It has an intel Ivy Bridge processor, and runs Windows 8. Doesn't that > mean that LiveCode will "just work" on this thing? No, it runs Windows Phone 8, which "shares a core" with Windows 8. In theory you can write code once for W8 and W

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Roger Eller
It has an intel Ivy Bridge processor, and runs Windows 8. Doesn't that mean that LiveCode will "just work" on this thing? ~Roger On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > Curious, what are the neat points? And certainly even if Palm gave RR a > billion dollars (or a bit less), w

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Chipp Walters
Curious, what are the neat points? And certainly even if Palm gave RR a billion dollars (or a bit less), we would all benefit! On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Colin Holgate wrote: > All of your points aside, there are a couple of neat things about the > Microsoft tablet. Also, if they said to RunRev

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
All of your points aside, there are a couple of neat things about the Microsoft tablet. Also, if they said to RunRev "here's a billion dollars, can you publish for Windows 8?", we would all benefit. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.ru

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Chipp Walters
Ugh. Here we go again. First MS declares 'there is no market for tablets' and disbands the development team, then kills the skunkworks Courier tablet saying tablets will never survive. Of course Steve Jobs convinces the world we all NEED tablets, and in typical Microsoft "copy copy copy" mode they

Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Wieder
As announced this morning in San Francisco: Windows phone 8 (due out "later this year") won't run on Windows 7 phones. If you're thinking of buying the hardware now, it's a dead end. Has a Siri-like feature that, during the demo, thought "Play Game of Thrones" meant "St. Louis Missouri". ...ah...