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The plan, of course, is in the coming years there will be decoders baked into the silicon so the computational complexity is offloaded from the CPU and therefore becomes (in some ways) irrelevant.

Comment · 8 years ago

I guess I don't understand your question. Is it "What makes Flutter different?" or "Why doesn't Flutter work for me?"

Comment · 8 years ago

"Google" is actually a key differentiator here, because I think Google is uniquely focused on both design (it's been a long road to get here, but at this point I think Google is second only to Apple in design focus.) and interopability. Apple would _never_ make a cross-platform UI framework. What does this mean? Google's vast resources in design, development, & testing, equaled by very few, are behind this initiative. There's no doubt that is a competitive advantage.

The more interesting question is "Why does Flutter exist?" Google is, after all, a business. What's the ROI? Here's my theory: Google is known to be developing a new operating system from scratch called Fuschia[1]. Many many OSes have died in the crib because there was no app ecosystem for them, and thus the cost of switching to the "new thing" was too high for users. How do you solve this problem? Maybe if you create a cross-platform app development framework that lets developers write for the two incumbents while also ensuring compatibility with your new OS...

[1] https://9to5google.com/2018/01/23/what-is-google-fuchsia-os/

Comment · 8 years ago

Agreed: Qualcomm is not a "patent troll", they're a normal company with a very sizable IP portfolio they rightfully innovated and use in their own products, as well as licensing to other companies. Whether they abuse their market position is its own question, but they have nothing to do with companies that were founded solely to buy vague "shopping cart" patents and make money only via lawsuit settlements.

Comment · 8 years ago

The referenced blog post by the founder/chairman of MPEG is worth reading.[1] In it, Chiariglione expresses regret not for the money and control his organization is losing, but for the loss of competition which he claims will slow innovation. It will be interesting to see if this comes to pass, but my hope is that the collaboration of these companies will outpace the historically siloed research consisting of a dozen companies duplicating work.

[1] http://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solut...

Comment · 8 years ago

The cities that don't get chosen, yes. But the thinking is that Amazon has already secretly picked a city years ago (Let's say Washington, DC) who was not originally planning to offer any tax breaks.Then they make a this big show that's basically The Bachelor, causing every city to fall over themselves to offer tax breaks. Once 200+ cities offer tax breaks, then Washington, DC feels compelled to "bid" like everyone else, unknowingly sweetening a deal that has already been "made."

Comment · 8 years ago

Note: this was a relatively small sample (40 total, split in half for placebo/not), who were elderly people who already have "mild" memory problems, and given a concentrated turmeric derivative rather than just sprinkling it over food.

In summary: very cool, and I'd offer these curcumin supplements to anyone 50+ but sprinkling turmeric on your breakfast cereal ain't going to do much for high schoolers.

Comment · 9 years ago

we call it "growth hacking"

Comment · 9 years ago

This was mentioned by someone else, but in case you missed it: the "concise format" is a result of this being a 23-tweet tweet storm that the Threadreader has compiled into one page for us.

Comment · 9 years ago

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-in-munich-no-comp...

Comment · 9 years ago

I think the look is a great improvement.