From kde-active Tue Jun 19 12:08:21 2012 From: Marco Martin Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:08:21 +0000 To: kde-active Subject: Re: What do you folks think of the MS Surface announcement? Message-Id: <201206191408.21444.notmart () gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-active&m=134010792106301 On Tuesday 19 June 2012, Chris Russell wrote: > It's hard to imagine Microsoft's OEM partners being thrilled with the > company's Surface tablet announcement yesterday. It seems like the move > is likely to accelerate adoption of Android and may present opportunity > for Plasma Active? What do you folks think? no idea what will come out of it. the device per se won't probably be much useful to us, because they announced win8 arm devices would be deeply locked, so probably we won't be able to install anything else on it. on a more broader merit, it will be interesting to see some things: * i personally like those combo tablet/keyboard devices, so far none is light enough tough, further development in technology on that side may change that * it may force other manifacturers to produce similar hardware (hopefully less locked down) and that would be directly good for us * it may make more clear to people that boundaries between device types are blurring: personally i don't think win8 has the right approach because is more "one size fits all" but it may open a window to propose different approaches Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active