Reverse or Creation?

[Sébastien Roy]

> 
> For what do you think you will need a new HW updates shortly? And
> what if we lessen SW apetites?
> 
> Just consider that Android OS and even Linux is not the end of the
> Universe. They are BIG software driven by constant incrementing of
> features. As example, look on this complete OS distro with important
> apps only requires 1.44MB Kolibrios.org/en/index
> 
> Look at the end-users - most of the time they do a simple tasks on a
> device and very small % of them are really cpu-tough.
> 
> 
> What so special HW do you need to implement average daily tasks like:
> 
> - text editing
> 
> - calendar, contacts, notes
> 
> - file management
> 
> - web-browser
> 
> - photo / video (play capture)
> 
> - etc...
> 
> 
> Only 1 type of tasks are huge resource eaters - games, oh boy, games
> easily may be given to proprietary world though, at least on first
> time.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Remember Psion and Palm handhelds? Small screens, tiny CPUs - and it
> was enough for daily usage!
> GNOME shell... huge monster, compare it with i3-WM... see the
> difference.
> 
> 
> To sum up, we all need to re-read an important article: "A Plea for
> Lean Software" http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=620152
> 
> "ESSENTIALS and SIMPLICITY" is the motto.

While I absolutly agree on the principles and the engineering goal you
suggest, writting lean software is much more expensive than new hardware.

And we already argued about how expensive hardware is...

Seb
 
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