Mashup
Been a while and a lot has happened.
From my perspective, the most interesting thing is probably amongst the most minor of things. Google extended support for EAS on Windows Phone devices until the end of the year. This is pretty big as for the last year or so Google has been completely evil, shitty and unrelenting against Microsoft. It is the most bitter "professional" rivalry I've ever seen. And what makes this so confounding is that Microsoft dropped the ball and Google is basically giving them breathing room.
Microsoft has totally messed up on GDR2 for WP8. To address the impending loss of EAS support Microsoft managed to convince Google to delay dropping support until around this time to give them time to put out a new update that would bring support to the protocols Google will support to the platform.
Microsoft has dropped the ball in two ways... firstly... why do we need a GDR2 (basically a full scale, full OS patch) just to add support for a new protocol? Did they really screw up the OS architecture that bad? And secondly, why isn't that patch pushed out to every device already? They knew this deadline was coming and any software company, especially one which hasn't released any data yet, has the ability to drop features to meet a deadline.
Microsoft should be shitting their WP pants right now. Nokia has publicly denounced Microsoft's alacrity with delivering patches and updates to their OS. Calling them too slow. If they are willing to make such public proclamations, you have to wonder what they have started considering behind closed doors. And lets face it... if Nokia leaves the WP scene, the operating system will fizzle out.
So, that is why such a minor item is actually the biggest news out there for me. Typically, I'm on Microsoft's side. But this move to the Win 8 architecture doesn't appear to be paying dividends for Microsoft and they are giving Google a chance to look good.
The Xbox One vs PS4 debate also continues to amuse me. The people trying to guess at relative performance are either bought by or fans of the PS4. The one article I read originally compared the Xbox One to an AMD 7970 and the PS4 to a 7790 or something like that. The key point is that they initially established that one was basically like a faster AMD card from a lower end product line and the other was a slower card but from a superior product line. Key being, that they weren't apples to apples. But then for reasons that defy logic, in their testing they instead opted to compare two products from the same product line but gave the PS the faster card... something like a 7770 vs a 7790. What it boiled down to is that while they proclaimed that the architectures in the actual units varied by a bit, they instead compared two units on identical architectures where one was clearly the winner. And unsurprisingly the superior card out performed the inferior card from the same model line in every test. Some people are either stupid or think that everyone else out there is stupid. I would really like to know, why didn't they just compare the 2 cards they actually said that each system was most similar too?
Anyway... those benchmarks are now even more incorrect. Microsoft bumped up the processor speed, so now from a pure GPU perspective, the Xbox One graphics are on a superior architecture AND run faster.
Anyway out of time for today, maybe I'll more to another post later.
From my perspective, the most interesting thing is probably amongst the most minor of things. Google extended support for EAS on Windows Phone devices until the end of the year. This is pretty big as for the last year or so Google has been completely evil, shitty and unrelenting against Microsoft. It is the most bitter "professional" rivalry I've ever seen. And what makes this so confounding is that Microsoft dropped the ball and Google is basically giving them breathing room.
Microsoft has totally messed up on GDR2 for WP8. To address the impending loss of EAS support Microsoft managed to convince Google to delay dropping support until around this time to give them time to put out a new update that would bring support to the protocols Google will support to the platform.
Microsoft has dropped the ball in two ways... firstly... why do we need a GDR2 (basically a full scale, full OS patch) just to add support for a new protocol? Did they really screw up the OS architecture that bad? And secondly, why isn't that patch pushed out to every device already? They knew this deadline was coming and any software company, especially one which hasn't released any data yet, has the ability to drop features to meet a deadline.
Microsoft should be shitting their WP pants right now. Nokia has publicly denounced Microsoft's alacrity with delivering patches and updates to their OS. Calling them too slow. If they are willing to make such public proclamations, you have to wonder what they have started considering behind closed doors. And lets face it... if Nokia leaves the WP scene, the operating system will fizzle out.
So, that is why such a minor item is actually the biggest news out there for me. Typically, I'm on Microsoft's side. But this move to the Win 8 architecture doesn't appear to be paying dividends for Microsoft and they are giving Google a chance to look good.
The Xbox One vs PS4 debate also continues to amuse me. The people trying to guess at relative performance are either bought by or fans of the PS4. The one article I read originally compared the Xbox One to an AMD 7970 and the PS4 to a 7790 or something like that. The key point is that they initially established that one was basically like a faster AMD card from a lower end product line and the other was a slower card but from a superior product line. Key being, that they weren't apples to apples. But then for reasons that defy logic, in their testing they instead opted to compare two products from the same product line but gave the PS the faster card... something like a 7770 vs a 7790. What it boiled down to is that while they proclaimed that the architectures in the actual units varied by a bit, they instead compared two units on identical architectures where one was clearly the winner. And unsurprisingly the superior card out performed the inferior card from the same model line in every test. Some people are either stupid or think that everyone else out there is stupid. I would really like to know, why didn't they just compare the 2 cards they actually said that each system was most similar too?
Anyway... those benchmarks are now even more incorrect. Microsoft bumped up the processor speed, so now from a pure GPU perspective, the Xbox One graphics are on a superior architecture AND run faster.
Anyway out of time for today, maybe I'll more to another post later.
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