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Open Source Mobile OS's

July 21st, 2009 No comments

This is a very interesting article: here

The bottom line is that the author things open source (or at least totally open app development) will overtake the iPhone in the end. Android is totally open source and there are little restrictions on the app store… and you can load apps without using the app store. The Pre has little restrictions on its app store as well. Nothing like what Apple does.

Plus, like I have said before, the fact that Android lets you do almost anything and access any part of the OS or hook any sort of even are huge. You want a new dialer app? Do it. Want to hook all your incoming SMS and do soemthing funky with them? Sure why not. The iPhone restricts all of this.

And of course multitasking is huge. And with better technology with batteries or display technology (shameless corporate plug: Qualcomm’s mirasol) there are so many possibilities for a true computing phone.

OSX Internals Book

June 15th, 2009 No comments

I picked up this book a while back. I got a job at NVIDIA with the OS X drivers team, so I was brushing up on things.

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This is pretty much THE book for info on system internals, kernel coding, etc. It’s rather large and takes a while to get through, but the info is awesome.

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