ahhh virtual OS in a window blows. has it's own set of issues. native please. ALWAYS works.
iOS is not everything apple. and yea Apple TV is NOT iOS.. it's TVOS. I'm SURE it's not android and VERY close to iOS.
and if the 7th inning is 35yrs old When is the game over?
I'll stand with it's the software than runs in the OS. NOT the OS or the hardware.
Been the same since day1.
*sigh* Not sure where you are getting your data, but Linux wasn't invented until 1991, and that as a university project. The open source community didn't get going strong until About 2000, and at that point Windows owned the world.
Linux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That makes it at oldest 24, but the open source community is more like 16. And the instances of Active Linux will likely surpass active Windows this year.
As for Apple TV, it is going the same route as all closed technical systems. It is an evolution that happens over and over.
Roku still tops as sales of streaming-media players rise - CNET
Yes, all the others are based on Linux.
As I said earlier, one ant doesn't eat you, a million do. Now the Linux is being built right into the TV's. Just like PC's, and phones, and tablets, each time Apple invents a new market, the products sell well. Then it eventually gets overtaken. At this point they are slowly losing until and unless they invent something brand new. .
android vs ios graph - Google Search
I sit on these standards committees. I see all the guts (video, communication, etc etc) go to standards. And they get implemented in open source. It literally always goes this way.
Virtualization? Again, I don't know what to tell you, except to show you the facts. Vrtualization has revolutionized the server and high end workstation world, apparently under your feet. There is hardly an IT shop or server farm on the planet that doesn't run and now rely on it, and I can tell you first hand, it solves a TON of problems. The overhead is tiny. You only have to deal with drivers on the one host PC/OS, and each VM can have a different OS, service packs etc. I work for a fortune 50. They wouldn't even think of tripple booting a machine today, and I have over a dozen desktop VM's for various reasons. I would bet money this site is hosted on a virtual machine.
Again. It doesn't matter what you or I say, the IT world is going virtual and cloud, and in a hurry. That is just a fact.
DailyTech - Virtualization Reaches 92% Enterprise Penetration Rate, VMware Leads the Way
I don't know what to tell ya man...
As for software, the more people you have working on it, and the more diverse they are, the better (and more adaptable) it gets. That is exactly open source. You have people like Ascent, adapting for things like the Sprite (and a hundred other groups). And all that work gets fed back in to the collective. It is a very powerful thing to watch. That is exactly how Solo got Smart Shots and Tower, and it literally is just getting started.
One thing that is true is that the problem with predicting the future, is it hasn't happened yet. Another thing is that nothing either of us says will change any of it. It will play out in due time.
As my dad used to say... You place your bets, and you takes your chances.
That's what my day job is. I am very comfortable with my bets, as I have seen this movie before. It is like watching a romantic comedy. Same story, only the girl and guy have different jobs. In this case, same open source and closed system, just on UAV's instead of computers/phones/tablets/TV's this time.
I look at github and see dozens of things being worked on. I look at Made for Solo and see a dozen things there. I look at DJI and I see DJI and a few API apps. I see the mtrying to get "open source like" traction with the Matrice, but not getting far. Obviously I am missing really big things they are working on.
Time will tell
Cheers.
