Remember that Androids were the progeny of a certain failed professional
services firm. I always think that the word was ill chosen for any operating
system :-)
jh
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From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Polaroid's Android-powered, 16-megapixel Smart Camera
> Certainly there is a microprocessor in most digital cameras, but my
> question was about the OS. What does a particular OS, in the way lauded
> by Ken, bring to a camera. Ken is of the opinion that Android will give
> the camera user apps to use, but it's not a reason for near ecstasy, in my
> view.
>
> Chris
>
> On 6 Feb 2012, at 20:27, Moose wrote:
>
>> Not only all your digital cameras, but any recent cars, TV's, DVD or
>> Blu-Ray player, audio components, microwave ovens,
>> toaster ovens, cell and portable phones, cooker, and on and on and on.
>> They are all controlled by digital processors,
>> and all run an OS - DOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and so on.
>>
>> My new Blu-Ray player connects to the web via my WiFi controller and
>> politely asks when it would like to install an
>> update. Now if I can just figure out how to do the WiFi streaming of
>> videos from my desktop. So many settings, so few
>> brain cells to lose ...
>>
>> Moose OS
>>
>> On 2/6/2012 11:56 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>> They all use some version of DOS for the FAT32 file system.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/6/2012 2:02 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>>>> Hmmm,
>
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