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    News - Qualcomm woos developers at Uplinq 2012

    Develop for Snapdragon and improve user experiences, seems to be the message.
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    Re: News - Qualcomm woos developers at Uplinq 2012

    If you think about a computer you have a similar thing happening with AMD and nVidia drivers; they allow the GPU to be used more effectively for certain applications and your choice of GPU is most often based on whether the GPU performs the tasks you work on the most more effectively or not. As a consumer we still have choice but now our choices have consequences and thus we need to be more informed in order to choose something that suits our needs better.

    Thinking about it I actually prefer the differences in hardware to have an impact on the experience for the device we use; it allows more niche type experiences like the gaming oriented Tegra 3 or the power frugal design of the Texas Instruments OMAP 4 that would otherwise be missing without hardware differentiation.

    I am happy for hardware to be better used but I think that it shouldn't hassle users in order to achieve that, less frequent and more difficult updates are not an acceptable price to pay for 15-20% improved performance.

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    Re: News - Qualcomm woos developers at Uplinq 2012

    This is a bad idea. Its ok when you support additional optional features like the old MMX or SSE extensions from intel. Someone could produce an app that could optionally use the advanced features for extra power but could also run fine without it - Thats fine but preventing others from running it at all is wrong. Really hoping this sort of thing doesn't get taken up by developers.
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