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You could also maybe recognize that computers are computers. They compute. Size isn't really the issue.

You're right. The issue is whether it's truly a personal computer, in that the person who owns it controls what computing is done. A home microwave oven has a computer in it, but it's not a personal computer in this sense. Neither is an iPhone or iPad in most cases, particularly when the device for loading user-written programs into an iPhone or iPad costs more than the iPhone or iPad itself.

Or better, pick our movies/series and lose the channel system completely. That way the creators hopefully get more of the money.

There's an app for that...

This is no longer true, And via eMail or a web browser and cut/paste this was always possible anyway.

Actually, it very much is still true.

3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple's built-in WebKit framework or JavascriptCore, provided that such scripts and code do not change the primary purpose of the Application by providing features or functionality that are inconsistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application as submitted to the App Store.

This is the current policy as of today (2017-03-30).

But there are plenty of Applications, e.g. "CS At Once", that directly download JavaScript Code from the internet (and install it as a local library)

Apps running JavaScript code do not provide their own interpreter. They use the JavaScript interpreter built into iOS. All the rest of your examples fall squarely into that exception. None of these things are relevant to the issue of Flash.

There are several browsers that just do that, in the Apple AppStore.

No, they do not. Please read my previous comment about how those apps work. Some might try to use one of the experimental Flash-to-JavaScript transpilers (Shumway or Swiffy, neither of which is still in active development), but those only works for a subset of Flash apps. Others run Flash on a remote computer (e.g. Puffin uses Adobe Flash-Over-Cloud). Others just do Flash video DRM using their own code. None of them run a native Flash interpreter on the device. None of them. And when you're talking about full compatibility, that's the only approach that actually works robustly. Adobe, Google, and Mozilla all tried other approaches to work around the iOS Flash blockade, and none were fully successful.

Clueless post.

I think the point is, yes, it's only now that HTML5/Javascript has become some-what mature enough to replace Flash, especially the major use of which is video's. And it's only now that browser makers are finally taking the plunge to purge Flash.

But the point is, Steve Jobs saw this coming long long ago, while html5/css3 was still in draft, but basic support for video and other animations had started to appear. Read Jobs' post to get an insight, and it's exactly what he mentions, including the proprietary nature of Flash and it's fate by Adobe alone.

Steve Jobs was truly a visionary.

Apple killed Flash, or at least threw the first stone by disallowing it on their mobile devices. They did it because they saw the writing on the wall. Flash was a security nightmare, and really only existed as a stopgap because bandwidth used to be a far more of a premium and there were no web standards for streaming video, audio, and animation. This is mostly fixed with HTML5.

Believe me when I say this is uncharacteristic of me, but, "Thanks Steve Jobs!"

I seem to remember Apple getting mauled in the media for refusing to allow flash on their new iPhone platform
So much so that Jobs wrote a open public letter to explain his reasons:
Thoughts on Flash Steve Jobs - April, 2010
In the context of the time, it was both brave (yes, I said it) and correct.
Why is anyone still hanging onto this legacy of a bygone technology era?

Apple sure do a good job of marketing it as a backup... http://www.apple.com/icloud/ https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Yeah, they market it as a means of backup for iOS devices, if you can't do local backups (or really, really hate iTunes) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977. What does that have to do with the iCloud backup of a Mac the OP pretends exists?

Apple sure do a good job of marketing it as a backup... http://www.apple.com/icloud/ https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Yeah, they market it as a means of backup for iOS devices, if you can't do local backups (or really, really hate iTunes) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977. What does that have to do with the iCloud backup of a Mac the OP pretends exists?

Apple sure do a good job of marketing it as a backup... http://www.apple.com/icloud/ https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Yeah, they market it as a means of backup for iOS devices, if you can't do local backups (or really, really hate iTunes) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977. What does that have to do with the iCloud backup of a Mac the OP pretends exists?

Unless, of course, the report assumes that anything running Lollipop or older is not recently patched, which seems like a reasonable assumption.

According to Google, 65.9% of users are on Lollipop or older. That means 29% of up-to-date Androids would have to come from 34.1% of users, or that 85% of Marshmallow and Nougat users are fully patched. I'm skeptical.

Also, nearly half of Android users are using an OS at least 2.5 years old. :-/ Compare with 79% of iOS users on a 6 month old OS, and 95% of iOS users on an OS less than 1.5 years old.

Apple sure do a good job of marketing it as a backup... http://www.apple.com/icloud/ https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Apple sure do a good job of marketing it as a backup... http://www.apple.com/icloud/ https://support.apple.com/en-u...

While time will tell the extent of this, I have been recommending the following to my friends (copied verbatim from https://www.facebook.com/stuar... ).

As a precaution, here are some prudent tips:
1. Log into your Apple Account at https://appleid.apple.com/ and enable two-factor authentication if you haven't already (see https://support.apple.com/en-a...) .
2. While you are there, if you have not changed your password in a while, consider doing that too (https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201355).
3. As the threats include the threat of remotely wiping devices, you can disable this on each of your iCloud connected devices. See Macworld's good article on how to do this for each device type: http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-... . Note that if you do this, you will also be unable to use the Find my iPhone/iPad/Mac feature. Until more details come out, personally I feel this is acceptable given the risk.
4. When you are logged in at https://appleid.apple.com/acco..., check to ensure there are no devices you do not recognise under 'Devices'.
5. For the next few weeks, periodically do a local backup using iTunes of your iDevices. See https://support.apple.com/en-a... and click on 'Use iTunes'. I recommend you also set a backup password, this encrypts the backup and stores additional information making a future restore easier.
6. As always, BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP. For your Mac, I would already hope you have backups in place. If not, my favourite is CrashPlan http://crashplan.com/ and I have used it for years/put many friends onto it also.
Time will tell what will happen with these accounts, it never hurts to take a few prudent steps until the community at large knows more.

While time will tell the extent of this, I have been recommending the following to my friends (copied verbatim from https://www.facebook.com/stuar... ).

As a precaution, here are some prudent tips:
1. Log into your Apple Account at https://appleid.apple.com/ and enable two-factor authentication if you haven't already (see https://support.apple.com/en-a...) .
2. While you are there, if you have not changed your password in a while, consider doing that too (https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201355).
3. As the threats include the threat of remotely wiping devices, you can disable this on each of your iCloud connected devices. See Macworld's good article on how to do this for each device type: http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-... . Note that if you do this, you will also be unable to use the Find my iPhone/iPad/Mac feature. Until more details come out, personally I feel this is acceptable given the risk.
4. When you are logged in at https://appleid.apple.com/acco..., check to ensure there are no devices you do not recognise under 'Devices'.
5. For the next few weeks, periodically do a local backup using iTunes of your iDevices. See https://support.apple.com/en-a... and click on 'Use iTunes'. I recommend you also set a backup password, this encrypts the backup and stores additional information making a future restore easier.
6. As always, BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP. For your Mac, I would already hope you have backups in place. If not, my favourite is CrashPlan http://crashplan.com/ and I have used it for years/put many friends onto it also.
Time will tell what will happen with these accounts, it never hurts to take a few prudent steps until the community at large knows more.

While time will tell the extent of this, I have been recommending the following to my friends (copied verbatim from https://www.facebook.com/stuar... ).

As a precaution, here are some prudent tips:
1. Log into your Apple Account at https://appleid.apple.com/ and enable two-factor authentication if you haven't already (see https://support.apple.com/en-a...) .
2. While you are there, if you have not changed your password in a while, consider doing that too (https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201355).
3. As the threats include the threat of remotely wiping devices, you can disable this on each of your iCloud connected devices. See Macworld's good article on how to do this for each device type: http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-... . Note that if you do this, you will also be unable to use the Find my iPhone/iPad/Mac feature. Until more details come out, personally I feel this is acceptable given the risk.
4. When you are logged in at https://appleid.apple.com/acco..., check to ensure there are no devices you do not recognise under 'Devices'.
5. For the next few weeks, periodically do a local backup using iTunes of your iDevices. See https://support.apple.com/en-a... and click on 'Use iTunes'. I recommend you also set a backup password, this encrypts the backup and stores additional information making a future restore easier.
6. As always, BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP. For your Mac, I would already hope you have backups in place. If not, my favourite is CrashPlan http://crashplan.com/ and I have used it for years/put many friends onto it also.
Time will tell what will happen with these accounts, it never hurts to take a few prudent steps until the community at large knows more.

While time will tell the extent of this, I have been recommending the following to my friends (copied verbatim from https://www.facebook.com/stuar... ).

As a precaution, here are some prudent tips:
1. Log into your Apple Account at https://appleid.apple.com/ and enable two-factor authentication if you haven't already (see https://support.apple.com/en-a...) .
2. While you are there, if you have not changed your password in a while, consider doing that too (https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201355).
3. As the threats include the threat of remotely wiping devices, you can disable this on each of your iCloud connected devices. See Macworld's good article on how to do this for each device type: http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-... . Note that if you do this, you will also be unable to use the Find my iPhone/iPad/Mac feature. Until more details come out, personally I feel this is acceptable given the risk.
4. When you are logged in at https://appleid.apple.com/acco..., check to ensure there are no devices you do not recognise under 'Devices'.
5. For the next few weeks, periodically do a local backup using iTunes of your iDevices. See https://support.apple.com/en-a... and click on 'Use iTunes'. I recommend you also set a backup password, this encrypts the backup and stores additional information making a future restore easier.
6. As always, BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP. For your Mac, I would already hope you have backups in place. If not, my favourite is CrashPlan http://crashplan.com/ and I have used it for years/put many friends onto it also.
Time will tell what will happen with these accounts, it never hurts to take a few prudent steps until the community at large knows more.

Not with Apple's upgrade program . Unlocked phone, no interest, and if you want to you can trade it in after a year. I look at it leasing the most recent phone for about $1.20 a day. Considering how much I use it that's a good low-friction deal. No headaches.

This one INCLUDES the headphone jack - as seen here. Wonder why, though - did they get the message that nobody likes it's disappearing from the iPhone 7?

> lets iPhone owners with an iPhone 7 or an iPhone 7 Plus to use wired headphones with the device the iPhone 7 already has wired headphones: http://www.apple.com/shop/prod... They use the Lightning connector (not a 3.5mm jack), but it won't make much difference unless you need to charge at the same time.

Because, who would want to listen to music all day while working, right? And if you can't charge and listen, then you only have the time the battery lasts to listen to music. And then after that, you can't use the phone for anything else until you charge it up again.

> lets iPhone owners with an iPhone 7 or an iPhone 7 Plus to use wired headphones with the device

the iPhone 7 already has wired headphones:
http://www.apple.com/shop/prod...

They use the Lightning connector (not a 3.5mm jack), but it won't make much difference unless you need to charge at the same time.

IMO it's better than Apple just defaulting to storing shit in iCloud. It's the one ad MS has popped on my screen that I actually appreciated, as it served as a reminder to turn that shit off. How many people do you think don't realize Apple is storing all their documents in the cloud until they go to save something and can't because the "free" 5GB they didn't even realize they were using is full? It's a great scam by Apple because, for most people, it's faster to sign up to pay them for more cloud storage than it is to move all those files back onto the local system; so, since they're trying to got something done at that moment, that's what they do. Microsoft at least lets you opt into that.

Funny, I just dismiss the THREE annoying dialogs on Startup (yes, they ARE annoying!) that want me to log-into iCloud. Nothing stored in iCloud. Problem solved! Occasionally, another login will popup, but I dismiss that one as well.

If I were less lazy, I would just do this.

Ask Siri a question and see if she comes up with an ad. http://searchads.apple.com/

Are you sure? Because they have a whole division they call iAds. https://developer.apple.com/su... I guess they don't use that much.

The problem is that our industry, unlike every other single industry except acting and modeling (and note neither are known for "intelligence") worship at the altar of youth. I don't know the number of people I've encountered who tell me that by being older, my experience is worthless since all the stuff I've learned has become obsolete.

This, despite the fact that the dominant operating systems used in most systems is based on an operating system that is nearly 50 years old, the "new" features being added to many "modern" languages are really concepts from languages that are between 50 and 60 years old or older, and most of the concepts we bandy about as cutting edge were developed from 20 to 50 years ago.

It also doesn't help that the youth whose accomplishments we worship usually get concepts wrong. I don't know the number of times I've seen someone claim code was refactored along some new-fangled "improvement" over an "outdated" design pattern who wrote objects that bare no resemblance to the pattern they claim to be following. (In the case above, the classes they used included "modules" and "models", neither which are part of the VIPER backronym.) And when I indicate that the "massive view controller" problem often represents a misunderstanding as to what constitutes a model and what constitutes a view, I'm told that I have no idea what I'm talking about--despite having more experience than the critic has been alive, and despite graduating from Caltech--meaning I'm probably not a complete idiot.)

Our industry is rife with arrogance, and often the arrogance of the young and inexperienced. Our industry seems to value "cowboys" despite doing everything it can (with the management technique "flavor of the month") to stop "cowboys." Our industry is agist, sexist, one where the blind leads the blind, and seminal works attempting to understand the problem of development go ignored.

How many of you have seen code which seems developed using "design pattern" roulette? Don't know what you're doing? Spin the wheel!

Ours is also one of the fewest industries based on scientific research which blatantly ignores the research, unless it is popularized in shallow books which rarely explore anything in depth. We have a constant churn of technologies which are often pointless, introducing new languages using extreme hype which is often unwarranted as those languages seldom expand beyond a basic domain representing a subset of LISP. I can't think of a single developer I've met professionally who belong to the ACM or to IEEE, and when they run into an interesting problem tend to search Github or Stack Overflow, even when it is a basic algorithm problem. (I've met programmers with years of experience who couldn't write code to maintain a linked list.)

So what do we do?

Beats the hell out of me. You cannot teach if your audience revels in its ignorance and doesn't

why? Because they don't opensource a thing.

Because it's testable? The vulnerabilities are known now. You can easily take an iOS device, update it and test to see how many vulnerabilities are fixed and how many are still open.

And Apple opensources the core - the kernel and low level code is open source. Not that it means it's bug free (Heartbleed anyone? Shellshock?) since many can exist for years before discovery and exploit.

See the open source stuff for Apple here: https://opensource.apple.com/

Very funny. Removig play services will remove 40% of your phone capabilities.

Until you realize there are other app stores and *BAM* you've got that all back!

Want to use Google Wallet app? Nope.

You don't trust Google not to push malware to your phone, but you want to trust them with your financial credentials? Seems legit.

Want to install any DRM apps? Forget about it

Unless you use Amazon's store, or... well, there are others but I'm not familiar with them.

If you only need phone for calling/receiving calls and web browser app, I guess it's fine.

Right, then you wouldn't bother installing any of the other stores. But, if you want to do more... and I'm repeating myself here... you can install another store.

Otherwise wake up and start realizing what kind of walled garden Google is creating with their play services.

The kind where you can uninstall them and install something else?

Apple doesn't even come close.

As a user of both iOS (iPad Pro) and Android, I agree. My Android devices are much more capable; though my iPad Pro wins the tablet war on battery life alone.

In Apple products core system apps obey the same rules as other apps.

Or so the settings screens tell you.

You want to disable GPS for Find My iPhone but leave Find My iPhone on?

I'm not sure why you'd do that, it would render the feature nearly useless, but sure. No problem.

Try that with google's shit.

Found the option. Done. I don't trust it any more or less than the same option in iOS; if either company wants to give a false sense of security, they easily can.

They think that their core components are allowed to do whatever they want whenever they want

You haven't looked at Android since Gingerbread, have you? There have been 8 major versions released since then; and iOS was no better back then, either.

Including stuff that invades your privacy.

You mean like sending wi-fi locations, visible cell towers, GPS location, and speed? Yes, you can disable that by turning off location services (and, thus, disabling maps functionality); but you can also do the same on Android.

Again, if you trust the settings screen to do what you tell it to.

Are there statistics on this?

Yes there are. 95% on at least the penultimate version, with the vast majority of those on the latest version.

procmail.c

Free vomit bags at the exit.

sometimes I plug in the phone to charge it while it is just sitting there playing music

Can you buy a different adapter to enable that functionality for the iPhone? Sure. But, then, the included adapter is still irrelevant to this discussion. You might have had an argument if you had mentioned Apple's own solution to this problem, or any of the myriad solutions found on Kickstarter, Indiegogo, DX, AliExpress, eBay, Amazon... well... all over the place.

Or, I can just have the port built into my phone.

Yes, it's a problem. It's such a problem that an entire cottage industry sprung up, between the time the removal of the headphone port was announced and the time the phone was actually released, to address it. An industry built on selling "one more thing to remember to take up space, forget to bring with me, or lose". It's such problem that my wife, who has owned every model of iPhone since the 3Gs (save for the 5 series, she didn't like those for various reasons) chose to pass on the iPhone 7 and will likely make the same decision regarding the 7s, 8, 8s, and 9; at which point she'll basically be forced to switch to Android because her 6s Plus will no longer be a viable device.

Or, maybe, Apple will bring back the headphone jack. I won't be holding my breath, though.

It's not just my wife, either. I have a friend who buys everything Apple sells. If they sell it, he's bought at least one. He hasn't bought an iPhone 7. Yes, because of the jack. Hell, I was on the fence about switching from Android to iPhone, leaning toward the Apple side of the fence (I love my iPad and iOS has added some functionality that makes it more compatible with how I use my phone), until it was confirmed that the headphone jack was going away. I don't use it often, certainly not often enough to carry the dongle with me everywhere, or to remember to bring it when riding along in my buddy's car that has an AUX jack but no Bluetooth, or even to remember where the hell I stashed it so it wouldn't be needlessly taking up space on a shelf or my desktop. And yes, my friends usually rotate who controls the music, a different person for every leg of the trip. None of them have an iPhone, so it would be wasteful for everyone to keep a dongle in the car just for the one douchebag who bought the phone without a headphone jack.

Unless you're "on the inside", you have no way of determining what the sales figures actually are.

You mean except for the publicly available financial statements and copious public data about sales?

Yeah we have plenty of information about how many smartphones are selling and who is selling them. It's not some closely guarded secret.

Those macOS (and iOS) Developer Certs are FREE, as in Beer

Only for programs that you compile and run on machines associated with the same ID.

dumbass.

Ad hominem, uncalled for.

It only costs if you want to be listed in the Mac App Store (or iOS App Store).

Or if you want other people who have Gatekeeper configured for "identified developers" to be able to run your software. From "Distributing Apps Outside the Mac App Store":

Only team agents belonging to either the Apple Developer Program or the Apple Developer Enterprise Program are allowed to create Developer ID certificates and sign apps or installer packages using them.

From Apple Developer Program: How It Works:

enroll in the Apple Developer Program. The cost is 99 USD per membership year.

As far as I can gather from the pages I linked, a valid Apple Developer Program membership is required to sign a macOS application for distribution outside the Mac App Store to Gatekeeper users, and renewals thereof are required to sign updates to said application that are also distributed outside the Mac App Store to Gatekeeper users. Perhaps you were confusing it with the relatively recent decision to allow a copy of Xcode associated with a particular Apple ID to sign for an iOS device associated to the same Apple ID, which is not distribution. Please help me and other readers of this discussion by explaining what I misread.

Those macOS (and iOS) Developer Certs are FREE, as in Beer

Only for programs that you compile and run on machines associated with the same ID.

dumbass.

Ad hominem, uncalled for.

It only costs if you want to be listed in the Mac App Store (or iOS App Store).

Or if you want other people who have Gatekeeper configured for "identified developers" to be able to run your software. From "Distributing Apps Outside the Mac App Store":

Only team agents belonging to either the Apple Developer Program or the Apple Developer Enterprise Program are allowed to create Developer ID certificates and sign apps or installer packages using them.

From Apple Developer Program: How It Works:

enroll in the Apple Developer Program. The cost is 99 USD per membership year.

As far as I can gather from the pages I linked, a valid Apple Developer Program membership is required to sign a macOS application for distribution outside the Mac App Store to Gatekeeper users, and renewals thereof are required to sign updates to said application that are also distributed outside the Mac App Store to Gatekeeper users. Perhaps you were confusing it with the relatively recent decision to allow a copy of Xcode associated with a particular Apple ID to sign for an iOS device associated to the same Apple ID, which is not distribution. Please help me and other readers of this discussion by explaining what I misread.

Those macOS (and iOS) Developer Certs are FREE, as in Beer

Only for programs that you compile and run on machines associated with the same ID.

dumbass.

Ad hominem, uncalled for.

It only costs if you want to be listed in the Mac App Store (or iOS App Store).

Or if you want other people who have Gatekeeper configured for "identified developers" to be able to run your software. From "Distributing Apps Outside the Mac App Store":

Only team agents belonging to either the Apple Developer Program or the Apple Developer Enterprise Program are allowed to create Developer ID certificates and sign apps or installer packages using them.

From Apple Developer Program: How It Works:

enroll in the Apple Developer Program. The cost is 99 USD per membership year.

As far as I can gather from the pages I linked, a valid Apple Developer Program membership is required to sign a macOS application for distribution outside the Mac App Store to Gatekeeper users, and renewals thereof are required to sign updates to said application that are also distributed outside the Mac App Store to Gatekeeper users. Perhaps you were confusing it with the relatively recent decision to allow a copy of Xcode associated with a particular Apple ID to sign for an iOS device associated to the same Apple ID, which is not distribution. Please help me and other readers of this discussion by explaining what I misread.

The AC is correct here. The MMWA requires the manufacturer to prove the warranty isn't valid. Here's an example case where this happened:
Apple claimed, and continues to claim, that they can detect water damage to a phone.
Yet Apple knows that the sensors don't work and paid a settlement over it. Yet they only had to pay the settlement when enough people got together and brought a class-action lawsuit.

Under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, apple can claim whatever terms they want. But ultimately, Apple had to prove to the court that the strips were indeed proof of water damage. When they failed to do so, they had to honor the warranty.

You had the chance to buy AAPL stock on the open market. You could have bought at the same time and realized 127x return, not even including dividends.

Al Gore Jr joined Apple Board of Directors on March 19, 2003.
https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/03/19Former-Vice-President-Al-Gore-Joins-Apples-Board-of-Directors.html

The closing price of AAPL (split adjusted) on March 19, 2003, was $1.07
https://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=22144&startdate=Mar+1+2003&enddate=mar+31%2C+2003

The closing price of AAPL (split adjusted) on February 25, 2017, was $136.66
https://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=22144&startdate=Feb+27%2C+2016&enddate=Feb+20%2C+2017

I have the X power.

But did you have the Touch first?

Although intriguing and saddening that they've unlocked the iPhone 6 (but not 6s?).

What's more intriguing is that, why are Android phones so easy to break?!
And why is it we never hear from Google/Microsoft wanting to protect its users against government surveillance, unlike Apple.
... I guess everyone is aware that Google is a corporate spying empire, and yet there are people here who still argue against Apple and advocate for Android spyware?

Would you advocate GMail/Hangouts over Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp ?

And none of those 4000 people are involved in generating intellectual property

If you look on Apple's jobs website, there are technical jobs in Cork - including software engineering.

The Apple iPod nano supports FM Radio
http://www.apple.com/ipod-nano...

Thank you, I found the hardening information about Safari. I will use Safari exclusively since other vendors don't seem to give a shit about this.

What's being discussed here are platforms that need features SWIFT simply doesn't have, like inline assembler to manipulate hardware specific features

That's not so; the assembly language of Swift is bitcode - which you can embed in Swift code for customized performance.

manual allocation schemes for shared memory (EG reserved blocks that are processed by hardware interrupts)

Although the link is not exactly that case you can use UnsafeMutablePointers for that purpose. Swift is not a garbage collected language, it uses ARC which is already deterministic as to when memory is allocated and released - but you can disable that for code and manually manage memory used.

To use SWIFT you'd need to develop entirely different custom libraries for each platform

Ask Apple how they support various ARM architectures...

No not everything is quite there, but Swift is moving rapidly and the underpinnings were built with the explicit goal that Swift COULD replace C as a language for any purpose, not just another higher level language that really can't apply for low level development. At this point the language is basically locked in but more features will be added over time, including stronger device programming support. That's why taking the time to learn it now means that by the time you understood it well you could probably start doing some hardware development with it... pretty sure LLVM at least and possibly Swift will be involved in some way at Tesla for example. When you are writing code that MUST be stable, like code that controls a car, C is just not going to cut it long term.

so either pay 99 a year to be able to sideload software onto your device or redeploy it every 7 days. Not what i would call "perfectly legit"

WRONG, HATER!

XCode is FREE (assuming you have a Mac). Download it at will.

You can even get a Developer ID for FREE (useful in EXACTLY the "Sideload" Case above!).

The ONLY time you need to pay that $99/yr fee is if you SUBMIT APPS TO THE APP STORE.

Motherfucking Hater Dumbass.

The thing is it is all too easy for a company like Apple to deceptively jump in bed with a huge number of external devs and then turn over and leave with an insane amount of knowledge now headed for the proprietary development of their own system.

Your assertion would be false: Apple announced Metal at WWDC 2014 (June). They even have a video of the presentation. It was released in Sept 2014 for iOS 8.

Vulkan API was not formally announced until March 2015. Version 1.0 of the specification would not be released until Feb 2016.

In any way you look at it, Apple released Metal long before the Khronos Group announced Vulkan.

"next to the fact that they are tied to their own ecosystem of course"

That's not entirely true. Initially it was the case, but I can own an Android Wear watch and use an iOS device to drive it:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...

I do not believe the opposite is true.

I actually have both--a first-gen Apple Watch and an LG Watch Urbane--and prefer the Apple Watch, but I am firmly in the Apple ecosystem, so it works better with that. I do like the "look" of the Urbane, though, as it feels more like a traditional watch. A bit more objectively, I have found that battery life is better with the Apple Watch, it is more stable, and does a better job of measuring the biometric data. I've had the Urbane crash a few times, and it is basically useless until you re-pair it. Not the case with the Apple Watch.

I've had the Urbane in storage for a year, now, but I am going to try Wear 2 to see if it has improved.

Wrong. Apple did not open source ZeroConf, it is apparent you do not know what ZeroConf is.

I remember it this way:

Apple releases Bonjour (then known as Rendezvous) in 2002 under the Apple Public Licenses which is considered open source.

Based on Bonjour, Avahi was created in 2004 because the APL was not GPL compatible.

The Avahi project started in 2004 because Apple's Zeroconf implementation, Bonjour, used the GPL-incompatible Apple Public Source License. In 2006 Apple relicensed parts of Bonjour under the Apache License. However, Avahi had already become the de facto standard implementation of mDNS/DNS-SD on free-software operating systems such as Linux.

But then how can Apple gain a proprietary stranglehold on the industry? How can they force adoption of their own standard

Yeah, it's a real shame how they used their stranglehold over WebKit to control the direction Chrome is going; LLVM and related technologies (e.g. Clang) to control the direction a huge chunk of the software industry is going; CUPS to control the printer industry...

A real shame.

Not to mention all of the other projects and code they contribute to the open source community.

I agree that Apple does do a lot of proprietary stuff (e.g. connectors, protocols, etc.), but they're used as a means for tying people to their hardware (i.e. where they make about 90% of their money), rather than as a means for extending their reach to other platforms. When Apple engages in community-driven projects like this, it tends to be for one reason alone: their interests align with the community's, so they stand to gain from involving the community. That's it, plain and simple, and their track record backs that up. It's when they don't involve the community, that we tend to see the sort of stuff you're talking about (e.g. MPEG).

The only other valid explanation for what they're doing is that they perceive a competing graphics API as providing a competitive advantage to someone else (e.g. maybe they think Microsoft can leverage Direct 3D 12 in Edge?), so they're willing to commoditize web graphics, including their own, in order to negate that advantage. But even if that were true, we still benefit.

Unattended Consequences

A weekly conversation between Patrick Rothfuss (Name of the Wind) and Max Temkin (Cards Against Humanity).

They are both smart and funny, and they provide a lot of word density.

https://discussions.apple.com/...

Considering cheap regular 30-pin to USB cables have had this problem, I knew it'd take less than TWO SECONDS OF LOOKING to find one related to Lightning.

Daily as I make and eat breakfast, workout and shower:

1. NPR Hourly News Summary

2. Marketplace Tech by American Public Media (APM)

3. The Writer’s Almanac

4. NPR Story of the Day

Weekly on my 30 plus minute commute each way:

1. The Moth Podcast

2. StoryCorps

3. Two Guys On Your Head

4. RadioLab

5. This American Life

6. Risk!

7. Improv Nerd

8. On Being

When they have shows:

1. Serial

2. Codebreakers

2. NPR Technology Podcast

I very much enjoy the podcast genre even though it is a rather broad spectrum. Here are my faves:-

• The Adam Buxton Podcast
• Penn's Sunday School
• The Infinite Monkey Cage
• The Skeptics Guide to the Universe
• StarTalk Radio