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This is why you don't see Apple focusing on MacOS. They've given up trying to compete in open systems controlled by the end user.

Um, you might want to rethink your statement about Apple not focusing on MacOS.

And that's just OS X, and OS X-capable-product news from one site, for about the past week or so.

This is why you don't see Apple focusing on MacOS. They've given up trying to compete in open systems controlled by the end user.

Um, you might want to rethink your statement about Apple not focusing on MacOS.

And that's just OS X, and OS X-capable-product news from one site, for about the past week or so.

This is why you don't see Apple focusing on MacOS. They've given up trying to compete in open systems controlled by the end user.

Um, you might want to rethink your statement about Apple not focusing on MacOS.

And that's just OS X, and OS X-capable-product news from one site, for about the past week or so.

From TUAW today:

Today Microsoft announced its net profit for the first calendar quarter of 2011. That net profit was $5.23 billion, or $760 million dollars less than Apple's $5.99 billion net profit over the same period. For those keeping track, first Apple surpassed Microsoft in market capitalization, next they surpassed Microsoft in quarterly revenue, and now Apple has surpassed Microsoft in quarterly profits. Surpassing Microsoft's net profit is quite an accomplishment given the typical high-margin sales of Microsoft's software and the lower-margin sales of Apple's hardware.

And it's worth noting that Apple now makes the bulk of their money from things other than computers. So, to answer the article's question: no, probably not.

> You cannot truly use an iPad for production, i.e writing, video editing, programming, etc.

WRONG. Shot on an iPhone, edited on an iPad, shown on CNN.

Considering their market cap (second highest of ALL companies, not just computer companies), and the fact that WWDC just sold out in less than TEN HOURS, methinks YOU'RE the one who is seriously in need of an attitude adjustment, not them.

Right, cause everything that's popular is quality, just like Twilight or Britney Spears, amirite?

Um, because more than one in ten of your website visitors is likely to be running OS X, and there is no other hardware that can LEGALLY run OS X?

No, this Apple policy should prevent people from running their software at all. I don't understand how developers can stomach Apple's modes of control: that the company won't allow their systems to be virtualized, if only for development testing, is egregious.

The only problem with that is who can police such a policy? Once Apple allows ANY use of OS X on other hardware; then there are no amount of license terms that can keep the floodgates closed.

Further, then they INSTANTLY get in the same trickbag that Windows (and Linux) have always been in: Hardware and driver-compatibility issues. And no amount of "Approved hardware list" would stop a metric buttload of angry slashdot posters then whining about how OS X crashes on this config, and I can't get my WiFi to work, my Sound won't work, I can't find a driver for my Graphics Card, blah, blah, blah. Seriously, have you ever stopped to think about the fact that an OS is much more than just the fucking KERNEL?

Open standards and free use of software are what have made possible a lot of the technology we rely upon today. Disallowing even virtualization of a proprietary OS is much further than even Microsoft will go.

And if Apple wanted to charge the $500 that MS does for a decent (read even usable) version of Windows, again, the intarweb troglodytes would bitch about how Apple was profiteering on OS X, blah, blah, woof, woof. And STILL, there would be the compatibility problems listed above, and instead of a few bleating Linux whiners, Apple would get the same black eye that Windows has gotten (and if Linux actually HAD any real presence, would have too), with users bitching about how it doesn't run fast on their $100 sucktastic box they got a WallyWorld. Again, et frickin' cetera. THINK.

We need to demand openness from software companies. When a company like Apple doesn't want to participate in this, people (especially developers) should avoid the company's products. Choose to run one of the many fine open systems (Openindiana, BSD, or a Linux distribution), and tell this company to shove it.

Considering their market cap (second highest of ALL companies, not just computer companies), and the fact that WWDC just sold out in less than TEN HOURS, methinks YOU'RE the one who is seriously in need of an attitude adjustment, not them.

I guess they do that because they don't make any money from you selling your phone second hand. This is especially true for iPhones and Android. Are Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 really the only phones that have complete wipe feature built-in?

iPhones have wipe capability as well - there's a standard option in the settings menu for it. This I think was an option since iOS 3 which added Exchange support (where it also adds remote-wipe capability)

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/23/dont-forget-to-wipe-your-iphones-data/

And yes, it takes that long because it's doing a full wipe. Which can leave your iPhone in a bad state, too, requiring an iTunes restore (which repartitions, reformats and installs the OS again).

I would assume Android devices have a similar feature, though I think it was limited to just a simple clear all data by reformatting the user disk.

The phones most likely to contain personal information would be the old dumbphones or featurephones which often don't have interfaces to do it other than manually going through and deleting one by one.

The biggest complaint about the original MyWi was that it was a battery killer. I think that's understating the case. The app could kill batteries even while plugged into a power source.

Not to mention the complaints all over the net that it doesn't work (at least not the WiFI part) and the insane price (but hey, jailbroken phone + insane price = you know what).

It all depends on your definition of significant. I think the growth were seeing now is significant and the analysts are all raising there mac sales predictions after last weeks MacBook pro release.

"According to IDC's estimates of average selling prices, Apple is also now the dollar market share leader in the U.S. home market with 29.4% of all the dollars spent on computers in the period. However, this figure is open to debate based on IDC estimating a higher average transaction price than Apple's own results. Regardless of which revenue estimate is correct, it's clear that Apple is gaining a lot traction in every market except education where PCs outpaced Macs by 11.4% to 5.1%. Apple still has plenty of room to grow however, with only 4.36% of the global computer market."

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/23/mac-sales-growth-continues-to-surge-ahead-of-pcs-3-to-1/

That's slanted by the US though, which along with Australia has always had a higher percentage of Apple computers in the install base than elsewhere.

In Europe in Asia the figure is much lower, and pulls the global average down to below 10%. Here in the UK I know of only one Mac user at home in our office of 160 people and I don't know anyone in my personal life that owns a Mac. This doesn't stop iPhones being popular, I know lots of people with them but Macs? Not so.

If I had to guess I'd bet the UK Mac install base is absolutely tiny- probably less than 5% in fact. These figures from last year show Apple was only at 6.8% across Europe:

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/27/apple-market-share-climbs-to-6-8-in-europe/

What's interesting though is these stats are from pro-Apple's sites and based on browser visits, so are likely even inherently biased towards Apple systems too meaning the actual figure could well be a fair bit lower again.

Whilst Apple's iPod did well globally, and the iPhone has made good penetration into Europe, the US is very much an anomally in terms of Apple related statistics as their market penetration there is distinctly higher than almost everywhere else.

I'm certain your arm chair quarterbacking the largest computer company in the world, and the second largest US based corporation is beyond reproach, but it would be kind to the Apple stockholders (including me) if you'd share some of your data.

What metric are you using? Hewlett Packard beats Apple soundly in the Fortune 500.

Despite the massive revenues, Apple still ranks third, behind HP (ranked 10th overall) and Dell (ranked 38th overall), in Fortune's "Computers, Office Equipment" industry rankings.

Reference:
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/15/apple-56-in-fortune-500-rankings/

If you keep your iPad (or buy a new one), don't count on keeping your Netflix or Kindle apps. Apple is demanding that they sell their movies and books through Apple, and hand over 30% of the revenue.

If you read details of the new subscription model, Apple clearly says: " . . . when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple earns a 30 percent share; when the publisher brings an existing or new subscriber to the app, the publisher keeps 100 percent and Apple earns nothing. " So if you currently have a Netflix account, Apple gets nothing. If you sign up for a new account through Netflix, Apple gets nothing. If you sign up for Netflix through Apple, Apple keeps 30%. Will Netflix go for that? It remains to be seen, but details matter.

Apple to become Samsung's biggest customer

A report from the Wall Street Journal suggests Apple is about to become Samsung's biggest customer in a deal estimated to be worth US$7.8 billion. As part of its purchase, Apple will be securing LCD displays, NAND flash memory and mobile chipsets from the Korean manufacturer. Each of these components will be used to build Apple's popular iPad and iPhone.

Samsung could quit making consumer products tomorrow and do just fine.

Can we run linux on it?!

Since you can already run Android on the iPhone (supposedly), I would imagine someone will make it happen.

But why?

at http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/11/tuaw-poll-will-you-buy-the-verizon-iphone/

Will You buy the Verizon iPhone?

at the moment, out of 10,200 votes, it's 2500 'AYE', 7700 'NAY'

Out of 8 answers (3 Aye, 5 Nay), the largest chunk by far is the one I poked.
"I'm satisfied with AT&T at the moment and will wait out the terms of my contract before deciding whether or not to switch."

There's already a handwarming app.

With dual cores it will just have to add that many more digits to the pi computation I guess.

VNC is the iPad's killer app, if there ever was one.

Maybe iSSH. VNC without SSH or some other encryption layer is just asking for trouble.

For those vaguely interested, there's a review on four iPad VNC apps here.

2) The last time I checked, you could only sync one folder. The drop box folder. They cannot sync multiple folders:
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=5088

Check again. I can do "selective sync", at least with OS X, and check the folders I want to sync online. That's actually one of the new features.
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/17/dropbox-1-0-available-with-performance-enhancements-selective-s/

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/12/tuaw-faceoff-streaming-video-on-the-ipad-with-air-video-and-str/

The iPad has had video streaming apps since the damn thing was released. Maybe you should actually try one (or spend five seconds googling) before you proclaim its shortcomings?

Sorry, my previous reply is a bit off. Apparently the task bar method does send a message to the app to quit, I wasn't aware that it also did that. Here's the two methods to get an app to quit:

iPhone 101: Quitting apps in iOS 4

I thought about it. I could see it work for us for use with data collection for our DDs, which are internet/web based. But for me I would think if there was an integrated barcode to key entry feature that would do it.

Looking at the iPad/iPod/iPhone the barcode apps are more for amazon, not so you can use it as an entry alternative in another app. So without that they don't have much value here.

If there is a need for that then you can do this:

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/01/hacksugar-cuecat-barcode-scanner-on-the-ipad/

"Apple has given approval to an app developed by Skyfire that translates Flash code into HTML5."

NO IT DOES NOT. As others are pointing out, all this does is use a server to transcode Flash VIDEO and serve it to you. This will not do ANYTHING ELSE with Flash--it certainly DOES NOT "translate Flash code into HTML5 [code]". Better description here.

Also worth noting: "Hulu has also blocked Skyfire to guarantee that users who want to watch the streaming TV service on the iPad have to continue to pay $10 per month for Hulu Plus."

• Roqy Bluetooth
• iGPSd Cables

But these are awkward to use, and in my experience, a lot of GPS software does not work with these hacks, as they do with Apple's built-in GPS receivers.

> A: Apple does not currently pay dividends on its common stock. Apple paid dividends from June 15, 1987 to December 15, 1995.

(Also see http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/25/on-apples-40-billion-and-whether-they-should-pay-dividends-or/ )

Whenever people study people using infringing copies of software on PC platforms, they report something like 90% of copies are infringing. Thus, with "an overall piracy rate of over 67%," we can conclude that Android copyright infringement is remarkably well controlled, and app publishers should be grateful. (Admittedly, it's worse than iOS apps, which might see a 50% infringement rate, but another way of putting it is: Apple put up far more aggressive barriers to copyright infringement costing the, in the process made iOS less useful to customers and more hostile to development, and still only lowered the rate from 67% to 50%.

And, of course, the old rule applies: Those infringing your copyright aren't your customers. If you've made good software, are selling it as a reasonable price, and it's conveniently available, it's unlikely that anything you can do will improve your profits. Sure, you might reduce the number of infringing copies in use, but you'll have spent money accomplishing that for minimal to no additional sales. Worry about your customers, not those violating your copyright.

According to the numbers published by one app developer, iPhone apps have a 95% piracy rate. This is despite that fact that iPhone is a closed system and requires jailbreaking the device before piracy is even possible, so open versus closed system doesn't really seem to have an effect on piracy rates. Of course, this is based on the numbers from only one iPhone app developer (but the 67% piracy rate in the above article is also based on number from only one Android app developer). As high as these numbers are, it really doesn't mean that most users pirate, it just means that the few people who do pirate install a lot more apps than those that don't.

I would also like to point at the convoluted/cumbersume checkout function of the android market. If I could buy a pre-paid card with cash at a retail outlet like Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart, Lowes or any other major retailer like I can for apple, I would feel a lot better about buying that $1 fart app (not really but just go with me on this). The problem that I have to whip out my credit card and go through that hassle means I may as well just whip out my uTorrent and head over to the Pirate Bay. The problem lies in the ease of integration as well as the quality of apps, DRM and other factors. Further, there aren't many more closed systems than that of Apple, and some stats have their piracy rate very high as well too.

The logo is here for comparison. According to the article, it sounds like standard due diligence was done by apple. I dont think they wheeled in the lawyers. But who knows. I guess the secondary issue was of more interest. Many New Zealanders took it as another "attack" by a US corporation. A david and goliath media portrayal. Keep in mind NZ is anti-nuclear and forbids nuclear weaponeed ships ins its waters(for which the US despises us for). So really it was a storm in a tea cup.

On both the 6330 and N70 the different locking modes would overlap making it almost impossible to unlock the phone sometimes.

Care to explain? Never had this problem with my N70 and N73.

From memory (thank god; I've not been using those phones for several years): Turn on autolocking because you hate making automatic calls; turn on numerical security because a) you don't want your stolen phone to be used and b) it provides better protection than the normal locking. Now wait; sometimes (but not always) you'll find the two lock modes get confused. The numeric lock comes on top of the normal lock and then you almost can't get back into the phone. However sometimes you can. If you have fexplore installed 90% of the time it will let you kill the autolock process once you've unlocked the other one

The web browsers always failed and locked up (just yesterday I tested this against a friends E72 loading a standard AJAX site - he wanted to prove it was just as good as the N900 - his phone crashed).

S60 browser does suck, but there are alternatives. Symbian^1+ browser is much better and does support flash.

This is supposed to be a defence of Nokia? Or an accusation that they are hobbling Symbian as well as Maemo?

the excel replacement locks out and demands a license;

And the phones that, in comparison, come out of the box with a fully-free excel replacement are...

God knows; but I'm sure that if apple developed the same feature and it was as broken as it is on S60 phones, they would never ever ship it under their own brand or anywhere that it might be associated with their brand. They would probably not even allow it in their app store.

the PC software screws up your Windows desktop;

Nokia's PC suite sucks, except that other manufacturers'ones suck more. I've tried HTC sync, Motorola mobile phone tools, Samsung Studio. Besides having much less features, they're all unstable, ugly and reek of Visual Basic.

I believe the relevant competition in this case is iTunes. I will never use it 'cos it's a big pile of DRM suck, but I never heard that the user interface was terrible.

the systems aren't compatible with Linux ; etc. etc. etc.

Nokia uses open protocols for just about everything. They probably sell the only phones whose full features are accessibile on Linux.

at it's heart; you should understand that that this is not the complaint of a person who hates Nokia; rather a loyal user who feels he's being betrayed. I do agree with you up to a point. However, sometimes this seems more like Microsoft's use of open protocols than anything else. They use the "standard" interfaces but keep changing them so that it often takes months for a new model to start working (like when the data connection on phones started hopping about bluetooth channels and they didn't document it anywhere I could find).

Oh... not enough extras. Okay; the file system access is inconsistent,

Whereas the iPhone does not have a filesystem at all, and Android does not ship with a filesystem explorer out of the box, so you can save files but then only wonder where in the FS they did end up.

the iPhone browser seems to say otherwise however, it seems that the filesystem is hidden unless you jailbreak, so point taken.

If you release with bugs that is bad, but may be down to a lazy tester and a CEO who doesn't now how to put testing people onto software.

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Like I posted elsewhere, I have an iPad (through work) because I do accessibility work.

We are going to iPads because they are lighter to take out into the field than a laptop, and come with a good warranty, they are a laptop replacement in some areas.

I don't have an iPad for a web server/ftp server/irc server or USENET leech because I don't need those things running for when I do work.

Its the go to device for accessibly right now, can your Linux install claim that?

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/01/the-ipad-could-be-the-best-mobile-accessibility-device-on-the-ma/

I have an iPad because it's the most accessible device out there.

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/01/the-ipad-could-be-the-best-mobile-accessibility-device-on-the-ma/

And I work in disability support, so we are getting iPads for specialists while blind, deaf and Autistics are getting iPads by the truck load.

But keep thinking it's all about status.

The iPad does PDF of course but it's little known that iOS also natively supports Office documents though you might have to download a (free) file viewer app. As to the comic formats CBR/CBZ there are already iPhone apps out there which you can install on the iPad that let you read them while waiting for Panelfly's upcoming iPad version of its excellent comic book reader.

people dont pay for music when THAT SAME MUSIC is available for free.

Wrong. Sure they do. In fact, figures show the exact opposite: iTunes still sells lots of music, despite songs being readily available for download.

There are plenty of online services where people can buy music RIGHT NOW, but sales are still massively down every year

You couldn't possibly be more wrong. I prefer not to drink RIAA kool-aid.

In 2006 there was a rumor that iTunes sales were way off, but that was debunked.

There is increased competition in the online music market, with Amazon and others fighting for a piece of the pie. This is a good thing - it means that artists get more exposure, and consumers get a better deal. It also means that a lot of people who are smart about legal commercial digital distribution see lots of customers - and therefore money - there.

The market continues to evolve, and distributors are still learning through trial and error. iTunes learned an interesting lesson a year ago when they introduced tiered pricing. They discovered - surprise, surprise - that buyers avoided the higher-priced popular tracks, and bought less expensive music, and ended up moving cheaper music up the charts. The lesson: Pricing has an immediate and tangible effect on sales, and consumers still consume, they just choose to consume differently. Duh.

If you can download and own it for free, what incentive would you have to pay for it?

What incentive? Paying the artist. Owning a legit copy. Not everyone wants to rip something off. As a matter of fact, go back and look at the iTunes sales chart I referenced earlier. Look at those billions of songs sold, and tell me that's not a media executive's wet dream.

From http://www.tuaw.com/2010/07/12/apple-drops-consumer-reports-discussion-threads-down-memory-hole/

If you were looking for a message thread on Apple's support forums pointing to Consumer Reports' article 'not recommending' the iPhone 4, it's not there any more. Apple's support forum moderators deleted the thread. Bing cached it.

If it happened once, maybe you'd say it was a glitch. But what if it happened twice? Three times? Four times, five, six?

Yes, let's make grand sweeping generalizations about people based on what products they buy. FYI some of Apple's greatest supporters are extremely critical of the company just not to the point of irrationality like some self professed "critical minds." Case in point Erica Sadun, who literally wrote the book on the iPhone, has been very outspoken about the reception issue as have many others. The same has been true about any number of issues in the past. Of course to see that you need to see beyond Slashdot groupthink and its anti-Apple and pro-Apple trolls (trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls ...)

Are you seriously saying anyone would pay as much as $1 for a fart app?

Sadly, yes:

31 Fart Apps in 90 Seconds

iPhone Fart App Rakes in $10,000 a Day

iFart vs. Pull My Finger: The Battle for iPhone Fart App Supremacy

Open an appliance store and only offer 2 washers, 2 dryers, 2 refrigerators, 2 couches, and 2 different microwaves. See how long you stay in business. You claimed because Apple had less choices, it was an advantage and people liked that and that is why they were buying Apple.

I don't care what the numbers are and I don't base my buying decision on what everyone else does but realistically speaking; Apples computer sales in 2009 were still only are 8% of the computer market in (and 7.9% in 2008) so your glamorous claims of why Apple is doing so great are relative and the masses that you are referring too that are flocking in droves to their superior offering and user friendly choices accounted for a whopping 0.1% sales increase. Pretty much dust in the wind when you look at the ACTUAL figures.

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/14/mac-sales-growth-continues-according-to-idc-numbers/

Control. Fanboys may defend Apple's control for various reasons, mostly using cognitive dissonance

FYI, when you get called a troll, it's for bullshit like this.

You feel that? Thats called irony. When the biggest Mac troll on slashdot tries to call someone a troll for bullshit. Now the next time you want to call someone a troll you need to take a good, long look in the mirror first.

They want to stop the hackintosh, they want to prevent more clones and they want to control what the end users experiences.

As for "controlling what the end user experiences". That's overstating things quite much. They don't want to control what the user experiences, with the fundamental exception that they want to exclude a set of very rational things. Primarily, buggy software, spyware, and ports which fail to make good use of the platform. They don't want control over my experience other than to help see to it that I don't have to deal with such crap. And when us "fanboys" say (as you said in your post) "it's for your own good and other such excuses", what we're saying is that "it makes the product better". That's why we willingly choose Apple products, so we don't have to deal with a bunch of crap. It's also a huge part of why Apple products do so well even when surrounded by competition whose primary advantage is less "control".

As for Mac and control, it's always been about control. Control over hardware and software. This is why its products like the iPod/iTouch/iPhone are encrypted, for control. People found they could start to alter the software on these devices like either use different software to load music on to these devices (like Amarok could before they encrypted the hardware) or even install their own firmware on the devices these people paid for and are normally under the idea (like anything else they buy) that they can do with it as they can. Apple saw that people were doing what they wanted with something they bought (that just happened to have the Apple logo) and they shit a brick. Now all of these devices are encrypted on the hardware level. It wasn't 'for your protection' as it was only being used by a very small minority.

And as for your claim that by being locked down it 'makes a product better', how? iPhones still crash (done it myself as have my friends), it's lock down nature hasn't help it's security, and all of it's 'attempts to make it a better product' by judging if an app should be allow has resulted in either plain old censorship to all out privacy issues from something 'approved'. This hasn't been able to make 'a better product' even after 3 years, and the issues are just growing. Restrictions like this have been tried before by different peoples of power through out history and every time its shown to be a bad thing for the same reason: when someone has power they are more then interested in using/abusing it. And no, Steve Job's isn't going to be the first person in the entire history of humanity to not succumb to the temptation.

This wont happen overnight, not even the RDF turned to eleven could pull that one off. It will happen over time in baby steps and be hailed by the fanboys.

It (although not the "it" you've been going on about) will be hailed because it will make our lives better. The "it" won't be locking down the Mac, or replacing Mac OS X with iOS, but "it" will be things like abstracting the filesystem

Can't wait to see all the neat new stuff that won't run on my stale phone.

I bought an original base (4 GB) iPhone a couple months after it came out--refurbished, $249. When the 3G came out I sold my original one on eBay for right about what I paid for it*, plus or minus a few bucks (I forget exactly, and I had a case but lost the headphones, etc.) and bought a base (8 GB) 3G. When the 3GS came out I sold my $199 3G for $305 and got I a base (16 GB) 3GS--I just had to wait a couple months for an anniversary to roll around and then the upgrade price dropped from $399 to the regular $199. Now, for some reason, AT&T is telling me I can upgrade to an iPhone 4 for good old $199 so I'm just gonna wait a few weeks--a) for them to become available again and b) because I never buy new stuff right away.

So basically, I paid $249 three years ago and for that, I've gotten an annual free upgrade to a faster phone with more features and double the storage every time (this is the first year that won't happen) and, as a nice bonus, my phone has never been out of warranty. You'd think someone who runs a tech site might be aware of all this.

* vendor lock-in is usually evil but it has treated me very well. :-) Due to Apple's exclusive deal with AT&T, people who want iPhones but are on other networks pay quite a bit for used ones.

You're kiding right ? There are several readers out there including for jailbroken phones and open source. Then there's a couple of options to self publish through some vendors or as an independant straight through Apple.

Sure there are times when making app might provide some added value but to call it the easiest way is simply not true.

Modern Internet-over-cellular technology is damn impressive (when I'm downtown, I get faster speeds on my iPhone than I do at home on my 1.5/256k DSL, according to that cool app from the FCC) and I could see people using ONLY a wireless data plan and not even having traditional wired Internet access at home, the same way that people are doing without landlines for voice. For someone like my mom, an iPad plus its unlimited data plan would be all she needed and cost less than she's paying for cable Internet. 2 GB/month might sound like a lot but that's only 66 MB per day, or about 10 minutes of YouTube.

They care about farmville,

Farmville is flash....

Not for long...

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/21/its-coming-farmville-heading-to-iphone-and-ipad/

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/21/its-coming-farmville-heading-to-iphone-and-ipad/

Ring Ring.

It may not need to be. Apparently Farmville is coming to the iPhone and the iPad...

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/21/its-coming-farmville-heading-to-iphone-and-ipad/

Now that Apple has had some success outside of their previously small, niche market, they seem to be taking a big crap on one of their largest supporters. It is an interesting example of power dynamics in the real world. Apple apparently doesn't lend much weight to their long term relationship, or what Adobe has done for them in the past. It seems to be all about Apple saying, "What have you done for me lately?"

It's because Adobe really hasn't done much for Apple lately. I might be out of the loop because I use gimp for mac full time now, but as far as I know Adobe never actually ported Photoshop to become a cocoa app. This is another bad problem: no 64 bit for macs, only windows. And that's been the Mac user's cross to bear for a long time now, companies like Adobe (or Bungie) that used to focus on the mac platform have made the calculation that when one OS manufacturer owns 90% of the market (MS), even if all of the remaining people buy their products, it's still only 10% of the total base and more sales could be had by focusing on the monopoly OS. In the past Apple had to bend over and take it. Now they don't. As a guy who started using macs in 1997, all I have to say is: Revenge is sweet. I hate flash anyway, slow as molasses.

For what it's worth I found this 99.4% figure, however this number was based on manufacturer app stores only. It doesn't count carrier app stores, 3rd party app stores or random apps from random sites.

I recognize that Apple is the leader in this field. My own personal guess is that Apple's share is around 50%. I get this from surveys I've seen stating the average iPhone user downloads 8-9 apps while the average non iPhone user downloads 2-3. iPhones make up 25% of smartphones so most realistic number is probably between 50%-57%

Now this is is incredible to be sure but it's not the same as MS dominance of Windows when the DOJ started their investigation. I do conced it is not as low as my initial 25%

If Microsoft released an update to Windows that added a repository. Could they claim Linux has some kind of monopoly on repositories because 99.4% of users who download apps from repositories use Linux?

It's been hacked: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/05/the-ipad-has-been-jailbroken/

"The good thing is that this tiny fraction of a percent that this device represents won't have significant impact on changing the web as we know it...not in the least."

Hm:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/21/google_fights_flash_adds_html5_support_for_youtube_videos_in_safari.html

http://i.tuaw.com/2010/03/25/cbs-planning-html5-videos-for-ipad-compatibility/

http://www.dtechgadget.com/brightcove-announces-support-for-html5-video/

The iPad certainly isn't solely responsible for all of that, but Flash would seem to be a pretty poor horse to back going forward.

While it's no longer a private, unusable API function, the previous ban on using 'CGImageRef UIGetScreenImage();' in any App Store approved program makes me think that there are quite a few other private API's and API functions that while people have found, cannot use. Also seems that Apps cannot access information stored in the calendar, amongst other things. These might effect security/privacy in theory, but these function's and private API's usage is not limited to just those uses and options.