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Analyzing Apple's iPhone Strategy
Galen Gruman submitted infoworld's summary of Apple's grand strategy for the iPhone. He points out that the real important part of the new iPhone is the software, not the hardware. He talks about the new SDK stuff, the ad-hoc app distribution, and other stuff. It's a reasonable read if you have been ignoring the iPhone and want to know what the hype is about over this release, but doesn't break any new ground if you've been paying attention.
The recent demos of the Android and the announcement of the HTC Touch Pro are really livening up the smart phone market at the moment. I just can't decide on which one to get :o
The new iphone is basically available now, where as the others aren't, which is a massive advantage, but having a nice keyboard like the Touch Pro has will make being on call a lot more pleasant! Android are yet to announce a phone though, although they have made an announcement that they will be announcing an Android phone at the end of the year...
Free Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft XBox 360The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
AT&T pay Apple money to have the "must have phone". Apple gets the money and becomes richer. Apple uses that money to clean up more Open Source projects.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
I heard it had bits of corn...
Python? Ten years of reading /. and this has got to be the dumbest comment I've seen, and it's marked, ...wait for it, "4, Insightful"! no less..??
Sorry bud, but I'll backup the parent and call you out as a sh!te developer (my words). Double for the mod who calls themselves a developer and modded this thing up.
But that's not the real issue, is it (hopefully)? You're just a closed minded Apple hating youngling who will never understand (or even willingly explore) the greatness of NeXTSTEP and the derived current OS X developer tools and frameworks.
Each dip shit to their own I guess..
Since when did software upgrades mean buying new hardware? Well, for quite some time in Apple's mind I guess, like with the iPod. There is no reason they couldn't back-port features of the newer ones to the older ones, they just choose not to. I can understand wanting to get paid for major updates but they don't even offer paid-for updates on older systems. They just expect you to junk/eBay your old equipment and buy new stuff.
I guess it's the "appliance" attitude Apple seem to have. You only get upgrades when it's to add extra DRM or other money-making code, if you want new features you buy a new one.
There should be a law passed to make companies doing this sort of thing pay for the extra landfill they cause.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
You give the impression of never having used Cocoa.
And you give the impression of not being particularly smart, since you confuse a programming language (Objective-C) with an API (Cocoa).
At least give some examples of what you consider to be better!
Just about any language that isn't intrinsically unsafe, regardless of which API you use with it, even Cocoa.