But it's my hardware. I can't fathom how you can fail to understand that I have a right to install on my hardware whatever software I like.
You are trying to apply the rules governing general-purpose computers to what are in effect "appliances". That way lies madness.
because sleazy companies like Apple and Microsoft are not playing fair.
Paranoid much? If I wrote software for successful platform A, why would I want to port it to less successful platform B? What is "fairness" here, that developers should limit themselves to a common denominator, a feature subset which would let them easily port applications between whatever weird platform a given wannabe user goes ahead and buys?
You want software, you pay someone to write it. If platform A has software platform B lacks, that is not platform A's fault and there is no requirement for successful products to "donate" apps to the less successful.
Gnash sits at Flash 7 level of compatibility, with smatterings of 8 and 9 thrown in. Whereas the proprietary, moving-target Adobe code soon is at 10.1.
Ask instead what the market dilution has brought Nokia's shareholders. How can they even begin to get a grip of which of a thousand phones actually are making them money? Support for which operating systems isw being subsidized by what other?
Apple are so wrong, that they are selling shedloads of their devices.
If Apple allows it and it sucks, then it's Adobe's problem.
No, that is where you are wrong. Apple will get the blame because they have taken the role of gatekeeper.
Observe: When jailbroken phones, running "unapproved" software in the form of sshd, Apple were blamed by ignorants when a worm exploited a default password there.
With a software keyboard, I can get my æ, ø and å. With a physical keyboard they either need to make multiple devices or make non-English users "hack" their national characters in some fashion, like the early iPhone OS (and current 3.2 on the iPad) does on the software keyboard when you hold some keys down to get a "menu".
Phones with physical keybards did not kill the iPhone.
Because they are cheaper due to the zero-margin industry that pushes them, and she has a nerd grandson who can install antivirus and answer silly questions like "why do I have to click on "Start" to turn it off?" for her.
Exactly: You have ONE vendor which has ONE telephone. As opposed to MULTIPLE vendors competing for a slice of the Android pie, eventually leading to divergence in the platform because each one wants to stand out from the rest. Then you end up with J2ME all over again.
Combined with manufacturers with MULTIPLE devices each targeted at a small-ish segment. But these devices cost money to research, design, manufacture, and this base cost needs to be split across the few-ish that sell of each model. For an added bonus some of these manufacturers (looks at Nokia) cannot decide and push a multitude of operating systems and application frameworks, including support for developers and users both. Which drives costs.
So to recap:
ONE phone for everyone with ONE OS = win.
MANY phones (because they think they have different target markets) with DIFFERENT OSes (because they think developers are fickle) = lose.
Also: the Protestants who conquered Catholic Malta wrecked the statues of saints and Virgin Mary they came across (bigger statues had their faces hacked away) since they considered the Catholic "worship" of saints to be polytheism/idolatry.
I have read that it has been shown that news crews covering car chases lead to an increase in car chases since people who normally would not have done so, do to get their 15 minutes of fame.
Do we ban TV crews and "America's Wildest Police Chases"? The TV broadcasts lead to dangerous traffical behavior.
(Not to mention that drunk driving kills more people each year than the 9/11 attacks so driving sholud have been severely restricted in the first place.)
Why are you guy insisting on using desktop OS cases when they do not apply? There are no restrictions on "intermediate layers" or cross-compilation or whatever language you use on Mac OS X. (In fact, since the OS unlike Windows SHIPS with Perl, Python, AppleScript, compilers for C, C++ etc. it is far easier to use these there than on Windows.)
Geeks perhaps don't, but the hackable devices don't sell as much as needed to actually become viable alternatives. There is no marketing to match Apple's, there is no UI design to match Apple's etc.
Make something good, then it will sell. Don't sit there wanking off to an OpenMoko CLI interface or the like.
I guess by the same token Flash on Linux is crap because "the Linux company" refused to give low-level access? No? Can it be that Adobe are just putting Windows ahead of every other platform out there?
Face it, Adobe are Microsoft's b*tch and have been for years, ref. the delay between the Windows version of an Adobe program and the Mac version. But because of the fish slapping contest going on right now they choose to blame Apple for this.
So you take the rules that apply to the iPhone OS and try to extend them to Mac OS X (where they do not apply) in order to compare to Windows development? Say it ain't so, Joe!
Maybe they will do the same as AT&T did with one of their latest Android phones, and restrict the phone to just that store, preventing you from installing software from other sources - unless you root it and install your own version. Which probably will count as a violation of contract or something... ah freedom.
Er, JWS is NOT the same as applets, but means desktop apps that are loaded via the web.
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Not if they use Javascript. They have a ban on other parsers than those they ship. Someone did make a C64 emulator in Javascript+HTML5, but I am not sure how well that would run in the iPhone Safari (probably dog slow).
If you want to be formal. Some languages however use their word for "ocean" when talking about the Mediterranean: Norwegian and Swedish for instance. Same goes for the Caspian Sea.
Then again we have lakes that we call fjords, and vice versa.
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They were in effect fighting for Catholic Ireland against Anglican/Protestant British - including the Protestants in Nothern Ireland.
You have to be very ignorant not to know that the political divisions in Northern Ireland follow religious lines.
Sure you can, you just hire other musicians to play the other instruments. This is not rocket science to figure out.
Neither of the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch are general purpose computers.
Now try to install what you want on Zune and XBox 360.
AS if writing an Objective-C native app is less progrsamming than using far simpler HTML 5 + SVG + Javascript...
But it's my hardware. I can't fathom how you can fail to understand that I have a right to install on my hardware whatever software I like.
You are trying to apply the rules governing general-purpose computers to what are in effect "appliances". That way lies madness.
because sleazy companies like Apple and Microsoft are not playing fair.
Paranoid much? If I wrote software for successful platform A, why would I want to port it to less successful platform B? What is "fairness" here, that developers should limit themselves to a common denominator, a feature subset which would let them easily port applications between whatever weird platform a given wannabe user goes ahead and buys?
You want software, you pay someone to write it. If platform A has software platform B lacks, that is not platform A's fault and there is no requirement for successful products to "donate" apps to the less successful.
The thousands making Android, J2ME etc. apps would look strangely at your strange ideas.
Gnash sits at Flash 7 level of compatibility, with smatterings of 8 and 9 thrown in. Whereas the proprietary, moving-target Adobe code soon is at 10.1.
Ask instead what the market dilution has brought Nokia's shareholders. How can they even begin to get a grip of which of a thousand phones actually are making them money? Support for which operating systems isw being subsidized by what other?
Apple are so wrong, that they are selling shedloads of their devices.
If Apple allows it and it sucks, then it's Adobe's problem.
No, that is where you are wrong. Apple will get the blame because they have taken the role of gatekeeper.
Observe: When jailbroken phones, running "unapproved" software in the form of sshd, Apple were blamed by ignorants when a worm exploited a default password there.
With a software keyboard, I can get my æ, ø and å. With a physical keyboard they either need to make multiple devices or make non-English users "hack" their national characters in some fashion, like the early iPhone OS (and current 3.2 on the iPad) does on the software keyboard when you hold some keys down to get a "menu".
Phones with physical keybards did not kill the iPhone.
Because they are cheaper due to the zero-margin industry that pushes them, and she has a nerd grandson who can install antivirus and answer silly questions like "why do I have to click on "Start" to turn it off?" for her.
Exactly: You have ONE vendor which has ONE telephone. As opposed to MULTIPLE vendors competing for a slice of the Android pie, eventually leading to divergence in the platform because each one wants to stand out from the rest. Then you end up with J2ME all over again.
Combined with manufacturers with MULTIPLE devices each targeted at a small-ish segment. But these devices cost money to research, design, manufacture, and this base cost needs to be split across the few-ish that sell of each model. For an added bonus some of these manufacturers (looks at Nokia) cannot decide and push a multitude of operating systems and application frameworks, including support for developers and users both. Which drives costs.
So to recap:
ONE phone for everyone with ONE OS = win.
MANY phones (because they think they have different target markets) with DIFFERENT OSes (because they think developers are fickle) = lose.
Eventually.
Also: the Protestants who conquered Catholic Malta wrecked the statues of saints and Virgin Mary they came across (bigger statues had their faces hacked away) since they considered the Catholic "worship" of saints to be polytheism/idolatry.
I have read that it has been shown that news crews covering car chases lead to an increase in car chases since people who normally would not have done so, do to get their 15 minutes of fame.
Do we ban TV crews and "America's Wildest Police Chases"? The TV broadcasts lead to dangerous traffical behavior.
(Not to mention that drunk driving kills more people each year than the 9/11 attacks so driving sholud have been severely restricted in the first place.)
Not to mention tattoos, piercings etc...
Why are you guy insisting on using desktop OS cases when they do not apply? There are no restrictions on "intermediate layers" or cross-compilation or whatever language you use on Mac OS X. (In fact, since the OS unlike Windows SHIPS with Perl, Python, AppleScript, compilers for C, C++ etc. it is far easier to use these there than on Windows.)
Geeks perhaps don't, but the hackable devices don't sell as much as needed to actually become viable alternatives. There is no marketing to match Apple's, there is no UI design to match Apple's etc.
Make something good, then it will sell. Don't sit there wanking off to an OpenMoko CLI interface or the like.
I guess by the same token Flash on Linux is crap because "the Linux company" refused to give low-level access? No? Can it be that Adobe are just putting Windows ahead of every other platform out there?
Face it, Adobe are Microsoft's b*tch and have been for years, ref. the delay between the Windows version of an Adobe program and the Mac version. But because of the fish slapping contest going on right now they choose to blame Apple for this.
So you take the rules that apply to the iPhone OS and try to extend them to Mac OS X (where they do not apply) in order to compare to Windows development? Say it ain't so, Joe!
Photoshop for the iPhone is already on the App Store. Dunno if they will do an iPad version after the iPhone OS 4 changes...
Maybe they will do the same as AT&T did with one of their latest Android phones, and restrict the phone to just that store, preventing you from installing software from other sources - unless you root it and install your own version. Which probably will count as a violation of contract or something... ah freedom.
Er, JWS is NOT the same as applets, but means desktop apps that are loaded via the web.
Not if they use Javascript. They have a ban on other parsers than those they ship. Someone did make a C64 emulator in Javascript+HTML5, but I am not sure how well that would run in the iPhone Safari (probably dog slow).
Did you get a burr under your saddle, mis-spelling AC?
If you want to be formal. Some languages however use their word for "ocean" when talking about the Mediterranean: Norwegian and Swedish for instance. Same goes for the Caspian Sea.
Then again we have lakes that we call fjords, and vice versa.