People here know that Apple is commercial enterprise, right? Google has open source apps because apps are not their core business, advertising is. Apple sells software to drive hardware sales. The have a need to ensure that their application site remains unique and that they control the entire experience because that is what differentiates them. By offering up a competitor to iTunes or even to Mail.app (which offers unique integration into THEIR ecosystem), Apple would undermine their own ability to make a profit. Which is important in a commercial venture.
I do wish there were just a few more calculators, though.
C - Level executives realize that the technology needed to make the experience persistent for their end users when using cloud computing is iffy at best. Ask our friends using Google Mail, GDocs and me.com how that is going
Maybe once there is a cloud of 4G wireless covering the US with enough redundancies.
I don't think there could be a worse person to write it. SR would insist on adding humor, optimism and real human emotion to it. These have no (apparent) place in Dune.
At least we would get an idea about what music they were listening to and the best machine with which to brew up some spice and Irish whiskey with.
Actually, have him write it.
iPhone is not marketed towards the "I want to buy so I can break it crowd", it is a consumer electronics product. The experience it is selling is one of seamless operation and solid features in an attractive form factor. Apple has offered an SDK for free, $99 distribution for unlimited transactions at 70/30 split, offered free marketing through the iTunes store and this is making people angry? Because they are trying to stop developers from using the new SDK to bypass their business plan?
You do all know that Apple is a for profit company, right?
The actual moral to the story is don't switch FROM Lotus Notes. At least not to Exchange. If they had multiple replicated servers, it wouldn't have been as easy for them to,ahem, accidently lose all those emails.
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People here know that Apple is commercial enterprise, right? Google has open source apps because apps are not their core business, advertising is. Apple sells software to drive hardware sales. The have a need to ensure that their application site remains unique and that they control the entire experience because that is what differentiates them. By offering up a competitor to iTunes or even to Mail.app (which offers unique integration into THEIR ecosystem), Apple would undermine their own ability to make a profit. Which is important in a commercial venture. I do wish there were just a few more calculators, though.
C - Level executives realize that the technology needed to make the experience persistent for their end users when using cloud computing is iffy at best. Ask our friends using Google Mail, GDocs and me.com how that is going Maybe once there is a cloud of 4G wireless covering the US with enough redundancies.
I don't think there could be a worse person to write it. SR would insist on adding humor, optimism and real human emotion to it. These have no (apparent) place in Dune. At least we would get an idea about what music they were listening to and the best machine with which to brew up some spice and Irish whiskey with. Actually, have him write it.
iPhone is not marketed towards the "I want to buy so I can break it crowd", it is a consumer electronics product. The experience it is selling is one of seamless operation and solid features in an attractive form factor. Apple has offered an SDK for free, $99 distribution for unlimited transactions at 70/30 split, offered free marketing through the iTunes store and this is making people angry? Because they are trying to stop developers from using the new SDK to bypass their business plan?
You do all know that Apple is a for profit company, right?
The actual moral to the story is don't switch FROM Lotus Notes. At least not to Exchange. If they had multiple replicated servers, it wouldn't have been as easy for them to ,ahem, accidently lose all those emails.