The first beta of Chrome was released about six months ago.
And? What does that have to do with the lack of development for anything other than Windows? Are you telling me that they couldn't have been doing simultaneous development from the start? Please...
Mozilla's codebase is about 15 years old.
What does that have to do with anything?
You do understand that Mozilla have had a substantial head-start, right?
What does Mozilla's head start have to do with the fact that they are apparently able to do cross-platform development better than a company who has vastly more people and money at their disposal? Even the original releases of Netscape were cross-platform so I'm not sure what your point is supposed to be. So basically even at the start when they had even less resources they were somehow able to do better cross-platform development than a multibillion dollar, multinational company.
If "it allows people looking for porn to find porn" is a valid criteria for rejecting an app, I suspect Apple is going to have to reject a lot more apps.
And they would have to retroactively reject their own web browser.
I'm not sure I buy into "usage tracking is an invasion of privacy" mantra.
Good for you.
It seems to me this is a modern day "taking your photograph will steal your soul" sort of superstition.
Actually it's more like I don't want them collecting data on me that they sell later for money without my express permission.
Is the internet not a public place? I'm not sure what kind of privacy people expect while using it.
So then you would be perfectly fine with your bank, for example, having you do transactions over unencrypted connections? I mean the internet is a public place, right?
Unless he is making it up his anecdote would be a fact. You seem to have confused this with saying that anecdotal evidence is not generalized scientific evidence.
But they can't integrate it back into a proprietary commercial product like MySQL AB or Sun could do if they don't hold the copyrights to the contributed code to the forks. Oracle isn't stupid like Sun and just gives shit away. If they can't integrate the work back into a sellable commercial product they just aren't going to bother.
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The first beta of Chrome was released about six months ago.
And? What does that have to do with the lack of development for anything other than Windows? Are you telling me that they couldn't have been doing simultaneous development from the start? Please...
Mozilla's codebase is about 15 years old.
What does that have to do with anything?
You do understand that Mozilla have had a substantial head-start, right?
What does Mozilla's head start have to do with the fact that they are apparently able to do cross-platform development better than a company who has vastly more people and money at their disposal? Even the original releases of Netscape were cross-platform so I'm not sure what your point is supposed to be. So basically even at the start when they had even less resources they were somehow able to do better cross-platform development than a multibillion dollar, multinational company.
If "it allows people looking for porn to find porn" is a valid criteria for rejecting an app, I suspect Apple is going to have to reject a lot more apps.
And they would have to retroactively reject their own web browser.
I'm not sure I buy into "usage tracking is an invasion of privacy" mantra.
Good for you.
It seems to me this is a modern day "taking your photograph will steal your soul" sort of superstition.
Actually it's more like I don't want them collecting data on me that they sell later for money without my express permission.
Is the internet not a public place? I'm not sure what kind of privacy people expect while using it.
So then you would be perfectly fine with your bank, for example, having you do transactions over unencrypted connections? I mean the internet is a public place, right?
So a smaller company like Mozilla can magically develop for 3 platforms simultaneously but a much bigger company can't? I call bullshit.
Anecdote != fact
Unless he is making it up his anecdote would be a fact. You seem to have confused this with saying that anecdotal evidence is not generalized scientific evidence.
Rewriting codebases unnecessarily. The classic syndrome of open sores software!
But they can't integrate it back into a proprietary commercial product like MySQL AB or Sun could do if they don't hold the copyrights to the contributed code to the forks. Oracle isn't stupid like Sun and just gives shit away. If they can't integrate the work back into a sellable commercial product they just aren't going to bother.