One time use of AIR versus a general Flash plugin for the browser are two separate issues.
Apple's had a lot of bad experience with middleware. Middleware vendors are lousy at supporting new features and keeping up with the times. They're also not afraid to bring a lot of cruft with them. Apple denied not just AIR but a few other middleware platforms as well. Why they reversed course is beyond me.
Not including flash was pretty consistent because you can't install silverlight or any other browser extension either. If your AIR application sucks then it sucks on it's own merit. If your browser plugin compromises stability, then you're fucking with the basis for a lot of the usability with the OS.
Aren't the bionic headers included with the Android source? I wonder who his clients are. I don't think he's wacky but he's certainly chasing a whole lot of nothing.
I'm not saying she's a good manager, just looking over her history at eBay, it wasn't that bad and she seemsn better than Apoetheker. Well, let's face it, slime on a rock face would be better. Still.
Steve Jobs' point was that they didn't support flash on the iPhone because it it was a giant stinker. He supported his reasoning with evidence.
Steve's not saying YOU can't have it on your phone, and if you want a phone with flash on it, go buy someone else's.
If you want plugins for your mobile browser, dont' use an iPhone. If you do, get an Android, or some other device that supports the feature you want.
You're chastising apple for not including a feature they didn't want to have in their product in the first place. How is this a failure of logic in relation to Steve's letter on flash?
State houses, indian reservations, police and fire departments, military installations, courts, youth activity centers, schools, parks, etc should all be private?
prove it. Prove that cheap hardware has to break at a higher rate than more expensive hardware. Prove that commodity OSes *have* to be lousy.
Linux supports a wide variety of hardware but it does indeed have higher SLAs than Windows. It doesn't break in the same way that Windows does. It's TCP/IP stack doesn't eat itself, it doesn't keep a giant monolithic database that can go unstable.
(The problem with Android isn't it's Linux kernel, it's the software stack on top of it.)
Having less features or being slower doesn't mean it has to break or be useless. It just does less.
My position is that this notion that for anyone in tech to succeed their opposition must fail is wrong. Apple isn't top of the heap, or aiming for it, and looking at who is in terms of market share...
I confess I am an apple fanboy not because I love my iDevices but because I don't hate them.
This isn't why I bother taking up the pro Apple stance. The bottom end doesn't have to be complete shit. Yet it is, and it's polluting the entire ecosystem. Apple is the only one in the market with taste.
Shitty drivers are unavoidable. Everyone has to run the same nvidia or ati drivers as everyone else. Everyone else has to run the same lousy intel, amd etc drivers. Board design can be better but the chipsets and CPUs are still largely the same being shipped in low end aystems
The whole ecosystem is being dragged down by having to support the guys who are shipping orders of magnitude more product than the high end is.
Sure, apple is using intel chips in their machines now but they're telling intel what they need(lower power usage, better thermal efficiency, etc), they're not just taking the crap intel's shitting out. Thanks to apple, we're getting ultrabooks hitting the market at much better price points with better features. That's taste.
Google and Microsoft aren't capable of that. Theyre not capable of saying no to anyone, not even internally. Righy now, I don't know who in the tech industry is.
Apple's taking away most of the profit from the phone industry, Nokia's in trouble, LG's in trouble, Samsung's in trouble.
Marketshare isn't that big of a deal. Profits are.
The PC industry is about razor thin margins. Anyone else see the problem with this? The race to the bottom was terrible for PCs(which got shittier and shittier so they could get cheaper and cheaper), so too it will be for Android devices.
Not that having technology more accessible to the masses is a bad thing(it's not; it's a very good thing), but, cheaper PCs for most vendors meant shittier hardware instead of clever designs and forward thinking(Which is a very VERY bad thing; people even of my generation think that PCs should shit themselves regularly when in reality, no they shouldn't).
Would Apple make serious headway if they offered OSX in clones? Perhaps. But IBM allowed MS to sell DOS to anyone and well, they're not in the business of making PCs anymore.
I thought you were referring to the Republic as a meritocracy.
in the end, it's all a popularity contest. I mean, who do you think should have more merit when it comes to say, medicine - Dean Edell or Deepak Chopra? Why is your opinion more important than anyone else's?
Desktop fragmentation hasn't been as bad as Android's fragmentation issue.
Namely, you couldn't bake your own version of Windows that could totally break an app(Aside from bizarre driver bugs or incompatible baked in software; you couldn't fuck with the kernel) or ship Windows 95 when Windows 7 was just shoved out the door.
Second, desktop fragmentation is a huge problem for gamers. Driver conflicts, hardware incompatibility, instability due to crappy specs(ACPI? Really intel?)...
Hell, I wonder how many crashes the average windows user encounters because a hardware vendor who was willing to just shit out a useless driver or because of a crappy codec or OS plugin? Microsoft's driver signing program was incredibly brilliant(aside from the fact that the people who would be certifying drivers is well, Microsoft).
Things are not OK in consumer computing. This is why the iPad are such a hit. It doesn't break in the same way that most consumer machines, Macs included, break
Yes, the answer isn't more lockdown and DRM, but the answer is better QA and design. Unfortunately, that means more sandboxing and if you're really paranoid about UX problems, lockdown.
Aside from the whole steve jobs breathing fire over Android's UI... Their entire approach wasn't to steal market share or to be #1. They're entire objective was to make something they liked and make a profit off of it.
Given that their profit figures are up quarter after quarter, year after year, and LG is asking for investor support to shore up their smartphone division, i'm more inclined to believe that everyone else has no idea how the market works.
A lot of students are urged by their parents to go into STEM because they think the kids will make a lot of money.
I got urged to do what i love. I dropped out of a 3rd rate CS program, and found myself still doing development on some level because it's what I want to do.
I agree. I'm a huge iOS fanboy but this is just unfair. By their logic WinMo 6 also has a higher failure rate just because ZTE, Huawei, etc shipped crummy WinMo devices.
Besides, RIM and Apple should be compared to HTC, Moto, etc. Not google.
Actually that'll be a good test of their individual programming and development style. Have them work with another employee who has no idea what the problem is and see how your candidates work in a group.
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One time use of AIR versus a general Flash plugin for the browser are two separate issues.
Apple's had a lot of bad experience with middleware. Middleware vendors are lousy at supporting new features and keeping up with the times. They're also not afraid to bring a lot of cruft with them. Apple denied not just AIR but a few other middleware platforms as well. Why they reversed course is beyond me.
Not including flash was pretty consistent because you can't install silverlight or any other browser extension either. If your AIR application sucks then it sucks on it's own merit. If your browser plugin compromises stability, then you're fucking with the basis for a lot of the usability with the OS.
Basically he's pointing out that the article in question is based on consumer reports with no hands on experience.
I don't think that's necessarily going to be a winner or loser for the Kindle at Christmas, post Christmas though...
How dare you besmirch the good name of the Dacia Sandero
Aren't the bionic headers included with the Android source? I wonder who his clients are. I don't think he's wacky but he's certainly chasing a whole lot of nothing.
I'm not saying she's a good manager, just looking over her history at eBay, it wasn't that bad and she seemsn better than Apoetheker. Well, let's face it, slime on a rock face would be better. Still.
I don't know. I disagree with Meg Whitman's politics, but I think she's got a good shot at this.
Then again, the whole thing could go under even if they had the best managers ever steering the ship because the damage is already done.
err, logic?
Steve Jobs' point was that they didn't support flash on the iPhone because it it was a giant stinker. He supported his reasoning with evidence.
Steve's not saying YOU can't have it on your phone, and if you want a phone with flash on it, go buy someone else's.
If you want plugins for your mobile browser, dont' use an iPhone. If you do, get an Android, or some other device that supports the feature you want.
You're chastising apple for not including a feature they didn't want to have in their product in the first place. How is this a failure of logic in relation to Steve's letter on flash?
State houses, indian reservations, police and fire departments, military installations, courts, youth activity centers, schools, parks, etc should all be private?
prove it. Prove that cheap hardware has to break at a higher rate than more expensive hardware. Prove that commodity OSes *have* to be lousy.
Linux supports a wide variety of hardware but it does indeed have higher SLAs than Windows. It doesn't break in the same way that Windows does. It's TCP/IP stack doesn't eat itself, it doesn't keep a giant monolithic database that can go unstable.
(The problem with Android isn't it's Linux kernel, it's the software stack on top of it.)
Having less features or being slower doesn't mean it has to break or be useless. It just does less.
oh jesus give it a rest.
not all land is privately owned.
You're a one note joke.
My position is that this notion that for anyone in tech to succeed their opposition must fail is wrong. Apple isn't top of the heap, or aiming for it, and looking at who is in terms of market share...
I confess I am an apple fanboy not because I love my iDevices but because I don't hate them.
This isn't why I bother taking up the pro Apple stance. The bottom end doesn't have to be complete shit. Yet it is, and it's polluting the entire ecosystem. Apple is the only one in the market with taste.
Shitty drivers are unavoidable. Everyone has to run the same nvidia or ati drivers as everyone else. Everyone else has to run the same lousy intel, amd etc drivers. Board design can be better but the chipsets and CPUs are still largely the same being shipped in low end aystems
The whole ecosystem is being dragged down by having to support the guys who are shipping orders of magnitude more product than the high end is.
Sure, apple is using intel chips in their machines now but they're telling intel what they need(lower power usage, better thermal efficiency, etc), they're not just taking the crap intel's shitting out. Thanks to apple, we're getting ultrabooks hitting the market at much better price points with better features. That's taste.
Google and Microsoft aren't capable of that. Theyre not capable of saying no to anyone, not even internally. Righy now, I don't know who in the tech industry is.
no, a meritocracy is when it's about the most competent one is the right person for the job.
I knew a guy who I worked with, brilliant coder and amazingly bright guy. Didn't give a shit about how much he made, just as long as he could get by.
Aside from making a living, not everyone who's passionate and skilled at something is necessarily in it for the money, or would the money even matter.
Apple's taking away most of the profit from the phone industry, Nokia's in trouble, LG's in trouble, Samsung's in trouble.
Marketshare isn't that big of a deal. Profits are.
The PC industry is about razor thin margins. Anyone else see the problem with this? The race to the bottom was terrible for PCs(which got shittier and shittier so they could get cheaper and cheaper), so too it will be for Android devices.
Not that having technology more accessible to the masses is a bad thing(it's not; it's a very good thing), but, cheaper PCs for most vendors meant shittier hardware instead of clever designs and forward thinking(Which is a very VERY bad thing; people even of my generation think that PCs should shit themselves regularly when in reality, no they shouldn't).
Would Apple make serious headway if they offered OSX in clones? Perhaps. But IBM allowed MS to sell DOS to anyone and well, they're not in the business of making PCs anymore.
I thought you were referring to the Republic as a meritocracy.
in the end, it's all a popularity contest. I mean, who do you think should have more merit when it comes to say, medicine - Dean Edell or Deepak Chopra? Why is your opinion more important than anyone else's?
Yeah, but I don't want to spend my day mulling over issues that may or may not have any impact on my day.
The republic is pretty bad. Its only merit is that it's better than any other system so far.
It's not that people are stupid, it's that people may not have a complete education in given subjects.
Even if we posit an ideal Libertarian utopia, I don't know what to do about interstate grazing rights, do you?
While this is true in the legislature, there's a reason why we specialize and have committee and sub committee rules.
Desktop fragmentation hasn't been as bad as Android's fragmentation issue.
Namely, you couldn't bake your own version of Windows that could totally break an app(Aside from bizarre driver bugs or incompatible baked in software; you couldn't fuck with the kernel) or ship Windows 95 when Windows 7 was just shoved out the door.
Second, desktop fragmentation is a huge problem for gamers. Driver conflicts, hardware incompatibility, instability due to crappy specs(ACPI? Really intel?)...
Hell, I wonder how many crashes the average windows user encounters because a hardware vendor who was willing to just shit out a useless driver or because of a crappy codec or OS plugin? Microsoft's driver signing program was incredibly brilliant(aside from the fact that the people who would be certifying drivers is well, Microsoft).
Things are not OK in consumer computing. This is why the iPad are such a hit. It doesn't break in the same way that most consumer machines, Macs included, break
Yes, the answer isn't more lockdown and DRM, but the answer is better QA and design. Unfortunately, that means more sandboxing and if you're really paranoid about UX problems, lockdown.
err. no. They do.
Aside from the whole steve jobs breathing fire over Android's UI... Their entire approach wasn't to steal market share or to be #1. They're entire objective was to make something they liked and make a profit off of it.
Given that their profit figures are up quarter after quarter, year after year, and LG is asking for investor support to shore up their smartphone division, i'm more inclined to believe that everyone else has no idea how the market works.
Shipped vs sold and, self reported sales vs. analyst findings.
How many non-iPads actually sold?
Given the statistics with web services, most are finding that an overwhelming amount of mobile traffic are coming from iOS devices.
A lot of students are urged by their parents to go into STEM because they think the kids will make a lot of money.
I got urged to do what i love. I dropped out of a 3rd rate CS program, and found myself still doing development on some level because it's what I want to do.
I'm pretty technically inclined but there's no way I'm carrying around SD cards or USB sticks. Especially for use on my phone.
I agree. I'm a huge iOS fanboy but this is just unfair. By their logic WinMo 6 also has a higher failure rate just because ZTE, Huawei, etc shipped crummy WinMo devices.
Besides, RIM and Apple should be compared to HTC, Moto, etc. Not google.
Actually that'll be a good test of their individual programming and development style. Have them work with another employee who has no idea what the problem is and see how your candidates work in a group.
I once told siri to open the door because my hands were full with groceries. my roommates were suitably amused.
Who do you blame when your car doesn't start?