look at the weather channel widget on my HTC Inspire. took longer when i had an iphone. and watching TV to find out what the weather is going to be is simply too time consuming
amazon isn't paying a commission because you buy the books via a website outside the app
same here, they need to just enable people to buy outside the app and have it sync like the kindle app. it was kind of unfair that game devs and others with in app purchases had to pay apple the commission but not the book resellers
i've seen supposedly passionate coding in practice. good people but it's almost impossible to work with them since they social outcasts.
a software release turns into a 4 hour nightmare because everything worked on their dev laptop but in the real world it doesn't work and they have to figure it out. but they don't give you all the information and you have to wait on the phone at night while they tinker and fix it in production. meanwhile employees can't take customer trouble tickets.
or the billing system can't make customer bills because it's now multi-threaded but there is no system to control which bills are processed when and the different threads lock each other out in the database because some selects lock down most of the table. yet the code is good and can't be changed
all they have to do is not upgrade their internet gateway if they don't have a direct link to Level 3. then all the streaming traffic will saturate it and everything will be unwatchable.
in the middle in a huge font is the story of the day. the rest of the stories are in the other columns. makes it easy to get a quick read of the daily news for busy people
Pick one or two features to work on. For the original iPhone it was a real web browser. Windows 95 and nt4 it was the ability to do things in hours that took weeks or months on Novell and unix
Code the rest later little by little
You have to be a fool to think that apple coded the iPhone sdk in the 9 months between the original iPhone and when they announced the app store. It was partly done but not ready for release and the original model won mindshare in the mean time.
if i don't check my mail every day in a few days my mailbox is overflowing with catalogs that i usually dump straight into the recycling bin. the USPS makes a lot of money from these and won't stop delivering them and legally the postman can't just dump them in the trash at my request
and in the 1990's GPS training was mandatory in the US army. even with the primitive GPS we had.
maps are always out of date, it's hard to orient yourself in a new area, drive through a new area, etc. on i-95 i took a detour a few times on i-195 or i-295, forget which. because the signs said to get to i-95 take this exit. when i could have gone straight to i-95 if i drove a few more exits down the highway.
unless apple changes the rules software meant for corporate use will never be sold via the Mac App store. Software is a low margin product for a retailer and a PITA for a developer to sell it to a distributor and retailer who have to take their cut.
distribution via the Mac App store will give small developers an easier way to sell software
22nm Ivy Bridge CPU's are scheduled for late 2011 or early 2012. Intel has committed to a 2 year upgrade process. one year is an architecture upgrade, the next is process. Sandy Bridge was the 2010 32nm process but an architecture upgrade. Ivy Bridge will be 22nm but the same architecture.
early 2012 Intel is going to release 22nm CPU's. Almost every ARM SoC is 45nm. the power and performance improvements are huge. i bet Intel will just fab the A6 CPU instead of Samsung.
or maybe there is a secret Atom 22nm CPU coming soon that will be a lot more power efficient
Own a htc inspire and an iPad 2. Used to have an iPhone 3GS.
My inspire cost me $20 at Costco and is faster than an iPhone 4 in some ways. An iPhone costs $300 for the cheap one with activation and tax.
There is no subsidy on wifi tablets and the 3G ones cost more due to the chipsets and licensing which eats away the subsidy some carriers give.
iOS is more polished, battery life is better, app store is better unless all you want is widgets and live wallpaper, security is better and you don't have to check permissions for each app, and iOS multitasking is better and more efficient. And there is no crazy system of moving some apps to sd card, killing processes manually and some of the other nonsense I see on android. The other day I downloaded an app from the market that says you have to root your phone for it to work. Another one says you need something called launcher pro and other apps. Ridiculous.
There are thousands of iPad apps in the app store. The android market has less than 100. My 3 year old uses the iPad for educational apps which the app store rules. The other tablets are being sold based on specs and the inclusion of flash for pr0n
Demographically we are in a baby boom. In NYC a lot of schools are overcrowded due to all the kids. Apple figured this out and is marketing the right way. Everyone else is fighting for the single guy surfing porn market.
The into iPad is $499. It's a dual core arm a9 CPU, very good gpu, excellent screen, etc. Just as good or better specs as everyone else and better dev support. Choice is easy.
kids in a garage or harvard make a cool website that becomes popular. copycats follow. the originals get financing and don't want to sell since they are the best and can make more money.
giant mega corps take notice of new trends and want to get in on them. of course they can't make something themselves because after the endless meetings and changes by MBA's no one will ever want to use the product. so they buy one of the copycats for a ridiculous premium.
the current employees are afraid and don't want anything to do with the new purchase so it sits in limbo unable to grow and doesn't really do anything. until the market leader kills it off by taking the market
Facebook and Zynga actually make money. close to $1 billion in profits each last i read
SCOTUS didn't say you have to submit to arbitration in all cases, just in dumb suits like this one.
most states have a law where you pay the sales tax on the full pre-coupon price. AT&T had a special on a phone where they gave it away for "free". idiot couple paid the tax. instead of giving back the phone they sued. this should have been kicked back to small claims court not a class action lawsuit that will cost millions of $$$ to fight
it's the reason why my wifi only ipad knows exactly where it is just by the wifi access point it's connected to and nearby wifi access points. i thought it was very nice when i opened up the weather channel app for the first time on it and it knew where i was without me putting in a zip code. and it does this whenever i take it with me
free if you make games and don't sell them. if you start to make money they want their cut which is fine.
it's ridiculous the places i see the unreal engine. iOS is the latest one but MS Kinect Adventures, Gears of War and Mass Effect all use the Unreal Engine
yes i have HDMI on my laptop but i'm not going to take my laptop to my TV just to rent a movie. it means i can't use my laptop in the meantime. what if my kid wants to watch something and i have to VPN into work?
my X-box and PS3 stream netflix. apple TV does the same as well as have a rental service built in. PS3 has Vudu built in to rent. x-box has zune. Internet enabled TV's have Vudu and cinemanow and amazon. internet enabled blu ray players as well. and my cable box has a limited selection of rentals
unless google makes it this easy no one is going to use a laptop. these days a laptop is only good for holding some media, playing some games if you need to and work. 95% of the time it's off at home and i use my HTC phone or iPad 2 for computing. by the time i boot it up, log in, wait for the domain time out because i'm home, wait for start up apps to load, it's almost 10 minutes. took me 2 minutes to use my ipad to reboot a server last night. takes 20 seconds to turn on my PS3.
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look at the weather channel widget on my HTC Inspire. took longer when i had an iphone. and watching TV to find out what the weather is going to be is simply too time consuming
$240 a year is free? and they are making you pay for current free services
i have a beta cr-48 and haven't used it in months. even my wife rarely uses it anymore unlike her iphone.
it's OK and pretty fast but completely useless unless you have a network connection. ipad runs rings around it in hardware quality and functionality.
amazon isn't paying a commission because you buy the books via a website outside the app
same here, they need to just enable people to buy outside the app and have it sync like the kindle app. it was kind of unfair that game devs and others with in app purchases had to pay apple the commission but not the book resellers
i've seen supposedly passionate coding in practice. good people but it's almost impossible to work with them since they social outcasts.
a software release turns into a 4 hour nightmare because everything worked on their dev laptop but in the real world it doesn't work and they have to figure it out. but they don't give you all the information and you have to wait on the phone at night while they tinker and fix it in production. meanwhile employees can't take customer trouble tickets.
or the billing system can't make customer bills because it's now multi-threaded but there is no system to control which bills are processed when and the different threads lock each other out in the database because some selects lock down most of the table. yet the code is good and can't be changed
all they have to do is not upgrade their internet gateway if they don't have a direct link to Level 3. then all the streaming traffic will saturate it and everything will be unwatchable.
in the middle in a huge font is the story of the day. the rest of the stories are in the other columns. makes it easy to get a quick read of the daily news for busy people
Pick one or two features to work on. For the original iPhone it was a real web browser. Windows 95 and nt4 it was the ability to do things in hours that took weeks or months on Novell and unix
Code the rest later little by little
You have to be a fool to think that apple coded the iPhone sdk in the 9 months between the original iPhone and when they announced the app store. It was partly done but not ready for release and the original model won mindshare in the mean time.
like delivering junk mail
if i don't check my mail every day in a few days my mailbox is overflowing with catalogs that i usually dump straight into the recycling bin. the USPS makes a lot of money from these and won't stop delivering them and legally the postman can't just dump them in the trash at my request
and in the 1990's GPS training was mandatory in the US army. even with the primitive GPS we had.
maps are always out of date, it's hard to orient yourself in a new area, drive through a new area, etc. on i-95 i took a detour a few times on i-195 or i-295, forget which. because the signs said to get to i-95 take this exit. when i could have gone straight to i-95 if i drove a few more exits down the highway.
unless apple changes the rules software meant for corporate use will never be sold via the Mac App store. Software is a low margin product for a retailer and a PITA for a developer to sell it to a distributor and retailer who have to take their cut.
distribution via the Mac App store will give small developers an easier way to sell software
no, if you use a quicksync enabled app to encode video then Intel is faster than everyone
22nm Ivy Bridge CPU's are scheduled for late 2011 or early 2012. Intel has committed to a 2 year upgrade process. one year is an architecture upgrade, the next is process. Sandy Bridge was the 2010 32nm process but an architecture upgrade. Ivy Bridge will be 22nm but the same architecture.
and 22nm will probably use larger wafers which means a lot more chips per wafer and more energy efficient.
being thin and energy efficient are the 2 biggest apple fetishes for devices. and ifans are willing to pay the price of apple experimenting
early 2012 Intel is going to release 22nm CPU's. Almost every ARM SoC is 45nm. the power and performance improvements are huge. i bet Intel will just fab the A6 CPU instead of Samsung.
or maybe there is a secret Atom 22nm CPU coming soon that will be a lot more power efficient
you think they collect this data just to sit in some database? they sell it to third parties to sell you ads, metrics and other marketing purposes
Own a htc inspire and an iPad 2. Used to have an iPhone 3GS.
My inspire cost me $20 at Costco and is faster than an iPhone 4 in some ways. An iPhone costs $300 for the cheap one with activation and tax.
There is no subsidy on wifi tablets and the 3G ones cost more due to the chipsets and licensing which eats away the subsidy some carriers give.
iOS is more polished, battery life is better, app store is better unless all you want is widgets and live wallpaper, security is better and you don't have to check permissions for each app, and iOS multitasking is better and more efficient. And there is no crazy system of moving some apps to sd card, killing processes manually and some of the other nonsense I see on android. The other day I downloaded an app from the market that says you have to root your phone for it to work. Another one says you need something called launcher pro and other apps. Ridiculous.
There are thousands of iPad apps in the app store. The android market has less than 100. My 3 year old uses the iPad for educational apps which the app store rules. The other tablets are being sold based on specs and the inclusion of flash for pr0n
Demographically we are in a baby boom. In NYC a lot of schools are overcrowded due to all the kids. Apple figured this out and is marketing the right way. Everyone else is fighting for the single guy surfing porn market.
The into iPad is $499. It's a dual core arm a9 CPU, very good gpu, excellent screen, etc. Just as good or better specs as everyone else and better dev support. Choice is easy.
kids in a garage or harvard make a cool website that becomes popular. copycats follow. the originals get financing and don't want to sell since they are the best and can make more money.
giant mega corps take notice of new trends and want to get in on them. of course they can't make something themselves because after the endless meetings and changes by MBA's no one will ever want to use the product. so they buy one of the copycats for a ridiculous premium.
the current employees are afraid and don't want anything to do with the new purchase so it sits in limbo unable to grow and doesn't really do anything. until the market leader kills it off by taking the market
Facebook and Zynga actually make money. close to $1 billion in profits each last i read
SCOTUS didn't say you have to submit to arbitration in all cases, just in dumb suits like this one.
most states have a law where you pay the sales tax on the full pre-coupon price. AT&T had a special on a phone where they gave it away for "free". idiot couple paid the tax. instead of giving back the phone they sued. this should have been kicked back to small claims court not a class action lawsuit that will cost millions of $$$ to fight
Microsoft used to pay a lot of people to sit in a tiny office for years and work on personal projects. Don't know if the still do
Engineer - yes we can make it secure, we just need another 3 months to code and test it
PHB - no way, XBL is kicking our a$$. we release tomorrow. we'll just add a firewall and use the cloud to secure the data
it's the reason why my wifi only ipad knows exactly where it is just by the wifi access point it's connected to and nearby wifi access points. i thought it was very nice when i opened up the weather channel app for the first time on it and it knew where i was without me putting in a zip code. and it does this whenever i take it with me
free if you make games and don't sell them. if you start to make money they want their cut which is fine.
it's ridiculous the places i see the unreal engine. iOS is the latest one but MS Kinect Adventures, Gears of War and Mass Effect all use the Unreal Engine
ahh yes, the $300 box with the vanishing features. cool idea to stream TV until the networks blocked it after seeing google news in action
yes i have HDMI on my laptop but i'm not going to take my laptop to my TV just to rent a movie. it means i can't use my laptop in the meantime. what if my kid wants to watch something and i have to VPN into work?
my X-box and PS3 stream netflix. apple TV does the same as well as have a rental service built in. PS3 has Vudu built in to rent. x-box has zune. Internet enabled TV's have Vudu and cinemanow and amazon. internet enabled blu ray players as well. and my cable box has a limited selection of rentals
unless google makes it this easy no one is going to use a laptop. these days a laptop is only good for holding some media, playing some games if you need to and work. 95% of the time it's off at home and i use my HTC phone or iPad 2 for computing. by the time i boot it up, log in, wait for the domain time out because i'm home, wait for start up apps to load, it's almost 10 minutes. took me 2 minutes to use my ipad to reboot a server last night. takes 20 seconds to turn on my PS3.