You're quite childish to be a manager. I'm beginning to doubt even that claim.
So since it ran mobile JAVA instead of allowing applications to be programmed to directly access the hardware it is only a feature phone? Some would call that a security feature...and exactly what I expect from a security focused company. Anybody could write software for the 8700 and install it without carrier or manufacturer approval. In fact Android apps are running on DALVIK or ART which are just JAVA clones! So by your definition Android phones are not smartphones
And you don't understand what Java2ME is nor what it's limitations are. Hint: you can do very little of what DALVIK can do with J2ME. It's an extremely tight sandbox. You never had any job that required any serious knowledge of mobile devices, because you don't have any such knowledge.
Obviously you're going to make another childish post now. Feel free, you're not worth my time.
You're a fucking moron and you don't understand how microwaves operate. Hell, I once bought a different brand of butter that had a ever-so-slightly metallic wrapper.
"ever-so-slightly metallic wrapper" = paper or plastic wrapped foil. Foil - as mentioned in the very post you are replying to. You got the light show I mentioned.
Try reading a post before hurling juvenile insults.
And you don't need me to show you a video. As I also mentioned Mythbusters already did it. Go watch them.
Copy & paste and multi-tasking are better on iOS than Android. Apple waited till they could do better than other companies, rather than just implementing a me-too feature.
As to hi-res, Apple was first to Retina level resolutions.
Note the words "on average". For sure there will be some people such as you describe. But their proportion is a hell of a lot higher amongst those who's only commitment was downloading an SDK.
And I'm a software engineer who has worked on creating several smartphones for more than one manufacturer.
The Blackberry 8700 only qualifies as a feature phone. (It used J2ME; it doesn't allow native third party apps.) And that's why it has feature phone expectations of battery life. And don't bother trying to link to things saying it was a smartphone - most of the world is ignorant as to what qualifies a device as a smartphone - I'm well aware there are plenty of people who wrongly identify many feature phones as smartphones.
As to your press release it makes it quite clear that Apple only provided the music functionality of the ROKR. (The FairPlay DRM and the integration with the iTunes Mac and PM app.) They didn't design the phone. If you believe otherwise you didn't understand what was going on.
We don't need to, Mythbusters already did. Metal cutlery did nothing interesting. Foil and CDs give a light show. But they don't harm the microwave unless they are close enough to the case to arc across to it.
Trouble with technicians is that they believe their own myths.
The whole point is that Apple won't include it unless it has a worthwhile use. Other companies play spec wars where there is no practical use of a technology for users. Apple doesn't.
Those that do go to conferences show themselves to be open to new ideas and to networking with other developers. Are they likely to be better or worse developers on average than those that don't go?
and most indy devs won't throw out a grand for a machine with no guaranteed payback.
Good. With 1.3 million apps in the Apple App Store, there's enough already. Cutting out people who by their choice of PC show themselves to be less aware of good design is no bad thing.
Android only has more apps if you count malware and crapware. The app store guidelines and the need to get past a human tester is far more of a restriction on app numbers than the need to have Mavericks. The number one reason for app rejections is the discovery of bugs by the approvals staff. Equivalently buggy apps will find their way into the Android stores without any barrier.
In the old days the Soviets would have done it first, followed by America.
(Russua had the first artificial satellite, first animal in space, first human in space, first woman in space, first multi-person space craft, first spacewalk, first to the moon, first rover on the moon etc. It wasn't until the first manned moon landing that America caught up.)
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The point remains either way. Renderings are just virtual photography. Again, the hiding of the camera bulge on some shots is a result of the position of the camera or virtual camera, not editing of the image or model.
That was the original iPhone. Apple commissioned Motorola to build it.... Those that fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.
Then you are doomed to repeat it, because you don't know what you are talking about.
1) ROKR was nothing to do with the iPhone. 2) Apple don't do design commissions for anyone. They only design their own products. 3) If Apple had designed the ROKR it wouldn't have looked like that. 4) iPhone was already in development at the time of the ROKR launch. 5) Motorola were still producing new phones in their ROKR line after the iPhone launched.
the first touch screen iPhone abandoned battery life which was the metric all phones were graded on until the iPhone. It caught the entire industry off guard that people were all the sudden willing to give up battery life for the new shiny.
I've owned smartphones since the late 90s. They've always been charge every night. Dumb phones last about a week. And feature phones somewhere in between. It;s one of the tradeoffs that consumers make when they decide how sophisticated a phone they want. This didn't change with the iPhone. That you think it did only means that you were new to smartphones about the time of the iPhone, or sometime later.
If you really remembered it, you'd remember that the 5S launch day coincided with a typhoon. And yet there were STILL people camped out overnight outside that Apple Store.
There is a reason why all the autocorrect humor is screenshots of iOS.
Most. And the reason is because most of the people who actually want to use a smartphone for communication buy iPhones.
Android is dominated by those who just buy the cheapest phones, and FOSS enthusiasts who don't have any friends other than those faceless individuals on IRC and mailing lists.
Which rather puts the importance of Swype that you claimed in the previous post in perspective... I've seen lots of people typing on Android phones whilst standing on packed commuter trains. I've never seen a single one that was dragging across the keys rather than tapping.
That's a motorola phone, not an Apple phone. Licensing the ability to play Fairplay DRM does not an Apple product make.
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Did they enable nested folders yet?
Thankfully not. It's bad enough if you lose track of an app in single level folder.
For instance, it'd be nice to have one games folder, inside which might be a folder for board games, one for shooters, one for tower defense, etc.
It'd only be nice if you have a filing fetish. It's not useful. Any minor pleasure it might bring filing fetishists would be vastly outweighed by those ordinary phone users who lose applications.
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Everything you just said confirmed what was in my post, and didn't justify your original conspiracy theory. You know, the one where Apple chose not to sell the best option.
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So you admit you can't keep a job?
You're quite childish to be a manager. I'm beginning to doubt even that claim.
So since it ran mobile JAVA instead of allowing applications to be programmed to directly access the hardware it is only a feature phone? Some would call that a security feature...and exactly what I expect from a security focused company. Anybody could write software for the 8700 and install it without carrier or manufacturer approval. In fact Android apps are running on DALVIK or ART which are just JAVA clones! So by your definition Android phones are not smartphones
And you don't understand what Java2ME is nor what it's limitations are. Hint: you can do very little of what DALVIK can do with J2ME. It's an extremely tight sandbox. You never had any job that required any serious knowledge of mobile devices, because you don't have any such knowledge.
Obviously you're going to make another childish post now. Feel free, you're not worth my time.
You're a fucking moron and you don't understand how microwaves operate. Hell, I once bought a different brand of butter that had a ever-so-slightly metallic wrapper.
"ever-so-slightly metallic wrapper" = paper or plastic wrapped foil. Foil - as mentioned in the very post you are replying to. You got the light show I mentioned.
Try reading a post before hurling juvenile insults.
And you don't need me to show you a video. As I also mentioned Mythbusters already did it. Go watch them.
I'm sure they would prefer to let the market decide that bloatware is bad.
Because that worked oh so well with Windows PCs.
Copy & paste and multi-tasking are better on iOS than Android. Apple waited till they could do better than other companies, rather than just implementing a me-too feature.
As to hi-res, Apple was first to Retina level resolutions.
Note the words "on average". For sure there will be some people such as you describe. But their proportion is a hell of a lot higher amongst those who's only commitment was downloading an SDK.
And I'm a software engineer who has worked on creating several smartphones for more than one manufacturer.
The Blackberry 8700 only qualifies as a feature phone. (It used J2ME; it doesn't allow native third party apps.) And that's why it has feature phone expectations of battery life. And don't bother trying to link to things saying it was a smartphone - most of the world is ignorant as to what qualifies a device as a smartphone - I'm well aware there are plenty of people who wrongly identify many feature phones as smartphones.
As to your press release it makes it quite clear that Apple only provided the music functionality of the ROKR. (The FairPlay DRM and the integration with the iTunes Mac and PM app.) They didn't design the phone. If you believe otherwise you didn't understand what was going on.
If your development income isn't paying for your development machine, then you're not a professional. I'd rather buy from professionals than amateurs.
It's here as click bait. The link doesn't go to the original news site, it goes to Dice.com. Dice own slashdot. This has been happening more recently.
We don't need to, Mythbusters already did. Metal cutlery did nothing interesting. Foil and CDs give a light show. But they don't harm the microwave unless they are close enough to the case to arc across to it.
Trouble with technicians is that they believe their own myths.
The whole point is that Apple won't include it unless it has a worthwhile use. Other companies play spec wars where there is no practical use of a technology for users. Apple doesn't.
Those that do go to conferences show themselves to be open to new ideas and to networking with other developers. Are they likely to be better or worse developers on average than those that don't go?
and most indy devs won't throw out a grand for a machine with no guaranteed payback.
Good. With 1.3 million apps in the Apple App Store, there's enough already. Cutting out people who by their choice of PC show themselves to be less aware of good design is no bad thing.
Android only has more apps if you count malware and crapware. The app store guidelines and the need to get past a human tester is far more of a restriction on app numbers than the need to have Mavericks. The number one reason for app rejections is the discovery of bugs by the approvals staff. Equivalently buggy apps will find their way into the Android stores without any barrier.
In the old days the Soviets would have done it first, followed by America.
(Russua had the first artificial satellite, first animal in space, first human in space, first woman in space, first multi-person space craft, first spacewalk, first to the moon, first rover on the moon etc. It wasn't until the first manned moon landing that America caught up.)
You have a debating age of 7.
The point remains either way. Renderings are just virtual photography. Again, the hiding of the camera bulge on some shots is a result of the position of the camera or virtual camera, not editing of the image or model.
That was the original iPhone. Apple commissioned Motorola to build it.... Those that fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.
Then you are doomed to repeat it, because you don't know what you are talking about.
1) ROKR was nothing to do with the iPhone.
2) Apple don't do design commissions for anyone. They only design their own products.
3) If Apple had designed the ROKR it wouldn't have looked like that.
4) iPhone was already in development at the time of the ROKR launch.
5) Motorola were still producing new phones in their ROKR line after the iPhone launched.
the first touch screen iPhone abandoned battery life which was the metric all phones were graded on until the iPhone. It caught the entire industry off guard that people were all the sudden willing to give up battery life for the new shiny.
I've owned smartphones since the late 90s. They've always been charge every night. Dumb phones last about a week. And feature phones somewhere in between. It;s one of the tradeoffs that consumers make when they decide how sophisticated a phone they want. This didn't change with the iPhone. That you think it did only means that you were new to smartphones about the time of the iPhone, or sometime later.
If you really remembered it, you'd remember that the 5S launch day coincided with a typhoon. And yet there were STILL people camped out overnight outside that Apple Store.
I haven't had a single problem using Google Wallet anywhere, from TN to CA to WA. That's including stores and banks.
Another lie. You said on Tuesday that you owned an LTE Score, which doesn't have NFC as a feature.
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Caps always showing, regardless of actual capitalization.
You mean like a typewriter, or a computer keyboard? You seem to be confusing useful features with the quirks of your own phone.
There is a reason why all the autocorrect humor is screenshots of iOS.
Most. And the reason is because most of the people who actually want to use a smartphone for communication buy iPhones.
Android is dominated by those who just buy the cheapest phones, and FOSS enthusiasts who don't have any friends other than those faceless individuals on IRC and mailing lists.
I worked at Swype.
Which rather puts the importance of Swype that you claimed in the previous post in perspective... I've seen lots of people typing on Android phones whilst standing on packed commuter trains. I've never seen a single one that was dragging across the keys rather than tapping.
That's a motorola phone, not an Apple phone. Licensing the ability to play Fairplay DRM does not an Apple product make.
Did they enable nested folders yet?
Thankfully not. It's bad enough if you lose track of an app in single level folder.
For instance, it'd be nice to have one games folder, inside which might be a folder for board games, one for shooters, one for tower defense, etc.
It'd only be nice if you have a filing fetish. It's not useful. Any minor pleasure it might bring filing fetishists would be vastly outweighed by those ordinary phone users who lose applications.
Everything you just said confirmed what was in my post, and didn't justify your original conspiracy theory. You know, the one where Apple chose not to sell the best option.