Current customers get to keep unlimited data for $30 / month as long as they never change their plan. If they take advantage of the iPad's no contract feature and go down to the lower data plan or cancel it all together for a month (say going out of the country), they then lose the ability to get unlimited data.
So? They can go to any mobile provider at any time, the iPad isn't exclusive to AT&T.
So after all the people complaining that there are so many Apple stories have been told a million times how to not see them, this article gets posted to the Apple section. Pure genius.
Objective-C has a lot of buzz, since Apple has a lot of buzz. That doesn't mean it is getting used in a lot of projects, just that a lot of people are talking about it. Just because there isn't a lot of chatter online about something, doesn't mean it isn't used.
For example I suspect C++ is actually much higher. Why? Because it is the language of video games by and large.
First of all: Objective-C came in at place 10. Predicting that C++ is probably higher takes a fucking genius.
As for the number of projects it is used in, the number of apps on the App Store is a pretty solid lower bound.
I think any useful statistics on a programming language would have to include something on the amount of code written in it and project complexity.
I have a feeling that the popularity of a programming language is actually inversely proportional to the LOC needed for a given task - unless you get paid for LOC.
Fun how they compare the "Android mobile operating system" to the "iPhone" - last time I checked the "iPhone mobile operating system" also included the iPad and the iPod Touch.
This was already discussed in the comments of the blog post in TFA, and the author replied with this:
@Eric they haven’t pulled it yet, which is very strange. They rang us yesterday and said they would, and that there was no recourse for us, but once they did they’d send us a formal email. Perhaps they are getting cold feet? Now I wish they hadn’t called, because this seems like the most amazing PR stunt everto bad it’s not:(
Let me get this straight: this story is based on a phone call supposedly by Apple?
No he doesn't. Steve cares that Flash provides the end user a rich framework for applications or games that would be easy to circumvent the App Store with.
Some of the games and many of the apps you can buy (or get for free) at the app store are magnitudes richer than anything done in Flash. Steve cares not a bit about your fantasies.
No, it was compiling to native ARM bytecode from AVM3 bytecode. Very different.
Apple does have a problem with Flash Content, because it threatens their API Lockin.
Nope, but because it creates an API lock-in.
All of the fluff about user experience and running slowly is just a smokescreen for the lockin problem. If it was a performance problem, due to bad software development, then they would catch it in their App Review process before putting it on the store.
The performance problem is only a problem of the Flash player, of course. The lock-in into the Flash API isn't. Which not only makes sure the cross-compiled apps have a complete lack of support for multi-touch gestures (until Adobe comes to implementing them), but more importantly lack of support for any features of iPhone OS 4 (with little chance that Adobe will ever include them unless others copy them).
Remember what you said first: it was compiling to native ARM bytecode from AVM3 bytecode. Now tell me: why didn't it compile to Objective-C source code, which the app author could change to add these features to? Answer: vendor lock-in. At least you got that right.
Suicide is the main cause of death among young adults in China, the state media said yesterday in a report that highlights the growing pressures to succeed in love, work and education in one of the world's fastest changing societies.
Increasing stress, loneliness and a lack of medical support for depression are thought to have contributed to an annual suicide toll that is estimated at 250,000 people a year.
According to the China Daily, an additional 2.5 million to 3.5 million make unsuccessful attempts to kill themselves each year.
Can you imagine being so poor and destitute, with so little prospects for the future that taking your own life for profit seems like the best way to help your family in the long run?
Well, why do you think most American life insurances have limitations on suicide? Because the Chinese just invented "worth more dead than alive"?
Apple's high profit margins we see today I believe will not be competitive into the future. Additionally, Apple has created itself a market and taken some of Microsoft's market.
Many people have been saying that for the last decade. They were wrong so far, Apple had a higher growth rate than most in the business.
Market capitalization, I do not believe this is entirely accurate. Remember ~10 years ago, that dot-com bust? Investors call this a bubble.
There is an obvious difference: Apple makes more profit in a quarter than all those bubble-corps combined did in their lifetime (even if losses are ignored).
"A single unelected commercial entity has worldwide control over what gets published for" the PS3.
"A single unelected commercial entity has worldwide control over what gets published for" the Wii.
Let me know when Sony forces you to buy A Bravia TV to use a PS3.
Let me know when Apple forces you to buy an Apple made TV to hook up to any Apple device. Ohh, yeah, right.
I recently watched the head of the biggest German publisher on American TV cheer for the iPad, saying "And I think every publisher in the world should sit down once a day and pray to thank Steve Jobs that he is saving the publishing industry with that."
And Springer is actually one of the publisher who were "censored" by Apple. Before he said that.
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Current customers get to keep unlimited data for $30 / month as long as they never change their plan. If they take advantage of the iPad's no contract feature and go down to the lower data plan or cancel it all together for a month (say going out of the country), they then lose the ability to get unlimited data.
So? They can go to any mobile provider at any time, the iPad isn't exclusive to AT&T.
http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/home-it/23941-mac-hacked-in-under-10-seconds-at-pwn2own
"Windows users need not feel smug, apparently Safari and IE8 on a machine running Windows 7 also fell soon after the winner."
So after all the people complaining that there are so many Apple stories have been told a million times how to not see them, this article gets posted to the Apple section. Pure genius.
This.
Objective-C has a lot of buzz, since Apple has a lot of buzz. That doesn't mean it is getting used in a lot of projects, just that a lot of people are talking about it. Just because there isn't a lot of chatter online about something, doesn't mean it isn't used.
For example I suspect C++ is actually much higher. Why? Because it is the language of video games by and large.
First of all: Objective-C came in at place 10. Predicting that C++ is probably higher takes a fucking genius.
As for the number of projects it is used in, the number of apps on the App Store is a pretty solid lower bound.
I think any useful statistics on a programming language would have to include something on the amount of code written in it and project complexity.
I have a feeling that the popularity of a programming language is actually inversely proportional to the LOC needed for a given task - unless you get paid for LOC.
Hey, there are a lot of people who prefer VB. Matter of fact, I'm not one.
I didn't know you needed Flash to operate VB...
That makes absolutely zero sense.
I provide an argument for blocking something that circumvents the App Store
Yes, exactly.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/android-market-share-passes-iphones-npd-data-2010-05-10
Fun how they compare the "Android mobile operating system" to the "iPhone" - last time I checked the "iPhone mobile operating system" also included the iPad and the iPod Touch.
This was already discussed in the comments of the blog post in TFA, and the author replied with this:
@Eric they haven’t pulled it yet, which is very strange. They rang us yesterday and said they would, and that there was no recourse for us, but once they did they’d send us a formal email. Perhaps they are getting cold feet? Now I wish they hadn’t called, because this seems like the most amazing PR stunt everto bad it’s not :(
Let me get this straight: this story is based on a phone call supposedly by Apple?
But, it's Apple's 40% of nothing, dammit.
Actually, it's only 30% of nothing.
> They don't want people using apps and games on their platform that you didn't buy from the app store, hence no Flash or Java on the i-devices.
Ding! We have a winner!
Ding ding ding, we have a LOOOOSER.
http://www.apple.com/webapps/index.html
Flash has no "content". Flash is an utterly replaceable way to deliver content.
No he doesn't. Steve cares that Flash provides the end user a rich framework for applications or games that would be easy to circumvent the App Store with.
Some of the games and many of the apps you can buy (or get for free) at the app store are magnitudes richer than anything done in Flash. Steve cares not a bit about your fantasies.
No, it was compiling to native ARM bytecode from AVM3 bytecode. Very different. Apple does have a problem with Flash Content, because it threatens their API Lockin.
Nope, but because it creates an API lock-in.
All of the fluff about user experience and running slowly is just a smokescreen for the lockin problem. If it was a performance problem, due to bad software development, then they would catch it in their App Review process before putting it on the store.
The performance problem is only a problem of the Flash player, of course. The lock-in into the Flash API isn't. Which not only makes sure the cross-compiled apps have a complete lack of support for multi-touch gestures (until Adobe comes to implementing them), but more importantly lack of support for any features of iPhone OS 4 (with little chance that Adobe will ever include them unless others copy them). Remember what you said first: it was compiling to native ARM bytecode from AVM3 bytecode. Now tell me: why didn't it compile to Objective-C source code, which the app author could change to add these features to? Answer: vendor lock-in. At least you got that right.
Better stats are available here: http://www.who.int/mental_health/media/chinurban.pdf A little outdated, but the point remains that suicide rates vary greatly by age,
Exactly. A little less outdated: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jul/26/china.jonathanwatts
Suicide is the main cause of death among young adults in China, the state media said yesterday in a report that highlights the growing pressures to succeed in love, work and education in one of the world's fastest changing societies.
Increasing stress, loneliness and a lack of medical support for depression are thought to have contributed to an annual suicide toll that is estimated at 250,000 people a year. According to the China Daily, an additional 2.5 million to 3.5 million make unsuccessful attempts to kill themselves each year.
The chinese don't commit suicide because they are too busy working overtime.
Seriously, what is this pitiful statistics you are trying to use ?
There have been 13 suicides at the working place
There have been 13 suicides at the Foxconn complex which also contains free housing for the employees.
Case in point: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/experts-talk-of-mass-hysteria-after-eleventh-foxconn-suicide/story-e6frg90o-1225872506121
10 workers have taken their own lives at the factory since last January, all jumping from the seventh floor of a dormitory building.
The chinese don't commit suicide because they are too busy working overtime.
Seriously, what is this pitiful statistics you are trying to use ?
There have been 13 suicides at the working place
There have been 13 suicides at the Foxconn complex which also contains free housing for the employees.
Can you imagine being so poor and destitute, with so little prospects for the future that taking your own life for profit seems like the best way to help your family in the long run?
Well, why do you think most American life insurances have limitations on suicide? Because the Chinese just invented "worth more dead than alive"?
Apple's high profit margins we see today I believe will not be competitive into the future. Additionally, Apple has created itself a market and taken some of Microsoft's market.
Many people have been saying that for the last decade. They were wrong so far, Apple had a higher growth rate than most in the business.
Market capitalization, I do not believe this is entirely accurate. Remember ~10 years ago, that dot-com bust? Investors call this a bubble.
There is an obvious difference: Apple makes more profit in a quarter than all those bubble-corps combined did in their lifetime (even if losses are ignored).
Let me know when Sony forces you to buy A Bravia TV to use a PS3.
Let me know when Apple forces you to buy an Apple made TV to hook up to any Apple device. Ohh, yeah, right.
It's quite funny, 15 years ago or so, swear words were much more often censored ("bleeped out") in Germany iirc.
You remember bullshit. IIRC you never left Wisconsin.
And Springer is actually one of the publisher who were "censored" by Apple. Before he said that.
Its not just kdawson. Which country tried to destroy WikiLeaks?
The US? Australia?
I'd like to posit that Apple doesn't have complete control over what content is available for the iPhone/iPad, because it has a web browser.
But the German magazine publishers would rather people buy their iPhone/iPad apps.