Webapps are like cross platform apps, but on top of that they're crammed into a medium that was never meant for them, so instead of being just non-ideal they truly suck.
The only people who like web apps are the ones who don't have to use them (managers) and people who liked the idea of being able to get their e-mail anywhere, before everyone started carrying smartphones with... a native e-mail app.
If it's possible I haven't seen it. Got any reasonably common examples?
A non-trivial app(lication) is worth customizing the UI for each platform - it's not that difficult compared to the value of the app. Microsoft does it for Office, Adobe does it for all their applications. If your app is so trivial that it's not worth redoing the UI... well, it's probably crappy anyway.
CODE can certainly be cross platform, and very good. Entire applications can be cross platform and decent, but they're never as good as the real thing.
I'm confused. Were you replying to my post, or just writing a miniature essay about evolution? If the former, do you think you could provide some clue as to how what you said relates?
HTML is a markup language, not the web. The HTML widgets are supposed to be self contained interactive bits. I doubt they CAN access the Internet because that would be a) a security risk and b) ugly if your website was down, and Apple doesn't like ugly.
Apple is targeting higher education first. They'd LIKE to hit the K-12 group because there's a lot of money there, but that's not going to happen today or tomorrow because textbooks need to be approved, schools will have to acquire hardware, etc.
K-12 is probably where the big payoff for multimedia texts is though. As a little grade seven student (a LONG time ago - I think we had 286s then) I wrote a program to render rotating wireframe geometric shapes when we were doing a geometry unit. The class loved it. Now you can stick one of those right in the textbook under the "tetrahedron" section. Sure paper textbooks work. Used properly, these might work better. And no, every time you want to show a picture of something that happens to be 3D or moving you should not have to launch into a class lab exercise.
Didn't try it out before posting hey? iBooks Author produces zip files that contain xhtml files. I'm sure the pay texts through the store will have DRM if the publisher so desires, but if you want to use iBooks Author to write a free text, go ahead.
It's not quite as appropriate for a textbook (but someone could probably make it work) but if you make Keynote presentations you might like LaTeXiT. It renders LaTeX to PDF so you can drop it into other documents. The metadata keeps the LaTeX code too, so you can double click and edit the equation.
Sure, 3D models, videos, etc. take time to make. Some textbooks will have them, some won't. I quite often have multimedia figures that are generated as part of my research that COULD go into a paper (or textbook) if a mechanism existed.
I don't think your textbook being an iPad means you can't write notes. Write them in a notebook on paper. MOST students do this anyway because they want to sell their textbooks after the class is finished. Plus currently it's a big advantage to have your notes somewhat more portable than your textbooks.
I suspect one of the first updates for iBooks 2 will add note taking and other markup to the highlighting already supported, for those who want to scribble on their electronic textbooks directly.
The iPhone has a nice little switch to stop it from downloading ANYTHING while roaming. If you do want to go ahead, it downloads a little bit of big messages, and gives you a button to press if you want to see the rest.
RIM "security" is highly overrated. Sure, it was great when e-mail on a phone was a pretty cool (and rare) feature, but now you can get all that security without relying on RIM to keep your secrets just by setting up a VPN server on your LAN.
Now, getting RIM to let iMessage and BBM interact is worth something, but probably not 12 billion dollars.
"While Apple is inching into enterprise, RIM is inching into consumer."
Well, except that Apple is striding, or at least walking upright, into enterprise and RIM seems to be running away screaming from both its traditional enterprise market AND any inroads they made into the consumer market. Plus they haven't changed what counts: their silly everything-must-go-through-us model that's hurt them badly, both with caving to certain governments and widespread outages. And their software changes... well, they haven't happened yet, and they're way too late. Just last week I watched a law student friend throw his Blackberry against a wall repeatedly because it had locked up, again. The things aren't very reliable software wise, but the hardware certainly is tough!
Has Apple bought any of them? Oh right, they're all being bought up by desperate companies who screw up everything they touch (HP), companies that don't actually know much about tech and have their own history of screwing up (Goldman Sachs), or the innocent public.
Apple seems to be going for little hardware companies that have exactly what they want and growing their own install base. Not to mention I sincerely doubt Apple wants the headache of administering and transitioning RIM and all of it's customers.
NeXT was a not overly successful company that got sold to Apple (or rather bought Apple for a negative price) for it's technology and that technology and most if not all of that technology is prominently featured in currently products. SUN was a big successful company that stopped being successful, was headed for the abyss and got bought out of the bargain bin.
Apple screwed up some timezone rule changes in a few parts of the world. That's a wee bit different than having alarms routinely screw up if the device hasn't been rebooted in the last few days.
You don't need an extra polarizer. Provided it's lighter outside than inside, and the polarizer is on the inside, the image will only be visible to someone on the inside. Unless someone on the outside has polarized glasses, then they'll be able to see your porn.
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DisplayPort doesn't require HDCP any more than DVI does.
Because DVI isn't being updated. It's successor is DisplayPort.
Webapps are like cross platform apps, but on top of that they're crammed into a medium that was never meant for them, so instead of being just non-ideal they truly suck.
The only people who like web apps are the ones who don't have to use them (managers) and people who liked the idea of being able to get their e-mail anywhere, before everyone started carrying smartphones with... a native e-mail app.
If it's possible I haven't seen it. Got any reasonably common examples?
A non-trivial app(lication) is worth customizing the UI for each platform - it's not that difficult compared to the value of the app. Microsoft does it for Office, Adobe does it for all their applications. If your app is so trivial that it's not worth redoing the UI... well, it's probably crappy anyway.
CODE can certainly be cross platform, and very good. Entire applications can be cross platform and decent, but they're never as good as the real thing.
I'm confused. Were you replying to my post, or just writing a miniature essay about evolution? If the former, do you think you could provide some clue as to how what you said relates?
"A planet" is singular. There is one planet, not all planets.
If the headline said "Planets Literally Boil Under the Heat of Their Stars," then you might have something.
HTML5 isn't particularly hard to parse. I'm sure Calibre will have a converter momentarily.
HTML is a markup language, not the web. The HTML widgets are supposed to be self contained interactive bits. I doubt they CAN access the Internet because that would be a) a security risk and b) ugly if your website was down, and Apple doesn't like ugly.
Only if you charge for it.
You realize Apple announced today that they'll distribute (i.e. publish) anybody's textbook through iBooks, right?
Apple is targeting higher education first. They'd LIKE to hit the K-12 group because there's a lot of money there, but that's not going to happen today or tomorrow because textbooks need to be approved, schools will have to acquire hardware, etc.
K-12 is probably where the big payoff for multimedia texts is though. As a little grade seven student (a LONG time ago - I think we had 286s then) I wrote a program to render rotating wireframe geometric shapes when we were doing a geometry unit. The class loved it. Now you can stick one of those right in the textbook under the "tetrahedron" section. Sure paper textbooks work. Used properly, these might work better. And no, every time you want to show a picture of something that happens to be 3D or moving you should not have to launch into a class lab exercise.
Didn't try it out before posting hey? iBooks Author produces zip files that contain xhtml files. I'm sure the pay texts through the store will have DRM if the publisher so desires, but if you want to use iBooks Author to write a free text, go ahead.
It probably already supports MathType.
It's not quite as appropriate for a textbook (but someone could probably make it work) but if you make Keynote presentations you might like LaTeXiT. It renders LaTeX to PDF so you can drop it into other documents. The metadata keeps the LaTeX code too, so you can double click and edit the equation.
Sure, 3D models, videos, etc. take time to make. Some textbooks will have them, some won't. I quite often have multimedia figures that are generated as part of my research that COULD go into a paper (or textbook) if a mechanism existed.
I don't think your textbook being an iPad means you can't write notes. Write them in a notebook on paper. MOST students do this anyway because they want to sell their textbooks after the class is finished. Plus currently it's a big advantage to have your notes somewhat more portable than your textbooks.
I suspect one of the first updates for iBooks 2 will add note taking and other markup to the highlighting already supported, for those who want to scribble on their electronic textbooks directly.
You get pretty fast "evolution" when you select for people with blue eyes.
The iPhone has a nice little switch to stop it from downloading ANYTHING while roaming. If you do want to go ahead, it downloads a little bit of big messages, and gives you a button to press if you want to see the rest.
RIM "security" is highly overrated. Sure, it was great when e-mail on a phone was a pretty cool (and rare) feature, but now you can get all that security without relying on RIM to keep your secrets just by setting up a VPN server on your LAN.
Now, getting RIM to let iMessage and BBM interact is worth something, but probably not 12 billion dollars.
"While Apple is inching into enterprise, RIM is inching into consumer."
Well, except that Apple is striding, or at least walking upright, into enterprise and RIM seems to be running away screaming from both its traditional enterprise market AND any inroads they made into the consumer market. Plus they haven't changed what counts: their silly everything-must-go-through-us model that's hurt them badly, both with caving to certain governments and widespread outages. And their software changes... well, they haven't happened yet, and they're way too late. Just last week I watched a law student friend throw his Blackberry against a wall repeatedly because it had locked up, again. The things aren't very reliable software wise, but the hardware certainly is tough!
Has Apple bought any of them? Oh right, they're all being bought up by desperate companies who screw up everything they touch (HP), companies that don't actually know much about tech and have their own history of screwing up (Goldman Sachs), or the innocent public.
Apple seems to be going for little hardware companies that have exactly what they want and growing their own install base. Not to mention I sincerely doubt Apple wants the headache of administering and transitioning RIM and all of it's customers.
NeXT was a not overly successful company that got sold to Apple (or rather bought Apple for a negative price) for it's technology and that technology and most if not all of that technology is prominently featured in currently products. SUN was a big successful company that stopped being successful, was headed for the abyss and got bought out of the bargain bin.
It takes about ten seconds to set up VPN on an iPhone. I'm sure Android is the same.
I suppose with RIM all THAT traffic has to go through them as well?
That's a feature? When I turn my phone off I'd like it to stay off, thanks.
Apple screwed up some timezone rule changes in a few parts of the world. That's a wee bit different than having alarms routinely screw up if the device hasn't been rebooted in the last few days.
Hey, if they have a pair of 3D glasses or polarized sunglasses they can watch your porn with you. Or just wait until you do your banking.
You don't need an extra polarizer. Provided it's lighter outside than inside, and the polarizer is on the inside, the image will only be visible to someone on the inside. Unless someone on the outside has polarized glasses, then they'll be able to see your porn.