Might sound silly, but the lines are blurring more and more. ARM only? X86? Android? MS-Windows-8 RT? MS-Windows non-RT? Keyboard attached or no? Docking? Lenovo Twist X86 machine with rotating touchscreen running Linux? 5" phone device? 6" phone? Lenovo Yoga ARM running RT? Lenovo Yoga ARM running Android? Chromebook?
Ok, tablet == iPad. None of those other "tablets" are selling that well.
If 30 second spots had no effect on anyone then they would not exist. Think about that for a minute. Now if short spots can have an emotional effect on you or affect your perception of a product or service, how can any of you say that violent video games and movies have zero effect on the perceptions of adults towards violence let alone an impressionable child. Movies and computer games can alter how we perceive violence and sexual content. We become desensitized to it and disconnected from our humanity and how we view other human beings.
And the Mormons are known to kill those people, and non-believers.
But then I am sure Scientology would of been doing that as well if it was a few decades older.
Really? I'm not a mormon but that sounds like bullshit to me. Do you get off on making up shit?
We effectively only have coins for $1.00 and $5.00. It works just fine.
(I also use e-money cards like the Suica train pass at convenience stores, etc., because I hate change...)
When I visited Japan, I bought a PassMo card for use on the train and convience stores like AM/PM. I also converted my change into American dollars as I left because you cannot convert Japanese coins into Canadian currency in Canada but you can use/convert American dollar bills here.
That's about the geographical market, not about the platform. Android's early popularity stemmed from regions like China where Apple is also finding difficulty in selling apps.
China has its own Macworld/iWorld conference and plenty of iPhone fever, but the paid-download app market appears to still be maturing there. A new report from Shanghai-based analyst firm Stenvall Skoeld claims that the Chinese version of the iOS App Store accounted for 18 percent of total downloads in the second quarter, but just 3 percent of revenue.
China is Apple's fastest growing market, while Android is growing faster in regions with a strong history of paid software purchases. The most recent App Annie data suggests revenue/app for Android is rising, while the equivalent for Apple is falling. In other words, markets are normalising as you'd expect them to.
Enjoy the iOS income while you can, but don't get dependent on it.
Keep telling yourself that. People in all regions using android are not buying apps. It is an "online" cultural issue where people think "open source" means that everything should "free" including third party apps. It has nothing to do countries.
Exactly. The author hasn't got a clue. Develop for Android, release on BB Android app player as well = 75%. Article is NOT WORTH READING. Author is as informed as an Angry Birds addicted High Schooler. And idiotically is saying there will be a competition between an APP FRAMEWORK and OPERATING SYSTEMS. I'm sorry but this person is clueless.
Are you expecting to earn money on your app or are you doing it for fun? Good luck making any money on Android. People with android handset do not buy apps.
"sizeof int" will return "4" on 32-bit and "8" on 64-bit... When working with pointers (Variables that "point" to memory addresses), you need to make code that can handle these changes appropriately, and to change size-dependent operations so they handle multiple architectures.
On a modern language architecture like.NET, a request for an int returns a 32bit integer regardless of the architecture you are running it on and a call for a long returns an 64bit integer regardless of the architecture you are running on.
As this illustrates, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit Java provides the same integer length regardless of the CPU bit width and the same with OS X and the Cocoa framework. Only windows seems to have these sorts of problems.
OSX didn't didn't magically recompile/emulate 64bit code. They embedded both 32bit and 64bit code into a single binary and selected the right one based on the target architecture; it wasn't free.
Feel free to continue pulling bullshit out of your ass. A 64bit binary will operate on 32bit Snow Leopard on a 64bit machine. This was done to support early 64bit intel machines running Leopard/Snow Leopard because they booted by default into 32bit OS X to avoid issues with missing third party drivers. You could force it to reboot into 64bit mode but some drivers for third party hardware would not be available. Anything like a "driver" had to be run in the appropriate kernel but applications compiled for 64bit could run on the 32bit kernel.
This is actually something that you can blame them for directly. On operating systems like OS X, you could run 64bit programs in OS X running in 32bit mode if you had a 64bit processor. The program would work but it would only have access to a maximum of 4GB and this was not a problem if you had only 4GB of memory in your machine anyway.
Microsoft took a different approach because there is very little hardware abstractions in their code base even within the Win32 API. They run their code at a much more bare metal level and so you cannot run 64bit apps on a the 32bit version of windows even if you have a 64bit machine. Microsoft even has its own separate API layer that only exists on the 64bit version to run 32bit apps on it. OS X and possibly linux seem to be able to run other bitness apps pretty seamlessly.
A government agency going to a proprietary, single supplier solution where an open, multi-supplier solution is available should not be legal.
Open? Multi-supplier? Android handset makers basically take Google's product, put on some crapware and call it a day. I would hardly call that diversity. Also consider that Apple tends to support their hardware longer with updates than Android makers who force you to buy a new model if you want an update to Android.
Windows 8 != Windows RT. Windows 8 can run windows apps whereas Windows RT can only run third party WinNT apps. MS Office is the exception but that is a Microsoft product.
Apple came out with an update some time ago so the only people who would still be on iOS 6.0 would be people who have jailbroken their devices. That is one of many risks you run if you choose to jailbreak. If you are not jailbroken then there should be no reason to be still on iOS 6.0.0.
To paraphrase Clinton, "It's the software, stupid". Woz is a hardware geek so he does not seem to get that innovation these days comes from "software", not hardware. Apple's products are innovative not because of hardware specs but the "software" and the tight integration between the software and hardware.
This is precisely why quad core Android phones with 1GB of memory were having their arses handed to them by iPhones with supposedly "slower" processors and less memory. It is really the "software" that makes all of the difference and it is why even the superphones have laggy UIs compared to iOS devices.
he treats all new hardware as something new to learn from and does not approach it with any preconception
The Woz is a very rational guy, and is just enjoying the coolness that his world provides. If you WTFV then you can perceive that he is hyper-aware of the misuse of data by less ethical entities and is somewhat dismayed by this as well. He appreciates the bleeding edge, so an interview is always valuable for that POV. Great to see he's still surfing that wave.
He is also rich. Not all of use can try out the flavour of the month hardware. We have to pick and choose our platforms carefully.
If you buy an android phone and you want to have the latest version of Android you might have to continually buy a new handset. That is going to skew the marketshare numbers considerably as most Android handsets have little or no resale value whereas iPhones have a relatively high resale value.
And the young man that
told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul
leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed
hard after him.
So Saul leaned on his "spear" *snicker* and the the horsemen followed "hard" after him - WTF is this?!? Some homosexual orgy story in the Bible?!?
No, you are the perv. You missed the part where Saul was dead. Do you have a learning disability? Saul was slumped over dead on a spear. The chariots were chasing the runner fleeing the scene to provide an account of the battle to David.
I think you are missing the nondiscriminatory part of FRAND. Patents licensed under FRAND terms have to be licensed to all parties in a similar fashion with similar rates. You cannot license them to one party for 5 cents per unit and then charge someone else a percentage of the entire device. That is not Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory.
Except that he explained the reasoning for having Installous on a jailbroken phone, and others have rung in saying that Installous isn't what's flagging it, or the only reason.
There is no rational for having installous on a jailbroken phone other that to install pirated apps. You can have a jailbroken phone without installing installous.
The author of the article admits to using Installous, which is a program for installing pirated iOS applications.
Maybe he was just pissed that he was busted!
So it is either pirated or he pirated other apps in the past and he is running them on a jailbroken device. This probably would not affect anyone who had was running it on a non-jailbroken device.
It is possible that the detection mechanism checks to see if the device still has BSD jails enabled and assumes that if it is running on a jailbroken device then it is probably pirated.
I don't have too much sympathy for this person given than they were stupid enough to jailbreak their device leaving it wide open to exploitation and had installous installed.
What are you smoking? People develop inhouse code all the time... I've worked for two, no three organisations that have done this, and these weren't tech companies either. Closed ex-BSD software is useless in that context. You might enjoy playing "prisoners delema", but if people want my code it's GPLed.
I don't smoke and I have been working on inhouse development for over 13 years. Of course someone else's closed source code is useless to me if they will not license it to me but so is GPL'ed code because of its viral nature. While my employer might use software to sell it as a service, they might want to be able to sell a non-hosted version of the software without having to worry about distributing the source with it or contributing back to a community. Because of this, the only code that I would ever borrow would be public domain code or BSD licensed code.
You are contradicting yourself. You speak of inhouse development and yet you think that BSD licensed code is bad when the opposite is true for inhouse development. BSD allows the company to resell their software without having to publish their entire codebase that was linked to the shared code.
The GPL is not compatible with inhouse development for companies that sell software as a service because it can expose all of your trade secrets and business model to your competitors.
If not for the developers, what is the point of open source?
If not for the users, what is the point of software? If you insist on treating users as if they were developers then you will quickly lose them and destroy the relevance of your software. Software without users is nothing.
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Define "tablet"
Might sound silly, but the lines are blurring more and more. ARM only? X86? Android? MS-Windows-8 RT? MS-Windows non-RT? Keyboard attached or no? Docking? Lenovo Twist X86 machine with rotating touchscreen running Linux? 5" phone device? 6" phone? Lenovo Yoga ARM running RT? Lenovo Yoga ARM running Android? Chromebook?
Ok, tablet == iPad. None of those other "tablets" are selling that well.
If 30 second spots had no effect on anyone then they would not exist. Think about that for a minute. Now if short spots can have an emotional effect on you or affect your perception of a product or service, how can any of you say that violent video games and movies have zero effect on the perceptions of adults towards violence let alone an impressionable child. Movies and computer games can alter how we perceive violence and sexual content. We become desensitized to it and disconnected from our humanity and how we view other human beings.
And the Mormons are known to kill those people, and non-believers. But then I am sure Scientology would of been doing that as well if it was a few decades older.
Really? I'm not a mormon but that sounds like bullshit to me. Do you get off on making up shit?
We effectively only have coins for $1.00 and $5.00. It works just fine. (I also use e-money cards like the Suica train pass at convenience stores, etc., because I hate change...)
When I visited Japan, I bought a PassMo card for use on the train and convience stores like AM/PM. I also converted my change into American dollars as I left because you cannot convert Japanese coins into Canadian currency in Canada but you can use/convert American dollar bills here.
People with android handset do not buy apps.
That's about the geographical market, not about the platform. Android's early popularity stemmed from regions like China where Apple is also finding difficulty in selling apps.
China has its own Macworld/iWorld conference and plenty of iPhone fever, but the paid-download app market appears to still be maturing there. A new report from Shanghai-based analyst firm Stenvall Skoeld claims that the Chinese version of the iOS App Store accounted for 18 percent of total downloads in the second quarter, but just 3 percent of revenue.
China is Apple's fastest growing market, while Android is growing faster in regions with a strong history of paid software purchases. The most recent App Annie data suggests revenue/app for Android is rising, while the equivalent for Apple is falling. In other words, markets are normalising as you'd expect them to.
Enjoy the iOS income while you can, but don't get dependent on it.
Keep telling yourself that. People in all regions using android are not buying apps. It is an "online" cultural issue where people think "open source" means that everything should "free" including third party apps. It has nothing to do countries.
Exactly. The author hasn't got a clue. Develop for Android, release on BB Android app player as well = 75%. Article is NOT WORTH READING. Author is as informed as an Angry Birds addicted High Schooler. And idiotically is saying there will be a competition between an APP FRAMEWORK and OPERATING SYSTEMS. I'm sorry but this person is clueless.
Are you expecting to earn money on your app or are you doing it for fun? Good luck making any money on Android. People with android handset do not buy apps.
Because things change between them.
"sizeof int" will return "4" on 32-bit and "8" on 64-bit... When working with pointers (Variables that "point" to memory addresses), you need to make code that can handle these changes appropriately, and to change size-dependent operations so they handle multiple architectures.
On a modern language architecture like .NET, a request for an int returns a 32bit integer regardless of the architecture you are running it on and a call for a long returns an 64bit integer regardless of the architecture you are running on.
As this illustrates, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit Java provides the same integer length regardless of the CPU bit width and the same with OS X and the Cocoa framework. Only windows seems to have these sorts of problems.
OSX didn't didn't magically recompile/emulate 64bit code. They embedded both 32bit and 64bit code into a single binary and selected the right one based on the target architecture; it wasn't free.
Feel free to continue pulling bullshit out of your ass. A 64bit binary will operate on 32bit Snow Leopard on a 64bit machine. This was done to support early 64bit intel machines running Leopard/Snow Leopard because they booted by default into 32bit OS X to avoid issues with missing third party drivers. You could force it to reboot into 64bit mode but some drivers for third party hardware would not be available. Anything like a "driver" had to be run in the appropriate kernel but applications compiled for 64bit could run on the 32bit kernel.
Microsoft took a different approach because there is very little hardware abstractions in their code base even within the Win32 API. They run their code at a much more bare metal level and so you cannot run 64bit apps on a the 32bit version of windows even if you have a 64bit machine. Microsoft even has its own separate API layer that only exists on the 64bit version to run 32bit apps on it. OS X and possibly linux seem to be able to run other bitness apps pretty seamlessly.
A government agency going to a proprietary, single supplier solution where an open, multi-supplier solution is available should not be legal.
Open? Multi-supplier? Android handset makers basically take Google's product, put on some crapware and call it a day. I would hardly call that diversity. Also consider that Apple tends to support their hardware longer with updates than Android makers who force you to buy a new model if you want an update to Android.
I'd get the one matching my desktop OS
Windows 8 != Windows RT. Windows 8 can run windows apps whereas Windows RT can only run third party WinNT apps. MS Office is the exception but that is a Microsoft product.
The only thing more disgusting is the fact Romney would have been far worse.
You know this because? Do you have the ability to see alternate timelines?
Apple came out with an update some time ago so the only people who would still be on iOS 6.0 would be people who have jailbroken their devices. That is one of many risks you run if you choose to jailbreak. If you are not jailbroken then there should be no reason to be still on iOS 6.0.0.
This is precisely why quad core Android phones with 1GB of memory were having their arses handed to them by iPhones with supposedly "slower" processors and less memory. It is really the "software" that makes all of the difference and it is why even the superphones have laggy UIs compared to iOS devices.
he treats all new hardware as something new to learn from and does not approach it with any preconception
The Woz is a very rational guy, and is just enjoying the coolness that his world provides. If you WTFV then you can perceive that he is hyper-aware of the misuse of data by less ethical entities and is somewhat dismayed by this as well. He appreciates the bleeding edge, so an interview is always valuable for that POV. Great to see he's still surfing that wave.
He is also rich. Not all of use can try out the flavour of the month hardware. We have to pick and choose our platforms carefully.
If you buy an android phone and you want to have the latest version of Android you might have to continually buy a new handset. That is going to skew the marketshare numbers considerably as most Android handsets have little or no resale value whereas iPhones have a relatively high resale value.
And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
So Saul leaned on his "spear" *snicker* and the the horsemen followed "hard" after him - WTF is this?!? Some homosexual orgy story in the Bible?!?
No, you are the perv. You missed the part where Saul was dead. Do you have a learning disability? Saul was slumped over dead on a spear. The chariots were chasing the runner fleeing the scene to provide an account of the battle to David.
Sexconker:
If you are over 45 and tell people you think 16 year old boys are "stunning" that will give a few people the creeps.
Thank goodness this is the Internet and nobody knows or cares how old you are.
Age is irrelevant in this case. Any adult male regardless of their age is creepy making that statement.
I think you are missing the nondiscriminatory part of FRAND. Patents licensed under FRAND terms have to be licensed to all parties in a similar fashion with similar rates. You cannot license them to one party for 5 cents per unit and then charge someone else a percentage of the entire device. That is not Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory.
This sounds like a rudimentary version of the robot avatars in the movie Surrogates.
Except that he explained the reasoning for having Installous on a jailbroken phone, and others have rung in saying that Installous isn't what's flagging it, or the only reason.
There is no rational for having installous on a jailbroken phone other that to install pirated apps. You can have a jailbroken phone without installing installous.
Don't expect to have software support if you are going to remove all safe guards in your OS.
The author of the article admits to using Installous, which is a program for installing pirated iOS applications.
Maybe he was just pissed that he was busted!
So it is either pirated or he pirated other apps in the past and he is running them on a jailbroken device. This probably would not affect anyone who had was running it on a non-jailbroken device.
It is possible that the detection mechanism checks to see if the device still has BSD jails enabled and assumes that if it is running on a jailbroken device then it is probably pirated.
I don't have too much sympathy for this person given than they were stupid enough to jailbreak their device leaving it wide open to exploitation and had installous installed.
What are you smoking? People develop inhouse code all the time... I've worked for two, no three organisations that have done this, and these weren't tech companies either. Closed ex-BSD software is useless in that context. You might enjoy playing "prisoners delema", but if people want my code it's GPLed.
I don't smoke and I have been working on inhouse development for over 13 years. Of course someone else's closed source code is useless to me if they will not license it to me but so is GPL'ed code because of its viral nature. While my employer might use software to sell it as a service, they might want to be able to sell a non-hosted version of the software without having to worry about distributing the source with it or contributing back to a community. Because of this, the only code that I would ever borrow would be public domain code or BSD licensed code.
You are contradicting yourself. You speak of inhouse development and yet you think that BSD licensed code is bad when the opposite is true for inhouse development. BSD allows the company to resell their software without having to publish their entire codebase that was linked to the shared code.
The GPL is not compatible with inhouse development for companies that sell software as a service because it can expose all of your trade secrets and business model to your competitors.
If not for the developers, what is the point of open source?
If not for the users, what is the point of software? If you insist on treating users as if they were developers then you will quickly lose them and destroy the relevance of your software. Software without users is nothing.