But that means shit for the consumer. It's a shame too, because I really enjoy developing on the WP7.
Not if want to reuse some existing C/C++ code it isn't. MSFT wants everyone to use.NET for everything. Have you checked out the new XCode and the framework iOS offers? XNA is not a full fledged.NET platform so even if you had.NET code you might have to rewrite a lot of it to get it to work with XNA.
I work with.NET all the day for server and desktop software but I am a firm believer in using the right tool for the right job. The debugging and simulation environment for mobile from MSFT is behind the iOS emulator and debugging tools by leaps and bounds.
Even the Desktop/server part of.NET is anemic compared to Cocoa in some areas that are practically "free" in OS X. The IDE will only take you so far.
He goes on to say that they specifically told him that the Apple dev team looked at his app and were impressed.
Last I checked, that would make this a derivative work.
Sorry but no. Unless if Apple copied his code then it is not a derivative work. If anything, his icon was a derivative work of the iSync icon. Apple already had wireless syncing through mobileme for contacts and calendars (now iCloud) and they had "wired" syncing through iTunes. Wireless syncing just combines the two.
Apple was most likely already working on their wireless syncing and probably had to delay it a couple of times already.
You just want to sit back and play armchair general from your parent's basement like a pansy.
why the homophobia?
Are you asking the general public or are you talking to yourself? The meaning of a word is generally influenced by "context". In this case, pansy mean "wimp or coward" since it is in the context of being an armchair "general" in a parent's basement. Your reaction says a lot more about yourself and your feelings. Do you resemble the remark? Do you feel uncomfortable with your sexuality?
you really are the dumbest person ever. suspicionless searches are "anarchy"? get the fuck out of the USA. maybe north korea would fit better with your mentality.
I'm not in the US but thanks for making me feel welcome. Perhaps you would be more comfortable in Somalia. They have so much freedom there as long as you are the warlord with the biggest army.
If you die from either driving drunk or being hit by a drunk driver, none of those damn "rights" are of worth to anyone. You libertarians/anarchists think that "freedom" is equal to a lack of laws but the truth is that anarchy is the opposite of freedom. Why? Because anarchy swiftly degenerates into fiefdoms run by warlords and that means that they only people who feel "free" are the warlords. If you are in constant fear then you are too paralyzed to ever exercise your freedoms that you might think you still have. Freedom is never "free". It must be bought with blood and maintained with some sense of order for the common good. Absolute "freedom" via anarchy is a myth.
Actually removing that lock in would be a wise move to expand further the developers base but IMHO it would be a very un-Applish one. The way to go would not be switching to a single competitor's OS but the Android one, that is a cross platform development system. Just imagine if a Windows update accidentally breaks XCode and there isn't any working development system for iOS for a couple of weeks.
By the way, iOS 5 went the Android way by removing the dependency from a computer. You can use an Android phone without any supporting computer because you can buy and install apps directly from the store and use all the Google's cloud services. Apple still lacks some flexibility (I can attach USB pen drives to my Android phone) but it also went further in some other directions, with the backup and those synchronization little services like syncing ebook's page marks. Hopefully Google will catch up as Apple did. Competition is (often) good.
I don't understand how you were modded insightful. Do you work for google? Android? Really? Any professional developer or developer team can simply buy a mac or series of macs to develop iOS apps on. If you are competent, the initial investment is not a roadblock at all when you compare the cost of human resources for a development team. The macs could also be used for QA testing in the simulator and for testing websites against Safari for mac.
Android is not a full fledged desktop OS. It is a scaled down version of a linux distro.
Apple does not seem to have a problem attracting competent third party developers with X-Code being OS X only.
That's exactly my point. The "plan" is to use a nice underground multi-story carpark. Until bean counters decry it's cheaper to just tarmac over everything which has no direct commercial value.
Hopefully Apple can get it right.
Uh, it is mostly tarmac right now. This is Steve Jobs that we are talking about. What Steve Jobs wants, Steve Jobs gets. No bean counter who values their job would get in the way of the CEO of a company.
Somehow, that puts Apple in 9th place - best in practice where it actually matters, poor in clear communications.
This is really no different from how Mr. Al Gore talks the big talk about global warming but has big cars and a huge electric bill on his mansion while George W. Bush has a ranch which is off the grid and uses solar energy to heat the hot water for the house.
I don't care whether you supported Bush and his parties policies but in his personal life he is more environmentally conscientious than Gore who is all talk and no action.
Maybe a dumb phone is s better fit for you. Settings in the past were disabled by carrier updates. If you have a problem with AT&T, take it up with them. I don't have a problem with the software vetting process
I'm quite capable of vetting software for myself. If I wanted a dumb phone which restricted me to what apple says I can install on it, then I would get an iphone.
Do you understand how web services work? You have to supply some information to the service in order to get back information.
At the time, yes. You do a lookup, it comes back with the information. There is no reason to store it permanently, unencrypted, by default, and not tell you unless you read page 50 of the small print in the license. Most people found out when they saw it on the news. Some sued.
You can setup a device without an iTunes account and you can setup an iTunes account without a credit card.
I'd rather not.
A dumb phone is a phone that can make and answer calls, send and receive texts and possibly browse WEP internet and listen to MP3s. The iPhone is a smartphone and not a "people with too much time on their hands" phone. Normal people want apps and games that "just work".
The only information sent to Apple was the IDs of nearby Cell towers and their relative strength. The information idiots were complaining about was stored on the device and it was used as a CACHE to speed up location services and reduce the amount of requests sent to Apple during the AGPS process. All of that information was about the NETWORK and not the user and was stored for the benefit in a CACHE file. Apple has since reduced functionality by truncating that CACHE periodically and deleting it when Location services is toggled off. This means that the tin foil hatters are now causing sane people to download more data than before if they toggle location services on and off whereas before the data was more persistent.
You claim to be capable of vetting software yourself but you assume that everyone wants that responsibility and you seem to be confused about the reason for a CACHE file. If you are not interested in iOS then why are you here commenting on the story?
The fact remains that a credit card is not required.
In the programming world, I always got the impression that, collectively, we respected the self-taught coder more than one who spent four years in school being spoon fed how to code.
With that statement I can tell you did not go to college, I have a CS degree but did not go to college to learn how to code, it would take a year tops to teach some one how to code and what typically happens is that the freshman year is a syntax year, the complex logic is taught later so the students don't have to struggle with learning the syntax and logic at the same time.
I am almost at a loss for words. Do you really believe that software development as a discipline has anything to do with syntax? Are you confusing syntax with design patterns? Syntax is an attribute of a particular language and not writing code so learning the syntax of one language is not going to help you in a language with a dissimilar syntax style. Are you certain that you went to university? Logic is something that can be taught however application of logic in innovative ways is something which requires a specific temperament which cannot be taught easily in a class room. Some people call this natural talent.
People interested in writing software should be screened to see if they have a logical mind. I would recommend a test be given with a series of logical problems to be solved. I would also recommend that students be taught how to map out specific problems in logical "pseudo" code before they learn a specific syntax of a language. It is vital to be able to write out or story board user stories before you exert the effort to actually "code" something because the team can discuss what the roadblocks or dependencies are and give some rough estimates on efforts/complexity.
I would say the opposite that more formal education you had in a technical filed the more respect you are given, most program managers have a Masters or higher in their field if not then a bachelors and many years of experience there are a few outliers on both sides but unless you plan an starting your own company formal education will get you further.
This is most certainly true however I would argue that much of the automatic respect is undeserved. It should be earned through accomplishments and overall throughput on the job. University degrees miss out a lot of soft skills that are essential these days for becoming a productive developer. Anyone can be taught to write Java code but not everyone can write good code.
You might want to do some googling before posting things like that here. iOS is build on Darwin which has a hybrid Mach/BSD kernel. The sandboxing which "jailbreaking" destroys is based on BSD jails. Look it up for yourself.
1. 'hacker' writes paid for application, gets said app accepted to the market. 2. 'hacker' then commands his droves of exploited iDevices to purchase said app. 3. 'hacker' profits.
How does "hacker" exploit the iDevices in the first place if they are not jailbroken and therefor easily exploitable? He cannot go through the app store with an initial exploit.
Oh, so you can run emulator software on it now, can you?
Or compile source code into packages that you can install onto it?
Or go into the boot up processes and turn off or configure any services that you don't want or want to run differently?
Or create a specific account to run the OS will much fewer permissions so that you're more secure due to the tighter restrictions you've placed yourself under?
So basically, you want to run a linux desktop or server. Guess what? Not everyone wants a "computer" let alone a server and just want to "do things" on the internet, play games or create some type of creative work. Previously, they had to use a "computer" to do that but now they can use an internet appliance like an iPad instead.
There will always be developer using "computers" to create all of that great software that runs on devices like the iPad but not every average joe wants a computer.
If you are going to be that way, I suggest that you go to a site like digg or reddit where they like for bury stories and comments that they don't like instead of coming up with an intelligent rebuttal. I for one, come here to slashdot in the hope of seeing some modicum of intelligent discourse.
Nobody is holding a gun to your head to stay on slashdot or comment on stories that you don't like. You can simply just ignore them.
It updates without asking people.. it disables things without asking people... certain types of useful software are internally prevented from ever running on it..
Prior to iOS 5, the only OTA updates that you received were carrier settings updates which is "normal" for smartphones. Maybe a dumb phone is s better fit for you. Settings in the past were disabled by carrier updates. If you have a problem with AT&T, take it up with them. I don't have a problem with the software vetting process especially for something that can access the cellular radio.
it steals information about me - such as my geographical location and uploads it to a server without me asking..
Do you understand how web services work? You have to supply some information to the service in order to get back information. That is how gopher worked and that is how the web works. You can turn off location services and any third party app has to request permission to use your location information.
it won't work unless it has my credit card number..
That is simply not true. You can setup a device without an iTunes account and you can setup an iTunes account without a credit card.
if a hacker did that to my laptop, I'd hunt him down and punch his fucking head in.
This rapid resume feature in Lion is a system wide OS level resume. Apps are not required to be written to support it as it comes for free for all Cocoa apps.
I still fail to see how this is technically possible, short of doing something like suspend-to-disk on per-app level (in which case it wouldn't be limited to Cocoa apps?). Can you give a link to some technical explanation of how it works?
*Sigh* Cocoa is a framework which shares some characteristics with.NET (except Cocoa existed long before) as it is a late binding. With.NET, you can use reflection to serialize and deserialize complex object types while Cocoa uses something called a selector.
Cocoa uses this concept of late building to allow you to have your UI contained within dynamically loaded.nib files which tie into selectors in your objective C class files.
If you are really serious about learning more, just "google it". Some suggested terms include "late binding" or "late binding objective c" or "late binding.net".
You are not getting it at all. This rapid resume feature in Lion is a system wide OS level resume. Apps are not required to be written to support it as it comes for free for all Cocoa apps. Also, the versioning in Lion are delta changes and not copies of the files.
What happens when you go "oops"? I'm a firm believer in cross-pollination, that is, having several versions of critical files laying about on several back up drives. Does this vaporize in the cloud?
Does it appear that they are removing your choices to do your own local backups? Does it look like they are removing the option to sync via cable? No to both of those questions. So, no it is your choice if you want to rely solely on their iCloud service.
So you are telling us the Android came up with this stuff themselves? Have you seen screenshots of what Android looked like before and after the first iPhone was released? Before the iPhone Android looked like a clone of RIM's BB OS and after it started to look and act like iPhone OS. Funny that. A lot of those features were already present in iOS but now have been more refined. This is an example of evolution of iOS rather than revolution. Really, what did you expect them to do? Ignore end user requests and trends and not bother implementing those features? Really?
I hope that you enjoy your Android phone as much as I enjoy my iOS devices with the plethora of third party application choices. If you feel comfortable giving up all of your privacy to an advertising company like Google then more power to you but not everyone wants to make a bargain with the devil.
How do I enable those features? I'm on a Windows 7 Ultimate work laptop right now. I don't see the reboot and resume feature anywhere or the easy access to versioning.
Android is still largely a smart phone OS whereas iOS (previously know as iPhone OS) started out on the original iPhone but quickly came out on the iPod Touch and then the iPad last year.
Sorry, but the Touch is just a phone-type device without phone capability and the iPad is an oversize phone and has similar limitations. I almost spit out coffee while laughing when I read that comment.
What is your point? Do you have one or are you just trolling? The fact is that the iPad has a larger marketshare and it has a specific build of iOS with specific user controls for the tablet form factor much like how Honeycomb is a special build of Android with some tablet specific user controls. Can you dispute these statements or are we just going to see more hyperbole? When you combine iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad marketshare or install base (take your pick), Android is way behind by either metric. You can write an app that targets iPad only, iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch or iPhone/iPod Touch and still have it work on iPads with upscaling. Again, if you look at either phone form factor only or tablet specific/universal apps iOS is also way ahead of Android.
Let us know when you stop spiting out coffee and can come out with a coherent rebuttal.
No I would disagree. Android has a larger user base then Apple does because it is a "universal" OS for smart phones and mobile devices.
Wait, you are actually serious? Android is still largely a smart phone OS whereas iOS (previously know as iPhone OS) started out on the original iPhone but quickly came out on the iPod Touch and then the iPad last year. Apple has a huge head start over Android on tablet sales and whether you look at install base or marketshare of iOS devices versus all android devices Apple still has a huge lead. You seem to have forgotten about iPod Touches and the huge lead Apple has with the iPad and iPad 2 when you made the bold statement suggesting that Android had a larger user base than Apple.
I would argue that Android is less "universal" because Google had kept Android marketplace off non-phone devices like android based music players and non-3G tablets in the past whereas the Appstore was on all iOS devices as soon as it was introduced.
Meh. I don't. The universe is big. Small odds *will* happen. All conditions you mention will occur in other systems, even within our galaxy. By the way, the moon is being lost, just slowly.
Size has nothing to do with it. If you divide the number of planets other than the earth known to have life (Zero) by the number of stars in the galaxy, you end up with Zero and if you take that same number and divide the number of stars by that number of known planets with life outside of the earth you end up with a divide by zero error. A lot of nothing is still nothing.
Sorry but the burden of proof is on your side, not the other side. You cannot provide any evidence of life on any other planet in our solar system let alone elsewhere. Anything else is just built on conjecture. You might as well call your belief in extraterrestrial life a matter of "faith". It is a faith that I do not share.
All available "evidence" points to the Earth being the only life bearing planet in the universe.
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Where does Windows Mobile fit in here?
Best dev environment... And XNA!
But that means shit for the consumer. It's a shame too, because I really enjoy developing on the WP7.
Not if want to reuse some existing C/C++ code it isn't. MSFT wants everyone to use .NET for everything. Have you checked out the new XCode and the framework iOS offers? XNA is not a full fledged .NET platform so even if you had .NET code you might have to rewrite a lot of it to get it to work with XNA.
I work with .NET all the day for server and desktop software but I am a firm believer in using the right tool for the right job. The debugging and simulation environment for mobile from MSFT is behind the iOS emulator and debugging tools by leaps and bounds.
Even the Desktop/server part of .NET is anemic compared to Cocoa in some areas that are practically "free" in OS X. The IDE will only take you so far.
He goes on to say that they specifically told him that the Apple dev team looked at his app and were impressed.
Last I checked, that would make this a derivative work.
Sorry but no. Unless if Apple copied his code then it is not a derivative work. If anything, his icon was a derivative work of the iSync icon. Apple already had wireless syncing through mobileme for contacts and calendars (now iCloud) and they had "wired" syncing through iTunes. Wireless syncing just combines the two.
Apple was most likely already working on their wireless syncing and probably had to delay it a couple of times already.
You just want to sit back and play armchair general from your parent's basement like a pansy.
why the homophobia?
Are you asking the general public or are you talking to yourself? The meaning of a word is generally influenced by "context". In this case, pansy mean "wimp or coward" since it is in the context of being an armchair "general" in a parent's basement. Your reaction says a lot more about yourself and your feelings. Do you resemble the remark? Do you feel uncomfortable with your sexuality?
you really are the dumbest person ever. suspicionless searches are "anarchy"? get the fuck out of the USA. maybe north korea would fit better with your mentality.
I'm not in the US but thanks for making me feel welcome. Perhaps you would be more comfortable in Somalia. They have so much freedom there as long as you are the warlord with the biggest army.
If you die from either driving drunk or being hit by a drunk driver, none of those damn "rights" are of worth to anyone. You libertarians/anarchists think that "freedom" is equal to a lack of laws but the truth is that anarchy is the opposite of freedom. Why? Because anarchy swiftly degenerates into fiefdoms run by warlords and that means that they only people who feel "free" are the warlords. If you are in constant fear then you are too paralyzed to ever exercise your freedoms that you might think you still have. Freedom is never "free". It must be bought with blood and maintained with some sense of order for the common good. Absolute "freedom" via anarchy is a myth.
Silverlight is actually pretty fantastic for videos. It works so much better than Flash it's ridiculous.
Do you know what works even better for videos? Embedding either the actual video file or a streaming reference to the video file.
Actually removing that lock in would be a wise move to expand further the developers base but IMHO it would be a very un-Applish one. The way to go would not be switching to a single competitor's OS but the Android one, that is a cross platform development system. Just imagine if a Windows update accidentally breaks XCode and there isn't any working development system for iOS for a couple of weeks.
By the way, iOS 5 went the Android way by removing the dependency from a computer. You can use an Android phone without any supporting computer because you can buy and install apps directly from the store and use all the Google's cloud services. Apple still lacks some flexibility (I can attach USB pen drives to my Android phone) but it also went further in some other directions, with the backup and those synchronization little services like syncing ebook's page marks. Hopefully Google will catch up as Apple did. Competition is (often) good.
I don't understand how you were modded insightful. Do you work for google? Android? Really? Any professional developer or developer team can simply buy a mac or series of macs to develop iOS apps on. If you are competent, the initial investment is not a roadblock at all when you compare the cost of human resources for a development team. The macs could also be used for QA testing in the simulator and for testing websites against Safari for mac.
Android is not a full fledged desktop OS. It is a scaled down version of a linux distro.
Apple does not seem to have a problem attracting competent third party developers with X-Code being OS X only.
That's exactly my point. The "plan" is to use a nice underground multi-story carpark. Until bean counters decry it's cheaper to just tarmac over everything which has no direct commercial value.
Hopefully Apple can get it right.
Uh, it is mostly tarmac right now. This is Steve Jobs that we are talking about. What Steve Jobs wants, Steve Jobs gets. No bean counter who values their job would get in the way of the CEO of a company.
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Somehow, that puts Apple in 9th place - best in practice where it actually matters, poor in clear communications.
This is really no different from how Mr. Al Gore talks the big talk about global warming but has big cars and a huge electric bill on his mansion while George W. Bush has a ranch which is off the grid and uses solar energy to heat the hot water for the house.
I don't care whether you supported Bush and his parties policies but in his personal life he is more environmentally conscientious than Gore who is all talk and no action.
I'm quite capable of vetting software for myself. If I wanted a dumb phone which restricted me to what apple says I can install on it, then I would get an iphone.
At the time, yes. You do a lookup, it comes back with the information. There is no reason to store it permanently, unencrypted, by default, and not tell you unless you read page 50 of the small print in the license. Most people found out when they saw it on the news. Some sued.
I'd rather not.
A dumb phone is a phone that can make and answer calls, send and receive texts and possibly browse WEP internet and listen to MP3s. The iPhone is a smartphone and not a "people with too much time on their hands" phone. Normal people want apps and games that "just work".
The only information sent to Apple was the IDs of nearby Cell towers and their relative strength. The information idiots were complaining about was stored on the device and it was used as a CACHE to speed up location services and reduce the amount of requests sent to Apple during the AGPS process. All of that information was about the NETWORK and not the user and was stored for the benefit in a CACHE file. Apple has since reduced functionality by truncating that CACHE periodically and deleting it when Location services is toggled off. This means that the tin foil hatters are now causing sane people to download more data than before if they toggle location services on and off whereas before the data was more persistent.
You claim to be capable of vetting software yourself but you assume that everyone wants that responsibility and you seem to be confused about the reason for a CACHE file. If you are not interested in iOS then why are you here commenting on the story?
The fact remains that a credit card is not required.
In the programming world, I always got the impression that, collectively, we respected the self-taught coder more than one who spent four years in school being spoon fed how to code.
With that statement I can tell you did not go to college, I have a CS degree but did not go to college to learn how to code, it would take a year tops to teach some one how to code and what typically happens is that the freshman year is a syntax year, the complex logic is taught later so the students don't have to struggle with learning the syntax and logic at the same time.
I am almost at a loss for words. Do you really believe that software development as a discipline has anything to do with syntax? Are you confusing syntax with design patterns? Syntax is an attribute of a particular language and not writing code so learning the syntax of one language is not going to help you in a language with a dissimilar syntax style. Are you certain that you went to university? Logic is something that can be taught however application of logic in innovative ways is something which requires a specific temperament which cannot be taught easily in a class room. Some people call this natural talent.
People interested in writing software should be screened to see if they have a logical mind. I would recommend a test be given with a series of logical problems to be solved. I would also recommend that students be taught how to map out specific problems in logical "pseudo" code before they learn a specific syntax of a language. It is vital to be able to write out or story board user stories before you exert the effort to actually "code" something because the team can discuss what the roadblocks or dependencies are and give some rough estimates on efforts/complexity.
I would say the opposite that more formal education you had in a technical filed the more respect you are given, most program managers have a Masters or higher in their field if not then a bachelors and many years of experience there are a few outliers on both sides but unless you plan an starting your own company formal education will get you further.
This is most certainly true however I would argue that much of the automatic respect is undeserved. It should be earned through accomplishments and overall throughput on the job. University degrees miss out a lot of soft skills that are essential these days for becoming a productive developer. Anyone can be taught to write Java code but not everyone can write good code.
You might want to do some googling before posting things like that here. iOS is build on Darwin which has a hybrid Mach/BSD kernel. The sandboxing which "jailbreaking" destroys is based on BSD jails. Look it up for yourself.
1. 'hacker' writes paid for application, gets said app accepted to the market.
2. 'hacker' then commands his droves of exploited iDevices to purchase said app.
3. 'hacker' profits.
How does "hacker" exploit the iDevices in the first place if they are not jailbroken and therefor easily exploitable? He cannot go through the app store with an initial exploit.
Oh, so you can run emulator software on it now, can you?
Or compile source code into packages that you can install onto it?
Or go into the boot up processes and turn off or configure any services that you don't want or want to run differently?
Or create a specific account to run the OS will much fewer permissions so that you're more secure due to the tighter restrictions you've placed yourself under?
So basically, you want to run a linux desktop or server. Guess what? Not everyone wants a "computer" let alone a server and just want to "do things" on the internet, play games or create some type of creative work. Previously, they had to use a "computer" to do that but now they can use an internet appliance like an iPad instead.
There will always be developer using "computers" to create all of that great software that runs on devices like the iPad but not every average joe wants a computer.
More people need to pay attention to http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl and mod stories like this into oblivion.
If you are going to be that way, I suggest that you go to a site like digg or reddit where they like for bury stories and comments that they don't like instead of coming up with an intelligent rebuttal. I for one, come here to slashdot in the hope of seeing some modicum of intelligent discourse.
Nobody is holding a gun to your head to stay on slashdot or comment on stories that you don't like. You can simply just ignore them.
It updates without asking people.. it disables things without asking people... certain types of useful software are internally prevented from ever running on it..
Prior to iOS 5, the only OTA updates that you received were carrier settings updates which is "normal" for smartphones. Maybe a dumb phone is s better fit for you. Settings in the past were disabled by carrier updates. If you have a problem with AT&T, take it up with them. I don't have a problem with the software vetting process especially for something that can access the cellular radio.
it steals information about me - such as my geographical location and uploads it to a server without me asking..
Do you understand how web services work? You have to supply some information to the service in order to get back information. That is how gopher worked and that is how the web works. You can turn off location services and any third party app has to request permission to use your location information.
it won't work unless it has my credit card number..
That is simply not true. You can setup a device without an iTunes account and you can setup an iTunes account without a credit card.
if a hacker did that to my laptop, I'd hunt him down and punch his fucking head in.
Yeah right.
This rapid resume feature in Lion is a system wide OS level resume. Apps are not required to be written to support it as it comes for free for all Cocoa apps.
I still fail to see how this is technically possible, short of doing something like suspend-to-disk on per-app level (in which case it wouldn't be limited to Cocoa apps?). Can you give a link to some technical explanation of how it works?
*Sigh* Cocoa is a framework which shares some characteristics with .NET (except Cocoa existed long before) as it is a late binding. With .NET, you can use reflection to serialize and deserialize complex object types while Cocoa uses something called a selector.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_(API)#Late_binding
Cocoa uses this concept of late building to allow you to have your UI contained within dynamically loaded .nib files which tie into selectors in your objective C class files.
If you are really serious about learning more, just "google it". Some suggested terms include "late binding" or "late binding objective c" or "late binding .net".
You are not getting it at all. This rapid resume feature in Lion is a system wide OS level resume. Apps are not required to be written to support it as it comes for free for all Cocoa apps. Also, the versioning in Lion are delta changes and not copies of the files.
What happens when you go "oops"? I'm a firm believer in cross-pollination, that is, having several versions of critical files laying about on several back up drives. Does this vaporize in the cloud?
Does it appear that they are removing your choices to do your own local backups? Does it look like they are removing the option to sync via cable? No to both of those questions. So, no it is your choice if you want to rely solely on their iCloud service.
So you are telling us the Android came up with this stuff themselves? Have you seen screenshots of what Android looked like before and after the first iPhone was released? Before the iPhone Android looked like a clone of RIM's BB OS and after it started to look and act like iPhone OS. Funny that. A lot of those features were already present in iOS but now have been more refined. This is an example of evolution of iOS rather than revolution. Really, what did you expect them to do? Ignore end user requests and trends and not bother implementing those features? Really?
I hope that you enjoy your Android phone as much as I enjoy my iOS devices with the plethora of third party application choices. If you feel comfortable giving up all of your privacy to an advertising company like Google then more power to you but not everyone wants to make a bargain with the devil.
Windows 7.
How do I enable those features? I'm on a Windows 7 Ultimate work laptop right now. I don't see the reboot and resume feature anywhere or the easy access to versioning.
Sorry, but the Touch is just a phone-type device without phone capability and the iPad is an oversize phone and has similar limitations. I almost spit out coffee while laughing when I read that comment.
What is your point? Do you have one or are you just trolling? The fact is that the iPad has a larger marketshare and it has a specific build of iOS with specific user controls for the tablet form factor much like how Honeycomb is a special build of Android with some tablet specific user controls. Can you dispute these statements or are we just going to see more hyperbole? When you combine iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad marketshare or install base (take your pick), Android is way behind by either metric. You can write an app that targets iPad only, iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch or iPhone/iPod Touch and still have it work on iPads with upscaling. Again, if you look at either phone form factor only or tablet specific/universal apps iOS is also way ahead of Android.
Let us know when you stop spiting out coffee and can come out with a coherent rebuttal.
No I would disagree. Android has a larger user base then Apple does because it is a "universal" OS for smart phones and mobile devices.
Wait, you are actually serious? Android is still largely a smart phone OS whereas iOS (previously know as iPhone OS) started out on the original iPhone but quickly came out on the iPod Touch and then the iPad last year. Apple has a huge head start over Android on tablet sales and whether you look at install base or marketshare of iOS devices versus all android devices Apple still has a huge lead. You seem to have forgotten about iPod Touches and the huge lead Apple has with the iPad and iPad 2 when you made the bold statement suggesting that Android had a larger user base than Apple.
I would argue that Android is less "universal" because Google had kept Android marketplace off non-phone devices like android based music players and non-3G tablets in the past whereas the Appstore was on all iOS devices as soon as it was introduced.
Meh. I don't. The universe is big. Small odds *will* happen. All conditions you mention will occur in other systems, even within our galaxy. By the way, the moon is being lost, just slowly.
Size has nothing to do with it. If you divide the number of planets other than the earth known to have life (Zero) by the number of stars in the galaxy, you end up with Zero and if you take that same number and divide the number of stars by that number of known planets with life outside of the earth you end up with a divide by zero error. A lot of nothing is still nothing.
Sorry but the burden of proof is on your side, not the other side. You cannot provide any evidence of life on any other planet in our solar system let alone elsewhere. Anything else is just built on conjecture. You might as well call your belief in extraterrestrial life a matter of "faith". It is a faith that I do not share.
All available "evidence" points to the Earth being the only life bearing planet in the universe.