OK this is a niche adaption of a production vehicle. And it's no doubt very expensive. But it shows that you are not highlighting any fundamental problems.
This list is also from a nation that's famous for its industrial espionage, which is a big part of communism.
The USA is also famous for it's industrial espionage. US Spy programmes such as Echelon pass secrets of foreign companies along to American companies. So it's not really a feature of communism.
And in any case there hasn't been much communist about China for many a long year.
I can understand the motivation. People who are entering a new destination to their satnav whilst driving are paying very little attention to the road and are a big hazard.
But the only way to implement it on a handheld device is to restrict by speed. And I quite often like to monitor where I am with GPS when I'm on public transport. So I'd lose that. As would people who are navigating from the passenger seat of a car.
Apple's OpenGL ES drivers are as good as anyone else's. But OpenGL always was an abstraction, and over the years the amount to which it's model deviates from how GPUs work has only got bigger. Which means all software going through OpenGL is slow compared with the lower level APIs such as DX and Metal. Worse, it introduces latency.
OpenGL is a case where writing for portability results in getting inferior results on ALL platforms. And these days, the vast majority of games developers aren't using OpenGL directly and don't have their own graphics engines. They are using third party engines such as Unreal Engine. It's far better for the engine creators to build on Metal, DX or whatever low level API there is on a platform than to suffer the inefficiencies of OpenGL.
It sucks for Linux users, left with the slowest API of the lot. But everyone else gains.
Actually your claim is not true. If you have a device with a later OS, you can't downgrade the OS by restoring. But you are not forced to upgrade to the latest OS.
e.g. I you have iOS 6 and want to restore from a backup made with iOS 5, then that's not a problem. You are not forced to upgrade to iOS 7.
The GP's post was an ad-hominem against Steve Jobs. My point is implicit - it's not for less creative people to call more creative people "uncreative".
A formula for calculating binder group colors in telecom plant records. It's only 1 line of code, but it's industry standard now. Probably the biggest effect I'll ever have on the world other than my son.
Excellent. Well we can see that even Steve Jobs' slide to unlock patent beats that. Then there's another 316 patents to chose from.
And you?
Don't tend to call industry changing people with huge creative accomplishments, "uncreative". And therefore don't have to give away who I am in order to prove myself.:-)
Your link explains. It's a very old phone that's not powerful enough to run iOS7. The same is NOT true of Androids. Androids typically get an update at maybe 6 months old, and then never get any more. The problem is that device manufacturers and networks don't feel any incentive to update them beyond that. It's not because they are no longer powerful enough.
You said "Apple OS updates are free of charge". OSX updates were not always free of charge.
Which would be why I didn't say "Apple OS updates were always free of charge."
Really, so because this device does 'auto updates' it is OK because here are no third party risks? isn't the same true for all IOS devices since they all use the app store?
Except it is already a proven market, with large companies and some great products.
In your dreams. There are no commercially successful smartwatches. They all bombed.
It is unlikely to get involved in consoles...
Noted, so I can say I told you so later.
but android is there first
The Android Ouya also completely failed in the market, despite you previously predicting it was going to be a market beater. There have been no successful Android consoles.
The bottom line is Apple can't even right drivers as fast as Linux...they run 15 year old games as a tenth of the speed.
the whole point is Apple is relying on past glories...and those under Jobs.
If that's your point, you're misinformed. Apple just had it's most impressive WWDC since the launch of the iPhone. It's for developers, so it's understandable you don't know. But it presages some very exciting products when they do their hardware announcements in the fall.
What exactly does this mean? Android has updates as well. (FUD on your part)?
Android updates for phones come a long time after Google releases, if at all. Few Android phones get more than one update. Apple updates are available to all compatible devices on the day of release.
Perhaps true now, but in the past apple charged a fee for its updates.
Apple never charged for iPhone updates. OSX used to be charged, but now they are not. And that's on of the reasons adoption is so high. The past is irrelevant.
Apple TV doesn't just download them, it installs as well, unless Apple's website is incorrect in which case you can have them update it with the correct info.
Quite possibly. Neither of us have Apple TV, and it's not what we were talking about. It's OK to do auto updates on that because there is are no third party app compatibility risks, whilst the most compatibility with the various services will always be with the latest OS version.
It's in beta. It's likely to be open sourced once it's ready. Apple have far more to gain than to lose by doing so, and in such circumstances Apple does release source. Expect to find it here:
There's been more money to be made with Objective-C than most other languages these last few years. Possibly than any other language. And that has only one serious target. Well two if you count iOS and OSX separately.
That should make Swift a very good bet. However, it's early days yet - the language is certainly not finalised even for a 1.0 release, and the documentation is skimpy. Most people would probably be best to wait a year.
I have no idea how successful the iwatch will be, what I do know, it is already a long way from being perceived as being first.
You don't even know whether there will be a watch.
All the smartwatches so far have been awful, and commercial failures. Apple will only make one if they have a different concept of it, such that they can make a device people want. Otherwise they won't bring out a smartwatch.
Given this years WWDC, a game console is far more likely than a watch. And they are unlikely to launch into 2 new categories in the same year.
Sure, it'll download updates. And it'll notify you about them. But it won't install them without your permission.
Neither with iOS do updates without your permission.
I notice you neglected to address the extent to which Apple makes it hard to "roll back" an update, instead focusing on the "forced update" angle?
That would be because you said one thing that was wrong, not two things that were wrong.
But more to the point than the one you got right, the reasons for the extremely high adoption rate are: 1) The updates are actually made available, and promptly, unlike Android. 2) The users are all informed that they are available, and the installation made simple. 3) All OS updates are free of charge. 4) There's a buzz around new versions. Not just amongst enthusiasts and tech media, but in the mainstream media.
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OK this is a niche adaption of a production vehicle. And it's no doubt very expensive. But it shows that you are not highlighting any fundamental problems.
And that's way more safe than wearing a blindfold whilst driving.
What's the matter with you? If you need to set a destination, do it before you start driving. If you need to change destination, pull over.
What's it like knowing that the only thing people will remember you for is that you're a dick?
Some people need to take a long hard look at themselves in the mirror. And I don't mean Billy.
Every company that licenses patents wants other companies to use them and pay for a license, and will sue if they use them and don't pay.
This list is also from a nation that's famous for its industrial espionage, which is a big part of communism.
The USA is also famous for it's industrial espionage. US Spy programmes such as Echelon pass secrets of foreign companies along to American companies. So it's not really a feature of communism.
And in any case there hasn't been much communist about China for many a long year.
I can understand the motivation. People who are entering a new destination to their satnav whilst driving are paying very little attention to the road and are a big hazard.
But the only way to implement it on a handheld device is to restrict by speed. And I quite often like to monitor where I am with GPS when I'm on public transport. So I'd lose that. As would people who are navigating from the passenger seat of a car.
Tricky one.
Apple's OpenGL ES drivers are as good as anyone else's. But OpenGL always was an abstraction, and over the years the amount to which it's model deviates from how GPUs work has only got bigger. Which means all software going through OpenGL is slow compared with the lower level APIs such as DX and Metal. Worse, it introduces latency.
OpenGL is a case where writing for portability results in getting inferior results on ALL platforms. And these days, the vast majority of games developers aren't using OpenGL directly and don't have their own graphics engines. They are using third party engines such as Unreal Engine. It's far better for the engine creators to build on Metal, DX or whatever low level API there is on a platform than to suffer the inefficiencies of OpenGL.
It sucks for Linux users, left with the slowest API of the lot. But everyone else gains.
Thanks for the laugh!
Actually your claim is not true. If you have a device with a later OS, you can't downgrade the OS by restoring. But you are not forced to upgrade to the latest OS.
e.g. I you have iOS 6 and want to restore from a backup made with iOS 5, then that's not a problem. You are not forced to upgrade to iOS 7.
? You invented that?
Or are you replying to the wrong post, and suggesting Steve Jobs did? He certainly did that, but he didn't invent it.
The GP's post was an ad-hominem against Steve Jobs. My point is implicit - it's not for less creative people to call more creative people "uncreative".
A formula for calculating binder group colors in telecom plant records. It's only 1 line of code, but it's industry standard now. Probably the biggest effect I'll ever have on the world other than my son.
Excellent. Well we can see that even Steve Jobs' slide to unlock patent beats that. Then there's another 316 patents to chose from.
And you?
Don't tend to call industry changing people with huge creative accomplishments, "uncreative". And therefore don't have to give away who I am in order to prove myself. :-)
You've not even covered the tip of the iceberg of what was revealed at WWDC.
Why doesn't IOS 7 work on an iPhone 3GS?
Your link explains. It's a very old phone that's not powerful enough to run iOS7. The same is NOT true of Androids. Androids typically get an update at maybe 6 months old, and then never get any more. The problem is that device manufacturers and networks don't feel any incentive to update them beyond that. It's not because they are no longer powerful enough.
You said "Apple OS updates are free of charge". OSX updates were not always free of charge.
Which would be why I didn't say "Apple OS updates were always free of charge."
Really, so because this device does 'auto updates' it is OK because here are no third party risks? isn't the same true for all IOS devices since they all use the app store?
1. Yes.
2. No.
Except it is already a proven market, with large companies and some great products.
In your dreams. There are no commercially successful smartwatches. They all bombed.
It is unlikely to get involved in consoles...
Noted, so I can say I told you so later.
but android is there first
The Android Ouya also completely failed in the market, despite you previously predicting it was going to be a market beater. There have been no successful Android consoles.
The bottom line is Apple can't even right drivers as fast as Linux...they run 15 year old games as a tenth of the speed.
Clearly you also haven't heard of Metal.
Updating to iOS7 was the ONLY way to get the SSL/TLS bug fixed, so yeah, it was pretty much forced.
Wrong. Apple released a patch for iOS 6 on the same day as the iOS7 fix for that bug.
the whole point is Apple is relying on past glories...and those under Jobs.
If that's your point, you're misinformed. Apple just had it's most impressive WWDC since the launch of the iPhone. It's for developers, so it's understandable you don't know. But it presages some very exciting products when they do their hardware announcements in the fall.
Why not just denominate it to how one can refer to "creative-centric" vs. "logic-centric" thinking.
Perhaps one shouldn't. They are not opposing forces. Before the belief in such a dichotomy we had people like Leonardo da Vinci.
It's common for people to be gifted in both regards. I know a guy who is both a rocket scientist (literally) and a composer.
Although it's being reported on the Forbes site, that's not the Forbes list. That's the Brandz list. Apple is still number one on the Forbes list.
But OK, Apple is number 2 and Beats still isn't on the list. The point is the same.
What exactly does this mean? Android has updates as well. (FUD on your part)?
Android updates for phones come a long time after Google releases, if at all. Few Android phones get more than one update. Apple updates are available to all compatible devices on the day of release.
Perhaps true now, but in the past apple charged a fee for its updates.
Apple never charged for iPhone updates. OSX used to be charged, but now they are not. And that's on of the reasons adoption is so high. The past is irrelevant.
Apple TV doesn't just download them, it installs as well, unless Apple's website is incorrect in which case you can have them update it with the correct info.
Quite possibly. Neither of us have Apple TV, and it's not what we were talking about. It's OK to do auto updates on that because there is are no third party app compatibility risks, whilst the most compatibility with the various services will always be with the latest OS version.
It's in beta. It's likely to be open sourced once it's ready. Apple have far more to gain than to lose by doing so, and in such circumstances Apple does release source. Expect to find it here:
http://opensource.apple.com/
Of course it won't be GPL though. It'll be one of the truly free licenses, such as BSD.
There's been more money to be made with Objective-C than most other languages these last few years. Possibly than any other language. And that has only one serious target. Well two if you count iOS and OSX separately.
That should make Swift a very good bet. However, it's early days yet - the language is certainly not finalised even for a 1.0 release, and the documentation is skimpy. Most people would probably be best to wait a year.
It's symptomatic of the decline of standards of Slashdot that this comment has not been modded down.
I have no idea how successful the iwatch will be, what I do know, it is already a long way from being perceived as being first.
You don't even know whether there will be a watch.
All the smartwatches so far have been awful, and commercial failures. Apple will only make one if they have a different concept of it, such that they can make a device people want. Otherwise they won't bring out a smartwatch.
Given this years WWDC, a game console is far more likely than a watch. And they are unlikely to launch into 2 new categories in the same year.
Sure, it'll download updates. And it'll notify you about them. But it won't install them without your permission.
Neither with iOS do updates without your permission.
I notice you neglected to address the extent to which Apple makes it hard to "roll back" an update, instead focusing on the "forced update" angle?
That would be because you said one thing that was wrong, not two things that were wrong.
But more to the point than the one you got right, the reasons for the extremely high adoption rate are:
1) The updates are actually made available, and promptly, unlike Android.
2) The users are all informed that they are available, and the installation made simple.
3) All OS updates are free of charge.
4) There's a buzz around new versions. Not just amongst enthusiasts and tech media, but in the mainstream media.