Calibre is the OSX app with the worst UI I've ever seen. And VLC is pretty bad too, though not as bad as Calibre. So I guess using Qt on OSX isn;t such a great idea.
Although Google Earth is OK. So perhaps if you are careful...
I certainly don't believe all new languages gain traction. Most don't. However this one will. Because Apple supply the standard development environment and language for iOS and OSX development. Which means that this will be shipped to all developers that it's applicable to. By design it's an upgrade over the existing language.
The only way you could think that this doesn't affect iOS and OSX developers is if your own knowledge of programming languages ended at BASIC.
You can't have it both ways. You can't criticise the iPhone for having a single walled garden, and then disclaim all the bad stuff on any Android app store other than Google Play.
And no, clicking a toggle in the settings is not the equivalent of doing a jailbreak.
Clone apps can of course be an issue whereever you download software from. At least with the Apple App Store, once the cloner has been identified and the IP ownership established, the cloner can be removed. With Android there is no removing them. Google Play might do so, but they'll still be available on other Android stores.
I was in the library a couple of months ago, and there was an IT skills class for adults going on. Must have been the first class because the teacher was telling the class about clicking on stuff with the mouse. And clearly some of the class were confused about which button to click with because I heard the teacher tell them that if the button they pressed doesn't do what they want they should try the other button.
All users go through this. I know because after I was very familiar with two button mice, I tried Linux and RiscOS which has uses for all three buttons. And they take time to develop muscle memory for too.
When the Mac started out, pretty much no one knew how to use a mouse. At that time it made sense to limit mouse buttons to a single one.
For sure I think that Apple shipped a single button mouse with their computers for too long. People who are confident with mice outnumbered people who weren't by maybe 2000. Switching to a 2 button mouse at the same time as going to OSX would have been sensible.
I believe the reason they did it was in order to make sure that software authors didn't hide functionality under right click menus. To make sure that menu was merely a convenient alternative, not the primary way of manipulating on screen objects.
I've just checked it out. That game is available in South Africa. If it wasn't when you tried it's because the author neglected to check the checkbox for South Africa.
Which country? Are you talking about a country that isn't served by the Apple App Store? Or an app author that chose not to sell in that particular country?
As a Linux fan you value customisability and tinkerability over usability, good design and security. Which is the opposite of most users. What appeals to you is not what appeals to the majority. Which is one reason your desktop OS never achieved any market presence.
Indeed. Apple's very clear about its privacy policies, and they are so much better than Google's. And of course we know that their actions match their policies because everything on IP is sniffable.
It's stupid to think just because one company's business model is to spy on you and use that to advertise to you, so is every other company's. Apple makes it's money from selling devices. It doesn't need to spy on you.
I don't understand your point. Swift having none of the baggage of C doesn't make any promises about other languages that you may have in your project.
Just as using Javascript in your project doesn't make any promises about the existing PERL code in your project.
Heck, on Android, you can call C-language APIs from Java. That doesn't mean that the benefits of Java don't exist.
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Spoken as someone who clearly doesn't develop apps. Most app development is UI work.
Calibre is the OSX app with the worst UI I've ever seen. And VLC is pretty bad too, though not as bad as Calibre. So I guess using Qt on OSX isn;t such a great idea.
Although Google Earth is OK. So perhaps if you are careful...
His team probably has its reasons for using or requiring GDB. And you know what? They're probably pretty damn legitimate reasons, too.
Probably, probably eh? That's a really convincing argument right there.
Drivel.
To deal with just one piece of your drivel.
Your M$-xx and iOS-xx are easy targets for malware, and that is a fact, not so much on my side of the fence.
Virtually all mobile malware is for Linux (Android). None of it in 2013 was for iOS, and precious little in any preceding year.
http://www.mcafee.com/uk/secur...
I certainly don't believe all new languages gain traction. Most don't. However this one will. Because Apple supply the standard development environment and language for iOS and OSX development. Which means that this will be shipped to all developers that it's applicable to. By design it's an upgrade over the existing language.
The only way you could think that this doesn't affect iOS and OSX developers is if your own knowledge of programming languages ended at BASIC.
You can't have it both ways. You can't criticise the iPhone for having a single walled garden, and then disclaim all the bad stuff on any Android app store other than Google Play.
And no, clicking a toggle in the settings is not the equivalent of doing a jailbreak.
Clone apps can of course be an issue whereever you download software from. At least with the Apple App Store, once the cloner has been identified and the IP ownership established, the cloner can be removed. With Android there is no removing them. Google Play might do so, but they'll still be available on other Android stores.
I was in the library a couple of months ago, and there was an IT skills class for adults going on. Must have been the first class because the teacher was telling the class about clicking on stuff with the mouse. And clearly some of the class were confused about which button to click with because I heard the teacher tell them that if the button they pressed doesn't do what they want they should try the other button.
All users go through this. I know because after I was very familiar with two button mice, I tried Linux and RiscOS which has uses for all three buttons. And they take time to develop muscle memory for too.
When the Mac started out, pretty much no one knew how to use a mouse. At that time it made sense to limit mouse buttons to a single one.
For sure I think that Apple shipped a single button mouse with their computers for too long. People who are confident with mice outnumbered people who weren't by maybe 2000. Switching to a 2 button mouse at the same time as going to OSX would have been sensible.
I believe the reason they did it was in order to make sure that software authors didn't hide functionality under right click menus. To make sure that menu was merely a convenient alternative, not the primary way of manipulating on screen objects.
The author's ignorance is not Apple's guilt. The author controls the countries the app is sold in.
this was the game Avernum in South Africa
I've just checked it out. That game is available in South Africa. If it wasn't when you tried it's because the author neglected to check the checkbox for South Africa.
Which country? Are you talking about a country that isn't served by the Apple App Store? Or an app author that chose not to sell in that particular country?
As a Linux fan you value customisability and tinkerability over usability, good design and security. Which is the opposite of most users. What appeals to you is not what appeals to the majority. Which is one reason your desktop OS never achieved any market presence.
And what does this tell of?
http://rootandroidphone.com/ho...
You chose a really bad example there. When an iOS app accesses the location, then a purple arrow appears in the status bar. As standard.
No need to install an alternative OS and an app before seeing this.
It's over a million now.
It is my experience that the MAC users are the least knowledgeable users
A MAC is a hardware identifier number for networking. Perhaps you meant Mac - short for Macintosh.
It's my experience that people who don't get simple capitalisation of technical terms right are not very knowledgeable.
It's no accident that iOS is far more secure than Android.
We know you haven't been affected by a language since BASIC.
Indeed. Apple's very clear about its privacy policies, and they are so much better than Google's. And of course we know that their actions match their policies because everything on IP is sniffable.
It's stupid to think just because one company's business model is to spy on you and use that to advertise to you, so is every other company's. Apple makes it's money from selling devices. It doesn't need to spy on you.
With a good product, you don't have to spend time making it work well. Have you learned nothing from the awfulness of desktop Windows?
With the result that all mobile web-pages work pixel perfectly with all iPhone browsers. Because they are all developed for the iOS webkit.
With Android browsers you may have problems.
This is clearly a made up story. Pure troll.
I don't understand your point. Swift having none of the baggage of C doesn't make any promises about other languages that you may have in your project.
Just as using Javascript in your project doesn't make any promises about the existing PERL code in your project.
Heck, on Android, you can call C-language APIs from Java. That doesn't mean that the benefits of Java don't exist.
We'll leave that motto to Google.
If DuckDuckGo does ever follow Google towards the dark side, we can swap again.