It operated from 1900 through to the 1990s in Britain. During this time high street had book sellers of all sizes, from the big chains to the small independents. Since it's demise, independents have trouble competing with the chains, and most have gone to the wall. Now some of the big chains of booksellers are going to the wall because of supermarkets and Amazon. Give it another 10 years and there will be nowhere on the high street where you can go to browse books.
People with iOS assume there is not and so are not careful, and so any malware that does get on (and it does occasionally) spreads like wildfire...
No it doesn't.
..and PC's have more malware than ever... and I get none of it because I do not click on the dancing ponies..
It's funny you have a go at iOS users for false confidence. There's been plenty of cases of PC malware delivered by just visiting a website. And plenty of legitimate websites have been hacked and malware placed on them. You don't think you're vulnerable, but you are.
Walled gardens and auditing do not work (even in the article Apple admits that they cannot catch everything)
A small proportion might get through. We're talking about a handful out of half a million. But heres the magic of the walled garden - as soon as Apple do become aware, they can remove it from the store, and from that point no one else can get it. Compare and contrast with platforms that use virus checkers - no one without an up-to-date virus DB is protected.
And then there's a nuclear option. Apple can kill malware that's already been downloaded. Up to now, that option has never been needed, because malware simply hasn't got that far. Contrary to your belief.
iOS is the most secure consumer OS there is - with the possible exception of walled gardens with even higher walls, such as games consoles.
You also ignored the first point I made. If your rules prevent any novel and innovative applications at all, then your rules aren't good enough.
The success of the platform says otherwise. Although there are less iPhones out there than the sum of all the various Android phones, far more iPhone apps are sold than Android apps. Heck, not even sold - there are more downloaded.
The one stop shop with strict rules approach works very well. The rules are more than "good enough".
I don't know, but last week I went to YouTube on my brother's iPad to show him a clip called "Just Glue Some Gears On It (And Call It Steampunk)" and guess what, the official YouTube iPad App refused to play the content saying it was in the wrong format.
Just searched for it on YouTube on my iPad. It plays just fine. Presumably it was a YouTube glitch at the time you tried it.
So no it's not the reality today. Everything on YouTube is watchable on iOS.
2) I'd rather wade through and avoid malware, then prevent the novel and innovative applications from being made.
Well I wouldn't want to wade through malware for the fringe benefits described. That's one of the reasons I don't use Windows.
And "no novel and innovative applications" is not one of the App Store rules. There are plenty of novel and innovative applications. And there are some very reasonable rules about what isn't allowed.
The problem with your analogy is that all of those special tools were *better* at what they did than the drill with attachments was.
Correct. Just like phones and tablets are better for their specialisms.
Other than portability, there is nothing that any of these devices do that is *better* than a PC. (note: computers running OSX are also PCs)
As an example take one of the many apps that allows you to scan the bar code of a product on a store shelf, which then displays what the competitor stores charge for the product and what you can get it for on the internet.
Portability is not something you can just cast off as an irrelevance. It makes lots of apps practical that would be ridiculous on a desktop or laptop.
Take apps that use GPS location and camera apps as more examples of the specialisms where smartphones shine.
Again, you could educate yourself by reading The Invisible Computer by Donald Norman. A very influential book in the mobile industry. Or you could just return your head to your ass.
Is it possible to create an iPad app on an iPad? For something billed as a "computer replacement"
Who billed it as a computer replacement for all tasks? Scan my posts on this topic and you'll find I've already written more than once that development is not a task for tablets.
It's still not a good task for tablets even if they are "open tablets".
Yes, and its all the same watered down crud mostly.
There are apps of a quality never before seen on mobile devices. And if Apple hadn't led the way you wouldn't be seeing them on Android either.
These apps are the ones that take advantage of the mobility and other specialised aspects of mobile devices. As an example take apps that allow you to scan a barcode in a shop, which then looks up what the price of that item is in competitors shops and on the internet. Fantastic.
There are tons of applications that are very useful you'll never see for the walled garden. It will never show up in the App Store, on the portables, or on the consoles. You can't get into the market with your code.
Amongst them are malware, apps with substandard UIs, and apps that are riddled with bugs.
This is without even considering the security nightmare of a central authority for your licensing and other issues. If it goes down or you simply cannot access it, you are screwed.
The App Store being down would only stop you from buying a new app whilst it's down. It doesn't stop the apps you already have from working.
Right. So whenever you talk or write about products you own, that's always about you justifying your purchase to yourself. It's never because you're actually happy with the product.
Exactly. Why doesn't this guy just use a small laptop, notebook, or netbook? He could do more and it would cost less.
Either there is something we are both missing here or it's just a matter of 'oh, shiney!'
If you RTFA you'll see that he already has a MacBook air, that he was using before. If it was better for the tasks, he'd still be using it. For him the benefits seen to be a longer battery life, and a less intrusive UX.
It's also a misleading summary. The guy isn't truly using a tablet as his primary computer, because the first thing he does is get a Bluetooth keyboard.
The summary is quite clear that it's the combination of an iPad with a blutooth keyboard that he using.
What he likes is super-long battery life, built-in mobile broadband, and a clean user interface. Everything tablet-specific -- the touchscreen, the apps, the screen size -- he describes as worse than a laptop.
How are you managing to list "a clean UI" in the positives and "the apps" in the negative?
And how do tables *become* better? Is there a full software development environment that is iOS- or Android-based?
Development is the number one exclusion when it comes to tasks which can be done on tablets. But development is a small niche. There can certainly be a world with a fraction of the numbers of PCs in it, even if not a single developer ever gives up their PC.
20 megapixels times 4 channels ( R, G, B, A ) is 80 megabytes, times the number of layers you put into the image
I doubt very much if it's really a simple "times the number of layers'. Images sometimes have hundreds of layers. It doesn't make sense to allocate memory for the full canvas when only a small fraction is typically used in most layers. I'd imagine Photoshop only holds a full canvas size for the layer you're currently editing.
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There's be a pressure foe the price to rise, against the ever present pressure for technology prices to drop. Maybe the prices will go up.
Then again, serious photography equipment is expensive, and I've seen no shortage of photographers.
You'd call it the Net Book Agreement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Book_Agreement
It operated from 1900 through to the 1990s in Britain. During this time high street had book sellers of all sizes, from the big chains to the small independents. Since it's demise, independents have trouble competing with the chains, and most have gone to the wall. Now some of the big chains of booksellers are going to the wall because of supermarkets and Amazon. Give it another 10 years and there will be nowhere on the high street where you can go to browse books.
Be careful what you wish for.
People with iOS assume there is not and so are not careful, and so any malware that does get on (and it does occasionally) spreads like wildfire ...
No it doesn't.
..and PC's have more malware than ever ... and I get none of it because I do not click on the dancing ponies ..
It's funny you have a go at iOS users for false confidence. There's been plenty of cases of PC malware delivered by just visiting a website. And plenty of legitimate websites have been hacked and malware placed on them. You don't think you're vulnerable, but you are.
Walled gardens and auditing do not work (even in the article Apple admits that they cannot catch everything)
A small proportion might get through. We're talking about a handful out of half a million. But heres the magic of the walled garden - as soon as Apple do become aware, they can remove it from the store, and from that point no one else can get it. Compare and contrast with platforms that use virus checkers - no one without an up-to-date virus DB is protected.
And then there's a nuclear option. Apple can kill malware that's already been downloaded. Up to now, that option has never been needed, because malware simply hasn't got that far. Contrary to your belief.
iOS is the most secure consumer OS there is - with the possible exception of walled gardens with even higher walls, such as games consoles.
You also ignored the first point I made. If your rules prevent any novel and innovative applications at all, then your rules aren't good enough.
The success of the platform says otherwise. Although there are less iPhones out there than the sum of all the various Android phones, far more iPhone apps are sold than Android apps. Heck, not even sold - there are more downloaded.
The one stop shop with strict rules approach works very well. The rules are more than "good enough".
Sure, but he's writer, not a developer. So with a bluetooth keyboard, it is a replacement for him.
What's so difficult about the concept that it can be a replacement for some people's computing needs whilst it isn't for other peoples?
What if their music or their studio setup requires applications the walled garden does not allow?
Example?
I don't know, but last week I went to YouTube on my brother's iPad to show him a clip called "Just Glue Some Gears On It (And Call It Steampunk)" and guess what, the official YouTube iPad App refused to play the content saying it was in the wrong format.
Just searched for it on YouTube on my iPad. It plays just fine. Presumably it was a YouTube glitch at the time you tried it.
So no it's not the reality today. Everything on YouTube is watchable on iOS.
2) I'd rather wade through and avoid malware, then prevent the novel and innovative applications from being made.
Well I wouldn't want to wade through malware for the fringe benefits described. That's one of the reasons I don't use Windows.
And "no novel and innovative applications" is not one of the App Store rules. There are plenty of novel and innovative applications. And there are some very reasonable rules about what isn't allowed.
The problem with your analogy is that all of those special tools were *better* at what they did than the drill with attachments was.
Correct. Just like phones and tablets are better for their specialisms.
Other than portability, there is nothing that any of these devices do that is *better* than a PC. (note: computers running OSX are also PCs)
As an example take one of the many apps that allows you to scan the bar code of a product on a store shelf, which then displays what the competitor stores charge for the product and what you can get it for on the internet.
Portability is not something you can just cast off as an irrelevance. It makes lots of apps practical that would be ridiculous on a desktop or laptop.
Take apps that use GPS location and camera apps as more examples of the specialisms where smartphones shine.
Again, you could educate yourself by reading The Invisible Computer by Donald Norman. A very influential book in the mobile industry. Or you could just return your head to your ass.
Try taking your head out of your ass. You're missing what's going on in the world.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=making+music+on+an+ipad&oq=making+music+on+an+ipad&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2726l7641l0l7727l25l23l1l7l7l0l263l2701l0.8.7l15l0
Is it possible to create an iPad app on an iPad? For something billed as a "computer replacement"
Who billed it as a computer replacement for all tasks? Scan my posts on this topic and you'll find I've already written more than once that development is not a task for tablets.
It's still not a good task for tablets even if they are "open tablets".
Yes, and its all the same watered down crud mostly.
There are apps of a quality never before seen on mobile devices. And if Apple hadn't led the way you wouldn't be seeing them on Android either.
These apps are the ones that take advantage of the mobility and other specialised aspects of mobile devices. As an example take apps that allow you to scan a barcode in a shop, which then looks up what the price of that item is in competitors shops and on the internet. Fantastic.
There are tons of applications that are very useful you'll never see for the walled garden. It will never show up in the App Store, on the portables, or on the consoles. You can't get into the market with your code.
Amongst them are malware, apps with substandard UIs, and apps that are riddled with bugs.
This is without even considering the security nightmare of a central authority for your licensing and other issues. If it goes down or you simply cannot access it, you are screwed.
The App Store being down would only stop you from buying a new app whilst it's down. It doesn't stop the apps you already have from working.
What if that that 121,001st person has malware but can't publish it on the app store due to Apple's policies?
Funny you should use OJ as your analogy.
"The Man from Del Monte... He say YES!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6bKkG_Mrc
You know, outside of slashdot, most people see it as a useful service for a trusted company to do quality assurance for them.
Right. So whenever you talk or write about products you own, that's always about you justifying your purchase to yourself. It's never because you're actually happy with the product.
Exactly. Why doesn't this guy just use a small laptop, notebook, or netbook? He could do more and it would cost less.
Either there is something we are both missing here or it's just a matter of 'oh, shiney!'
If you RTFA you'll see that he already has a MacBook air, that he was using before. If it was better for the tasks, he'd still be using it. For him the benefits seen to be a longer battery life, and a less intrusive UX.
Yeah, that's what is so amazing about all this. It's like the PC never happened.
If only it were true!
But then again, if it's good enough for Picard, it is probably good enough for me.
Picard used an iPad, Kirk used a Windows slate.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2010/10/1/1285932108272/James-Kirk-001.jpg
It's also a misleading summary. The guy isn't truly using a tablet as his primary computer, because the first thing he does is get a Bluetooth keyboard.
The summary is quite clear that it's the combination of an iPad with a blutooth keyboard that he using.
What he likes is super-long battery life, built-in mobile broadband, and a clean user interface. Everything tablet-specific -- the touchscreen, the apps, the screen size -- he describes as worse than a laptop.
How are you managing to list "a clean UI" in the positives and "the apps" in the negative?
And how do tables *become* better? Is there a full software development environment that is iOS- or Android-based?
Development is the number one exclusion when it comes to tasks which can be done on tablets. But development is a small niche. There can certainly be a world with a fraction of the numbers of PCs in it, even if not a single developer ever gives up their PC.
20 megapixels times 4 channels ( R, G, B, A ) is 80 megabytes, times the number of layers you put into the image
I doubt very much if it's really a simple "times the number of layers'. Images sometimes have hundreds of layers. It doesn't make sense to allocate memory for the full canvas when only a small fraction is typically used in most layers. I'd imagine Photoshop only holds a full canvas size for the layer you're currently editing.
I don't know any photographers with only one camera, or only one lens. Why would one computing device be enough?
A desktop PC with a large screen is great for photoshopping. But it's no use at all when you're out and about doing the photography itself.
Here's the ways another photographer uses an iPad in his workflow.
http://terrywhite.com/techblog/archives/7606
It's pretty clear he didn't get anywhere productive until he bought the ZaggFolio keyboard/case.
Keyboards are pretty central to what writers do.
Why else would he devote a blog post to "Hey look! I can write and take pictures with an iPad!"
Because people with blogs like to write blog posts about stuff. A rational person would need no more justification than that.
Hey, whatever mental gymnastics you need to do to make the cited facts reconcile in your head with your preconceived notions.
The fact remains: Android has a fuckton more malware than iOS.