Most programming doesn't need a degree, and I find it weird that there are now more people in programming departments with degrees than there were 20 years ago, despite the fact that this is supposedly easier to do.
We can all pick out the Googles, Amazons and the Pixars, but the biggest problems in software development are in the scoping and analysis, now, not in the programming. Someone might say that method A performs string concatenation better than method B, but the chances are that you'll need to run a million cycles to even notice the performance difference.
And... this is why I like Android. Because this won't get allowed by either store, but will at least last a while on someone's website.
Am I saying that this is OK? Yes, I am. Sony should approach the guy and make him a reasonable offer and market it themselves and coin it in. I'll hand over money for an official Lemmings for Wii and Lemmings for Android, if they make it available.
These were apps which were deceptively described. Not someone coming up with a "guidofy" app which Apple then banned because they decided they didn't like the use of the term "guido". And yes, I'd be absolutely cool with Apple removing apps that did something other than what they claimed to do.
I don't see anything wrong with Android removing genuinely malicious applications. If an app is sending my personal data to Latvian spammers, then I'm happy with Google killing it.
For apps which do something other than what they say they do, I like your idea better.
Either way, I think people should be notified of the app removal. But I can't get that worked up about it because I know that I can always get.apks anyway (I have an app that was removed from the store installed).
The problem is that all those things got replaced with something better. We lost ports to USB, Wired networking to wireless, floppy drives to networks and usb sticks. I know there's apps to replace Flash on iOS, but that's not standard everywhere.
I'm not saying that Adobe would do it out of petty revenge. If Apple were falling in market share, then why not just leave them to fade away? Would Adobe want a revitalised Apple who could then crap on them all over again?
Exactly. I don't care if Flash sucks the life out of my battery. Maybe I have a spare in my pocket, maybe I'm nearly at home, maybe I'm just goofing around on my phone while I'm sat in bed and will plug it in to charge as soon as I've done something.
And I know people have a "but users won't understand" perspective, but no-one tells people that they can't tow a caravan with their car, despite the fact that it makes it drive slower and use a lot more fuel. There's making computing easy, and there's crippling useful functionality.
If you look at the latest iPhone, how much innovation is there in it? It's thinner, has a better screen, camera lens and longer battery time, but these are gradual improvements which are really little different to what's happening in the laptop world.
When your goddamn phone can allow me to type long documents, edit a flowchart or even watch a movie at a decent size, I'll declare the PC as dead.
An unfortunate fact for all these hyperbolic tech wankers is that actually, phone innovation (in terms of the handsets and apps) is pretty much flat now. The new iPhone has what? thinner, slightly better screen, a better camera?
I'm not saying these aren't improvements but they're just gradual improvements in the same way that processors or things like SSD drives are.
Looking out for the customer's best interest in terms of the services that the business offers is in the best interest of the business.
Quite. Bean counters don't see this. They don't see the customers walking away, the customers who aren't telling their friends about the great service at Verizon, the people talking to friends who say "don't you know you can just block those services", the impact on business if a leak like this happens on people's general view of whether to trust Verizon in future.
Some of the most successful big stores in the UK are those which have good service. M&S and John Lewis have both been around for 90 years. Both are shops that will say "have you tried (competitor)" if they don't have something in stock, or they don't have something you like.
I've really got to wonder if Apple have basically given up on desktops/laptops except as a luxury product to people who are certified Macheads, super-rich or need to code for the iPhone.
Maybe they just don't want to bother competing in that area now?
It has an Apple logo on the back. People will just buy it anyway.
I've compared UK prices with the Zino HD and it just doesn't match up at all for a living room computer. The Zino has a mighty 1TB hard drive, Blu-Ray, 6GB of RAM, a 512mb GFX card and it's £100 cheaper than the Mini.
Yeah, it's taller, but is that really a killer factor? The Dell will still fit on a shelf, and you wouldn't put anything on top anyway.
I'm not too fearful of Apple, because I just don't believe that paper books are really going anywhere. If people think I'm going to buy an ebook for $12 (where I have to pay for the device) over a $15 hardback, they've got another thing coming. I'm not saying there aren't people who ebook readers work for. A friend of mine is constantly travelling, so a Kindle saves her space on carrying books.
And the app goldrush is about over. It's been part useful, part fad. Someone coming up to you and showing you a new app is tedious now. And in 3 months, everyone will have seen an iPad.
When I read what people have to do to share files from PC to their iPad, it's just hideous. Upload to Dropbox, and download at the other end. I've got to wonder if these things are going to get abandoned soon (and the web stats are showing almost no increase in market share).
This is different to Walmart deciding not to carry content its store owners find objectionable, how?
Mostly because WalMart doesn't have a key to your DVD player. If WalMart don't provide what you need then you can go elsewhere.
Now, you have a choice, you don't have to buy Apple's stuff. You can reject the walled garden. The good thing about articles like this is making consumers more aware of their choices.
almost any good app on iPhone has an Android equivalent. Games are about the only space where iPhone has much advantage.
Using Nielsen's figures, Android grew as much in Q1 as iPhone did.
Is it a co-incidence that the report came out just before WWDC?
But the big thing as far as I'm concerned is that Apple did very little this week to stop Android. The screen is the one good feature, and I'm really not sure how much difference that makes. At best, it puts them a nose ahead of the competition, but as Froyo rolls out with Flash, hotspot features, and dozens more phones this year, Apple will start to feel it.
The thing is that you can choose the evil path, often when you're at the top of the game, exploit suppliers, annoy customers who are locked into your infrastructure, but you're just storing up resentment. Eventually, you'll piss them off so much that they'll leave.
Apple might see these decisions as hitting Adobe or Google, but they're also pissing off a lot of developers. When those devs switch to Android, that harms Apple's store. It makes Android more enticing to customers. My theory is that jobs doesn't really get 3rd party developers. They've never exactly looked after them well on Macs.
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Most programming doesn't need a degree, and I find it weird that there are now more people in programming departments with degrees than there were 20 years ago, despite the fact that this is supposedly easier to do.
We can all pick out the Googles, Amazons and the Pixars, but the biggest problems in software development are in the scoping and analysis, now, not in the programming. Someone might say that method A performs string concatenation better than method B, but the chances are that you'll need to run a million cycles to even notice the performance difference.
You owe me weeks of my life back ;)
And... this is why I like Android. Because this won't get allowed by either store, but will at least last a while on someone's website.
Am I saying that this is OK? Yes, I am. Sony should approach the guy and make him a reasonable offer and market it themselves and coin it in. I'll hand over money for an official Lemmings for Wii and Lemmings for Android, if they make it available.
I'll have to upload my changes to the Kobayashi Maru
These were apps which were deceptively described. Not someone coming up with a "guidofy" app which Apple then banned because they decided they didn't like the use of the term "guido". And yes, I'd be absolutely cool with Apple removing apps that did something other than what they claimed to do.
I think there's 2 things here...
Either way, I think people should be notified of the app removal. But I can't get that worked up about it because I know that I can always get .apks anyway (I have an app that was removed from the store installed).
Seriously, they do some real nice stuff for these kids.
I like the original Logan's Run, and it's a good story, but I don't think it's a classic. It could be remade as a better film.
The problem is that all those things got replaced with something better. We lost ports to USB, Wired networking to wireless, floppy drives to networks and usb sticks. I know there's apps to replace Flash on iOS, but that's not standard everywhere.
I'm not saying that Adobe would do it out of petty revenge. If Apple were falling in market share, then why not just leave them to fade away? Would Adobe want a revitalised Apple who could then crap on them all over again?
Exactly. I don't care if Flash sucks the life out of my battery. Maybe I have a spare in my pocket, maybe I'm nearly at home, maybe I'm just goofing around on my phone while I'm sat in bed and will plug it in to charge as soon as I've done something.
And I know people have a "but users won't understand" perspective, but no-one tells people that they can't tow a caravan with their car, despite the fact that it makes it drive slower and use a lot more fuel. There's making computing easy, and there's crippling useful functionality.
This assumes that Adobe then don't tell Steve to go f**k himself.
... pray he does not alter it further.
If you look at the latest iPhone, how much innovation is there in it? It's thinner, has a better screen, camera lens and longer battery time, but these are gradual improvements which are really little different to what's happening in the laptop world.
When your goddamn phone can allow me to type long documents, edit a flowchart or even watch a movie at a decent size, I'll declare the PC as dead.
An unfortunate fact for all these hyperbolic tech wankers is that actually, phone innovation (in terms of the handsets and apps) is pretty much flat now. The new iPhone has what? thinner, slightly better screen, a better camera?
I'm not saying these aren't improvements but they're just gradual improvements in the same way that processors or things like SSD drives are.
Looking out for the customer's best interest in terms of the services that the business offers is in the best interest of the business.
Quite. Bean counters don't see this. They don't see the customers walking away, the customers who aren't telling their friends about the great service at Verizon, the people talking to friends who say "don't you know you can just block those services", the impact on business if a leak like this happens on people's general view of whether to trust Verizon in future.
Some of the most successful big stores in the UK are those which have good service. M&S and John Lewis have both been around for 90 years. Both are shops that will say "have you tried (competitor)" if they don't have something in stock, or they don't have something you like.
I've really got to wonder if Apple have basically given up on desktops/laptops except as a luxury product to people who are certified Macheads, super-rich or need to code for the iPhone.
Maybe they just don't want to bother competing in that area now?
I'm actually surprised that they kept the DVD drive. I guess when Apple start sending out OSX on a USB stick, it will be gone.
It has an Apple logo on the back. People will just buy it anyway.
I've compared UK prices with the Zino HD and it just doesn't match up at all for a living room computer. The Zino has a mighty 1TB hard drive, Blu-Ray, 6GB of RAM, a 512mb GFX card and it's £100 cheaper than the Mini.
Yeah, it's taller, but is that really a killer factor? The Dell will still fit on a shelf, and you wouldn't put anything on top anyway.
That's £100 more than the Dell Zino HD which comes with 6GB of RAM, 1TB hard drive, 512mb graphics card and a blu-ray drive.
it is taller, though, and lacks the all-important Apple logo.
I'm not too fearful of Apple, because I just don't believe that paper books are really going anywhere. If people think I'm going to buy an ebook for $12 (where I have to pay for the device) over a $15 hardback, they've got another thing coming. I'm not saying there aren't people who ebook readers work for. A friend of mine is constantly travelling, so a Kindle saves her space on carrying books.
And the app goldrush is about over. It's been part useful, part fad. Someone coming up to you and showing you a new app is tedious now. And in 3 months, everyone will have seen an iPad.
When I read what people have to do to share files from PC to their iPad, it's just hideous. Upload to Dropbox, and download at the other end. I've got to wonder if these things are going to get abandoned soon (and the web stats are showing almost no increase in market share).
This is different to Walmart deciding not to carry content its store owners find objectionable, how?
Mostly because WalMart doesn't have a key to your DVD player. If WalMart don't provide what you need then you can go elsewhere.
Now, you have a choice, you don't have to buy Apple's stuff. You can reject the walled garden. The good thing about articles like this is making consumers more aware of their choices.
But the big thing as far as I'm concerned is that Apple did very little this week to stop Android. The screen is the one good feature, and I'm really not sure how much difference that makes. At best, it puts them a nose ahead of the competition, but as Froyo rolls out with Flash, hotspot features, and dozens more phones this year, Apple will start to feel it.
And when developers decide not to write an app for iPhone because they think that Admob on Android is more profitable? How will you feel then?
The thing is that you can choose the evil path, often when you're at the top of the game, exploit suppliers, annoy customers who are locked into your infrastructure, but you're just storing up resentment. Eventually, you'll piss them off so much that they'll leave.
Apple might see these decisions as hitting Adobe or Google, but they're also pissing off a lot of developers. When those devs switch to Android, that harms Apple's store. It makes Android more enticing to customers. My theory is that jobs doesn't really get 3rd party developers. They've never exactly looked after them well on Macs.