iOS wasn't the first, lets make that clear now. There have been other smartphone OSes for years. They just aren't really popular because they are more or less directed at geeks and a niche of business people.
The iPhone is just REALLY popular because something made the general public LOVE the damn thing. Geeks don't always love it. Business people don't always love it, but a vast amount of people do. It was really the first smartphone type device (its a little weak when compared to other smartphones, no argument) that the general public WANTED to use. Maybe it was the ads (Doubt it, they sucked), maybe its just because its trendy, maybe because its the right mix of tech and easy of use for the common man (my personal opinion), or maybe its just the hand of God... err Steve that makes people buy it, I really don't know.
What I do know is... no one else has figured it out either cause there still isn't any competition thats owning its target markets like iOS is.
As for making money. Lets be realistic. Android right now means a few sales, not moderate sales. It will certainly increase as devices are being sold, but it doesn't have anywhere near the installed base as iOS does. Which means your choice really is
Option 1: Have a large target market with a tiny amount of devices to target right now and the potential for it to get smaller later and completely ignore Android.
OR
Option 2: Have a small market now, have to target a bunch of different devices to reach the entirety of that market, and have the potential for that market to grow later. Completely ignore iOS.
Except those aren't the only options.
Option 3: The intelligent option is to target the iPhone now and make money off it now, maybe develop an Android version if there is interest after you release the iOS version and build it out as time goes on and the demand for Android apps goes up and you know people actually WANT your application and are willing to pay for it.
If you think Option 1 and 2 are the only ones, you're an idiot and you'd be really shitty at running your own business. You don't put all your eggs in one basket. You do take advantages of 'easy money' now and you PLAN for how to make money in the future, which means investing some effort into Android as soon as you have the spare resources, which could be today, could be next year.
Whatever you do, you don't back yourself into a corner of some retarded ideological philosophy because you're fanboying it up for Linux. You won't even find a successful company that revolves around Linux that does NOTHING but stuff for Linux.
Except the statistics don't match what's seen in the wild. They simply aren't believable if you compare what you actually seen in the wild.
That's my point.
I realize pointing out the descrepancy between reality and what slashdot wants it to be just results in a -1 troll, but I'll point it out anyway. At least a few people will think about it rather than just turning into a red faced gambit such as yourself. Your blinded but what you want to see and ignore the fact that the data doesn't match real world observations at all and have no explination as to why.
You can warp statistics anyway you want, what I see in the world at large does not reflect the numbers you seem to come up with.
If its so popular, why do when I sit down in a group of 8 people, I'll see 4 iPhones, a couple Nokia's and one Android based device. Its not like its a one time event, it happens consistently.
Perhaps you guys should start getting your numbers outside of LinuxCon 2010?
Ready to eat there lunch? Uhm, you know what browsers are beating Mozilla's browsers? Ones doing almost the exact opposite, cutting down on features and bloat and making the browser fast rather than a GUI toolkit with everything built in.
Mozilla is just too big and bulky to compete with anyway. They are like Oracle for the most part. They aren't competition anymore not because the others are out doing them, but because they are killing themselves.
Firefox at this stage is a very large pile of suck, I know many of you haven't realized it yet because of some extension that you think you can't possibly live without, but really, wake up and smell the coffee.
And, of course, if you don't encrypt your session with your bank, your money WILL get stolen. Encyption provides most of your (transactional) banking security.
Really? by who? Stop trying to be OMFG SCARY, you're an idiot.
There are 4 NSPs between me and my bank, and none of them give a flying fuck about any of my information, its not worth their time.
Its safer to use encryption, and you most certainly should, but as a network admin myself, no one is going to watch enough traffic to steal your bank info, the network I admin handles the traffic of roughly 2 million people, and there are FAR easier and FAR FAR safer ways I could steal money random peoples money than to sniff a banking session.
Again, you should use encryption, but you're just an idiot if you think the way you're going to lose money from your bank account is because someone is sniffing your traffic, its far easier to just run a credit report based on someones name, which can get you their social, which can get you more information.
Sniffing is WAY fucking too much work to bother with on anything other than your neighbor, and even then, its still way more difficult than just sneaking shit out of their mailbox, even considering the computer can do it fully automated.
I started out as a developer who pirated everything In 9th grade because that was the only way I could get anysoftware, I was poor.
Then I grew up, became a real developer, and now I understand EXACTLY what software piracy translates too.
I have a very hard time stealing software now.
If I pirate something it's only because i've already bought it and lost or broken the disk. If I haven't actually paid for it, I just don't use it. I admit, occasionally I pirate before I buy, but only after I've commited to buying it and find I can't buy it and download it from somewhere legally.... It's funny how growing up changes ones perspective. If doesn't, I think there is probably something wrong with you.
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Or venders of backup software.
Or venders of desktop software, like Google Desktop which picks up new files instantly, or iPhoto which gets new photos as they are created, or Windows Explorer which updates its view automatically when a change is made without the need for polling.
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Or copying the Windows kernel, which had it before OSX existed or, copying any other OS that had it before Windows.
The most important part... When the Brits show up with a warship and machine guns, the argument ends. Sealand has never actually functioned outside of Englands control and never will.
Anyone who thinks they can go there and get by with shit thats illegal elsewhere is just retarded. Who's going to defend them? One of the other tiny island countries that barely manages to exist on their own? Its certainly not going to be any country that has any size and matters from a military point of few since all those countries are going to have the exact same problem with Pirate Bay...
Whats better, as has happened in the past, when someone other than Britain shows up and just takes it over, what then? No ones going to come to their aid... just like last time.
The entire rest of the world considers it to be part of Britain, no one recognizes it as a sovereign state. That pretty much ends the argument.
She won't cause a sex scandal, won't get sick, won't refuse to sign a new contract, can perform in two places at the same time, doesn't need rest, won't forget her underwear unless scripted etc etc.
While the avatar may not be effected by any of those things, the people controlling the avatar are. They will get sick, they will refuse to sign a new contract, they can't perform in two places at the same time, the do need rest etc etc
When 'AI' gets to the point that it can be fully functional without human support, than its likely they'll also have all the same problems as humans, except maybe the rest part, but even those will need rebooted at some point too.
In American at least, 'Pop Idols' have been avatars for years. Just figure heads. None of them write their own music, they just perform what someone else wrote for them, and have their voices corrected with software so the dogs stop howling.
As far as the scandalous behavior, thats one of the biggest selling points they have. The only time someone gets hurt by their scandalous behavior is when Disney owns them, or they rape children, other than that, pretty much everything they do just makes them more money. I suspect that anything computer generated would need some sort of scandal to actually become anything more than a tiny niche.
If you have to renumber the company you just bought, what you renumber it to is irrelevant. You can renumber it into 10.0.0.0/8 just as easy as any other/8.
This really doesn't help at all, as was originally stated, it just delays the inevitable.
People aren't going to actually DEAL with running of address until we do. Until then, people will continue to operate as normal because its far cheaper to do nothing now and then just do the work later or even better, find out that theres a different solution later.
The problem isn't that switching is hard, its that no one is bothering to do it.
Swing and SWT have always been ridiculously slow, STOP.
Both suck on Windows and Linux JUST as much as OSX. 99% of the time its not the libraries that are the problem its the developers who write shit code because they learned Java in school and aren't actually programmers, just some douche who can cobble together enough code to get it semi-functional.
If you're letting Netbeans or Eclipse build your GUIs, thats your first problem. Its faster to lay them out visually, and its good if you're actually a clueless/newbie programmer but thats where the 'better' part ends.
Java is a second class citizen on every OS. It pretty much always looks like crap compared to native apps, you probably just don't notice it on Linux because pretty much all OSS toolkits look like ass. Sorry if I just insulted your love child, but reality doesn't change based on your fanboing.
As far as cheaper faster tools... well, Xcode is free, and its GCC under the hood so... not really sure how you get that one, 'better' is a matter of opinion, and in this case your comparing crap with crap as Xcode isn't that great and whatever cobbled together 'IDE' you happen to use on Linux is almost certainly shitty too, which you'll learn one you use an IDE that doesn't suck ass.
After you've been out in the real world and have some real experience, then you can comment, right now all you're doing is showing that you have little experience and no grasp on the alternate options available.
Probably only slightly longer than it would have taken for them to get overthrown had they bought Sealand... which is actually under British rule, regardless of how much they want to pretend its not.
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There for, just turn your bank account over to us now and shut the fuck up.
Low level threading and memory management are identical to the majority of java platforms other than windows. The GUI would be different but not difficult, all you have to support is primatives and the rest comes easy.
Java was designed to work across platforms, its been around a while, as such, they've made it pretty freaking easy to port at this point.
The lines that carry Internet traffic are run on public ("government"-owned) land using right of ways granted by "the government".
Wrong. Most of the Internet exists because the lines run along railroad right of ways (which are owned by the railroads, not the government) and on peoples private property.
The lines don't run down the middle of the road, they run along side it... in or on the land that someone paid for and is responsible for, even protecting someone elses internet connection from being damaged.
The government created the Internet, but its unlikely you'll send a packet in the next year that goes over a government owned link unless you're specifically communicating with a government organization.
Your post is simply not true in reality, at least not in the dimension most of us live in.
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iOS wasn't the first, lets make that clear now. There have been other smartphone OSes for years. They just aren't really popular because they are more or less directed at geeks and a niche of business people.
The iPhone is just REALLY popular because something made the general public LOVE the damn thing. Geeks don't always love it. Business people don't always love it, but a vast amount of people do. It was really the first smartphone type device (its a little weak when compared to other smartphones, no argument) that the general public WANTED to use. Maybe it was the ads (Doubt it, they sucked), maybe its just because its trendy, maybe because its the right mix of tech and easy of use for the common man (my personal opinion), or maybe its just the hand of God ... err Steve that makes people buy it, I really don't know.
What I do know is ... no one else has figured it out either cause there still isn't any competition thats owning its target markets like iOS is.
As for making money. Lets be realistic. Android right now means a few sales, not moderate sales. It will certainly increase as devices are being sold, but it doesn't have anywhere near the installed base as iOS does. Which means your choice really is
Option 1: Have a large target market with a tiny amount of devices to target right now and the potential for it to get smaller later and completely ignore Android.
OR
Option 2: Have a small market now, have to target a bunch of different devices to reach the entirety of that market, and have the potential for that market to grow later. Completely ignore iOS.
Except those aren't the only options.
Option 3: The intelligent option is to target the iPhone now and make money off it now, maybe develop an Android version if there is interest after you release the iOS version and build it out as time goes on and the demand for Android apps goes up and you know people actually WANT your application and are willing to pay for it.
If you think Option 1 and 2 are the only ones, you're an idiot and you'd be really shitty at running your own business. You don't put all your eggs in one basket. You do take advantages of 'easy money' now and you PLAN for how to make money in the future, which means investing some effort into Android as soon as you have the spare resources, which could be today, could be next year.
Whatever you do, you don't back yourself into a corner of some retarded ideological philosophy because you're fanboying it up for Linux. You won't even find a successful company that revolves around Linux that does NOTHING but stuff for Linux.
Except the statistics don't match what's seen in the wild. They simply aren't believable if you compare what you actually seen in the wild.
That's my point.
I realize pointing out the descrepancy between reality and what slashdot wants it to be just results in a -1 troll, but I'll point it out anyway. At least a few people will think about it rather than just turning into a red faced gambit such as yourself. Your blinded but what you want to see and ignore the fact that the data doesn't match real world observations at all and have no explination as to why.
You can warp statistics anyway you want, what I see in the world at large does not reflect the numbers you seem to come up with.
If its so popular, why do when I sit down in a group of 8 people, I'll see 4 iPhones, a couple Nokia's and one Android based device. Its not like its a one time event, it happens consistently.
Perhaps you guys should start getting your numbers outside of LinuxCon 2010?
Ordinary? Its turned back into a bloated old Netscape beast, and it doesn't even include the mail gui by default.
Too bad its market share is decreasing because they lost the point and forgot what got people to start using them in the first place.
Ready to eat there lunch? Uhm, you know what browsers are beating Mozilla's browsers? Ones doing almost the exact opposite, cutting down on features and bloat and making the browser fast rather than a GUI toolkit with everything built in.
Mozilla is just too big and bulky to compete with anyway. They are like Oracle for the most part. They aren't competition anymore not because the others are out doing them, but because they are killing themselves.
Firefox at this stage is a very large pile of suck, I know many of you haven't realized it yet because of some extension that you think you can't possibly live without, but really, wake up and smell the coffee.
There is no such thing as 'unpredictable'. There is just 'too hard for us to predict with our current level of technology and available resources'
You should probably learn where that quote is from before saying what should be added.
Really? by who? Stop trying to be OMFG SCARY, you're an idiot.
There are 4 NSPs between me and my bank, and none of them give a flying fuck about any of my information, its not worth their time.
Its safer to use encryption, and you most certainly should, but as a network admin myself, no one is going to watch enough traffic to steal your bank info, the network I admin handles the traffic of roughly 2 million people, and there are FAR easier and FAR FAR safer ways I could steal money random peoples money than to sniff a banking session.
Again, you should use encryption, but you're just an idiot if you think the way you're going to lose money from your bank account is because someone is sniffing your traffic, its far easier to just run a credit report based on someones name, which can get you their social, which can get you more information.
Sniffing is WAY fucking too much work to bother with on anything other than your neighbor, and even then, its still way more difficult than just sneaking shit out of their mailbox, even considering the computer can do it fully automated.
I started out as a developer who pirated everything In 9th grade because that was the only way I could get anysoftware, I was poor.
Then I grew up, became a real developer, and now I understand EXACTLY what software piracy translates too.
I have a very hard time stealing software now.
If I pirate something it's only because i've already bought it and lost or broken the disk. If I haven't actually paid for it, I just don't use it. I admit, occasionally I pirate before I buy, but only after I've commited to buying it and find I can't buy it and download it from somewhere legally. ... It's funny how growing up changes ones perspective. If doesn't, I think there is probably something wrong with you.
Or venders of backup software.
Or venders of desktop software, like Google Desktop which picks up new files instantly, or iPhoto which gets new photos as they are created, or Windows Explorer which updates its view automatically when a change is made without the need for polling.
Or copying the Windows kernel, which had it before OSX existed or, copying any other OS that had it before Windows.
File change notifications aren't exactly new.
Do you know who BUILT it?
The most important part ... When the Brits show up with a warship and machine guns, the argument ends. Sealand has never actually functioned outside of Englands control and never will.
Anyone who thinks they can go there and get by with shit thats illegal elsewhere is just retarded. Who's going to defend them? One of the other tiny island countries that barely manages to exist on their own? Its certainly not going to be any country that has any size and matters from a military point of few since all those countries are going to have the exact same problem with Pirate Bay ...
Whats better, as has happened in the past, when someone other than Britain shows up and just takes it over, what then? No ones going to come to their aid ... just like last time.
The entire rest of the world considers it to be part of Britain, no one recognizes it as a sovereign state. That pretty much ends the argument.
Actually, no, its not, and there are lots of laws designed to prevent this as its essentially bribery by a different name.
While the avatar may not be effected by any of those things, the people controlling the avatar are. They will get sick, they will refuse to sign a new contract, they can't perform in two places at the same time, the do need rest etc etc
When 'AI' gets to the point that it can be fully functional without human support, than its likely they'll also have all the same problems as humans, except maybe the rest part, but even those will need rebooted at some point too.
In American at least, 'Pop Idols' have been avatars for years. Just figure heads. None of them write their own music, they just perform what someone else wrote for them, and have their voices corrected with software so the dogs stop howling.
As far as the scandalous behavior, thats one of the biggest selling points they have. The only time someone gets hurt by their scandalous behavior is when Disney owns them, or they rape children, other than that, pretty much everything they do just makes them more money. I suspect that anything computer generated would need some sort of scandal to actually become anything more than a tiny niche.
No, Elvis is not dead, he just went home.
If you have to renumber the company you just bought, what you renumber it to is irrelevant. You can renumber it into 10.0.0.0/8 just as easy as any other /8.
Yea, and you have to ignore the fact that those high end devices have been IPv6 ready for several years now.
This really doesn't help at all, as was originally stated, it just delays the inevitable.
People aren't going to actually DEAL with running of address until we do. Until then, people will continue to operate as normal because its far cheaper to do nothing now and then just do the work later or even better, find out that theres a different solution later.
The problem isn't that switching is hard, its that no one is bothering to do it.
Swing and SWT have always been ridiculously slow, STOP.
Both suck on Windows and Linux JUST as much as OSX. 99% of the time its not the libraries that are the problem its the developers who write shit code because they learned Java in school and aren't actually programmers, just some douche who can cobble together enough code to get it semi-functional.
If you're letting Netbeans or Eclipse build your GUIs, thats your first problem. Its faster to lay them out visually, and its good if you're actually a clueless/newbie programmer but thats where the 'better' part ends.
Java is a second class citizen on every OS. It pretty much always looks like crap compared to native apps, you probably just don't notice it on Linux because pretty much all OSS toolkits look like ass. Sorry if I just insulted your love child, but reality doesn't change based on your fanboing.
As far as cheaper faster tools ... well, Xcode is free, and its GCC under the hood so ... not really sure how you get that one, 'better' is a matter of opinion, and in this case your comparing crap with crap as Xcode isn't that great and whatever cobbled together 'IDE' you happen to use on Linux is almost certainly shitty too, which you'll learn one you use an IDE that doesn't suck ass.
After you've been out in the real world and have some real experience, then you can comment, right now all you're doing is showing that you have little experience and no grasp on the alternate options available.
Probably only slightly longer than it would have taken for them to get overthrown had they bought Sealand ... which is actually under British rule, regardless of how much they want to pretend its not.
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There for, just turn your bank account over to us now and shut the fuck up.
Low level threading and memory management are identical to the majority of java platforms other than windows. The GUI would be different but not difficult, all you have to support is primatives and the rest comes easy.
Java was designed to work across platforms, its been around a while, as such, they've made it pretty freaking easy to port at this point.
Wrong. Most of the Internet exists because the lines run along railroad right of ways (which are owned by the railroads, not the government) and on peoples private property.
The lines don't run down the middle of the road, they run along side it ... in or on the land that someone paid for and is responsible for, even protecting someone elses internet connection from being damaged.
The government created the Internet, but its unlikely you'll send a packet in the next year that goes over a government owned link unless you're specifically communicating with a government organization.
Your post is simply not true in reality, at least not in the dimension most of us live in.