Relative to their hardware sales, Apple makes almost no money from third-party developers. It's a rounding-error by comparison.
But native-apps do create a good experience for users. Which helps users decide to buy, and stick with iPhones.
So native-apps are certainly important for Apple, but not in the way you've alluded to. They make money off them, yes, but that's more because of the principle that Apple thinks each part of their company should be able to stand alone without leaning on the others.
Like many commenters here have already implied, Apple sees the web as the web and native-apps as native-apps, and never the twain shall meet. That web-apps are trying to get the same privilege as native-apps is purely, PURELY a convenience for the developer, not the user.
Heck, I want an easy life and easy money too. I feel the pull of the mob that would march up and down in front of 1 Infinite Loop, chanting "Why shouldn't the developers in Apple work their butt off to make MY life easier? Why can't I just stay inside my web-app box and get the benefits of native?"
Well, that's because Apple's order of precedence is: Themselves, their users, 3rd party developers.
So is the calculated running speed a sprint, or something a bit more like an endurance effort?
I mean, I'm sure many of us could outrun a t-rex. For about 30 seconds, at which point our lungs will start imploding and rexy gets an easy, wheezy meal.
Gruber is suggesting a Pro version might be able to help Apple spread its operations and logistics issues when it comes to sourcing components for the latest iPhone.
Apple's problem is not as simple as putting better stuff into the hardware. It's doing that 1 million times a day, every day, for every new version of iPhone that hits the shelves. He suggests a Pro version of the device at a high price-point would give them some breathing space when doing that.
Just imagine the logistics of just boxing and shipping 1 million of *anything* every day, let alone sourcing, assembling and testing something as complex and impressively well built (for this scale of engineering) as an iPhone.
Jokes are funny because they say something about reality.
Apple release 1 new phone per year in 2 sizes.
Samsung released more than 30 phones in 2016, and have released around 15 already in 2017.
On top of this, Apple have a recycling program, a refurbishing program, years-long hardware and software support, and their devices have astonishingly high resale prices considering they're, well, computers. They're great "hand-me-down" phones in families because of how easy it is to backup/restore/upgrade the software across generations of devices.
So I dunno man. I'm not saying you're wrong about many Apple users, but the news is about Apple itself increasing its environment efforts, perhaps with the eventual goal of being able to sell phones every year and for that to be cool ecologically as well as fashionably.
Take Tel Aviv for example, where everyone over the age of 13 can receive personalized data, such as traffic information, and can access free municipal Wi-Fi in 80 public zones. But in a future where robots sound and objects look increasingly sentient, we might be less inclined to seek out behaviors to abate our loneliness.
Yes, traffic information and free Wifi. The calm before the storm of city-wide sentience.
It's commands interpreted as motor-actions in my hands that punch the keys that contribute to the endless drivel that passes in front of other peoples eyes/brains.
Nonsense! The humans aren't the problem, but their machines.
Good call! And yes, this is exactly why we need many duplicate Earths with many different conditions, against which we can separate the signal from the noise. Earth is a complex system, and the more we have the more chance we have of really determining cause and effect on a large scale.
Slashdot Mirror
Things I hate:
1. Graffiti
2. Irony
3. Lists
Hey, kind of like human society in general.
Saying that, this is certainly not how I experienced television when I used to watch it. Interactions went a little more like...
... you still have to answer two important questions.
1. Is a warmer planet bad?
2. Can government do something without destroying the economy
One of those questions is more important than the other.
I think a better question view would be: "Do we have another Earth with which to re-run the experiment?"
It's not the Internet that's the problem, but people who have no idea what it is and how it works.
TL;DR: Take a moment to understand what it is, and realise we already have what we want.
Relative to their hardware sales, Apple makes almost no money from third-party developers. It's a rounding-error by comparison.
But native-apps do create a good experience for users. Which helps users decide to buy, and stick with iPhones.
So native-apps are certainly important for Apple, but not in the way you've alluded to. They make money off them, yes, but that's more because of the principle that Apple thinks each part of their company should be able to stand alone without leaning on the others.
Like many commenters here have already implied, Apple sees the web as the web and native-apps as native-apps, and never the twain shall meet. That web-apps are trying to get the same privilege as native-apps is purely, PURELY a convenience for the developer, not the user.
Heck, I want an easy life and easy money too. I feel the pull of the mob that would march up and down in front of 1 Infinite Loop, chanting "Why shouldn't the developers in Apple work their butt off to make MY life easier? Why can't I just stay inside my web-app box and get the benefits of native?"
Well, that's because Apple's order of precedence is: Themselves, their users, 3rd party developers.
Cable-markers my good fellow.
If you have enough cables to worry about what goes where, then cable-markers will very likely be part of your inventory.
Or at the very least you'll have cables of different colours.
Joke's on them. We'll just produce twice as much!
So is the calculated running speed a sprint, or something a bit more like an endurance effort?
I mean, I'm sure many of us could outrun a t-rex. For about 30 seconds, at which point our lungs will start imploding and rexy gets an easy, wheezy meal.
They just need a bit of help.
Stack Overflow, Codecademy, Sitepoint, W3 Schools, JS-beautifier, and more besides, all just a click away in a Google search.
I'm grateful for the huge progress in browser dev-tools, but why does anyone need to view-source to get into web programming anymore?
Is the summary correct...???
No, it's not.
Gruber is suggesting a Pro version might be able to help Apple spread its operations and logistics issues when it comes to sourcing components for the latest iPhone.
Apple's problem is not as simple as putting better stuff into the hardware. It's doing that 1 million times a day, every day, for every new version of iPhone that hits the shelves. He suggests a Pro version of the device at a high price-point would give them some breathing space when doing that.
Just imagine the logistics of just boxing and shipping 1 million of *anything* every day, let alone sourcing, assembling and testing something as complex and impressively well built (for this scale of engineering) as an iPhone.
I'm waiting for the headline, "Is Betteridge's Law True?"
You'll wait as long as it takes to get an accurate, researched summary from Slashdot.
Gruber did not "claim the iPhone 8 will start at $1,200".
Did I answer them for you?
So in summary, it's magnets all the way down?
You having an iPhone or not doesn't factor into my reply.
Jokes are funny because they say something about reality.
Apple release 1 new phone per year in 2 sizes.
Samsung released more than 30 phones in 2016, and have released around 15 already in 2017.
On top of this, Apple have a recycling program, a refurbishing program, years-long hardware and software support, and their devices have astonishingly high resale prices considering they're, well, computers. They're great "hand-me-down" phones in families because of how easy it is to backup/restore/upgrade the software across generations of devices.
So I dunno man. I'm not saying you're wrong about many Apple users, but the news is about Apple itself increasing its environment efforts, perhaps with the eventual goal of being able to sell phones every year and for that to be cool ecologically as well as fashionably.
I typed "2,147,483,647 + 1" into my old iPad calculator app and it said 2,147,483,648!
I'm not a programmer, but maybe the answer is to just rewrite your website to use the iPad calculator?!
I hear Apple have sold like, 1 billion of them or something, so you'll be able to use it a billion times two billion at least!
How about 4K video of the last explosion?
That's what this is. It's just the explosion is controlled this time.
I think not!
You said it, brother.
...of equal importance to Freedom of Speech?
And what about the ears of the poor censors deciding what's good or bad to be heard?
This is nonsense. There's no such thing as a "Pinboard subscription". You pay a one-off fee to sign-up.
However, the more people who sign-up, the higher the sign-up fee gets.
I think I paid about $5 for mine back in the day and haven't paid a cent since.
You broke my non-sequitur-ometer.
Take Tel Aviv for example, where everyone over the age of 13 can receive personalized data, such as traffic information, and can access free municipal Wi-Fi in 80 public zones. But in a future where robots sound and objects look increasingly sentient, we might be less inclined to seek out behaviors to abate our loneliness.
Yes, traffic information and free Wifi. The calm before the storm of city-wide sentience.
It's commands interpreted as motor-actions in my hands that punch the keys that contribute to the endless drivel that passes in front of other peoples eyes/brains.
I've seen delayed email notifications before, but not really noticed the "stuck" message at the bottom of the page.
It currently says "Programmers do it bit by bit"...
without the humans
Nonsense! The humans aren't the problem, but their machines.
Good call! And yes, this is exactly why we need many duplicate Earths with many different conditions, against which we can separate the signal from the noise. Earth is a complex system, and the more we have the more chance we have of really determining cause and effect on a large scale.