Every store in America has policies on what they will sell and almost every one will tell you they wont carry anything that might reflect negatively on them. Apple does not want to get in the middle of a political pissing match or a slander/libel lawsuit so it tries to avoid selling things that might piss people off. Just like every other business in America.
Thats all utter BS. There is no lock because its not really all that hard to port from an iPhone app to a Android app. There are plenty of examples already in use.
PS android is crap and is doomed precisely because no one can do what Steve can on the iPhone "make rules". Android is forking out all over and developing for it requires considerable cash as you'll need to buy a large number of test units to get things right. The Droid behaves different from a Nexus which is slightly different from a HTC etc.
Walk into any store and you know what you'll see. You'll see hundreds of games for locked down limited consoles and portables and a handful of sad pathetic games for general PCs.
You mean all other devices are crippled by an unnecessary replaceable battery. By forgoing removability you double the battery size and lose no functionality. There is no need to remove a battery to enable another to be added. There are plenty of external battery packs available for Mac laptops and iPod/iPhones and they are easier to carry the a spare battery. They don't require you to shut down you laptop and turn it upside down. They can be used with multiple devices and multiple models of laptops. And they come in many sizes from "just give me an extra hour" to "gee I don't know i've never actually ran it all the way down".
Oh and number of people I know that have a spare battery 0.
Now there is one big pile of BS. Apple's policies in now way effect other platforms. And do you really this its impossible to take a iPod program written in C and port it to Android. Must not be as there are already Android ports of iPhone Apps.
Unrelated but I stand by my Batshit statement. I know several people like you communicating 24/7 but never really saying anything. People that are connected to everything are connected to nothing.
So you listen to music on your phone while listening to music on your laptop thru your SqueezeBox with powerpoint open on your phone but not being used even though your carrying you laptop and apparently your SqueezeBox while IMing and reading eMail. I just bet your driving too. Oops forgot your also on Skype.
Reality proves you wrong. Take sound grenade, a stupid little app that plays a sound after a period of time elapses that the maker wrote it in a hour to see if he could. He now makes over $100 an hour off of click thru ads in the free version.
$100 an hour from an attempt to make as crappy an app as possible!
Nothing prevents a Flash to native compiler from being used. As long as it is a flash to NATIVE compiler and not a Flash interpreter or computability layer.
Oh yes I forgot how dare evil Apple expect that iPhone apps actually be written for the iPhone?
um dude....its always said that! And by private APIs they mean undocumented Apple APIs. As long as an engine or framework fallows the guidelines its inclusion is fine also.
True with the Pre you can listen to Pandora and run your company into bankruptcy at the same time. (sorry had to do it)
But seriously the only difference I can see is that on the iPhone apps(other than mail) cant open other apps(other than Safari)(which seems like a good ideal to me). True you get an icon instead of the full screen preview but if you can't remember what you were doing in a program it probably shouldn't still be running.
Nothing in the world is stopping you from doing anything you want with the hardware. Just dont expect to still use Apples software and services if you do.
seeing as the only use for multitasking on a phone anyone has come up with is listening to Pandora or using Skype (both of which they demoed) I think they covered it pretty well.
The iControlPad team are in contact with their IP lawyer,
A company whose entire business is based on violating someone else's copyrights has an IP lawyer? Everything iControlPad has done is based on violating Apple's copyrights but they want the patent system on there side even if they ignored it until now.
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Yeah keep believing that fantasy. Google does not allow consumers to install apps from outside the Android Marketplace.
Apple -to install a non-App store app you need to use the SDK.
Google -to install a non-App store app you need to use the SDK.
Apple has complete control over its store. Even though it is not a monopoly by definition, it is still an unsettling issue.
And Google has complete control over Android but nobodies bitching.
Do Nintendo, Microsoft, and PlayStation take cuts from all applications sold on their platforms?
Yes they do.
Things are not looking good for my "Whack'a'Ballmer with your boobies" Flash game getting into the App Store.
No politics or religion.
Thats the basic principal here.
Every store in America has policies on what they will sell and almost every one will tell you they wont carry anything that might reflect negatively on them. Apple does not want to get in the middle of a political pissing match or a slander/libel lawsuit so it tries to avoid selling things that might piss people off. Just like every other business in America.
well this will piss some people off but....
Exactly what does Apple hold a monopoly over?
STYLE my friend, style.
Thats all utter BS. There is no lock because its not really all that hard to port from an iPhone app to a Android app. There are plenty of examples already in use.
PS android is crap and is doomed precisely because no one can do what Steve can on the iPhone "make rules". Android is forking out all over and developing for it requires considerable cash as you'll need to buy a large number of test units to get things right. The Droid behaves different from a Nexus which is slightly different from a HTC etc.
Walk into any store and you know what you'll see. You'll see hundreds of games for locked down limited consoles and portables and a handful of sad pathetic games for general PCs.
You mean all other devices are crippled by an unnecessary replaceable battery. By forgoing removability you double the battery size and lose no functionality. There is no need to remove a battery to enable another to be added. There are plenty of external battery packs available for Mac laptops and iPod/iPhones and they are easier to carry the a spare battery. They don't require you to shut down you laptop and turn it upside down. They can be used with multiple devices and multiple models of laptops. And they come in many sizes from "just give me an extra hour" to "gee I don't know i've never actually ran it all the way down".
Oh and number of people I know that have a spare battery 0.
Will this mean Felicia Day as the Scarlet Witch?!
Then use C or C++ dummy!
Now there is one big pile of BS. Apple's policies in now way effect other platforms. And do you really this its impossible to take a iPod program written in C and port it to Android. Must not be as there are already Android ports of iPhone Apps.
The world disagrees
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1600105/mind-language
About the Java part that is, Access and IE are both horrible nightmares that should be burned from the earth.
Unrelated but I stand by my Batshit statement. I know several people like you communicating 24/7 but never really saying anything. People that are connected to everything are connected to nothing.
My point was that you dont do all of those at the same time and 4.0 solves all of those issues.
Do you even realize how batshit insane that is.
So you listen to music on your phone while listening to music on your laptop thru your SqueezeBox with powerpoint open on your phone but not being used even though your carrying you laptop and apparently your SqueezeBox while IMing and reading eMail. I just bet your driving too. Oops forgot your also on Skype.
Reality proves you wrong. Take sound grenade, a stupid little app that plays a sound after a period of time elapses that the maker wrote it in a hour to see if he could. He now makes over $100 an hour off of click thru ads in the free version.
$100 an hour from an attempt to make as crappy an app as possible!
Nothing prevents a Flash to native compiler from being used. As long as it is a flash to NATIVE compiler and not a Flash interpreter or computability layer.
Oh yes I forgot how dare evil Apple expect that iPhone apps actually be written for the iPhone?
Oh I remember PORTED CODE SUCKS!
Read as "Native code only please" not really a big deal
um dude....its always said that!
And by private APIs they mean undocumented Apple APIs. As long as an engine or framework fallows the guidelines its inclusion is fine also.
True with the Pre you can listen to Pandora and run your company into bankruptcy at the same time. (sorry had to do it)
But seriously the only difference I can see is that on the iPhone apps(other than mail) cant open other apps(other than Safari)(which seems like a good ideal to me). True you get an icon instead of the full screen preview but if you can't remember what you were doing in a program it probably shouldn't still be running.
Um they can dummy.
Nothing in the world is stopping you from doing anything you want with the hardware. Just dont expect to still use Apples software and services if you do.
seeing as the only use for multitasking on a phone anyone has come up with is listening to Pandora or using Skype (both of which they demoed) I think they covered it pretty well.
5Gb can hold a lot of 30x320 banners. If you dont want video and animation don't click on them stupid.
Yep Priority one make sure the developers can make money doing this.
Priority two no outdated technology like Flash or Java
their product is totally dependent on jailbreaking the phone and unlicensed use of the dock connector.
The iControlPad team are in contact with their IP lawyer,
A company whose entire business is based on violating someone else's copyrights has an IP lawyer?
Everything iControlPad has done is based on violating Apple's copyrights but they want the patent system on there side even if they ignored it until now.