- It's openmoko based, so it's extremely hackable.
Yeah right. Like we're seeing boat loads of freerunner gadgets or apps. I don't even see VPN running on a Freerunner of a WiiMote Freerunner.... And how long has Koolu been working on a consumer quality FreeRunner? I remember USB hacking a freerunner just to get the freaking phone to make a drop-free call. And this device? Wikipedia is a webapp--this is a offline app.
I'll pass.
I rather get a SunSpot over this (of course the sunspot is more $$$). This looks like a good gift for those who don't have enough paperweights.
Hence, they likely never followed the practices of cloud companies and elsson learned when the cloud started.
That's why the sidekick ecosystem failed. Bad design from the beginning (put users' data on the network with no real management/backup, outsource the heck out of it since they can't compete with cloud services and of course, do it the Microsoft way: servers and standalone networked computers), and piss poor management to modernize the system as new tech (i.e. cloud services like S3, GDrive, etc..) was available.
Conclusion: Management WTL! (not T-mobile as they we're the customer!)
Beta doesn't have an impact when you're constantly downloading 2.7GB Xcode-based SDKs that change from version 3.1.1 o 3.1.2 (from the current leader in the smart phone market). Even MSVS makes you wait a year before downloading a few gigs of IDE, not per version of the OS.
Having to download Eclipse IDE (not the full version) and a plugin is refreshing to the developer and the way it should be done.
You're asking Apple to subjectively approve apps, which IMO is a disaster waiting to happen considering the power developers will want it in order to monopolize the appstore. Funny thing is it is likely to happen.
Also considering Apple approval team is like 40-50 people, the 2week approval period will likely goto 4 weeks.
Flashlight app is a great example. It shows there's good simple apps, but yes 90% of the appstore is junk. That I can't sell a 0.99 app that is just a image, an advertisement of my company or wallpaper will set a huge negative spin with devs. And devs are already suffering to get apps online with so much prep materials and requirements of Apple. And when consumers find they can get the same flashlight app for free (and paid versions) on Android, Pre, etc... the house of cards fall hard when contracts are up. Sure AT&T needs Apple, but Apple sure needs AT&T (for those 2yrs contracts).
a. more R&D spent by Apple (the closed ecosystem actually sped up development time)
b. 1yr head start (related to above. and look at openMoko, started 6mos before Apple and they still can't get the startup sequence right!)
c. copied the WinMo approach (water down a version of OSX and slap it on a phone!)
d. 1 hardware builder (part of the closed platform).
Otherwise, it's undeniable the appstore is crucial to making apple better than the other platforms. But iTunes syncing apps, 100MB+ apps and $5 crappy apps such are flooding the market.
To the OP, please tell where an android falls flat on "touch-wise, accelerometer-wise, GPS-wise, compass-wise, iTunes-wise.."... cause I must be stupid as my 1.6 donut does those functions equally or even better thana 3GS (and considering the compass was on all Android phones before it was on the iPhone). Sure it may not have the eye candy or glitzy fad-ins when it comes to UI design, but it works, has the same features and is rock solid...
Otherwise, your fanboy post has FAIL written all over it.
And don't worry: you guys forget the native/JNI layer recently added to Android, slap a snapdragon processor and it will be very hard for Apple to touch with dumping a lot into R&D to create any game changing features (when really the game changers to them are: multitouch, video!?, cut-n-paste!?, MMS!?, appstore).
I have a great idea. Please give me $1.4million to do stuff. I'll get back to you later. Thanks.
Yes, Obama just won some cash for wishful thinking and motivation speaking, just like any startup company or business: isn't that capitalism 101? Michael Moore must be furious!
Yes, the CGI effects were astoundingly good. Best I've ever seen, but special effects to not a great movie make.
Obviously Lucas didn't get the memo.... sitting in his $10K lounge chair, sipping some expensive champagne overlooking the Golden Gate bridge, thinking about his next multimillion dollar project.
Lesson learned:
outsource known manufacturing, sound technology is easy.
outsource 1st time manufacturing, cutting technology is not so easy.
If the 787 provides the target efficiency that Boeing was looking for/advertising, then these delays are worth it. Otherwise, it a total management screw up.
Aircraft + AI == no...
Give the unmanned aircraft predictable behavior (i.e. it doesn't "change"), and provide the human driven aircraft with the proper information to react (actionable data from the unmanned craft) and then they can co-exists.
Allow an unmanned aircraft to "figure it out" and react at the same time with a manned craft is putting the manned aircraft's possibly of an unknown consequence at the top of priority queue.
One of the big hurdles for 'traditional' developers approaching the Palm Pre is that you have to learn up to five new technologies at once
Huh, the learning curve required to learn those 5 things is less than OSX, Obj-C, and XCode--not to miss the appstore cert/provisioning website/setup... and getting used to not having a real delete key (but replacing it with the backspace functionality).
they didn't care.
Pretty much every major website does it (well not exactly GPS, by IP info pretty much tells you 98%). And don't ask about the telcos.
Like Apple doesn't (proprietary = unknown hooks)? Google (it's uber data collecting google)? Microsoft (aka evil empire)?
Right.
(2010) In today's news, Volt, Prius [plugin], and Ford Fusion [plugin] Hybrid sales hit all time highs. In other news, electricity prices reach an all time high due to high than normal consumption.
Also in other news oil prices hit below $30/barrel ($1.50 at the pump) due to decreasing demand.
Sure it may help the environment, but economically and 'dependently', it's a zero sum game. That's right, a game...
Also: unexpected power surge across the nation today as everyone reports Twitter is down.
imagine the amount of power being used (on data centers, routers, switchboards, computers, monitors, data lines, cellphone lines, radio towers, TV stations, newspaper centers, printing presses, etc...) just to spread the word there's a 404 error on www.twitter.com?
Could it be because they can't twitter about what they're doing? So it's back to the good 'ol blog... to blog about why they can't twitter about twitter.
With blogs (i.e. facebook) and twitter and a DDoS, I think we've just experience the 1st internet infinite loop.
The segway replaces normal walking--since the speeds are pretty much the same.
bicycles and motorcycles don't replace walking, you get 'there' faster. Same with cars, planes, trains.
And there's a inverse relationship to size of the mobility device and the time you get to a destination. (Bigger == faster). The segway breaks this rule and is also slow, and expensive from what customers expect.
That's why no one buys it. The smug aspect is why no one likes it.
The reason why Apple is not ignored is because they advertise the few independent devs that have struck it rich with the iPhone SDK and App-store. Sure,a gazllion apps are sold, but how many are currently "in use" (5% likely?). It's the McDonalds psychology: million of burgers sold, but if your burger sucks today, well, those millions mean nothing!
And really (here comes the gripe...), for an SDK that sucks as much as the iPhone (2003 favor of OSX? seriously!) and that you need to pay $99 just to get your [e.g. iFart] app on the store and with accounting for approval risk and deployment risk (that they can pull the app no questions), no wonder why Apple screams how great the appstore is when a indie dev makes $10K on his $1.99 app (note they get their 30% cut too!). They need to, otherwise most devs would say call BS! Note that $99 basically forces you to buy a copy of Xcode...
The appstore is bad, there's a better way, but because of Apple's heavy reliance on heavy advertising of their products, consumers are basically "in The Matrix".
And if the big devs like EA truly get into the iPhone arena, they will lose big time due to one missing technology: multithreading--it's a bit hard to develop a singlethreaded, rich game environment and forget about rich networked games... The big devs see the struggle they'll have with Apple, cause honestly Apple doesn't want the hassles with big devs too since they are dealing with AT&T on the other end.
It appears all the tech mags need are starting up the same old rumors that's it AT&T.
Cause no matter what, AT&T has been the butt of this relationship since the get-go. Apple can do no wrong and if they are, well it "because of AT&T". Sure AT&T can and does suck for most out there (as much as to some with Verizon, Tmo, Sprint), but the real truth is AT&T is the scapegoat of this relationship and the tech mags/blogs promote this strategy because their allegiance is to Tech, which is not AT&T, but companies like Apple.
I would not be surprised if this is retaliation from Google putting Latitude on Safari as a [free] webapp--it promotes nothing of Apple, the iPhone nor the app-store... And it opens the door to more webapps, less dependency on the app-store (less commissions to Apple), free apps and more pressure on Apple to keep Safari robust and standards based.
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If you want lots of technobabble, watch an episode of CSI.
Could be why it's the #1 drama show aside from Law and Order witty court arguments.
- It's openmoko based, so it's extremely hackable.
Yeah right. Like we're seeing boat loads of freerunner gadgets or apps. I don't even see VPN running on a Freerunner of a WiiMote Freerunner.... And how long has Koolu been working on a consumer quality FreeRunner? I remember USB hacking a freerunner just to get the freaking phone to make a drop-free call. And this device? Wikipedia is a webapp--this is a offline app.
I'll pass.
I rather get a SunSpot over this (of course the sunspot is more $$$). This looks like a good gift for those who don't have enough paperweights.
Hence, they likely never followed the practices of cloud companies and elsson learned when the cloud started.
That's why the sidekick ecosystem failed. Bad design from the beginning (put users' data on the network with no real management/backup, outsource the heck out of it since they can't compete with cloud services and of course, do it the Microsoft way: servers and standalone networked computers), and piss poor management to modernize the system as new tech (i.e. cloud services like S3, GDrive, etc..) was available.
Conclusion: Management WTL! (not T-mobile as they we're the customer!)
Beta doesn't have an impact when you're constantly downloading 2.7GB Xcode-based SDKs that change from version 3.1.1 o 3.1.2 (from the current leader in the smart phone market). Even MSVS makes you wait a year before downloading a few gigs of IDE, not per version of the OS.
Having to download Eclipse IDE (not the full version) and a plugin is refreshing to the developer and the way it should be done.
You're asking Apple to subjectively approve apps, which IMO is a disaster waiting to happen considering the power developers will want it in order to monopolize the appstore. Funny thing is it is likely to happen.
Also considering Apple approval team is like 40-50 people, the 2week approval period will likely goto 4 weeks.
Flashlight app is a great example. It shows there's good simple apps, but yes 90% of the appstore is junk. That I can't sell a 0.99 app that is just a image, an advertisement of my company or wallpaper will set a huge negative spin with devs. And devs are already suffering to get apps online with so much prep materials and requirements of Apple. And when consumers find they can get the same flashlight app for free (and paid versions) on Android, Pre, etc... the house of cards fall hard when contracts are up. Sure AT&T needs Apple, but Apple sure needs AT&T (for those 2yrs contracts).
a. more R&D spent by Apple (the closed ecosystem actually sped up development time)
b. 1yr head start (related to above. and look at openMoko, started 6mos before Apple and they still can't get the startup sequence right!)
c. copied the WinMo approach (water down a version of OSX and slap it on a phone!)
d. 1 hardware builder (part of the closed platform).
Otherwise, it's undeniable the appstore is crucial to making apple better than the other platforms. But iTunes syncing apps, 100MB+ apps and $5 crappy apps such are flooding the market.
To the OP, please tell where an android falls flat on "touch-wise, accelerometer-wise, GPS-wise, compass-wise, iTunes-wise.."... cause I must be stupid as my 1.6 donut does those functions equally or even better thana 3GS (and considering the compass was on all Android phones before it was on the iPhone). Sure it may not have the eye candy or glitzy fad-ins when it comes to UI design, but it works, has the same features and is rock solid...
Otherwise, your fanboy post has FAIL written all over it.
And don't worry: you guys forget the native/JNI layer recently added to Android, slap a snapdragon processor and it will be very hard for Apple to touch with dumping a lot into R&D to create any game changing features (when really the game changers to them are: multitouch, video!?, cut-n-paste!?, MMS!?, appstore).
Don't you get it?
I have a great idea. Please give me $1.4million to do stuff. I'll get back to you later. Thanks.
Yes, Obama just won some cash for wishful thinking and motivation speaking, just like any startup company or business: isn't that capitalism 101? Michael Moore must be furious!
Or we're just looking at it wrong.
We're only limited to what (and how) we can measure.
hbar/2...
Yes, a buzzword to force you to vote.
Admit it, the reason we all vote is due to fear. Either from fear of loss (in this case) or fear of life (via the 2nd amendment).
please refer further comments to gizmodo.com (yeah, I don't even need to post the link).
This is slashdot remember, not a discussion forums about an app on a phone that likely 1/3 of the users here have.
initially:
AND in the end:
Gov't the new tech startup? This is looking bad. Really bad.
Yes, the CGI effects were astoundingly good. Best I've ever seen, but special effects to not a great movie make.
Obviously Lucas didn't get the memo.... sitting in his $10K lounge chair, sipping some expensive champagne overlooking the Golden Gate bridge, thinking about his next multimillion dollar project.
Lesson learned:
outsource known manufacturing, sound technology is easy.
outsource 1st time manufacturing, cutting technology is not so easy.
If the 787 provides the target efficiency that Boeing was looking for/advertising, then these delays are worth it. Otherwise, it a total management screw up.
Aircraft + AI == no...
Give the unmanned aircraft predictable behavior (i.e. it doesn't "change"), and provide the human driven aircraft with the proper information to react (actionable data from the unmanned craft) and then they can co-exists.
Allow an unmanned aircraft to "figure it out" and react at the same time with a manned craft is putting the manned aircraft's possibly of an unknown consequence at the top of priority queue.
One of the big hurdles for 'traditional' developers approaching the Palm Pre is that you have to learn up to five new technologies at once
Huh, the learning curve required to learn those 5 things is less than OSX, Obj-C, and XCode--not to miss the appstore cert/provisioning website/setup... and getting used to not having a real delete key (but replacing it with the backspace functionality).
they didn't care.
Pretty much every major website does it (well not exactly GPS, by IP info pretty much tells you 98%). And don't ask about the telcos.
Like Apple doesn't (proprietary = unknown hooks)? Google (it's uber data collecting google)? Microsoft (aka evil empire)?
Right.
(2010) In today's news, Volt, Prius [plugin], and Ford Fusion [plugin] Hybrid sales hit all time highs. In other news, electricity prices reach an all time high due to high than normal consumption.
Also in other news oil prices hit below $30/barrel ($1.50 at the pump) due to decreasing demand.
Sure it may help the environment, but economically and 'dependently', it's a zero sum game. That's right, a game...
And that in most of Google's products, they have explicit warnings tht your data will be uploaded and such--they've take a more opt-in approach.
"LHC To Start Back Up In November At Half Power"
Any bets that it will not?
Vegas should start a pool, I'm sure it would be a hit with the betters.
Also: unexpected power surge across the nation today as everyone reports Twitter is down.
imagine the amount of power being used (on data centers, routers, switchboards, computers, monitors, data lines, cellphone lines, radio towers, TV stations, newspaper centers, printing presses, etc...) just to spread the word there's a 404 error on www.twitter.com?
Could it be because they can't twitter about what they're doing? So it's back to the good 'ol blog... to blog about why they can't twitter about twitter.
With blogs (i.e. facebook) and twitter and a DDoS, I think we've just experience the 1st internet infinite loop.
sweet.
The segway replaces normal walking--since the speeds are pretty much the same.
bicycles and motorcycles don't replace walking, you get 'there' faster. Same with cars, planes, trains.
And there's a inverse relationship to size of the mobility device and the time you get to a destination. (Bigger == faster). The segway breaks this rule and is also slow, and expensive from what customers expect.
That's why no one buys it. The smug aspect is why no one likes it.
The reason why Apple is not ignored is because they advertise the few independent devs that have struck it rich with the iPhone SDK and App-store. Sure,a gazllion apps are sold, but how many are currently "in use" (5% likely?). It's the McDonalds psychology: million of burgers sold, but if your burger sucks today, well, those millions mean nothing!
And really (here comes the gripe...), for an SDK that sucks as much as the iPhone (2003 favor of OSX? seriously!) and that you need to pay $99 just to get your [e.g. iFart] app on the store and with accounting for approval risk and deployment risk (that they can pull the app no questions), no wonder why Apple screams how great the appstore is when a indie dev makes $10K on his $1.99 app (note they get their 30% cut too!). They need to, otherwise most devs would say call BS! Note that $99 basically forces you to buy a copy of Xcode...
The appstore is bad, there's a better way, but because of Apple's heavy reliance on heavy advertising of their products, consumers are basically "in The Matrix".
And if the big devs like EA truly get into the iPhone arena, they will lose big time due to one missing technology: multithreading--it's a bit hard to develop a singlethreaded, rich game environment and forget about rich networked games... The big devs see the struggle they'll have with Apple, cause honestly Apple doesn't want the hassles with big devs too since they are dealing with AT&T on the other end.
It appears all the tech mags need are starting up the same old rumors that's it AT&T.
Cause no matter what, AT&T has been the butt of this relationship since the get-go. Apple can do no wrong and if they are, well it "because of AT&T". Sure AT&T can and does suck for most out there (as much as to some with Verizon, Tmo, Sprint), but the real truth is AT&T is the scapegoat of this relationship and the tech mags/blogs promote this strategy because their allegiance is to Tech, which is not AT&T, but companies like Apple.
I would not be surprised if this is retaliation from Google putting Latitude on Safari as a [free] webapp--it promotes nothing of Apple, the iPhone nor the app-store... And it opens the door to more webapps, less dependency on the app-store (less commissions to Apple), free apps and more pressure on Apple to keep Safari robust and standards based.
As in most forum groups:
"This thread is useless WITHOUT Pics"