The shutdown and bootup process likely uses more power than just letting the computer sleep all night. At least that is true with a Mac. Maybe your computer sleeps very inefficiently.
So are hard disks, which last 3 years, and then their reliability falls off a cliff. Mobile devices have 2 year lifespans, and PC's have 3 year lifespans. SSD is up to the task already. By the time an SSD fails in a device, its battery is already long gone, and its CPU/GPU are already out-of-date, buttons are worn out, headphone jacks worn out, etc.
... because for 10 years now, my computers just go to sleep when I close them, and wake up instantly when I open them, and every couple of months they reboot after a core operating system update, which they do unattended. I think if you know how long your computer takes to boot, you are doing it wrong. It should boot a handful of times per year, and nobody should be watching it when it does.
Most PC apps are C... Android is Java, which is not suitable for a PC. The reason iOS has so many apps is that it is a desktop class system with native C, so you can easily port Mac, Windows, Unix, and game console code. If iOS had no C, iMovie and GarageBand and Keynote and many other PC apps would not be running there yet. They are there already because they did not have to be rewritten.
Design is not a kind of marketing. That is the kind of clueless nerd attitude towards design that enabled for example, Microsoft to create Windows without hiring a single product designer.
Apple does almost no marketing. They name a product and they put a buy button next to it and people buy. Yes, because the products are well-designed. No, not because they are well-marketed.
Those are tired arguments. If Apple brought so little into each product category, then why do all the other products in that category abandon everything they were and become clones of the Apple products? Apple created the last 4 user interface paradigm shifts: multitouch tablet computers, multitouch mobile phones, the full jukebox media player, and the notebook computer. All the smartphones and PDA's and media players descend from Apple Newton: battery, touch screen, soft keyboard, ARM SoC, PC sync, modem, flash storage, contacts, calendars, notes, email, Web browser, apps.
The scandal is: what has everyone else been doing? Game consoles? And what else?
Apple has just made better products. Plain and simple. Across the board. They earned their success with better products.
Keynote imports and exports PowerPoint, and is better than PowerPoint, makes much better presentations. It's not free, but almost: $10 on iPad and $20 on Mac. That is less than it costs to pay someone to do one hour of office work, and they save the user many hours compared to other solutions. So why would you sit an office worker down in front of a free solution? That costs more money.
iPad is a much bigger threat to Microsoft than Chrome OS. iPad runs all the HTML5 apps that Chrome does, plus native apps, plus has touch, plus has mobility. It's a next generation office system, not a remix of the previous generation.
I've already seen many users give up Windows XP PC's for iPads. You give them an iPad and they voluntarily walk away from their Windows box. iPad is better for meetings, better for presentations, better for reading, has much better mobility, and enables any user to safely install hundreds of thousands of powerful native C apps. To most users, iPad does more than a Windows PC and Chrome OS does less. And an iPad is faster, and uses its GPU, unlike Chrome OS.
And $28 per month ($20 is for education) sounds small until you realize it is for a basic model with Wi-Fi only, 16GB storage, and for 3 year commitment, after which you give it back and make another 3 year commitment. For $28 per month over 2 years you can get an iPad 2 32GB and 2-year AppleCare service plan and you can sell the iPad at the end and get back $300.
For some users, running Microsoft Office is a litmus test for a computer system, no matter what features may or may not be missing. Fewer features is actually better for most. So this is big for Chrome OS. Whether that makes Chrome OS on Atom worth $450, I don't know.
I would still say most users are better off on an iPad with Apple's $10 Keynote, $10 Pages, and $10 Numbers. My experience has been that users need less training (although they do need a little to get some of the gestures) and make much better output and enjoy their work much more, plus they have mobility. Working on a document or slide deck when inspiration strikes is very valuable, so mobility is a huge feature. A downside with Apple's office tools is online sync is not quite there, but Apple is clearing bringing that, and most users are mystified by Google Docs anyway. For presentations, there is nothing even close to Keynote.
The Android 3 software is currently on at least 2 shipping devices. One was released about 2 months ago, and the other was released a day or 2 ago. So the software has shipped.
NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE LICENSE. The issue is the lack of a source code release. The contract that they are breaking is not a source code license, but rather their own promise to users and handset makers that they were buying into an open source platform.
Secondarily, the issue is Google's hypocrisy for bragging that they are open, calling Apple closed, and then not only not releasing their own source, but continuing to use Apple's open source WebKit code, which is by far the most popular mobile open source project, with a much larger installed base than Android.
Android is not the most popular mobile open source project that is Apple WebKit, and the source is available for that. How did WebKit get onto so many more phones than Android and still release the source if the lack of source is the fault of phone makers?
Samsung most certainly cares about Apple. Samsung's handset business just did $5 billion in revenue copying Apple, and Samsung's entirely separate fab business just did $5 billion in revenue making SoC's for Apple.
If you want platform neutral, then make HTML5. That is what it is for. iOS supports both HTML5 and Cocoa so you can choose what is best for your app. App Store is totally optional on iOS, and didn't even ship until year 2.
Yeah, you can install an HTML5 app on iPhone from any server and run it side-by-side with native apps, regardless of Internet connection.
The newer JS engine will likely come later, because of security concerns. Even so, you have hardware acceleration already, it is the best HTML5 environment.
Yeah, but Android apps are not native. You can develop for the Web on any platform, too. But if you want the power of a native app, you need a native toolkit.
You get so much more with iOS development, and you make so much more money that the cost of the Mac is immaterial. Plus, once you get one, you find it is the best PC you ever owned and forget you were whining about it. I haven't heard a single iOS developer complain about having to use a Mac. You get free developer tools with it that are worth the purchase price all by themselves.
The majority of developers that I know have Macs. This thread started by talking about developing for Android because you don't want to buy a Mac. Well, Google is 75% Macs.
A MacBook Air costs $400 per year over 3 years, including AppleCare. It is easy to make that pay for itself by doing iOS app development. If that doesn't sound good to you, then you're not interested. That has nothing to do with Apple not participating in the generic PC industry.
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That is why those devices are gradually being replaced by Apple devices that never make you wait.
The shutdown and bootup process likely uses more power than just letting the computer sleep all night. At least that is true with a Mac. Maybe your computer sleeps very inefficiently.
So are hard disks, which last 3 years, and then their reliability falls off a cliff. Mobile devices have 2 year lifespans, and PC's have 3 year lifespans. SSD is up to the task already. By the time an SSD fails in a device, its battery is already long gone, and its CPU/GPU are already out-of-date, buttons are worn out, headphone jacks worn out, etc.
... because for 10 years now, my computers just go to sleep when I close them, and wake up instantly when I open them, and every couple of months they reboot after a core operating system update, which they do unattended. I think if you know how long your computer takes to boot, you are doing it wrong. It should boot a handful of times per year, and nobody should be watching it when it does.
Most PC apps are C ... Android is Java, which is not suitable for a PC. The reason iOS has so many apps is that it is a desktop class system with native C, so you can easily port Mac, Windows, Unix, and game console code. If iOS had no C, iMovie and GarageBand and Keynote and many other PC apps would not be running there yet. They are there already because they did not have to be rewritten.
Design is not a kind of marketing. That is the kind of clueless nerd attitude towards design that enabled for example, Microsoft to create Windows without hiring a single product designer.
Apple does almost no marketing. They name a product and they put a buy button next to it and people buy. Yes, because the products are well-designed. No, not because they are well-marketed.
Those are tired arguments. If Apple brought so little into each product category, then why do all the other products in that category abandon everything they were and become clones of the Apple products? Apple created the last 4 user interface paradigm shifts: multitouch tablet computers, multitouch mobile phones, the full jukebox media player, and the notebook computer. All the smartphones and PDA's and media players descend from Apple Newton: battery, touch screen, soft keyboard, ARM SoC, PC sync, modem, flash storage, contacts, calendars, notes, email, Web browser, apps.
The scandal is: what has everyone else been doing? Game consoles? And what else?
Apple has just made better products. Plain and simple. Across the board. They earned their success with better products.
Keynote imports and exports PowerPoint, and is better than PowerPoint, makes much better presentations. It's not free, but almost: $10 on iPad and $20 on Mac. That is less than it costs to pay someone to do one hour of office work, and they save the user many hours compared to other solutions. So why would you sit an office worker down in front of a free solution? That costs more money.
iPad is a much bigger threat to Microsoft than Chrome OS. iPad runs all the HTML5 apps that Chrome does, plus native apps, plus has touch, plus has mobility. It's a next generation office system, not a remix of the previous generation.
I've already seen many users give up Windows XP PC's for iPads. You give them an iPad and they voluntarily walk away from their Windows box. iPad is better for meetings, better for presentations, better for reading, has much better mobility, and enables any user to safely install hundreds of thousands of powerful native C apps. To most users, iPad does more than a Windows PC and Chrome OS does less. And an iPad is faster, and uses its GPU, unlike Chrome OS.
And $28 per month ($20 is for education) sounds small until you realize it is for a basic model with Wi-Fi only, 16GB storage, and for 3 year commitment, after which you give it back and make another 3 year commitment. For $28 per month over 2 years you can get an iPad 2 32GB and 2-year AppleCare service plan and you can sell the iPad at the end and get back $300.
For some users, running Microsoft Office is a litmus test for a computer system, no matter what features may or may not be missing. Fewer features is actually better for most. So this is big for Chrome OS. Whether that makes Chrome OS on Atom worth $450, I don't know.
I would still say most users are better off on an iPad with Apple's $10 Keynote, $10 Pages, and $10 Numbers. My experience has been that users need less training (although they do need a little to get some of the gestures) and make much better output and enjoy their work much more, plus they have mobility. Working on a document or slide deck when inspiration strikes is very valuable, so mobility is a huge feature. A downside with Apple's office tools is online sync is not quite there, but Apple is clearing bringing that, and most users are mystified by Google Docs anyway. For presentations, there is nothing even close to Keynote.
He presumes that it is good in and of itself to listen to things you are not interested in. It is not.
He presumes there is a conservative viewpoint that is worth listening to. There is not. At least not in the United States.
I have limited attention and lifespan to spend on the world. Not interested means not interested.
The Android 3 software is currently on at least 2 shipping devices. One was released about 2 months ago, and the other was released a day or 2 ago. So the software has shipped.
NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE LICENSE. The issue is the lack of a source code release. The contract that they are breaking is not a source code license, but rather their own promise to users and handset makers that they were buying into an open source platform.
Secondarily, the issue is Google's hypocrisy for bragging that they are open, calling Apple closed, and then not only not releasing their own source, but continuing to use Apple's open source WebKit code, which is by far the most popular mobile open source project, with a much larger installed base than Android.
So it is you who has the thick skull.
Android is not the most popular mobile open source project that is Apple WebKit, and the source is available for that. How did WebKit get onto so many more phones than Android and still release the source if the lack of source is the fault of phone makers?
Motorola XOOM has no binaries on it? The Samsung tablet they gave away at Google I/O has no binaries?
There is a lot of open source Apple code in Android itself. You're just pushing more of Google's anti-Apple FUD.
The idea that Apple would have to hire astroturfers is ridiculous. Completely absurd.
Yeah, but they would get Samsung and HTC to actually make the product, so by the time you got it, it would be stale and melted and unappetizing.
Isn't the same WebKit code that Apple just released also used in Android?
Samsung most certainly cares about Apple. Samsung's handset business just did $5 billion in revenue copying Apple, and Samsung's entirely separate fab business just did $5 billion in revenue making SoC's for Apple.
If you want platform neutral, then make HTML5. That is what it is for. iOS supports both HTML5 and Cocoa so you can choose what is best for your app. App Store is totally optional on iOS, and didn't even ship until year 2.
Yeah, you can install an HTML5 app on iPhone from any server and run it side-by-side with native apps, regardless of Internet connection.
The newer JS engine will likely come later, because of security concerns. Even so, you have hardware acceleration already, it is the best HTML5 environment.
Yeah, but Android apps are not native. You can develop for the Web on any platform, too. But if you want the power of a native app, you need a native toolkit.
You get so much more with iOS development, and you make so much more money that the cost of the Mac is immaterial. Plus, once you get one, you find it is the best PC you ever owned and forget you were whining about it. I haven't heard a single iOS developer complain about having to use a Mac. You get free developer tools with it that are worth the purchase price all by themselves.
The majority of developers that I know have Macs. This thread started by talking about developing for Android because you don't want to buy a Mac. Well, Google is 75% Macs.
What is Symbian?
A MacBook Air costs $400 per year over 3 years, including AppleCare. It is easy to make that pay for itself by doing iOS app development. If that doesn't sound good to you, then you're not interested. That has nothing to do with Apple not participating in the generic PC industry.