Adobe tried that before. They refused to bring Premier to the Mac, about 10 years ago. So Apple brought out Final Cut Pro, and ate their lunch. Adobe really doesn't want them to do that with Photoshop.
Look at Apple's revenue filings. The amount of money they make from the App Store is minuscule. They do not derive a significant portion of revenue from the App Store.
As for web apps, people can already do that. You can make a web app now in HTML and JavaScript, and let your users bookmark it on their phone, giving them an icon to place on a home screen.
No, the low level framework was just released. The high level frameworks have been around for a while. Core Video has had the ability to render hardware accelerated video for quite some time now. Adobe just didn't want to use it.
The SWF spec is about as open as the OfficeXML spec from Microsoft. Yeah, its there, but its not the "real" spec. The published one has lots of inconsistencies, and the official implementation from Adobe deviates from the spec quite a bit.
And that's why Adobe hasn't come out with a 64 bit version of Photoshop for the Mac, despite having 5 years to do so? Or why they didn't come out with a native Intel version of CS3 when the Intel Macs came out, instead forcing everyone to wait for CS4 and buy a new version?
- By the way I still haven't seen Final Fantasy 7 ported to the PS3.:-| I know that was just a demo, but it would be awesome to play that game again with FF12-style, fully-realized character graphics.
It would, but I don't know if I'd trust them to not cock it up some more. If it was just an engine upgrade (and the necessary tweaks to make that work) then maybe I could be on board. But, I liked the game back then, and I still have somewhat fond memories of it. Seeing a remake might not be the best thing. At best, it'd be like the remakes of FF1 and 2 ported to the PS1, GBA and iPhone, where they added some stuff, changed the art style and music, but it was still good. At worst, it might be like taking the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, a show I adored as a child, and trying to watch it today.
I remember hearing about the weird shuffling about retailers and publishers do with video games, how, instead of a retailer getting a refund for returned or unsold stock, they simply get a "credit" toward the publisher's next game. I wouldn't be surprised if a similar tactic was used on shipments of game consoles.
I have an EE degree. What's a good 2nd degree? CMP ENG or Comp Sci? I want to be eligible to apply for more jobs.
Go for the Comp Sci degree. A CENG degree is already kind of a hybrid between EE and Computer Science, and its kinda new so not many employers know what it is, really. I have a CENG degree, and while I was looking for jobs, I kept hearing that industry was looking for, "EEs that can program." Which is kinda what a CENG was, but the weren't interested in that.
No regulatory agency really did. That's because Bush II was all about deregulating, and that which he could not explicitly deregulate, he simply put someone who didn't care in charge of the relevant regulatory agency.
I find it quite disgusting that an ISP can fuck with your traffic like this on an "opt-out" basis. If I send a search query to Google, then I wanted my search results from Google, dammit! If I wanted to use your shitty, 3rd rate search engine which gives you a kickback, I would have sent my search query to them. If they want to do something like this, it should be mandatory opt-in, and I should get a discount on my bill for using the provider which gives you a kickback.
You'll need a lot of proof for me to agree that no one would have moved us to a better home computing UI at some point between 1984 and today had Apple not given the home user what it did.
Until recently, Apple was the only company that actually cared about the end user experience, and in making the GUI user friendly and attractive. Microsoft certainly didn't care up until Vista, and that was only in response to OS X. Linux had stuff before Microsoft did, but most of that was trying to implement something to show Linux could have as much eye candy as Apple. Linux might have still developed a level of eye candy, but its adoption would have been much less.
And unless economic conditions were horrible, they would leave
So you've never heard of someone staying in an absolute shit job, even though, according to you, its so easy to just leave if they don't like it? You've never heard of a father working a shitty manual labor job to provide for his family, or a single mother going into prostitution/stripping just to get food for her kid? Without minimum wage laws, these people probably could not afford to provide for their families, and even with them, still barely do. Making sure that jobs pay a wage that one can actually kind of live on, albeit barely, is a good thing.
Maybe your webapp doesn't work worth a shit in Firefox? Not meaning to be mean or anything, but there are sites that I go to only with IE because when I tried them with Firefox way back in the day they didn't work, and I've only used them in IE since.
Maybe its because the features in the iPhone actually work, as opposed to being some kind of tech demo. It may be missing things you think are important, but the things it does have and does, it does them extremely well.
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Because they had tech Apple wanted? YouTube was horribly unprofitable, so why did Google spend billions buying them?
Adobe tried that before. They refused to bring Premier to the Mac, about 10 years ago. So Apple brought out Final Cut Pro, and ate their lunch. Adobe really doesn't want them to do that with Photoshop.
I have to buy Windows to code for Windows Mobile. Your Point?
Look at Apple's revenue filings. The amount of money they make from the App Store is minuscule. They do not derive a significant portion of revenue from the App Store.
As for web apps, people can already do that. You can make a web app now in HTML and JavaScript, and let your users bookmark it on their phone, giving them an icon to place on a home screen.
No, the low level framework was just released. The high level frameworks have been around for a while. Core Video has had the ability to render hardware accelerated video for quite some time now. Adobe just didn't want to use it.
Probably because h.264 actually is better for streaming than Theora. However, I'm hoping that Google open sources the codec they just bought, VP8.
The SWF spec is about as open as the OfficeXML spec from Microsoft. Yeah, its there, but its not the "real" spec. The published one has lots of inconsistencies, and the official implementation from Adobe deviates from the spec quite a bit.
And that's why Adobe hasn't come out with a 64 bit version of Photoshop for the Mac, despite having 5 years to do so? Or why they didn't come out with a native Intel version of CS3 when the Intel Macs came out, instead forcing everyone to wait for CS4 and buy a new version?
You can make web delivered apps in HTML5/JavaScript. They are not stopping this. Your point of Apple trying to stop web apps is invalid.
you are not allowed to redistribute the source code or your app outside of it.
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I don't think this is an exhaustive list, either. The point is, you can create open source software for the iPhone.
- By the way I still haven't seen Final Fantasy 7 ported to the PS3. :-| I know that was just a demo, but it would be awesome to play that game again with FF12-style, fully-realized character graphics.
It would, but I don't know if I'd trust them to not cock it up some more. If it was just an engine upgrade (and the necessary tweaks to make that work) then maybe I could be on board. But, I liked the game back then, and I still have somewhat fond memories of it. Seeing a remake might not be the best thing. At best, it'd be like the remakes of FF1 and 2 ported to the PS1, GBA and iPhone, where they added some stuff, changed the art style and music, but it was still good. At worst, it might be like taking the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, a show I adored as a child, and trying to watch it today.
I remember hearing about the weird shuffling about retailers and publishers do with video games, how, instead of a retailer getting a refund for returned or unsold stock, they simply get a "credit" toward the publisher's next game. I wouldn't be surprised if a similar tactic was used on shipments of game consoles.
I have an EE degree. What's a good 2nd degree? CMP ENG or Comp Sci? I want to be eligible to apply for more jobs.
Go for the Comp Sci degree. A CENG degree is already kind of a hybrid between EE and Computer Science, and its kinda new so not many employers know what it is, really. I have a CENG degree, and while I was looking for jobs, I kept hearing that industry was looking for, "EEs that can program." Which is kinda what a CENG was, but the weren't interested in that.
the public has a say on their policies
Wouldn't this be regulation?
No regulatory agency really did. That's because Bush II was all about deregulating, and that which he could not explicitly deregulate, he simply put someone who didn't care in charge of the relevant regulatory agency.
I find it quite disgusting that an ISP can fuck with your traffic like this on an "opt-out" basis. If I send a search query to Google, then I wanted my search results from Google, dammit! If I wanted to use your shitty, 3rd rate search engine which gives you a kickback, I would have sent my search query to them. If they want to do something like this, it should be mandatory opt-in, and I should get a discount on my bill for using the provider which gives you a kickback.
You'll need a lot of proof for me to agree that no one would have moved us to a better home computing UI at some point between 1984 and today had Apple not given the home user what it did.
Until recently, Apple was the only company that actually cared about the end user experience, and in making the GUI user friendly and attractive. Microsoft certainly didn't care up until Vista, and that was only in response to OS X. Linux had stuff before Microsoft did, but most of that was trying to implement something to show Linux could have as much eye candy as Apple. Linux might have still developed a level of eye candy, but its adoption would have been much less.
Just about every Journalistic Ethics course will tell you that one of the primary tenets of Journalism is that you don't pay for a story.
And unless economic conditions were horrible, they would leave
So you've never heard of someone staying in an absolute shit job, even though, according to you, its so easy to just leave if they don't like it? You've never heard of a father working a shitty manual labor job to provide for his family, or a single mother going into prostitution/stripping just to get food for her kid? Without minimum wage laws, these people probably could not afford to provide for their families, and even with them, still barely do. Making sure that jobs pay a wage that one can actually kind of live on, albeit barely, is a good thing.
Maybe your webapp doesn't work worth a shit in Firefox? Not meaning to be mean or anything, but there are sites that I go to only with IE because when I tried them with Firefox way back in the day they didn't work, and I've only used them in IE since.
You can do that on a hacked iPhone too. Why is it more acceptable to do these things on a hacked Android phone than a hacked iPhone?
iTunes Music Store didn't come out til a few years after the iPod came out and was already popular.
Maybe its because the features in the iPhone actually work, as opposed to being some kind of tech demo. It may be missing things you think are important, but the things it does have and does, it does them extremely well.