MWinther

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by MWinther 17y ago
Absolutely, I do agree this question is about a permissive development platform. And that's the whole point, I think. As for the second points, I don't recognize what you're describing. What I can say is that I don't consider letting an app
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by MWinther 17y ago
But apparently, having Adobe dictating the very same thing is fine, then?
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by MWinther 17y ago
I think reference and other kinds of docs will be one way in which the iPad will work better than a netbook for a lot of the power user crowd. Having docs on the netbook isn't quite the same thing.
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by MWinther 17y ago
They did start this checking relatively late in the game however, and I seem to remember it giving rise to a number of outraged developer stories on the web.
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by MWinther 17y ago
They're undoubtedly changing the language in the developer TOS, that is of course undisputable. =) However, when introducing the iPhone SDK, they clearly said (about XCode) "This is where you'll be developing all your apps." I'm saying you
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by MWinther 17y ago
Hm, nope. I'm explicitly saying work with Apple stuff out of conviction, rather than a sense of duty. And I'm saying that Apple has a point in supporting the faithful, as in the people who are convinced this platform is the one they want to
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by MWinther 17y ago
I'd say that now that Apple has plenty of volume in the app store, they're focusing more on quality. I imagine they want to implement higher standards at a rate that still makes the number of apps grow. Like when they removed a bunch of bas
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by MWinther 17y ago
I would add Support Engineers along with the devs in that list. I was an AASE back in the late 90s, and working with Apple behind the scenes in the retail chain was quite the different experience than being an end user. Of course, I firmly
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by MWinther 17y ago
I'd say that for most people, cloning Rails isn't an option if the devs won't put it in there. Having access to code is the same thing as being able to implement new stuff in the product for a relatively small amount of users or even develo
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by MWinther 17y ago
Actually, rather more like saying "We won't accept another shipment of flowers mixed up with weeds until we sort the weeds from the flowers we already have."
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by MWinther 17y ago
It's fascinating. This is the way I look at them, as being on the side of people who agree with Apple on this one. #1: Don't agree. Apple has 180,000 apps in their App store, maybe a good time to remove incentives for a new influx of non-pr
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by MWinther 17y ago
Adding support for attaching an optional component is hardly the same as having a device where said component always is available.
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by MWinther 17y ago
"I know a lot of people who are over 60 who are quite capable of using Facebook and Twitter," [the computer expert asked about the move] said. I would hope MI5 would have higher requirements on their cyberterrorism-fighting employees. "A si
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by MWinther 17y ago
I don't agree that iPhone development isn't open. There are free tools and free documentation readily available, albeit not for all platforms. This is of course no different than many other developer environments, such as the tools for Wind
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by MWinther 17y ago
Isn't it intuitive that browsers, which for the most part are available for several different operating systems, is a separate market from the operating system itself? Seem like two different markets to me. Of course, on the iPhone there is
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by MWinther 17y ago
I don't think Apple would, or even could ban anything of the sort. I think they want people to develop for iPhone first, and if you want to automatically convert that code to Android and get the cross-platform inferior experience there, the
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by MWinther 17y ago
Still, it would be interesting with connections to real-life applications. I was hoping to figure out a few practical ways of using more of my nginx spare cycles. I'm sure there's a ton of cool stuff one could actually use this for, but I'm
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by MWinther 17y ago
In what way does MonoTouch clearly contribute to the user experience on the platform? An argument I started contemplating after reading the article is that there are a lot of non-iPhones out there with a physical keyboard, for instance. I c
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by MWinther 17y ago
The problem with cross-development tools is that the people using them tend to focus on the app working on all the supported platforms, making it effectively using the lowest common denominator. If Apple releases a new API not available in
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by MWinther 17y ago
I doubt we'll see Firefox using Grand Central Dispatch, OpenCL, Core Data or any other of a number of APIs available for the Mac platform anytime soon. Because even if Firefox pretends to really well, first-class citizen of Mac OS X it ain'