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by bonch 16y ago
Except that you can't download the source for Honeycomb. That's kind of the point of the discussion.
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by bonch 16y ago
Yes, because Google's privileged partners like Motorola get to access the source before its official release in order to have it ready on their products immediately, while everyone else has to wait.
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by bonch 16y ago
"This ignores the difference in technical competence of consumers versus Apache users." And Google's behavior ignores the spirit of open source, which expects the source to actually be available regardless of whether or not somebody's trade
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by bonch 16y ago
I wonder why it has taken so long for people to realize this. After all, Google's primary business--the search and advertising platform--is as closed source and proprietary as Windows.
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by bonch 16y ago
"I don't understand all the justifications for Google's behavior being posted." By catering to the emotional OSS crowd, Google has bred a flock of fanboys even more defensive than Apple's.
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by bonch 16y ago
Yeah, uh, StackOverflow is written in ASP.NET.
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by bonch 16y ago
"Gorgeous?"
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by bonch 16y ago
I"m so sick of hearing hipsters bitch about Twitter's "dickbar." You'd think it's the most important issue in tech right now.
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by bonch 16y ago
> It certainly shouldn't be any kind of tipping point in platform choice for developers. It won't be. After the usual anti-Apple trolls have had their say, everyone will have forgotten about this phony "controversy" by next week.
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by bonch 16y ago
> Apple already wastes gigabytes on printer drivers and extra languages you don't need. No, they didn't. For example, Snow Leopard downloads printer drivers from Apple as you need them.
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by bonch 16y ago
Give me a break! $5 for accounting legislation compliance is a personal insult to you? How is it at all comparable to selling tickets to leave a restaurant? You have to leave a restaurant. You're perfectly free to download the Xcode 3 dev
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by bonch 16y ago
I didn't see anything in the article that supported the dramatic claim that OS X isn't for developers.
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by bonch 16y ago
Pretty sure iOS developers were too busy drooling over the iPad 2 to suddenly switch to a practically user-less tablet platform.
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by bonch 16y ago
That settles it, guys! One game proves that Android's app problem is over.
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by bonch 16y ago
One developer with an average game that has no competitors (unlike on iOS) means Scoble was right? One of his arguments is that the platform is slower and less efficient than iOS, so developers are going to want to target it to show off the
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by bonch 16y ago
It's actually a really good point. A game like this can do better on Android because iOS has so many more well-known, competing games in the genre. Since Android has so little, the user base is funneled through fewer games. As for fanboys,
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by bonch 16y ago
You think Besthesda is an exception? Oblivion was pretty crippled in features and gameplay compared to Morrowind and Daggerfall despite having physics and "realistic" faces. The AI was embarrassing. Bethesda is one of the main culprits in t
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by bonch 16y ago
Note that these aren't graphics from a next-gen console. It's just a tech demo of what Epic would like next-gen consoles to be able to support. Personally, I think next-gen consoles are a ways off. Consumers aren't that interested in anothe
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by bonch 16y ago
If you like it now, check out what's in OS X Lion and (inevitably) iOS with regards to keeping interface objects lined up. No more struts and springs.
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by bonch 16y ago
Hmm, not exactly a ringing endorsement. It's interesting how so many Android fans call the fragmentation issues FUD, but developers consistently confirm it as a real problem. Supporting multiple devices like that is a headache for the small
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by bonch 16y ago
Maybe the Android fans needed something to cheer themselves up with after last week's Apple event. :)
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by bonch 16y ago
First off, like many Android fans, you insist on comparing an operating system to a single phone. It would be a shock if a free OS on multiple phones didn't outsell a single phone. However, the word "outsell" is a weird one, because Andro
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by bonch 16y ago
> As a developer #1 in market share is a very significant milestone. Unless you're Android, which has significantly less apps than iOS and is getting bad press for its malware problems. Additionally, iOS runs on the iPad, so iPhone deve
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by bonch 16y ago
Oh, geez. Lighten up.
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by bonch 16y ago
Huffington Post likes to post headlines and blog posts praising all things green energy, Obama, and NBC. The bias is pretty obvious. The original point of the site was to be a left-wing alternative to Drudge Report--even the name is a play
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by bonch 16y ago
"Seriously? Bigger and more important than the invention of the Internet and WWW?" Well, Possibly. I think he's referring to tablet computing in general. It represents the fruition of progress toward a true household computing appliance, th
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by bonch 16y ago
Where are you getting your marketshare figures? It's no surprise that Android phones have numbers. They're on multiple carriers compared to just one (now two). Tablets don't have carriers backing them like that--they must stand on their own
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by bonch 16y ago
"Guess what, you can do that with a 386 laptop from 1995. Apple's success comes from convincing people, through marketing, that they want to do that on an iPad and not on something else." Ah, the old meme that people are just brainwashed by
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by bonch 16y ago
The difference from smartphones is that carriers are pushing Android. It's a free OS they have total control over, unlike the Apple-controlled iOS. Tablets aren't phones and must stand on their own as legitimate appliance computers. Apple h
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by bonch 16y ago
Good journalist? Look at this guy's article history. He writes about nothing else but Google and Android. Of course he's going to be critical of one of Google's major competitors.

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