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361.
by ptomato 17y ago
X compiles to assembly, so the performance is identical to assembly.
362.
by ptomato 17y ago
So about $600 at current exchange rates.
363.
by ptomato 17y ago
I'm looking forward to seeing if it actually exists, and if so, the price, which I noticed they haven't announced yet.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Yes, but they never have, even for apps they've removed from the store for violating their ToS. And for what it's worth, they've stated that they will only do that in case an actively malicious app somehow ends up on the store in the first
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Apple against the world(macworld.com)
4 points by ptomato 17y ago|0 comments
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Apple's Wager(arstechnica.com)
4 points by ptomato 17y ago|1 comments
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by ptomato 17y ago
There's also a gui OS X tool that does the same thing. http://derailer.org/paparazzi/
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by ptomato 17y ago
That isn't silverlight, that's video , which the silverlight media server now just provides in a format the iPhone/iPad already supports. No .net running on iPhone OS at all.
369.
by ptomato 17y ago
Yup. And your point is? For the third time now, my point isn't that this is a good thing, and I'm certainly not a fan of the decision. My point is that Apple isn't doing this because they hate developers, or want to tweak Adobe's nose (well
370.
by ptomato 17y ago
Even granted that, the reason Apple doesn't want that is still because of the UX. Apps with the same codebase for Android/iPhone will automatically suck as far as the UI is concerned. Things like the lack of multitouch gestures on android
371.
by ptomato 17y ago
Really? Bullshit. You honestly believe that stuff made in Obj-C can only be a toy whereas something written in ActionScript will bring the "strong innovation"? Yes, they're certainly restricting developer freedom (which, again, I don't li
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by ptomato 17y ago
Well, Steve did flat-out say in the Q&A session today that they weren't going to require anyone to use their built-in services for any of that, and Apple doesn't really have a history of changing what they've said they're gonna do.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Problems with it aside, and I certainly don't like it anymore then anyone else here (I was still hoping to get a lisp working for iPhone development), I think it would be wrong to attribute the decision to malice. Apple's doing this for the
374.
by ptomato 17y ago
"a majority of the apps will probably have commercial spots embedded within them" The majority of apps on the app store already do . Free apps, ad-supported. Apple just wants the ads to not suck so much, but hey, nobody has to use iAds.
375.
by ptomato 17y ago
Have it forward your SMS message to your actual iPhone phone #?
376.
by ptomato 17y ago
I haven't looked at the APIs yet, but it will probably be possible to do something like not DCing an ssh connection via the task-completion API, as the example given was uploading photos to flickr.
377.
by ptomato 17y ago
You could probably make a better argument for that if anyone had made something that's just as usable but more open yet.
378.
by ptomato 17y ago
Jailbreaking doesn't void the warranty, you just can't get support while it is jailbroken.
379.
by ptomato 17y ago
If that's the case then yes, yes it does, so Apple will fix this like they did when that was the case back with the iPhone.
380.
by ptomato 17y ago
Or no, you can just purchase a subscription directly from inside the app.
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by ptomato 17y ago
No. Disney owns Pixar. Steve Jobs is the largest single shareholder of Disney but that's by no means a controlling interest.
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by ptomato 17y ago
You know... in re: Apple and DRM, I think Apple has been stripping it away about as much as could be expected: music: none on any of the music in their store anymore, now that they actually have the negotiating clout to get away with it vid
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Pigz - multicore version of gzip.(zlib.net)
48 points by ptomato 17y ago|22 comments
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by ptomato 17y ago
"same quality" would be the key word there. Google has yet to show that they can deliver anywhere near the quality of the iPhone OS as far as user experience is concerned.
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by ptomato 17y ago
As a note to that, the iPad has a hardware rotation lock switch.
386.
by ptomato 17y ago
Yes, but Alexa says the same thing and has for a while.
387.
by ptomato 17y ago
You probably should have something to display hex codes/color name or something like that so that you can ensure that two colors for different elements are the same.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Few points... MHZ are (somewhat) irrelevant as a judge of actual CPU performance, supporting flash isn't really a positive thing, at least in my book, and certainly will kill the battery life unless adobe has pulled far, far better linux f
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by ptomato 17y ago
Considering that the app store is barely profitable, even with that 30% currently, you can hardly call it "gouging". And hey, if you don't like it, umm. Don't develop for the iP[hone/ad].
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by ptomato 17y ago
Simple reason? They're making "enough" off the Mac version and quite frequently the people who make the well-designed clever little mac apps (see: omni, &c) have absolutely no inclination to develop for Windows.

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