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by robmcm 14y ago
They haven't removed the Geo Location API from Safari because it means websites could steal your location. They added a dialogue to ask if you want to allow them to use it. I imagine a simular API for sound would surfice.
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by robmcm 14y ago
That's crazy, next they will be banning Flash in the browser ;)
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by robmcm 14y ago
Zing
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by robmcm 14y ago
I don't think it would be a primary environment, but when your on the road and there is a quick bug to fix, or you have a spare hour and didn't bring your laptop... boom
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by robmcm 14y ago
Yes very true, and you could easily hack once of the physical readers they use now. Almost every shop I go into seems to have a different make or model of card reader. I guess with Android there is more change of the device owner not knowni
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by robmcm 14y ago
I would be worried letting someone read my card information via an Android phone. Malware would easily be able to sit in the background and intercept information from the reader. At least on iOS you know any interception would have to be on
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by robmcm 14y ago
We actually used to do this at school, where in the winter we moved sports to be after lunch and then had afternoon lessions at night. We basically had a summer and winter timetable.
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by robmcm 14y ago
That would be ideal, if everyone worked on GMT and just started work at different times, rather than the same time in a different timezone. Technically we could all do that now anyway, just start using GMT rather than our local timezone :)
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by robmcm 14y ago
Flash was just a tool for the ideas not the cause of them. Technology changes but the drive for this sort of functionalty and interaction remains. I just wonder what the Flash haters are going to do when they realise they now hate JavaScrip
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by robmcm 14y ago
People said the same thing about DOS.
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by robmcm 14y ago
So is page turning cool again?
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by robmcm 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
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by robmcm 14y ago
The key is that it decouples the services, we won't have to wait for service x to implement the api of service y. Instead you just say implement this intent and then boom you can use any service that supports that intent. This is huge for w
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by robmcm 15y ago
I normally go to wikipedia for a description of a service or product rather than sift through all the marketing BS that's normally plastered over a website.
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by robmcm 15y ago
Perhaps making drug companies non proffit to ensure all money went back into developing new drugs and perhaps less proffitable drugs (i.e. Drugs targeted at the developing world).
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by robmcm 15y ago
If you include TV/tablets/phones then it's probably most of my waking time, especially in the week.
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by robmcm 15y ago
Very cool, good work :D
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by robmcm 15y ago
It would be interesting to see how this affected the MLS and therefore world soccer as a whole. The best players in the world could move to the MLS rather than the european leagues, and America could start to dominate at a national level. T
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by robmcm 15y ago
Yup, that's a black mark for sure. IBM's stock would rocket if they re-branded or killed of Lotus, it's over taken Real Player for my most despised brand of software.
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by robmcm 15y ago
My only exception to this rule is with the memory. Safari uses avaliable memory for caching web pages in tabs, which is understandably at a low priority. I often find that iOS will give priority to 'suspended' apps rather than 'suspended' t
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by robmcm 15y ago
I really like it. Only thing I would like to add is the ability to have multy line tasks. Or more info for a task :)
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by robmcm 15y ago
Yes AIR has a fantastic install process, even installing AIR it's self. With the install badge you could also detect if it was already installed, and launch rather than download. It would shock you how many people would download and install
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by robmcm 15y ago
Also worth noting that the iPads in the Apple stores are normally stuffed with apps for people to try, rather than just plain installs.
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by robmcm 15y ago
Well said. There are dev shops here in the UK that are just as bad. The problem is using developers with little interest in what they do, being over sold by some sales man claiming they are experts in their field. Even some of the largest c
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by robmcm 15y ago
Or in most cases a not very good port...
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by robmcm 15y ago
Isn't there huge fragmentation in Android webkit? Plus focusing on iOS and Android covers most 'mobile' cases. Other platforms hold a harder justification. Perhaps the route forward is a simple web app to cover everyone, then focus on the t
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by robmcm 15y ago
I'm sure some while(1) JavaScrip would be a lot easier...
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by robmcm 15y ago
More of a worry is the fact Flex is dependent on the Flash player which as of yet has not been opensourced. A headless player is holding back CI in a big way. I also can't see FalconJS delivering a full flex stack without help from the brow
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by robmcm 15y ago
I originaly thought the iphone would be an iChat client running only on data via a network. With facetime and iMessage it looks like that's the way things are heading... Wireless networks are essentially ISPs.
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by robmcm 15y ago
Browser support is still a huge issue that people tend to gloss over. It's a problem any standards based environment will face. Native will always develope faster and be more consistent.

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