stevenN

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   by stevenN 17y ago

   I thought of doing the same thing with my Pl/M experience. Decided to learn new tool sets/languages instead:-) You will find your self in serious trouble moving forward if you tie yourself to only knowing a single company's toolset and tyi
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   by stevenN 17y ago

   But Apple is NOT the dominate OS. 1) Symbian 2) RIM 3) Apple 4) MS 5) Android Android and MS might have swapped in the last month or so. They are close. As for choice, consumes don't seem to mind. You have tons of "choice" on Symbian, An
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   by stevenN 17y ago

   "Of course, this is why I don't use C, C++, or Objective-C. I'm always a little surprised when someone writes code in one of those languages that actually runs." Why does it really scare me when people that claim to programmers say stuff li
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   by stevenN 17y ago

   "However what will kill the iPhone 4G is the free apps for ads idea." That idea started 1.5 years ago. Now you get Google ads in your free apps. Now, as an option, you can have iAds or Google ads. So all Apple did is open an option (read
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   by stevenN 17y ago

   OK. I come from a different background of programming than traditional consumer apps. In my "normal" job, I get a very small white list of programming languages. "C", "C++" (but no templates, multiple inheritance, no operator over-loadin