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811.
by thought_alarm 17y ago
Because they're obvious points to make. Apple's competitors have been clamoring to put Flash on their mobile devices because it's one more bullet point they can use in their marketing against the iPhone. Yet it's 2010 and mobile Flash is st
812.
by thought_alarm 17y ago
Apple control the police? And the courts?
813.
by thought_alarm 17y ago
They spent an eternity trying to develop a successor to the old Palm OS, then they abruptly threw it all away and created WebOS by sticking WebKit on top of a Linux kernel. As a result, WebOS has been plagued with performance and reliabilit
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by thought_alarm 17y ago
Man, that is a big pile of cash. It hardly seems worth it, but if HP wanted to be a player in the mobile space now they are. But Palm has a (very long and storied) software problem, not a hardware problem. HP doesn't have much of a reputa
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by thought_alarm 17y ago
Funniest Dilbert episodes I've read in a while.
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by thought_alarm 17y ago
I haven't had an iPad for very long, but I love, love, love it for web browsing. It's like you're flying over your web pages. However, I don't like how iPad Safari handles "tabs". I would much prefer traditional tabs where I could select o
817.
by thought_alarm 17y ago
My computers and devices are named after popular females of the 1920s: - myrtle - mindy - mabel - ilene - irma - iris - patsy - floy - agnes - nellie Nellie, of course, is my beautiful NeXT cube.
818.
by thought_alarm 17y ago
It received a preposterous amount of hype for what amounts to nothing more than a old-school mobile web browser with a terribly awkward user interface. It does serve to remind users just how good native iPhone apps are compared to cross-pl
819.
by thought_alarm 17y ago
First impressions: 1. It renders pages in exactly the same way it does on my Blackberry. 2. The UI is just as awkward. Amazing.
820.
by thought_alarm 17y ago
I'll wait for Apple to provide their own explanation. But it goes without saying that Cocoa and Objective-C are still small potatoes compared to Flash and C#/.NET, despite the iPhone's recent popularity with developers. Platforms are alway
821.
by thought_alarm 17y ago
Google, Microsoft, RIM, and Palm are wishing it was that easy.
822.
by thought_alarm 17y ago
> Apple has consistently demonstrated that they don't care about what developers want. The facts disagree. The App Store model is unusual and it is not perfect. Few developers have any experience with Cocoa or Objective-C. Developers
823.
by thought_alarm 17y ago
It's funny how so many people are suddenly mischaracterizing the Apple II or the nature of early personal computers. The very first personal computers, like the Apple II, were sold as development kits to developers/hobbyists because these w
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by thought_alarm 17y ago
Every public API starts its life as a private API written for some specific application, and goes through many iterations before its finally carved in stone and added to the public API. If Cocoa Touch doesn't do something you need it to, Ap