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Google has been like this for me since last week. It's buggy; the auto-complete box sometimes gets detached and just floats in the page. I hope I can turn the sidebar off in the future.

I do like the softer logo, though.
Well, launching a web browser from an app is a lot less disruptive when you have multitasking.

This will be big because game makers will buy these by the boatload. I'll go on record right now predicting game ads will be over 80% of what you see on these.
Mobile ads are going to be near 100% of future online advertising business. If you think most computer users want to be tied down to a desk all day, you're kidding yourself.

The future of small, handheld computing devices is coming.
England is not the preferred nomenclature. UK is your best bet; size of industry, proximity to continental Europe, ties with US and all...

Depending on your age, income and/or ancestary, you can make use of Tier 2, Tier 5 or ancestary visas, all of which lets you to work in the UK without finding a sponsor.
Being a Facebook developer I've pretty much ignored the iPhone up until now because of the distribution problems. This makes it tempting.
They say its because of hardware limitations but I smell a rat. I have a jailbroken 3G with 'MusicControls' and it allows me to background pandora just fine.

This is just a way of forcing people to upgrade to the latest non-jailbreakable hardware.
Sort of. The minor-league baseball player example is sort of an anomaly - there are certainly baseball skills that one can improve with hard work, but there's not much you can do that will allow you to see the ball out of the pitcher's hand any better. One of the main benefits Barry Bonds saw from the HGH usage was that his vision was markedly improved, and if you can tell which pitch is coming by how the seams are spinning from further away than everyone else, it gives you a very distinct advantage.

A counterpoint to your Michael Jordan example: Michael Jordan, the minor-league baseball player.
One of the interesting features is background audio seems to use the iPod application for its playback controls. Presumably this means third party apps will be compatible with iPod integration systems in cars, home audio systems, etc. That's a big deal if true.
What matters is not whether people want to be tied to a desk but whether they are.
http://forum.androidcentral.com/general-help-how/8527-copy-p...
How spikey is your traffic? I would have assumed that SEO and Adwords buys would give roughly consistant traffic week after week. I think with that kind of traffic profile you'd almost certainly notice it yourself.

Where it would really hurt would be a sudden massive traffic spike, where your traffic rises above the magic number of hits per second that your rails app servers can deal with, and the delay would spiral out of control, only contained by connection timeouts.

Before I had properly setup my Django site, I experienced an issue like this with Apache worker threads, and that's exactly what happened. It went undetected until we had 100% higher traffic than normal (at the time, normal was growing by 10% a week), and instead of the site being snappy, most connections were timing out. I was completely out of my depth, having never administered a server before, let alone a dynamic web app with high traffic. Learning as I went while losing 10+ players per second was not fun.
I thought the opposite, now Google will have easier time in its anti trust issues, because they can claim they are not a monopoly.
As Steve said it:

"Now we weren't the first to this party, but we're gonna be the best. Just like cut and paste."

I think it's a fantastic idea to add Background * API if you can't provide full blown multitasking. Covers 80% of the use cases.
Ahh, hadn't done an OpenGL app yet. Nice to know.
This one hit close to home, actually. My cousin who lives in hong kong (can almost be considered a baby sister) was always at the top of her class when she was little. Something happened between then and now, she's a teenager, and she's dropped out of tougher schools to go to an easier one that trains specifically for computer assembly (kinda like getting a degree in ASP.NET or J2EE), so that she can work for an apple assembly facility (the school has ties w/apple apparently) =\

maybe she's just being a teenager, but it's worrisome.
It does look like a ton of stuff, yes.

Apple is looking to establish and to extend their beachheads in both the smartphone and tablet spaces, and this is how you do that. You invest design and development and debug and test. Big-time.

Being a response of marketing and features for the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and the HP Slate announcements, this looks quite potent.

And interestingly, this approach looks quite reminiscent of how Microsoft slid in a new (Windows) computing platform from up underneath its competitors way back in the 1990s, too.
They control less than 15% of the smart phone market. They are in no danger at all of antitrust enforcement.
If I have to work until eighty - I might as well not wait and start relaxing now. Fortunately I don't plan to take that long.
There were really only two things that made multitasking a problem (IMHO).

One: battery. They solved that pretty well by not doing true preemptive multitasking (I assume that it isn't preemptive, except maybe for background music). This is likely the right call too. Give apps access to the services they need to do what they want in the background, and keep them suspended the rest of the time.

The second is user interface. I thnk that their task switching solution is probably good too. It looks a lot like palm's, but with an apple flair.

You're right though... any previous defenders who gave other reasons were just deluding themselves. I think that battery life was the main factor. Once they figured that out, the rest became how to make it easy.
No, there is a "Sandbox" in-app purchase store you use when developing in-app purchases. It's actually a bit of a pain the ass, because you have to create a whole new user to use that store and you have to sign out of your real user and into the fake user to test in-app stuff.

They have a similar sandbox for notifications.
The only videos I found were the screencasts on the bottom. While fine, these only demonstrate basic features, features that again are available pretty much across the board. What I want to see is them putting together this Mail app from scratch, lets have a real start and a real goal. Now, I know many frameworks don't do this, but thats precisely why it would be a huge win to have. Even we don't do this as well as we should.

Now, if the reply to this is "but the video would take 10 hours!", then unless your counting time to make the art in photoshop, there's a serious problem. If I were to do a screencast of making that Mail.app interface in Cocoa, it would literally be 10-20 minutes max. Its honestly just drag and dropping the components in in Interface Builder, then setting up the bindings and data sources.
This is a problem for HTML5 content in general, isn't it? There's nothing on par with the Flash editor for creating HTML5. Adobe is the company I'd expect to create a visual HTML5 editor, but they're not going to give up the Flash war.
Those are some very weak correlations reported in that second link, and of course observational studies of the kind reported there have nothing to say about causation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...

It is regrettable that United States school officials are not more curious about what is going on successfully in other countries.
I just looked up how to do this, as I couldn't figure it out. Slide open the keyboard, hold the shift key and drag your finger across the text you want to copy. I just tested it on my Droid and it works. Not sure about other Android phones..
From engadget's live blog:

>Q: Will there be an ad approval process? A: (Jobs... super long pause) Um... well there's going to be some process... but these people are paying to run ads. So, I'm not sure it'll be anything other than a light touch.

So that implies that they won't be too selective about the advertisers, though they might just charge enough to ensure that most advertisers are high quality.
They're certainly picking a fight. It's far from clear that they'll win.

If the iPhone loses its dominance in smart phones, this move will have done nothing but antagonize the most obvious heir to the throne. Like nearly everything else Apple does, iAds will have a monopoly on a small market. Meanwhile, much of the iPhone's greatness depends on Google's own products....
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The only defense I ever gave for lack of multitasking was a CPU/battery/memory issues, which are valid. UI problems can be solved in software. It looks like Apple did the right thing by implementing limited multitasking APIs, rather than giving apps full reign over the CPU/memory as some have requested.
Absolutely. There's a reason that task manager apps are popular downloads for every phone that offers multitasking. You won't see them on iPhone OS 4.0.
Ask HN: Best way to display pomotions?
We're looking at installing a promotion intermediary that our resellers HAVE to respond to before contuining with their interaction.

Play-by-Play:

1) Reseller logs in
2) Promotion window/lightbox/popup is displayed
3)Reseller aknowledges the promotion by clicking Read/Skip or Apply and continues their interaction with the extranet.

Any recommendations or experiences as to which display technique works best and is moderately disruptive?

I consider the forbes.com pre-roll full-page ads as radical and the least user friendly.

Would appriciate any input,
Thanks
Typography has always been a bit of a black art for me. In the end, I usually just settle on something that (I think) doesn't look terrible. Anyone have some basic and intermediate tutorials/guides, sites, and book recommendations?
The focus on mobile doesn't change the fact that it's online advertising, and that's what Google wants to keep control of the most.
Yeah, the neat thing about Apple's strategy is that they've allowed 150k individual apps to flourish already. They can look at the APIs they provide and say "We handle 80/90/95% of the tasks needed by these apps". It's real-world customer development, based on actual requirements, vs. forecasting what people might want. There might be a missing use case, which will then appear in OS 4.1 next year :).
It seems to be unable to produce dissonance. How does it avoid that?

Edit: I think it's pentatonic.
Are we doing feature based checklists now, or comparing good implementations? Multitasking on a small device is largely a UI problem, and it sounds like Apple solved it almost like Palm did. You don't think they do research on what's out there, see how other people have solved problems, and adapt those solutions to what they're trying to do?
No new iPhone hardware this year? I thought they were gonna announce a 4th generation handset.
Right, of course. I should state that in the above they are plain different APIs and architectures.
What's up with the disconnect between news like this and Wall Street? iAd is announced, AAPL goes down and GOOG goes up?
Not me.

Just to clarify: I don't mean to say that I didn't read the article. I mean to say that the tapir analogy was distracting and detracted from the article.
The Arrogance of Turning Down $100 Million
Interesting Steve quote from Q&A:

We don’t know much about the advertising stuff. We’re
learning. We tried to buy a company called AdMob, the
biggest mobile advertising company. But Google came
in and snatched them from us. They didn’t want us to
have them. So we bought another smaller company,
Quattro Wireless. They are teaching us. But we are
babes in the woods. We are learning as fast as we can.

edit: Mostly referring to the 'babe in the woods' comment, along with his perspective on the AdMob purchase.
Fire bad teachers: good idea, but you need to train and attract good teachers at the same time.

I have read that the number of American adults of working age who have teaching credentials is something like double the number of currently working teachers. But studies of teacher incompetence

http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-921/incompetent.htm

show that the least capable teachers stay in the occupation the longest, and sometimes their very presence drives out the most competent teachers.

I agree that making schools less like prisons would be better both for teachers and for learners.
While its true mobile ads suck, its not like others couldn't have done advertisements that are just as interactive as the ones Steve demoed. I'm feel like a large reason why they haven't become popular is because advertising companies don't have the know how to do this sort of thing.

That said, iAds will be successful just because its Apples advertising platform and very high profile.
All irony about the source of the article aside, I think that they are missing a demographic shift that underlies the topic:

Just as people are calling themselves CEOs and entrepreneurs without much actual business experience, likewise are people calling themselves designers just because they know HTML/CSS enough to create a web page.

And applying those labels to yourself is fine -- they are technically accurate.

But in the past, there was an implied level of the depth of expertise in a field before one would claim such labels. What we have lost is not the expertise. There are still designers with very deep knowledge of the art, who apply is very effectively. I'd even guess that there are more of them than in the past. But they are overshadowed by the inexperienced designers who claim the same title.
Keep in mind that F# is very similar to OCaml. OCaml compiles to native executables, so while it's not for the JVM, you should be able to use it on most platforms.
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If game makers take up this approach in force, that will be a fair sight better than the status quo of supporting "free" games by way of in-app purchases (that are essentially mandatory to get the full experience of the game).
no doubt the iPad has the same "hardware limitations"?
Hmmm. This seems like the sort of person who shouldn't be given an audience and encouragement.
I got HackerNewsDotted. Amazing.
Exactly. You don't improve by parroting details like this in your own presentations, you want to gain the mindset that would make you care about having such detail.
A good HTML 5 authoring tool is going to be so valuable, that whoever has the balls to built it is going to look pretty smart in a couple of years... and Adobe is either going to buy them, or ride Flash down into irrelevance.
That would be awesome, but I'm afraid by "SSL VPN" they mean just the lame browser-based pseudo-VPN gateways.
They care about the end user experience. They don't care at all about what you've managed to get working on a jailbroken phone. My take is that they decided the experience wouldn't be good on the 3G. (They were emphatic about this point in Q&A).

Either way, it's irrelevant. I didn't buy my 3G in the anticipation of having multitasking. I bought it because I wanted what it was then. I'm upgrade-eligible soon enough, and happy to have a reason to buy a 4th-gen iPhone.
"Strong disagree. Apple's implementation of background services looks more like a vindication of the defenders."

But it's not. And you can disagree, but you are wrong. The defenders I'm referring to were supporting not having multitasking; or, better said, were touting lack of multitasking as a feature. Their were other defenders who were for multitasking, but against doing it poorly. I'm referring to the former, not the later.
The management side- I have to have a Task Killer app running in the background to kill off all the random apps that wind up going. The problem on Android, to me, is more of a failure in caring about UI than a failure of technology- which is also my problem with the platform as a whole.
No, the iPad gets multitasking in the Fall.
Are the stats I quoted so out of context as to be worthy of downvoting?

I think it's an honest perspective and would have an impact on the educational outcomes of immigrant populations.
That's pretty cool. Others might be interested in a project I'm working on called Syzygryd: http://www.syzygryd.com/

Syzygryd is an interactive art piece that features three grid sequencers that track each others' state. I plan to post something to the main HackerNews site once development is further along.
Not at this event.
Sleep is Death - A game where the AI is human.
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What, search and maps?
I use my own server side analytics code. The reason I do, is that, no matter how much people pump Google Analytics, I'm afraid of it. I've been to too many sites that were completely hung, and in the status bar, my browser is saying "waiting for www.google-analytics.com".

I usually hit refresh and it generally works, but how many people don't? This isn't something that's happened to me once or twice. It happens often enough that I'm consciously avoiding ga. I don't need to cause more people to bounce for no reason.
Faster processor perhaps. They are both cursed with only 128MB of RAM.
Well that's better.

Wait, multitasking? I thought we've just been having the discussion about how Apple is awesome for not having multitasking followed by a long bulleted list of apologists talking points?
True - but the statistic I am talking about is Apple's slide today http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/04/iphone...

10:11AM "iPhone has a 64% mobile browser use share... everything else added together is half the iPhone."
But the laws they made will remain in their wake.

Here in the USA, the GOP is learning the same lesson. They didn't mind the power that GWB consolidated in the Executive. But now that the DEMs control that office, the GOP isn't very happy with sleeping in their own bed.

(that's a lot of metaphors I'm mixing in just a short post!)
The beauty of iAds is that it plays to Apple's strengths. In particular, they're the one handset manufacturer that has a unified platform large enough to support an advertising platform and an OS capable of rich interactive ads. Google could have built iAd years ago, but it isn't in their DNA and the fragmentary nature of Android might make it difficult to deploy.
Right now. HTML5 version works fine.
I just found too many people promoting the lack of multitasking as a feature. Even with the iPad reviews, lack of multitasking was a bullet point, rather than a flaw. And it was/is a flaw. Yes, they had good reasons for not having it, but that doesn't mean it's less of a flaw. People don't excuse Microsoft for having security problems when those security problems exist because of BC issues. People shouldn't. A flaw, or lack of a feature is simply that.
I've used a number of different email clients, but I think that the simplest tools, if applied properly, should solve this problem. Trouble is, though, is that's really specific to what mail you get.

When someone un-CCs themselves from a bug report, find something that's common to every subject line (or better yet, the sending address, since it's probably your tracking software's server), and make a filter for that. Also, I think most clients allow you to distinguish between mails just to you and mass emails. I would just make a folder for every category you can think of, set up the filters as best you can, and then prioritize the categories. Emails that are written solely to you and don't look like notifications you get on a regular basis are probably the most important. Then replies, etc...
Proposed By The Unelected, Debated By The Ignorant, Voted On By The Absent
Those are usage stats, not market stats. They don't mean anything.
Then you’d say, “Hells yeahs, Tapirs are cuddly”.

You´d be wrong...

This essay is long and disorganized. To spare those who would other wise have to suffer through it the trouble: It's basically a defense of the the term 'NoSQL' as a description of the collective of hash-key stores, documents dbs, etc that have been gaining popularity of late. His claim: 'NoSQL' represents some kind of escape from the oppressiveness of SQL and is a radical break with accepted DB technologies.

It's posts like this that bother me most about about the NoSQL crowd. Hash-key stores, document DBs, and other equally innovative things have been in existence and in use for decades. Periodically, people try to promote these technologies as replacements for RDBMs and each time, we learn that while they have their place, so do RDBMs. NoSQL is not revolutionary; it's a practical extension of pre-existent technologies that solves a set of problems that current RDBMs don't address, while RDBMs still solve the set of problems that they were meant to address.

All this revolution nonsense is just that, and that's why people are so worked up on both sides.
Not that I would disclose any secret stuff in the new OS4.0 SDK, but I betcha the iAd framework is called AdLib....
The 3GS has twice as much memory. It's taken Apple years to iron this out, and they have historically made features available on older hardware, so my bet is that 128Meg isn't enough to support common usage of this feature. It's possible that OS4 uses more memory itself.
Interesting comment by Jobs (disingenuous ?), that "we don't know much about advertising; we're babes in the woods."
FTC, not FCC
New app restriction might kill Titanium and Air on iPhone OS
that's a bit harsh. I found the article genuinely interesting, even if very light on the details.
It's the "vegetables as a group" part. The "vegetable group" is ill-defined because some vegetables (such as potatoes and corn/maize) have nutritional profiles more akin to grains, with higher glycemic index and lower nutrient density. I'd be very surprised if eating lots of broccoli and cabbage doesn't lower cancer rates; lots of potatoes, not so much.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/14/apple_met_with...

http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/04/apple-acquires-quattro-wire...
Additionally, many in the embedded space are moving back to C out of C++ after its many faults and difficult working environment (i.e. you have to fire people who can't handle your subset of C++) disillusioned them.
I'm sorry but I don't agree with you that I'm wrong.

The lack of jailbreak/Android-style multitasking is still a feature. The fact that they took the time to implement it as carefully-designed background services means I don't have to deal with process killers and don't lose my battery to moronic apps that busypoll on GPS.

Or, as they said: "In multitasking, if you see a task manager, they blew it. Users shouldn’t have to ever, ever, ever think about that stuff."
It works perfectly, it even shows the artwork in the lockscreen just like the ipod app does, something I didnt see in Apple's version of multitasking.

I also want a 4th Gen iPhone but not if its not jailbreak-able, there are too many missing features that can only be enabled by jailbreaking.
So what prevents Google from serving similar Admob ads?

from Gizmodo live coverage:

Q: And can people use stuff other than iAd and Game Center?

Steve: Yes, you can use any service.
Usually Google buys talent e.g. Etherpad or technology e.g. Keyhole. In case of AdMob, Google didn't purchase the technology or people but rather the customers and goodwill.
I suspect that apps will be the big market for iAd, at least initially. You'll be able to see the reviews, screenshots, and buy the app directly from within another app.
It should be noted this is merely for another news sites. "paywalls" themselves (content for cash) are a proven way to make money. It depends on the industry, or content, and the price. Paywalls for news sites generally won't work, especially when it's yet another news site on the web.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/jobs-if-you-see-a-stylus-...
100%? I doubt it... What about advertising in the social space?
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