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This guy must be really young because either he's delusional or we read 2 different headlines in '00.

For Apple to be like Microsoft it would have to take a standardized language (like HTML, Javascript, or Java), fork it so it is unreadable by the original, then use it's monopoly so that no one else can create a competitor.

Here is a rundown of this MS behavior:

MS-DOS vs. PC-DOS

J# vs Java

IE6 vs HTML4

MS JS vs javascript

Now when Apple forks Flash and decides that is the only Flash that will be available on iPhoneOS then they will have become Microsoft.
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I've worked through acquisitions.

I think in a lot of cases if you request a refund instead of the new service you'll get one.
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1. How is the learning curve for a ruby programmer ?

None. MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9. A very fast Ruby implementation, but, not a completely new language thats only similar. HotCocoa is a gem. A very useful gem that should be the first thing you install, but, a gem.

2. Are using the String and other core classes just the same as ruby, or more difficult / cumbersome.

Just as easily.

3. Can you reuse code from pure ruby apps, or does this re-implementation cause issues/problems.

Sure. Go for it. It is Ruby, after all. Just with an optional gem to access another framework, in this case, Cocoa.
The latest version of the enterprise trash I develop for replaced a mid-90's Win32 GUI with Silverlight running in a browser... leaving intact the Java database connection code. When I installed it on my machine I had to reinstall Java before it would work.

But that's more a testament to the vendor's "now with $AWESOME_PLATFORM!"-driven software architecture paradigm than any real fault of Silverlight or Java. (Except that they both appeal to those sorts of people.)
The entire argument hinged around "cutting off the air supply to Netscape," which was Microsoft's defining anti-competitive (ergo monopolistic) practice -- for people who only heard about monopolies from the major news network soundbites.

This is just ludicrous:

> Microsoft may have destroyed Netscape, and Digital Research, and dozens of other companies, with illegal abuse of their monopoly powers. But nothing they did threatened to bring the industry to a shuddering halt, ceasing all development of new and better ways of doing things. Microsoft never made Haskell illegal.

Yes, they strongarmed every OEM within an inch of their lives -- and they actually stifled competition -- meanwhile Apple just won't let you crosscompile apps for their phone.

Yikes.
As for your first two questions, it has nothing to do with "this is hard." People don't care about perceived difficulty, they care about results. Apple creates tools that are reliable, easy to use, and work well.

> why Apple shouldn't get credit for a final, polished experience?

I think you were downvoted for the rest of your comment. I agree with you here.

> what boundaries Apple pushed when they came out with an MP3 player, a mobile phone, or a touch pad computer?

The iPod was revolutionary in that it was the easiest to use MP3 player. The iPhone was revolutionary because it was one of the first phones that didn't suck. The iPad is revolutionary because many other people have made touch screen computers, but the iPad is one of the first that was designed for touch in the beginning, not just 'you touch the screen instead of the mouse.'

I expect you also might be getting downvoted because this is 'Apple business analysis 101.' These topics were discussed endlessly ever since the release of the iMac. People are probably sick of hearing, "It's just a phone, wtf?"

With that said, I didn't downvote you, so I can't speak for those that did.
If you have to follow Apple terms then they are, by definition, deciding if you can provide certain functionality to your customers.

I'm sure Adobe could make the same argument to Apple. If you only do what's in our interests then we'll probably update our 3rd party libs within a reasonable timeframe. And don't bring up that one time we didn't bother supporting something in your API, that's just one feature out of thousands we did support.
"I see little evidence that many people are actually using them yet." - My experience has been different , even in large Enterprise Java Shops you now have a smattering of different languages on the JVM , albeit all hidden away.

This is primarily because the new languages all come as jar files so taking a cursory glance the tendency is to say - oh that's another Java library , look a little deeper and you find Groovy,Beanshell,JRuby, AspectJ,Scala, Clojure et all, the main scaffolding is still in Java but the interesting parts are being written in other languages.
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The thing is… if there are thousands of Flash apps on users' iPads, and an OS update breaks Flash, how long will it take Adobe to fix it? Or is Apple supposed to either hold up the OS or code around bugs in Flash (or other layer)?
Do you honestly see this as a realistic policy?
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in HARDWARE. As part of the actual device.

Might want to update the headline.
Just to nitpick, its AppKit, not UIKit. UIKit is on the iPhone, where, sadly, MacRuby isn't available.
According to wikipedia the ARM11 chips have "64 bit data paths" and toshiba seems to have a chip they claim has

# Synthesizable high-performance 64 bit RISC architecture (ARMv6)

# 64 bit ARM® Instruction Set

http://www.toshiba-components.com/ASIC/ARM1176JZF-S.htm

though thats pretty much the only mention a quick search coughs up, so I wouldn't call it definitive, for one thing I don't know if the 1176 is in production of not.

edit: the ARM website doesn't seem to mention 64 bit anywhere either so toshiba may be engaging in a rather creative definition of 64bit.
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btw, am wondering about opening this up as an app.

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Well, the U.K. NHS is trying to give everyone yet more access to private data: http://www.simon-cozens.org/content/nhs-records-obscurity-ma...

I keep wondering how long it will be until the people of the U.K. realize whose company they are in (Russia and China), pull their heads out of their @$$, and reverse course.
You are, of course, correct; I was responding to my parent's unqualified claims that "mobile Flash is still nowhere to be found on any mobile device" and "mobile Flash didn't exist in 2007".
I'm sorry, after rereading my post I think I might not have been clear. I was asking specifically about HN cookies.
one major drawback to using a rubber coated ball like that is that it will pick up all of the gunk that it rolls over, and those omni wheels have a very low tolerance for obstruction before they get jammed.
Agreed, but the same can't be said for all concerned parties. The Unity3d guys, for example, allow cross-platform development, and many quality games are already using it. I don't think development addresses their issue at all (in fact, it might have made it worse).
Kudos for the theme of your analysis, but is Intel really serious enough about the Atom? I haven't looked in quite a while, but when I did one of the big problems was that the chipsets they provided were not optimized for low power and consumed more than the processor itself. Have they corrected this, especially for the mobile market?

Then there's the question I have WRT to it being a horse race; as I understand it:

The Atom is in-order superscalar, 64 bit (all recent versions), faster than anything from ARM and consumes more power.

The Cortex A9 is out-of-order, 32 bit, slower than the Atom (don't know how that might play out with ARM 2-4 cores) and of course consumes less power.

On a speed/power basis, ARM still wins.
Yeah, seems like she has her hands full at Y! and, as CEO, makes time to occasionally say how their competition aren't that great and they're going to catch up fast. Isn't that her job? What CEO would say "yeah, we suck compared to Facebook and Google" in public?
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I am looking for a place where i can either download the address of all sex offenders or better yet a managed web service that will take an address and give me the addresses of all sex offenders within a given mile distance. I have looked all over and can't find one.
I agree that the best new feature for most people is faster bootup time. I have a dual boot (Widows 7, Ubuntu) Toshiba U505 and the difference in bootup used to be huge (Widows 7 being a lot slower), now the difference is humongus!

Wifi support now supports my new laptop.

I have been using Linux since I downloaded Slackware over a 2400 baud modem (1991?) and have used most of the major distros over the years. For me, Ubuntu is the "get stuff done with minimal hassles" distro - love it.
I'd also justify that by assuming that if they're still running IE6, they're probably not interested in your fancy app anyway. Obviously this isn't 100% true, but I'd bet its close.
Agreed. It's just silly to claim "better marketing" is what make people like Apple.
Windows is still the most widely used consumer OS in the market: That's also marketing.

OSX is great software, the iPhone is a great product, the original Macintosh changed computing forever. That, IMHO, is not "just better marketing".
What Hollywood needs is a "premium" experience that is obviously, dramatically better than anything at home, suitable for films aimed at all ages, and worth a surcharge. For years I've been praising a process invented by Dean Goodhill called MaxiVision48, which uses existing film technology but shoots at 48 frames per second and provides smooth projection that is absolutely jiggle-free.

I'm not sure why Ebert thinks this technology will draw moviegoers out of their homes. Many HD TVs and console games run at 60 fps. High-fps movies would leak into the home far faster than 3D has.
It doesn't look too good for this guy - he has admitted not trying to return it to Apple, and he even used an intermediary to find the highest bidder amongst tech blogs.
Well then those quote "local economists" are idiots with no sense of history.

"Mildly socialist, corrupt and inefficient" is how any economist who has a brain, local or otherwise, would describe it.

"Stalinist" is for Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and other groups who are more concerned with "impact words" than actually understanding anything.

EDIT: Just to make it more clear how inaccurate and inflammatory that comparison is, Stalin by many estimates killed more people than Hitler. I'll repeat that. Stalin by many estimates killed more people than Hitler. Want to rethink the comparison maybe?
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You can go ahead and add the movie to your Netflix queue. I certainly have.

http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Erasing_David/70134394?strack...
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I don't think this project is properly leveraging PHP's advantages. PHP code's ability to be run on almost any server with Apache is a big plus, but this project requires a JVM. It's different enough from PHP that the plethora of PHP programmers will need to learn a new language, which is another hurdle. It's not backwards compatible so existing PHP code will need to be rewritten. In fact, it looks very different from PHP except for the intended use of the PHP library, which is one of PHP's weakest points.

The project has a lot of great ideas but I don't think branding it as a PHP derivative is one of them.
Nice work. Could do without the fancy animation at the end of the game.
They did something genuinely useful without taking away from the minimal experience.
> "Apple's cloud will be federated"

In a sense, it already is.

A friend's Macbook Air SSD died. We plugged her Time Machine to a Mac Mini, restored into a new account, and she had "her" computer. Had been a day or two since her last backup, but MobileMe brought her latest appointments, contacts, and bookmarks back down from the ".Mac" cloud.

She missed having the portable Air, so walked into a BestBuy, got an iPad, logged into MobileMe, and was immediately checking her half dozen email accounts along with, again, all her bookmarks, appointments, and contacts, because those settings were stored in the cloud. Plugged it to the account on the Mac Mini, and now had her 5GB of photos and 20GB of music.

Three weeks later, Apple gave her a fixed Macbook Air. At boot it asked if she owned another Mac, and she plugged in her Time Machine drive. Slightly less than 9 minutes later, a reboot, and "her" Mac was back, again with every app and tweak. MobileMe sync ran, and by the time she opened her iCal, it was up to date.

The hardware essentially didn't matter. "Her" settings, "her" data, were accessible to her across phone, tablet, other person's computer, and a replacement for her own computer, all with zero I.T. effort.

Best part -- she didn't even notice this was remarkable. She just logged into the Macbook Air and started doing email, right at home, without a second thought.

As for that little monolith? Maybe it's already here -- Time Capsule is an Airport Extreme with built in dual channel 802.11a/b/g/n and another guest WiFi DMZ, includes TimeMachine wireless backup, offers a USB printer hub, and gives remote access that also syncs to MobileMe (which stores documents and personalization in the cloud).
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When your Sequoia funded, you're held to a higher standard just b/c of the pedigree of the firm (at least in my perception). Also, big names in headlines garner more clicks.
Home and end are function-left/function-right, Page up/down are function up/down, and what you're calling "delete" (Apple calls it forward delete) is function-delete. This is how the whole line of Apple portables are...

Not sure how those work if you're not using a Mac. Maybe you can remap the right Option to Control? Control isn't near as important for most Mac users since Macs use Command where windows uses Control.
True, it depends on the service your offering though, in a case like this the right thing would be to ensure (baring bankruptcy) that the streaming will be available long term, or be more upfront with people that it is limited.

While it is true there is the offer you can't refuse type deal I'm not a fan of some founders who you hear a lot about their big plans and the quality of the product or service they are providing, you get interested in purchasing and the next second they are gone.
There's the source :) Remove it and re-release it. Which is, I suppose, the whole point.
These people liked IE, the worst browser ever?!? They reject standardization?

If they really want a history lesson, then return to the pre-browser days -- yeah, you had to #ifdef and port your code over and over and over, always chasing the latest APIs (the time of origin of that horrible phrase, in fact).

Standardization fixed that.
Can you give precise examples?
It's a good game mechanic for RPGs. In high school when all the cool kids were writing their own role-playing systems, I wrote one based on m5d10.

I feel like the computational (and, worse, legalistic) overhead for RPGs can detract from the fun of playing. So I wrote a simpler system that was based on that. Finding the middle of 5 d10s is something you can do (once you're used to it) in 0.25 seconds, so it's "immediately obvious" what the dice say. Adding 5 d10s takes about 1-2 seconds for most people, which is enough of a pause to break flow.

However, the real flow-breaker of RPGs isn't computation, but looking up rules in a rulebook to figure out how many dice of damage you take from a third-story fall before deciding whether to leap. This is one of the problems with formal role-playing systems... but, as always, the quality of the session has a lot more to do with the GM and players than the system itself.

But if I were to do a role-playing system now, it'd be based on Tarot cards (the 22 trumps). RPGs are more about interactive storytelling than about combat and number-crunching.
In all fairness, the "[or whatever]" you said above includes "to the best of my knowledge". So you can sign it unless you are aware that something is incorrect.
You misunderstand how evolution works. It is not a progression towards perfection.

You're conflating biological evolution with creationism / 'intelligent design'.
I would love an ARM development machine.

How hard will it be to blank this thing and put Arch on it?
I don't agree with the above analysis, I prefer:

IBM doomed OS/2 with their earlier promise to MIS managers (as they were called then) that the PC-AT would be the last personal computer they'd have to buy for a long time.

Microsoft correctly hated the diversion of effort and compromises needed to get it to run on the 286 (which was truly awful when not being just a fast 8086) and didn't stop their Windows effort and at some point started up NT (well, we know the point, when DEC killed the Prism project, I just don't remember its relation to the other events).

This all came to a head when the 386 was the standard minimum CPU in a machine. OS/2 did not run competitively on it, Windows 3.0/1 could take significant advantage of it, was less complicated and imposing and I'm sure cost a lot less. And it could run multiple isolated DOS boxes.

That set the stage for what then happened.
Can you explain what some of those lower level functions are on the web that need a lower level language? As far as I can tell, the lowest level of the web is sending a static document to the requester via HTTP. Any lower than that and you are talking about TCP/IP sockets, etc.

In the domain of Operating Systems this makes more sense, because the OS or kernel is generally written in the low level language that is being asked about (i.e. C). Any higher-level language is generally implemented in terms of the low level language, making it available as a fall back for low level tasks (i.e. tasks on the OS/kernel level).

I'm just not sure how this concept of lower-level languages applies to the web.
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They'll focus on making iPhone OS the best mobile HTML5 platform.
"As for your first two questions, it has nothing to do with "this is hard." People don't care about perceived difficulty, they care about results. ."

Which is no surprise, considering they control everything. And, considering they control everything, I'm surprised it takes them so long to actually get features in. The point is, they aren't doing anything special. If anything, they aren't doing enough compared to what other people accomplish. The difference is that Apple does it in the only area that end users really see: The end user experience.

"The iPod was revolutionary in that it was the easiest to use MP3 player."

That's debatable. The iPod was, and still is, incredibly backwards in how it needs to load and unload media. The iPod had a gimmick (the wheel), which they've removed in favor of the design they where originally trying to replace.

The iPhone wasn't revolutionary. It was evolutionary. There is a big difference. The iPhone was a natural progression everyone saw from the iPod. Nor were they phones prior to the iPhone that weren't good. What made the iPhone popular was it was Apple, and more importantly, it built itself into iTunes.

If anything is revolutionary, it's iTunes, and everything that's extended out of it. And even that isn't something Apple came up with. iTunes is nothing that hasn't existed in the open source world for a long time. Debians Apt repositories are the earliest I can think of (and I'm sure others can come up with older things). Heck, even Lindows did the same thing with their CNR stuff (though, I think that came out after iTunes, I'm getting my time lines mixed up).

Anyways.

"I expect you also might be getting downvoted because this is 'Apple business analysis 101.'" I don't imagine anything I said is new, but it doesn't mean it's not relevant, or incorrect. It really comes down to Apple doesn't impress. When you have complete control over every aspect of your product, then you should deliver. Indeed, I'd go so far to say that Apple is behind where it should be.

You can make great products, but that doesn't mean you are doing anything special.

Maybe I'm just not as easily impressed?
You have a curious definition of keyboard usability. I was unaware key presence was keyboard usability.
I am expecting, sooner rather than later, that Time Capsule will acquire the ability to do OTA backup of iPad/iPhone. Either that, or that there'll be a second-generation Apple TV that is basically a combined Apple TV and Time Capsule -- streaming media to all your iDevices, feeding video out directly to your TV, and acting as a backup hub and wireless router. The "home hub" with cloud backup is clearly not that far off Apple's current road map ...
Despite the fact that I call it "N00buntu" sometimes, I know a few advanced users who use stock Ubuntu and are perfectly happy with it.

With Synaptic, your development tools and apps are pretty much a click away if not already installed.

Me, I use Arch. I'm always tweaking shit and don't want the distro getting in my way, which Debian-based distros have a tendency to do.
Wait, less ';'?

The semicolons are only optional in JavaScript if you are okay with being incompetent. Or, well, slowing down your programs a bit and risking errors through ambiguity.

The JSON style syntax is nice, PHP really needs that. I'd be pleased to never see or type => ever again.

I have no idea what to think about the rest. Inline SQL? Isn't some heinous mixture of PHP, SQL, JavaScript and XML all in the same file something that normal people would seek to avoid?
Best feature for me:

The "Windows XP got pissed and shit on" theme is gone.
I'm not too upset at my money lost. It easily justifies stealing the music myself. I really will lament not having a good web music player.

Anyone know of an itunes-like client which you can point to your server or S3? I'm happy to host things myself.
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I think this is a one-sided argument: So you want to make money and make the lives of your customers better, and to do that you feel free take advantage of the functions of society around you but feel no need to contribute to the running of those functions....

If government really is a net detriment to your business, why don't you move to a place that has no functioning government (like Somalia) and see how good it is to run a business there.
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