Nah... I like my "Fanboys" (http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=Fanboys) style adventure better. Eventually my pattern would have taken me their.
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Being that the iPhone is very popular, lots of people would have wanted to see it so... I would have charged them $5 no wait... $20 each to hang out with the iphone for 1 minute, and $50 each for a Polariod of them and the Prototype. I would have continued this pattern until I:
1.) Talked with everyone in the SFO area 2.) Could not carry anymore money 3.) Ran in to Steve Jobs and returned the lost prototype to it's rightful owner.
Eventually I would have found the owner and could sleep easy at night knowing I did everything I could to return it, In the end I would have made way more money than $5000 and returned the iphone.
The one key element that makes the web possible, isn't HTML, HTTP, CSS, blah, blah, blah... it is the fact that it is decentralized. If for some reason we are tricked into moving away from this we are not longer using the web. We are just using AOL 2.0 - Google, Facebook, twitter, bit.ly.... are all trying take control of not users, but their information and the web.
Don’t think it will happen... it already has. The URL is the essence of how the web works and you no longer control yours. Link shortening, makes it easier to paste and share links but it breaks the web. Currently, I am sitting in China writing this comment and every link that bit.ly has under its control are completely useless to every person in China. My slogan that I came up with for Bit.ly is "Billions of links useless to billions of people!" Please don’t respond its China’s fault; that is too simple. The issue is that we haven’t responded fast enough from a standards perspective to combat this hijacking. The solution is actually quite simple to implement.
The privacy policy that people don't like is easy to solve, don't use it. Except for search, there are many other viable products in each space.
Why do you care? Taking some one else's code and rewriting is a great way to learn. First, you don't need your own idea. Second, there is already a "viable" solution you can learn from and third, you can get to the meat of being a great coder. "How can I make XYZ better, simpler, more performant..."
Once you learn thoughs skills you can go off and create yor own projects. Look at all the things people love today, they are simpler. better architected, more performant versions of existing solutions. Apache -> ngnx, MySQL -> ...,
If you are afraid to fail or worry about what others think you won't be a great coder.
Once Yahoo! or another big company buys them they will be forced to move on and find something new :(
Even though I can't build iPhone applications, to me this ban makes sense for the following reasons:
1.) Limits the total number of applications. Apple knows that the "100,000+ apps" is just marketing. How many unit conversion applications do you need or does Apple want clogging up their approval process.
2.) Reduces the velocity of the application submissions. Having a more controlled ecosystem means that everything isn't done at once. This is core to Apples strategy. Roll things out in phases; build features that people want over time. Cut&Paste, Multi-tasking...
3.) Forces people develop iPhone applications on Mac hardware.
4.) The more layers between you and the developers building the applications increases compatibility issues, which are out of your control.
5.) The more layers between you and the developers building the applications decreases the speed at which applications can take advantage of new features. Apple releases a new api now any developer using a 3rd party framework needs to wait for that framework to support the new API. This impacts the significance of the new feature.
I find it annoying when a response to a dead comment has lots of up votes and is useful but I can't read the comment that it is responding to.
Now for the last week, I have been thinking I am going deaf because I need to turn everything to 11 just to hear it. Then I plugged in a different pair, and almost had my ear drums burst form the loudness.
Health-care, Insurance, Oil, Headphones, Government, Credit cards, Banking, Financial, Video Games, Cable then maybe mobile.
My mobile plan is one of the lowest monthly bills that I have based on amount of usage. To my knowledge it is one of the least subsidized industries. Are there issues? Sure. Could coverage be better? Sure. Would it be nice to have true consumption $/Mb pricing? Sure. Are they too locked down, Definitely, but the iPhone showed them what unlocking the phones to 3rd party developers can do.
I am not sure what another unlocked phone is going to do. The life-cycle of phones is shorter than the term of a mobile contract. So it really doesn't help me. If the phone allowed me auto-switch between AT&T and Verizon based on the best coverage and I paid Google on a $/Mb. That would be a game changer and push the mobile industry farther.
It would be good to understand the location of the server(s) doing the monitoring.
<quote>Team Cyprus: Alcohol + Bad Judgement + Really Poor Timing</quote>
Edit: Note I don't agree with the quote. I think it was funny how "some" thought that people that earned money honestly, went to have fun was in Bad Judgement.
Chasing another input device like a point would be a pane; Sticking your hands between the seat cushions for the remoe is bad enough. Now I would be chasing a tiny plastic pencil everywhere.
Laptops are an easily portable version of a Computer. Netbooks are really cheaps/simple versions of a Laptop.
A tablet is a ????? version of a computer that isn't covered by a laptop.
General Flash use on my desktop is annoying, but on an iPhone it would be way worse. Plus not having to download the extra content, which really ends up being useless anyways is a waste.
It will be pretty sweet.
The ability to reload money on it is an advantage as well. Not sure if there is anything advantage to a starbucks card in general; discounts, give aways, other than the wireless, but I like the app approach over the plastic in my wallet.
What people don’t understand is that languages of any kind don't die easily. New languages don't kill the old ones either, people transition to different languages because they better solve the problems of today, but problems of yesterday still exist and so do their solutions.
I am not sure why there is so much interest in this topic. Twitter doesn't make money the people that use Twitter really don't make money; having more people follow Miley Cyrus isn't going to change that.
Want a new high? try running a marathon, benchpressing 315lbs, or screwing the hotest chick in your town. The two previous suggestions may be helpful for the later.