Oh, that's what he's asking?
To the OP: do your startup in Java. Then at least you'll be hiring devs who give a damn about building your product, rather than ones who just want to screw around in whatever's shiny and new.
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To the OP: do your startup in Java. Then at least you'll be hiring devs who give a damn about building your product, rather than ones who just want to screw around in whatever's shiny and new.
Understand the foundation and everything else becomes a lot easier to learn. And yes, you can do the web with it. Many still do.
This guy is very confused. Other US-based companies selling hardware operate in this same way. To boot, he never shows that anything listed here for Apple WASN'T done in the US for the Kindle. The same laundry list of components he describes for the Kindle goes for every Apple product, every Motorola product, every Xbox 360, etc. Yet the design and software is usually done in the same way Apple does.
Did he give Microsoft a head's up about these and a chance to respond before going public? Or does he just give a conference talk and post it to his blog, potentially providing the information allowing thousands of browsers to get compromised (assuming they weren't already) before privately letting Microsoft get a chance to patch it?
You know they've clicked through to your entry in the store. Users don't know they'll still get their coinage if they then don't rate the thing after clicking.
The entire world of Facebook/iPhone apps is basically this these days. Be sure to rate this app with 5 stars/Like/etc. for your freeeeee in-game coinage!
Like Java, or Scala, or even C++ (Okcupid did it)? I'm trying to figure out why Go made you arrive at this conclusion and other languages did not.
Symbian, Blackberry and Android don't support Objective-C as far as I know. Only iOS does, which is far from the "most popular" mobile platform, especially if you look outside Silicon Valley just for a minute.
[Edit] Also, for the record, you can program in C++ and distribute on iOS with minimal Objective C. I thought I'd point this out given my login name.
Whatever you think of Java, it has improved HUGELY since the 90s. Though it does miss closures.
"So this cluster fuck of apps has become so diluted in human value and so inflated in capital value that Ninja Warrior Agile ScrumMaster and Incompetent MBA Popped Collar actually have a decent chance of landing on the front page of TechCrunch with a title something to the effect of “Man Takes a Dump on an Android Phone: Sand Hill Road Calls First Dibs for $22M”"
I agree with the grandparent, this decision was political.