haseman

I just started up the iPhone ARKit. An Apache licensed Augmented Reality toolkit for the iPhone

Keyword advertising isn't like the housing bubble at all. Housing prices were driven up by loose lending practices and very cheap/easy credit explicitly FOR housing. There is no such subsidy market for search words. While there may be a google bubble, it has nothing to do with how the housing bubble was created and sustained.

Doh, not sure if I can update it

Answer: because cheap ideas and easy development don't make money!

Do you really think all the carriers are going to use the fully open version of the Android? Keep in mind, there are three versions of it: 1-Minimal / non-branded, 2-Semi open / semi google branded, and 3-fully open / full google branded.

So far, we've only seen the third and most open version of the platform...

Ah! Well then if you're talking about taking action over anger at Apple, then Here Here! Go Android Go! (At least until Google starts blocking applications too)

I would argue that it contributes perspective :-) but that's obviously debatable.

I would wager Apple didn't know what it was getting itself into. Most large companies who want to enter the mobile space don't. They failed to plan for the degradation of AT&T's network as they failed to plan for the level of anti-competitiveness exhibited by most carriers.

Getting angry, by the way, will do nothing...reducing Apple's revenue, on the other-hand...

Please please keep in mind that every one of Apple's developers and customers is entering their walled garden by choice. If their control really bothers you...go get an Android device.

Welcome to carrier controlled Mobile software development. Life sucks, telecoms don't like competition, wear a helmet. I continue to be amazed at the outrage generated by Apple fan-boys over an issue that has been happening in the mobile world for many many years.

Perhaps the solution to any company that exerts dictatorial control over it's own property is to throw a legion of Apple nerds at it?

(This isn't to say that these arguments are wrong...they're just several years late to the party)

Amazing! Now all we need to do is convince potential victims to use PS2 keyboards and we're golden.

Misleading headline. The article posits the existence of a bacteria in obese women, it does not go into the issue of causality as the headline suggests.

Just in case we didn't have enough metaphors, Software Engineering is to Computer Science as Cooking is to Baking.

They are very different fields...and going through school there was very little to be learned about the art of Software Engineering. Most people, I suspect, have to learn it on the job.

I love the smell of 'Atlas Shrugged' in the morning...

This seems to ignore the fulfillment of the work. There's always more money to be made if you're willing to be miserable.

Lifeguard, 16

You're straying into consulting land ;-)

In short:

Win Mo: Stable, no big wins or losses

Brew: uh, yea no comment (I think the developers conference was canceled)

Java ME/BB: Blackberry needs to innovate towards the pre/android or it's going to stagnate and die. Java ME needs to die. Haven't had time to look at Java FX yet.

Pre, I think, will go like Android did(except it looks a lot better) there's HUGE hacker appeal but it will probably take 2 years or so to take off.

Honestly, they're probably not making any money. I'm sure they're mostly setting themselves up for holding market share in the future. But yea, it's still odd.

I think you have to look at his audience before you judge what he's saying. If you're a major company the Apple app store is a really bad play right now...if you're nimble startup then what he's saying is crap. Your overhead is much lower so gambling 70k worth of your own development is different than the half million it costs to make a major mobile app.

In short, what this guy is saying is correct...but only for major mobile software houses. (Which I assume you guys aren't part of)

Here's the longer version:

I've been a mobile software developer for 6 years. I've written software for BREW, JavaME, Android, to name a few. I've also published a book about Android (msg me if you want to know the title) so I have a little experience on the subject.

What we're seeing, essentially, is new money vrs old money. In the old way, one's relationship with the carrier was valued above all things. They were the gatekeepers of their respective markets. What they said went, and that was final. But it wasn't always this way.

In the beginning of the BREW and j2me world, it was a free-for-all. Anyone could get rich with a ring tone or wallpaper app. Over the years, however, the big players crowded out the amatures and what's left is a pretty stable system where only the well connected can make any serious money. Deck placement and promotion matter above all else and it's through these two things that the carriers control their app stores.

Fastforward to today, and what you'll see is what was happening in the early days of the GetItNow/MediaMall. A few amatures are getting rich and the big guys have to slug it out with every nerd in his or her basement...The lesson, however, is that it won't always be this way. So make you're money, corner your market, and build your start up right now. The market is, in my humble opinion, stabilizing away from the basement programmer and back to the big guys.... The days of fart apps at #1 are passing, but that doesn't mean you can't make money on it in the mean time.

Sadly, Twitter is the best we can get right now. Does this mean we should ignore it? Absolutely not. Should we trust it without question? No way. We as a culture need to get used to "pseudo-news" chatter that we get from twitter. It's not verified reporting, but that doesn't mean it's worthless.

I read it through RSS so I don't see the domain

This further validates my longstanding theory that the winner of any argument won't be the person who's right, it'll be the person who thinks they are right the most.

Haven't we heard this 'You will have to pay on the internet' many many times before? Why is this time any different?

Right, because everyone is serious all the time.

...another year older and deeper in ...contract?

Sadly, the extra 200$ is a fair price. They recoup that money over the course of your contract... Perhaps they could prorate the discount for the amount of time you're through your term?

Further, the only reason they were able to offer the discounted price when shifting from 2g to 3g was the additional 10$ a month they made off the new data plan. For the 3gs, they'll actually lose money on upgrading customers because their bandwidth costs go up.

Unless another institution springs up allowing rich kids to get drunk before they're 21, I suspect the University isn't going anywhere.

This strikes me as a 64k will be enough for everyone kind of statement...

All true things, I guess I object to the 'you heard it here first' attitude

-Lets file that one away under D for 'Duh'-

Anyone who's read a Charles Stross novel in the past 2 years could see this one coming from a km away.

It's also pretty much a scientific fact that life ultimately leads to death in rats...