I would rather they react positively by opening up their iCloud API for web application for third parties. Apple already has such in place as can be seen from their cloud apps at icloud.com.
I think its peak for certain markets such as US, Japan. But it is not so for markets such as China, India, and these requires a lower priced models. That's why Apple is likely to introduce cheaper models in September to sustain its growth, largely targeting these markets.
How will Loom upload those photos captured during offline on iPhone? I suppose Loom will upload the full resolution pictures to their cloud. Since third party app is not able to do background task unlike Photo app/Photostream/iCloud, that means Loom app needs to be on in order to perform the upload? In that case it would not be seamless as I need to consciously 'upload' my photos before I can access them on the web.
Core Data + NSIncremental store with a web api backend does not solve the problem of offline sync. It is possible to roll your own, its hard to get it right. It is complicated by iOS restriction of not able to run your own daemon. But then if I have the resource to roll my own then I would not complain about Apple.
Dropbox does not come close as alternative. Dropbox as of now is file-based sync. Core Data iCloud sync is trying to sync an always opened SQLite3 database file, they do it through database log files. Possible alternatives are TouchDB, Simperium, Firebase but then you have to change your app from not using Core Data. Or rewrite your app to use file based storage as what 1password did. The key is offline sync. File based cloud sync is solved problem. So maybe the way to go is persistent store of client app has to use files.
To be fair, Go promises only single version compatibility. Which means all point releases 1.x will be backward compatible. I can see Go 2 breaking compatibility.
For those who are upset by Reader shutdown and want more, check out Schemer https://www.schemer.com, a site that is more strategic than Reader to Google.
Web.go got the most stars because its the first one, and is available before Go 1.0. Revel is modelled after Play and Beego is modelled after Tornido. I feel Revel could be more Go idiomatic. Beego is a light layer on top of the standard Go HTTP library and I like its abstraction better. Falcore is not the usual web framework, take a look and you will know why. Have not read much into Mango & Golanger. There is no Rails or Django in Go world yet. Some people just use web libraries such as https://github.com/gorilla to assemble a web app.
I actually thought alpha, the name chosen for the app you see on app.net website, an alpha release of app.net, a Twitter clone. And I thought app.net was a bad name for a Twitter clone, until I realize they are trying to build an app platform.
About the use of mark up language as config file. I see that in most Python apps, the config file is just another Python script and not using another markup language. This way makes sence in a dynamic language and it feels natural. I understand it is a habit to use yaml in Ruby apps for config. Is it not possible to just use Ruby script as config file since the script can be loaded dynamically? What are the pros and cons of using another markup language as config file vs using just the app language(Python/Ruby)?
Two-factor authentication is a good deterrent but is not available everywhere. For my card, for some sites, immediately after clicking "Buy" button, the bank will SMS me an expiring (within minutes) 6 digit code to my mobile phone, and I will have to enter the code to complete the transaction.
Crap article. The reason Mac has lower sale volume last quarter is Apple ended the iMac sales for more than a month while waiting for the current iMac model to launch. It blew my mind that only Apple can afford to terminate one hot selling product line for so many weeks.
It is illegal for telcos to sell locked phones in countries like Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and I believe some more Asian countries. I take it as a pro-consumer or a pro-business decision by a government.
The tech industry has to take the lead by renaming their products: MacBook Pro 33cm, Nexus 18. Using inch for display is a worldwide standard, not just US. It would be strange to look for a 35.5cm notebook or a 100cm HDTV.
I just checked Dropbox and Google Drive apps, both offer in-app upgrade of disk storage, giving Apple 30% cut. Appears that you can not simply just remove the upgrade option from the app. So I don't see how MS could be any different.
18pfsmt is talking about hacked AppleTV with XMBC installed, which will break the Apple wall garden and allows all the non-Apple media playing such as upnp, flac, mkv etc.