I don't know about Quora and OKCupid, but the iOS App Store is a terrible app ! Scrolling sometimes hides the whole table view, the sign out button are not responsive, and don't even try to open past purchases if you have a lot.
I agree with you on the last part though. I'd recommend native app with a good design that makes it flexible via server changes. For big changes, the app store updates is usually just a one week process anyway
A proposed bill to ban software patent would be great, but maybe Google, Apple and co. actually "like" the status quo ? It's a kind a dissuasion weapon that only huge companies can get, so even if they don't like to fight with each other, at least they prevent new competition to arise
I've been a developer for more than five years now, and I met a lot of brillant people that are more than a 100 times better than me. I also saw code and people that are so bad that I would qualify as a A player... Compared to them. I'm probably more than a 100 times better than them. So in my opinion, in software development, there is a much wider range than 100:1, and if you feel like you're an 'A' player, you're probably overestimating yourself. Likewise, if you feel you're a 'C' player and are worried about it, don't worry too much, go on StackOverflow, answer question, learn to get better, and be confident that maybe you're not an 'A' player, but you're pretty good and will be a 100 times better by next year.
Actually they don't want to access your email, so they can't run a push notification service. And Apple Mail.app does the pulling thing, so allowing to change default Internet app or Mail app would not cause a problem : another app pulls, that's it
Well, I'm certainly not as classy as Dan, kudos to him. But I don't see the point of hiding my disappointment just because I don't know them personally. As Dan said, when you listen to people on the radio every week, you feel close to them. The way it was handled lacked class. Calling Gruber a jerk is just an habit of exaggerating thing on the Internet I guess... We're not entitled to an explanation or a goodbye, but that's the difference between classy a douchy IMO.
Nonetheless Gruber comes out as a jerk... If it was indeed his decision, he should have handled it a little better with Benjamin (telling him sooner, organizing a last show, not reusing the TTS name on mule...), and even if one can argue that he doesn't owe the listener anything, an explanation in the introduction of the new show would have made a good segue...
As much as I love iOS, I'm sad of some of the comment saying it's normal for Apple to block Chrome/Firefox for security reasons. Tablets (arguably, only the iPad, really) are the future of computing, like it or not. Having a single browser on highly connected machines is shoking.
The whole lockin is understandable, the plateform is relatively new, and proved to be successful in part because if these extreme protections.
But sooner rather than later, Apple is going to have to open some stuff. Being with something like gae keeper on iOS could allow to (very few) browser vendor to get on the App Store with full access to the sysem. Mozilla and Google build solid products with few security issues (if you factor off the security bugs from plugins)
iOS is a very modern OS, but will deeply profit from competition in the browser space. Apple too. The best tablet for apps and web browsing will win in the long run, because the web will win in the long run, but people will always prefer native apps for specific stuff.
I guess it's possible the machine (connected to the Internet) pulling from Amazon is also connected to a network with the machine that can decrypt (but can't access the Internet)
I thought pg talk was amazing and inspiring. Really good speaker in my opinion, this didn't seem like he was reading. I think the only problem are the obvious and loud "huuuuuh", but that's something he can train himself not to say. I wouldn't qualify him as a bad speaker. Quite the contrary
This is terrible. Overpriced web service that sends emails to a single address, 20-lines script calling the API using jQuery $.ajax (why the dependency ?!) and sends the request with GET instead of PUT or POST...
well people complained about the lack of 3G, and now LTE. Some also complained about the lack of radio or full bluetooth support. I think your right, Apple wants to do everything well, not just "everything". If they can't do it well (copy pasting, multitasking...) they don't do it until they can.
I think we have yet to see the full spectrum of Apple's focus on software. Until the iPhone, they were hardware oriented (the Mac, the iPod). But since then, they are moving towards software. They make some of the best Mac and iOS apps after all.
I didn't say "Only TBP stands for civil liberties". But they do have a philosophy (and are willing to make a point more than make tons of cash and spend it in yachts and funny car plates), which is a big difference with what Kim "Dotcom" is showing... Which explains why I won't miss his site (or him)
For me, there is a big difference between what I considered a garbage site like Mega Upload, and a site like The Pirate Bay. The first paragraph of this article is appalling. While I won't be surprised that TPB owners make a lot of money, the description of the cars, the aliases, looks like mafia guys coming from movies. TPB stands for civil liberties, right of sharing stuff like Wikileaks files in addition to Hollywood movies... I don't know, I may be wrong, but I won't miss Megaupload.
I develop for iOS and WP7, and I have high hopes for Windows Phone, but honestly, it's not quite there yet. And compared to iOS development, it is extremely frustrating.
It is a function of tools. iPhone App have smooth animation because they run on Open GL accelerated graphics, yes. But so could Android apps. The difference is that the iOS SDK allows you to `pushViewController:animated` and that's it.
In the (pretty far I think, unfortunately) future, an SDK/Framework/Library à la jQuery will propose the same tool to run Web GL animations.
We need a UIKit/CoreAnimation for the web. The technology is not there yet, but it's going to be.
- Apple has a limited set of "actions" that third party app can "suscribe" to ("checkin", "reminder", ...), like there is a limited set of multitasking capabilities
- Limit the number of Application that "suscribe" to an action (i.e: only 4 apps can checkin, if another app wants to suscribe, display a warning to the user so he disable other apps in settings, like for notifications)
- Prompt the user the first time "Where would you like to checkin", and remember the choice for future checkins. The user can also specify ("Check me in" - "I will check you in using Foursquare at ..." - "Use Facebook Places")
Number 2 would be awesome, and is what was "demoed" in the old Apple personal assistant video. This could start as a simple answering machine (no interaction with the caller) which would analyze the terms of the message, like appointment cancellation which would be matched against event in the calendar.
That's not the only folder. There's the Documents folder, but the whole drama is that this folder is backed up on iCloud, which is not necessary for offline data. Not a big deal in my opinion. Apple should and probably will add an Offline folder and all of this will be over like the Antena gate
I just finished to watch ! So far the best introduction to Backbone I've see (I never used it, but seriously considering to). I'm not going to repeat the criticism posted in comment, I agree with most of them, and I look forward to new tutorials from you !