It's impossible to build an iOS game for Safari that has sound. They've limited the API by only allowing a single audio channel that can only be used during touchscreen actions. You can't programmatically play a sound, eg like when a collision occurs.
Like how Apple has sabotaged the use of HTML5 Audio, I think it is unlikely they will enable WebGL. It provides developers an open platform for developing games, which conflicts with Apple's closed system agenda.
I bet a lot of VC and angel investors right now are looking at those FB quotes and starting to get a knot in their stomach. The jig is up, the Social Network Bubble that VC's have been hyping and pumping non-stop for the past couple years is over. I bet we'll see a return to interest in companies that have actual revenue, actual customers, and actual businesses.
Yahoo is a dying company, quickly converting itself into a patent troll, and suing competitors in a desperate attempt to stay relevant long after they are. This is a dying company. I have ZERO respect for any employee of a company like this.
The executives of this company that decided to become a patent troll should go hang themselves, or at least quit their jobs and save some semblance of self-respect.
Brought to you by a patent troll that thinks it invented the concept of a news feed, and is suing every web publisher that displays new information in a list.
Who can possibly take this company seriously anymore?
They can sell some of their shares to private investors. A VC expects to earn many times their money on the investment... which requires dramatic and risky expansion of the business.
This is pretty light on details and it kind of makes no sense. Everyone loves the product and it's a (apparently very) profitable business. What can Andreesen Horowitz do to help them other than come in and do another bubbly ol' flipparoo?
It must be kind of crazy for him to watch the stock price move. Imagine seeing your net worth go up and down by millions of dollars almost every second.
This sounds like the typical hogwash from any other politically aligned media outlet. Am I reading a Fox News editorial? Just post the video and let "the internet" make the decision. If you think you think you can censor opinion in the modern world then you are flat-out wrong.
Anyone who complains about this obviously never was willing to pay enough for the product/service to make it viable -- THEY are the problem, not the site owner. People need to pay for what they like or what is here today might not be here tomorrow. Way too many people have this expectation that everything on the internet must be free.
It's a valiant effort, but I wonder if anyone has a use for the Qt API to draw text on a window? All you really need to do is get WebKit working and get NodeJS to be able to open WebKit windows -- that would be infinitely more usable to web developers that might want to build native apps using JavaScript.
This guy's opinion of course omits the huge problems of walled gardens, dickwad Apple rules, closed platforms, 30% royalty absurdity, and the archaic development process of native apps.
Beware that even if you had vested stock you typically would have to buy the options for whatever they were worth when you were hired, within 90 days. If you're broke now, you'll need to find some place to get the money to buy those options, which may or may not be a good investment.
Microsoft has definitely earned their hatred in both the consumer and development communities. They rode their monopoly as far as they could, and they are going to pay for it very dearly. Literally noone I have met in the past 10 years is developing Windows software anymore. Sure, some people use .Net to develop web applications, but it sure seems that nobody develops Windows-only software. So Microsoft, has already lost, and they are on borrowed time. Mobile and Web won, they lost, and it's only a matter of time before this dinosaur finally goes away, like everyone wants them to.
I think we're only in a Facebook-fueled Social Network bubble. While at the same time, we are only at the beginning of genuine technology boom. Mobile and cloud computing tech isn't going to go away like a fad.
You want me to hand over my entire backend infrastruture to your company and be entirely limited by your capabilites and rewrite my app specifically for your system? Seriously? Are there people actually interested this? Who's the target audience? (I hope you don't say backend developers)
It's a herculean effort. I heard about Opa about a year or two ago, amazed he's still at it. Kind of like Haxe. I doubt they will go anywhere, like Coffescript, because any language that simply abstracts another is just cruft and doomed to be obsoleted.
The average human being is a complete imbecile. When they see any rectangular device that can make sounds and records sounds, they truly believe it is an iPhone. They're all like "whoa is that the new Iphone?". Really, regular people are complete idiots.
There is no way each of their users can possibly be worth that price. They've done a good job at hyping up the company, but from an investment standpoint, it's dead meat. They really need to pull a rabbit out of their hat at this point -- some feature that would make 10%+ of their "consumers" to pay money for a product they offer.