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I think the answer is simple: Revenue isn't the most important thing right now. There are many things that make a successful company and revenue is only one of them. Google makes enough money to pay their employees well, to make investments and in generell more then enough to run its business, so making more money isn't a priority. Apple has loads of cash and don't even know what to do with it.

So instead they are pushing other goals, like increasing market share, binding the users more to their services and essentially cement their position in the mobile/web space.

Looks like every little 4 man team of engineers at Google is making their own April Fools joke. I like it :)

Well there's no denying iOS is the king of responsiveness in the mobile sector, but to be honest, I can't really say the same thing on OS X vs Windows 7. I use both on a daily basis and Win7 is definitely the most rock solid OS Microsoft ever put out. For example, when an application crashes Windows just kills it and everything is fine. On OS X when something crashes, you can usually Force Close, but sometimes the process just can't be killed. Also it feels OS X memory management almost requires an SSD nowadays.

There are other things, which makes me like OS X more, but being faster or more stable is not one of them.

yes, the advantage is RIM's software establishes a private/public key encryption channel directly between your internal exchange servers and the BlackBerry devices, meaning nobody, be it the carrier or government can eavesdrop on the transferred data. Phones also store the data encrypted and can be remotely wiped, in case a device is lost.

The thing is, that is kinda paranoid and normal businesses don't really need that kind of security. But when BlackBerry's were one of the coolest devices out there and also the most "secure" ones, RIM's sales-reps had an easy time selling them to a lot of companies. Again, not that they needed that kind of security, but more security is always good, and the device is cool, so why not, right? :)

Nowadays, this doesn't work that well anymore, because the people working at companies are just like normal people and just want to use the coolest devices. CEOs and managers are usually the first ones to demand that their iPhone works on the internal network, and suddenly the whole BlackBerry advantage isn't all that important any more.

I think the market of business who really need the kind of security RIM provides is a very small one.

The thing that bothers me the most is that Sonys decisions often reflect what's good for them and not what's good for their customers. All piracy aside, custom firmware made the original PSP a much better device for the user in general. You probably haven't followed this so here are some examples. The biggest advantage was you could put all your games on the memorystick instead of using the little CD-ROM drive, which meant a) loading times where much faster, because you're reading of flash b) battery life was better, since no spinning optical drive is running and c) you didn't have to carry anything besides the device!

Another funny thing, the PSP shipped with a Sony-made Playstation 1 emulator on it, which meant you theoretically could play the whole PS1 library on this thing. Now instead of letting people use it, it just sat there inaccesible. People where actually quite surprised to find it there after the PSP was hacked, and finally allowed everyone to use it.

Then there where cool little tweaks & tools - there was a really cool savegame system, which allowed you to save at any time during a game by taking memory snapshots, which is very useful on a portable system. And another cool tool let you transfer files from your PC wirelessly over your WiFi.

Well the point is, it really unleashed the device and made it much more capable then in its locked down state, in effect providing greater value for the customer. You'd think that after a while Sony would get some insight and reconsider their decisions, instead they lock down even more and start suing people!! What the hell, I think a lot of companies, who blame their problems on piracy and whatnot are slowly scaring of their customers away without even noticing, which then of course gets blamed on piracy again...

well it's kind of an official feature on Nexus phones, there's a script to unlock it on the phone, you just gotta execute it. So what more exactly do you want? Besides that I don't even know why a normal user would want root access, even I only use it on a dev phone to quickly flash another ROM to test my App in different Android OS versions. For people wanting to get rid of branding etc., they should just stop buying carrier customized crap. You can get vanilla devices at Amazon, or just get an iPhone or Nexus, it's not that hard. If they aren't capable of doing some basic research before purchasing a product, I don't think giving them root access to their phone would end well.

> professional editors at both Wired Science AND Gizmodo

ah common, it's the internet trashiest sites, run by a bunch of hipsters, who never really seem to know what they are talking about. Okay maybe that's to harsh, but it doesn't really surprise me they fell for that.

Hm you don't play much games, do you? A real time strategy game like Starcraft would be pretty much unplayable with a smartphone. Look at any list of best-selling video games. None of these titles would be better with a smartphone controller, if not completely unplayable. So no, not gonna happen.

Can you add Seoul, Korea? I will use your site all the time then!

Oh look he even has a animated model of this thing in Maya ;) He conveniently shows it of while "explaing" his wings. Here @20sec : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T...!

Well I hope he doesn't use any Apple products then. That would be pretty hypocritical.

you should work for gizmodo or something.

Yeah, I agree IE box model makes more sense. Padding is basically useless if it adds to width, most of the time you end up creating inner divs with margins to simulate padding. Didn't know you can toggle the behavior in Moz/WebKit, good to know!

ok that sounds good though

So is the start menu gone completely? With Windows7 it was actually on the way to become something like Spotlight (just not as good yet). I can't believe they'd patch that out, instead of improving on it, Windows needs something like Spotlight IMHO.

Got a Razer Deathadder, they come with their own OSX drivers that seem to circumvent the issue. Also sad to see so many Magic Mouse users here ;) I know everybody has their own preferences, but that is not a good mouse.

I think it's time to switch back to Firefox, Chrome is freezing a lot for me lately (Aw, Snap!). The only thing I miss is the universal search/URL/autocomplete bar, is there an extension for this?

$115 per day per person? wtf I spend about 20 eur / day for food, I cant believe prices are sooo much higher in the valley.

I'm confused, doesn't it already have auto-complete? Mine's been doing that for a while now. What's new about this?

Yeah at first, but once you get used to the syntax and long method names, it's your standard static OOP language. Has some cool feature actually, like Blocks etc. Like it more then Java now.

Also what's really cool is, that you can seamlessly mix in C if you feel like low-level programming, I like that.

OSX is like a gateway drug for Linux. I used Windows for years, then had to work with OSX for iOS development. Didn't know a thing about it, hated it (at first). Time passed and now I ssh into vps to set up nodejs. Feels great =)

Agree with everything, some additional ones:

- Take walks!

- Say NO to MMOs

- If you smoke, never get into the habit of smoking at your desk.

true, although the point I was making is that sooner or later fields like agriculture, energy, manufacturing, transportation, logistics and others will be completely automated and just require coders to operate. That leaves some other fields, but these are huge parts of the economy. That's not gonna happen tomorrow of course, but we'll gradually get towards is and coder demand is just increase steadily over time.

Of course! It's gonna be THE profession. I imaging in the future more and more things will be doable in 'software'. For example, manufacturing factories will be so automated and full of robots, that you can actually start building assembly lines in pure code. Subway & Railroad systems will drive completely by them self, controlled by code. Container ships & harbours might operate someday purely driven by software. Bottom line: Demand for coders is gonna explode and someday all we need is just coders.

iPhone4 in CSS3? I predict this to be the highest upvoted submission on HN of all time.

gah, please keep your dumb satirical remark for yourself. You obvisouly don't even have an interst in games, because if you actually played them, you would notice, that almost half of the iOS games emulate gamepad controls on the touch screen - which is always worse then having a real gamepad.

it helps to turn thumbs off if you encounter that problem on armv6 builds

I hope with "Mobile/Web Engineers" they don't actually mean native iOS / Android development, because it would be a shame to see them lower than everybody else.

In good tradition the most critical comment is the top voted on HN. Yada Yada indie life is hard, but no one with a right mind would think of connecting the client directly to the remote master database. This is just so WTF on so many levels, you can't help but wonder how they even managed to produce such a good game after all.

There's no infringement here, the pigs look different and there doesn't seem to be any stolen art or something. So Rovio probably couldn't do anything anyway.