rc3.org - Apple kneecaps competitors and partners
What happens if the iPhone application you’ve based a business on is found to depend on a library that is forbidden with iPhone OS 4? Do you start over or give up? A lot of developers are asking themselves that question today.
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I’m Abandoning iPhone Development. Mobile Orchard To Stop Publication.
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Although it's tempting flirt with detecting mobile/touch devices with CSS media queries or Javascript feature detection alone, this approach will be painful when heavily customizing a feature beyond just tweaking the looks. Eventually you will wan...
Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and the long road to the iPad. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine
Now in 2010, the iPad takes the same ideas to their logical extreme. It is a beautiful and nearly perfect machine. It is also Jobs' final triumph, the final step in Apple's evolution away from Wozniak and toward a closed model.
Knowing .NET » Blog Archive » The Absurdity of Apple’s New iPhone Restrictions
You know how you tell when an app for the iPhone was written in MonoTouch? It doesn’t leak memory.
Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy - (37signals)
It’s hard to build a business on a platform where you feel like you cannot trust the men in power. If they can take down Adobe a few days before the launch of their flagship product, what hope do smaller players hold?
Why UML Fails to Add Value to the Design and Development Process « Learning Lisp
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