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?
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Daring Fireball: Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1
So what Apple does not want is for some other company to establish a de facto standard software platform on top of Cocoa Touch. Not Adobe’s Flash. Not .NET (through MonoTouch). If that were to happen, there’s no lock-in advantage.
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.
Derek Powazek - Thoughts on Designing for iPad
Apple’s App Store was a constant source of stress in the development process. Every time another story of Apple randomly booting an app from the store came out, the whole team quaked. The idea that we could do all this work and then Apple could de...
I’m Abandoning iPhone Development. Mobile Orchard To Stop Publication.
I’m a principled person. Apple’s offended my principles. Consequently, I’ve decided to abandon iPhone development. I won’t work in this ask-permission environment any longer.
iRonic: Super Meat Boy for iPhone
Apple puts itself in an untenable position trying to play gatekeeper while simultaneously having such a broad and deep marketplace structure. It's like watching a character from Alice in Wonderland attempt to beat Kurt Godel at a game of chess by ...
How to make Rational#to_s return strings without denominator 1 again
The way Rational#to_s works on Ruby has changed from Ruby 1.9 on. Here is how to get the old behavior back.
You may want this for things where Rationals are being used, like when subtracting Date objects from one another.
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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.
Daring Fireball: New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler
Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Application...
The Goals of Scala's Design
Martin Odersky talks with Frank Sommers and Bill Venners about the compromises and most important goals in Scala's design, its object-oriented innovations, and what's in it for you.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The iPad Luddites
In the end, progress doesn't care about ideology. Those who think of themselves as great fans of progress, of technology's inexorable march forward, will change their tune as soon as progress destroys something they care deeply about.