Hank Roberts

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• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnneerjNPBycfRrv1LaV-LiiGV9ZI1CDIs commented on App store annoyances
  Apps - Version Hell. I have two iPhone 3G, an iPhone 5, an iPad 1, and an Pad Air. But that is not the worst part. The worst part is Apple's decision to sandbox the data files inside with the Apps. This makes a multi-tool docucentric workflow pretty much impossible. And the Application (NOT App!) which is my primary use for all those iThings is Music; not iPod style MP3 playback, rather composition. To those who think the iThings are purely consumption devices, or are into electronic music but don't already know this, take a look at the professional and...
• Nojay commented on App store annoyances
  " Nobody wants to carry around three iPads for different work cases: if Apple tried to ram that down their customers' throats they'd risk losing market share." You regularly travel with an iPhone (iOS), an iPad (iOS) and a MacBook Air (OS/X which, as you often tell us, is the basis of iOS). Apple has already persuaded you to carry around three devices, what's even better from their point of view is that they've convinced you to buy three different devices from them. Ka-ching! From an earlier comment: "they need a multicore 64-bit ARM (check) that's able to emulate the...
• William T Goodall commented on App store annoyances
  Apple control the horizontal and the vertical as far as what runs on their hardware. There's no reason a new full-fat Apple OS (it might not be called OS/X) capable of running heavy-hitting code on desktop or even server setups needs to be backwards compatible with the current Intel family of laptop/desktop CPUs. For the same reasons Apple had backwards compatibility through the last two architecture transitions - from 68K to PPC and from PPC to x86. To run critical applications from third parties who are tardy about releasing new versions that support the new architecture. Adobe for example. Microsoft...
• Nojay commented on App store annoyances
  Apple supported PPC for years after they announced their Think Different switch to Intel chips, indeed they even released new PPC hardware during that time (I can't remember precisely when they stopped releasing OS/X upgrades) for late-model G5-series laptops and desktops. Continuing software support for existing Intel hardware would be more of the same for them if they did decide to shift to ARM for all their new OS/X hardware. Probably not going to happen though. ARM systems are optimised for low-power consumption not speed and software emulation of even a Bay Trail Celeron on ARM, never mind an i7-series...
• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawklCNXS7dE9QtPF0OkoIYQNW2J-1yK9ZYQ commented on App store annoyances
  I think you're overlooking something. Apple has their concerns and we have ours and there isn't a heckuva lot of overlap in the Venn diagram. Given that Apple has a walled garden, it's very clear that what their most important issue is the walls, not the garden. It's a common attitude in many businesses. What WE do, so long as it makes US money is important. Managing the ecosystem that supports our success? Well, THEY are not US, so THEY don't matter. The end result of a process like this will, of course, bring about Apple's eventual downfall. But right...