MAYBE you should have read further than just the word "case", which I used, but not in reference to your sentence, obviously. Then MAYBE your would've come up with real points instead of just an ad hominem attack. But well, it seems, you don't have any.
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MAYBE you should have read further than just the word "case", which I used, but not in reference to your sentence, obviously. Then MAYBE your would've come up with real points instead of just an ad hominem attack. But well, it seems, you don't have any.
Its not that preposterous... Opera Mini only does it because their javascript is executed remotely.
Close analogy, but not quite. Let me help: It's as if you were telling me to drive THE CARS THAT YOU SELL that only run on your new fuel, (which may be better in the long term) but there are almost no filling stations that offer it. You may think it is a bad business decision to sell such cars, but it is hardly illegal.
That may be but when my company met with the Apple iPhone Dev and iAd teams they told us something completely different. A very grey area
You have still failed to explain what that chart represents (again, it isn't what you think it is) and why it is relevant. This would lead a reasonable person to suspect you don't actually understand what it means.
Ridiculous. People make money developing for other platforms. The opportunity may be smaller, but the answer to that is to pressure other platform vendors to make something that people *actually want to use*.
Who says what's "fair"? Is it unfair that Apples does not support VBasic? Why or why not?
You all keep missing that this isn't Microsoft in 1998. We're not talking about an environment of backroom deals and bribery that have established lock-in across all of the business and 92% of the consumer world. We're talking about a consumer gizmo that is preferred among some percentage of the very small population of people that buy this particular sort of gizmo (smartphones). You don't have any particular "right" to anything about it, because nobody is being forced into it. A few million people out of the 6.5 billion on earth have bought one for whatever reason. Not analogous in any way to nearly 100% of the computer market being forced to make the "choice".
Thank you. You two actually have a grasp on the situation.
At the time of the lawsuit, Microsoft had 95% of the market. They used that market power to dictate to the OEMs that they could not preinstall Navigator on their computers. That's called using monopoly market power to destroy a competitor. You can still develop for Android and Blackberry using this compiler. In one way, Apple is limiting its number of apps, and all this huge amount (?) of Adobe apps will now go to competitors, which Microsoft did not have.
Can I develop for Android using Apple's tools, and Objective-C? No, I didn't think so.
That's not my point though - Apple isn't forcing people to use only Safari - only webkit based browsers (there are a bunch of them in the store). That's what I was calling preposterous.
Being number one wouldn't be sufficient for an antitrust case. Symbian is currently the worldwide number one but far from a monopoly (I'm sure you would agree) In case iPhone OS attains a monopoly in the smartphone market (I hope this will never happen), things are very different.
I apologize if your delicate sensibilities were offended, but when you're dreaming up clearly ridiculous conspiracy theories in order to bash the corporate-hate-target de jur, you can't be expected to be treated like a "civilized adult". Apples compiler toolkit of choice is open and used by many platforms. They are moving towards it, not away from it. You're wrong, which is no crime, but you're wrong in the service of making unfounded assertions of some sort of personal bad intent, so...
Apple didn't ban you from using an external floppy drive...
If you're fuel had a 99% market share and you were preventing people from using a general fuel that probably would be anti-competative.
While I agree with that idea, its good really. I don't see apple doing that. They prefer doing it their way and forcing everyone else to bend to their will. By approving apps they basically force developers to comply and not use anything but apple states.
I see little flexibility in apple these days which is why this wouldn't work.
*Sigh* you did so much work and you missed the point - MS had a 95+% market share and they used that monopoly (as legally defined BTY) to tightly ingrain internet explorer to give it a critical advantage and contractually prevented OEM manufactures from making deals with other companies to bundle other web browsers with their systems. That was the problem.
That's like saying can I cook a fish to make a hamburger. (Bad analogy I know)
My point is, you can use anything you want to develop for the Android if the tool is built for it. If someone made a compiler from Objective-C to Java or whatever, then yes... you can use Objective-C to build for Android.
And you still haven't supported any of your assertions. It never ceases to amaze how people throw around unfounded, ignorant assertions and then get high and mighty and start yelling "ad hominem" when someone asks them to justify it.
Thank you. In 1998 I was relearning computers after a 10+ year blank since my TI-99/4A BASIC days. At college many years of windows frustration followed, and then work years of windows frustration after. I programmed games for the PS3, built websites for a living, was proficient in a wide range of creative apps but I never owned a PC for one reason or another. Back at school, what I could get for my money then was way below what was provided. In the lab I met OSX and Project Builder and played with Carbon a bit (Cocoa was too scary then and I wanted to leverage my plain-old-C).
Then last year I bought a 24' iMac and I've been very happy since then. I have everything I need. My iPhone works great too.
You keep saying this. Have anything other than a pie chart that you don't understand to back it up?
What business is it of the government to decide which programming language is used tom write code for a computer?