Posts Tagged Apple
Ranking Google
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux, Open Source on August 6, 2010
Adam Williamson has a good series of “controversial crap” over on his blog, mainly discussing things related to the recent Red Hat/Canonical kerfuffle (but there are some other interesting bits as well). In his clarification post, this bit caught my attention: The reason I don’t complain much about Microsoft or Apple or Google is that I pretty [...]
On being a minority
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Novell, Propriatery Technology on April 21, 2010
Here’s an item I was eloquently regaling the table with last night: After the whole Apple 3.3.1 “Can’t develop with non-approved toolchains” debacle a lot of people set up a Google Docs spreadsheet to list the tons of amazing apps that would be impacted by this rule change. There were calls for help all over twitter and [...]
Celebrating Apple’s Rules?
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Propriatery Technology on April 12, 2010
Every once in a while I get rational correspondence taking me to task on something I’ve said. I sincerely appreciate hearing criticism, because I loathe the “echo chamber” effect and welcome the challenge of strengthening my arguments. So I was quite happy to receive an email that contained the following: [W]hen I read your new note, it almost [...]
Apple puts the smackdown on MonoTouch
… And quite a few other psuedo-platforms From the Apple 4.0 SDK (beta): 3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, [...]
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