Comments on: why standards are important

By: Sami

Sami — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:35:19 +0000

I saw a link on reddit and thought it was of interest to the discussion.

By: dnorman

dnorman — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:18:18 +0000

hey, no offence intended. you posted a link to a 3 year old listserv archive, at 2 in the morning.

By: Jim Groom

Jim Groom — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:35:16 +0000

Listen you two, this is the Summer of Love, and while we all get worked up about this company or that app. This gadget, or that , the discussion here is what makes the space. So, I just wanted to let you both know I love you, and that the evils of the inernet can only be battled by a communal love, and a sense of hope sewn together through love.

Sing with me:

"All we need is love. All together now... All we need is love. Love. Love is all we need"

By: Sami

Sami — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:28:52 +0000

It's funny you would fuck over a friendship over a brand... but just to let you know that was extremely offensive!

By: Sami

Sami — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:00:28 +0000

waiting for microsoft to be on top so i can pick on them...

By: dnorman

dnorman — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:49:11 +0000

do you have a hobby?

By: Sami

Sami — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:22:26 +0000

$1500 to hear lies… or so the author claims… http://lists.apple.com/archives/Carbon-dev/2007/Jun/msg00339.html

By: Sami

Sami — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:34:09 +0000

http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2010/06/apple-fears-killer-app.html

Apple claims its goal with all these rules is to keep out bad applications. But if that is the case, they are failing miserably because a lot of apps in the App Store, perhaps the majority, are total crap. Their stated rationale is, I believe, baloney. In fact, not only do I think Apple couldn’t care less about whether apps are crap, I think they love the crap, and that their goal is in fact to keep out the awesome.

I think Apple has come to the conclusion that any killer apps for the iPhone need to be from Apple, and that those that are not from Apple are hugely dangerous.

Why? Because if they are cross-platform Apple is not cool any more! So what keeps the platform cool is all the cool shit is on the platform… Controlling the tools is a way of keeping the cool on the platform… Of owning the developers! That’s why everyone in the 90s bought Microsoft… all the shit they wanted ran on Windows. Even the formats were incompatible. Jobs remembers that battle well… in the long run its a losing battle, but for now Jobs is raking in the billions.

More stuff here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/11/steve_jobs_lifts_interpreted_code_ban_for_chosen_few/

By: Jim Groom

Jim Groom — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:35:56 +0000

That's right Martha, and it is very important, especially on this particular web log, to point out just how much Apple sucks. And that thye are not pushing HTML 5 because of open standards and the like, but to screw with Adobe. This is not to say HTML 5 may not be the shizznit, but it does shine a light on the invasive summiness of apple, to borrow from D'Arcy here ;)

By: Martha

Martha — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:59:04 +0000

shoot, and I meant to say that I understand this isn't an issue with HTML5, but rather an issue with the way Apple has coded these particular showcase pages.