This is great, and looks so much easier (as does Scaloid), but I have never found a commercial project that I can use it on. #1 by choosing Anko or Scaloid you are isolating future developers to only those familiar to Anko or Scaloid OR those willing to learn (as well as the fact that Scaloid doesn't sell very well on resumes IMO; my guess is the same for Anko).
It's a dilemma, as Java+XML is very verbose. still, with the amount of work Android Studio does, I'm not sure its a big problem for most of us Android Developers.
It may not be a big problem for most of you Android developers, but for me at least what makes me not do Android development is how incredibly cumbersome it feels. I'd like to, but I just can't make myself suffer through it.
I think the kind of developer who dislikes the current Android dev alternatives enough to avoid it as much as possible is more likely to be the target audience for most of these alternative tools than you are.
I think you are better concentrating on natural prebiotics, by eating lots of fruit and vegetables. Apples in particular are meant to have very good prebiotic properties.
Although it is looking into obesity, they did find that apples restored abnormal microbiota.
I suffer from mild IBS myself, and find that eating an apple a day seems to help (although it's impossible to know for sure without doing a double-blind trial on myself).
I like General Biotics[1]. It has 115 strains which is an order of magnitude more than any other supplement. One of the founders is a researcher in the field published in all the big name journals. They don't make claims that can't be scientifically supported, unlike most health supplement companies. Highly recommended.
I would first do some research on probiotics. From what I've seen, the only proven benefit came using them ina very certain situation which I forget completely (it was something like it helped clear up diarrhea after an antibiotic quicker or something like that). My point is they aren't cheap and you could simply be wasting money. I'm honestly not informed enough either way, but when I looked into them a few years ago, there was little to no proven benefits of using them.
While I agree that Twitter has strained relationships with developers, Fabric is a great move. For anyone who hasn't used Fabric, it is the best mobile SDK integration I have ever seen. It seamlessly works with XCode, Android Studio, IntelliJ and Eclipse to easily let you add Twitter features, distribute builds ala the now POS that is Testflight, and get cross-platform crash analytics.
...if this is a fox luring me into it's hen-house, the hen-house sure is comfy and well-featured. Sad to see it diminished in this article, when IMO it's a far far better offering than any other major companies (looking at you Facebook) are putting out.
Funny how some of these are way off, while others are pretty spot on:
7. Don't disappear from the retail chains. Rent space in a computer store, flood it with Apple products (especially software), staff it with Apple salespeople, and display everything like you're a living, breathing company and not a remote, dusty concept.
I particularly love the ones that are both right and wrong:
72. Try the industry-standard serial port plug. RS-422 should be a last resort.
(They replaced RS-422 not with RS-232, but USB)
14. Do something creative with the design of the box and separate yourselves from the pack. [...] We'd all feel better about shelling out the bucks for a Power Mac 9600 if we could get a tower with leopard spots.
(Obviously Wired shouldn't be handing out design advice.)
28. Don't lose your sense of humor. Build a very large life preserver and display it in front of your Cupertino, California, headquarters.
(Their new headquarters is the life preserver.)
44. Continue your research in voice recognition. It's the only way you're going to compete in videoconferencing and remote access.
(That's totally not what Siri is for.)
76. Make damn sure that Rhapsody runs on an Intel chip. Write a Windows NT emulator for Rhapsody's Intel version.
(They switched to Intel purely for the sake of Intel, and never made that Windows emulator.)
Was it the Intel switch that enabled bootcamp though? That's clearly a better solution than maintaining a windows emulator, but does it meet the same point?
Not only did it enable Boot Camp, it also enabled third party Windows VMs like Parallels and Virtual box, and third party Windows API reimplementations (namely Wine)
Was there never any native virtualization on the PPC chips, or were there just no software written for it? I guess there was never much demand among Mac users to virtualize on PPC.
It did, but that was a really low priority for Apple: they shipped two generations of Intel Macs before releasing Bootcamp and the firmware updates that added BIOS emulation. They would have switched to Intel regardless of whether it gained them any form of Windows compatibility, because they needed more efficient processors.
1. Admit it. You're out of the hardware game. Outsource your hardware production, or scrap it entirely, to compete more directly with Microsoft without the liability of manufacturing boxes.
Very first one, lol. I agree that many are spot on, but coupling Mac software to its hardware is part of how they make such good products, not to mention the plethora of innovative hardware devices that have made them the richest company in the world.
All of Apple's hardware products are now made by outsourced contract manufacturers. They're still all designed by Apple obviously but I thought this point was spot on.
Are the entire products outsourced, or just the componenets?
Either way, I think this suggestion is implying that Apple stop selling hardware and instead just sell software that runs on other peoples' hardware (it's the "compete more directly with Microsoft" bit that leads me to believe this is what they meant).
Virtually all products are outsourced. Apple owns no factories and employs no assembly line workers.
Instead it's formed deep partnerships with certain contract manufacturers (Foxconn). When it wants to pioneer a certain manufacturing technique, it will simply make a large capital expenditure to make the tooling available to the contract manufacturer. Never however will it actually be responsible for the actual manufacturing and assembly of its devices.
This is Tim Cook's doing and it's the model for just about every OEM you see today, from Apple to Xiaomi. Samsung and LG are notable exceptions because they are component manufacturers who became OEMs afterwards.
Edit: There might be some iMac assembly done in the United States, but this is likely using a US-based contract manufacturer as well.
Yes, hardware building is largely outsourced, but it's not Dell-style outsourced, where the contract manufacturer does a considerable part of the design. Today's Apple products probably have less generic design in them than 1997 Apple products, and more control by Apple.
The one that made me laugh was the suggestion of replacing Mach (though really even then NeXT was more than *just Mach, but w/e) with the NT kernel.
Can you imagine what MacOS and iOS would look like if they were built on NT? Not so much because they are technically incompatible, but more for the political implications of MacOS being married to the heart of Windows.
Where they are really spot on is in suggesting repeatedly to pile in on newton. Fundamentally an iphone is a better newton and this is the only fundamental change that really saved the company.
I think you've got your history a little wrong. The iPod marked the turnaround of the company some 5+ years earlier than the release of the iPhone. The date of the release of the iPod is very near the low point of their stock. The glow surrounding the iPod also renewed interest in MacOS, which had recently been revamped with the release of OSX. While the iPod became its own enormous profit center, I credit it with the turnaround of their computer hardware & OS business, too.
Is it really dying? Just curious as I love mine and I am not familiar with the numbers. I remember speculation some time last year, but the article I had read didn't cite any hard data.
I don't think it's "dying". Tablets are in the same situation as flat-screen TVs: the market is more-or-less saturated, they last a long time, and there is no compelling reason to upgrade. In contrast, phones have a fairly short replacement cycle, because they are subject to significant wear and tear, and there are compelling advancements in power utilization, communications, etc.
And I think Apple managed to avoid the same happening to the iPhone by introducing a new size category.
It's actually incredible just how fast and new the iPhone 5 feels even today. I was perfectly happy to stick with it until the new sizes came out (admittedly I haven't bought a new iPhone yet because it costs money, but a lot of my peer group has).
The subsidization by networks is key in keeping people in a short upgrade cycle, and reducing the likelihood of switching to a cheaper Android phones. It's no doubt Apple people would upgrade much less often if they to shell out $600+ for unlocked phones every couple years.
as another comment says, this is now five straight quarters of YoY declines for ipad revenue. It's definitely in decline. I think it's wrong to say it's dying though - iPad has simply achieved saturation.
I'd much rather spend my money on Dry Soda. I buy alot of their Cucumber flavor myself and the stuff is delicious. It doesn't leave you feeling gross and has much less sugar, plus natural flavor extracts and uses cane sugar.
Edit: also, I like the Stevia soda, but no-calorie sweeteners always leave an acrid taste in my mouth, and upset my stomach so I prefer Dry Soda or just plain seltzer water.
Much like the brewing scene, there's a great craft soft-drink scene. I don't drink many soft-drinks, but occasionally I do enjoy a good ginger beer, root beer or birch beer...
Glad to see that these guys are still around. I used to work down the block from their headquarters in Seattle and stopped in quite often. I second that it's great stuff.
