I don't know about you, but my experience is MUCH worse. Flash ads on a desktop might be a bit annoying but on a Droid, they completely make the site unusable. Also, I am a Flash and Android dev and the performance if you want to do any normal "Flash" stuff is horrendous. Try doing anything that involved drawing to the screen. Unless all you have is a static app you can't make a performant Flash app on Android yet. It's just not possible.
A bunch of phones are on that list and under $50.
When I got my phone, my wife got hers (Droid Eris) for free. There were a bunch of other promotions like buy a Droid X and get any other phone for free etc... It's stuff like this that inflates the numbers. My wife probably wouldn't have gotten an Android based phone and she doesn't download apps in the marketplace or anything like that. So I don't think developers are benefiting from these low-end android phones.
Great troll. I believe the numbers posted on TechCrunch yesterday say it all... both platforms are accelerating neck and neck
Also, these numbers are getting inflated because lower end phones are being sold with Android now. So it's not like people are picking between Droid and iPhone so it's apples to apples... it's more like iPhone 4 vs Crappy $50 Android Phone. Those aren't technically direct competitors.
On the other hand, iOS activations could iPod Touches and iPad's which isn't quite fair either.
Lastly, suck a dick.
It's disappointing that they are now playing catchup again. How about some features that the iPhone doesn't have that it would want to copy? Android may have some great devs behind it but they surely don't seem to have anyone that is trying to come up with new and interesting things to put on the Android (like some sort of "idea man"). Everything they seem to do is to make it more and more commoditized and more generic. I'm not saying they shouldn't work on things like Video Chat, but I think they should also try to come up with that one "great new shiny thing" at least once a release. Flash was a complete bomb since it took months and months for it to roll out to everyone and then it was super buggy and slow. Pretty soon, phone manufacturers aren't even going to advertise "This phone is using Android"... because there's no buzz about it anymore. Consumers could hardly care less about building in "me too" features 6-12 months after a competitor's phone has it.
This is from a long time Android user.
I seriously spent a good 2 years and 5-10 hours a day depending on whether I was on vacation or not on those servers.
I'd love nothing more than an MMO with Mechs.
Anyone else kinda sad that now Firefox is playing catchup. When no one cared about JS performance, the Open Source crowd was king, then all of a sudden big corporate money was poured into JS performance and now FOSS is lagging behind.
It seems that FOSS can't compete head to head with corporate backed projects, if the corporation actually cares. For example, MS didn't care about JS performance in IE6/IE7 and Firefox was king. Now, Microsoft is trying to compete in the browser space again and IE9 is catching up in features and exceeding Firefox in certain respects.
This is coming from a very long time Firefox user, but I have definitely switched to Chrome for general web browsing. I stick with Firefox for development though because of the large amount of niche plugins specifically tailored for development.
You win sir.
Well at 75k, if you're a family, you can't even live in Manhattan. $75k and single means that you're living with several roommates in a 750sq ft apartment. So while you might have money to go out and, you're pretty much living the same way as people in poverty would in other places in the country.
If I was to tell you that I was sharing an apartment with 2-3 guys, I didn't have a car, I used public transportation, I worked 50+ hours a week... and I didn't tell you I lived in NYC, you'd probably assume I was living in poverty and making minimum wage.
There are no GUI widgets in Flash / AS3. Everything is actually drawn on screen using vector or bitmap graphics. There are components that you can use that emulate widgets (drop downs, date pickers, etc) but those are not native. This means that they will work consistently across all platforms.
This demo is perfect because it shows a Flash / AS3 developer what they need to do to make sure their app works well across devices.
1. Figure out how your app elements might reposition themselves depending on screen dimensions.
2. Figure out how to scale your application and elements so things are usable.
3. Use interactions that work on press and not on MouseOver.
The rest doesn't matter. As long as the framework can draw graphics to the system consistently across devices, nothing else really matters. Flash is become the ultimate platform for GUI development.
As a Presentation Layer guy I can tell you that I’m seeing a shift of the types of successful developers out there in the field. Those developers that can bounce around between different API’s and syntaxes are the ones that are in demand and those developers that know one technology or platform well aren’t.
I personally think it’s because of the fragmented nature of our target platforms. Programming for one platform is a luxury most programmers don’t have nowadays. This is why frameworks came to be and are used so heavily. Just abstracting the differences between platforms is enough for most developers to ditch “hand coding” and deal with the integration issues. Look at the popularity of Javascript frameworks like jQuery. Nobody coded in the way jQuery works before jQuery (the whole chaining thing, and anonymous functions), yet now more than 50% of websites (made up number) use jQuery.
To become a successful developer in the next decade, you must be a generalist. It’s a completely different way of thinking. You have to actively try NOT to learn too much of one platform for fear that it’ll bias you against all the other languages you’ll have to work in. For example, coming from more structured languages, seeing the jQuery chaining and use of anonymous functions would turn off most developers and they’d shy away from using it. However, it’s the best tool for the job currently, and not using it based on it’s weird syntax would be a mistake. Same thing applies to MXML, WPF, LINQ, C#’s var, etc and all sorts of new improvements to languages that people don’t use because they’re “different” and give you “less control”.
But unemployment went up by how much? It's a bit under 10% now... that's 4% over a normal economic period, who knows what it would've been if it wasn't for the bailout.
The money wasn't supposed to completely stop the recession, just lessen it's impact, so we can recover faster.
Wait... we won Vietnam?
On the other hand I get 1-2 a week from big and small companies. I have my current job because one of those offers.
So it must be you
In all seriousness, I actually ask each one of those recruiters to be "LinkedIn" with me, because when it's time for me to start looking, I have a bunch of contacts I can talk to immediately, and they've already looked at my resume and thought I was a good fit for a certain type of position.
It took about a few years to go from "never been on LinkedIn" to my current situation, so it's not like its something that happens over night.
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
