App(lication)s need to be appropriate to the platform. When people are using phone apps, they are usually looking for one of 3 things:
1) Communication.
2) Quick retrieval of information.
3) Fill in some time with some entertainment. (Casual games, Youtube, Social apps. etc)
Tablets, nearly the same.
If someone's going to do spreadsheet work for example, they'll likely be at a desk, or they'll take their laptop with them.
Ideas are like assholes. Everyone's got one. They're worthless.
The ability, time and effort required to turn an idea, whether new or old, into a polished user-friendly app, and do all the other non-development tasks such as creating content and marketing. Those are the things that are worth money.
At least on iOS, this is not possible due to limitations imposed by Apple.
You're mistaken. There's plenty of iOS apps doing exactly that. e.g.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/pi...
The problem is in your own head. It's the idea that all computers should have a desktop interface. It's both nonsense, and has never been true. A desktop interface on a device with a phone touch sized screen is stupid.
As to "managing files", that's busy-work. We tend to work at a higher abstraction these days. Heck even when developing on a desktop computer: a SCM such as git does more of the managing of files than we do.
The idea of filling up my 'device' with a large number of nefarious, insecure, data-thieving, location stealing, mutually incompatible, crash causing, cross-selling little craplets that put me in touch directly, without choice to corporate hell, fills me with horror.
No you're not the only one. Those are the reasons lots of people choose iPhone rather than Android. It's not perfect but it's far better than the anarchy of Android.
What was wrong with the 'web' and 'choice'?
There's more than a million apps, on either iOS or Android. Lack of choice is not a problem.
Searching for every item you want on the web, or in an app is a pain. But I imagine it gets better as time goes on as products you've bought before are easy to reorder. I didn't persist long enough to find out.
There isn't a better mobile web renderer than WebKit. Even Chrome is just a fairly recent fork of it.
[Citation needed]
That doesn't appear to be true.
There's far more reasons than not getting lost to use a GPS. I use it more so because fuel is expensive and polluting, and so following the most efficient route saves money and the damage to the environment. Of course it's only an estimate of the best route even with a GPS. But it's a better estimate than people make for unfamiliar journeys.
You say that getting lost has the advantage of discovering new places. But so does GPS - it will take you down routes you've never taken before, when otherwise you might stick to the familiar routes. (And either method might take you down an unsuitable route.)
Not most apps, no. They are a minority. At least that's the case on iOS.
It is. Unlike WatsUpWithThat it's actually written by domain experts. Climate scientists. If you think being climate scientists disqualifies them from being a reliable source on the topic, you're a cretin.
WatsUpWithThat blog has never presented "the best data". It's a crank anti-science web-blog.
Even the concept that unadjusted data is better data is dumb conspiracy theory material.
Okay, so let's say I'm sceptic and not a denier. After a quick Google search, I stumbled on these two links:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...
Your first clue is that anyone who says climate is warming based on a period that not an integer number of years is an imbecile. If you are taking odd months on, at best you're contaminating the data with seasons rather than years.
Once you've appreciated that, realise that climate is an average of temperature over enough years that the noise is minimised. At 18 years it's still mostly weather. For a strong climate signal you have always needed at about 30 at least.
Anyone using less WAS doing it because they were cherry picking a period to start at the high point El Nino. It's no longer possible to do even that because 2014 exceeded that temperature. Which is why they are no reduced to the stupidity of using periods that are not even divisible by 12 months.
Procrastination is not the answer. And "Immediately" was 20 years ago.
The only positive there for open source is the visibility. With the defect report as with the source. It's certainly not any more likely to be dealt with in a timely way, or at all with open source. People being paid is the best way to get uninteresting bugs fixed in a timely way, and that happens a lot more often with commercial software.
Are you having fun yet?
