The expression 'MacJob' used to mean a crap job; so this MacWatch....
Never heard that expression. Ever.
Oh, I see now; that refers to a low-paying EMPLOYMENT, as in a job a McDonald's. Hence "McJob" (prounounced "Mac-Job").
Nothing to do with Apple. Nice try, hater.
You linked to a blogger, the blogger linked to a survey, and that survey had holes in its methodology that you could sail a battleship through.
Not one bit of facts available.
Good job genius.
That's what I get for posting from work, sorry.
The reason for Swift is that Apple just doesn't want to compete head-to-head with the Android framework. There is simply no other reason.
Oh puh-lease. Do you even believe that?
Yeah, Java is the pride and joy of the Android Development community. Riiiiight.
HOW much bitching have I heard here on this site alone about Java? Hmmmm???
You're just Butthurt that Android doesn't have anything as clean and modern as Swift.
I have no idea who "they" are. I am saying this about Swift. Incidentally, nobody halfway sane would say that C++ or Obj-C is for the incompetent in comparison to C. They are all three hard to master and C++ is a pretty bad design in addition. (Of course, C++, like the equally bad Java, was never intended to be a general-use language.)
Yeah, but that never stopped Pascal!
Indeed. Swift is for the incompetent. There is nothing wrong with Objective-C, you just have to understand what you are doing. This is just one more step on the way to general cretinization of programming, and consequentially programmers.
I also agree that there is nothing wrong with Obj-C; but OTOH, is there anything wrong with attempting to update and/or clarify syntax?
For example, I doubt you would find that many developers that would argue that C++ can be arcane, and most that have developed in both would say that Obj-C is much "cleaner" than C++ overall; so why can't Swift be seen as simply a further refinement on Obj-C, especially for less "ambitious" projects?
Bottom line, I don't think Swift is in danger of displacing Obj-C anytime soon; so why all the hate?
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Oh, I know: Because Apple.
This right here! I am seriously fucking tired of everyone trying to turn my large screen high def computer into a fucking phone! There is a reason I do not browse the web on a "smart" phone. A 4 inch screen sucks! And when I can not get out of your "mobile optimized" site on my large tablet, guess what? I find another!
Hear, hear!
I am RIGHT there with ya! If I can't get out of a "mobile" site, I am very likely to give up on that site entirely. I have never seen a "mobile" site that was worth a shit, period!
Yes, some "full site" versions are damned inconvenient to use on a phone (and some even on a tablet); but it's worth the pain of scrolling/zooming to be able to get to ALL the features of the site, rather than some dumbed-down version of same.
They have vested interest in mobile now because it's much more effective to monetize through their own dominant OS.
Depends on what you mean by "Dominant" in this regard.
While it is true that there are more Android Devices in circulation that iOS Devices, Google makes its money from the INTERNET USAGE of those Devices. And when it comes to that particularly-interesting-to-Google metric, there is compelling evidence to suggest that iOS users spend up to SIX TIMES the amount of time on the Internet than do Android users.
So, when it comes to Google selling "ad impressions", iOS users might well be the "Dominant OS" as far as Google is concerned.
"For years researchers have argued over where and when dogs arose."
Ah yes, the great dog uprising of 02, back in the old country. Let me tell ya, sonny, that was a scary day for anybody with a pocket full of ground beef. The cats didn't come down from the trees for weeks afterwards. Chihuahuas made up a cavalry charge, riding on the backs of Great Danes. All was nearly lost, until the air corps saved us with a mass airdrop of tennis balls.
Truly LOL! Nice synthesis of the TFT Style.
Proving what Phil Austin said in The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays: "The Firesign Theatre is a technique."
But like the voice of Christopher Walken, almost anyone can pull off something that sounds a little like Walken; but no one quite gets it right; sometimes not even The 3 (or 4) or 4 (or 5) Crazy Guys...
Come on, most of these are being snapped up by ebay traders, hoping to restrict the supply to make a profit from the new product.
A million eBay traders; riiiiiiiight.
Neither had I. Until last July, when my wife gave me an Android smartwatch for my birthday (suck it Apple
It's actually very funny when a Fandroid accuses Apple of not inventing something; because, since they ripped-off the entire concept of the original iPhone, ya know...
I trust everyone around here remembers that; or do I have to whip out the citations, Google internal memos, and the before and after pictures (yet again)?
The Howard gun laws didn't do anything? How many mass shootings have there been in Australia since those laws were passed in 1996?
That's right. Zero.
I was going to type up a long and detailed rebuttal to your fantasy scenario outlined above, but Jim Jeffries said it better than I ever could.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In Australia, we had the biggest massacre on earth, and the Australian government went: "That's it! NO MORE GUNS." And we all went, "Yeah, all right then, that seems fair enough, really."
Now in America, you had the Sandy Hook massacre, where little tiny children died. And your government went, "Maybe... we'll get rid of the big guns?" And 50 percent of you went, "FUCK YOU, DON'T TAKE MY GUNS." ...
You have guns because you like guns! That's why you go to gun conventions; that's why you read gun magazines! None of you give a shit about home security. None of you go to home security conventions. None of you read Padlock Monthly. None of you have a Facebook picture of you behind a secure door....
By the way. Most people who are breaking into your house just want your fucking TV! You think that people are coming to murder your family? How many fucking enemies do you have?
Apple avoided similar issues because they have taken total control of both the hardware and software where MS went with supporting the commodity market.
IOW, "You get what you pay for."
And the fact you could get software from many publishers, rather than just Microsoft, is why Microsoft has the massive market share over Apple. Guess history is not a good lesson.
Um, that's not why.
There is one, and only one, reason why Microsoft once had massive market share over Apple (and everyone else) in the business world: Exchange and Outlook.
Period. Seriously. Period.
Further, Apple has never restricted the sources from which you could get software for MacOS nor OS X. In recent years, it has made the user make a conscious decision to do so; but it has never disallowed Macintosh software from any source.
You're confusing OS X and iOS. Pretty lame for a Slashdotter.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
