I do all native for my development. But, if you design your business and storage layers correctly, it is all but a few "find and replaces" to convert ObjC to Java. Then all you have to worry about is your UI. Apps that took months to sort out business logic have been ported (business layer) to the other platform in a day.

The Obama Admin has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all former administrations combined AFAIK. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/obama-whistleblower-prosecutions-press_n_3091137.html

You are probably more right than you realize. If the phone is parallel to your leg it won't bend. If it rests non-parallel against your thigh and you sit down, the fabric of your clothes will stretch it around your thigh, thus bending it.

What do people expect Apple to say when all they are selling are the smaller phones? OH THATS A GREAT PHONE SAMSUNG. No, they are going to describe how theirs is better.

Reviewers are shills for whoever is giving them free stuff so their reviews are useless.

I doubt Apple will open NFC up. They released their proprietary ibeacon technology which oh a few aspects has a leg up on NFC. I don't see them undercutting iBeacons.

Lets say you have the best "mobile app" to do whatever, XYZ.

Oh great, govt customer wants it. They see it today. Well, thanks to procurement, it will be 18 months before they actually buy it. But, by that point, the product will have changed a good bit - well because that is what software does now a day. But, that isn't what Gov manager wanted - they want what they saw 18 months ago.

The sales cycle will chew startups up and spit them out. Not many can accommodate 18 month+ sales cycles.

And that even excludes the issues of continuing resolutions means they don't have cash to buy buy many shiny new objects.

In the end, no worker harmed by this policy will see a dime of the $320m the government is fining them. In the end, $320m is a drop in the bucket for these firms and won't change a thing.

Not "A" but "A team of" 6 figure DBAs

"Low prices" - what? Uber by all accounts is more expensive than traditional cabs.

I've had an app in the store for years now that requires a login. We provide two to apple to test (one success one fail). I don't recall the last time the accounts logged in (perhaps version 1.0.0.0), their last login date has sat the same for years. So, not hard if you get in and sit there to slowly change to something malicious.

Constitutionally they don't really do anything.

EO's have no real weight to create policy. They are simply instructions for federal agencies (which the President is in control of since he is the executive) to do.

Congress then up until now allowed it and the blame lies on their shoulders alone for creating the surveillance state.

Such lack of history.

Look into why the drinking age was raised to 21 nation wide: Failure to comply cut highway funding. It was blackmail.

So, stick the shitty memes elsewhere.

Consider how many people die on the roads every year in the United States alone, the biggest factor is humans.

Then, consider how many people die every year due to firearms in the United States alone and look how CA reacts and tries to limit access to firearms, through laws and technology. Basically, "remove the problem."

Shouldn't CA be pushing hard for driverless vehicles? Removing human error from the equation would save countless lives.

Think of the children.

[Besides Snowden] The largest data breach in recent memory was due to an internet connected HVAC system at Target. The electrical grid is a small sliver of the equation, the next decade is going to be a massive shit show.