Comment: Greedy Carriers (Score 1) 395
Horrendous cost aside, where I live (and I'm betting a lot of other places), you can't have multiple devices on the same data plan.
Why can't you have a 3GB plan shared by your 3G phone, 3G tablet and 3G enabled laptop? You're the same person, they're all your devices and your usage varies between the 3, but they want you to instead buy 3 separate smaller plans which total up to a lot more money for the same amount of data.
Sort that out and maybe I'd start considering 3G important in other devices. In the meantime I'll tether. Slightly less convenient, but a hell of a lot cheaper.
Comment: Re:71 percent? (Score 1) 299
Comment: Re:What's MS up to? (Score 1) 229
Comment: MeeGo? (Score 2) 229
Comment: Re:Sad to see Google bail on the hardware (Score 1) 246
Comment: You know, down here in little ol' NZ (Score 1) 97
Comment: Re:New Zealand is looking to be a better (Score 1) 221
Comment: Re:If you live and work in NZ, great (Score 1) 221
Comment: Objective-C to Language X instead? (Score 2, Interesting) 711
People are complaining "I can't write my app in precious language X and cross compile it (or whatever conversion they do) to run on iPhone" whether language X be Java, Flash or whatever.
Has anyone ever considered going to other way? Write something in Objective-C and cross compile to other platforms? Hell, most of the specifications are open, we even have GNUStep! It's really not THAT complicated a language, C with a Smalltalk style OO model strapped to it and a few libraries.
Why not have a converter that takes an Objective-C iPhone app's code and converts it to Dalvik,
Seems to be all one sided, even lazy, if you ask me. Objective-C isn't THAT hard to learn, and the majority of specs are open.