Come on, Apple. This claim is bullshit. Stand up for the developers who make your App Store and ecosystem a success.

Fucking cowardice.

Wow. This is something I've been waiting for for a long time. I've never been a fan of the style of games on the iTunes App Store--I like my old school gaming, and I'm excited that it's available to me in a mobi--

What?

Oh, I have an iPhone. I'll never get to experience this.

Never mind then. Thanks, Steve.

e-ink is great if you want to read out in the sun. The 70 buck kindle also fits nicely in my cargo shorts so I can read at the outdoor mall outside Barnes and Nobles while my wife shops, and shops, and (how can they do it), shops...

I switched long ago. Flex was just an personal exploratory activity, not a long term commitment. Sure, I thought about buying it a promise ring, but backed out before I was in too deep. All joking aside, I was pleasantly surprised with the environment built around Flex, and thought that it was much superior to the applet. Why Adobe thought developers would pay for the right to build application effectively on it through FlexBuilder licenses is a New Coke type of decision.

GWT may be great, but Google is too fickle in it's long term support of anything. If I build a significant application around a technology, I want something with longevity. No offense but I hesitate to plug into anything Google for this reason. Just yesterday it seems that Google Wave was going to overtake the world -- and it was cool actually. I'm actually surprised they didn't continue to back it in the form of android or HTML5 technologies aimed at mobile devices and tablets.

AOP.

I once designed a database which used small business acronyms to associate lines of business with their associated profiles. It grew to support 40 million or so customers give or take. Marketing, acquisitions, more marketing has renamed each entity an average of 5 times over the last 15 years. Being a young programmer at the time, I lacked the experience to foresee the amount of corporate churn. It's a mess :-) and we're all idiots and clever at some time or other.

Sounds like Oracle/SUN started making good on those endless @deprecated annotations :-)

Despite the demise or imminent demise of Flex. It did have a superb integrated debugging environment that I have yet to find in the Javascript world. Firebug, however, is getting there but I still find it clunky compared to the other integrated IDEs I have worked with in the past.

I love GCC, don't get me wrong, but it seems to me from the research I've done that it's been left in the dust by Intel's and even Microsoft's compilers, which do a far better job at generating optimized code, especially for x86/x64. I have an application where I'd love to use GCC rather than a horrible vendor-specific C/C++ compiler to generate some ARM firmware, but I'm getting a lot of resistance due to its perceived poor/bloated code generation.

Can anyone confirm or deny this and make me at least able to justify GCC as a possible option again?

It's terribly unfortunate that Apple has decided that iPad owners have no right to install whatever software the owner sees fit on his or her own tablet, thus necessitating (and encouraging) the jailbreaking community.

Mad props to these guys and their reverse engineering skills. Perhaps one day Apple will decide it's simply not worth the effort to keep up with the cat-and-mouse game of jailbreak/patch and just finally allow people to sideload apps and use their tablets however they want. Sadly, I don't foresee this happening.

Imagine if you're the CEO of Porn Corp #1 and also serve on the broad of Porn Corp #2...

FTFY.

Can this become a new Slashdot meme, please?

I'd give you a million mod points if I had them.

I don't necessarily disagree with you when you say 'We need to let people like that sink or swim', but in this world of tightly connected social networks where friendship among individuals governs their level of access to your details, I'm not so sure about that. You're only as secure as your weakest link. If one of your less technologically-savvy friends on Facebook happens to fall for this scheme and gives up his login information to the attackers, then your information is exposed to them, and you're put at risk. This is why while I sympathize with your point, I still think it's incredibly important that phishing attacks like this be cracked down upon as quickly as possible to prevent exactly that sort of thing from happening.