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1 month ago
in For the map makers, Apple giveth and taketh away with the new iPhone features on VentureBeat
You said "The iPhone 3.0 software gives users the ability to purchase and download an app on the spot from the iPhone itself, rather than going through iTunes.".
In fact you have always been able to do this since the app store opened.
You said "One of the cool things about AccuTerra is that you can take pictures with an iPhone, and it tags them with the GPS coordinates where the picture was taken."
This feature has also been present since the iPhone 3G was released with iPhone OS 2.x. All pictures taken with the iPhones built in camera app are geotagged with the current GPS location.
You said "It would have been ridiculous of Intermap to create a new iPhone app for each piece of territory."
In fact this is precisely what app developers have been doing up till now. Take a look at the books category, which has been loaded with single-book apps since the app store opened. The new in-app purchasing will improve this situation though.
Maybe next time you will pay a bit more attention to your reporting? Or own and use an iPhone which it appears from the first statement you do not.
In fact you have always been able to do this since the app store opened.
You said "One of the cool things about AccuTerra is that you can take pictures with an iPhone, and it tags them with the GPS coordinates where the picture was taken."
This feature has also been present since the iPhone 3G was released with iPhone OS 2.x. All pictures taken with the iPhones built in camera app are geotagged with the current GPS location.
You said "It would have been ridiculous of Intermap to create a new iPhone app for each piece of territory."
In fact this is precisely what app developers have been doing up till now. Take a look at the books category, which has been loaded with single-book apps since the app store opened. The new in-app purchasing will improve this situation though.
Maybe next time you will pay a bit more attention to your reporting? Or own and use an iPhone which it appears from the first statement you do not.
1 month ago
in WWDC: Apple to cut price of newest Mac OS to $29 on VentureBeat
You said : "But this is one of the surest signs that Apple is serious about gaining market share on Windows. Already, there are more than 75 million users of the modern Mac OS."
While I applaud it, and will upgrade immediately, pricing the OS upgrade lower will not have an effect on market share at all. Even if 100% of Mac owners upgrade @ $29 there will still be exactly the same number of Mac users as there were before. Hence no change in market share.
Only if NEW buyers of Macs buy a Mac because they find Snow Leopard compelling will the OS upgrade result in increased market share. And those new buyers get the OS for free included with their new Mac. And anyone who buys a Mac between yesterday and September gets the upgrade for the cost of the media $9.99.
While I applaud it, and will upgrade immediately, pricing the OS upgrade lower will not have an effect on market share at all. Even if 100% of Mac owners upgrade @ $29 there will still be exactly the same number of Mac users as there were before. Hence no change in market share.
Only if NEW buyers of Macs buy a Mac because they find Snow Leopard compelling will the OS upgrade result in increased market share. And those new buyers get the OS for free included with their new Mac. And anyone who buys a Mac between yesterday and September gets the upgrade for the cost of the media $9.99.
1 month ago
in Twitter Astronaut turns out to be tweeting via email on VentureBeat
Maybe you should have just payed attention to what @Astro_Mike himself said on the matter long before they launched. He addressed this on May 1st, before all this 'first twitter from space' silliness ensued. Instead, now you are trying to gain clicks with some made up pseudo-scandal.
http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike/status/1676124868
http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike/status/1676124868
8 months ago
in Using xCode to develop in Cappuccino on The Cappuccino Blog
I also had problems with this (as a cappuccino newbie).
First problem, this seems to install and entirely separate installation of Cappuccino than the one that is installed by downloading and installing as recommended on the download page. This XCode tool seems to install to /Developer/Cappuccino and the official install goes into /usr/local/share/objj and /usr/local/bin. Can you make it so that the Xcode plugin uses the same installation?
Second problem is that you installer seems to install all of your tools under /Developer/Cappuccino as root owned and rwx permissions for ALL users. This should clearly be more restrictive.
As mentioned by someone else, the /Developer/Cappuccino/Frameworks dir is empty by default. So even the sample project template as generated by Xcode does not work when you do build and go.
I think its an awesome start. I look forward to the next version that hopefully clears up the remaining issues. Is there a project home page for this new tool?
Thanks!
First problem, this seems to install and entirely separate installation of Cappuccino than the one that is installed by downloading and installing as recommended on the download page. This XCode tool seems to install to /Developer/Cappuccino and the official install goes into /usr/local/share/objj and /usr/local/bin. Can you make it so that the Xcode plugin uses the same installation?
Second problem is that you installer seems to install all of your tools under /Developer/Cappuccino as root owned and rwx permissions for ALL users. This should clearly be more restrictive.
As mentioned by someone else, the /Developer/Cappuccino/Frameworks dir is empty by default. So even the sample project template as generated by Xcode does not work when you do build and go.
I think its an awesome start. I look forward to the next version that hopefully clears up the remaining issues. Is there a project home page for this new tool?
Thanks!
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The Xcode plugin is a glorious thing, but I'm having a bit of trouble with one thing. In my Xcode preferences, I have it set so that closing brackets are automatically added, and the tab key will indent any selected text. For some reason, these preferences don't work for Cappuccino projects.
Here's a quick screen movie that demonstrates what I'm talking about:
http://memoryminer.com//video/XcodeCappuccino-w...
Is this a known issue, or is there something I can do to help fix this?
I would very much love to use Xcode to both edit, and build (including bake).