Not to take away from Ray Wenderlich's site. I've found it useful and informative.
It is worth noting that "This is a blog post by iOS Tutorial Team member Gustavo Ambrozio, a software engineer with over 20 years experience, including over three years of iOS experience. He is the founder of CodeCrop Software."
Isn't the percentage of Linux in use on the desktop about ~1.5%?
It's a business decision. If I understand the percentage correctly Linux on the desktop really is an afterthought from a bottom line perspective regardless of how prevalent it is on the server or in mobile.
The same way a plumber is "exploiting" your ignorance. You don't know how to or have the tools to replace your kitchen sink p-trap... that is you are ignorant in this case. In step s the business with the tools and knowledge- or technology if you will...
You can't build your own gdrive or have the tools too (or the curve to do so is too steep). In steps google.
I disagree with the word "exploit" in this case. Maybe "capitalizing" on your ignorance. That's what a successful business does- capitalizes on prevalent ignorance- of process, or tools, or what-have-you- and makes a business model out of it.
Not trying to nay-say here- genuine question follows.
Is the goal of this service ultimately that I back up all of my personal files, work files, collaborative files, etc so that they can be analyzed and an advertising profile can be created/enhanced based on the contents?
Seems to me that this would make a lot of sense for Google. Let us store all of your goodies and cheaply. Don't mind us while we have a non-personally identifiable and algorithmically brillant peak at the contents so we can serve ads better and create a advertising/marketing/buyer permanent record of sorts for you.
Again, not a conspiracy theory. Just wondering, because that occurred to me as a real opportunity for them. Seeing some comments below this has occurred to others.
It can't go well in the age of the Internet. This is the top story on a couple of sites I read. All it would take is for the mainstream (non-tech) press to pick it up to create some real bad publicity.
I just worked on a 300K project for a company that makes 6mil/day (yes, you read that right) to redo a single page on their website (albeit a functional page). IE6 was a requirement.
A client with that kind of money dictates what is and is not supported and you don't just get to "not know how to do it".
2% of the U.S. may use IE6... but 99% of the executives in this company used it.
Not to mention that if an IE6 hack took 2 days you got of eeeaaasy... seriously. It only took 2 days? You got of easy.
Yeah, it sucks. But there are cases where learning how to IE6 or otherwise can be quite lucrative- and a condition for doing business.