Aye. The cast of TSS has remained pretty close. I don't listen to TWiT anymore, but I remember Patrick Norton used to be (may still be) a regular guest.
I, too, would like to see Mozilla become more agile and cutting-edge. I still hold respect for them, though, as the organization that taught the masses "IE != The Internet".
How many apps are being purchased per user? Are Android users spending an average of $.50 on one app, while iPhone users are spending an overage of $.50 per app on 10 apps?
What percentage of iPhone apps are free? Versus Android?
Without these additional data points, the average expenditure per user is meaningless.
That may be the case in the US, but in most other major markets, the iPhone is no longer exclusive to one carrier. The entire US population makes up at most 10% of the global market. Subtract AT&T itself, and you are left with about 6%. Hardly significant.
There are also a lot of high-end Android phones that have come out in the last two months, and coming out soon. In the end, this discussion doesn't really matter. Obviously, nobody knows the future.
I also realize that these numbers only represent one quarter, but if you look at the previous quarters, you'll see that Android is experiencing steady growth. I have no doubt that the iPhone 4 will be a boon to Apple's numbers. We only have to wait another three months to find out! :)
Actually, openness is not one of his points. He mentions it in passing only.
>Android definitely has momentum but at their current rate it will still take years to match the iPhone's share of the market.
From February to May of this year, Android went from 9% to 13% of the market. In that same time, the iPhone went from 25.4% to 24.4%. At that rate, it will take about six months for Android to match the iPhone. Google is seeing almost 5 million activations a month, and growing exponentially.
A product that has been actively developed for over 14 years had sure as hell better be able to say something more than "our performance is on par with" an emerging technology that is still being developed and isn't even standardized yet.
Many mail daemons will "accept" mail no matter who the recipient is. Internally, unmatched mail may be discarded or forwarded to a "catch-all" account, but all the sender sees is "Recipient ok"
I think this started as a response to SPAM bots that used to "RCPT TO:" random strings and save a list of valid address.
I was actually considering an Android phone, the Instinct Q to be precise. I got a Palm Pre two weeks ago, which is also Linux-based, and now I feel that I made the right decision.
With Windows Mobile, I was always running custom ROMs and tweaking. The Pre doesn't have any custom ROMs per se, but that's because the whole thing is so simple that you can easily apply patches (about 90% the user-visible system is created with plain text files--HTML, Javascript, JSON, et cetera).
I work at a T-Mo call center, and there are a lot of reps here who say the myTouch is complete crap without custom ROMs. If Google really wants to build a loyal following--particularly in the tech community--this decision needs to be reversed and /never/ repeated.
Honestly I thought the question was rather pointless to begin with.
Sprint didn't make the Pre. Sprint doesn't compete with the iPhone. The iPhone is a device, Sprint is a carrier. The iPhone may very well end up on Sprint in the not-too-distant future.
Also, if you look at the subtext, you might see that Hesse is delivering a veiled attack on the iPhone--that it's all about branding and hive mind. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he was far from the greatest, even during his career. His style and flash are what got him his place in the spotlight, just like the iPhone.
Yes. In fact, CPU's are still increasing in performance exponentially faster than RAM or disk (hard or solid-state) storage.
Fetching something from RAM still takes hundreds of CPU cycles. Even SSD's, which are much faster than hard disks in most metrics, are orders of magnitude slower than RAM.