Where are these Android phones [on flickr]?
daringfireball.net2 pointsby tomica3 comments
I’m not saying that my code needs to save the world or support
humanitarian causes, but it should at least be something that I like,
or I would use, or that I care about.
Another data point that highlights the discrepancy between the incredible
device activation numbers claimed by Google and actual real-world usage
of mobile devices. Example: Flickr’s stats on popular camera phones.
Where are these Android phones? How many of them are used for little
more than phone calls and texting?
This new high-end model will be called iPad Pro,
not iPad 2 Plus. Why? Well, first Apple isn’t
Samsung. The company doesn’t add prefixes and
suffixes except for ‘i’ and ‘Pro’.
it makes a lot of sense IMHO. it abstracts away dependency on exact SQLite version, but preserves a familiar SQL-like mental model. it is stable, mature, well understood and widely deployed/used (god i sound like a shill.. ;)
and has the added benefit that it can be implemented in two different flavours: as a standard JavaScript (ES3) library on top of WebSQL (or SQLite in Gecko), or as a first-class language extension with syntax sugar similar/related to array comprehensions (from JS1.7/Harmony/ES6)..
check out the two code samples, and a list of language extension (all feeling right at home in JS): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query#Langu...
if it wasn't proposed, can someone from WHATWG (like you Brendan ;) politely ask Microsoft to "contribute" any related intellectual property to W3C? how likely do you think would it be for AAPL/GOOG to accept it? (and if not, it could simply be implemented as a thin layer above WebSQL ;)