Comments on: Inside Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone OS as advancing technology

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:29:58 +0000

garnercx,

Yeah, right. It might as well be summer year round down your way. You don’t get snow.
Guess it was about 15 years ago, I tried to order a forklift from Australian manufacturer Omega. They didn’t offer one, and didn’t know where to source one. They were more than happy to install air conditioning though. Sigh.

By: garnercx

garnercx — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:21:51 +0000

Apple is global, Roughly Drafted is global, BUT summer is not.

Major new reference releases for the iphone come out each winter for us here in Australia. Don’t forget how far and wide your audience is Dan!

Love (*love*) the articles. Sorry to hear Google got to you!

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:23:47 +0000

Money….

By: The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Rabid Fanboy: Guest blogger Daniel Eran Dilger on why Android will fail

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:47:53 +0000

[...] articles. Following are links to Part One: The Platforms, Part Two: The Business Model, and Part Three: Advancing Technology. Parts Four through Fourteen will follow over the coming [...]

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:48:30 +0000

Slashdot is “reporting” an additional wrinkle – phone manufacturers who use Android get a cut of Google’s ad revenue. So not only do the phone manufacturers achieve immediate cost savings because they don’t have to maintain OS development infrastructure, they actually get a positive revenue flow from Google. Contrast that with Microsoft’s sales pitch – “Buy a Win Mobile license fee for each handset, and get, um….”.

By: JohnWatkins

JohnWatkins — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:10:30 +0000

humann,
The dark ones are substantial revisions while the light ones are bug fixes. See the paragraph above the second image.

By: humann

humann — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:47:38 +0000

another great article by DED/PML marching stoutly in the opposite direction from the rest of the tech media. what’s got me most curious about this one is the graph’s color scheme. Trying to figure out why some revs were darker than others gave me a headache. Maybe it’s the graphical equivalent of the legendary typos around here or maybe someone will explain it to me. Just don’t say that the dark colors are .1 point revs and the lighter ones are .01 revs. If that was the plan then why are iPhone OS 1.11 and 1.13 both dark? And what were the particulars of the 1.15 and 2.02 overlaps. This represents different revs’ simultaneous availability to download through iTunes?

By: JohnWatkins

JohnWatkins — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:17:28 +0000

So what is the state of “Resolution Independence” on OS X these days? There was quite a bit of work being done on it for a while (icons are now hi res and scalable, preview is up, etc.) but it seems stuck in quiescence at the moment (or at least on the back burner.) There were a lot of details to get right, but I can’t imagine that they’ve given up on it. More likely they were waiting for various compelling and synergistic reasons to make the move. Well the parts seem to be in place now so I would expect to see a final push to implementation soon.

By: David Dennis

David Dennis — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:42:05 +0000

I would love to see a higher resolution iPhone, but it would be very difficult to move existing apps to the higher resolution.

Any ideas on how the improvement could be made seamlessly?

Developing for WebOS and making both the Pre and Pixi resolutions look good was not easy. I eventually did it, but it took a lot of thought to get right.

By: jdeep2901

jdeep2901 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:12:59 +0000

Looking at what may happen to the iPhone’s hardware and OS – yes, both may change to something completely different from what they are at present. This would definitely get the question of ‘what/which to support’ in the minds of most developers, and ’should I get the latest or stick to this one’ in the minds of most buyers.
And as daGuy pointed out, the OS’s so far have been seamlessly integrating with all models, automatically taking care of the the hardware compatibility. So at some point, it will be the user’s decision whether he wants to shift to the latest model or stick to the one he has, with little but flawless support as far as Apps and other hardware features are concerned. Apple will still continue to support both of the above scenarios, and safely stay out of the problems being currently faced by Andriod or Windows platforms based mobile devices.
Excellent article Dan!