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If you replace the safari icon on the bottom row with Google on iOS it works pretty well
The classic telephone handset was 10 inches long. Do you have a really tiny head, or are you habituated to tiny iPhones?
The best response to "can I pick your brain?" is "do I look like Trotsky?"
What is this, the 90s? Locking went out years ago for programmers; how come bloggers get it now? Roll on version histories.
SF isn't Silicon Valley. Taking an Uber on a south bay commute would be very pricy.
That's because there are two faces to android - the open source bottom half and the 'with google' top: http://epeus.blogspot.com/2011/01/two-faces-of-android.html
Anyone would think that mobile phones can't use websites from all this flapdoodle.
@benkepes when your product is called out, it's fair enough to respond. There's a big difference between that and attempting to twist a comment thread to promote a semi-related app. I'm sure Sarah is pleased to hear from Maria here.
Do try the iOS and Android apps to keep up with notifications and @ replies in Chatter, they help a lot.
The key difference on Android is that you can install third party keyboards, like Swype mentioned above, and also the excellent SwiftKey, which predicts words based on the words you actually use, rather than an average user. If you enable multiple languages, it switches between them intelligently too.
I think you're taking the wrong message from that commercial. HTML5 is very good at dynamic presentational layout with a tight update cycle, native code is good at tight interaction with the platform and user.
Browsers aren't trivial applications, and are very well tuned for async downloading, caching and rendering of info. Native APIs, and the programming models that they build on are more likely to implicitly assume resources are local and become sluggish as a result.
A sensible model is to play to the strengths of each development model. The Netflix apps are a good example here, using native code for core movie playback, but using HTML5 for the browsing, queueing and organising interface. This means it can be updated dynamically across many platforms without a new version deployed. That same Facebook article you quoted says "For areas within the app where we anticipate making changes more often, we will continue to utilize HTML5 code, as we can push updates server side without requiring people to download a new version of the app." and detailed how much specialised effort they had to go to to get their native app to perform - the words 'asynchronous' and 'cache' being a big part of this.
One example of this that I've encountered is the Google Reader app on Android being less responsive than the web version of Google Reader.
Neglecting the use of HTML5 where it can provide benefits is a mistake with long term consequences, and articles like this that generalise from a couple of instances, and jump to conclusions about performance may encourage rash development decisions too.
You notice that facebook is replacing email too, but gets you to sign up with an email address. They want to be able to pester you if you don't switch.
When "behaves as designed" is indistinguishable from "omg security breach!!!" for a large number of users, you really have a problem.
Ten years ago or so, iChat had 2 chat windows. One was for AIM, one was for Bonjour (people on the same wifi subnet as you). If you dragged people their icons from Bonjour to AIM, it added them on AIM. I miss that.
Learn some French, neologism mongers. Entrepreneur means literally "between taker" - middle man. Replacing the first part with a personal adjective implies a specialised kidnapper.
use the internet, not sue the internet. Oy
"Who in the corner of this mythical entity Dao calls “the Internet” can match CNN on those fronts? The Huffington Post? Daily Kos? Drudge Report? Current TV? The Daily?"
You do realise that people in Afghanistan and Syria can sue the internet themselves, without CNN having to "send someone" there?
That perhaps the don't need your White Saviour Complex mixed up in their stories?
@sarahcuda The commenters being great is correlated to you spending time int he comments, setting the tone. The TechCrunch tone was way more adversarial, and attracted the same. Paul's snark can edge close to that line, mind you.