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I don't even own an iPhone. I hope that answers your question.

Gizmodo not only ruined it for Apple and the engineer, it also ruined the fun for Apple fans like myself anxiously looking forward to the rumored-filled days just before the next device unveiling in June. :-/

"(CNN) -- Lars and Jens Rasmussen were broke and jobless -- with only $16 between them -- when they made it big in the Web world by selling their idea for Google Maps."

SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/27/rasmussen.brothers.google...

I'm pretty sure these guys got somewhere even without a cushion of money under their bums.

If anything, I think it will encourage private enterprise to work harder.

This is what worries me the most:

http://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/12041303534

Until we get out of our comfort zone, we won't make much progress.

I speak objective-c. I like it's verbosity. I couldn't care less about the recent changes in the toc partly because I knew this was coming.

To put it succinctly: All of us are royally screwed.

Yes.

Of course programming isn't just about using APIs. But, writing apps for the iPhone is.

I'm sure they've learnt their lesson from last time. We all know how that went. lol..

I think what you mean is "productive" not "creative." If thats what you mean, I am with you. Obviously the more abstracted out low level details are, the more easier it is to churn out code, thus making you more productive.

But, given that you are using the same APIs (or using wrappers that utilize the same API, which is the same thing), I fail to see how you can do things differently in Scheme or some other language that you couldn't do in objective-c.

As much as I'd like to agree with you, that is simply not going to happen. Do you seriously think companies/developers like EA, Cultured Code, Omni Group etc are going to leave the app store just because apps written in Scheme or Actionscript or .Net are not welcome on the app store?

Again, as much as I'd like to agree with you, none of the prominent app developers are going to be leaving anytime soon. And, as for people who make Farting apps, they probably wont care anyways because use Objective-C or Actionscript, the apps are rather simple anyways. The efficiency of writing code probably wont matter to them.

I'm not really sure if they are hurting themselves.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that people unwilling to learn 'Objective-C' are lazy people. Instead, my argument was that if someone is so keen on developing apps for the platform, learning Objective-c (or C, C++ for that matter) is a no-brainer. Plus, chances are, you could make far better quality apps using QuartCore or CoreAnimation than you would using any Flash API/feature.

However, I do acknowledge the fact that objective-c, given its verbosity, is far from ideal for someone who is looking to churn out multiple apps every other week.

While there are a lot of hobbyists on the app store, there are a lot of people doing actual business -- and they make up for a majority of the noteworthy apps (apps like Things, Tap Tap Revenge, games from EA come to mind). I doubt their quality would go down, as you suggest.

If people are are that enthusiastic about developing for the iphone os, is learning objective-c that big of a deal. Really?

While I understand his arguments, I fail to understand how not letting people use x or y language hinders innovation. If they were blocking people from using certain APIs (which they are btw, but its their platform -- they do what they want), I can understand that you wouldn't be able to make so and so products...but not letting people use .NET or actionscript, I dont see how it really affects people's creativity.

I can smell a new iPad OS (or at least a new variant of iPhone OS) coming this fall.

This will be the third time I will be downloading the 2.2 GB SDK on my slow-*ss network in just the last seven days. First the 3.2 GM, then the 3.2 official version, and now 4 beta. Phew.

As you begin your 3rd year, here are a few things I wish for you:

1. May you be able to work with your brother, Google Apps, to allow SSL support for custom domains.

2. May you be able to lift your 1 MB cap per urlfetch request to at least 10 MB so that your users can write some cool apps using the YouTube API.

3. May you inherit some snazzy search skills this year from Google Search, your grand daddy, and allow your users to whip up custom search engines for their apps in the blink of an eye (or the press of a button, rather).

Happy Birthday GAE!

- All of your 250k users.

Nepal, although I goto school here in US.

I wonder if Apple could drop the bomb and say they're bringing flash to the platform (since so many people are whining day and night about it)

I hope not.

On a more positive note, I hope they have multi-tasking and some kind of dashboard feature.

As a developer, I really hope they have some kind of CoreImage support.

While I do doubt they sold 700k iPads in just a day, it is certainly possible that a lot of people opted to pre-ordered their devices online.

This reminds me of http://norvig.com/21-days.html

Nice site!

Jumping URL (http://www.jumpingurl.com) runs on app engine.

FYI, there are few key things the GAE team is working on which can be found at http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html

Things like SSL for custom domains and background processing would make GAE even awesome to have your project running on.

I fully agree with the author. However, the day he talks about isn't most likely going to be tomorrow. It will either be this summer (when OS 4.0 with multitasking comes out) or this fall (when the iPad will get a camera + multitasking).

Before any of this happens, the iPad is sadly any thing but an iPod Touch (albeit bigger and badder of course).

I'm curious as to how that would matter too much.

To the all the people whining here and else where on the inter-webs:

Is the iPad special?

Heck yes it is. Show me a tablet computer other than the iPad that is as polished, has as much of a vibrant app store and does most of the things you'd expect from a freaking 10 inch small slate, I'll join you side.

Is the iPad revolutionary and magical?

Of course its all a joke -- never heard about marketing before?

Bonus:

""" The iPad isn't a computer. It has a cpu, but so does my toaster, it's a portable cableTV box. The point of a personal computer is that you are in charge, you create content, with an iPad you pay to download and watch other people's content. It's the difference between writing your own blog and reading the national enquirer """

The iPad is a 10 inch slate. Even if it had full blown OSX on it, I doubt it could be used for full blown "content creation." For light editing / writing work, there are apps on the app store to help you do that.

If the iPad were to be a bigger slate, thats something different. But, for a 10 inch tablet..c'mon.

Thanks for the comment. I'll definitely try to add some border around the frame (web view). I'm thinking some thing like a leafy effect would be nice (like the ipad mail app, if you have noticed) but i'll see what I can do.

Thanks again.