"Off site" just means in physically different locations, so that some kind of local calamity wouldn't take out both, right? It seems like having it backed up on the PC satisfies that requirement to some extent, since the iPad and the PC are likely to be in different locations a lot of the time. It's not as good as a proper off-site backup, but it's better than nothing.
While reading this, I kept thinking that search results are ads too, at least as the author defines them. Google still managed to create a valuable proposition for advertisers, so why couldn't Twitter?
Maybe the problem is that Nitro requires that an app have special permission to mark pages as executable. Apple may be comfortable giving this permission to Safari (or any if their apps, for that matter) but not comfortable giving it to third party apps. Along the same lines, it could be that apps saved to the home screen don't get Nitro because there is a special exemption low in the system for Safari, and they haven't yet worked out how to roll it out to the thin apps that are created when you save something to the home screen.
Along the same lines, how would this affect an email client that connects to a paid email service? Would be accessing content purchased outside the device?
My favorite quote like this is from Ed Colligan, who was at the time the CEO of Palm. When asked in late 2006 about the prospect of Apple entering the mobile phone market: "We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in."
The same argument could be made about the iMac. It's possible that Apple would say roughly the same thing they would about the iMac: That their goal is to create one device that does everything, without having discrete components that people have to manage, or cables that they have to deal with. It's Apple's style.
His comment didn't say they have Macs, he said they have Apple products. The dominance of the iPod makes it more probable that everyone he knows has at least one Apple product. Also, you assume that market share is evenly distributed in all demographics. I think the preceding discussion was about Apple's market share among tech enthusiasts, which I have never seen solid numbers on, but which seems, anecdotally, to be higher.
You seem to be confusing "fair" with "equal". Treating everybody the same is not necessarily fair. It seems fair to me to have the most common characters be shortest. I don't have any evidence, but I would guess that Latin characters[1] are used most commonly.
[1] "Latin characters" is the proper term, not "American characters"
I think the article was at least trying to _imply_ that the ads indicate that we are in the midst of a bubble. Otherwise, why would they repeatedly bring up the Super Bowl ads from the last bubble?
The entire point of trying to copy Groupon is that they want to diversify their revenue stream, rather than relying on a single cash cow. Defending the cash cow at the expense of future growth would be a short-sighted strategy.
I agree that they should devote more resources to fixing this problem, but I would rather those resources come from more established underperforming products, rather than new opportunities.
That sounds like Objective-C. One of the reasons I first liked working with Objective-C (before the iPhone made it trendy) was that it seemed like a much better-executed version of what C++ was aiming to be. It has optional garbage collection now, but only on the Mac. Its type system is even close to what Steve described in this article.
What I really want is something that can cause the icon to change when I get new chat messages. I frequently find myself unable to hear the soft incoming message sound, because I'm listening to something louder, and it would be nice to have a visual indicator.
I notice that, once you get through the video, it shows a bunch of bars that you can hover over to see previews. I wonder how their tablet is going to handle that, since the concept of hovering doesn't exist without a mouse.
That bit of snark aside, this looks like a really impressive device. The cameras are a great addition, and if they put together some demos of video chatting, it could help them explain how they're better than an iPad in a way that really resonates with people, more than Flash and ports.
I don't think that will be possible. From the video, it looks to me like the three-finger gesture is only for switching between apps, and having an app intercept it would be jarring. For instance, if you were swiping through your recent apps, and got to the browser, you wouldn't be able to move on using the same gesture, and it would be like hitting a brick wall. In fact, I imagine that individual apps won't even be able to capture these gestures, because the system will catch them first, and interpret them as app-switching.