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The iPad Arrives

April 3, 2010 10:49:33.519

I'll let my wife enjoy the unboxing (it's for her, after all) - but the box is here:

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iPad Unboxed

April 3, 2010 19:14:42.838

My wife unboxed the iPad this afternoon, and liked it well enough that the planned trip to the gym became an unplanned hunt for likely apps :)

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The iPad will not Save Old Media

April 3, 2010 20:02:16.703

I agree with John Dvorak on this one - the iPad will not be the salvation of old media (newspapers and magazines). Why not?

No matter that you are not reading these journals now. For some unexplained reason you'll want to read them on the iPad. How does that make any sense?

Exactly. The problem is the content, not the medium. The old media guys haven't figured that out yet, and it looks like they never will.

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There's that iTunes Thing

April 3, 2010 20:10:21.993

Ummm:

Okay so the iPad has a problem that lots of software has, when you finish the basic setup -- now what? There are no movies, newspapers or books on the device, and no clue as to how to get them on there. Those are the first things I want to do, see how it plays stuff. Maybe I'm wrong about that. I should disconnect and see what I get.

Dave Winer must be the only person on the planet who doesn't know that you use iTunes to get stuff onto the iPad - either directly from the iTunes app on the device, or via synching from your computer.

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iPad Impressions

April 4, 2010 10:27:44.507

I've been asked about my impressions of the device, but at this point, I don't really have any - it's my wife's iPad, and she's been using it. IN watching her use it, I've noticed that she's had some minor issues with the UI - she hasn't looked at an iPhone/Touch, so it's all based on prior expectations from OS X and Windows. The most interesting one I've seen? The fact that double click isn't used (other than double tap for zoom). As we settle in with the device, I'll have more to say, but so far - we like it.

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Concentrated Goodness: Audio

April 4, 2010 21:41:59.461

This week, Michael and I got VisualWorks customers from older versions of VW up to the latest. It ended up being a wide ranging conversation; this is part 1 of 2 - part 2 will be out next week.

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Sad But True

April 5, 2010 8:22:30.088

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Wasn't that Dead Already?

April 5, 2010 8:24:16.978

Spotted in PCWorld Latest Technology News

Microsoft is ending its support for Intel's Itanium processor with the current version of its Windows Server OS; according to a Microsoft blog posting Friday.

The death throes of the iTanium have to be the slowest moton thing in the tech space ever...

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Record Keeping in a Digital World

April 5, 2010 8:32:59.558

Nick Carr makes a good point about digital records and fragility:

The problem is magnified by the speed with which old digital media and recording techniques, including devices and software, are replaced by new ones. It's further magnified by the fact that even modest damage to a digital recording can render that recording useless (as anyone who has scratched a CD or DVD knows). In contrast, damage to an analog recording - a scratch in a vinyl record, a torn page in a book - may be troublesome and annoying, but it rarely renders the recording useless. You can still listen to a scratched record, and you can still read a book with a missing page. Analog recordings are generally more robust than digital ones. As Bollacker explains, history reveals a clear and continuing trend: "new media types tend to have shorter lifespans than older ones, and digital types have shorter lifespans than analog ones." The lifespan of a stone tablet was measured in centuries or millennia; the lifespan of a magnetic tape or a hard drive is measured in years or, if you're very lucky, decades.

Carr adds a worry about cloud storage overtaking local storage, and a resulting "storage monoculture" resulting what amounts to a single point of failure. I'm not sure we'll get there, but it is possible. For things like music and books, we still like to have local copies, because we'll listen (or read) over and over. Video is something else again - beyond a few favorites, most people don't want to re-watch something they've seen already. Storage is cheap (and getting cheaper) though, so I'm not sure that the cloud monculture issue will ever truly arise.

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Testing with SUnitToo: Video

April 5, 2010 9:55:37.703

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at creating a simple test case using SUnitToo - with the File handling code from last Friday. You can also download the small package I show in the screencast (zip file). To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Civil War Reading

April 5, 2010 12:38:23.695

I just finished two books on the civil war - one on Sheridan (more properly, on him and his top commanders) , and the other on the war in the Chesapeake Bay region . The Sheridan book covered the last year of the war - more or less, the Shenandoah campaign and the wrapup of the siege of Petersburg. Sheridan was an interesting character, and he ended up having a lasting impact on the army - his innnovations with cavalry warfare make me wonder - he would have been an interesting guy to pair with Patton during WWII.

Another thing that comes clearly through this book, at least for me - if you're going to fight a war, fight the war. No half measures, no "proportional response" nonsense - take the war to the enemy and make them regret the decision to go to war in the first place. I often wonder how differently many modern American wars might have gone had Sheridan, Sherman, and Grant been around to run them.

Anyway - if you're interested in this period of history, it's an interesting book, and short. A good companion to a biography of Sheridan.

The second book, about the war on the riverine Chesapeake, was fascinating. It really brought home to me how messy the border region war was between 1861-1865. All along the Chesapeake, the skirmishing, smuggling, and guerilla warfare went on non-stop until the very end of the war, and it was often a nasty business. Not that war is ever not nasty, but it was smaller scale and more personal - given the divided loyalties of the region, there was a lot of the stereotypical "brother vs. brother" thing going on.

If you want to read something that gives you a view of the war away from the common "Lee vs. a parade of Union commanders" thing, this is a good one to look at.

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Nearly Time for my Next iPhone?

April 5, 2010 13:18:25.359

Engadget has the scoop on apple's next big event:

Yes folks -- the world is turning upside down. Apple has announced an iPhone OS 4 event on April 8th at 10AM PT for a "sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone OS software."

I think that once Apple ships a new rev of the iPhone on the next gen of the OS, I'll be upgrading.

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Mutation Testing at ESUG 2009: Video

April 5, 2010 22:44:44.786

Here's Hernan Wilkinson, presenting mutation testing at ESUG 2009. You can download his slides here (PDF). To watch, click on the viewer below:

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Well Crafted Smalltalk

April 6, 2010 8:34:31.565

Steve Wessels has some nice things to say about VisualWorks.

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Smalltalk Upsides and Downsides

April 6, 2010 8:43:12.765

Steve Wessels makes a good point about the malleability of Smalltalk:

What I would like to say is that I love how Squeak is open under the covers, and so easy to explore and extend.  All the Smalltalk tools do that.  But I m also aware of how these little annoying behaviors about Squeak have more that just a few times caused me to become diverted by yet again another tools enhancement run.  The temptation to personalize it, which is exactly what I think Alan Key and Dan Ingalls had in mind, can be great enough to the point of distraction.  You just have to remember that.

Yeah, it's incredibly easy to get lost in a "bug hunt" at times. It's cool that you can do things like what Steve talks about in his post (modifying the browser), but then again - if it were more nailed down, would you spend less time on bug hunts and more time on your actual project? It's worth considering, I think...

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Working with Tabs in VW: Video

April 6, 2010 11:08:13.437

Today's screencast looks at changing tabs in a VisualWorks UI.

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iPad reactions

April 6, 2010 14:14:35.350

The reactions to the iPad are all over the map, and fascinating. Dave Winer has a thoughtful piece, although I think he lost a bit of objectivity in looking so deeply at his personal workflow. Mark Bernstein thinks that it may well work perfectly as a book replacement, or as a digital picture frame, or - we'll figure it out. Tim Bray seem ambivalent. Lots of people are up in arms over the lack of a USB port or two.

Meanwhile, my wife has been pretty happy using it to read the same book upstairs (Kindle on her Macbook) and downstairs (Kindle on the iPad). It's early days yet; we'll see how things look in a few weeks. I haven't had any real time with it, so I don't really have any comments beyond "it looks pretty" :)

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Another Plus for the iPad?

April 7, 2010 8:28:41.086

No need to tie up the security line by taking it out for x-rays. I wonder if all laptops will go this route as solid state storage becomes more common?

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XBox USB Weirdness

April 7, 2010 8:32:04.846

Microsoft has brought confusion to the "we allow USB devices on the XBOX" game - you can only plugin devices that range between 1 GB and 16GB. So.... none of the older things you have piled up will work, and none of the cheap hard drives you can buy, either.

So what's the point, exactly?

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They have an eye for the obvious

April 7, 2010 8:35:36.836

I love this level of commentary on the court ruling against the FCC having the authority to create "net neutrality" laws - from PC World:

Some net neutrality advocates said the ruling raises broad questions about the FCC's authority to take any actions not spelled out in law.

Call me crazy, but I thought that's how regulatory agencies were supposed to operate - within the confines of the law. If not, why should we even bother having elections?

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Reading Image Files: Video

April 7, 2010 9:34:41.101

Today's screencast looks at reading image files (jpg, etc) into Smalltalk.

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Annals of Customer Service

April 7, 2010 10:12:20.556

Verizon is all about Process:

Five minutes later, my Internet stopped working. I called FiOS tech support. “You placed an order for new service, so of course we had to shut off your old service,” they helpfully explained. When would the Internet that I was already paying for be restored? “You’re scheduled for an install on April 9th.” So the upgrade process has a designed-in two-day service outage? “No. Sometimes people are cut off for a week or more.”

Ultimately, this is how all large entities - private or public - end up. The process is more important than the product, and the employees are highly incented to follow the process. Heck, sometimes the only real chance of a penalty is in not following the process.

Small is better, IMHO.

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The iPad as Dynabook

April 7, 2010 10:14:16.386

PC World notices what Arden pointed out a long while back:

The general design and specs for Apple's magical tablet were first outlined as the 'Dynabook'

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Embedded Video Works Again

April 7, 2010 12:16:13.407

Apple applied some awesome to the web today, breaking every single embedded Quicktime video out there. It took me a bit to figure out that it wasn't something I did; there's a lively forum topic on this over at Apple.

I've applied the workaround (fortunately, I use an include file for the embedded library - otherwise, it would have been hundreds of posts to script an update to, and then undo once Apple came to their senses.

In the meantime, here's a question: doesn't anyone at Apple test? It wouldn't be hard; just bring up an embedded video and watch the broken behavior, across all browsers. Someone at Apple needs a severe slapping around.

Oh, and I have a timeline of what I was investigating over on my Cincom blog

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Post Modern Family Life

April 7, 2010 21:14:41.969

Now I've truly seen everything:

An Arkadelphia mother is charged with harassment for making entries on her son's Facebook page.

Awesome :)

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Time is Also Money

April 8, 2010 7:27:11.412

Phillip Greenspun notes that a "vanilla pc (netbook) can be had for the same price as the lowest end iPad, and has a lot more in the capability department:

During a discussion today about potential iPad sales, a friend and I got distracted by reflecting on the tremendous value delivered by a vanilla PC. Over on the Dell Web site right now, a basic 15″ laptop costs $499 and includes 320 GB of hard drive and 3 GB of RAM

However, it also has a lot more in the "personal administration" department. Plenty of my daughter's friends have PCs, bought instead of Macs for price reasons. These are all non tech folks; they are also constantly beset by problems - printers that don't work, virus infections, and then lost data due to their (mostly inept) attempts at cleanup.

This is where the phrase "time is money" comes to mind, and it's where I part company with people like Cory Doctorow who decry the iPad for not being a hackable device. Here's the thing: most people neither want or need a hackable device. What they want is a device that disappears into the background and lets them get work done. Most Apple products achieve that far, far better than their market competition

Does that mean that the iPad will win? No, because - like the PC space - price does matter. I stopped worrying about price at the point where I realized that my time had more value, but there are people for whom the differential is far more significant. I get that; I'm just (happily) not in that camp anymore

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Brands are Boring?

April 8, 2010 7:34:59.632

Spotted in Doc Searls Weblog

Meanwhile, lots of social media types are talking about brands and branding as if these were new and hip things. They're not. They're heavy and old. We need to move on, folks. Think of something human instead.

I'm not sure what else Doc has in mind. A brand is nothing more than a way to remember a product or service; it's shorthand. People like shorthand; it's easier to say "I like Bud" than it is to say "I like that beer you can get at the market on 23rd".

You need more than just branding, and I think that's where Doc is going - but you aren't going to see it disappear.

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Scaling Seaside in the Cloud

April 8, 2010 7:40:48.702

Ian Prince notes that making a scalable Seaside app on Amazon's cloud just got a whole lot easier:

It just got a lot easier to implement load balanced and fault tolerant Seaside servers on Amazon EC2 as sticky sessions have just been announced as a feature of Elastic Load Balancing.

Using VisualWorks or ObjectStudio, you can get to that scale pretty easily using the Cloudfork code in the public store repository.

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A Good Start for NY

April 8, 2010 7:58:09.532

The good news seems to be that the pitching is holding up - as the Yankees took 2 of 3 from the Red Sox. If the pen does this well all season, the Yankees will definitely make the playoffs again.

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Numeric Collections: Video

April 8, 2010 9:04:25.172

Today's screencast looks at a small package of numerics added to the collection classes.

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Updating my Build Scripts

April 8, 2010 9:18:35.872

I have gone back to working on BottomFeeder a bit - I haven't pushed a 7.7 based release yet, and I figured I really ought to do that. So - I had to look at my build script, as there were a couple of interesting problems cropping up:

  • When my build started up, it still thought it was filing in the script
  • When my build started up, it was complaining about some missing source files

Neither is a good thing in the context of a runtime application :) So, I started pondering those, and redid the last part of my script, like this:


Parcel searchPathModel value: (List with: (PortableFilename named: '.')).
SourceFileManager default discardSources.

"Now save the image such that this file doesn't get looked for at startup"
[ObjectMemory permSaveAs: 'bottomFeeder' thenQuit: false] fork.
[(Delay forSeconds: 45) wait.
RuntimeSystem isRuntime ifFalse: [ObjectMemory quit]] fork

The first two lines clear the parcel search path (this is in case a VW user installs BottomFeeder - I don't need the app looking up parcels there). The second line simply discards all source pointer lookups, so that the system doesn't fuss about that at startup.

The next bit is trickier, but it's just a simpler version of what RuntimePackager does - Fork a process to save the image, and another to quit the current image. That way, the image that starts up doesn't immediately quit, and also doesn't try to save itself, or attempt to go find the filein. I've still got a lingering timing issue with saving files on quit, but that's unrelated to build stuff - once I get that sorted, I'll push a new release out.

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Coming Improvements

April 8, 2010 13:10:07.229

I've been remiss in getting BottomFeeder updated (as I wrote about earlier today) - so this morning and afternoon I've been taking a real run at it. In the 7.6 based build, there were interesting rendering issues on the OS X platform - text would just disappear from the browser window. That had something to do with the VM, I think, since it's gone in the 7.7 build (and there certainly haven't been any changes to the WithStyle component).

Additionally, things just feel more responsive. Now, starting in the last release, there was some kind of odd save bug - Bf saves the position of the window on save, and that wasn't happening on the save before exiting - instead, the file holding that information was getting truncated. I've been looking at that issue today, and discovered exactly the sort of things you expect to find in old code - stuff that makes you ask yourself "Did I really write this crap?"

Here's what I mean. In the UI, there's a method called #saveAll, that invokes the save behavior that occurs after every update (assuming that setting is toggled on). However, the save on exit was using a different code path. Why, I have no idea, but I vaguely recall having various issues with proper termination a few years ago. be that as it may, I just changed the code to all use the same exit path, and now, it seems to be working properly.

Since I've been playing a lot of "Dragon Age: Origins " lately, I'm tempted to say "Thank the Maker" :) Either way, I think I'm closing in on a stable build.

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Stop me Before I Browse Again

April 8, 2010 14:39:24.753

It would be nice if the people running telecoms had the slightest idea what people use the internet for. Here's Verizon's clueless leader:

But when we now go after the very, very high users, the ones who camp on the network all day long every day doing things that—who knows what they're doing - But those are the people we will throttle and we will find them and we will charge them something else

Awesome. Maybe he wants FIOS to just come with Pine and Lynx and be done with it?

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Lockdown

April 8, 2010 22:24:06.320

It looks like Apple is really closing off development choices for the next gen OS for the iPhone and iPad - John Gruber quotes the new developer agreement:

Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited

That certainly puts John McIntosh in an awkward position.

I guess they really, really want to completely control the user experience...

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Crowd Sourcing in Math?

April 9, 2010 9:50:50.997

Now this is interesting - a professor decides that an easier proof to a mathematical problem exists, but thus far, it's just beyond his grasp. What does he do? He posts on it, and invites comments. Over the course of a year, enough knowledgeable and interested people collaborate in the comments that he gets his simpler proof.

Maybe crowd sourcing isn't just for flash mobs...

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Away from Threads

April 9, 2010 10:02:57.462

I've always thought that multiple processes scaled better than multiple threads, and it looks like Chrome has inspired Apple to think the same thing:

WebKit2, which now runs browser elements as separate processes, much like Google Chrome. Actually, Apple's devs say it goes a little farther than Chrome, since the process model is built into the foundation so other non-Safari clients can use it.

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Using File Dialogs: Video

April 9, 2010 10:54:11.702

Today's screencast looks at File Dialogs in Smalltalk - both native and emulated.

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Smalltalk in Stuttgart

April 9, 2010 13:33:03.743

Instantiations is having a Smalltalk event in Stuttgart, Germany this June:

Join us in Stuttgart, Germany on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 for a full day of discussion and learning on VA Smalltalk.This is a free event, but we ask that you please pre-register at the Registration Site so we know that you are coming.

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Retail, or Third Place?

April 9, 2010 23:14:44.394

Clay Shirky has an interesting post up on some absurd claims being made by the ABA (American Booksellers) - to wit, that lower book prices at online retailers like Amazon are somehow leading to the death of reading. Shirky starts from there, but goes on to the larger problems that a lot of street level retail outlets are developing - it's just easier to buy online. Where does that leave, say, bookstores? Maybe a future as a "third place":

The core idea is to appeal to that small subset of customers who think of bookstores as their “third place”, alongside home and work. These people care about the store’s existence in physical (and therefore social) space; the goal would be to generate enough revenue from them to make the difference between red and black ink, and to make the new bargain not just acceptable but desirable for all parties. A small collection of patron saints who helped keep a local bookstore open could be cheaply smothered in appreciation by the culture they help support.

As Shirky points out though, there's no assurance that such a model will work; there may not be enough money in it. I think Shirky is correct that retail is about to take a huge beating as people do more and more shopping online. Ultimately, I think bars, coffee shops, and restaurants will be the surviving "third place" - but go ahead and read his piece.

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Adobe's Evangelist isn't Happy

April 9, 2010 23:33:37.824

I think you could say that Adobe's Flash evangelist, Lee Brimelow, is not happy with the new iPhone OS terms of service.

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Apple's Language Restrictions

April 10, 2010 11:09:14.400

The more I think about it, the more Apple's new policy for the iPhone/iPad seems like BS. Consider their rationale for limiting you to the C language family (plus Javascript); they claim it's so that their new multi-tasking layer can properly ajudicate things. As one of my colleagues on the Smalltalk IRC channel pointed out:

if you were going to require something for multitasking, it'd be more of the form - Applications must implement the threadsThatNeedToRunInBackgroundIfYouWereToSuspendMeRightNow() callback. Any that do not, will not be able to benefit from multitasking.

So no, it's not about multi-tasking per se. I don't think it's strictly about controlling the development tools, although that is very Apple-like. No, I think that Adobe's product eveangelist, Lee Brimelow, is probably right with his veiled assertions - this is a shot directly at Adobe and Flash.

Had Apple specifically banned Flash, they might have generated some kind of lawsuit. THis policy smacks of "let's ask the lawyers how to kill Flash and get away with it". Here's what I'd like to know: this really doesn't strike me as a business decision. Think about it - why does Apple care what tools you use to create iPhone/iPad apps, if they all promote the device and the store? They already control the retail end, so they can (post hoc, if necessary) yank misbehaving apps.

No, I think this is all about Jobs. He has developed a deep antipathy to Adobe, and this is the latest step in how that's coming out.

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Geeks Vs. Everyone Else

April 10, 2010 12:38:04.685

I think Dare Obasanjo nails it in discussing the new official Twitter mobile clients:

As an end user and someone who works on web platforms, none of this is really surprising. Geeks consider having to wade through half a dozen Twitter clients before finding one that works for them a feature even though paradox of choice means that most people are actually happier with less choices not more. This is made worse by the fact that in the mobile world, this may mean paying for multiple apps until you find one that you’re happy with.

The The Paradox of Choice thing is real - there's actual research on it.

This move by Twitter is a rational business response to that dilemma - given a plethora of choices, most people will bail rather than wae their way through client after client, looking for the best one. If instead, the first hit in the app store (et. al.) is "The Official Twitter Client", that will make most people happy, and end their search.

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A Bridge Too Far

April 10, 2010 20:56:19.068

I wrote about the new Apple TOS stuff earlier today; since then, things have gone nuts. Greg Slepak actually got a response from Jobs, and sure enough, it looks like the policy is his idea. You can get the conversation via Mashable; it looks like Slepak's site is overwhelmed right now.

What Jobs isn't grasping is that he's pissing off a huge segment of the developer community that would happily write apps for his platform. Will that matter in the long term?

Honestly, I don't know, but going from a positive to a negative view within the larger development community can't help them. The flip side of Jobs' innate ability to bring focus seems to be an inability to climb down from ridiculous positions. It would only help him - and Apple - to do a climb down. I seriously doubt he'll do it though. Before this, his "anti-Flash" stance was just that - and it didn't bring any collateral damage to the party. What he's just done is set off a hand grenade in a crowded room, when he had been content to use a sniper rifle.

Consider a small example - the Squeak port to the iPhone. Absent this policy a number of Smalltalk developers would likely have picked that work up and created apps, "just for fun". Now? They just won't bother - or, more likely, someone will create a "Squeak for Android" package, and all of the energy will go there.

Now, that's admittedly a small set of developers in the grand scheme of things. But what about the legions of, say, Java developers? Or Ruby developers? Does Apple really want to send all of them over to Android? That's where inertia will send them. It may be enough to make Android a bigger player, it may not. What's clear to me is that it gives Google an opening - whether they can exploit that opening is something else again.

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