Apple is a great company, with iPhone and iPad, Apple has redefined the way your Phone and Tablet should look and behave. But this doesn't give them the right to control what application should I use in my phone.
From the beginning of iPhone, they want to keep the Flash other Open Source frameworks away, so that they can control the App market and limit the people from building cross platform mobile applciation.
However, Adobe managed to build a Flash Application Packager for iPhone, which converts Flash applications as Native iPhone applications. But with iPhone OS 4.0, Apple started blocking application developed using non native languages such as Object-c, C, C++
This is nothing to do with performance, or quality or anything, but to build a monopoly in applciation market.
I am sure, this strategy will backfire, in fact, iPad is one of the most closed product in recent time, and its never going to win the tablet market with this approach.
Of course, Apple fans will buy them any way, but this apple's monopoly must go.
Is Apple More Evil Than Microsoft?
Apple banning Flash applications from iPhone 4.0? That stinksworking on a quick 10 minutes demo for my cloud computing presentation. hope to demonstrate the power of cloud computing with rails, heroku, new relic combination.
if you plan too much then you never going to start any business.
Common sense planning: while digging out a basement, don’t worry too much about when and who is going to fix the door lock.
When I read Mike Sigers post Your Customer Are Liars from Simplenomics, it reminded a similar situation in organizations, where employees don't offend their managers and managers shy away from asking the right questions. It applies to every level in an organization, unless you insists (one more time) people always say 'what you what to hear'.
Everyone wants to be heard, but they never going to openup, unless they sense a sincere and honest effort.
Every time we start a new development project, we end up using new set of technologies, some are similar, others completely different. For example the following are the combination for technologies used in our projects in last two years
Each of these combination brings unique advantage to particular projects, but how to get the right set of people in place. Even if you hire, we may not get people with all combination, and it is a few weeks/months process. Exiting people can learn on the job, but can't expect a quality output.
The solution is to organize 'throwaway micro projects' with all the key technologies,
the key aspect of this approach:
This approach allows the team to understand and experiment technologies, quickly tryout some practical scenarios, understand the limitations of used technologies, quickly learn from the failure and identify best practices. Also this allow different individuals to come together as a team.