Sachin Agarwal // I love good food, good drinks, fast cars, photography and New York City. I've been an Apple fanboy my entire life and worked on Final Cut Pro for 6 years.
I’m a cofounder at Posterous.
I can't imagine at any point in my life being so desperate, so unoriginal, so lame as to copy someone else's idea and success SO BLATANTLY. It's just sad.
There's a video of people entering the first Microsoft store, giving high gives to the store staff in a line... I was doing just that, 8 years ago at the Palo Alto Apple store opening.
Except I *wanted* to do that. I was genuinely excited to be there, and happy for Apple. This Microsoft store stuff is all bullshit.
Check out this lame youtube video :).
I couldn’t agree with Hewitt’s sentiments more, and it’s a breath of fresh air to see such a prominent developer quit the App Store. Apple has built some truly fantastic products, but their approach to the App Store is frightening — especially given the fact that other platforms may see the iPhone’s success and start adopting a similar model.
Yeah, it sure would be terrible to see other people copying Apple's successful model and also being successful. That would just be the most terrible thing in the world. hahaha.
People, get over it. It's Apple's device and it's their rules. If you don't like them, go get a Droid.
Why him? Steve Jobs revived Apple and remade entire industries, defying the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression -- and his own serious health problems. More
My hero.
I'll need to pick up the print version of Fortune to add to my Apple collection. I have boxes of old magazines and other media about apple, primarily from 1998-2002.
It was during those years that the gap between my love for Apple and Apple's general "coolness" was greatest. (I was very passionate about the company, and it was before the iPod or their current successes that now makes them "cool" to most people)
The Cooper Square Hotel opened up right behind my old NY apartment. As I expected, the neighbors are not happy about the noise from the bar.
Thanks to Roy for the link!
About six months ago, a friend who was working closely along side adobe's flash application development team told me that they received a prototype of Flash for iPhone. The prototype allowed the iPhone to have less than half an hour of battery life using flash. They then sent the prototype to apple and suggested incorporating this prototype iPhone flash into the iPhone OS in the next update.
Apparently apple sent this letter back thanking them for being interested in developing a working version of flash for the iphone but because the prototype is so processor intensive, and awful for battery life, they would not include it with their OS because it is just not good enough. They suggested using the gpu instead of the processor to render flash. Then they suggested building a seperate app for flash and web browsing because there was no way apple could endorse flash integration on the iphone in its current state.
Adobe apparently didn't want to release the app under their name either and it never showed up in the app store.
A long story in short: Adobe sucks at programming, then apple told them they sucked at programming. If they want to release that shit under the name adobe so be it, but it sure isn't going to be endorsed by Apple.
Flash sucks. It takes forever to load stuff. Flash videos are rarely high quality. The fans on my computer always jump to full speed, my lap catches on fire. And often it crashes.
I really wish Quicktime had won the online video battle. The quality and experience are far superior. Quicktime just doesn't have the penetration flash does.
But I'm glad it's not on my iPhone. The last thing I need is for my iPhone to be even hotter or have an even shorter battery life.
A 70-foot, female blue whale that officials believe was struck by a ship has washed ashore on the Northern California coast in what scientists are calling a rare occurrence.
Officials think this 70-foot female blue whale was struck by a ship. It washed ashore Monday on the Northern California coast near Fort Bragg.
The whale was first spotted on shore near Fort Bragg in Mendocino County on Monday night, hours after an ocean survey vessel reported hitting a whale a few miles away, said Joe Cordaro, a wildlife biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's marine fisheries service.
I totally want to go check this out. But the drive to Fort Bragg is brutal.
