Like I explained earlier why Facebook would want to go this path of using HTML5. But, just because FB is going one way (or bringing in 80 or so developer to same path as story mentioned), you are not going to find all the developers jumping on this FB wagon. Can't say enough - For Apple, this is a moot point!
last week it was ft. this week it is fb. it's moot for now... but i am sure someone in Cupertino is paying attention.
Hah! This from a company that can?t even develop a native iPad App?
Who would trust a service this infamous for bilging basic personal information onto search engines and newspapers with something as sensitive as their credit card details?
Enjoy playing farmville while the hackers are mining your bank account.
last week it was ft. this week it is fb. it's moot for now... but i am sure someone in Cupertino is paying attention.
Agreed. If nothing else, this is likely to give a few developers ideas on how to work around Apple's policies for getting content on iOS devices, which isn't likely to sit well with Stevie-J and Co.
Hah! This from a company that can?t even develop a native iPad App?
Who would trust a service this infamous for bilging basic personal information onto search engines and newspapers with something as sensitive as their credit card details?
Enjoy playing farmville while the hackers are mining your bank account.
It would seem a lot of people trust Facebook with credit card details, as their website has made Zynga the richest game developer in the world, beyond long-time developers of traditional games like EA and Activision.
Hah! This from a company that can?t even develop a native iPad App?
Who would trust a service this infamous for bilging basic personal information onto search engines and newspapers with something as sensitive as their credit card details?
Enjoy playing farmville while the hackers are mining your bank account.
it's ok. i will be playing on an Apple device. And we all know nothing bad could ever happen on an iDevice.
Facebook sucks - its populated by a large percentage of lonely housewives talking about their kids soccer games. Facebook is trying to subvert the internet and have everything on the net tied to them and going through them. Please fail, quickly and painfully. It's such a load of worthless crap. Pick up the phone and call your mother for god's sake.
One quick thing: What sets Apple's mobile products apart for many people is the vibrant and varied App Store. If those apps are all available as web apps instead of native apps and are available to Android/Windows/HP/Blackberry users, what's going to keep anyone besides diehards buying Apple products? Sure they make great stuff and have a great ecosystem, but if the apps are available everywhere, there's nothing really setting them apart, so hardware sales will suffer.
HTML5 apps need to break out of the browser wrapper to be on equal ground with native apps.
It also needs platform specific tie-ins to be able to connect to specific services like push notification, (iCloud) syncing and all other API's that abstract the hardware.
Eventually - if this is realized - developers could have a choice in development tools and this would be a plus. (You have to realize though, that this wouldn't mean that you can write your code and run it everywhere.)
But one very crucial difference - especially for low power mobile devices - remains: 'HTML5 coding' is done with JavaScript and that's an interpreted language and an order of magnitude slower than C and Objective C used to code native apps.
It would seem a lot of people trust Facebook with credit card details, as their website has made Zynga the richest game developer in the world, beyond long-time developers of traditional games like EA and Activision.
Zynga don't make "games" so much as they manufacture environments where people make micro-transactions in order to "do stuff". They basically appropriated the same business model used by slot machines. Cigarette manufacturers also have a successful business model. Does their economic success absolve them of their social responsibilities?
Zynga don't make "games" so much as they manufacture environments where people make micro-transactions in order to "do stuff". They basically appropriated the same business model used by slot machines. Cigarette manufacturers also have a successful business model. Does their economic success absolve them of their social responsibilities?
Apparently it does, since they're allowed to peddle their wares despite the effects, just as a website with questionable privacy policies is allowed to gather people's credit card info.
And no matter what sub-label you want to put on Zynga, they are a game developer. Even if it's on the same level as slot machines, it's still a game; people are still willing to pay for it; and they're still making money hand-over-fist.
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Ha! Over 6.5 billion people on earth and well below 1 billion use it. So yeah, most don't.
Half a billion is nothing to sneeze at.
Ha! Over 6.5 billion people on earth and well below 1 billion use it. So yeah, most don't.
ha ! good one - sheesh...
Ha! Over 6.5 billion people on earth and well below 1 billion use it. So yeah, most don't.
It's like you admitted that you don't have social life. Typical geeky-wanna-be.
Like I explained earlier why Facebook would want to go this path of using HTML5. But, just because FB is going one way (or bringing in 80 or so developer to same path as story mentioned), you are not going to find all the developers jumping on this FB wagon. Can't say enough - For Apple, this is a moot point!
last week it was ft. this week it is fb. it's moot for now... but i am sure someone in Cupertino is paying attention.
Who would trust a service this infamous for bilging basic personal information onto search engines and newspapers with something as sensitive as their credit card details?
Enjoy playing farmville while the hackers are mining your bank account.
last week it was ft. this week it is fb. it's moot for now... but i am sure someone in Cupertino is paying attention.
Agreed. If nothing else, this is likely to give a few developers ideas on how to work around Apple's policies for getting content on iOS devices, which isn't likely to sit well with Stevie-J and Co.
Hah! This from a company that can?t even develop a native iPad App?
Who would trust a service this infamous for bilging basic personal information onto search engines and newspapers with something as sensitive as their credit card details?
Enjoy playing farmville while the hackers are mining your bank account.
It would seem a lot of people trust Facebook with credit card details, as their website has made Zynga the richest game developer in the world, beyond long-time developers of traditional games like EA and Activision.
Meh! Apple can offset this by switching its car insurance to Geico.
Winner.
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Hah! This from a company that can?t even develop a native iPad App?
Who would trust a service this infamous for bilging basic personal information onto search engines and newspapers with something as sensitive as their credit card details?
Enjoy playing farmville while the hackers are mining your bank account.
it's ok. i will be playing on an Apple device. And we all know nothing bad could ever happen on an iDevice.
One quick thing: What sets Apple's mobile products apart for many people is the vibrant and varied App Store. If those apps are all available as web apps instead of native apps and are available to Android/Windows/HP/Blackberry users, what's going to keep anyone besides diehards buying Apple products? Sure they make great stuff and have a great ecosystem, but if the apps are available everywhere, there's nothing really setting them apart, so hardware sales will suffer.
HTML5 apps need to break out of the browser wrapper to be on equal ground with native apps.
It also needs platform specific tie-ins to be able to connect to specific services like push notification, (iCloud) syncing and all other API's that abstract the hardware.
Eventually - if this is realized - developers could have a choice in development tools and this would be a plus. (You have to realize though, that this wouldn't mean that you can write your code and run it everywhere.)
But one very crucial difference - especially for low power mobile devices - remains: 'HTML5 coding' is done with JavaScript and that's an interpreted language and an order of magnitude slower than C and Objective C used to code native apps.
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It would seem a lot of people trust Facebook with credit card details, as their website has made Zynga the richest game developer in the world, beyond long-time developers of traditional games like EA and Activision.
Zynga don't make "games" so much as they manufacture environments where people make micro-transactions in order to "do stuff". They basically appropriated the same business model used by slot machines. Cigarette manufacturers also have a successful business model. Does their economic success absolve them of their social responsibilities?
Bothers me not. Sick of all the juvenile dos within that FB ecosystem. Twitter works much better for moi.
Yoda, his English teacher was.
Zynga don't make "games" so much as they manufacture environments where people make micro-transactions in order to "do stuff". They basically appropriated the same business model used by slot machines. Cigarette manufacturers also have a successful business model. Does their economic success absolve them of their social responsibilities?
Apparently it does, since they're allowed to peddle their wares despite the effects, just as a website with questionable privacy policies is allowed to gather people's credit card info.
And no matter what sub-label you want to put on Zynga, they are a game developer. Even if it's on the same level as slot machines, it's still a game; people are still willing to pay for it; and they're still making money hand-over-fist.