Posts by macFanDave

Once they plot all of the points where the AT&T network has problems, they'll have a pretty impressive map.

Quote: Originally Posted by str1f3 Google, I'm about to hit the can. Just checkin' in. str1f3, Thanks for thinking you're checking in, but we already know. By the way, you should try Fiber One cereal. We're just sayin'. ....

that they don't have a leg to stand on. They don't deny that their 3G coverage sucks, but essentially say that the blank spots shown in the Verizon ads are covered by their older glacially-slow technologies. Quit wasting your money...

In the land of totalitarian, one-party, socialist rule, they get choices of cell carriers with the iPhone, but in "the land of the free," we groan under the repressive jackboot of a single company.

I'm getting a little impatient with Safari 4. I'm starting to really feel that it is slowly than Safari 3. Seeing how most web pages these days are dynamic, is there really any purpose in caching. It seems the time required for...

Quote: Originally Posted by OC4Theo Safari 4 is slower than Safari 3. It is supposed to faster but it is not. I thought it was because of PowerPC in my G5, but after I got a Mac Pro, same thing continues. Taker longer to load pages than...

I think the reason for dumping Java from Cocoa was a practical one. Almost all of the sample code that came out when Cocoa was introduced was in Objective-C. To many developers, sample code is mother's milk. The Java baby just...

Thanks, Synotic, for helping me out where I was deficient. I want to add one comment: the influence of Smalltalk on Objective-C is not some obscure, esoteric connection. Brad Cox invented Objective-C to bring Smalltalk into a...

I can't answer all of your questions with any firm authority -- I hope a more experienced Mac/iPhone developer will come along and give you some satisfactory answers. I will take a crack at these: Quote: Originally Posted by...

Quote: Originally Posted by JavaCowboy Here's my take on the state of Apple development tools: 1) Objective-C: To the layman, Objective-C has all the features that make it easy to sell to the higher-ups: superset of C, low-level...