Fake Games in the Android Market

post from Daring Fireball on 19 September 2011 11:03:31 PM. © Daring Fireball

There’s no way scams like this actually work, right? I mean, I’m not surprised there are jerks who submit these apps, and I’m not surprised there are users who get tricked into paying for them. But surely by the time it comes for Google to pay these developers, they’ve been flagged as scammers and don’t see a dime of it. Right?

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Mary Jo Foley: Desktop Apps Will Run on Windows 8
on ARM

post from Daring Fireball on 19 September 2011 11:03:30 PM. © Daring Fireball

Mary Jo Foley disputes the notion that Windows 8 on ARM machines might only support Metro apps:

The user interface (with the desktop mode as well as Metro) isgoing to be consistent across both X86 and ARM infrastructures. Torepeat, the Desktop tile and experience will exist on both Windows8 on x86/x64 and ARM hardware when Windows 8 is out (presumablynext year).

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Hot New App for Meeting Guys - The "Hot Guy
Detector" is now available

post from prMac on 19 September 2011 10:37:00 PM. © prMac

Imagined Apps Hot Guy Detector 1.0, for iOS devices. Is He a STUD or a DUD? Here's a FUN new way to meet guys or just kid around with your Guy friends! If you have ever felt awkward about meeting new guys and didn't know what to say... this is for You! Now you can make them laugh with this Fun New Ice Breaker! Now you can walk up to that guy you're dying to meet be confident that you have the right approach! You'll have a lots of laughs making new friends and having a great time.

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Hot New App for Meeting Girls - The "Hot Babe
Detector" now available

post from prMac on 19 September 2011 08:32:00 PM. © prMac

Imagined Apps introduces Hot Babe Detector 1.0, for iOS devices. A Great way to meet new Girls! Ever felt awkward and not know what to say when meeting new girls? Not Now! You can break the ice and have a Ton of Fun with this app. Use it for meeting people and having a laugh with your friends of the Opposite Sex. Check out the Screen Shots and see for yourself, you won't be disappointed! Bust a Gut with your friends, family or new people you meet with this hilariously funny app.

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The Unfamiliar

post from Daring Fireball on 19 September 2011 05:04:19 PM. © Daring Fireball

Matthew Baxter-Reynolds has a piece for The Guardian attempting to paint an overview of the near-future landscapes for developing apps for Mac, iOS, Windows, and Android:

The fact is that if your day job involves sitting in Visual Studiowriting C# applications, or building Java applications in Eclipse(which will be most of you — albeit not necessarily in Eclipse),when you fire up Apple’s Xcode and start building CocoaTouchapplications in Objective-C you’re going to come face-to-face witha toolset that has not had the sort of love put into it that theopen source community has put into the Java toolset and associateplatforms, or that Microsoft has put into VS and .NET over thepast 10 years.

Objective-C is different than C++ or Java. Xcode is different than Visual Studio or Eclipse, and Xcode 4 is very different from previous versions of Xcode. Baxter-Reynolds certainly wouldn’t alone to say that he doesn’t like these differences. But it’s curious to argue Apple developer tools and frameworks are deficient due to a lack of time put into them. In numerous ways, both linguistically and tools-wise, Xcode, Objective-C, and Cocoa/Cocoa Touch are the evolutionary descendants of the NeXT developer platform from 1989.

Apple has been caught on the back foot by the popularity of itstools and is at least one, if not two, generations behind. Forexample, the iOS version of Objective-C does not have garbagecollection.

This shows that Baxter-Reynolds is not familiar with the state of memory management in Cocoa. He’s right that iOS doesn’t have garbage collection, but it’s not because it doesn’t have garbage collection yet. It’s because it never will — and if anything, the smart money is on garbage collection eventually being deprecated in Cocoa on Mac OS X. Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) is Apple’s new answer to the problem garbage collection solves: manual memory management.

The enormity of the developer base for Windows and Java is such that many developers feel that those environments are “normal”, and anything different is by nature inferior simply because it’s unfamiliar. They’re offended by Xcode/Cocoa/Objective-C, in some way, because they feel entitled to their familiar languages and tools.

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Secretly Nimble

post from Daring Fireball on 19 September 2011 04:03:35 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jason Osgood:

My theory is that Apple stays mum because any particular planisn?t concrete until the trigger is pulled. It?s better tounder-promise and over-deliver.

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Babes vs Robots Climbs to 45th Position in its
Category

post from prMac on 19 September 2011 03:23:00 PM. © prMac

Tiny Spaceman Media and Pyntail Inc has announced that their iOS game Babes vs Robots has climbed to 45th position on the App Store's strategy game charts and to the 55th position in puzzle games. Babes vs Robots features a customized physics engine from Pyntail, Inc, and this is the first game powered by the latest engine update. Players are put in control of Roxy, Earth's last chance to fight off a horde of invading robots. First few levels are straightforward and make the game easy to learn.

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This Is Math

post from Daring Fireball on 19 September 2011 03:04:13 PM. © Daring Fireball

President Obama, announcing his deficit reduction plan:

?This is not class warfare,? Mr. Obama countered Monday in hisRose Garden remarks. ?It is math. The money is going to have tocome from someplace.?

A cohesive, simple political strategy to drive a wedge between the Republican anti-tax base and moderate voters who support tax increases on high-income earners. Calling the tax increase on million-dollar-a-year-and-higher income the “Buffett Rule” is good branding, too.

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ise-for-confrontation.html?hp

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The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do

Mark Cuban:

In these times of ?The Great Recession? we shouldn?t betrying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. Weshould be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much moneyas they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might findit distasteful to pay taxes. I don?t. I find it Patriotic.

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Safari Regressions

Tim Bray:

For some years, Safari has been my default browser. I generallyprefer its choices in framing and ergonomics and shortcuts overall others. But I?ve had to stop using it. In recent releases,Safari has been re-architected, with some of the work farmed outto a thing called ?WebProcess?. This doesn?t seem to beworking out that well.

I’m seeing the same things Bray is with Safari for Mac, particularly the performance problems when you have a lot of windows and tabs open. I’m not ready to switch yet, but I’m starting to shop around. And if anything, Safari 5.1 seems worse on Lion than it does on Snow Leopard.

Looking at the user agent stats for DF over the last year, Chrome for Mac has gained, at least partially at Safari’s expense. For the year-ago month of September 2010, Safari/Mac accounted for 53.2 percent of DF visits, Chrome/Mac for 5.8 percent. This month, to date, Safari/Mac is at 42.2 percent, Chrome/Mac up to 9.6 percent. (iPhone and iPad browsers account for most of the rest; they’re up to 19 percent combined from around 14 percent a year ago.)

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