This is fantastic news. One suggestion though, I would rather spend majority of that $10B in training, building the infrastructure, etc. so that 3rd world countries can produce their own vaccine/medicine/etc.
it's sort of like the old Chinese saying: Give a person a fish, and you feed them for a day. Teach a person how to fish, and you feed them for a lifetime.
Don't forget the $30B for Israel to keep occupation of Gaza. So a total of $63B for foreign occupation, and a total of $8B for domestic infrastructure transportation.
This all comes down to where the developer can make the most money, a native app or a web app.
Someone also mentioned the infrastructure and resources needed to support a web app to support thousands/millions of users. as opposed to basically nothing for a native app.
"And the iPhone OS will only run software that they specifically approve. No Flash or other alternate runtimes, no one-off apps or open source customizations. Just total control by Apple. It’s a frightening future.
I don’t know why they’re doing it."
I'll tell you why. because Apple's number one priority is the user experience. You need that kind of control if you want the best possible user experience. And it works for them and their users. 99.999% doesn't give a shit about your concerns.
That's the reason why iPhone sales trumps Nexus One/Droid/etc.
> I'll tell you why. because Apple's number one priority is the user experience. You need that kind of control if you want the best possible user experience.
If Apple applied their logic to the Universe (or at least Earth) we would all be living in an episode of Leave it to Beaver to 'improve the user experience.' What if you don't want to live in a Leave it to Beaver universe? Too bad.
When Apple starts paying off legislators and bribing judges to outlaw the possession of Linux- and Windows-based PCs, you'll have a point. I don't see that happening, do you? Nobody is forcing you to live in Leave It to Beaver-land; you're just bitching because your cable company added an oldies channel that carries it.
Huh? I just took Apple's logic and applied it to an extreme. I didn't say that the extreme example applies to the real world.
You have to scale down the extreme example to fit it into the real world. The 'universe/world' here the equivalent of the 'iPad/iPhone.' Trying to claim that I'm really saying that Apple is controlling the world is either disingenuous or the result of an ill-fitting tinfoil hat.
- read a book
- surf the web
- organize/look at/show off photos
- watch videos/movies/tv shows
- listen to music
- send/receive emails
- play games
- use maps/calendar and the 140k+ apps available in the app store
it's sort of like the old Chinese saying: Give a person a fish, and you feed them for a day. Teach a person how to fish, and you feed them for a lifetime.