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Meh. Don't be platform-phobic.

Honestly, people use what is best for them. That may be Windows, it may be Linux. Point is, don't knock it if it works for them.

Agreed. XCode is definitely the best for any Cocoa/Objective-C tool. Though I've heard good things about AppCode lately.

I do some Ruby coding and for that I tend to use MacVim with a few nice plugins.

Apps that I install immediately upon re-installation or a new Mac:

* 1Password - Password facilitator (http://www.agilebits.com, buy the Mac App Store version)

* OmniFocus - GTD/Todo list (http://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus)

* OmniOutliner - Best list makinga pp ever (http://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner)

* OmniGraffle - Great for development purposes (http://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle)

* Acorn - Quick image editing (http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn)

* VoodooPad - Personal Wiki (http://www.flyingmeat.com/voodoopad)

* Byword - Markdown editor (http://bywordapp.com/)

* Dropbox - Duh (http://www.dropbox.com)

* Fantastical - Calendar app (http://flexibits.com/)

* Launchbar - Launcher (http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/)

* Reeder - Google Reader client (http://reederapp.com/)

* Transmit - SFTP (http://panic.com/transmit/)

* VLC - Video (http://www.videolan.org)

Along with iA Writer, Writeroom, Sublime Text, etc etc... there are a lot of great apps. The above is my favorites.

Linkinus is a pretty nice IRC client as well. I believe I got it on sale on the App Store for like $5. I'm sure it's more now though.

I definitely suggest HomeBrew over MacPorts and Fink. I've had much better luck with it.

TextWrangler is a great free editor. I use Sublime Text 2 for anything that I may need some standard editing. For more complex stuff or if I'm doing more than opening a single file, I prefer MacVim.

I say go for Launchbar. The clipboard history is pretty rockin in my opinion.

"We're stuck with it for another 18 months"

uh... I'm not so sure this is a "problem."

I'd rather be "stuck" with a solid, stable, and useful operating system on a device that needs to be reliable and always available.

Am I disappointed in iOS6? Yes, but not necessarily am I concerned that I'm "stuck" with it.

Primarily my disappointments are pretty geeky.

1) Not enough major advancements (inter-app communication)

2) It seems a bit weird to introduce so many non-developer features in the keynote, at a developer conference.

Regardless, I don't think we're "stuck" with it. I think they need to up the game for iOS 7 though, and if they don't then we may have a bit of a problem.

To be honest here. I carried a 5.5lbs PowerBook G4 around to college for a couple years. I hated it. I'm not a big guy by any stretch of the imagination (5'7", 120lbs) but as soon as I added books, paper, folders of hand outs and homework to the list of things I was carrying.. I really wanted the laptop to be lighter.

My last year of college was spent carrying a 2010 Air around with me instead of the PowerBook and it was a signficiant difference in weight.

You just have to realize that a laptop isn't the only thing people carry around. So 4.6lbs isn't a big deal, but when you add it all up then the number starts to increase. Extra savings is beneficial.

I think this is sort of similar to what I was explaining.

I was mostly talking about the detractors, but those that do like the display aren't exactly different in the end.

If I were a betting man, I'd say you would probably compare the old iPad to your crappy monitor. Perhaps not as crappy in terms of colors, but in terms of reading text.

It was reading text and technical PDF files that really made me purchase the new iPad. It's such a drastic upgrade in this department that I can't imagine ever going back to the iPad 1 that I gave to my mother.

I've not seen the display in person. But some initial take aways are this:

People kept saying that the iPad's Retina display wasn't worth it and that they couldn't see the difference. Then quickly proclaimed after a week or more of usage that they cannot fathom going back to the iPad 1 or 2 display.

I suspect the same is true of the new MBP display. While it may seem "ok" now. Give yourself time with it and you'll have a hard time going back to anything else.

You wouldn't be able to even read the text.

Scaling is really needed at this point. Primarily due to the size of the screen. If the screen was larger then allowing the native resolution wouldn't be a problem. But at the current screen size (15") you would have a really hard time reading text.

There are images out there of each of the hiDPI resolutions including the 1920 resolution. On my 1920x1200 resolution 23" cinema display it is readable. But even I squint a bit at text on this display and it's 23". I can't even imagine trying to use that resolution at 15".

Sorry, but Apple's "we know better than you" attitude is spot on with this particular thing.

I've been an Apple user for years and bought my first Mac (PowerBook G4) about 10 years ago. My main computer is a Mac Pro (2006) and is in dire need of replacement. I'm pretty peeved that the Mac Pros are not on the upgrade list this week. But I will not argue with them about this particular choice in not allowing native resolution on the new MBP Retina display.

Native resolution on that display would be next to impossible to view easily.

Fragmentation at the API level is the real problem. Not at lack of "built-in features."

An app written for iOS 6 can run on the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS (not to mention the iPad 2 and 3, and the newest iPod Touches).

An app written for ICS can only run on those 7% of devices running ICS.

This is how fragmentation works. The only fragmentation happening on iOS is for the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPad 1, and the old iPod Touches.

The only one that I don't quite grasp is the original iPad. Running on the same processor as the iPhone 4 and is much faster than the iPhone 3GS. Color me somewhat confused by this one.

Check out their IRC channel. The group in there are quite helpeful. The main author is always willing to help.

Right, I don't think "built-in features" are fragmentation.

If I have to change the way I write my application or can't include features in my application because most users don't have access to the APIs then that is part of what I'd call "Fragmentation."

When only a fraction of your users can take advantage of certain APIs then you have an issue.

I think it's perfectly acceptable that built-in phone features may be limited. You didn't expect to be able to keep the same phone for 10 years did you? Things change.

But two years is the standard contract length in the US. I'd expect phones to get updates for two years so that I can at least target the new APIs and gracefully handle it.

If I designed an app for Android, I'd have to target 2.3 because so few users are on ICS. But with the iPhone I can target iOS 5 and get a majority of users.

I think you show your own bias by even making this comment. Defensive much? This is why politics suck on hacker news.

I typically skim through every headline posted on HN to see what I may be interested in reading. I can't say I've ever seen a "conservative x is lying" type of post. Perhaps I'm just oblivious, but I've certainly never seen it.

Granted, I wish we'd just avoid the subject of politics, especially when there is no tech reason for it, on hacker news.

But that probably isn't the whole story.

Has anyone done any battery comparisons between the LTE model and the wifi model? My bet is that the wifi model doesn't get much better battery life than the LTE model, at least not 60% more. A good reason for that increase in battery capacity is likely needed for the video upgrades, both the screen and the quad-core graphics.

A better comparison would be a LTE model running on LTE and then a similar comparison of the same model running on 3G instead. This would tell you what the difference in the two would really be like. My guess, it's probably not insignificant, but it probably isn't as bad as we see on Android phones.

http://blackpixel.com/blog/1558/radar-or-gtfo/

seriously... report it.

Yikes. Terribly written. Seems like there are a fair number of words simply missing from sentences.

I think a thing to remember is that Apple will probably iterate on this, much like any other technology, and make it better with each release. At least, that is my hope. I sadly don't have enough friends with iPhones to notice… so I'm stuck keeping my unlimited text messaging for the time being.

There have been rumors of iChat getting iMessage integration of some kind.

But I'd like it to be taken a step further. I'd really like to be able to have my phone in a charger a la a WebOS device and have text messages and iMessages go directly to my computer or iPad so that I could reply from there. The messages can go through the internet from those devices, or directly through the iPhone. I don't care which, so long as I have the ability to use my Mac and iPad without having to use my phone for every message.

Just because there are apps doesn't mean you have to download them all. I made a point of removing all apps I hadn't used daily when I wiped it clean for iOS 5. I then installed the apps that were previously on my homescreen. Beyond that, I only installed the apps when I needed to use them. This meant that apps I'd never use again were never reinstalled. I have a folder of 4-5 games, a couple social networking/communication apps (facebook, google voice, and twitteriffic) in their own folder. A utilities folder for things like Dropbox and other similar apps. The total screen space? Not even two screens thanks to the folders.

For the most part, i never go beyond the first page. But the apps on page two are useful and i use them maybe once a week.

Again, just because you have a billion apps at your disposal doesn't mean you have to have them all installed. Remove them for christs sake or quit your bitching.

Sorry, late reply here.

I know that Android is built on linux. But I don't see that as being hugely important. It's about the interface and the "mindshare" of the users and particularly the developers if you want to have a solid app selection for those users.

There's going to be a huge issue with ANY new platform. It's the chicken and the egg all over again.

Apple created a platform and got a bunch of users interested because the product was so mindblowingly refreshing amid all the crap phones available to consumers at the time. While applications weren't available from the get go, the users loved the phone despite the lack of apps.

When the app store was made available in the second iOS release allowing developers to make applications for those phones it effectively bypassed the chicken and egg problem.

Take a look at WebOS. It was unique and refreshing although not mindblowingly refreshing like the iPhone/iPad were. Thus, it's userbase was small and it's developer base even smaller. Developers wouldn't look at the platform because there weren't enough users. Users won't look at it because of the lack of applications.

Many of the original iPhone purchasers were tech savy people. They were the only people willing to spend $500-600 on a phone. People always ask those tech savy people for advice. Those tech savy people say "I love my iphone and here's why." But the same didn't happen with WebOS because the tech savy people wouldn't buy the device because it lacked apps. At least, not until the TouchPad hit $99 anyway.

What makes you think Ubuntu has a chance here? Seriously. Granted, I will give you one thing about Ubuntu and that's at least that they're trying to provide a consistent experience. Which is assbackwards from Linux in general with the Gnome, KDE, Enlightenment, Xfce, XMonad blah blah blah. Sure, those give you choice. But on a tablet or phone, choice isn't always a good thing, at least not the same level of choice you find on a desktop.

But I just don't see Ubuntu as a possible threat to anything here at all. As someone else already mentioned, if someone wants a tablet OS, just fork Android and run with it. At least you have a working base for something that's already seen success. You can mold it into something unique like Amazon and B&N did. I don't think Ubuntu can compete.

Extremely doubtful that we'll see Ubuntu as a contender to iOS and Android.

If you're going to run linux on a tablet-sized device, why not just use Android? It has an existing application store(s), and more importantly an existing userbase.

Look at WebOS, if there's any competition out there to compete with Android or iOS WebOS would be the best option. From everything I've seen and heard it is quite fantastic. If not slightly buggy and a little slow. It wasn't executed well by HP or Palm but there's obvious potential.

I figure, if Palm and HP can't compete with Android and iOS, there's no way Ubuntu is going to do it.

I'll happily be proven wrong if they do, but I just can't see it.

I think they called out the situation pretty well. It's users hitting one website, and it's views not downloads or active users.

That said, there's certainly a lot of increase in mindshare with Linux Mint lately. The biggest reason I have seen is due to Ubuntu's Unity "situation."

My guess is that people are moving in large enough numbers that it's starting to show up in places like Distrowatch.

This isn't a bad thing. From my experience "top distro" is a cycle that just so happens to have derivatives being thrown in for good measure. In the time that I've been using Linux on a desktop there have been a lot of advancements.

I personally went from Red Hat (3 i think), to Mandrake Linux, to Debian, to Gentoo, and after several years of using OS X, I have Arch Linux in a VM that I use for development.

Things are going to change. The old top distro is going to be over thrown by another until something better or more useful comes along. Honestly, with the commercial aspect to Ubuntu I never thought so many of the die hard Linux users would use it to begin with. I figured we'd see those people kicking and screaming to their graves before they used it. But a few of those people did switch and now they're switching to something else because Ubuntu has taken a turn for the worse (in their opinion).

We'll see how it plays out in the long run, but I think the simple fact that we're seeing so many stories on it here is only fueling the fire. People are looking at it because it's being linked all over the place.

This isn't the same thing as 1.3 is it? It's just the older 1.2 code that was updated by pmetzger to compile and function properly on Lion.

In other words, this != 1.3 right?

From what I understand it won't work for much longer due to the sandboxing requirements that'll be coming in Lion. So, probably best to uninstall eventually rather than have something there that won't work.

(Correct me if I'm wrong here but that was my understanding)

The funny part of this is that maybe everyone is tired of this argument after so many weeks of it. No one whining in the comments of this story. Yet, anyway.

We can't bend over backwards for every single minority or religion or cultural value.

If he wasn't effective as a communicator he wouldn't be doing talks in front of large numbers of people would he? Clearly he's doing something right.

The point I guess that I'm trying to make is that we shouldn't be so strung up on one or two words that show up in a presentation. The overall picture is what matters the most. If he's doing that well then who are we to argue with what he does?

Everyone presents their ideas differently. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates… Meg whatever from HP…

Some are great, some are terrible, a lot are inbetween. But I'm in the camp of people that just simply don't care so long as the message is clear. If I'm learning something, I don't care if someone swears. It just doesn't bother me. Maybe that's a problem, but there are at least two sides to this.

People that care about the swearing and those that don't. I'm sure there are others who just don't give a damn either, just like me.

If what he is doing is so wrong and terrible, then he won't be speaking anywhere again right? The concensus would be "he isn't effective at communicating and uses bad language that offends our audience. We can't have him."

At which point, he'd be forced to change, or not speak.

You're welcome to an opinion, same as I do. But you can't bend over for every single person out there. If we had to worry about people's feelings all the time the world would be dull and dry.

I would agree there are limitations to what someone should do or say in a presentation though. I don't think the f-bomb once or twice is a problem though. If he was dropping it left and right, that's another story altogether.

Whoosh. That's the sound of the point flying over your head.

The article, and the OP, aren't saying throw in all the swear words you can find into what you say. Yours were just deragatory and purposefully put there as some out of context hyperbole.

Nice try but you didn't provide a very good argument.

The point here is that people have opinions on this. Which is great. OPINIONS are great people. The simple fact that you're discussing this is because you have an opinion on it.

When someone goes out of their way to provide emotion in a speech that should reflect that the person cares a lot about what they're talking about. He uses swearing because he has an opinion and strong opinions that he feels necessitate using strong words.

That's the same emotion and strong opinions that people like you have towards this particular topic of swearing in a talk.

It isn't any different. He chooses to communicate how he does because it shows emotion. Why does everything tech related have to be so dry? Many people love their Apple products (just an example) because they relate to it in a way. They have strong opinions and strong emotions about them.

This is no different.

This is exactly what he has proven in the article.

He would rather be that much more powerful in communicating his ideas to a smaller group of people and alienating people like you. By you, I mean someone who thinks "what 19 year old wrote this?" or similar.

He outlined this in the article. He gains a deeper engagement with some people at the expense of losing others.

He isn't concerned about losing you, dear reader.