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Ad networks haven't supported HTTPS fully on the web either, not just iOS. In fact, Google says you will earn less with just HTTP

"If you do decide to convert your HTTP site to HTTPS, please be aware that because we remove non-SSL compliant ads from the auction, thereby reducing auction pressure, ads on your HTTPS pages might earn less than those on your HTTP pages." [0]

I wouldn't be surprised if many app developers put in this exception because at the end of the day, they will hurt too if ads stop showing up.

[0] https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/10528?hl=en

Your music have been heard by more people due to streaming, but it doesn't necessarily mean it was good enough (or the right type of music) for people to pay to come to see you in concert

Grocer is the most stable APNS gem I've used https://github.com/grocer/grocer

You can write a audio, GPS, VOIP, etc app that does more than just do audio, GPS, VOIP, etc in the background. For example, you may think the app is only playing audio or doing GPS updates, but it can be badly-written and updating UI and/or other intense stuff. Now granted, iOS will still kill those apps if they start taking up too much memory/resources while in the background.

But I think the article is accurate, you shouldn't ever have to manage apps. iOS is night and day compared to Android's task management (where iOS is much better for users).

yea but GoDaddy being a domain registrar and hosting DNS for many domains already is a bit more scary in this case

Will Android 4 still redraw everything when rotating the phone instead of animating?

This is not only a bad experience for users but also is one of the most difficult parts when developing Android apps.

Yea, good post, I agree that documentation is key.

i've been using the older releases of the app just for that very reason. the latest version simply does not work on my account, for whatever reason

doesn't ASI also use blocks? its syntax is very similar. but i didn't know about that it's much faster than ASI, thanks for that

apple also releases beta iOS and OS X for months in advance so developers can test and write apps against the new release.

but noticeably they don't unveil new hardware until it's ready and stable for the public. the knock on most competitors is that the overall experience is underwhelming or way too beta, which hardware is a big component.

i cared about doing clean installs/configuring when i was a teenager and had nothing else to do. now i just want my computer stay out of my way and make me money. os x, time machine, etc all let me do that

3.1 is still honeycomb, they haven't announced the version for ice cream sandwich still i think

there's an options in system preferences to turn it off. but it's global for all apps

You are right, and the stack of Activities make perfect sense from the perspective of a developer.

But for example, as a user, I think it's confusing that you can open an app from home screen and can go back to home 2 different ways (either back or home button).

Also, if it's that easy for developers to mess up navigation, then it's going to create a frustrating experience for user.

looks great, would be awesome to have keyboard shortcuts to go back/forward

it only works on github

it still uses flash for the graphs

What does HTML5 have anything to do with it? Many times you get linked straight to a movie file and the browser is expected to either play the file or download it (based on mime-types).

If they are disabling the Quicktime plugin on OS X, then at least just download the movie file even if the mime type is "video/quicktime".

The error screen they are showing now is scary enough that most people will abort out of it.

that's probably the only thing techcrunch is good at these days, coming up with these exaggerated titles. these days you can't help but roll your eyes on all the tabloid articles they post.

that's kind of sad. you'd think people will stick around to learn stuff, not just to say they attended the keynote

so is Google going to re-encode all their Youtube content to WebM videos now? and i wonder if Android will continue to play h.264 videos or not.

Apple has started to leave the iPad simulator for 3.2 and the iPhone simulators for 4.0 and 4.1 ... but I agree I never understood this either. It's almost impossible to test for devices running 3.1.3 without having an old extra device that has not been upgraded

I've found the complete opposite. that most of my non-technical friends care about facebook privacy a lot, many of them delete their accounts as soon as they feel like people are knowing too much about them. As a technical-user, I don't care much about the privacy issues, mostly because I just gave up and realize that privacy really doesn't exist on Facebook.

But I really do think Facebook users care.

i'm sure they would still run windows under virtualization with vmware fusion, etc. they would still would have to do very heavy testing of IE on their apps, so that would be the easiest way to do it. i don't think google can escape the suffering of writing for IE just yet