Sad fact: Apple only created swift to flood the iOS market with retards
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Date: October 12th, 2017 4:52 PM Author: Big impertinent lay travel guidebook
swift is a nicely designed language
objective C is one of the biggest abortions this side of people using managed C++ for anything other than creating bindings
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Date: October 12th, 2017 4:58 PM Author: Big impertinent lay travel guidebook
the financially viable reason is to suck devs away from android
java >>>>>>>>>>>> objective c
but swift > java
granted it's a much smaller magnitude gap, but there's basically no downside to making your platform more attractive to develop in.
long-term it's not *that* much effort for a company like apple since swift just runs on top of the objective c runtime
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Date: October 12th, 2017 5:11 PM Author: Big impertinent lay travel guidebook
they don't care about more artisanal apps, they want pradeep from india (or dumber americans, whatever) to be able to write corporate IOS apps just as easily as they can for android. plus more people will learn it for fun or whatever, and people get attached to the first type of tool they use.
apple only benefits from having a bigger dev pool, there's basically no reason for them not to. clang/llvm, swift, etc. are some of the only areas where apple is making good decisions as a company.
people brought up all the same stuff when MS introduced C#, but it was probably the best decision they made in that timeframe where the company made almost entirely poor decisions.
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Date: October 12th, 2017 5:14 PM Author: green shrine
I guess we’re actually agreeing here. My point was that the purpose was to lower wages by flooding the pool.
And the truth is that the future for enterprise lies with either with hybrid or mobile web apps (both of which Apple hates)
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Date: October 12th, 2017 5:23 PM Author: Big impertinent lay travel guidebook
we've only recently reached the point where both hardware is fast enough and android refined enough to not noticeably stutter/lag in random places (this was happening to me on a fucking 6p)
google's problem is most android phones out there aren't pixels or galaxies, they're basically smartphone burner equivalents that have shit hardware and will never update.
people bitch about iphones being slow after updates, but having used (higher end) android phones for > 7 years now there's just no comparison. my pixel has been doing well so far, but after two years my 6p was laggy and periodically bogged down for no reason. usually iphones can survive around 3 years of updates and still run fine.
that's the price paid for using java, but it suited their strategy fine (spam global marketshare for $$$searchclick$$$ instead of hardware).
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3762200&forum_id=1024#34427506) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 5:10 PM Author: wonderful coiffed ticket booth dog poop
Its interesting
On one hand you have an incredibly profitable company sitting on a hoard of cash that takes very little capital to actually run relative to the resources it has. It has real earnings that are now being dividended out to shareholders and are increasing, it's also not ludicrously cheap like other FANG stocks.
but then on the other hand you have clear signs that the culture of innovation may be (probably is) tapping out and the distinct possibility that Steve Jobs was a one-off leader sort of how Standard Oil without Rockefeller was still enormous, survived by in size by Exxon as well as a host of smaller companies, but not an industrial hegemonic titan that Standard was.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3762200&forum_id=1024#34427417) |
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