Tim Cook Defused Steve Jobs' Thermonuclear War, Then He Took Down Android

Forbes ^ | Saturday, January 31, 2015 | Evan Spence

[Star Traveler]

My experience in that was with a special "computer system" back in 1966 that my high school had, which had no monitor (only red lights for register contents), no hard drive or floppy (only punched paper tape to save programming) and only using 1s and 0s (requiring us to even program it to multiply and divide), and making up our own mnemonic programming language, on the fly. That's all that was out there

I just want to use today's devices now ... :-) ...

My old input device ...

[dfwgator]

and only using 1s and 0s (requiring us to even program it to multiply and divide),

And sometimes we didn't even have the 1s.

[Star Traveler]

Well, if you didn’t have Base 2, what did you call it? ... Base 1 ... LOL ... :-) ...

[tacticalogic]

Well, you can try explaining to the moderator that my account needs to be banned to keep from disrupting Apple threads, because every time they see my name on a post to one, Bunny Slippers is going to come it wanting to start a flame war.

I'm sure they'll understand.

[Star Traveler]

The mods see these things on their own and they act independly of anyone here ... just like they did with Begin.

[tacticalogic]

The mods see these things on their own and they act independly of anyone here ... just like they did with Begin.

That would explain why my account isn't banned.

[Star Traveler]

They’re accumulating the evidence ... :-) ...

It’s like the drug busts the authorities do ... they watch for a year, and then the hammer comes down ... LOL ...

[tacticalogic]

You’ve got the inside track on what the moderators are doing, eh? Do they know your spilling the beans to the public?

[Star Traveler]

Well ... it’s not hard to figure out, if you just observe ... :-) ...

[tacticalogic]

I can only imagine how much they must appreciate having your LOLing self as their spokeperson.

[Star Traveler]

Customers who recognize the value of Apple products are going to champion them! Nothing could be more natural.

AND ... we can see from the AMAZING BUSINESS PROFITS that Apple has a whole lot of customers buying their products! That’s a success story for America’s free enterprise system!

[Sir_Ed]

Well, y’see, I can’t make a living without using a computer and the Adobe CC Suite, which means I either use Windows, which profits a gun-stealing thug who will try and make me register my guns or declare me to be a felon, or a homo guy that isn’t trying to steal my guns, and...who, coincidentally, makes the computer best suited to my workflow, (as it has been thus for over 20+ years!)

To me, the choice is clear...

Ed

[Sir_Ed]

As an aside, Tactical, what do you think of IBM’s partnering with Apple to bring Enterprise to the iPad?

I don’t have a dog in that fight, I’ve never owned an iPad and probably never will...

Ed

[Sir_Ed]

We still have our old PC jr.!

Ed

[tacticalogic]

As an aside, Tactical, what do you think of IBM’s partnering with Apple to bring Enterprise to the iPad?

Hard to say. Are they running it on MicroChannel Architecture?

[tacticalogic]

Customers who recognize the value of Apple products are going to champion them! Nothing could be more natural.

Platitudes to the rescue!

[Star Traveler]

Nothing could be more natural than that ... :-) ...

[Star Traveler]

iOS developers poised to win big in Apple-IBM deal
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608448/application-development/ios-developers-poised-to-win-big-in-apple-ibm-deal.html

Mobile developers with knowledge of Objective-C and Apple’s fledgling Swift language could be the big winners in the company’s newly announced partnership with IBM.

That alliance has IBM firmly endorsing the iPad, with Big Blue reselling Apple’s popular tablet device preconfigured with enterprise apps for vertical industries. More iPads will end up at large IBM shops, opening up new markets for iOS application builders.

Some — but not all — iOS developers could have a major opportunity to earn lots of income in the enterprise space, said iOS application developer Christopher Allen, CTO of software developer ReOrientmedia.com. “Working at an enterprise level often requires ‘full stack’ skills, from UX to client engineering and on through to a scalable back end, which is the kind of experience the more indie app developers don’t have,” he noted. “Those teams that have this broader experience will do well.”

Apple’s Swift development language, introduced in early June, could get a big shot in the arm thanks to the partnership. “It certainly looks like IBM will be retraining a bunch of its consultants in Swift — that might push a few of its customers down that direction too — which would be a long-term win for Apple,” said Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond.

Allen, who has studied Swift, does not see the language as specifically geared toward business apps, although it does offer security benefits. Security of course, is a principal concern of enterprises. “There is nothing specific to Swift for business. It’s an alternative to Objective-C that is more ‘modern’ and thus can address some of the common errors a programmer can make while coding.”

[tacticalogic]

You've got two companies with a long history of animosity and both with deep-seated NIH syndrome.

Place your bets.

[tacticalogic]

Nothing could be more natural than that ... :-) ...

In context, that's probably true.