Slammin' the Apple announcment sticky

[TPFKAPB]

No but it gives you an idea. 1 down vote, ok you've posted something one person didn't like, probably ignore it. 5, 10 or 20 downvotes then that's definitely a message that what you have posted is probably 'frowned upon'.

[Mark_Wallace]

I don't think I'd be too happy to have invested months of my time building something (having paid for the privilege of doing so), only to find that apple has decided that what I've built might in some spurious way be considered to be in competition with one of their proprietary programs, and will not be allowed on the market. The apple model for software evolution is not a branch that I'm willing to swing to. I'm not up for letting my working life be defined by marketing morons from a company that I don't even work for.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[Bassam Abdul Baki]

May I suggest you remove voting from stickies. The Bugs & Suggestions is where they can comment and complain. A sticky is just a sticky. Don't give the masses ammo. :rose: Hmmm, we need a "peace out" icon for guys. The rose is too feminine and the other icons aren't appropriate. I could give you a sheep.

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[Pete OHanlon]

Any sheep being given out are the exclusive property of OG.

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[BobJanova]

The stickies that I've noticed in the past (and they're pretty rare) have been for development oriented things. VS, for example – this site is mostly aimed at people who use VS as part of their job, and so it makes sense to promote a new version of that. If you make one for a major release of .Net, or a C++ standards update, that would be sensible too, though personally I'd prefer them all to just go into Insider News. This one was a piece of consumer tech, though, so it's rather different. And, well, I might not have 1-voted a sticky about a Samsung Galaxy launch event, because they aren't so over-exposed already that I get annoyed with the very mention of their name, but I'd have questioned why it deserved one and no other company had done so before.

[wizardzz]

For me, why I dislike Apple is the barrier to entry for developing, the closed-boxed-ness of their devices and development process, and the general overpriced-ness. I voted it 1 because, well, it's feedback to as to what us users like. I voted it one because the users in the Lounge that are interested in the release are surely aware of it and where to watch it. I also feel that it was a little slanted because it is just one new generation of an existing product, not exactly groundbreaking. Was the same done for, or will be done for, the Wii, Samsung III, Google glasses, new XBox's/PS's, Samsung Tablet, Facebook Phone, Droid OS, .NET release that probably effects just as many developers as the new iPhone?

[BillWoodruff]

That sticky was fine with me, Chris; of course I have a hide that's turned teflon with age, so nothing sticks for long. Damn right it's an important announcement ! Similarly, the appearance (when it ships, and when people can fully test it) of the Nokia Lumia 920, and the upcoming MS Surface (when it ships, and when people can fully test it), and ... ditto ... the next-gen UltraBooks, will be widely significant in the geo-political battle in the arena of mobile/small-form-factor/Net Book for "world domination." In an "ideal world," I think your post might have turned into an excellent discussion (perhaps on a topic forum, rather than the Lounge ?) of what the best tools are for Windows devs who want to create IOS apps for varying sizes, models, and screen resolutions (buzzword: "responsive") of iWhatEvers, assuming they are willing to make some sacrifice (of performance ?), in order not to have to shift to Objective-C, think in brackets, rather than curly braces, and switch from Guinness to Cocoa. Keep on sticking-it to us, please, for right now many us (Win devs) are like rabbits at night on the highway, frozen, immobile, in the headlights of a monster semi-trailer truck (UK: "articulated lorry") bearing down on us at high-speed. We need a sharp pricking to get us hopping before we are turned into road-kill. best, Bill

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[Chris Maunder]

That would remove the fun - and why should I prevent members expressing an opinion on my posts? I'm not that special.

cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

[Bassam Abdul Baki]

Some posts are supposed to be FYI. Members do not need to comment on everything. Let them eat cake instead of commenting. Either your mom said you're special, or the doctors did, or your members do. I'll leave the choice up to you. :)

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[Chris Maunder]

BillWoodruff wrote:

I think your post might have turned into an excellent discussion

I think it already has ;)

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[Chris Maunder]

There's a couple of ways to take it when someone says you're [pause] "special" ;)

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[Bassam Abdul Baki]

Yeah, three ways: lovingly, mentally, and admirably. The universe is built on threesomes (or so I heard somewhere about the laws of physics and all that).

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[S Douglas]

BillWoodruff wrote:

and the upcoming MS Surface

I want one of those. However, at this point starting to seem like vapor ware...

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[S Douglas]

Chris Maunder wrote:

Overpriced, overhyped, overhyperboly'd, sure.

The answer might be simpler than you think Chris, many of the community members are a smidgen jaded from the industry (hype, hyperbole, vapor ware, acronym soup, ect). Add in all of the hype and it starts becoming a poke an angry bear with a stick. Almost every where you look, you hear something about apples iPhone, as if it was the saving grace of humanity. I for one am a little tired of the hype, it’s a phone, a phone that almost needs app to do anything… Just my two cents :)

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[Nish Nishant]

That's not how I've observed voting occur in these forums. But then that's how it's in real life too.

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[jschell]

Chris Maunder wrote:

I'm amazed at the 1-votes. Where did the magic go, guys?

I don't 1 vote for stuff like that but the iPhone is not new. When it was introduce it was new. Now it is just marketing.

Chris Maunder wrote:

But they are gadgets and they are a way for developers to create applications that millions of people will use and enjoy.

But if you want to participate in that market then you must pass the Apple censorship.

Chris Maunder wrote:

So I'm just curious: Do people hate Apple for being Apple? Hate the devices? Hate the hype? The OS? The development environment? The available apps? The design? Is it the tall poppy syndrome, or is it a feeling that other companies are more worthy of the over-the-top media attention?

I don't care for their censorship. The marketing now has nothing to do with the "device". It has everything to do with the buzz. Similar to a new release by any manufactured boy band. And they are becoming dangerously close to becoming a monopoly.

[Chris Maunder]

jschell wrote:

But if you want to participate in that market then you must pass the Apple censorship

Oh dear. Have you looked at how the Windows App store works? Or the Intel store? Or the moves Google is making to try and clean up the mess that is their store? I'm all for hearty debate, but we shouldn't have one yardstick for one company and another yard stick for another. It's funny, but it seems Apple is the new Microsoft.

cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

[BillWoodruff]

Chris Maunder wrote:

I think it already has ;)

For me, the discussion, to date, has been trivial, beating the same-old dead-horse of "which is more evil, MS or Apple," and will rapidly submerge in the Lounge-Swamp, where so much interesting technical content, that should go onto an appropriate technical forum, unfortunately, submerges (with the technical forums, in these cases, diluted in value). imho, the issue of what Windows devs are doing now, or may be able to do in the near future, to port existing, or create new, apps, using MS tools, that will run within IOS, or Android, performantly, is quite significant, and germane to MS devs' future in the mobile/small-form-factor phone/tablet/ultrabook touch-driven ... blah blah blah ... domain now so dominated at the high-end by Apple, and, in terms of sheer number of devices shipped, by Android: a topic worthy of its own Forum. But, I believe I've already expressed, several times, on the "Suggestions" Forum, my opinion that the Lounge needs the equivalent of a good old-fashioned Stalinist purge: Ooh, hey, here's a thought: let's have a forum called "Siberia," where all stale jokes posted on the Lounge are "exiled," as well as "gimme codez," and other totally inane posts, drunken fugal (in the psychiatric sense of that term) rambling, etc. go ! That some (many ?) of my own posts on the Lounge would certainly be subject to deportation to this "Gulag:" has crossed my mind. :) best, Bill

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[Chris Maunder]

Ah - then we get to enjoy everyone complaining about the Thought Police. We already have The Soapbox for the ramblings and ravings, and The Back Room. The only way a purge would work is if we had many, many moderators constantly working to sort and filter. And that in itself is a tricky endeavour because the decision as to whether a thread is suited best for one forum or another is very subjective. People want to post where they think their post will most likely be read. So, they gravitate to the most popular, vaguely relevant forum and it becomes a battle of constant moderation. It's not impossible, but it sounds tiring. Maybe I just give everyone a "Nuke Thread" token and each week you can nuke a thread you think shouldn't exist. No holds barred.

cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

[BillWoodruff]

Chris Maunder wrote:

Maybe I just give everyone a "Nuke Thread" token and each week you can nuke a thread you think shouldn't exist. No holds barred.

Glad to see you thinking "out of the box" here Chris: the "Nuke Thread" concept seems like the opposite of "Weapons of Mass Destruction:" a one-shot weapon of individual destruction ? :) But, I think there is an alternative: let the members vote and "winnow-out" messages that probably should be moved: put a third item in the "Report" drop-down: "Wrong Forum:" a Lounge message gets some number of that category of Reports, then let some members with very high-reps, or CP staff, decide where the messages should be moved, or: leave the message in place on the Lounge and copy it over to the appropriate technical Forum so it enriches the technical Fora. I think that's consistent with your principles and values on CP, as I experience them, and avoids the "thought police" issue. best, Bill

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