Sometimes reading coverage of Apple is like watching a bad motion picture . The writing is terrible , nothing take a shit sense and it leaves you wondering why you ’re devoting your precious time to this . Where ’s it die ? Who ’s the guy wire with the banana ? Did the boom swing into the snap there ? This hebdomad , three dissimilar sight cause hoi polloi to pen things that give the horny one a bigger worry than he ’s had since seeingCatwoman . And that ’s saying a flock .
The “Star Trek V” of analysis
Another calendar week , another stunned survey .
Reporting for PC World , Tony Bradleysays Android rulz while iOS droolz . The Macalope ’s paraphrasing , of course , but that ’s pretty much Bradley ’s take - away from aa report from Appcelerator(PDF ) that order 58.6 pct of of developers surveil think Android has a secure long - term mind-set while just 34.9 percentage choose iOS .
Ouch , right ?
Yeah . lease ’s back up a pace .
Ever see“Star Trek V ” ? It ’s a frightful , frightful movie , but the Macalope ’s always found the scene where Captain Kirk enquire “ Why does God call for a spaceship ? ” to be a hangdog pleasure . likely because he feel like he ’s also often the only one who ask the obvious questions to talking heads .
Like “ Who were the ‘ developers surveyed ’ ? ”
Appcelerator and IDC surveyed 2,363 of over 70,000 developer who expend Appcelerator ’s Titanium program maturation platform on their plans , interests and perceptual experience of the major mobile and tablet OS provider .
The developer in this view were those who use a cross - platform developing cock thatwent over like a lead balloon being piloted by a sweating Steve Ballmer at the last C4 conference . Why ? Because developer who are serious about delivering a good product tailor to the Io chopine — the sort of developers who used to give ear C4 — don’t economic consumption cross - platform exploitation tools . They utilise a small thing called Xcode .
The Macalope asks this every sentence one of these surveys come out : is that instance of the whole ? Of course not . It ’s instance of the fact that Appcelerator wants to drive traffic to its website by publishing some incendiary survey results . This survey most probably specifically keep out those who ’ve been develop for the Mac for years and are nominally more probable to be Apple enthusiasts .
Bradley ’s happy to play along and neglects to mention the sample is restricted to a particular slice of the developer residential district .
Just as the Apple stage business good example has limit the potential for Mac OS X , the restrictive nature of Io virtually guarantees that Android will surpass it as the dominant mobile chopine .
Because the same affair happen with the iPod .
Oh , wait …
bet , the reason Android is popular despite the fact that it ’s the secondly - best looking operating scheme is because it set up out for the carriers . It lets them have their agency with it . It ’s cheap .
Actually , it ’s worse than flash . It ’s free . They do n’t even have to take it to dinner .
That said , just as Apple go along to have a consecrate chase for its PCs despite have a superficial five percentage market share , it will most probably carry on to have a loyal followers for its iPhone and iPad , and continue to generate square tax revenue and profit despite finally losing the market share state of war .
For “ substantial ” read“more than everyone else combined ” .
None of this is to say the developers surveyed by Appcelerator might not be correct . They might ! But the horny one find it odd that while Appcelerator and Bradley andCNetall trumpeted Android ’s lead in prospicient - term outlook , the survey results also show that iOS increased its lead story ( albeit incrementally ) over Android in the number of developers who said they were “ very concerned ” in developing for the political platform .
That ’s proper . Despite the fact that they remember the outlook is in force on Android , they are still more enthusiastic about developing for iOS .
Maybe it has something to do withthis survey , which order iPhone coders are happy and rich than Android developers .
For the disk , though , the Macalope has n’t tick off the sampling on that one .
The “Phantom Menace” of careers
There ’s something about sight that tug multitude bonkers . Like PC World’sBarbara Hernandez .
It seems as if every mobile sound substance abuser satisfaction crown rank the iPhone as experience the highest level of client atonement .
Yeah ! What isupwith that ? ! It ’s almost like mass like the headphone or something . Weird !
Because the surveys rely on self - reporting , you may take that one of several ways : that owners of the iPhone put a peck of money into the smartphone and do n’t want to seem stupid for doing so ; that it ’s a superior ware ; or that they ’re all fanboys .
ego - selectionisa problem . But if it ’s a problem for the iPhone - owning responder it ’s also a trouble for the other respondents to the sketch . Unless Hernandez thinks user of other platforms are holy , inviolable creatures that are answer solely from the desire to benefit science . Sadly , most researchers do n’t believe to ask that .
What ’s of notation is that iPhone satisfaction went down from a score of 811 from last year , which could be backfire from the iPhone 4 ’s faulty antenna . However , according to JD Power , it had more to do with dissatisfaction about the iPhone ’s comparatively light battery life .
Uh , so , then , itcouldn’tbe backfire from the iPhone 4 ’s faulty antenna . At least not mostly . Although , to be fair , Hernandez seems to trust that iPhone - using answerer may merely be liars , so maybe it does make sense .
Hernandez also keyed a piece the same solar day aboutTarget start to trade the iPad , speak up :
How else could Apple push 3 million units a calendar month during the vacation season ?
Maybe by actually satisfying the pent - up requirement for the gadget , which citizenry had to hold off weeks for over the summer ? Maybe because sales of Apple product in reality tend to goupduring the holiday time of year ? Maybe by open more Apple Stores ? Besides , who said they had to sell 3 million units a calendar month , Babs ?
Apple had to go mainstream to get to the peck .
As oppose to the masses at the plaza ?
Until this hebdomad the Macalope had been unaware of Ms. Hernandez ’s work . As Palpatine say in“The Phantom Menace ” , “ We will be watching your career with great interest ! ”
And then Jar - Jar danced around like an cretin .
Okay , Hernandez seems nice , and might simply be trying to make too much out of nothing ( like cast Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker ) rather than purposely trolling for page survey . Let ’s go for her career move around out a little good than that Skywalker tiddler ’s did .
Here give way .
That makes horse sense . Lindsay Lohan is on a down spiral . And with the raw offering from RIM , so is Apple . Excellent analogy ! ! Apple = Loser Lindsay Lohan . I care it ! !
No , in earnest , someone really wrote that . Like “ programme 9 ” , it almost seems like a forcemeat but it ’s not . The Macalope ’s only sorrow is thatTor Johnsonisn’t still awake to do a spectacular reading of it .
