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Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by briandear »

pavanky wrote: post #28
coldtea wrote: post #10

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Nice attempt at snark, but something being fault-proof in this regard doesn't magically make it worthy in others. Like desktop use, for one. People will not adopt Linux for their desktop/laptop even when offered for free. Where by people I mean more than 1% of them.

That is not totally true. The reason most people stay with Windows is because the hardware ships with it. In my experience Linux usage has about 50% retention rate among those I installed the OS for. If you'd install OSX or Windows on a non techie who grew up using just Linux, I'd think the retention rates would be much lower.

a 50% retention rate? That's not very good. That means that after you've installed Linux, half of the people switch back.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by mrpizzadelivery »

kailuowang wrote: post #38

I have received 6 "How to reset your Apple ID password" Email from Apple during the last couple of days, none of which was triggered by me. Could this be related?

Was anyone else prompted to "update their expired password" when attempting to login to iTunesConnect?

I did have the same password for about three years so it didn't seem too odd. Of course I double-checked the url and it looked good. Also I waited for a few days in the hopes that someone else would notice if this was a scam of some sort.

Unfortunately after updating my password I forgot the new one. At least I think I forgot as my new password (as best I can remember it) doesn't work.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by mrpippy »

joezydeco wrote: post #57
pbsdp wrote: post #47

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Nobody on OS X wants a Qt app. If you have any solid competition in the market from a company willing to produce a native app, you'll lose to them. No wonder you're having issues on OS X.

Mathematica on OS X uses Qt, I've never seen a complaint about it vs. using Cocoa.

No it doesn't. Mathematica only uses Qt on Linux, the Mac frontend has always been a native Mac app.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by Achshar »

Jgrubb wrote: post #125
tazjin wrote: post #97

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Can you have a look at the mail headers and check if it was just a standard phishing mail?

The "update now" link was to some completely other site, so without having checked out the headers yet I'd say it's a safe bet.

maybe they were using some parked or addon domain? I know the chances are that it was not, but the entire thread talks about the poorly designed apple dev backend, which includes links like that.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by jiggy2011 »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #137
jiggy2011 wrote: post #132

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But people do in fact choose to run them on Linux which is unlikely to be a purely arbitrary choice though by nature open source stacks will be more portable, but it seems perverse to use that as a negative argument.

Sure, but people also choose to run them on Windows, and OSX. If it was Linux-only, then I could see why you'd include it as being "written for Linux" but web applications are, for the most part, OS-agnostic. People can choose to run it on a variety of platforms. Just because one is used more than the others does not mean it is the exclusive platform for web applications as a whole. You're not writing a PHP applicati…

Some web applications are more platform specific than others. Since Linux is the most popular OS for running web applications it seems reasonable to assume it was chosen for a reason and therefor web developers would be worse off if it were not available.

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Post by [deleted] »

ninguem2 wrote: post #39
benihana wrote: post #12

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Could you imagine if people could make the kind of money developing things for Linux that they do developing things for iOS? It would make comments like yours kind of funny and relevant.

Android (Linux) has surpassed iOS in number of users worldwide.

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Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by Terretta »

mullingitover wrote: post #69
Tloewald wrote: post #21

Amazon bas been down for as much as a half day in recent memory — and not dev stuff but their customer-facing money-making site, and mid-week too.

Apple's customer-facing store was down last night for several hours.

Doesn't matter. People aren't going to decide, gee, I actually wanted a Toshiba.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by jstsch »

berkut wrote: post #123
jstsch wrote: post #107

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The dialog you've shown for OS X does not look native at all. Not just the spacing, but especially the second selector ('render') is quite odd. Also the font usage for the labels, the light-gray borders around the input fields and the tab focus is strange. Does QT basically render a bitmap, or does it use the native controls and just has some odd default styling? If it's the first, then I would probably do the UI in…

It's got a master stylesheet attached for the tabs, but admittedly, even without it, it's not identical. http://imgur.com/68b9eoO - is native Cocoa moc-up in XCode. I concede the borders are slightly different, but I personally wouldn't have noticed or minded. The render button is a custom button - the only difference from the native one is the right-hand menu triangle which isn't native. Qt has styles, and draws con…

Thank you, very interesting. Am I correct that the button 'Visible to: All' is basically an action button where you can use the arrow on the side to change the action within? Those are not really common on OS X. Guess that's why it looks a bit out of place.

I would side with the reader below, I think that going for a completely different look works better than 'almost' native. Ableton Live is a good example I think that has (almost) the same UI on Mac as on Windows which doesn't look bad on either OS.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by mynameisvlad »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #145
mynameisvlad wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but people also choose to run them on Windows, and OSX. If it was Linux-only, then I could see why you'd include it as being "written for Linux" but web applications are, for the most part, OS-agnostic. People can choose to run it on a variety of platforms. Just because one is used more than the others does not mean it is the exclusive platform for web applications as a whole. You're not writing a PHP applicati…

Some web applications are more platform specific than others. Since Linux is the most popular OS for running web applications it seems reasonable to assume it was chosen for a reason and therefor web developers would be worse off if it were not available.

> Some web applications are more platform specific than others.

Rarely.

As I said before, you're not developing for Linux when you make a web application. You're developing for Rails/PHP/whathaveyou. These are all OS-agnostic and can be run on any OS. I can run my PHP app on my Macbook, my Linux server, or my friend's Windows desktop. They all work. Because it's not meant to be built for a particular OS.

I don't understand how you can be this stubborn about it. If the language can be run on any number of platforms, then, by definition, it's not an application for one specific platform.

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