This reminds me, yesterday i got an obviously spoofed phishing email from "apple" telling me to reset my passwords and reenter my CC info. Anybody else get that?
Apple Developer Center still down
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
More people drive Toyota than BMW. More people eat at McDonalds than Five Guys. More people stay at a Holiday Inn than The Ritz Carlton. The statement is worthless as it conveys no meaning, other than a factoid, as do my statements.
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#83Why is a mere unfounded speculation not backed up by any facts written to garner pageviews featured on the frontpage?
Because there are no facts, Apple hasn't said a word. The alternative is that we ignore this. At least with this article (which no one has to read), there's a place for HN Apple devs to talk amongst each other.
>a place for HN Apple devs to talk amongst each other
So, you're telling me that I need to go read his article, earn him pageviews and ad money and come back here to discuss about the issue? I think a Ask HN post would have done the job, much better, no?
Just saw your edit:
>(which no one has to read)
wut?
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Local widgets & theming yes, although generally we ship with our own themes by default as we make VFX apps, and the last thing artists want is bright UI to distract them. I don't believe there are general UX guidelines for Linuxes, but for things like notification popups, system tray stuff, yeah, we do all that natively to the distro through Qt (DBus handles all that transparently within Qt very nicely). We ship Qt a…
Do you work for the Foundry? I find that Nuke for OSX is by far the crashiest. Was wondering why.
What version (OS X and Nuke) and how does it crash doing what as an example?
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
A better user interface _is_ "doing the task well". Functionality and design are not exclusive from each other.
There's a massive amount of software that exists outside of note-taking apps where the customer will be more than happy to put up with different-looking buttons because the value the software provides is so high. There are many software categories where visual-design decisions are not the only competition advantage.
Design is far more than just visual, and your dismissal of design as "different looking buttons" suggests that you don't really understand design very well.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mathematica on OS X uses Qt, I've never seen a complaint about it vs. using Cocoa.
I have. It used to use X11, I saw even more complaints then. There aren't any competitors, however, so people use Mathematica. I use high-end expensive that are Qt-only too, but I would gladly switch if there were other options, because Qt is buggy, uses non-intuitive non-standard UI, exhibits poor performance due to impedance mismatches between the Mac and Qt event/threading models, and ultimately decreases overall…
Can you give me an example of the "non-intuitive non-standard UI"?
This may well be true, but it's quite possible it's just the developer was lazy and didn't do all the effort to make it look native.
Edit: in fact, I'll give an example: VirtualBox - it does look crap on OS X, but that's because the developers obviously didn't make any effort to make it look native. They've got icons in tabs pane buttons and huge toolbar buttons along the top (which isn't a unified toolbar btw - which would make it look more native), which goes completely against the way OS X apps tend to look.
Re: Apple Developer Center still down
#87My money is personally on massive, unrecoverable data loss. If you've ever poked around with the way that Apple's website works, you can see that the entire place is a huge mess. There's old servers running ancient (pre-2004) perl scripts alongside the brand new iCloud gear. I can't imagine how the authentication for AppleID is working as login details still work on the ancient pages (think pinstripes and glassy butt…
> My money is personally on massive, unrecoverable data loss. Do we read this, you have an AAPL short order in tomorrow's market open? I find no financial news on this.
I own no stock in any company. I have a reasonably pessimistic view based solely on the way this is being handled, and the way in which their web applications behave.
Re: Apple Developer Center still down
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> 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. Yeah, one has to admit that Mac users are a more receptive audience for the high-brow humor of sophisticated fart apps.
Now now, don't be mad because what he says is true.
It's unbecoming.
If you really care, put your effort into making it false.
Re: Apple Developer Center still down
#89If it weren't Sunday, I wouldn't speculate, but it is. My 2 cents: iOS7 updates galore. Just imagine everything that could be overhauled. Even the old gray textured background we see is not very much like iOS 7. iOS is in a big transition here. You can't even update apps at all unless you now include 'widescreen' support, for example. If you don't, iTunes reports an Invalid Binary (no default 586 image, etc). So I wo…
If this multi-day outage was planned, and they didn't communicate it to devs (like they usually do) then this is a huge, huge slap to the face. It seems very unlikely.
Re: Apple Developer Center still down
#90If it weren't Sunday, I wouldn't speculate, but it is. My 2 cents: iOS7 updates galore. Just imagine everything that could be overhauled. Even the old gray textured background we see is not very much like iOS 7. iOS is in a big transition here. You can't even update apps at all unless you now include 'widescreen' support, for example. If you don't, iTunes reports an Invalid Binary (no default 586 image, etc). So I wo…
Being sunday has nothing to do with it - notice the title is "still down" - it's been down since thursday. If this was planned, any sane company would give notice to their developers, Apple's success implies they're sane.
Don't forget that developers get 30%, when Apple show off (rightfully so) a huge sum paid to developers, they've been paid significantly more than that - developers seriously matter.