Then you have to wait for the download every time you open the app.

This is an okay compromise tbh.

(They could offer a super secure option or whatever, I guess)

Actually you could just download the encrypted images without the unique key( for every image ) and then get the key on demand. Load the image into ram, decrypt, show the image and then erase everything.

That would be more secure, but you still need to wait for the key to be downloaded on-demand - you don't exactly get butter-smooth scrolling that way.

(I like security.)

And you would have to be connected to the internet. That is a problem. The delay could be hidden behind a ui.

Snapchat doesn't work particularly well offline...

"Performing these tasks won't deregister iMessage" from: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5185

What is the point of that section then?

Why? Don't think of Microsoft as it is now, think of it as it was 22 years ago.

Twenty-two years ago, Windows 95 was three years in the future. As I recall, Microsoft's only truly great product was Word (Excel was getting there, I think), although I guess Flight Simulator wasn't too bad. Microsoft was trying to pretend that Windows 3.1 was a competitor to the Mac. Lisp machines were still trying to make a go of it.

In 1991, Microsoft was already ascendant. You may be too young to remember, but MS-DOS was everywhere. Given the failures of Commodore and Atari, the rise and fall of the 80's unix wars, and with Jobs no longer at Apple, Microsoft essentially took visionary leadership of the computing scene by default.

Instead of using proper unix machines, my early computing years were spent on DOS and Win 3.1.

I was around back then, and was using Macs and Unix, looking down on folks for using Windows & DOS. To this day, I can't begin to fathom the sort of mindset it takes to settle for worst.

I certainly would not have agreed that Microsoft ca. 1992 was at all visionary. I felt embarrassed for them and their users back then, much as I would for an adult who shows up at the office proud of the childish fingerpainting he spent the last month making. Grasping, copying, but not visionary.

Exactly. That was a few years before Microsoft has succeeded at their mission of putting a computer on every desktop.

This slightly angers me coming from several attempts to upload legit WP8 apps.

Privacy policies not being "good" enough, no location tracking switch in a "location aware" app, little to no experiences from other developers(typical stackoverflow trouble shooting becoming impossible), worse app approval process than Apple.. the list goes on. This being in a platform which they're trying to push. :(

Call me crazy, but I WANT the privacy policy and to be able to switch off location services if I don't trust your app. I'm glad they have these policies in place.

There are a lot of things to complain about the Windows Store but from a consumer's point of view that's not one if them.

AFAIK system apks are signed with a special key, that gets special privileges.

iOS IS stagnant.

Windows Phone 8 has a totally different and new paradigm going with merging start screen and "notifications bar" with the live tiles. Rooms with its "all sharing feature". Kids stuff. Lockscreen apps. All of these are a totally new approach to the mobile platform.

I feel the "new Microsoft" is really innovating(i hate that word) atm.

The Windows Phone UI is the one thing in my mind that actually is different, though I have a little skepticism about it as I'm not convinced that it's solving a problem many people actually have (certainly not one I or most people I know have) and it doesn't seem to be something consumers are queuing up to get their hands on. Meaningful innovation surely has to be something for which there is a demand?

Kids corner I would love on my iPhone but it's a more polished version of what I can do with restrictions so I'm not really sold on it being that revolutionary.

Years refining this overscroll effect?

No. But the design of their products. If you followed the trial, they told the entire process on how they reached the final design of iPhone. It took them years to make it perfect. Taking inspiration is different, and we all know what samsung did for staying in market. LEGALLY, apple had no choice but to take these silly looking patent to the courtroom. Now is the time when we will see real innovation.

I don't know why people build so much of hate for big corporates. Samsung is no different. If you see number of patents Samsung holds, you will be stunned. And most of them are something they never even implemented in their software remotely.

Well that's not what we're talking about here. This is a thing too simple for a patent.

I could probably see many things in iOS/the iPhone worth patenting, but this is not one of them.

I'm not against Apple, I'm against ALL useless patents like this and probably many of Samsungs'.

I don't begrudge having patent nukes for deterrence purposes. I begrudge using them offensively.

So basically, apple falls in latter. Right?

From: http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/31/3280361/apple-samsung-jury...

"Hogan said he was one of a pair of jurors that served as the de facto technical experts of the nine-person panel."

And:

"Except for my family, it was the high spot of my career," Hogan said about the trial. "You might even say my life." A holder of a patent on video compression himself, he said he recognized that the case represented a "landmark decision," and that he was pleased he'd been selected "because I wanted to be satisfied from my own perspective that this trial was fair, and protected copyrights and intellectual property rights, no matter who they belonged to."

Android Query far down the list as well :/

From what I've done with it, I'll reckon it'll get more used in the near future.

try out nodes.dk perhaps, dunno if they are still looking for iOS devs