I was about to toss my eWeek into the recycling and the pages flipped open and my eye caught a sentence in the review of the GalTab and Dreak:

"Unlike Apple's iOS with the company's comparatively easy access to FaceTime video conferencing, Android users will likely need to wait until 3rd party developers start exploiting the hardware for their own video apps"

It was a Jerry-Sees-GratefulDead-In-The-Dictionary moment.

Yeah, eWeek is another iLoveJobs rag and like them all it will ignore anything good unless it came from 'Tino but this one seemed way over the top.  But then I thought about it.. there really aren't that many apps out ther taking advantage of the video hardware and if that continues then Android FFCs will likely stop being part of the spec.

But is this because devs are stupid or that the platform is harder than iOS?  As to the former, sure ;-), but definitely not the latter...

Why does this silliness continue?

Aren't we the smart ones, we technical people?

Jeff Richter is one of the most respected VC++ people in the world, he says the rote line 'All languages are equal' but he also says that 'C# is the better tool'. He said that flat out to me over dinner at a WinDev. Human. He has his followers who hear only the part they want to hear to make themselves feel special. Human.

Founder of APress and Desaware, Dan Appleman is an older C++ veteran, I believe that he has a bit more real-world experience with a lot of different tools than most of us have (including Mr. Richter). And after some analysis he says about the bits and bytes "There is no difference at all"

We got a few emails over our saying that "users really don't care that much about speed any more" when we were making points for Flash development.

In context we stand by the statement.

Don't get us wrong, we've loved ASP.Net since before the betas, it's a natural and intuitive technology for a long-time VB person. However, ASP.Net is just what its name implies, it is a Serverside technology. If speed were the absolute measure of a good end-user application then so many developers wouldn't be drag & dropping so many ASP.Net controls on so many pages and calling the job "Done", letting every single control postback to the server and roundtrip 99% unchanged information - and worse, hitting a database with each trip for nothing ...