If you look at the screenshot on the techcrunch article it says they'll be able to show salary by location and years of experience when they have more data.
I wonder what their collection threshold is before they begin publishing this data. I imagine it could be a static number or a percentage based on the population and industry in the locale.
It doesn't sound too plausible to me. It's only a revenue leak if the flash applications are going to stop people from paying money for Apps at the App store. But I think flash would mostly be used for free stuff, and would only really compete with the free Apps in the app store.
You don't think apps from apple could contain flash? I think it is more of a video battle and a lock down on interface look and feel. If we remember, Apple played this closed market approach with the desktop and look where that got them. I would hate to see them make the same mistake a decade or two later.
"Apple played this closed market approach with the desktop and look where it got them:" It got them in the position of being the ONLY company making consumer computers that still has any margins to speak of. HP, Compaq, Dell, et al are all racing each other to the bottom, trying to eke out a minimal survival on razor-thin margins.
Apple's stumbles in the 80s and 90s weren't because they failed to license MacOS, it was because Jobs was immature and shot himself in the foot, taking his company down with him. These days they couldn't possibly be doing any better, and you can bet your ass Jobs still thinks licensing MacOSX is a terrible idea.
Apple lost plain and simple because they were closed market, some things never change. You can get an early lead like that but eventually open systems and open markets win out.
It is all in the numbers. Sure there is MUCH more mediocrity when you open it up, and you can control and only allow the best in a closed market. But in the end the percentage of better systems at the upper threshold of the open system will always beat the best hand picked companies that can participate. One big reason is competition, the other is greed and laziness that comes with that.
Historical data should be available for free. The money you pay for real-time data is the exchange fee- ie it is paid to the NASDAQ, NYSE, or whoever. The exchanges do not allow real-time data to be offered for free.
Firms that compiled the data should sell it at whatever price the market is willing to pay. Just because the value of information tends toward zero, does not mean that the price should.
I call BS. The trouble Microsoft has had with Vista would be nothing compared to the trouble it would have if ALL applications had to be recompiled to work with Windows 7. The article cites no sources and doesn't offer any substantiation at all for its claims.
The article didn't say that everything had to be recompiled, but that they could. Without recompiling apps can run in a virtualized, compatible environment (like Classic on OSX). It didn't cite sources, but MS has alluded several times to this being the plan.
As common as virtualization is becoming , that could be a good solution as long as they can keep a ceiling on the memory cost -- true virtualization can be really expensive, memory-wise.
On the other hand, if they're simply talking about a conventional compatibility box, this is less of a worry -- Windows has been doing variations of this for years for backwards compatibility -- since long before OS X.
This article skips past all the technical details, but the smartest solution might be to make the new API purely managed (i.e. .Net), and run all unmanaged apps in a compatibility box. This is great for stability, and it ends the days where you have to dig down into C or C++ and mess around with window handles to use certain OS features that aren't available otherwise.
