Joe Jacobs

Tweets for the week ending 2010-12-19

1 year ago

by Joe Jacobs in Tweets

back in Bristol!!! #fb #

Tweets for the week ending 2010-12-12

1 year ago

by Joe Jacobs in Tweets

@cheeseong7 lol sometime tmr (tues) #

Tweets for the week ending 2010-12-05

1 year ago

by Joe Jacobs in Tweets

fml #
@JhnT this coming from the guy who built the KL tower, the twin towers and the worlds longest flagpole!!! #
@cheeseong7 lol no la…had prob with my assignment 4 hrs before the deadline. luckily the prof extended it cos the prob was their fault. #
Dec 1 is World AIDS Day @joinred fact: 430,000 babies born with HIV last yr. By 2015 that could be 0. #turnred http://f.joinred.com/qwx #
one down, three to go #fb #
stuffed… #
You know you've done too much coding when you start putting semicolons at the end of sentences; #fb #

Tweets for the week ending 2010-11-28

1 year ago

by Joe Jacobs in Tweets

aaahhh…home sweet home #fb #
Watching harry potter (@ Odeon Cinema) http://4sq.com/d8Luz2 #
@sueyen_ng haha *like* #
@sueyen_ng cos i was half asleep in a lecture!!! UK is good. how you keeping? #
@JhnT brother john! all gd here. besides the key incident over the weekend. hows stuff there? #
@JhnT i'll reach on 15 dec morn. u'd better get ready for some serious partying!!! #
@Bristoluni and UWE student protest against education cuts and student fees hike http://yfrog.com/mhi110j http://yfrog.com/66sqntj #
c'mon united!!! #fb #
damn it's cold…brrr #fb #
@JhnT ok?! that's the best you've got? OK?!! #
@JhnT better #
arrrgh I HATE JAVA!!! #
Can't get to Temple Meads because of the snow. Left the house half an hour ago and I still haven't reached #fb #uksnow #
Finally!!! (@ Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station w/ 3 others) http://4sq.com/72zJ59 #
@JhnT lol dream on #
@iAmMark89 wish i cld man…been buried in work for the past few weeks #

1 year ago

Haha awesome site…check it out.

Damn You Auto Correct! – Funny iPhone Fails and Autocorrect Horror Stories.

1 year ago

An interesting article by John Gruber on Apps for Android.

In fact, the Android Market, as a whole, bears a lot more resemblance to the Cydia app store than it does to Apple’s official App Store…

I’m not saying Android is in trouble. The opposite, in fact: I think it’s going to continue growing — in terms of handset sales — despite this. And maybe as Android handset sales grow, this situation will change, and developers will start creating exclusive killer apps for the platform, drawn by the size of the market.

…Android, today, is thriving despite the fact that its third-party software library is very weak compared to iOS’s. It’s not that most top-notch mobile apps are written for iOS. It’s that almost all of them are, despite the fact that Android, by most accounts, has surpassed iOS in phone sales and perhaps drawn even in unit sales overall. Android developer support has grown over the past year, but at nowhere near a rate that’s commensurate with the growth in Android handset sales.

My hypothesis hinges on three factors:

Apple has carefully constructed iOS and the iTunes App Store to support this “app console” model.

Developers, large and small, have swarmed to Apple’s app console model, with consumer-friendly apps, design, presentation, and pricing.

iOS users understand the app console model and have embraced it — both in terms of a willingness to look for and install apps, and a willingness to pay for them.

None of those three things are true for Android.

Daring Fireball: Where Are the Android Killer Apps?.