tl:dr no one knows for sure yet but there sure are a lot of … opinions!
Unity3D Answers: is-unity3d-banned-by-new-apple-sdk-licence
It’s unlikely this language is aimed at Unity, but it could easily become collateral damage in this fight.
Edit 12 April 2010: Jean-Louis Gassée gets it, which is kind of cool for me because when I worked at NeXT I remember visiting Be for their OS pitch, and at the time was too naive to know we were also looking at taking over, I mean, being bought by Apple.
I’ve got a few email accounts that don’t support Push. On the Settings->Mail->Fetch New Data screen, you can choose whether to fetch new data every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, Hourly, or Manually. An uncharacteristically long paragraph of text explains that for better battery life, fetch less often, so I had it set to Manually. Almost every time I make or take a call, the phone dings at me as soon as I hold it up to my ear, and even though I know it’s telling me it has new email, it’s still surprising and disruptive, because I’m not expecting it to do that.
Conversation between me, today, and me, circa March 2006:
“Hey Frank, it’s me, Frank, but from the future — 2009! I wanted to tell you a few important things. All these Web 2.0, social networking sites, and mash-ups are going to to make a ton of money in the markets, but they’ll lose most of it. There’s also a global recession on, so buy up now but dump all your stocks and mutual funds to cash or CDs by early 2008.”
“…”
“By 2009 half the people you know will be tweeting regularly!”
“TWEETING?”
“Oh, never mind.”
Over the holidays I had the opportunity to see some daytime television shows. Rachel Ray’s show is engaging, and both Andrea and I saw her make a Chili Shepherd’s Pie, but my Web Search Fu apparently isn’t as strong as it used to be, ’cause I can’t find it. I did find one that looks good, and it’s nice to have recipes, but using leftovers really gets to the point of Shepherd’s Pie. So next time we make some chili, instead of making nachos with the leftovers we’ll put it it in a baking dish, slather some mashed potatos and cheese on the top, and bake it. Yum!
The screen on my work computer, a Macbook Pro, has died for a 2nd time. The first time, I sent it to Apple as we had no local Apple Authorized Service Center, and they returned it to me with my high-quality third party RAM in a bag, along with a message that the screen problems were caused by RAM that didn’t meet Apple specifications. Um, bullshit, but my computer worked again so I didn’t care too much. I put the 4GB RAM back in and had been using it trouble-free since early September.
Now the screen’s dead again, I’ve swapped the factory RAM back in so I don’t have to put up with crap stories from the service center about how the RAM is causing the video card to take a vacation, and today I’ll take it to our new Peachmac so they can fix it. Everyone I know has been happy with their service so far, so I’m pretty sure they’ll just replace the logic board and send me on my way — after all, this is a known problem.
In the meantime, I jumped through some hoops to enable Screen Sharing via the command line. Chris Brewer’s instructions were the most thorough, but after following them I had to try a couple of different VNC clients before I found one, TightVNC, that worked from my Vista test machine.
