Re: [NTLK] iPhone SDK = Newton Touch?

Well - I can stick feathers up my butt, but that don't make me no
chicken.

Heh heh.

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-----Original Message-----
From: newtontalk-bounce@newtontalk.net
[mailto:newtontalk-bounce@newtontalk.net] On Behalf Of Christoffer R.
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:38 AM
To: newtontalk@newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] iPhone SDK = Newton Touch?

But it is stil called "Beta Software"
Den 10/03/2008 kl. 18.34 skrev Jon Glass:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Christoffer R. <winggoat@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>> The software is in "beta" and not "alpha" stage Den 09/03/2008 kl.
>>>> 20.37 skrev matthiasm:
>
> Yes, but the point he was originally trying to make--and that I
> caught, was that the _quality_ of the kit is not beta--it is not
> feature complete, and certainly not worthy of the name "beta." In the
> strictest sense, beta software is feature complete, and beyond the
> "buggy" stage. It is the last stage before release, and should be both

> complete and stable, with only still unknown bugs. However, in recent
> years, "beta" has been defined down--kind of like the "dumbing down"
> we see in our educational systems these days. Worse, as in the case of

> Ubuntu, beta is the best you can say for release-candidate software.
> Ubuntu releases whether the software is clean or not, due to their
> tight time schedule. OS 10.5 certainly had known, unresolved bugs, and

> shipped, as did Vista. This used to _never_ happen. So, whether Apple
> calls it "beta" or not, it's _still_ alpha-quality software.
>
> --
> -Jon Glass
> Krakow, Poland
> <jonglass@usa.net>
>
> "I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals." --Jack
> Nicklaus
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