Saturday, May 11, 2013

Why Apple should develop Android apps

A lot of users have soured on iTunes, but some people -- including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak -- think it would benefit Apple to bring it to Android.

(Credit: CNET UK)

Back in March I read a story by The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg called "How Apple Gets All the Good Apps." It was mostly about why Apple's rivals -- Google, Microsoft, and others -- have brought their apps to the iOS platform while Apple didn't reciprocate the gesture.

Mossberg described the situation as obviously lopsided in Apple's favor and that it "stemmed from the different business models of the big rivals." Apple, after all, makes the "vast majority" of its money through hardware sales while Google, Microsoft and Amazon, he said, are primarily software and services companies, even if those companies also make some hardware products. Apple, with over 500 million iOS devices sold, was too big for rivals to ignore.

All that's very true. However, nothing was mentioned about whether, in the long run, it might be a bad idea for Apple to keep some of its key apps isolated on its own platform as Android devices continue to grow in popularity.

Shrinking competitive advantage
I don't how many iOS devices Mossberg owns, but I've acquired a lot of them over the years. At the same time, I have my share of Android-based devices and I know plenty of people who live in a mixed-device household, especially with all the cheap Kindle, Nexus, and Nook tablets to choose from.

The conventional wisdom is that Apple has the best selection of apps, and the majority of exclusive apps. But that list of iOS-only killer apps has shrunk in recent years and months. Consider Instagram's eventual transition to Android, which was so wildly popular that it was a factor in Facebook's billion-dollar acquisition of the photo-centric social network just a few days later.

Indeed, as Time's Harry McCracken reported recently, Android and iOS are very evenly matched across the board: each platform boasts around 800,000 apps. And the Android world still remains comparatively fragmented -- device compatibility isn't a given. Of course, the iOS world isn't as monolithic as it once was -- certain new apps won't run on older devices.

But while Android may have a larger overall population of users, iOS users are the ones who tend to pay for their apps. That's why app developers still tend to prioritize iPhone and iPad first -- it's where the money is.

The bottom line is that many consumers are sitting on iOS app collections worth hundreds -- and in some cases, thousands -- of dollars, creates an incentive for folks to stick with Apple devices. It's a competitive advantage -- a fairly lopsided one, according to Mossberg, so why should Apple bother changing things? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Well, for starters, I'd argue that it's not as big a competitive advantage as it once was. It hasn't stopped millions of people from buying cheaper Android smartphones. Apparently, the Google Play store is good enough. Google has its own exclusives, or at least it has some apps that offer more features on Android than on iOS (Google Maps, Google Now, Google Voice).

Apple-only becoming less appealing
On a personal level, while my day-to-day smartphone remains an iPhone (the 4S), I'm finding myself using Apple's apps less and less (by that I mean the ones Apple makes, not third-party developers' apps). I've almost completely stopped using iTunes, having shifted over to music subscription services (Spotify, Rdio). I don't buy books from iBooks because I know I won't be able to view them on any other devices. And I stopped using iCloud because I kept exceeding my storage limit and Apple kept asking me for more money (I've gone back to manually backing up my iDevices).

Setting aside a discussion of the deficiencies of iTunes and iCloud, my larger point is that I'm being drawn away from Apple apps because I don't want to feel cornered by them. There's a bit of complicated psychology at work here, but sometimes offering up a little freedom can create a tighter bond.

I'm not alone. I think that in future, as we live in more mixed device households, consumers are going to demand more freedom to move easily from one platform to another. And I'm not just talking about portable devices. There are game consoles, as well as "smart" TVs and set-top boxes like Roku. Hardware may be where Apple makes the bulk of its profit, but in the long run it behooves the company to have people use its software (and shop in its e-stores), no matter what device they're on.

Google develops apps on iOS, controlled by its archrival, Apple

(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)

The irony is that Apple's biggest competitors have already done this: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Samsung all make apps for iOS. True, Microsoft's crown jewel, Office, remains a no-show, despite persistent rumors. But Google has embraced iOS-- the apps for Maps, search, and Gmail keep getting better and better. The company understands that even if it loses the battle -- because the user bought a non-Android product -- it's winning the war if that same consumer ends up using that Apple hardware to access Google's wide range of cloud-based services. They're still a Google user, seeing ads from Google clients.

The same goes for Amazon. That company's books, music, and video apps are on iPad and iPhone, making it all too easy to bypass iBooks and iTunes. Indeed, if Apple's not careful, more folks will move to Amazon's or Google's platform-agnostic suite of apps as their "hub" and feel less tied to Apple's -- and Apple in general.

Apple's killer apps... for Android
With that in mind, here are the apps I think Apple should bring over Android devices. I've mentioned them already, but making them bullet points will help highlight them further.

  • iBooks: The iBookstore has progressively improved, but it just seems silly to restrict yourself to reading your e-books on Apple devices when you don't have to. The Kindle, Nook, Google Books, and Kobo apps are available on multiple platforms, including iOS. Maybe Apple doesn't care that much about the e-book business, but I think it would help bring more users into the fold if it was platform agnostic -- or as Amazon likes to call it, "Buy Once, Enjoy Everywhere."
  • iTunes: To expand its audience for iPhones and iPods, Apple was willing to bring iTunes Windows machines. So why not Android devices, particularly as Amazon continues to make its aggressive push into both music and movie downloads, as well as streaming video? Heck, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is for it, saying in an interview last year on Slashdot that, "I love Apple products and iTunes and wish it were on my Android products too." (Note: with a third party app, you can already sync your iTunes library with an Android device).
  • iCloud: In theory, iCloud is a great concept. But due to its limitations, users are still gravitating to the Dropboxes of the world, which allow for cloud access for photos, documents, and contacts, from many devices. Hopefully, we'll see a new, improved iCloud as part of iOS 7 later this year. But in the long run if Apple expects people to pay what it's asking them to pay for iCloud, it should be a much more flexible service that includes support for other platforms.

Yeah, I know the odds of Apple ending its app isolation are a long shot. And yeah, I know Apple has a lot of disdain for the inelegant, fragmented world of Android.

But remember: the iPod didn't really take off until Apple created iTunes on Windows. Yes, that was a different era -- Apple the underdog, Microsoft at the height of its powers. But it worked out brilliantly for Apple.

This time, Apple would be working from a position of strength. Why not roll the dice on Android?

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Moon and Earth have common water source

May 9, 2013 ? Researchers used a multicollector ion microprobe to study hydrogen-deuterium ratios in lunar rock and on Earth. Their conclusion: The Moon's water did not come from comets but was already present on Earth 4.5 billion years ago, when a giant collision sent material from Earth to form the Moon.

Water inside the Moon's mantle came from primitive meteorites, new research finds, the same source thought to have supplied most of the water on Earth. The findings raise new questions about the process that formed the Moon.

The Moon is thought to have formed from a disc of debris left when a giant object hit Earth 4.5 billion years ago, very early in Earth's history. Scientists have long assumed that the heat from an impact of that size would cause hydrogen and other volatile elements to boil off into space, meaning the Moon must have started off completely dry. But recently, NASA spacecraft and new research on samples from the Apollo missions have shown that the Moon actually has water, both on its surface and beneath.

By showing that water on the Moon and on Earth came from the same source, this new study offers yet more evidence that the Moon's water has been there all along.

"The simplest explanation for what we found is that there was water on the proto-Earth at the time of the giant impact," said Alberto Saal, associate professor of Geological Sciences at Brown University and the study's lead author. "Some of that water survived the impact, and that's what we see in the Moon."

The research was co-authored by Erik Hauri of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, James Van Orman of Case Western Reserve University, and Malcolm Rutherford from Brown and published online in Science Express.

To find the origin of the Moon's water, Saal and his colleagues looked at melt inclusions found in samples brought back from the Apollo missions. Melt inclusions are tiny dots of volcanic glass trapped within crystals called olivine. The crystals prevent water escaping during an eruption and enable researchers to get an idea of what the inside of the Moon is like.

Research from 2011 led by Hauri found that the melt inclusions have plenty of water -- as much water in fact as lavas forming on Earth's ocean floor. This study aimed to find the origin of that water. To do that, Saal and his colleagues looked at the isotopic composition of the hydrogen trapped in the inclusions. "In order to understand the origin of the hydrogen, we needed a fingerprint," Saal said. "What is used as a fingerprint is the isotopic composition."

Using a Cameca NanoSIMS 50L multicollector ion microprobe at Carnegie, the researchers measured the amount of deuterium in the samples compared to the amount of regular hydrogen. Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen with an extra neutron. Water molecules originating from different places in the solar system have different amounts of deuterium. In general, things formed closer to the sun have less deuterium than things formed farther out.

Saal and his colleagues found that the deuterium/hydrogen ratio in the melt inclusions was relatively low and matched the ratio found in carbonaceous chondrites, meteorites originating in the asteroid belt near Jupiter and thought to be among the oldest objects in the solar system. That means the source of the water on the Moon is primitive meteorites, not comets as some scientists thought.

Comets, like meteorites, are known to carry water and other volatiles, but most comets formed in the far reaches of the solar system in a formation called the Oort Cloud. Because they formed so far from the sun, they tend to have high deuterium/hydrogen ratios -- much higher ratios than in the Moon's interior, where the samples in this study came from.

"The measurements themselves were very difficult," Hauri said, "but the new data provide the best evidence yet that the carbon-bearing chondrites were a common source for the volatiles in the Earth and Moon, and perhaps the entire inner solar system."

Recent research, Saal said, has found that as much as 98 percent of the water on Earth also comes from primitive meteorites, suggesting a common source for water on Earth and water on Moon. The easiest way to explain that, Saal says, is that the water was already present on the early Earth and was transferred to the Moon.

The finding is not necessarily inconsistent with the idea that the Moon was formed by a giant impact with the early Earth, but presents a problem. If the Moon is made from material that came from Earth, it makes sense that the water in both would share a common source. However, there's still the question of how that water was able to survive such a violent collision.

"The impact somehow didn't cause all the water to be lost," Saal said. "But we don't know what that process would be."

It suggests, the researchers say, that there are some important processes we don't yet understand about how planets and satellites are formed.

"Our work suggests that even highly volatile elements may not be lost completely during a giant impact," said Van Orman. "We need to go back to the drawing board and discover more about what giant impacts do, and we also need a better handle on volatile inventories in the Moon."

Funding for the research came from NASA's Cosmochemistry and LASER programs and the NASA Lunar Science Institute.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_science/~3/K9iV5zHcq5A/130509142054.htm

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Bangladesh fire kills 8 as collapse toll hits 930

Workers stand outside an 11-story building that houses the Tung Hai Sweater Ltd. factory and apartments after a fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, May 9, 2013. The fire broke out in the building Wednesday night, not long after the up to 300 workers of the factory went home for the day, killing at least eight people officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)

Workers stand outside an 11-story building that houses the Tung Hai Sweater Ltd. factory and apartments after a fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, May 9, 2013. The fire broke out in the building Wednesday night, not long after the up to 300 workers of the factory went home for the day, killing at least eight people officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)

A Bangladeshi woman holds a photograph of her missing daughter at a makeshift morgue near a garment factory building that collapsed in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday May, 8 2013. Dozens of bodies recovered Wednesday from the building were so decomposed they were being sent to a lab for DNA identification, police said, as the death toll from Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster topped 800. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)

Bangladeshi 6-year-old Nur Shanu, whose mother was killed in a building collapse, covers his nose and walks past a makeshift morgue in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday May 8, 2013. Dozens of bodies recovered Wednesday from the building were so decomposed they were being sent to a lab for DNA identification, police said, as the death toll from Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster topped 800. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)

Bangladeshi garment workers employed at Rana Plaza, the garment factory building that collapsed, wait to receive wages in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday May 8, 2013. Dozens of bodies recovered Wednesday from the building were so decomposed they were being sent to a lab for DNA identification, police said, as the death toll from Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster topped 800. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)

Workers wait outside an 11-story building that houses the Tung Hai Sweater Ltd. factory and apartments after a fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, May 9, 2013. The fire broke out in the building Wednesday night, not long after the up to 300 workers of the factory went home for the day, killing at least eight people officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)

(AP) ? A fire in an 11-story garment factory in Bangladesh killed eight people, including a ruling party politician and a top official in the country's powerful clothing manufacturers' trade group, as the death toll from the collapse of another garment factory building passed 900 on Thursday.

The fire Wednesday night engulfed the lower floors of the Tung Hai Sweater Ltd. factory ? which had closed for the day ? said Mamun Mahmud, deputy director of the fire service. The blaze, fed by huge piles of acrylic products used to make sweaters, produced immense amounts of smoke, he said.

The victims died of suffocation as they ran down the stairs, Mahmud said.

"Apparently they tried to flee the building through the stairwell in fear that the fire had engulfed the whole building," he said.

Had they stayed on the upper floors they would likely have survived the slow spreading fire, he said.

"We found the roof open, but we did not find there anybody after the fire broke out. We recovered all of them on the stairwell on the ninth floor," he said.

The blaze comes just two weeks after the collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza building, home to five garment factories, killed at least 930 people and became the worst tragedy in the history of the global garment manufacturing industry. The disaster has raised alarm about the often deadly working conditions in Bangladesh's $20 billion garment industry, which provides clothing for major retailers around the globe.

The identities of the victims of Wednesday's fire showed the entanglement of the industry and top Bangladeshi officials. The dead included the factory's managing director, Mahbubur Rahman, who was also on the board of directors of the powerful Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association. Along with him was senior police official Z.A. Morshed and Sohel Mostafa Swapan, head of a local branch of the ruling party's youth league.

Independent TV, a local station, reported that Rahman had plans to contest next year's elections as a candidate for the ruling party and had been meeting friends to discuss his future when the fire broke out.

It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which began soon after the factory workers went home for the day and took three hours to bring under control. Mahmud speculated it might have originated in the factory's ironing section. Officials originally said the building also housed several floors of apartments, but later said it was just a factory.

The Facebook page of the Tung Hai Group claimed it was a sprawling enterprise with a total of 7,000 employees at its two factories and the capacity to produce well over 6 million sweaters, shirts, pants and pajamas every month. The group claimed it did business with major retailers in Europe and North America.

The country's powerful garment industry has been plagued by a series of disasters in recent months, including a November fire at the Tazreen factory that killed 112 and the building collapse.

More than two weeks after the building in the suburb of Savar came crashing down, workers with cranes and other heavy equipment were still pulling apart the rubble and finding more bodies. On Thursday, authorities said the death toll had risen to 930 and it was unclear how many more people remained missing. More than 2,500 people were rescued alive after the April 24 accident.

Maj. Ohiduzzaman, an army official who uses only one name, said 100 decomposing bodies have been kept at a makeshift morgue at a local school ground and were to be sent to hospitals in Dhaka for DNA testing to identify them.

A total of 648 bodies have so far been handed over to the families, he said. Some of those who authorities have been unable to identify have been buried by the government.

Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus said in an article published in Bangladeshi newspapers Thursday that the tragedy was a "symbol of our failure as a nation."

"The crack in Rana Plaza that caused the collapse of the building has only shown us that if we don't face up to the cracks in our state systems, we as a nation will get lost in the debris of the collapse," he said, urging the government and citizens to work together for reforms.

He also urged global brands not to abandon the country, saying that the workers in the factories ? which often subcontract from the well-known brands ? should be seen as de facto employees of those companies.

The European Union's delegation to Bangladesh urged the government Wednesday to "act immediately" to improve working conditions in the country's garment industry.

Abdul Latif Siddiqui, head of special Cabinet committee to inspect garment factories that was formed days after the Rana Plaza collapse, said the government has closed 18 garment factories in recent days for failing to meet work and safety standards. He did not say whether the closures were temporary or permanent.

Officials say the owner of Rana Plaza illegally added three floors and allowed the garment factories to install heavy machines and generators, even though the structure was not designed to support such equipment.

The owner and eight other people including the owners of the garment factories have been detained.

Associated Press

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Friday, May 10, 2013

Paragraphs for Mac review: Easy markdown and static website creation all in one

Paragraphs for Mac review: Export markdown content for easy publishing online

Paragraphs for Mac is a new markdown editor available in the Mac App Store that allows you to write your posts in markdown, including embedding images, and easily export them for publishing on your own via FTP. Not only does Paragraphs export your posts, it creates an entire site for upload.

First things first, if you're looking for a markdown editor that simply creates posts for you to upload to Wordpress, Tumblr, or Drupal, Paragraphs isn't it. You'd probably be better suited with a markdown editor such as Byword or iA Writer]. The premise of Paragraphs is that you don't already have a site readily set up or want a simpler solution for creating blog posts with one click publish options and obviously, markdown support.

After you first launch Paragraphs, you'll be asked to enter some basic info including the name of your site and the URL. You can also jump into preferences in order to choose a theme. There are 3 themes to choose from but you are welcome to create and edit these themes if you have a working knowledge of HTML and CSS.

After you've got a few posts written and your site preferences worked out, just click on the file menu and choose the Publish option in order to create an export file of your site. From here you'll need to use an FTP client to upload it to your web server. For those not familiar with FTP and have no idea how it works, Paragraphs may not be the best option for you. For those who have an intermediate knowledge of publishing websites and want an easier way to publish changes and updates to their site, Paragraphs may be a perfect solution.

The good

  • Easy to use interface with options that are straight forward and easy to find
  • Auto-complete while writing markdown makes for a nice time saver
  • Publishing/exporting is clean and fast

The bad

  • No support or import for popular blogging platforms
  • Existing blog owners probably won't want to change what they're doing or start over
  • Not a lot of explanation which may frustrate some users

The bottom line

Paragraphs does what it says it does, creates an easy solution for publishing to a static website without a cookie cutter content management system like Wordpress.

When it comes to professional bloggers who write frequently, you'll most likely be better served with a service like BBEdit or MarsEdit that ties into your chosen platform or CMS. If you prefer a simpler editor, like I do, where you can simply preview and copy/paste markdown into your blogging platform of choice, both Byword and iA Writer offer this plus iPhone and iPad counterparts with iCloud sync.

That may leave you wondering who Paragraphs is suited for.

My answer would be for people somewhere in the middle that have some kind of working knowledge of FTP and prefer a more personal solution instead of a template blog on Wordpress or Tumblr. If you want a static website that you can edit and control locally and update with a simple FTP client, Paragraphs is for you.

    


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There's Not Much Prettier Than the Guts of an Old Nikon

If you love old SLRs, particularly classic Nikons, you owe it to yourself to spend a few minutes over at Clare's Wyoh Tumblr blog. At the request of a reader with a penchant for Nikon schematics, she scanned a few illustrations from some old manuals and posted them for all of us to ogle. Outdated or not, they're still gorgeous examples of old-school engineering.

There's s small gallery of schematics over on Clare's blog that you should really check out, but we're happy just staring at this artistic teardown. [Wyoh Tumblr via Coudal]

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Geologists study mystery of 'eternal flames'

May 9, 2013 ? "Eternal flames" fueled by hydrocarbon gas could shine a light on the presence of natural gas in underground rock layers and conditions that let it seep to the surface, according to research by geologists at the Department of Geological Sciences and the Indiana Geological Survey at Indiana University Bloomington.

A little-known but spectacular flame in Erie County, N.Y., is the focus of an article in the journal Marine and Petroleum Geology, co-authored by Agnieszka Drobniak, research scientist with the Indiana Geological Survey, and Arndt Schimmelmann, senior scientist in the Department of Geological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences.

The article results from a U.S. Department of Energy research grant to Schimmelmann and Maria Mastalerz, senior scientist with the Indiana Geological Survey and graduate faculty member at the Department of Geological Sciences. The project seeks to identify natural gas seeps in Indiana and nearby states and assess their contributions to atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.

The researchers said much remains to be learned about the passage of gas from underground rock layers to Earth's surface -- occasionally in "macro seeps" strong and abundant enough to produce a continuous flame like the one in western New York.

"The story is developing," Schimmelmann said.

Giuseppe Etiope of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy is lead author of the Marine and Petroleum Geology article, "Natural seepage of shale gas and the origin of 'eternal flames' in the Northern Appalachian Basin, USA." Etiope, who has studied eternal flames around the world, said the New York flame, behind a waterfall in Chestnut Ridge Park, is the most beautiful he has seen.

Not only that, but it may feature the highest concentrations of ethane and propane of any known natural gas seep. Approximately 35 percent of the gas is ethane and propane, as opposed to methane, the dominant constituent in natural gas. Ethane and propane can be valuable byproducts in the processing of natural gas.

By analyzing the gases and comparing them with gas well records from the region, the researchers concluded the gas fueling the Chestnut Ridge Park flame originates from Rhinestreet Shale, an Upper Devonian formation about 400 meters deep. It reaches the surface through passages associated with faulting caused by tectonic activity.

At the New York site, the researchers identified numerous "micro seeps" of gas, apparently from the same source that fuels the eternal flame. This suggests that such seeps, if they are numerous and widespread, could make a significant contribution to atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

The researchers also studied a larger eternal flame at Cook Forest State Park in northwestern Pennsylvania. They determined that flame, in a continuously burning fire pit, is not a natural seep but a leak from an abandoned gas well. The source is thought to be a conventional gas reservoir, not shale.

Mastalerz said naturally occurring methane sources are believed to account for about 30 percent of the total methane emissions in Earth's atmosphere. Natural gas seeps are thought to be the second most significant source of naturally occurring methane emissions, after wetlands.

But finding seeps is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Last year, the researchers surveyed a region of Kentucky that is geologically similar to western New York -- and where "burning springs" figure in local history and folklore -- but turned up no evidence of escaping natural gas.

Schimmelmann said researchers have found elevated levels of carbon dioxide in caves, possibly resulting from methane that is converted by microorganisms to carbon dioxide gas as it seeps slowly toward the surface. Carbon dioxide is also a greenhouse gas, but it is 20 times less effective at trapping heat than methane.

The findings suggest natural gas seeps occur in areas that have experienced tectonic activity, and it may be easier to find them in caves, which capture and concentrate gas when it reaches the surface. A next step in the research, planned for this summer, is to continue the search in areas of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia where gas-bearing shale underlies cave systems.

Funding for the research comes from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/9VmXU7DZmZA/130509090731.htm

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