The funny thing is, they were doing just fine for years with just their own money. Now that they have sooo much more money, they suddenly can't afford separate developers for different platforms... they should be able to hire 10x more people now.
I know who isn't buying it - anyone like me who doesn't live in one of those lucky 16 countries... It's still not available globally and it's not clear when it will be, so either they have a terrible supply of them, or there's still quite a lot of demand in the countries where it's being sold.
Re-shipping services like myus.com for the US and parcelmotel.com for the UK/Ireland make this an easily surmountable problem.
I'm in Ireland, ordered mine from the UK on a Sunday night, had it by Thursday. Supply seems to be stable by now and I imagine they'll start shipping further afield soon.
I don't know if I want a small or a big one though, and I can't just go to an Apple Store to try both on... As soon as I have a chance of checking how they feel on my wrist, I'll think about ordering them through some unofficial channels.
The thing I don't understand is that for me, Twitter and Facebook aren't a competition for blogs and RSS. They're different things and they're complementary.
Twitter and Facebook are for posting links to things you've found or broadcasting short messages up to a few sentences. Twitter is for doing those things publicly, Facebook is for doing those things within the circle of your friends.
Blogs (and RSS) are for posting longer pieces of text, articles and such things. When you want to post an article, you don't put it on Twitter (for obvious reasons) or Facebook (because it limits your audience), you put it on your blog (self-hosted or on a service like Blogger or Wordpress) and you post links to it to Twitter and/or Facebook. And when you want to invite your friends to a movie, you don't post that to your blog, you post that on Facebook.
So I'm not worried that Twitter and Facebook don't have RSS feeds - I wouldn't even want to see my friends' FB posts when I'm reading longer articles in my RSS reader. And I'm not worried about Facebook killing blogs and RSS - yes, most people post stuff on Facebook and not on their blogs, but that's because most people don't write anything that would resemble an article.
(I do agree though that Twitter should have some open API for getting someone's public tweets in a machine-readable form, but it doesn't have to be RSS, JSON is just fine.)
Wow, are you serious? I knew the US approach to these things is weird but this is shocking. How can you fire someone for briefly looking at something they happened to find on the web? You never know what you can find on the web and not everything is labeled, so you can always find something by accident.
There's a big difference between spending hours at work looking through porn and reading one article which happens to have one nude drawing at the bottom. I find it hard to believe that someone leading a big company in the US can not realize that.
We use feature branches and pull requests too for some features, but the general consensus is that they're more trouble than they're worth, because with any moderately complex branches you start getting conflicts after a few days. So most of the time we try to do everything on the main branch (develop).
Besides, even with feature branches I try to review things early instead of waiting for a pull request sometime later and then commenting "oh no, it's all wrong"...
