From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-03-21T15:48:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Why no TextMate for Linux?

On Sunday 21 March 2010 12:35:12 am Seebs wrote:
> > In fact, that's exactly what they do anyway -- they just charge an
> > additional, arbitrary "smartphone" fee on top of it if you happen to be
> > using a smartphone. And you're saying it's because of bandwidth? With
> > what they're charging for bandwidth, you'd think that's already built
> > into the bandwidth plan -- and it has to be, to some extent, given that
> > my "non-smartphone" can already download apps, music, and video, and can
> > message/email said music/video to others.
> 
> It may well be, but I suspect that in practice, the difference in network
> load between a phone that watches youtube and a phone that browses plain
>  text web sites is pretty large.

Certainly. But again, that's something which can be dealt with in practice, 
not pre-emptively.

> > Well, again, it comes down to compiling Ruby vs compiling your C program.
> > If they can compile Ruby, there's no compiling needed for your Ruby
> > script, it just runs -- so it's still exactly one compile step.
> 
> Except that, in practice, "I need to install a new programming language" is
> a bigger deal than "I'll run this thing which uses existing standard
>  tools".

Well, except in this case, they're pretty much the same thing.