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Ballmer calls out Microsoft’s bogus revenue numbers over Azure, & we expand on his point to discuss an overall trend towards “hero CEOs”.
But the majority of our discussion this week is around the open sourcing of Swift, what Apple got really right & what areas still really need improvement.
Plus the real possibility of replacing your laptop with a large tablet, starting your first app the “easy way” vs the “hard way” & more!
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Show Notes:
Hoopla:
Ballmer: Microsoft’s cloud revenue numbers are “bullshit”
_Rather than reporting these figures, Microsoft has reported its annualized revenue run rate—a hypothetical value that describes what the company’s revenue ___would___be if the current level of sales were sustained over the full year
Swift.org – Welcome to Swift.org
We are excited by this new chapter in the story of Swift. After Apple unveiled the Swift programming language, it quickly became one of the fastest growing languages in history. Swift makes it easy to write software that is incredibly fast and safe by design. Now that Swift is open source, you can help make the best general purpose programming language available everywhere.
Not only is Swift on GitHub, but the Swift team will be working completely in the open. Apple did a spectacular job with the release. Not only do we have the source code, but we have the entire commit history for each project, a very detailed view into the Swift team’s development process, and access to the Swift evolution process. Everything you need to know is on Swift.org.
initial checkin, nothing much to see here.
The Swift Package Manager is a tool for managing the distribution of Swift code.
It’s integrated with the Swift build system
to automate the process of downloading, compiling, and linking dependencies.
TL;DR: Apache 2.0 License + Full Standard and Core Libraries included + Compiler + copyright owned by the contributor (i.e. no assignment or CLA) + good community structure and documentation + code of conduct.
Saying goodbye to Carousel and Mailbox
We’re committed to making the transitions from these products as painless as possible. We’ve posted more information on the Carousel blog and the Mailbox blog, and we’ll be communicating details directly to users of both apps in the coming days. Mailbox will be shut down on February 26th, 2016, and Carousel will be shut down on March 31st, 2016.
The post-pivot startup cost the storage company “well over” $50 million, according to multiple sources. And we’ve heard that that the price was around $100 million in cash and stock.