I don't know if I agree with this, for me the past several years of indie software development have been marked by depression, alcoholism, loneliness, and heart-break. I released an iPhone video game back in 2010, took two years to make, 1000 graphic files I drew by hand, and 20,000 lines of code. And it fell flat on its face; how can someone NOT get depressed when this happens to them? There are probably thousands of indie developers who never make a profit -- is this article referring to developers with "normal" jobs or indie devs?
I would describe your job as "sole proprietor" rather than as "software developer". It doesn't seem to be the software development that's giving you problems, but rather the difficulty of running a small business in the gaming industry.
Black Ops 2 is a phenomenal 3D experience, and I have a lot of other games for PS3 that support 3D as well. Extremely stupid article, I plan to play 3D games for years to come, and watch more 3D movies in the future. I think 3D > 4K. I would MUCH rather watch a movie in 3D than 4K, but that's just me, but I'm sure it applies to a lot of other people as well.
The term app was first used by Apple since at least the early 80's and even Mac OS X and iOS(and NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP) use".app" as the extension for applications. Steve Jobs was using the term "app" long, long before it was popular.
Let's be fair though, there are far more organizations capable of building games than can build rockets. Teenagers in basements can and do kick-start game companies but so far it seems as though rocket building is still in the domain of governments and dot-com millionaires. That is the difference that is relevant; barrier to entry.
Well, most of these issues become nonexistent when you run Mac OS X on a solid state drive. And it seems that that has been the direction Apple has been heading in (to make OS X more like iOS) and non-coincidentally all the iOS devices use solid state drives. I have installed Lion on a Mac Mini that has similar specs as my Macbook Air (except for the solid state drive) and I can see what the author is talking about -- It takes 10 minutes to boot up the Mac Mini and 10 seconds to boot up the Macbook Air. Even very large documents auto-save very fast on the MBA, so not a big issue there either. Considering that all computers will use solid-state drives eventually, all these issues disappear. Not to mention that when we get used to Mac OS X, Apple is trying to push forward and there is going to be change that people don't like so much. You either move forward or you get left behind in this industry.
