ChrisLTD

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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
That's exactly right. Owning a lot of valuable "stuff" makes you wealthy even if you don't have a lot of cash.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Turntable.fm is a lot of fun. I've been using it with offsite coworkers to create a sort of shared music space. Unfortunately, it seems like only a matter of time before it gets shut down by the RIAA or riddled with enough advertising to ma
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
It might help Palm/HP to switch to a candybar style, but I'm glad companies are willing to diverge from the template Apple has created. We already have an iPhone, you've got to make your device different some how. More importantly, it gives
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
DHH is probably right that most people only use a fraction of apps, and that should mean any phone could succeed versus the iPhone or Android phones. However, I doubt people are rational enough to realize this when they go out to buy their
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Isn't that why Steve Jobs wears the same thing every day?
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
I agree with the author that Flash still makes sense for some projects. "HTML5" isn't an attempt to obviate Flash, it's a collection of specifications that pick away at some of the use cases of Flash like basic video and audio playback. Wit
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Exactly. Not many organizations are going to have the time, money or expertise to make native apps for all the platforms popping up. With some CSS media queries you can have one web app that works on PCs/laptops, iPhones, android phones, iP
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
As a primarily front-end dev guy, these auto updates make me happy. I don't have to waste time working around old browser quirks if the vast majority of people are on the latest and greatest browser versions.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Agreed. At the very least we should be demanding hardware that isn't tied to a particular OS. It's bad enough that we're often legally tied a specific wireless carrier. If Apple or Samsung releases an update for my phone that I don't like o
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Luckily Apple is patenting this technology, so folks with other makes of camera phones wont have these restrictions.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
I was taught in journalism school to mention the subject's age when possible. It doesn't take a lot of space and can be valuable information in some cases.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
I think it's true that a lot of people sabotage themselves this way. A more productive defense mechanism would be to tell yourself you could always have tried harder when you fail, even if that's not necessarily true. On a related note, som
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Bingo, thanks for saying it better than I could. The Kindle ecosystem is a perfect example.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Apple makes their money from hardware sales, so their services will be locked or closely tied to their devices. While Gruber may be right with Apple bringing a web interface to some of iCloud, it won't be their focus. And that makes perfe
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
It simply doesn't make business sense for Apple to build a suite of web apps. Their business is built on hardware sales. Web apps commoditize hardware. They don't want customers asking themselves why they're buying shiny expensive Apple har
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
For straight content delivery companies, making a web app should be the first priority. A native app isn't going to offer much in the way of enhanced functionality, and your effort will likely be diluted while you chase multiple platforms.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Sure, thinking of good features is the first step. But then isn't the next step figuring out how to make money?
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Exactly. A lot of Apple's big announcements today were about features that create lock-in. Your music is tied to a $25 iTunes subscriptions; your reading list, email, calendar, to do list, and office documents are tied to iCloud; they even
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Great point!
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
I've accidentally activated that feature many times :-) As an aside, I really wish Apple would make it easier to add bookmarklets to Safari on iOS. It'd be useful for more than just Instapaper.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
But will people be unsatisfied with Reading List enough to bother looking for alternatives on the App Store? Non-Apple platform sync seems to be the biggest missing feature, but what else is there that folks would pay for?
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Marco is in a tough position because he depends on revenue from only one app available on only iOS. It's a tough break, I'm sure he didn't expect anything like this before the Lion preview. I hope his business can survive.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
The biggest problem for Marco is that adding articles to Instapaper on your iOS devices is difficult. Adding a bookmarklet on iOS takes 3 or more steps that were difficult even for a grizzled nerd like me. Reading List has absolutely no suc
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
There is already some precedence for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Music_Entertainment
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Maybe Twitter can convince Google to sue Kootol for infringing on their logo. http://www.kootol.com/Images/Kootol_Logo.png
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
If having good teachers is a priority, then teachers should earn whatever is required to lure qualified people away from private-sector employment.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
"Nokia is now on track to release at least one Windows Phone handset in 2011 with a dozen more in 2012." A dozen! With a dozen models on the market how are customers supposed to choose? Nokia should slow down and put as much TLC as possib
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Kudos to Microsoft for doing more than trying to create their own copy of iOS. Microsoft's biggest strength is the Windows ecosystem, and if they are able to leverage it in a userfriendly touch-based environment, tablets based on Windows 8
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
I agree that it's nice to have the URL bar double as the search bar. I've been patiently waiting for Apple to combine them in Safari so I don't have to remember two very different keyboard commands for getting to them. Safari could also use
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
They could automatically unhide the URL bar when you start typing into a form.

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