JohnTHaller

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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Firefox will likely remain supported on XP for even longer than Chrome. Firefox was still supporting Windows 2000 when Chrome was originally launched... at which time Chrome only ran on Windows XP or better. At the time of Chrome's l
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
If you bought the original G1 with Android on it (mine is still hiding in the back of my desk), it's not much different. You have to start somewhere.
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
How much did the loss of sleep last night cost the above poster in their job the next day? It isn't about how much money you have, it's about how valuable your time is.
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
300 million.
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Dropped from 140 to 114 in just the few hours since the story broke.
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
The point of the original experiment was to have the charges be near-zero but tiered with respect to the other items available. It could easily be adapted to another country and currency. And it wasn't a buy as many as you want thing
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
I'm a big fan of a lot of these 'back of the napkin' and 'seat of our pants' origin stories of the standards we often take for granted today. It always helps me appreciate what we have and the possibility that we c
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Gold iPhone is best. best. best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7-RetY7fGo
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
For the RT, it's marketing (which was lame), confusion (it says it's Windows but it won't run any actual Windows apps), and a lack of any compelling apps. It's Microsoft trying to use their dominance in Windows to exten
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
It's also worth pointing out that Safari's UI is not open source and not part of WebKit. Additionally, I find Chrome's UI (which is open source) superior to Safari, but it's subjective, of course.
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Saying Chrome is a fork of Safari as if it's a bad thing and the only word on the subject is a bit disingenuous. Safari is built on WebKit which is built on KHTML (which predates Apple having their own browser). Chrome was also built
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Every time the fact of Apple not permitting other browsers is brought up, someone always says "Yes they can" and points out Chrome, Opera, etc. But they can't. Apple won't allow any code interpretation in apps. That m
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Of course they will. Everyone was worried that they'd turn on the whole 'only run apps signed with an Apple ID' in Mac OS X, too. They did. Sure, you can manually turn it off if you're an advanced user, but most users
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Those 50c saving bring the average DOWN since they're below the average savings of $1.08. On average, Amazon is an even better deal than just a 50c cheaper album.
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Right, but iOS 7.0.1 is just fixing the critical bugs that should have been caught before release. It'll take more like a point version to fix all the bugs in Mobile Safari: http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-i
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
You know that the majority of US cities house less than a million people, right? Seattle, San Francisco, Detroit, Boston, Denver, Washington DC, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Miami, etc. There are only 9 cities in the whole US with over a million p
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One more day in San Francisco to take meetings and explore. Suggestions?
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
And, at the same time, Verizon was forced to push the iPhone to customers who otherwise wouldn't want it because they had to buy a certain number to get Apple to let them sell the iPhone in store... and Verizon is on the hook for upwar
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
We were discussing quality and innovation. If you want to talk sales, Android smartphones had nearly 5x the sales of iOS smartphones last quarter.
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Yes, it's amazing how much Android has lagged, releasing best-in-class phones like the HTC Once and Sony Xperia Z1 that have no match in the iOS world (and that cost the same as Apple's 'low-end' 5C). As well as inexpen
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Not quite as fluid as some people think. Gold has been tacky for a while now, at least in the states.
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
You missed the obvious sarcasm in the post. Apple did colorful things before Nokia's phones, but Nokia did multi-colored phones before Apple did. And, using Apple's logic that just because it's a phone makes it different (s
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Yeah, but Nokia did it with phones first, so Apple should respect that. The same way Apple claims all sorts of things were unique and patentable because they did them on a phone touchscreen and not a PDA touchscreen (which is so TOTALLY
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
You can console yourself with the fact that the 5C isn't a value stream since it's priced the same as premium Android phones with better screens, processors, etc.
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
It may show Tim's direction toward China, but it also shows Apple's lack of full understanding of the Chinese market in that the iPhone 5C is priced at US$733 at launch in China. I'm sure they'll get some sales with the
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
They haven't done it since the rewrite. And it's disingenuous to state it as flat version numbers without context. 12.x was the old Opera-specific engine. Now, they're running on Chromium/Blink. Since the switch at v
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Which is odd, since I never claimed it was a dealbreaker. I just said that's why all the browsers on iOS are slower than Safari. It artificially keeps Safari's performance high relative to competing browsers (well, Safari skins)
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
And your point is? It was wrong, anti-competitive, and anti-consumer then. It's the same now. It's just being done by a different company that doesn't have a monopoly (thanks to Android).
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Opera will ship it for Linux in the future, they're focusing on Windows and Mac first, though. On Sept 6th, they posted the Opera 17 preview builds and stated "Thanks in advance for your bug reports and comments. To save some of
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by JohnTHaller 13y ago
You're confusing two different things here: 1. Not being able to use JIT is just the anti-competitive part that Apple does to people who ship UIs/skins over Mobile Safari. 2. The more insidious bit is that you can't run inter

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