Samuel_Michon

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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Like John Gruber, I think that calling the new 10" model ‘iPad Air’ hints at a future ‘iPad Pro’. Ever since the release of the original iPad, I’ve been hoping for a larger iPad. However, the reason I want such an iPad is so that apps
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
I don’t think there are any general stats on what video editing professionals use, as they work in a lot of different fields. Big budget motion picture editors have always used Avid and most will continue to do so – MPEG and ACE stats are t
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Also, if he wants to make his publisher happy, he should write in Adobe InCopy. http://www.adobe.com/products/incopy.html
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> This happened in 2011 with Final Cut Pro. Apple lost a lot of video editors, and my understanding is that their mindshare didn't bounce back. That’s a myth. Out of the 100 editors I know only 2 left for Premiere, and they would’ve
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
It has to do with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) financial measures. Because the way Apple was reporting its revenues, it was forced to charge for iPod touch software upgrades while it didn’t have to do so for iPhones softw
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/22/apple-announces-170m-ipads-...
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
When the iPhone and iPod touch were released, that was exactly the solution Apple went with. They hosted a directory (www.apple.com/webapps) where everyone could submit their iPhoneOS optimized web app to be listed. Many of the web app
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> the average U.S. commute is around 32 miles round-trip That’s the same commute as I had during my time in high school. I did it on a bike, for 4 years, as did everyone else in my class. (I grew up in the Netherlands, where this is norm
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Nokia still sells loads of cheap phones that come with a proprietary OS.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Academi (née Blackwater) is a private company, which has been hired by US police departments for crowd control. For example, they were sent to New Orleans, right after hurricane Katrina plowed into the Gulf coast. http://en.wikip
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> Until Soylent there wasn't a non-medical meal replacement that at least theoretically tried to be everything you need. Here are a couple that predate Soylent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongbap http:/
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
How will buying street food in Africa get Africans to use condoms and how does it help to find cures for HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria? Because that’s where the proceeds of product(RED) go to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Eh, no. Hitslink’s data[1] comes from approximately 160 million visitors per month. StatCounter’s data[1] comes more than 3 million websites. Caveat: StatCounter’s hasn’t been reporting very reliable global stats lately, it’s most useful fo
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Hmm, I think you don’t really understand the Gretzky quote “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been” and how it’s used in this context. If you skate to where the puck is now, you’re just following others, stuck in
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Hitslink and Statcounter.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> Apple is skating to the puck Given the rest of your comment, I think you meant ‘Apple is skating to where the puck is going to be’.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
All the numbers and percentages I used came from Apple’s financial statements. Mac sales have gone up significantly since 2009, but the NPD survey you quoted is in line with what I wrote earlier. As for Mac Pros: of course that market is ti
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Currently, Android has 80% smartphone market share. Android smartphone market share growth is over. And yet, iPhone web usage share remains much higher than Android’s.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Android phones came a year after the release of the iPhone. 5 years later, the iPhone still dominates web usage share. I see a similar trend when comparing web usage share between Android tablets and iPads.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Given that Samsung hasn’t shipped any 4k displays so far, I suspect Apple would rather go with a manufacturer that has experience building them and with whom they don’t have such a complicated relationship. I’m thinking of 4k panel makers l
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Who knows. If it weren’t for Android, perhaps Maemo, WebOS, and Windows Phone might have had a shot.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> Google is smearing the smartphone market, at the expense of Apple's cash engine That statement is not borne out by data. Apple’s iPhone revenues and market share have continued to rise since inception. Please remember that Apple w
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Apple sold about 30 million Mac notebooks in the US in the last 4 years. Even if only half of those units were bought by unique individuals, that makes for 5 percent of the US population, a far cry from 0.1 percent. (Background data: Apple
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> I remember hearing once that Samsung Group alone make up around 20% of the South Korean economy It was. Right now, South Korea GDP is 1687 trillion Won. Samsung’s revenue is 252 trillion Won. That makes Samsung’s share 15 percent. Hyu
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
4K UHD is 85% more pixels than the 13" rMBP’s internal display. Driving 2 Thunderbolt Displays, which the 13" rMBP can do, involves 6% more pixels than one 4K display at full resolution.
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> Can the 13" rMBP IGP handle 4K? Yes, it can handle 4K ‘Ultra HD’ over HDMI 1.4, like the 15" rMBP. The new 13" rMBP can also drive 2 Thunderbolt Displays plus the notebook’s internal display (which has the same resolutio
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
For those who don’t know the term ‘chaebol’: They’re South Korean business conglomerates, controlled by a chairman who has power over all the operations. Often, the leaders of the divisions are blood relatives. The chaebol have enormous inf
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
What exactly would you compare the new Mac Pro with? I can’t think of any other computer that is similar in size and features. Even disregarding form factor, energy consumption, and ports like Thunderbolt 2: I just configured a HP Z820 on H
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> There is a theory that Apple products are priced at more or less 1$ a day for their expected life span Using your MBP example, that would put it at $3 a day. You’d have to keep using the MBP for another 7 years for the ‘$1 a day’ rule
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by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
That is true, so it isn’t unprecedented, but when Apple announced that display, it also lowered the prices of its other displays to $699 and $999, which it continued selling. I believe that if and when Apple releases a 4K display, it will n

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