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by ajg1977 16y ago
Doesn't seem like it unfortunately. IIRC previous streamed events have had a placeholder page up by now.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Apple doesn’t give a damn about companies with business models that can’t afford a 70/30 split. Apple’s running a competitive business; competition is cold and hard. Why not allow developers and publishers to set their own prices for in-
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Yes they do, but how much depends on your rating and amount of competition. A few months ago I killed a $1.99 app that hadn't been updated in over a year, yet 3-4 people were still buying it a day. I just felt bad charging for something I h
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Really, all this talk of introducing "higher quality" digital music is the record companies looking for the next way to keep you paying for content you already own. I can even understand their fear. Until now every format has had a mass mar
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by ajg1977 16y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how virus/malware/phishing authors blow holes in their efforts by failing to correctly reproduce simple sentences. "Finder Requires You Administrator Password" Really? You couldn't do a 30 second web search to fi
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by ajg1977 16y ago
~4000 employees generating revenue of 760m, which vendors get a big chunk of, doesn't seem super impressive. I mean it's a nice amount of income, but it doesn't seem very 'whoa..'.
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The 401(k) generation is beginning to retire, and it isn't a pretty sight.(online.wsj.com)
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by ajg1977 16y ago
"We haven't changed our policies, we're just enforcing them differently" - the 2011 catchphrase for platform providers
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by ajg1977 16y ago
What's going to get really interesting is seeing where Apple draw the line with "subscription apps". The Rhapsody and Magazine apps of this world seem fairly clear cut. Kindle is somewhat less so (since books aren't a subscription service -
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Honestly, doing this backend work is pretty trivial. Aside from Windows Phone that is, where everything must be in managed code (doh). But iPhone / Android is trivial, like literally a couple of days for a moderately complex app with storag
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by ajg1977 16y ago
When you think about it, using Windows phone is actually Plan B - and while that horse might be in last place at least it's a horse. Plan A was to internally develop their own hardware, running their own OS, offering customers items from t
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Plan B: Fire a couple of execs and keep following the strategy that got us to this point.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
it doesn't need special apps written for it, it can run the same software as any Linux userland This type of fundamental failure to understand the consumer space is exactly what's driving Nokia into the ground. Consumers don't give a fig
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by ajg1977 16y ago
The point is that nobody has the job of "dishwasher". It's one of those tasks that falls between the cracks of everyone's job description - and if you're a startup those cracks can be pretty damn big. His CEO is showing by example what he e
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by ajg1977 16y ago
I wonder what the figures for iOS would be if you included non-phone devices such as the iPod touch and iPad. Come to think of it, maybe these should start to be classed as smartphones. After all, if a smartphone is a phone that can act as
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by ajg1977 16y ago
My Windows 7 PC boots up in < 30 seconds, BIOS included.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
It's ironic that Jeff espouses the benefits of writing, yet nearly all of his blog posts are simply brief snippets of text that link together larger paragraphs written by others. Almost every time I visit his blog I come away wondering what
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by ajg1977 16y ago
The article is misleading (although the HN headline is correct!) - the $20k is for compromising Chrome on OSX / Win7. The CR-48 is just an extra price for anyone who does so and is not a candidate target.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Nah, I don't think so, if only because it's still really really early in the mobile revolution. But this is really big for Android devices (that support the spec...) for three other reasons: 1) It gives them a huge library of premium titles
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Sony announce PlayStation Store, PlayStation framework for Android(engadget.com)
19 points by ajg1977 16y ago|13 comments
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by ajg1977 16y ago
It doesn't take much to get on the front page of HN these days.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
I lived a few blocks from there for a couple of years. it's an awesome area to have an office. Trivia: just a few hundred meters down the street is the clown building where the bus blows up at the beginning of the film Speed.
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MLB'11 adds support for severely disabled players(gamasutra.com)
1 points by ajg1977 16y ago|0 comments
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Using buffer overflow exploits to patch ROM based products(insomniacgames.com)
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by ajg1977 16y ago
"Algorithms are for people who don't know how to buy RAM" is one of those soundbites that people seem to find clever, but really shows a startling lack of understanding. You can chuck as much RAM as you like at your problem but it's not goi
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Tripit acquired by Concur for $120 mil(blog.tripit.com)
5 points by ajg1977 16y ago|0 comments
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Netflix to remove "Add to DVD Queue" from 'streaming devices'(blog.netflix.com)
4 points by ajg1977 16y ago|1 comments
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by ajg1977 16y ago
1) explicit != highlight 2) it'd actually be quite trivial, no notice required. If the user opts out of sharing a specific type of data, the app just gets an empty entry. Apps already need to deal with the fact a user may not have any photo
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Not really. That implies Facebook are offering a way to push your phone number and data into third party apps. What they are infact doing is now allowing third-parties to request extra, and very very personal, information about you using th
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Apple to cut down on 'free'apps that rely on external subscriptions?(appleinsider.com)
7 points by ajg1977 16y ago|0 comments

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