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by akmiller 14y ago
> Because Windows and Windows apps don't support resolution-independent UI scaling. If I'm not mistaken the new, formerly known as "Metro", UI is vector based and any applications built with the WPF which includes all Windows 8 GUI base
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by akmiller 14y ago
The best advice I could ever offer on this topic is to know your audience. If you have a server in the U.S. and you have a large customer base in China you will generally be better served by fewer larger requests than several smaller reques
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by akmiller 14y ago
I can only offer my opinion obviously, but I like the information that can be available at a glance. Launching my most often applications are also 1 click away instead of 2 or 3. However, that being said, my favorite part of Windows 8 (so f
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by akmiller 14y ago
I think flip-flopping in politics is often a politician changing his view in a short amount of time and not admitting to the prior held view. If a politician changes his view and publicly states that he held a very different view before but
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by akmiller 14y ago
I'd like to see someone provide a service in a similar vein to this but just for photos. What I'm thinking is a service that uses Glacier to store my photo library and some type of front end service (like dropbox) that keeps a low res versi
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by akmiller 14y ago
Have you never worked for a large corporation that owned or was owned by another entity. I have and I can tell you that while we were owned by someone else we still operated as an individual company. Their may have been some changes, but da
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by akmiller 14y ago
Why does Apple Insider continually use "Google" in this story instead of Motorola Mobility. Yes, Google owns them but they are still their own entity. It's silly to suggest that since a company owns another company that they oversee everyth
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by akmiller 14y ago
Samsung makes windows phones as well. In fact they are one of the first to announce Windows 8 device: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/samsung-windows-pho...
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by akmiller 14y ago
I despise Apple's practices, but I'm typing that on my MBP. In all fairness it is a company machine and my main reason for having it is that we do some iOS development. That being said, it's still one of the nicest laptops (as far as form f
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by akmiller 14y ago
This really messes with the way I work with images. I'll open base prototypes and start playing with changes not knowing at that point if I'll want to save them or not. If I end up keeping them, at that point I'd save as a new file. Seems l
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by akmiller 14y ago
You would still hope that an OS upgrade wouldn't leave your data in an unusable state! As someone above pointed out, it would've been pretty easy for the OS install to determine if you had feeds and export them into an open format and let t
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by akmiller 14y ago
And if you spent years and millions of dollars coming up with it and some other company somewhere else was doing the same and in the end you had very similar if not identical algorithms why is it that one of you is entitled to use your own
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by akmiller 14y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't it be possible for Google to take the Q, add more of the Android experience including the full Google Marketplace, create a nice bluetooth controller for it, and completely squash this thing? They'd
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by akmiller 14y ago
Those may be skewed though by the amount of people that simply choose tethering over getting a 3g enabled tablet/device. I'm one of those people as I have several devices (kindles and tablets) so I prefer paying for one data plan on my phon
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by akmiller 14y ago
Where Microsoft is going makes much more sense to me (I actually think Apple may be headed that direction too as each release of the desktop OS seems to add more and more iOS features). It seems like Microsofts end game is that you will hav
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by akmiller 14y ago
I assumed that sharing media to the Q would show up as a new intent in the Jelly Bean SDK but I haven't seen anything to that effect yet. Hopefully something like that will be in the SDK soon!
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by akmiller 14y ago
I don't see inclusion of 4G on any tablet devices as a plus. It drives up the cost slightly more and it has never really made sense for each device to have their own cellular connection. Most people who buy tablets are likely to have a smar
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by akmiller 14y ago
" and even if they try to repair it I can never forgive them for ie6." You can never forgive them for making the absolute best browser on the market at the time it was released? Don't blame Microsoft because there are people out there are s
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by akmiller 14y ago
Exactly, not sure why I got the down-vote above. You can't simply edit the app name and change it after the app has passed review.
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by akmiller 14y ago
No, you cannot change the App name once the application is in the app store. On top of that, all app names must be unique.
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by akmiller 14y ago
That's not true. Almost all decisions in court are made in light of similar cases that had been tried in the past. Therefore, it stands to reason that any decision made, whether for or against Google, could effect future decisions for compa
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by akmiller 14y ago
Why are people building frameworks to sit on top of yet another framework to try to write cleaner more maintainable code??? What is wrong with writing your core application logic physically removed from any of these frameworks. Why do peopl
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by akmiller 14y ago
What is your point exactly? I'm pretty certain the carriers do their homework before placing orders. They don't want a ton of inventory just sitting on their shelves. So the carriers expect to sell them and Samsung did sell them (doesn't ma
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by akmiller 14y ago
Maybe it's the version of Android? I just got the HTC One X and everything flies on that phone. No delays or lag on anything. Best phone I've used to date (and I've had all iPhones except the 4s).
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by akmiller 14y ago
> The (huge) sticking point is cross-platform development and work on Windows. It's still pretty good thanks to the work the Xamarin guys have done. We have a large .NET code based developed on Windows for Windows and out of curiosity o
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by akmiller 14y ago
One thing, many of these anti-IE articles seem to ignore is business outside of the United States. We are a global business and China's most popular browser (at least with users hitting our site) seems to be Maxthon which is based on the Tr
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by akmiller 14y ago
Try BrowserStack, it's awesome. I am not affiliated with them in any way, but we have to support several different configurations for our web application and it's pretty impressive. Much better than having several virtual machines locally w
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by akmiller 14y ago
I'd like the ability to have 16GB of RAM in a machine that's the size of an Air or Ultrabook. It seems at the moment, that is impossible to find.
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by akmiller 14y ago
I keep hearing the "lack of 3rd party apps" and I have to wonder, are people really using that many applications? I was on iOS for a long time and am now using WP7 and I guess I just don't understand what apps people are looking for?? What
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by akmiller 14y ago
I'm also a Windows Phone user and the Zune software on the phone is 2nd to none. However, I do not subscribe to Zune for the simple reason that my desktop of choice is Linux and OSX and Microsoft refuses to make a way for me to be able to l

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