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by allwein 16y ago
The games themselves may be replaceable, if you're just starting out. But I don't think that anyone who has invested over a year in gaining achievements and advancement in FarmVille is going to just switch to a new farm game and start all o
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by allwein 17y ago
"I walk into a coffee shop and 'find' an unattended laptop sitting on one of the tables, so I decide to close it up and take it home with me." Nobody I've talked to seems to think that this scenario is okay or would consider the laptop "los
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by allwein 17y ago
I'm actually wondering if this indicates the possibility of a small Mac-focused developers conference in Apple's future. There was quite a bit of grumbling last year at WWDC from Mac developers because of the heavy focus on iPhone technolo
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by allwein 17y ago
I don't understand it either. Especially since everyone agrees that an analogous case is theft. "I walk into a coffee shop and see an unattended laptop sitting on one of the tables, so I decide to close it up and take it home with me." No
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by allwein 17y ago
This has been covered elsewhere, but I don't have a current link to it. Essentially, there is a California law that says if you find something, you're compelled to either return it to its owner, or turn it over to the police if the rightful
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by allwein 17y ago
I was always under the impression that Dilbert's company was some sort of sprawling conglomerate like G.E. that produces all sorts of products. Dilbert and his coworkers seem to bounce pretty freely between hardware and software products.
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by allwein 17y ago
No, he had it right. "I think the soonest I can get something published is in about a month ... it wasn't worth the extra friction to push them to the front of the line" So if he had made a big push, he could have gotten them published in a
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by allwein 17y ago
You're being disingenuous. Gruber didn't imply that they stole the prototype. He reported from his contacts at Apple that Apple considered the phone stolen rather than lost. Also, just because Gruber isn't a lawyer doesn't make his opinio
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by allwein 17y ago
I'd actually argue the complete opposite, that the race to the bottom has come and gone. You can't go any lower than $0.99 and free, and we hit those points a long time ago. This next bit is anecdotal. There's so much shovelware and apps
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by allwein 17y ago
Since this is the iPhone Developer Agreement we're talking about, Apple is the first party. The developer agreeing to the agreement is the second party. Any outside analytics company being used by the developer would then be the third par
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by allwein 17y ago
I don't understand the problem here. This would only ever cause an issue if Apple were to take a formally public API and make it private.
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by allwein 17y ago
I got the email as well. Right now I'm racking my brain trying to think of a minimum viable product that still takes advantage of the unique advantages of the iPad. Then I'm gonna try like hell to crank it out in the next 7 days to see if
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by allwein 17y ago
I don't know about you, but I fully intend on submitting my app so that it's approved by Apple and ready for release on launch day. However, I will set an availability date in the future. Then first thing April 3rd I'll be in line at the l
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by allwein 17y ago
There's a huge difference between "Willing to Relocate" and "Willing to Relocate anywhere". I currently live in Pittsburgh, and I'd be willing to relocate anywhere on the East Coast between Charlotte, N.C. and Boston. Most of my family an
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by allwein 17y ago
Check out solutions like StreamToMe in the app store. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/streamtome/id325327899?mt=8 It pairs with a small server program that does on-the-fly transcoding and streaming. I've been using for months on my iPhone
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by allwein 17y ago
I think this is nice as a proof of concept, but there's really no meat to it. I could see some pretty innovative games being possible with these methods though.
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by allwein 17y ago
First off, I'm going to disagree with the assumption that knowing you want to sell instantly lowers the price. Businesses get bought and sold every day. There's no shame in wanting to sell a company you've built. As long as you don't com
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by allwein 17y ago
That's the route I'm currently taking. I had been running Facebook ads linking directly to my "Farmville Timer" iPhone app on the app store. Then I realized I was getting no network affects from that. So I set up a fan page and I'm now ru
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by allwein 17y ago
The most exciting aspect of this for me is that the cost is less than the traditional $129 cost of OS X upgrades. So now I can not only get my OS X upgrade for free, but I can repeated early betas legitimately.
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by allwein 17y ago
They've eliminated the hardware discounts from the new $99 program.
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by allwein 17y ago
I don't think that a place called "Hacker" News is going to be overly concerned with popularly accepted definitions. Otherwise we'd all be complaining about the lack of 2600 articles and Kevin Mitnick blog entries.
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by allwein 17y ago
I think unalone has a point. My reading of your comment was along the lines of "With only 1 product (essentially), Apple is in a tenuous position because if the iPhone is unsuccessful or is beaten (by Android or whatever) then they're comp
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by allwein 17y ago
I'm going to assume that he's talking about "How to Become a C# Programmer" http://bit.ly/2OlHRI , unless he's published multiple ebooks within the last week.