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by apike 13y ago
This is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how you could gather enough metrics from using the logo for one day to evaluate its suitability. My guess is that the daily effect of the logo on the site's metrics would be low.
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by apike 13y ago
It's unlikely the Logic Pro team were disclosed on the iOS 7 design direction before WWDC. Even if there was a push to "flatten" Logic, it would have been too late in the cycle to do it for this release.
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by apike 13y ago
Thanks Zach. I don't think the changes were directed towards the web either - they were a side effect: > As a side effect, they’ve embraced conventions that will be hard to emulate with commodity hardware or web tech.
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by apike 13y ago
The Apple founders would be unable to get funding these days. They wouldn't even get a meeting. This was true in the 70s as well. The Apple founders had to rely on revolving credit from the parts suppliers to get the parts they needed to
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by apike 13y ago
Well for one, modern JavaScript engines are considerably faster than Ruby.
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by apike 13y ago
All good points. The big difference with the bridge going to Objective-C, though, is that I believe it is now possible to build a native UI by calling right from JavaScript to Objective-C. Impact is interesting for games and canvas-like ren
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by apike 13y ago
My guess is that this would be fast enough to build almost any Mac app and many iOS apps. The bigger question for me is, how gross would it be to deal with the "Objective-C-ness" of the Cocoa APIs through JavaScript?
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by apike 13y ago
Collecting and using my private info to, say, recommend friends in their UI is something I could imagine a product manager doing on purpose. Creepy, but you can see why they would think this is helpful. Spamming every number in my phone boo
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by apike 13y ago
Maybe I'm naive, but it seems just so insanely bad that I assumed no product manager or engineer would intentionally cause this behavior.
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by apike 13y ago
Of course it was a bug. It seems clear to me they were experimenting with some texting functionality where Path would notify users of things, it made it to production with bugs, and some subset of users got this terrible behaviour. Never as
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by apike 14y ago
The process described only works in the US. Internationally, you need to contact DNB and go through the multi-week horror. Eduardo appears to be in Brazil.
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by apike 14y ago
Upon actually completing the form, it currently responds that it is "currently unavailable". Still, I'll definitely be bookmarking this and coming back - if the article is correct, this is really helpful. Will be good to hand to clients too
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by apike 14y ago
> maybe you're bombarding your magazine with too much content in the first place As a mobile developer, I see this attitude as very dangerous. When an aspect of user experience is prohibitively difficult to achieve with somebody's pet p
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by apike 14y ago
> Teams admins want better control of data within a Team Some admins do I'm sure. We had to cancel Teams because of this. :( Let me explain: most people at Steamclock sync personal stuff in their Dropbox, and we want to also share a lar
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by apike 14y ago
We were on Dropbox for Teams but these kinds of problems forced us to go back to the personal accounts plus shared folders model. The problem is, our shared folders DO count towards the individuals' space limits. So, we have seven people's
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by apike 14y ago
In reflection, I suppose this is more about making any live-action promo video, rather than being app-specific.
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How to make a live-action app video(allenpike.com)
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by apike 14y ago
I fon't think resale value is why most worry about it, but ptobably some. If scratches decrease resale value so much, it seems those in the market for a luxury car should seek out a scratched one.
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by apike 14y ago
Indeed. I don't intentionally damage new things, but people are often surprised that I don't agonize over keeping my phone, car, or laptop looking brand new. The idea of a scratched Honda sort bothers people, but idea of a scratched Audi ma
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by apike 14y ago
It's unusual for Apple to hype something like this, but in that note they mention Mansfield's semiconductor team "have ambitious plans for the future". I doubt that simply refers to making the A7 faster and more power-efficient.
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by apike 14y ago
> Scott Forstall will be leaving Apple next year > Jony Ive will provide leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) across the company And thus ended the reign of skeuomorphism at Apple. Or, at least, the reign of hyper-reali
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by apike 14y ago
I have all my data, media, and documents in Dropbox (80GB) and while I have 11255 zero-byte files, none of them are likely Dropbox's fault. Most of them are empty logfiles, .svn and .git noise in old projects, and the like.
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by apike 14y ago
If true, that is a really awesome hack. I've always assumed the performance problems were more about O(n^2) simulations, such as every Sim evaluating every route for driving to work, etc. If it's mostly graphics bound this could be a big he
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by apike 14y ago
I've long been a SimCity fan, but every edition of the game has suffered from performance problems. It's fine when your city is small, but once it gets large enough to be interesting, it's unbearably slow. I've learned that the real minimum
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by apike 14y ago
Of course not - we have competition already as a matter of fact. I'd be interested to know what would be different about it other than the marketing.
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by apike 14y ago
The price updates within a day, and you get sales reports daily with a delay of a few hours, and a mix of old and new price sales on the first day. So it's possible, but the feedback loop of the charts means that this kind of measurement is
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by apike 14y ago
Thanks a lot! We have two projects in the lab: - Party Monster, a general casual DJ app with crossfade, queueing, etc. - Event DJ, a more generalized and pro version of WeddingDJ that could be marketed to conferences, small theatres, etc.
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by apike 14y ago
Thanks! Icons are huge on the App Store, an excellent one is a must have. We've done some experimenting with marketing, but couldn't figure out any strategy that could convert a bride or groom for $3.50 (the amount we net after Apple's cut)
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by apike 14y ago
Intuitively, I'd agree. When we release the upcoming major version (iPad support, advanced queueing, etc) I'd like to try $10. On the other hand, after 1.5 years at $5 we've been trying $2, and revenue has been consistently higher since the
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by apike 14y ago
Two years ago, when we started Steamclock, we spent our first two months building a niche iPhone app. We've done point releases but not added much, yet today it pays our rent. http://www.steamclocksw.com/weddingdj/ We haven't done any ser

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