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by arn 14y ago
We aren't disagreeing. I agree, current execution sucks. READ my original post. I was just calling out dpe82's absurd absolute statement that they suck because all apps "do little to nothing to add to the content or user experience"... Imp
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by arn 14y ago
My point being is that your original opinion seems entirely predicated on the fact that Apps are worse experiences than mobile web. I think this is clearly wrong. For web-apps, I think native-apps can function much better. I guess we'll
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by arn 14y ago
There is no scenario where a mobile app could be superior to the web app?
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by arn 14y ago
Here you are just projecting your own underinfomed feelings about it on everyone else. Is there no situation where you see an app as being superior to the website? For AppShopper.com, yes the app is the superior experience to the mobile web
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by arn 14y ago
I don't think the easy answer is "all such things suck". You spend the time and money developing an app, and you want your visitors to know about the app. The prime candidates are those who visit your site on that device. So, the targeti
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by arn 14y ago
I like browsing news.google.com - seems to do a pretty good job at aggregating
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by arn 14y ago
I like namecheap. My biggest concern with them is they don't offer any sort of two factor authentication. It has made me look around for my more valuable domains.
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by arn 14y ago
Have you been through residency or are you pulling out "4 years ought to be enough" to be a specialist out of thin air?
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by arn 14y ago
As someone who went to medical school, this makes a lot of sense. 4th year of medical school was filled with elective time and could have been mostly skipped. Don't think combining that year with others would be hard at all. On the other ha
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by arn 14y ago
Same general thrust of Taskpaper, which is another to-do list based on a standard text file format. - http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5B3mTuC2Xg It's what I use for my todo list. This
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by arn 14y ago
Curiously, iPhone 5 was on the list last year (2011). That ended up being the iPhone 4S. http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/top-searches/iphone_five
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by arn 14y ago
An absurd, over-the-top, "WTF?" video that you want to share with other people, and (importantly) with catchy music.
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by arn 14y ago
try to drum up some support from the toucharcade forums http://forums.toucharcade.com/forumdisplay.php?f=13 ahead of time and you can try to submit to TouchArcade too (editorial side), but a ton of games come out every day, so it can be h
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by arn 14y ago
What's weird is that this has been a running argument for almost the entire existence of Apple. Here's the thing though -- Apple hasn't changed. They are simply closer to their goals then ever. I'm not saying it's right. But computer as
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by arn 14y ago
Not sure if it's "couldn't" or just didn't want to, if they really made little money on the game. But, there seems like there's more to this story. I haven't played the game... but having a popular free-to-download game and making money on
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by arn 14y ago
You're mixing your analogies. The correct analogy would be (roughly) "I guess most people would be pissed they spent $20,000 on a new car and were unable to easily service it themselves". And my answer to that is no, most people wouldn't b
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by arn 14y ago
Microwave parts do seem readily available, yet it's not been something that has been on your radar. Are you suddenly going to become proficient in microwave repair, or will you simply acknowledge that it's not in the realm of your interest
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by arn 14y ago
I'm not saying it's better that the hood is inaccessible. I'm saying it doesn't move the needle for me. Sure, if all things were equal, then yes, I'd prefer an accessible hood. But all things aren't equal. There are design tradeoffs. Wh
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by arn 14y ago
But that's because you know what a socket wrench is. Take it to an industry you don't know anything about, and see if that interest holds up, because that's what it's like for the majority of customers in any particular industry. Do you car
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by arn 14y ago
And, a hood inaccessible to me wouldn't materially impact my purchase decision of a particular car, since my ability to service my own car is pretty much zero. For example, I don't even know how one accesses the "engine" of the Teslas but i
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by arn 14y ago
As pointed out by arrrg, senior management (forstall) was also fired
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by arn 14y ago
Sure, I'll accept that. But it's a dismissive argument that (purposefully) misses the point. a: "I want the administration to increase funding for NASA" b: "Shut up! Send them money yourself!"
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by arn 14y ago
For the same reason that if someone votes for or advocates for a war, we don't say... "well, if you want to fight the (Iranians, or whatever), then go buy a gun and fight them." I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader why that is an absu
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by arn 14y ago
This is an absurd (yet common) response. And if you are for a war, why don't you buy a gun and go fight?
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by arn 14y ago
I'd argue their willingness to cannibalize their exisiting products is exactly why they are doing so well. The product that finally killed the iPod was the iPhone.
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by arn 14y ago
What's interesting actually is iBooks came after Classics App for iPhone which was basically the same. Bookshelf interface, page flipping: http://classicsapp.com Apple was certainly aware of it. Very popular app, and was in an Apple tv
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by arn 14y ago
Here's VA http://electionresults.virginia.gov/resultsSW.aspx?type=PRE&... Reporting at 100%. 50%/48% in favor of Obama.
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by arn 14y ago
Presumably Silver's projection is "priced in" to Intrade.
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by arn 14y ago
If the author is reading, can he/she specify what model of Mac was used? Update: He answered me on twitter: MacPro3,1
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by arn 14y ago
Yes, and Steve Jobs was also ousted from Apple for (in part) that reason. One of the articles even described Forstall as "mini-Steve". I'm just pointing out that "Forstall was a problem" isn't a new narrative that is being spun due to his

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