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by ashu 18y ago
What is the lure going to be for people to stop moving to webapps, and suddenly embrace an open platform and installable apps? The fact that internet connectivity on a desktop vs. on your mobile device is different by an order of magnitud
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by ashu 18y ago
Couldn't have agreed more. It's one of the most refreshing articles I have read in a long time!
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by ashu 18y ago
Yes, they do. That's why Buxfer could use Amazon FPS for enabling person-to-person transfers, but we couldn't use PayPal, or do it ourselves.
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by ashu 18y ago
Your question should be an independent Ask YC thread. I want to know the answers too. (and I have none!)
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by ashu 18y ago
The "twice as fast" and "half the price" ads were rather disingenuous. The "most advanced operating system" -- what? that's true only if you consider how great it looks. Otherwise, we can easily rattle off many Unix variants which kick OS X
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by ashu 18y ago
You may have a different requirement from a product (OSS, etc. - I myself prefer to use Linux because of the open-ness) while others may have different (wanting it to look good, do the common things without a hassle) - but why is that a rea
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by ashu 18y ago
Funky, but bizarre and not sure it is very reader-friendly. (or even author-friendly, for that matter since most authors spend a lot more time reading and searching the stuff they write.)
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by ashu 18y ago
The grand-parent is merely suggesting that Pretty is good and ugly is bad. NOT saying that is the only thing that matters. So your comment is not a refutation. (and hence, I see no reason for sarcasm either.)
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by ashu 18y ago
Why not jailbreak? It's trivial, pretty much risk-free (you can always fully restore) and you are doing it only for testing this app -- and only until Apple approves you. You can at least make sure you get your app all debugged by the time
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by ashu 18y ago
certainly, it has got nothing to do with "India". perhaps, "native indian"
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by ashu 18y ago
As for me, I hope somebody builds a spectacular killer app for jailbroken iPhones so that part of the economy gets opened up. I love my iPhone and programming for it way too much. Also, this dude seems to belong to the typical "elitist" Mac
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by ashu 18y ago
Do you have any evidence to support your assertion(s)? How can you be so completely sure of what is going on strategically inside large organizations like Microsoft or Google?
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by ashu 18y ago
And one would have thought the commentators would actually do a better job than the O(1) work put in by the tech pundits. Do people NOT get the fact that Chrome is open-source JUST LIKE firefox, and to the extent that Adblock Plus is NOT A
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by ashu 18y ago
coz there are many of us who would like to read the details on linux. that's one reason.
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by ashu 18y ago
The reply is to an extreme douchebag who deserved that. I think it's a good idea to be firm and shut the trolls up quickly.
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by ashu 18y ago
I thought Processing.js was just one such framework to work on top of Canvas.
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by ashu 18y ago
Sorry, it was just an exaggeration. It was a snarky comment, mostly. I like the iPhone and the app store despite all these controls.
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by ashu 18y ago
Welcome to the App Store. A free market-place! Where only the anointed few will compete.
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by ashu 18y ago
There is a lot of discussion for two reasons: (1) the browser is really really good, and as some others have pointed out, it has the potential to really bring in a new era of computing. (2) anything to do with Google / Apple / Facebook is a
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by ashu 18y ago
That would be the most ridiculous reason they would want to develop a completely new browser for.
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by ashu 18y ago
That does /not/ say that add-ons are discouraged, merely that they chose to make a browser on their own because current add-ons (and backward compatibility) would restrict their power if they had chosen to revamp current browsers.
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by ashu 18y ago
get off your high pedestal and just don't upmod the story, will you?
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by ashu 18y ago
Or, completely out, perhaps? I mean, the race has been going on for a bit, now.
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by ashu 18y ago
please, allow extensibility in this, like firefox, and I am ready to say goodbye to Firefox!
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by ashu 18y ago
They say Buxfer merged with Obopay. Would have been nice if they (or Obopay) had told _us_ about that as well.
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by ashu 18y ago
And this screwed the founders, how? This article is w.r.t. VC partners robbing their Limited Partners of the investment opportunity. And even at that, as many others have pointed out, it's somewhat deliberately slanderous.
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by ashu 18y ago
Of all the things, they probably picked the least misleading bit to ban them. The "twice as fast" was an easier pick. Also, "half the price".
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by ashu 18y ago
I agree. But regardless of whether it is Apple or the music labels that are pushing it, it could explain the weird-ass closed format of the app-store.
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by ashu 18y ago
<unrelated thought> I think the real reason why Apple has kept such tight control over the App Store has nothing to do with the applications or quality, at all. It has to do with iTunes and music locking. If you opened up the device
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by ashu 18y ago
That would not be guaranteed to be correct since you don't know the precise time required for the dbs to be consistent.

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