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by bergie 14y ago
Phonegap has no such issues as it is now becoming an Apache project (see Apache Cordova ). Before Apache I would have steered clear as well, for exactly the reasons you're mentioning. Of course, a well-made native application will perform
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by bergie 14y ago
The problem is, how keenly will the various services let something like Firefox take their newsfeed? This is exactly what Twitter for example is trying to prohibit with their ToS. Just sharing is a lot more durable.
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by bergie 14y ago
A bit like Apple did with their "app banners": http://david-smith.org/blog/2012/09/20/implementing-smart-ap...
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by bergie 14y ago
Sharing something easily is one thing, but they seem to be planning to provide a newsfeed/wall with this. That'd be a big distraction that I hope they keep away...
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by bergie 14y ago
Geonames has a bunch of freely-available location datasets. I've used it in various apps for cities, countries, postcodes, etc: http://www.geonames.org/export/
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by bergie 14y ago
He explains the reasons pretty well in the original blog post http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...
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by bergie 14y ago
Arguably, it is Asus that has been taking the lead on tablet-laptop hybrids with their Transformer series. And even further with the PadFone...
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by bergie 14y ago
The part of the iPhone 5 presentation that made me think was when they emphasised how big headphone manufacturer they are. I remember similar boasting from Nokia (the biggest camera manufacturer at the time) around 2008. We know what happen
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by bergie 14y ago
It seems every comment you've made here in the past few days has been about Nokia's new device. Astroturfing or just a fan?
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by bergie 14y ago
If those two were the most important smartphone features, Nokia would have never have gotten to the trouble they're now in. They've had pretty much the best camera and navigation features ever since the circa 2007 N95. So, camera and maps a
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by bergie 14y ago
Maybe https://browserling.com/ would do
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by bergie 14y ago
The last I heard of this is that the Metro versions of the different browsers can run on Intel-based Windows 8 devices, but not on ARM-powered Windows RT. This is a shame. Firefox is great on Android.
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by bergie 14y ago
I don't remember the rent exactly. It may have been somewhat similar or slightly more expensive in Istanbul. But eating out is definitely more expensive there, unless you want to subsist on lahmacun.
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by bergie 14y ago
Sounds like a reasonable option. According to Wikipedia, the 11" MBA has a 35 Wh battery, so additional 60 Wh would indeed be a big improvement. From their Amazon specs ( http://amzn.com/B00449I41K ): High capacity 60-Watt-hour lithium ion
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by bergie 14y ago
Istanbul is awesome. Scenery is beautiful, and the waterpipe cafes don't mind if you sit there the whole day, as long as you order tea or something every now and then. Quite a lot of them have decent WiFi as well, though many sites are bloc
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by bergie 14y ago
This is essentially what I'm doing these days. I wrote quite a lot of my upcoming CoffeeScript book (and its example applications) this way in Istanbul. Spending the morning in one waterpipe cafe, then afternoon in another. Battery life was
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by bergie 14y ago
First of all, thanks for writing about your experiences! This was an inspiration for me when attempting to do something similar on a Transformer Prime. Unfortunately the Asus keyboard wasn't good enough, and that fell into misuse. However,
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by bergie 14y ago
From Twitter today: @JollaMobile working with the old Meego communities still. https://twitter.com/totoroki/status/248416652260151296 If you want to develop for @jollamobile, do qml-applications and expect a screen between 4-5 inches,
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by bergie 14y ago
Rumors say they're paying the makers of various "must have" apps to get them on their platforms. This probably explains why my old Symbian phone has Twitter, Foursquare, and Facebook. Since the companies making those applications are not re
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by bergie 14y ago
Maemo was indeed a tiny ecosystem, but I still believe they would've had a chance with the Qt strategy of providing a single development environment for their smartphones, Symbian, MeeGo, and even Android. Even just for the tiny Maemo 5 eco
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by bergie 14y ago
A lot of the million phones a day that they sell are featurephones with Nokia's own OSs. With Android they might be able to push margins slightly up there, and with the volumes they have that could be a big thing.
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by bergie 14y ago
The press has been making fun of "phablets", but people sure seem to be buying them: http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/16/3246378/samsung-galaxy-not... http://thedroidguy.com/2012/09/samsung-predicts-galaxy-note-...
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by bergie 14y ago
Didn't some of the old webOS devices have wireless charging as well?
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by bergie 14y ago
It makes the apps more approachable (“Hmm, this looks just like my real-world address book, it can’t be much harder to use”)." That was the argument behind Microsoft's acclaimed skeuomorphic Post-PC platform, Bob: http://www.bentuser.com
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by bergie 14y ago
Tech press often gets it wrong. The Galaxy Note "phablet" was another example. The original reviews called it ridiculous, but they actually sold well. And I've seen a lot of seemingly happy users with them. http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/1
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by bergie 14y ago
This may be, in the end, the worst mistake that Apple is doing with their platform. What shape would for instance web shops, or the SaaS market, be in, if the only way to run one was to give 30% of your revenue to Netscape. Netscape could s
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by bergie 14y ago
True, for instance Mobile Safari is very crashy on it. This is of course not unique to just iOS, at least on Transformer Prime a lot of Android applications like GMail tend to crash a lot. So I'd count it more as a defect from a still young
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by bergie 14y ago
I had the first generation MacBook Air, and if I was using it outside, it would shut down the instant sun peeked from behind the clouds. They later solved this in a firmware update, but still, first-generation Apple products are usually bes
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by bergie 14y ago
Another good one is seeing ancient Greek and Roman statues in the colors they had and not just dull, white marble http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/photos/?device=andr...

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