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by bluthru 14y ago
>I know that Apple isn't popular around these parts Except that we know from surveys that most HN readers use Apple computers, phones, and tablets. And yet, even here, you can't appreciate feats of design, engineering, and usability wit
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by bluthru 14y ago
The WiFi radios 2 decades from now will probably be much different, anyway. Just look how quickly we've come since 802.11 A.
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by bluthru 14y ago
Maybe 5% of smartphone consumers would actually care about the nuts and bolts of it. I think Apple did a great job by showing it how it affects the user: battery life, speed for tasks, and demoing Real Racing 3.
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by bluthru 14y ago
You haven't seen a unibody phone anywhere. This thing will be a tank. The processors look nice and beefy as well.
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by bluthru 14y ago
With one hand? No.
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by bluthru 14y ago
Top is for noise cancellation, the back is for video.
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by bluthru 14y ago
It's incredibly annoying to see some people discount any design if it is anything more than flat and solid colors. Everyone of all design understanding levels understands a sense of craft . Subtle gradients, shadows, textures, and effects
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by bluthru 14y ago
If skeuomorphism didn't have a name, I bet no one would give a shit.
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by bluthru 14y ago
If picking out what to wear "takes time", guess what: you need to become better at making decisions. Only a Jobs or Zuckerberg level of success gives you a pass to not vary your wardrobe.
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by bluthru 14y ago
Wow, look at that refresh rate! Hopefully it's not a case of "Screen images simulated."
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by bluthru 14y ago
>Personally the thing that kills me about the iPhone 4 design is the seams on that metal on the side. I don't understand this thinking at all. The seams have a functional purpose to separate antennas. I view the iPhone seems the same wa
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by bluthru 14y ago
It's only a matter of cutting the iPhone 4 LCD sheets larger. (And having a chipset that can power it more efficiently than the iPad 3.) Since it'll come out 1.5 to 2 years later, that's not far fetched.
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by bluthru 14y ago
>Limiting to low PPI for app compatibility seems like a hack. What, and give developers another resolution to develop for? No. The iPad Mini will use the iPhone 3GS LCD pixel density. Then in a year, the iPad Mini will adopt the iPhone
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by bluthru 14y ago
Catching resolutions up to print DPI is not "style", it purely a quantitative exercise. The screen is the only component of computer hardware that we use at full capacity all of the time. It is much more important to get displays up to prin
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by bluthru 14y ago
>Text and windows for reading and development are fine, and I often use tiny fonts. I don't see the hype. That's because you're looking at elements hinted for and designed for a blocky pixel grid. Try rendering a typeface designed for p
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by bluthru 14y ago
>Apple's strength is not in its chips. It's in its software and tightly integrated stack Huh? Every time an iOS device is released, it usually is the industry leader for mobile processors. Apple is huge and can be great at many things a
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by bluthru 14y ago
A 2d (versus 1d) layout is great for items that are meant to be browsed without order. It isn't an RSS feed or your inbox where you're supposed to diligently consume each piece before moving onto the next one in chronological order. It's le
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by bluthru 14y ago
Not at all. During this year's All Things D conference, Tim Cook talked about how impassioned Jobs would be about one perspective, and then the next day be just as impassioned about the opposite position. You want someone who can see all si
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by bluthru 14y ago
AirPlay requires a GPU that has hardware h.264 encoding. This is so there isn't a performance hit to compress and send video to the AppleTV. You can download AirParrot if you'd like the functionality to work with a small performance hit.
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by bluthru 14y ago
Does their logo appear anywhere on the device?
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by bluthru 14y ago
Apple products avoid plastic. They are not "made to be obsolete in 2-3 years". >I doubt they even fixed the old one I gave to them They do. It's sold as refurbished.
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by bluthru 14y ago
It's not a Windows-style maximize button. It's a "fit window to content button". It's being a good neighbor in a multitasking environment. Instead of taking up an entire screen for no reason, the window only takes up the space it requires.
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by bluthru 14y ago
I thought the general consensus was that ML is more stable than Lion?
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by bluthru 14y ago
Over 200 new features and plenty of behind-the-scenes refinements, all for $20 and 12 months after Lion. Sounds like they're firing on all cylinders in Cupertino. http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html
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by bluthru 14y ago
Apple has actually been best-in-class for a while. The problem with Greenpeace's rating is that it doesn't take into account that Apple uses mostly aluminum and glass in their products, which are both extremely durable and recyclable.
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by bluthru 14y ago
My pessimistic self sees a future where some jobs will only be available if you: - Have facebook a account. - Allow your potential employer to see everything in your personal profile. Don't have a facebook account or don't want to share int
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by bluthru 14y ago
Metaphors are part of visual communication. Blatantly disregarding metaphors creates unnecessary confusion and abstraction--it separates the interface from culture. Remember, all of this stuff is ultimately (and most truthfully) 1's and 0's
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by bluthru 14y ago
"Purely digital." There is no such thing. That's like saying "purely hologram". Pixels have no inherent materiality. There is nothing about the Metro UI that couldn't be recreated on a piece of paper. The goal is visual communication and de
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by bluthru 14y ago
Oh, here it is. The inevitable "Apple is only successful because of marketing" comment. Have you even used a mobile web browser before the iPhone?
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by bluthru 14y ago
>So now you're looking at close to $600 bucks a unit. Good luck with that. The 60gb PS3 launched for that amount. From what I've read in other articles, Carmack's goggles are 1/10th the cost of comparable units.

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