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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
But Apple does give you leeway. You can distribute up to 100 copies outside the App Store, and they're now adding the ability to distribute as many copies as you like to in-house users over WiFi: http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/previe
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
> By that argument, we should keep anyone that isn't professionally certified out of every activity where people are also professionals. Want to create a start-up? Sorry, you're not professional enough to create a start-up, so you're le
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
I hate to say it, but that actually sounds like another excellent reason to keep that developer out of the market. Remember that the App Store is a business and a marketplace, where products are being sold to real consumers who want their p
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
iTunes runs on machines with RAM measured in the gigabytes, hard-drives in the terabytes, cooling fans and continuously or frequently connected power adaptors. When you have those kinds of resources to slop around, then sure, you can spend
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
Stop thinking of the iPhone/iPad as if they're just small Macs. They are neither general purpose computers, nor are they RAD platforms. They're consumer devices with restricted capabilities and resources. No innovation has been hindered, in
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
I work in IT, where we use C# and .Net exclusively, and would love to develop iPhone apps in MonoTouch. However, I also think Apple is doing the right thing by banning "meta-platforms" from the App store. Adding layers of abstraction that
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A rebuttal: Quality by Design through Apple's App Store(sites.google.com)
7 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|0 comments
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Spoons, Pronovost and Mickey Mantle, or: How to become a better programmer(sites.google.com)
5 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|0 comments
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
I like that the manuscript is on display, but I'm a little disturbed by the "holiest of holies" treatment, equating it to the Dead Sea Scrolls even. General Relativity is dynamite, but it isn't scripture, it's a scientific theory that'll ha
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When does hard work pay?(thinkinginanutshell.com)
2 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|0 comments
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
That's the hazard of looking for examples, sometimes they disappoint the point.
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
I'll bet nobody asked for this feature when Geocities was all the rage ;-)
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Why nobody knows what they're doing(sites.google.com)
59 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|12 comments
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
That's almost what banks actually do. In the Federal Reserve system a bank can literally write new money into existence with a flick of a pen. What you're spending on food, rent, and iPhones day-to-day is a substance called bank credit th
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Skeptics are Antiseptics(thinkinginanutshell.com)
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
18. Anthropologists find genetic and archeological evidence that ancestral man once flew between the stars and listened to Lenny Kravitz. A huge post-hoc revision in a popular sci-fi series replaces "All along the watchtower" with "Are you
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Passive Monitoring(theintegrationengineer.com)
1 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|0 comments
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
"Crunchpad" could also come to mean "The drama is the product". The saga has the appearance of deliberate, or perhaps just subconscious submarining for the sake of having something sensational to blog about. (Perhaps this is a good topic fo
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Everything takes 2 weeks(theintegrationengineer.com)
3 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|0 comments
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
So, will there be an adblocker soon? Edit: There is, but it doesn't work due to a syntax error in the installer: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fkkedmmdcjakdoef... Edit #2: Found one that does work: https://chrome.google.com
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
I think it's better to do what's right for the product, even if it means annoying a minority of customers. When it comes to features in apps in general, I've noticed that no matter how bad a feature is, or how awkward the UI, there's always
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Optimization tips(sites.google.com)
38 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|6 comments
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
And this worked so well for music subscriptions too, didn't it?
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
I'm gonna call bullshit on the general conspiracy theory, here. Mobile Safari is the best mobile browser, period. And WebKit is the engine for the next best. Adding camera, accelerometer, address-book integration etc. needs to wait for W3C
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
iPhone developers are part of the problem: specifically the ones who create a zillion "shovelware" apps, some so pointless that Apple has got to the point of banning entire developers. Apple intended the review process to be basic third-par
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
The killer feature isn't that you can run lots of apps on it. The killer feature is that it has a market built into it. The more I think about it, the more I think a QA review process is necessary to make the market work in the long run, an
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
There are "no viruses" for OS/2, either.
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
That would be about as effective as the use of SSL certificates to prevent phishing. That is: zero effectiveness.
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
Unpopular platforms rarely have problems with third party software, regardless of any approval process. It's possible that if Windows Mobile had been as popular as the iPhone, then the carriers _would_ have started to see a big problem with
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
That metaphor is wrong. It isn't illegal to jailbreak an iPhone, it just voids the warrantee. You can run any software you like on an iPhone. A company should have the right to control the user experience offered for a device that it desi

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