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by cooldeal 14y ago
>I can imagine a future where people use tablets to such a degree that the average person never interacts with a Windows PC (except, ironically enough, for iCloud). How does replacing the Windows PC with an iPad(70% of tablets sold are
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by cooldeal 14y ago
There is no cut for Microsoft for desktop apps while Apple takes a cut for OS X apps sold from the app store. But for desktop apps in the Windows Store, it will be only linked to the dev's website. Downloads and updates are handled by the d
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by cooldeal 14y ago
No that's plain wrong. Microsoft is demanding that only for Windows RT tablets. The same manufacturer is free to make tablets that run Android or Ubuntu or whatever.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
The problem is that what Notch is saying is terribly unclear. Is he talking about the desktop game or about Windows RT? The two tweets are pretty ambiguous, and so it may seem to some that Notch is trying to cash in on the publicity with th
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Why do you think Opera is a second class browser? You should upgrade your browser to Opera sometime.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
It looks, feels and reads like someone used a PowerPoint to HTML5 converter to make that site,and as others pointed out, seems to have issues supporting browsers.
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Notch doesn’t hate Windows 8, he’s just confused (withinwindows.com)
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Amazon breaks down its Kindle Paperwhite light technology(engadget.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Can't believe there's no test case in their automated test suite which would've caught this before being released to tens of millions of users. Not sure how they test, but they can build a library of typical HTML and CSS edge cases and gene
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Hyperbole much? They seem to be using a automated scanning program to flag content. Didn't Google do something similar that became a big issue on HN?
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by cooldeal 14y ago
> Apple engineers are not known for being dumb. Someone had to know that Maps was a bad idea. A huge step backwards. They had to know. Maps is a unique problem in that it's hard to judge quality without doing field tests all over the wo
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>this is their way of more data. It'll be painful at first, but it will get better quickly Reporting mapping errors on a small device is painful and cumbersome, especially if you're outdoors or trying to get somewhere. Like Google, Bing
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Amazon recently licensed Nokia/Navteq maps for the Kindle tablets.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I think Apple came to the conclusion that the iPhone is entrenched and will sell tens of millions regardless of not having new design, features like NFC or great maps. The "just works" mantra is easy to get lost when the iPhone is now a cas
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>What you're saying is misleading. Acer were the ones who broke the rules and Google enforced them, for good reason too. I find it interesting that you don't think it's misleading for an organization called the "Open Handset Alliance" t
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I don't think it's FUD to point out the inconsistency that comes with on one hand proclaiming Android to be open and with the other blocking a third party company OEM Acer from shipping Aliyun phones under the threat of pulling early access
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Ubuntu's Amazon search feature gets kill switch (h-online.com)
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Amazon Rejects Apple’s Claim That Its Use Of “App Store” Is False Advertising(techcrunch.com)
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Schmidt raps Apple for patent trolling (koreatimes.co.kr)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I think Apple doesn't really care at this point where the iPhone is essentially a cash cow five years after launch with 600K apps in the app store. Incremental improvements are enough to sell millions on launch and later with many people gu
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Remote wipe attack not limited to Samsung phones, Android dialer may be to blame(theverge.com)
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Apple had over a year left on Google Maps contract,Google trying to build app(theverge.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Welcome to the cloud, where you don't have the option of running old versions to tide through the transition and in which anything you don't control can be pulled from under your feet with little or no notice. That's the thought that goes t
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Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1(thenextweb.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Now, about live accounts. You might know this: live accounts are tied to everything you do with Microsoft. So if you have an MSDN subscription, e.g. the one which costs over $5000.-, it's tied to this same live account. But the fun thi
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Funny you say that, because Microsoft's software problems are often attributed to bending over backwards to be backward compatible while other vendors like Apple quickly kills compatibility with almost ever release, with even point releases
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>OS X is still allowing regular people to install apps from whatever source they want, by default. >In Windows 8 you have to either check "Allow all trusted applications to install" in the Group Policy settings in Win Pro/Enterprise
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I am sure there are a lot of people who rejoiced at Microsoft "killing" Visual Basic. And I say "killing" because I see a lot of it in use, they just stopped adding new features to it, the old applications written in the early 90s still wor
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Which also means you don't have to pay the 30% tax common with the other app stores.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Apparently, they approached Google, but they failed to provide the same incentives and special treatment to tide over the tough times that Microsoft did(Nokia gets at least a billion a year from MS for platform support). Many more details h

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