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by cooldeal 14y ago
Knowing the RAM or CPU is different from the comparisons made at point of purchase. Someone who'll pick the S3 because it is quadcore or more RAM over other phones will not necessarily remember the amount of RAM or the exact CPU speed one y
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Agreed, but not before they went through very painful times in the 90s and came close to getting shutdown. OEMs fell into a rut so Apple had a chance to ramp up the design, and OS X was amazingly better compared to OS 9, not to mention that
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>but if you ever watched people shop for phones basically nobody cares about specks. You're right to some extent, but I wouldn't say "basically nobody", or the S3, Nexus etc. would be dead by now instead of selling tens of millions. Tak
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>So, there is no other phone that can beat its design and construction, but "is it enough"? Is being the best enough? The Nokia N9, Lumia 800, 900 and 920 are pretty well built and designed too. If you haven't, try going to a store and
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by cooldeal 14y ago
What about Google Play and all of the Android apps? Lose access to those and you have the Amazon marketplace and some fewer app stores. And I hear Google charges for access to Google Play and Google apps like Google Maps etc. >If Google
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by cooldeal 14y ago
It's not about the quality per se but I think their problem right now is that users' choice is overwhelming them and the one-size-fits-all approach of the iPhone has diminishing returns after a point. The variety, choice of screen sizes and
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Perception, hype and peer influence trumps reality and shapes people attitude most of the time. Remember Vista's Project Mojave? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihorvo2tEuA
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by cooldeal 14y ago
What a throwback to the days of "Best viewed in Internet Explorer 5" that held the web back.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I guess he misspoke. Regardless of which app you're in or even if the screen is switched off, pressing the camera button for a couple of seconds opens the camera app . Whether you take a picture or video is up to you. It's much faster than
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Also, again it doesn't seem (or at least the writeup doesn't) to include the information about foxconn being more than just apple, that seems to get forgotten every time there is a Foxconn story. The story is about making an iPhone 5,
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Can We Please Move Past Apple's Silly, Faux-Real UIs? (fastcodesign.com)
6 points by cooldeal 14y ago|0 comments
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Remember how Microsoft makes >75% of the money and "wins" in the web server market with IIS? Or the majority of profits in the server OS market with Windows Server? Didn't think so, because there's no blog roll pushing that on the blogo
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Paul Graham's meaning of "is dead" is "has stopped producing exciting ideas" Not really, he came up with his prediction: "I have a hunch that it won't be a very successful language" Java not just took off like a rocket, but .NET/C# (wh
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by cooldeal 14y ago
At the other end of spectrum, you have projects like GNU/Hurd, which are extremely idealistic and hence barely ever ship. The accounts department is not going to like it very much when you tell them your new Lisp DSL variant with metaprogra
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Aero glass is gone in Windows 8. Design flair is different from skeuomorphism, you can have one without the other.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
New products can and do disrupt market trends, especially in such a huge market. > sounds like they are going after niche high-end tablet markets (those who want Office + a keyboard), , and higher-end tablet markets (though who want to
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>So these new Surface Pro things are going to be like a current ipad-style tablet, but with a keyboard, heavier, have shorter battery life and be more expensive. That sounds very much like a device I already have, which is called a lapt
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by cooldeal 14y ago
The JS doesn't allow one to type in the first number box in both IE10 and Opera, you can only type in the last 3 boxes which makes it unusable.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>The tablet market was already broadening, flattening, and moving down market before yesterday’s Amazon announcement Right, but Microsoft is trying to bring it up market with the Surface Pro and other small x86 tablets(many of which see
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Amazon confirms: All new Kindle Fires stuck with ads(reviews.cnet.com)
7 points by cooldeal 14y ago|5 comments
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>It's more powerful in every way than the PC I was using 5 years ago to write media player UIs. I agree about the quantity of RAM and probably even the GPU, but is there a raw comparison of the CPUs(not just cores and GHz? I strongly su
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Microsoft is going to feel this as well, as manufacturers won't be very happy selling $200-$300 tablets with $100 ($200 for enterprise versions) Windows licenses. That does not make any sense. If you think Windows 8 Pro x86 tablets lik
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I find it extremely funny how any small of hint of criticism of Groklaw's 'analysis' or the sacred PJ was met with instant whiting out of the comment, but now that Groklaw took Google's side against Apple, comments, critical of Groklaw co
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by cooldeal 14y ago
HN consists of a lot of actively voting and flagging Apple and Google fans(and employees) with >50% using Apple products. Thus most posts critical of them get flagged down. Microsoft friendly posts, comments or even product announcement
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Because this is HN, which is heavily anti-MS and where people cling to their iPhones and Android devices and love to hate on the platforms they don't use. Or else why would the actual announcement articles get only around 30-40 points(which
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I came to HN expecting to read such a comment thread and I was not disappointed at all.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
It looks like you don't know how manifests and SxS works. You can mark the DLL compatible while bumping the version number for security upgrades. The comments in this thread(from my OP) is a good start if you want to learn. http://linux.sl
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Sigh, sneering and snark and also downvotes on my GP comment. That's HN I guess. Must.. resist.. temptation.. to be snarky myself. Anyway back to the point... >Oh boy SxS. So now you have seperate DLLs for every application. No, only if
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>That depends on how far Microsoft and Apple go with the tabletization of Windows and OS X in the next few years. >We need Linux as a third (and 4th, 5th...) option for all of us edge cases that don't fit the standard consumer mold.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Those developers are very unlikely to find Gnome 3 or Unity too constraining for their tastes The problem is that most of those developers have already left Linux and would be unwilling to switch either because of the hardware they lik

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