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by ergo98 16y ago
EDIT: I took the troll's bait and got caught arguing with someone apparently arguing in the mirror, so apologies for adding to the noise. loewenskind has a long history on here for attacking strawmen instead of actual positions, polarizing
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As an aside, instead of post@, posterous should use a guid for each blog. e.g. B566EA61026F474BA8ADB877FF765087@postereous.com If you're on another device just email whoami@postereous.com and it responds with with your GUID post address. Of
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Does Postereous not support SPF? SPF tells you that the email really came from my server. That the email really came from my server tells you that it's really me, as sending through my server requires a password. Sadly SPF is grossly underu
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>I assume you must be talking about Market Cap and that just happened Indeed. Market cap is what gives companies weight to throw around. Apple is in a position where they can acquire a large portion of the industry, and where their acti
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>I love how you're using a hypothetical scenario in which Gruber would very plausibly praise the implementation in question in order to undermine his credibility. Most who reads DF would come to a common prediction about how Gruber woul
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>It uses a standard Internet protocol (SIP+SRTP) as they said in the keynote. While it draws from a lot of existing standards, it embraces and extends. It isn't interoperable with anything currently deployed. Which is interesting becaus
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Two dozen, eh? >This is NOT a perfect solution. Indeed. It's not done right. Which is pretty much the point. Here's a exercise: Imagine that the Droid XIX came with video conferencing that was super easy -- a single button -- but it onl
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>then go on to claim "nobody is going to use video calling" as a fact. It was obviously a personal opinion. See, I'm not making a grand blog entry waxing poetically on why no one will ever make video calls, carefully creating a curated
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I have to confess my bias upfront and say that I'm not a fan of John Gruber. He eloquently spins bullshit, constructing superficially supported arguments that don't bear any scrutiny at all. He is so far down the Apple rabbit hole that he s
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This is horrific SEO-targeting spam. That HN fell for it honestly surprises me. Seriously the first paragraph was enough to know it was garbage, and each word following pounded that home.
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It isn't just imprecise -- it's completely the opposite of reality. It's as logical as saying food is a commodity item because ultimately you eat food. Or cars are a commodity item because you use them to drive from a to b. Only an utter mo
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>That is becoming a more accurate description of the Android market by the day. Nexus One, EVO 4G, Droid X... they're all pretty similar. So then why buy any specific one of them? Because they aren't similar, your ridiculous statement
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>But there is an achievement; the pixel density surpass the resolution of average human vision, so the screen will be like a physical object---not a digital one You are a sucker for a sales pitch.
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>Google is trying to commoditize hardware This frequent meme is restated by people who don't know what commoditize means. The Android ecosystem is anything but a commoditized market.
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>I also believe that one of Steve's biggest advantages is that he loves the products and features he is presenting He's a very good salesman. He clearly sold you on his pitch. I'm a little more cynical, and hardly expect the head salesm
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Google is TERRIBLE at this retail stuff. They are truly atrocious. And while Paypal hooked up Canadian merchants almost on day one, years after starting Google's system still can't handle that (which is why Canadians and many other national
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So you start with "Sure I was wrong", but then you head on to- "iOS's implementation of resolution independence is the best and most standardized implementation that exists." How do you know that? You don't even know that alternatives even
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>Is it really true that Android has not been scaling interface definition as pixel density increases? Android has long been doing this (and it is hardly alone in doing this). To quote a Apple-friendly source that HN should like - http:
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>The iOS DPI controls are the simplest and most straightforward of any contemporary system But they're simple because it was a startling realization that the original design was shortsighted. The iOS platform has had a mere 3 screen att
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>They are obviously blinded by Apple hate and spewing nonsense that's been rebutted in this thread. Does this make you feel smart? I don't hate Apple at all. What I do hate, however, is when reality is rewritten, North Korea style, to
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Do you think what you added was useful? The iOS DPI controls are some of the most shockingly rudimentary and backwards of virtually any contemporary system, which is exactly why they simply doubled each axis' pixel count (then inventing s
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>If it's true that iOS 4 automatically scales apps while improving text sharpness that will make it far more advanced than both Windows and Mac OS. I usually just ignore these topics, but honestly: The ignorance is incredible. Absolutel
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>I think the main reasons this is getting more press is because the resolution is over the ~300 ppi barrier that makes most eyes unable to resolve pixels. Ugh. Tell me you don't actually believe that? The resolution of the iPhone 4 was
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>The keynote is the only part of the event open to the press What's with the WWDC defensiveness? Seriously, relax. They keynote sees a lot of press, many of whom got press passes. Yet it also sees a lot of less credible press (e.g. Gizm
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>Google gave away phones at I/O last year Knowing and hoping are different things. This year I/O sold out very quickly. I got around to signing up, during the early bird period, and my dreams and hopes were dashed by a registration full
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These events have been overrun by non-developers, so it really doesn't say anything about developers: WWDC is a million crappy tech bloggers live blogging about the latest unveiling. Android simply doesn't have that. The devices are release
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Another guy who evaluates the Android ecosystem as a pseudo-iPhone. It isn't. http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/If_Android_was_HTML5_then_the_i... Read it. Absorb. Learn.
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Lots of evil has been committed under the guise of defense. However Apple's potential here is hugely overstated. ARM licensees aren't at the whim of ARM -- they knew to sign generous IP agreements that essentially allow them to fork the tec
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>Bing Maps will do fine. Bing search will do fine for a large percentage of users. Assumptions that Microsoft is cozy with Apple are flawed. Microsoft is more at risk from Apple than they are with Google
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