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by ergo98 16y ago
Not really. The points the OP makes are the same points that are repeated again on every god damn story relating to Android or Apple, They aren't baseless, and probably had merit the first hundred thousand times they were argued over, howev
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Hey I'm not trying to insult you. I'm being serious.
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What is your Android phone? I've played the game on my Nexus One and on an iPhone 4, and I find the experience close to identical. The iPhone 4 without argue has a GPU that absolutely trounces the Nexus One -- though it is matched in the Ga
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You have pretty much all of the pro-Apple talking points covered in your various posts in this discussion. I urge you not to simply accept them because you read them elsewhere, however, because they're largely baseless.
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It was a trolling title. The EPA has been working out how they would rate electric vehicles, and by the original criteria the LEAF would have been rated at something like 367 mpg. The Volt hasn't suddenly become less efficient -- the rating
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While an early adopter vehicle like this isn't about saving money at all (there are extremely few hybrid vehicles that economically pay off), a Volt with come with a lot of cachet. Sure there'll be the contrarians (seriously, the griping ab
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Very interesting. Is such a thing configurable in Apache or nginx? It seems to be a rather rude behavior, but I'm curious how accessible it is.
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Fisticuffs at high noon!
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As downtrodden and abused as you might pretend to feel, claiming that I resorted to an ad hominem is quite fallacious: My comment was specifically and only about the argument (which was a variation of the "Apple is always the inventor" them
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Out of curiosity, why does the 1700s timeframe preclude such a purpose? That was an era when incredible individual invention occurred, largely in machines and chemistry. It was seldom the R&D division of a large manufacturer (those robb
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>but Apple at least is playing the game in the exact spirit in which the laws were conceived The patent system was conceived to allow the little guy (or little business) to invent, and profit from those inventions, even when he lacked t
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Android seems to have the same problem with Skype The oddity of Skype is entirely Skype's making -- they saw a revenue model negotiating with carriers (the idea being "Get a Verizon Android phone because then you can get Skype"), so that'
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Look, I don't mean to go all John Gruber here, but a good portion of iPhone users wouldn't want anything changed...until it's actually changed at which point it's the most obvious, most important thing in the world. If Apple came out with a
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While it might be a problem for some for most it hasn't been one. iPhone users live on with a touchscreen keyboard because they have no choice. Most Blackberry users never migrated to the iPhone for that reason. Android users were caught
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Do you post HN comments using your touchscreen? If not, why not? I've done the keyboard smartphone thing, and the touchscreen smartphone thing (incl. swype with the latter). I prefer a real keyboard overwhelmingly -- even a miserable keyb
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I think he's just upset about the TSA articles The TSA articles are annoying noise that undermine HN. Unless it's discussing the technology of the devices or heuristics of algorithms used to analyze it, it's pop political garbage that bel
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Not sure why Android gets pulled into this, however in addition to the fact that Android 2.2 has far and away class leading canvas and JavaScript performance -- the poor performance on iOS is why so many apps go native on that platform for
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The personal example was anecdotal. The same thought process applies to many people. The GP opines that the Jobsian "he'll choose what's right for you" model is, as you quoted, right for most people most of the time. I would say that is abs
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I have no disagreement with Gruber here -- he is generally on the mark. However I think it is a short-sighted perspective. The products that are in the market today often had many months to years of incubation end evolution time on them. A
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As much as some chafe against the "Jobsian" world of Apple products, Steve makes many choices for you and most of those choices are right for most people most of the time. That's about the best you can do. Couldn't disagree more. I like k
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The low end of Android -- particularly in the GPU realm -- is much lower on low-end Android devices. An iPhone 3 decimates a Dream/Magic, for instance. There are new Android devices coming out that still don't hold a match to the original
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Hi there, nl. " As far as the NoSQL thing is concerned, I think it's interesting to note that IndexDB's semantics closely match those of BerkeleyDB, which started life in 1991. Work first started on IndexDB in 2006 [2], long before the term
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The most complex part of Web SQL effectively amounted to "Whatever SQLite implemented" Which is one of the most tested, most utilized, most known pieces of code used among modern software. Saying "reference it" is entirely rational. And r
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I'm sorry but I'd rather take Woz opinion ... That's nice, but a false dichotomy. I questioned the relevance of the Woz's opinion, but that doesn't in any way come at the benefit of someone else's opinion, much less some arbitrary ".NET wu
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This is the soppy romanticized garbage that is so boring to debate with. Yes, if you want to talk to someone about 1970s era personal computer innovations, the Woz is almost certainly the goto guy. Granted. Is he important? Sure, he is impo
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There's a context to this thread that you disregarded.
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No it isn't. 23 years ago Woz was a "motivational factor" at Apple for the preceding 4 years. The prior two+ years he was off after an accident. Before that he worked with Jobs for 4 years. His real contribution to Apple was for four years
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Ending 23 years ago (and saying "12 years" is grossly overgenerous). Of zero relevance to the modern Apple computers (edit: Sorry, it isn't even called Apple Computers anymore)
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Actually in this case it sounds like the reporter wasn't to blame at all. Woz is simply saying "What I really meant was..." Personally I don't get why his thoughts on things are given such importance. Each Apple release he appears at some
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Just as you can use an Android device without ever seeing a single Google ad. However Apple's media strategy is a big part of their iDevice push. Simply selling you a piece of hardware is only a small part of their plans for you.

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