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by euyyn 9y ago
Web apps (as in what we used to call websites that did stuff instead of just displaying content, not PWAs) did take over the world, enabling the (slow) downfall of Windows. They didn't feel like native Windows apps either, and the web
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by euyyn 9y ago
Text boxes in the web have had the same look & feel as native text boxes since between one and two decades ago. When I right-click on the one I'm typing in right now, on Chrome running on a Mac, I even get an option to "Add to
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by euyyn 9y ago
You're getting downvoted, but public statements by a businessman when a lot of money is on the line are always to be taken with a grain of salt.
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by euyyn 9y ago
In theory you could make a web app look like a native iOS app too, yet in practice developers don't either.
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by euyyn 9y ago
The argument can't go only one way, though. If a web app doesn't get the UI in tune with the OS' look and feel, "the developer should be bothered to create a native app". But if a native app is a massive bloat, &quo
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by euyyn 9y ago
These are good arguments. But they apply verbatim to Java, HTML, and JavaScript in the times of Windows and IE3/4, if Bill Gates had been asked publicly.
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by euyyn 9y ago
As an iOS user, do you ever use websites that are more than plain hypertext, even if they don't try to have an iOS native look?
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by euyyn 9y ago
GMail was (and maybe keeps being) a much better user experience than native email clients for desktop PCs.
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by euyyn 9y ago
> When I change my preferred text size through accessibility settings, good native apps respond correctly. If I need voice over support, the operating system knows how to read the view hierarchy to me in a logical way. > When drag-and
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by euyyn 9y ago
USB sticks became popular more than a decade ago, and not once have I had one fail to copy or remove a file by dragging and dropping.
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by euyyn 9y ago
iTunes' UI for creating playlists and letting me add and remove songs from the device by dragging and dropping the files could be perfectly compatible.
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by euyyn 9y ago
> The "walled garden" is what prevents the horrendous disjointed mess that is the Android phone market. Sure, for a guy who likes hacking around stuff, it's fun for you. But for everyone else, there is a thousand different
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by euyyn 9y ago
Because the web app is portable across OS'es to start with.
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by euyyn 9y ago
I get plenty of push notifications from native apps that I find useful: e-mail, twitter, calendar events, chat. I can block those I don't want. That developers can't write a web app if they want as much as the option is ridiculous
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by euyyn 9y ago
Why wouldn't they? All Googlers get very very good treatment.
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by euyyn 9y ago
It's a well-known technique in the out-of-fashion world of knowledge-based systems: To create an expert system, your experts often won't be able to articulate their utility function, so you extract it by presenting them A/B c
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by euyyn 9y ago
The thing to look at wouldn't be the country's current obesity level, but its trend there too.
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by euyyn 9y ago
Don't lose sight of the forest for the trees: OP's scenario is a strategy in which the project's start (with investment) causes a raise in valuation, and its premature cancellation a smaller decrease in valuation.
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by euyyn 9y ago
With how much people hate the sound of their own voices, I think that would backfire on the advertiser.
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by euyyn 9y ago
Isn't that pretty much what I said?
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by euyyn 9y ago
Good point. The case of over-eating does have the physically-visible effects, but sex addiction has not, so it's a very close situation.
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by euyyn 9y ago
There are many factors. To start, many companies were already choosing to run a fork of Android in their products, like the Amazon Echo. This gives you access to Android's APIs, developer tools, and knowledge base, which is a significa
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by euyyn 9y ago
You're right that Arduinos are slower. I had things like the Raspberry Pi in mind.
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by euyyn 9y ago
> What choices are any of us free to make? How long are we going to continue the probable charade of the existence of some ethereal "free will"? I'm free not to smoke tobacco and not to get drunk. Some people aren't.
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by euyyn 9y ago
Coffee and tobacco are addictions that let your intelligence intact. It's a choice only as long as he's able to chose not to; otherwise it's an addiction.
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by euyyn 9y ago
I got your email bounced :)
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by euyyn 9y ago
Unwillingness to hire is related to cost, which is a supply/demand thing. There's many more software engineers around. Layout of high-frequency electronics has many gotchas, and for devices with wireless communication you need to
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by euyyn 9y ago
"Has limited understanding" is definitely not the wording I'd chose to mean "is talking of something different," but I see how it could be.
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by euyyn 9y ago
But it's hard to see cancelling a product as a cause of growth.
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by euyyn 9y ago
Of course, those are the consequences, but the cause isn't physically visible. If you meet a person with those difficulties but he looks like a crack head, it's obvious he's got a problem. If he looks perfectly normal, addict

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