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by falling 15y ago
Point is, actually, that it will be no more difficult to use than a UI with plain graphics, so if the (ugly) leather makes people feel better about it, why not? No, I still don't like it, but the thesis in the article makes sense.
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by falling 15y ago
Personally, I think the model the designers built on activities makes perfect sense an is very interesting on a technical level, but as much as you explain them to me, it still doesn't do what I want, need or expect sometimes. Activities ar
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by falling 15y ago
> In the following article I will try to explain that this behavior is not broken. Instead it is exactly what the Android developers had in mind while designing the back button behavior. Correct, but something being by design does not
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by falling 15y ago
If you are a Mac user, Lion's Mail is the first desktop client I can tolerate since April 2004.
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by falling 15y ago
They've had the iOS 5 beta available since June and they didn't bother to fix it before the actual release. If that doesn't say that they don't care, I don't know what else.
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by falling 15y ago
When it launched, the mobile Gmail app was great. Unfortunately they decided to break scrolling by poorly reimplementing it in JS and it's all downhill since then.
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by falling 15y ago
I'm baffled that Google, of all companies, can't make a decent mobile web app. The first Gmail versions from years ago on the iPhone were beautiful and they degrade with every new version.
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by falling 15y ago
Probably yes. I can't find the source, but I think I remember him saying something along the lines of "if the firmware cannot be updated, it can be considered akin to hardware and doesn't need to be free".
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by falling 15y ago
Exactly: http://www.businessinsider.com/make-no-mistake-google-is-tak...
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by falling 15y ago
I was surprised to see Safari faster than Chrome in most cases. I was expecting the reverse. (same setup you have)
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by falling 15y ago
> Basically anything on the phone that displays an address (web browser, Google Maps, apps like Yelp, etc) displays it as a clickable link letting me instantly pull up directions and switch into nav mode. This is in iOS too. Of course
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by falling 15y ago
> For the record, I do realize there are quite a few GPS turn by turn solutions for the iPhone, but suggesting they are a true replacement for Google's Nav stuff is like suggesting Google Voice Search is a replacement for Siri. How do
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by falling 15y ago
Question for you: who provides 99% of web advertisement?
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by falling 15y ago
The app solution would have some value for the content providers, the Google solution of scraping the web would give most of the value back to Google.
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by falling 15y ago
Well, in that case you would say that Microsoft is trying to survive by eliminating competition on scarce resources. But then, I don't think Microsoft is dying.
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by falling 15y ago
I can never remember if Apple is a monopolist or Android is taking over.
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by falling 15y ago
Do you really call "sweeping the crap under the carpet" "solving" the problem? I call it a workaround, at best. Users will often want the used space back too, not just hide the icon.
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by falling 15y ago
Read the whole article. It matters for developers and for the platform. Even if users don't (know they) care. Users are missing security fixes, developers can't use new features in new versions.
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by falling 15y ago
Your first claim is false.
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by falling 15y ago
> "Just start typing their name" You can almost get this on the iPhone by swiping to the left of the first home screen and using spotlight. I use that all the time, for contacts and to launch apps hidden in folders I rarely use.
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by falling 15y ago
iOS definitely doesn't retain zoom levels between pages and never has. On zooming in to content (actually it zooms in on page blocks) I disagree, but I'll leave it at personal preference. Android zooms in at a fixed zoom level and reflows
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by falling 15y ago
There is probably something wrong with your iPod. I'd take it to the Apple Store. iOS 5 works fine on a 3GS, and your iPod has iPhone 4-comparable hardware.
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by falling 15y ago
> EDIT: Ok click to zoom is kinda there, but I like the way it works on Android better. That's just a preference, so I'll strike that from my list of objections. What's the difference?
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by falling 15y ago
Readable fonts, thank you.
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by falling 15y ago
Is a random HN comment a reliable source?
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by falling 15y ago
Here is a scottish accent demo, seems fairly good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z8K6VMw92U
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by falling 15y ago
Fair enough. I tried now but that was months ago and Twitter search is unhelpful. However, he's being asked by multiple people right now for the radar# and he's ignoring the questions. He just said he's known it for two weeks, which might h
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by falling 15y ago
He says he knew about this behavior, and he also explicitly said (on Twitter, can't be bothered looking for it) that he was not going to report bugs to Apple during the beta. I guess Marco just prefers venting after the fact.
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by falling 15y ago
I'm assuming you have the same concern about your emails, right? By the way iMessages are encrypted end-to-end (but I wouldn't expect you to believe or trust Apple on this).
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by falling 15y ago
Can't link to it, but pictures of the NeXT identity book are in that page.

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