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by flatline3 14y ago
"In apps that are not document-based ..." GIMP is document-based.
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by flatline3 14y ago
Wasn't CNR just an subscription-based package repository service?
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by flatline3 14y ago
How a vendor chooses to break it down is their prerogative. Our prerogative is only whether or not we'll accept the deal they offer at a price they'll accept.
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by flatline3 14y ago
It's not Craigslist's responsibility to hold still so that you can replace them, nor are they somehow at fault for not doing so.
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by flatline3 14y ago
Workspaces? You mean virtual desktops? Those date back 1986, implemented at Xerox PARC (and patented!). As for appstores, I assume you're talking about the packaging systems, which are similar only if viewed from 50,000 feet. The packaging
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by flatline3 14y ago
You've clearly not dealt with congested airplane wifi.
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by flatline3 14y ago
I think that's a stretch. Here's another example: A certain airline offers upgrades to first class seating, but only within a certain time period before the flight. When using their website, I realized that I could pass in the time constrai
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by flatline3 14y ago
To take on Facebook they would have had to implement something that worked. They didn't, and couldn't, because they were way out of their depth. These were just recent graduates with almost no experience. The blame lies in small part on t
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by flatline3 14y ago
Samsung didn't make just any phone, they copied the iPhone. Microsoft at least managed to try something completely different with Windows Phone, and I think it's a hell of a lot more innovative than what Samsung did.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> Yes, these files are the essential part of a boot disk. Did MS forbid people transfer boot disks when they were still selling DOS? Do you have a license that states you can ship those "essential" files? If not, then all you have is
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by flatline3 14y ago
Microsoft and Sony didn't copy Nintendo outright. Stagnation. That's what you get when people duplicate ideas instead of leading with their own.
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by flatline3 14y ago
Your tablet used scroll bars. Why?
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by flatline3 14y ago
Your extrapolation from off the cuff out of context quotes is mind boggling daft in its scope. Instead of providing supporting evidence, you're merely building a larger and larger narrative on top of the same incomplete data. This is the sa
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by flatline3 14y ago
That would be because they're selectively quoted, out of context, by a biased party.
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by flatline3 14y ago
You're inventing a false narrative, whole cloth.
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by flatline3 14y ago
The groklaw quotes were taken out of context. As far as I can tell, there's no evidence from those quotes that they skipped prior art, so much as skipped the task to move forward on others before circling back around to it. > I don't l
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by flatline3 14y ago
Stealing someone's name and graphics is OK if you use a nickname?
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by flatline3 14y ago
Unlikely. It requires use of private API on the Mac, or direct USB communication with the device using an undocumented/private protocol.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> Well we're not that far apart then. You consider iOS the platform, I consider Facebook the platform. That's actually worlds apart. There's a tendency for everyone to think that their platform is the platform. For users, that's not
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by flatline3 14y ago
I'm curious as to whether you think users want, need, benefit, or care about whether Facebook can deploy rapid changes via a "consistent cross platform experience". In my experience, users want a consistent platform experience -- one that
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by flatline3 14y ago
I just want to correct a factual error in your post. I've noticed that the review process time used in a variety of responses continues to creep upwards -- here, it's up to three weeks. As it currently stands, as per Apple's published statu
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by flatline3 14y ago
So if: - Facebook fails to deliver features through the superior approach ... - ... but does deliver them through a lesser approach ... .. then the mechanism they use to deliver the features provides a better user experience, because it has
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by flatline3 14y ago
Are you stating that contrary to Facebook's experience, web applications provide a superior user experience on mobile devices?
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by flatline3 14y ago
As you noted, the financial advantage does not apply to Facebook. Contrarily, there's a financial advantage to shipping a better product, if you can afford to do so. I'm interested in your supporting argument for other governing factors or
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by flatline3 14y ago
I'm not sure if you're being obtuse; this is basic organizational politics. Pretend that Facebook's hitherto web-centric engineering team is external to Facebook -- they're a consultancy. Now imagine Facebook comes to them and says: We wan
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by flatline3 14y ago
It's not difficult to determine who in a web-centric engineering organization would benefit from promoting web-centric ideas in favor of alternatives, thus spurning engineering choices that would fall outside their area of responsibility or
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by flatline3 14y ago
> They don't derive their value from their UI nor have they ever. I'd be interested in your supporting arguments, especially in light of this investment they just made entirely for UX reasons.
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by flatline3 14y ago
How is this an argument in favor of an over-all worse user-experience? If this is a significant concern to you, then prompt or enforce upgrades in your application.
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by flatline3 14y ago
To clarify, I was referring to Apple's policy regarding emergency fixes for 3rd party applications.
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by flatline3 14y ago
That's a catch 22, and none of it has to do with user experience. - It's not easy because they have a historically web-centric organization. - They have a web-centric organization because they had not invested in building a broader engine

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