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by gfodor 13y ago
I wasn't comparing them in terms of app stores per se but the fact they don't really seem to be aggressively optimizing the UX on the store the way Google does with most of its (other) products. If Apple were doing it right, after
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by gfodor 13y ago
You might be right but until there is actual confirmation from Apple that they perform data-driven experiments to improve the App Store, based upon the many glaring problems that have been left unfixed for years I have to assume there isn&#
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by gfodor 13y ago
More than getting rid of the top list is that the App Store has a search model from 1995. Let me buy keywords, run experiments, optimize paid placements, and give me tools to perform SEO for organic search. Let me track conversions more eas
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by gfodor 13y ago
It's stunning to me how the App Store has so many downloads and so much revenue and yet still is such a huge piece of trash. It needs to be much faster. It needs to be more engaging. The search needs to be improved. The taxonomy needs
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by gfodor 13y ago
In Obama-speak, "can't" means "we have a law that says they cannot, so they certainly must not be doing it." In human-speak, "can't" means, "do they have a system capable of letting your average
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by gfodor 13y ago
I have two apps that use the Amazingmail API to print and mail postcards on demand. ( http://babygra.ms http://lulcards.com ). Their prices are extremely competitive compared to Infraprint's and their customer sup
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by gfodor 13y ago
Rep Peter King of NY who has a hardon for protecting the children from terrorists.
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by gfodor 13y ago
I think the best part about this is he is not completely willing to say that the U.S. should or should not be doing what it is doing per se , just that it should not be doing it without the consent of the governed. He wants us to ask whe
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by gfodor 13y ago
Exactly. Look at Apple's patent stream and tell me they have stopped trying to innovate. The author pans iOS 7, when in fact this is a good example of a company taking meaningful risks by throwing out the entire UX of the operating s
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by gfodor 13y ago
I think there were external factors that forced a hard deadline for Apple Maps: the Google contract expiring, and the fact that for a service like mapping, not releasing the app into the wild serves as a blocker on a lot of engineering work
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by gfodor 13y ago
Apple Maps was trying to replace a service that had almost a decade of engineering and data powering it. It's kind of a miracle they were able to ship anything at all, IMHO, when you consider the weight of what they were trying to
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by gfodor 13y ago
I think the bikeshed should be blue, and have less of a gradient along the roof.
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by gfodor 13y ago
I posted it above but just to re-iterate if iOS 7 ships where background images render the status bar, text, etc, unreadable due to an obvious "white on white" or "black on black" issue, or at least if this isn't so
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by gfodor 13y ago
My issue is the OP fails to realize design is about tradeoffs, and points out where the new design sucks and where the old design is better, but shows his hand by not considering why the new design may be better. ("arguably looking b
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by gfodor 13y ago
I hate posts like this that lay out some first-order criticism of a design as if the designers did not consider their obvious concerns. It also sounds like you are making judgements based upon screenshots without actually using the software
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by gfodor 13y ago
It's cold, but "old people like it" is not a compelling reason to maintain something if there are no other good reasons to do so.
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by gfodor 13y ago
read Tufte
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by gfodor 13y ago
It can't really be considered an anti-pattern when nearly every website on the Internet does it in one form or another.
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by gfodor 13y ago
Complaining about icons is a bike shed. Commenting on screenshots and not actually using the OS is transparently dumb. iOS 7 is "Tufte Strikes Back", it's the death of the chartjunk of iOS6. I'd imagine in 5 years we wil
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by gfodor 13y ago
If you use your smartphone as much as most people do, a few hundred bucks is a steal on a per-hour basis.
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by gfodor 13y ago
Fragmentation implies "fragments". iOS 6 has a 93% install base. An ever-shrinking 7% isn't much of a fragment to worry about. iOS 7, due to it's new shiny factor, will likely see an even faster adoption than iOS 6.
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by gfodor 13y ago
Have you actually used the beta or are you another person basing opinions about an operating system based upon screenshots?
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by gfodor 13y ago
Actually it sounds to me like it was a brilliantly executed troll.
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by gfodor 13y ago
The reason is because high P/E stocks are speculations, not investments.
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by gfodor 13y ago
And if they make them illegal, they'll have their day in court. I'd tend to agree the right place to start is building a technological solution to the problem. One that people actually will want to use.
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by gfodor 13y ago
Unless you are building something for hackers, HN feedback is generally just noise. You might be able to get some legit usability feedback. But for the most part, you're just going to get a bunch of people fixating on one or two likely irre
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by gfodor 13y ago
As someone who lived through the Stored Procedure hell of the late 90's and early 00's, can someone explain to me why this shouldn't scare the bejeezus out of me?
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by gfodor 13y ago
I don't want 80% of the services and have to build or manage the other 20%. I want 100% of the services. An app I am running uses ec2, s3, sqs, ses, rds, swf, elb, elasticache, cloudfront, cloudwatch, route 53, and opsworks. Take any of tho
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by gfodor 13y ago
I don't see how this line of argument can be productive at all. Basically what you are saying is this person should go into detail about the specifics of individual interactions with their friends and family on Facebook, and use that as som
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by gfodor 13y ago
Also, these skills are probably best developed without the cyborg-camera sitting on your face.

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