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by gnaffle 14y ago
"Cheap plastic" is not a meme. People have compared build quality as long as manufactured goods have existed. Many people associate heavy with valuable because traditionally, making things out of metal cost more and increases durability. Ma
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I think many iPhone fans see WP7 as an attempt to innovate, whereas Android seems more like an attempt to imitate (of course, Android has had many innovations as well). Apple made the first usable and popular touchscreen smartphone, and And
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Actually, when someone equates giving up privacy to a simple monetary transaction, I think it's right calling that out as wrong.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Hundreds of thousands of apps on App Store and Android Market says you're wrong. It's true that many of them require an online account, but many don't. Excluding that, there's still lots of free software.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
You're OK with targeted advertising, but you're probably not OK with any number of other things Facebook and others may one day do with your personal information. Or if _you_ are, I think many, many people are not. They use Facebook because
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I think the biggest difference was that it was the first smartphone that was easy to use. That convinced regular people to start buying smartphones (and use smartphone features).
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Nothing on the internet is guaranteed. Everything is at some point a leaky abstraction. While it's possible for a mail to just disappear (or more often, automatically be sorted into a spam folder) the protocol is designed to be quite robust
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by gnaffle 15y ago
If they can build iPhones in Brazil, why can't they build iPads in the US? That it's not cost effective to do so now doesn't mean that this will always be the case. The US has high import taxes on lots of stuff, if they raised them on elect
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by gnaffle 15y ago
If most trojans and viruses are still made for Windows, how can this statement not be true? If you took a random sampling of infected websites or virus emails, the large majority would probably be targeted at Windows. Actual risk of a _targ
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Don't know about the Android app, but in the iPhone app the executable is 3.5MB, and the rest of the 13MB app is mostly made up of PVR files (Edit: "PowerVR Texture Files", it seems) and various images. I've never thought about 13MB as a "b
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by gnaffle 15y ago
That must be why Apple is still providing cheap OS upgrades for my four year old Mac. Or maybe they're smart enough to realize that I might not buy their products again if they were obsoleted as soon as possible?
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by gnaffle 15y ago
You said "...Agile, or any other process...", so you're explicitly not limiting your statement to Agile methodologies. Do you think _slower_ (as in taking longer to develop) software is the only outcome of the processes that avionics softwa
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Sure, I was just trying to prove a point - more process doesn't necessarily mean worse software.
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by gnaffle 15y ago
The software that keeps all modern airliners in the sky is written by companies that have lots and lots of process. Do you think those software projects are doomed from the jump just because there's a lot of process involved?
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Relevant article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000024.html Of course, you need process if you really want to consistently create defect-free software: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html
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by gnaffle 15y ago
The totals are public, but not your entire tax report. And since this guy could represent his company, all the tax details of his company was also available. I think the biggest issue is that this bug raises serious questions about the whol
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Just another part of the Apple Product Cycle ( http://www.misterbg.org/AppleProductCycle/ ): "The haters offer their assessment. The forums are ablaze with vitriolic rage. Haters pan the device for being less powerful than a Cray X1 while z
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I think at netbook sales have gone down a lot (and that used to be the "hot" trend in PC sales before that because they were so cheap). That would sound logical as many people wanted a netbook as a "couch PC", and the iPad fits better in th
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I think many regular buyers ask their friends for recommendations. If most of these friends don't have a problem with the iPhone 4 reception, they're going to buy one anyway. (As for the initial sales, major web sites hadn't discovered the
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by gnaffle 15y ago
As of iOS 5 you can activate it over the air (WiFi or 3G) and optionally use iCloud for syncing your stuff instead of iTunes.
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by gnaffle 15y ago
How can quadruple the resolution not be better for reading text? People who have compare it to looking at glossy print.
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by gnaffle 15y ago
This pretty much sums up my feeling about Google, too. It's the same feeling that made me stop using Facebook.
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Maybe some kind of virtualization would work for ARM-based Win8 tablets?
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by gnaffle 15y ago
While I'm impressed with WP7, it's not such a big leap forward like the iPhone was when it launched. That's the big problem for Microsoft. The Zune HD was pretty nice when it launched as well, but it wasn't compelling enough to displace the
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by gnaffle 15y ago
And the interesting thing is that the two longest-lived things on the "unbeatable"-list, the PC and Windows, are actually what the iPad is attacking (the "post PC" era). So far, it seems that Microsoft has decided that the most competitive
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by gnaffle 15y ago
The iPod disproves your assertion that Apple will hold their pricing high. They will rather sell high-priced devices than crap, but if they can they will compete on price. Look at the iPhones, where the iPhone 4 sells for $99 and the iPhone
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by gnaffle 15y ago
2011 was also supposed to be the year of the clones. We'll see about 2012 and 2013. As mentioned in the article, by looking at sales numbers so far, the iPad launch looks much more like the iPod than the iPhone.
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Even if someone matches the quality, surpasses the features _and_ beats them on price, they also have to contend with a two year lead on the ecosystem (only Amazon has an advantage here). That's the biggest problem (and so far tablets maker
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Actually, the manufacturing process is nothing that's unique to Apple or China. Apple is assembling iPhones in Brazil at the moment in addition to China. And as long as they don't stop innovating in their production processes (like the inje
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by gnaffle 15y ago
HP offered a 1920x1200 display in some of their 15" laptops. And Apple lagged behind in screen resolution for years (when I bought my Mac, 1440x900 was the highest res 15" display they sold).

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