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by gnaffle 15y ago
I think the biggest issue is simply thet desktop operating systems doesn't have good resolution independence. So for most people, a laptop display with more than 1920x1080 will make icons and buttons very small by default. And of course, mo
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by gnaffle 15y ago
This is not really about "Android vs Apple" or Apple fanboys trying to push a certain view on others. What it's about is carriers and cell phone manufacturers being used to shipping phones with a single OS release, and never having to provi
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by gnaffle 15y ago
The focus of the comments is not the disjoint between software and hardware releases, but rather that manufacturers are very slow to update to newer software releases. That's what everyone's complaining about. Sony Ericsson releasing a new
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by gnaffle 15y ago
It's a very good question. Maybe Apples new interactive textbook initiative will help, although I'm not sure about that. But I think that if _any_ electronic device is going to make a difference and be usable in education, it will be a tabl
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by gnaffle 15y ago
There's nothing wrong with that. The problem is that Sony Ericsson (and others) have made many promises on upgrades that they have been unable to keep. If Apple released the iPhone 5 running iOS 3 while promising to update it to iOS 5 later
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by gnaffle 15y ago
The actual problem is the carriers/manufacturers, but Google could have put in requirements regarding upgrade policies. However, they're apparently not in a strong enough position to do that, after all they need to get the manufacturers on
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Maybe I should have written that they ripped off Apples _implementation_ of the idea. Or maybe they were just "inspired". The right question to ask is this: Would multiple capacitive multitouch phones similar to the iPhone have been introdu
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Sorry, but that's just wrong. Most other computer or consumer electronics companies have high-end lines with prices comparable to Apples products. Companies like RIM and Nokia had pretty nice margins on their high-end phones. The main probl
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Doesn't many luxury cars have innovations way before normal cars do, simply because these innovations have yet to come down in price? I think there will always be some features you can get on an Audi that you can't get on a Volkswagen. And
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by gnaffle 15y ago
While he did invent lots of stuff, I think it's pretty undisputed by the people close to him such as Jony Ive and Andy Hertzfeld, that Steve was famous for claiming other peoples ideas as his own. [Edit: Jony Ive describes this in chapter 2
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Jony Ive mentioned this in the biography, and said it was especially annoying to him since he always remembered who came up with an idea. It's the same "phenomenon" described by Hertzfeld here: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Realit
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Well, it's hard to say that other companies didn't rip off the "idea" of the iPhone. After all, all the hardware had been available for a number of years, including displays, CPUs, GPUs, capacitive touchscreens, batteries etc. Someone else
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I think the biggest issue is the growing number of online publications using third party messaging / discussion forums like Facebook or disqus. AFAIK require third party cookies to work. Then again, it made me question whether it was really
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I think you're right, but only up until that point where people see concrete, actual consequences of giving up their privacy. A friend of mine was not very happy when he discovered that he was served ads about "how to lose weight!", and "st
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I'm actually pretty surprised at how few people knew this about lithium batteries. I guess that goes to show how much protection is actually built into the devices, and how rarely it actually happens. This problem isn't fixable, but it happ
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I can hardly see that Tesla has provided any misinformation. They have apparently told owners that it is important to keep the batteries charged. Which owners will in the typical usage scenario. Maybe a big, red warning sticker on the door
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by gnaffle 15y ago
What kind of technology is going to keep a battery magically charged if left alone? Self-discharge is a built-in phenomenon of these batteries. The fix they have is that the car can "phone home", and that's what Tesla and other car manufact
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by gnaffle 15y ago
The Treo was hardly the original smartphone. Nokia had the Communicator before that, and Alcatel had the One Touch Com in 1996: http://data.motor-talk.de/data/galleries/0/3/7206/16273817/p... Apples spin wasn't ditching the keyboard as so
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by gnaffle 15y ago
While he was a genius at marketing, that's not the main lesson to take from Apple. The main lesson is that it's possible to focus on a few products and make them work really well. I don't think all the marketing genius in the world would ha
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by gnaffle 15y ago
..and sadly, the 770 and its user interface just shows too well why the iPhone won, and why the other companies had to go back to the drawing board with their operating systems. I used the 770 and actually got wrist pain from using it too m
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I think Apple can rightly be credited with making smartphones and tablets mainstream. Smartphones and tablets were niches before the iPhone. Microsoft had tried for years pushing Windows Tablet Edition, but it only became a niche. Do you th
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by gnaffle 15y ago
November 2007 isn't exactly pre-iPhone?
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I use XCode to compile stuff and Apple doesn't charge me anything for using the software compiled with it.
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by gnaffle 15y ago
My guess is that many executives at competing companies think just like this: Apple just sells "slightly prettier" laptops at a premium. So they give their designers the job of making the products "slightly prettier", and then they are surp
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by gnaffle 15y ago
No, not necessarily, but do you think Android or PalmOS both fit the description "a warmed-over Linux distro"? The fact that they both run Linux is not what makes any of them unique or interesting.
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Can you point out to me how the rest of the book demonstrates the truth about the origins of OSX? My impression is that Isaacson just got this wrong. The quote is just part of that. Let a random person read the last few pages of chapter 28,
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by gnaffle 15y ago
It does imply agreement if it's the only viewpoint being presented. When he says that OSX used "some of the software that Apple had bought from NeXT", that's not a quote from anyone, it's still wrong (or grossly misleading at best, when the
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by gnaffle 15y ago
It wasn't, unless you're completely ignoring the one thing that made OSX and NeXTStep unique, the OpenSTEP framework and Display Postscript/PDF GUI engine. That they were able to use these components made it possible to provide an operating
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by gnaffle 15y ago
But why couldn't we have had _both_? The technological history of Apple post Steves return is very poorly documented due to its secretive nature. Even so, Isaacson did a really poor job of analyzing Steves personality, and never really conf
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by gnaffle 15y ago
If your Mac freezes every few days, you probably have a hardware problem (or you've installed some third party driver that's messing things up).

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