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541.
by gress 12y ago
What suggestion for raising app revenue do you have that wouldn't put them at a disadvantage Google?
542.
by gress 12y ago
You don't have any knowledge at all about Tim or Jony's feelings towards developers that the rest of us don't have. Some counterpoints: Why does apple keep investing in APIs for developers who they don't care about Why d
543.
by gress 12y ago
Jony assumes you have taste.
544.
by gress 12y ago
The parent's argument that a bank account is needed was a retort to the idea that Bitcoin is easier than banking. Conducting financial transactions in a police station is not easier than using a bank, so whilst a bank account isn'
545.
by gress 12y ago
True but it puts paid to this ridiculous idea that transferring money via Bitcoin is somehow more convenient than regular banking.
546.
by gress 12y ago
How is obtaining a credit or debit card instant?
547.
by gress 12y ago
Buying a western union check and meeting someone in an alleyway to get a thumb drive is easier than just using a bank? I think not.
548.
by gress 12y ago
I have to assume this is satire, given alternatives like Square cash. - Bitcoin wallets are under constant cyberattack and there is nobody to compensate you if the money is stolen. - There is no good way to evaluate the integrity of bitcoin
549.
by gress 12y ago
Even if this story were true (which it appears not to be), if the users don't understand the system, it is the design of the system that is at fault. To paraphrase Jony Ive: When we eat bad food, we don't blame ourselves. Why do w
550.
by gress 12y ago
"There are always paths to work your way up in the system even if you were not always in the highest tier." Your argument seems to be that since there are some people have moved between social tiers, anyone can move between social
551.
by gress 12y ago
Does Google Drive have a different privacy policy to GMail?
552.
by gress 12y ago
Perhaps that 'justifiable' ignoring of tablet apps by Android devs is what led to the total failure of Android tablets.
553.
by gress 12y ago
You mean like in the movie, Divergent?
554.
by gress 12y ago
Swizzling can't be mentioned with a straight face in an argument about brittleness. But, I'll concede that KVO won't work with arbitrary properties of binary libraries you receive or that Apple builds into the platform, assum
555.
by gress 12y ago
There is no less dynamicism in swift than in objective-c. What there is, is a replacement for the C. Which is precisely what they said they were going to do. C, of course is not dynamic, and the replacement is not either. I'm not di
556.
by gress 12y ago
> Android used to get a lot of jeers because Android Dwvs had to deal with these issues from day one. No. The jeering was because Android Dev's didn t deal with these issues and so the apps were just blown up in size, and not re
557.
by gress 12y ago
Exactly. And the swift designers realize this which is why they added these language features.
558.
by gress 12y ago
Actually I am an iOS developer, and it's much easier to make a responsive UI using autolayout than it ever was to translate someone's photoshop into a pixel-perfect UI, especially if your product is being developed iteratively and
559.
by gress 12y ago
Honesty, if you use Swift as just a 'Better Objective-C', then it isn't that much better. However, if you abandon the Java/Objective-C style of one file per class, traditional OO, and instead program as if it were lisp
560.
by gress 12y ago
"with the recent proliferation of iOS device sizes and aspect ratios the days of drag & drop UI in iOS are long gone" This casual false statement makes the rest of your comment seem very questionable.
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by gress 12y ago
You don't think the bending reports are paid for by someone?
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by gress 12y ago
Choosing a different android device to trump each separate specification of the iPhone just proves that there is no single android device that is as good overall.
563.
by gress 12y ago
“We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.” But, fair enough about the original article.
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by gress 12y ago
If someone has your phone and the ability to demand your fingerprints, what possible value is an additional 4-digit pin going to be?
565.
by gress 12y ago
The denial is only that they didn't make any promises to Google. Not that Google's interests weren't considered.
566.
by gress 12y ago
Do you seriously believe that someone is going to clone your fingerprint and attempt to unlock your phone with it?
567.
by gress 12y ago
Glass is a botched PR stunt, not world-changing research. So this underscores the GP's point.
568.
by gress 12y ago
Can we now finally acknowledge that Google has an anti-privacy agenda?
569.
by gress 12y ago
Advertising isn't random or independent of the signal - it's systematic bias.
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by gress 12y ago
Jeff Bezos's newspaper publishes a legalistic piece impugning Apple. Who is surprised?

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