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by huggyface 14y ago
Were you online around, say, 1993? That was when the reality of the terrible non-performance of internet advertising really hit home -- the performance of most internet ads beyond below abysmal unless you used the most egregious of tactics
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by huggyface 14y ago
That would be a good counterpoint if I cast that observation out of nowhere, vindicating the GS III. In reality, however, we are specifically talking about anecdotes and personal opinion, hence anecdotes and personal opinion. The entire poi
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by huggyface 14y ago
you get hardware (most generally, also some software and services like AppleCare) from them, and you give them money in return Is it so simple? Does anyone actually believe that Apple considers the transaction complete when you walk away
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by huggyface 14y ago
Random Canadian company vs. a well-connected Silicon Valley founder would potentially be sufficient. You mean as a reason to choose the former, right?
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by huggyface 14y ago
This 'startup' is one of those things on HN that really leaves me scratching my head, sure that there must be much more that I'm missing. Is this really it? And to Gruber's pitch, is it because he has a vested interest, financially? Is his
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by huggyface 14y ago
they're more qualified in passing judgement over someone who hasn't touched both phones I would argue that it isn't true at all: People who are accustomed to one thing (whether it is taste in wine or acclimatization to an interface) tend
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by huggyface 14y ago
His points were not one sided. And? It says nothing relative to my indisputable point that the noisy ruckus of anecdotes simply pollute every Android discussion. There are plenty of professional reviews that made the same points he made.
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by huggyface 14y ago
Let's take one statement from your root post- But compared to the iPhone, it's far less intuitive, it's build quality is crap, and I can't make it though a day on a charge Ignoring hilariously subjective statements on intuitive interfaces
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by huggyface 14y ago
Virtually every paywall implementation has been a dismal failure. One of the greatest ways to get a viral message on the move is to claim that a common service will soon charge (see ICQ, Facebook, MSN Messenger, etc). Maybe it's a huge iss
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by huggyface 14y ago
Its interesting that google put out chrome to force all browsers to have substantially better performance, thus expediting the migration from local applications to the "cloud" That is a great observation. I would also cynically add that C
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by huggyface 14y ago
There are countless very thorough professional reviews of the Galaxy S III available. There are countless very thorough reviews of Android proper. Many of them by people who have actually touched both platforms extensively, and many extensi
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by huggyface 14y ago
I desperately pray for a day when I can look at comments on an Android or iOS story without seeing likely fictitious anecdotes (why does anyone who has ever used an iPhone seems to think they are in some sort of unique, privileged position
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by huggyface 14y ago
the second is opinionated It is a statement of reality. Choices can have consequences, and giving someone a choice with the implied notion that it is all win -- ignoring the very real consequences -- is a profound lie. The sophistry, and
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by huggyface 14y ago
You want your TV ads to be more relevant, but you probably don't want someone living with you to report to the networks what interests you each day. Is your analogy perhaps a bit ridiculous? Tell most people that their PVR is going to rep
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by huggyface 14y ago
No, something approaching 100% of users will still say yes, adding that robust economic foundation is the content providers' problem, not the users'. Who do you think "users" are? HN denizens? Users -- most especially those using Internet
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by huggyface 14y ago
Is reality really a "position"? Personally I think sites should honor the DNT header by implementing a paywall for such users (really the same holds true for Adblock patrons). Ad-supported sites have an implicit two-way contract that you ge
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by huggyface 14y ago
Why introduce a header which almost everybody in the world would probably want to use by default in every one of their HTTP requests and then say that you can't do that? Ask everyone in the world if they "don't want to be tracked" and 100
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by huggyface 14y ago
This doesn't have to do with marketing Internet Explorer as being more secure / privacy friendly Sure it does. When you're losing you need to differentiate, and Microsoft is choosing the "privacy first" route. It's fairly transparent, but
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by huggyface 14y ago
Isn't the core value for directions / time costing estimates? Google Now is pretty amazing at estimating my commute based upon the traffic.
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by huggyface 14y ago
This is a huge reason to use registry protection services In this case it's a bit of a red herring given that his private address is right there on his personal website -- the whois is just an extra, completely unnecessary, step. Hide beh
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by huggyface 14y ago
Apple was one of several manufacturers bringing hardware innovations happening in the industry to smartphones: Large, colourful LCD screens, mobile processors, GPUs, and wireless technologies. None of that was pioneered by Apple (paradoxica
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by huggyface 14y ago
Before Android, the iPhone was a horribly complicated device with broken, almost useless notifications, no cloud functionality, and a need to tether off of a master PC to do anything of consequence (updates, initial setup, etc). Every devic
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by huggyface 14y ago
Spurred on by a down vote, let me clarify: Carmack did some big loud exercise about not developing on Android right as the Android ecosystem exploded. He rallied around Direct right as OpenGL exploded in the mobile space. He rallies agai
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by huggyface 14y ago
Carmack is a brilliant chap but almost everything he has said in the past several years has been of the skating to where the puck was variety. Many, many home computer gamers do two primary things on their PC: the web, and gaming. With Micr
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by huggyface 14y ago
This story is interesting and notable without the completely unnecessary narrative about American TV.
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by huggyface 14y ago
You've written what I was planning on posting. This is classic data aggregation and analysis. while Big Data is a trendy term, I see and perceive nothing in it that qualifies as even a particularly large set, much less what most see as Big
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by huggyface 14y ago
To be fair, Paul is far from the first to make such an observation. It has long been called strategic incompetence and is a very common behavior to avoid doing something you don't want to do.
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by huggyface 14y ago
So, the stereotype exists for a reason The stereotype certainly has validity insomuch as stereotypes do, but it isn't because men are biologically or mentally incapable of raising children. Instead it's a happenstance of history that wome
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by huggyface 14y ago
While Google has terrible, terrible support outside of Enterprise Google Apps use, you bring up something foundational- But remember the people generating publicity We're hearing one side of the story, where the players know that the othe
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by huggyface 14y ago
I still don't know what the problem was I would guess that it's that your logo is an obvious derivative of Instagram's logo, as is your app name. There is a very real possibility that users in a rush could install your app when they inten

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