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by irons 15y ago
Nokia makes WP7 #3 by default. A respectable #4 by volume would be fine if WebOS has a shot at #2 in quality. #1 in quality is, I trust, sewn up for practically everyone reading this, though with disagreements at great length and volume on
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by irons 15y ago
Is Prompt already the best thing on your iPad? If not, I'd be curious to know how it stacks up. (Prompt costs US$5 for an iPad/iPhone version. Nobody get the vapors.)
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by irons 15y ago
Build a business on Meego? Are you trolling? People in these parts honestly believe Android is a hospitable business environment, but if your business involves selling things, you have to content yourself with a tiny fraction of iOS's reven
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by irons 15y ago
The next time you replace a card (a shiny nickel says it'll happen before the card naturally expires), keep a list of every place you had to update it online. Takes the sting out of replacing it again in the future. I'm holding off only bec
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by irons 15y ago
None of that says "really bad UI". Quirky, sure. Not as straightforward as others. I wouldn't call strychnine a poison. It's just a quirky food additive.
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by irons 15y ago
Doesn't seem likely. VMs impose limits on resource consumption (though Rackspace allows CPU bursting, from what I understand). It's not like the old days where you could get lucky on a sparsely-populated shared server.
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by irons 15y ago
The jailbreak ruling wasn't from the Supreme Court, it was from the US copyright office, which found that jailbreaking a smartphone was a legitimate exception to DMCA prohibitions on using technical means to beat copy protection. The ruling
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by irons 15y ago
Your optimism would be touching, if it wasn't coming in the defense of such flagrantly hostile behavior. Even if this clause did apply only to Android recompilations and not to ports, I trust you'll concede it is not status quo ante with Ap
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by irons 15y ago
No different than Apple really, requiring your in-app content to match the lowest pricing available. IGDA says the Amazon terms limit you to the lowest price "available or previously available on any Similar Service" — it's the "previousl
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by irons 16y ago
I'm not sure they're disappointed, per se. The non-nerds I know who bought Android phones are generally pretty pleased to be able to make calls and use the web a bit. They're not app consumers to the slightest degree. Android represents a s
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by irons 16y ago
Android has more market share than iOS, which would seem to suggest it's moved far beyond the "technical, geeky" crowd. OS market share is the easy metric, but it's not the right metric. Read the last six paragraphs: http://expletiveinse
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by irons 16y ago
A small change in screen size will not affect the usability of touch interface. The hell it won't. Right now the screen on an iPad is 5.86" by 7.79", for 9.75" diagonal. Multiply those dimensions by 90%, and you get a diagonal length of 8
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by irons 16y ago
He's misconstruing what happened with Mini and Nano iPods. At introduction the iPod Mini only cost $50 less than the full-size $400 iPod, with less storage, and it was perceived as a pricing misstep until they sold a jillion of them. People
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by irons 16y ago
The stories about TRIM coming in Lion also pointed out that so far it was only supported on Apple's own SSDs. Also, the major problem with Sandforce drives on Macs is that their firmware can only be updated a) under Windows, in Boot Camp, a
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by irons 16y ago
You're mistaken. Xcode 3 and 4 are still available with the $99/year dev memberships for iOS or Mac OS X.
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by irons 16y ago
It's only a matter of time before the iPad style tablet becomes commoditized. Quite a few years ago, Apple was one of the design leaders in the laptop space, then others caught up, more or less. The same thing happened in the smartphone sp
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by irons 16y ago
You have to boot into target disk mode for the same reason you can't plug one Firewire disk into two computers simultaneously. TDM is supported in Thunderbolt, to my great glee. Terrific Firewire feature.
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by irons 16y ago
Netflix may be exempt, somehow: http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-not-affected-by-apple...
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by irons 16y ago
The "10,000 hours thing" isn't a law, or a rule. It's an anecdote. Interpreting it as a fatwa against a personal life, or interests outside of a lab, would be a bad move.
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by irons 16y ago
And yet, because the iPad is priced quite aggressively, you are not going to find yourself buying one for quite a while, and competitors like Samsung are between a rock and a hard place. It's kind of remarkable how Apple's used its old repu
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by irons 16y ago
Yes, showing up looking for specific titles is a recipe for disappointment, given how Netflix has to purchase content. But if you like movies, hie thee to instantwatcher.com, and you're going to do OK.
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by irons 16y ago
So, your new working hypothesis is what, that Mac users secretly prefer Java UIs? That might prove too much. I don't think it's a secret that Mac users are, by and large, more comfortable than Windows users at paying for and installing soft
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by irons 16y ago
Those aren't criteria for judging the fitness all web technologies, they're criteria for deciding between H.264 and WebM, should one feel obliged to choose. There's no hypocrisy here, because you can take it as a given that Gruber believes
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by irons 16y ago
MPEG-LA cannot be a patent troll let alone a known one, because it's a loose organization of companies that agree on a standard to prevent fragmentation of video and let people deal with one entity instead of a thousand. Also, the licensi
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by irons 16y ago
Entirely up to the carriers, just like tethering.
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by irons 16y ago
Also, Iraq. Thanks, Darrell Issa!
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by irons 16y ago
... with a puzzling lack of pricing information about hotspot usage, or even basic data.
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by irons 16y ago
The PC doesn't have to die for the PC era to gracefully decline, any more than Henry Ford had to personally shoot every horse.
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by irons 16y ago
Then explain why there's no EU-comparable regional service in areas of the US with far greater density, like any of the top ten metro areas. Even the cell carriers have large roaming-only gaps and dead zones, not just in the unpopulated w
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by irons 16y ago
I naturally expected a product line split. It would have made perfect sense to have a top-end 4" 960x640 phone and a low-end phone using the old screen, less RAM and other money-saving components. Since the 2009 introduction of the iPhone

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