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by irons 16y ago
Fair enough. The Magic Mouse hardware supports a three-finger click, and any of the various inexpensive third-party packages like jitouch et al make the Magic Mouse a viable input device.
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by irons 16y ago
The Magic Mouse supports a three-finger click, which is interpreted as a middle click.
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by irons 16y ago
For Apple to commit to anything in advance, let alone Windows support for a brand-new peripheral, would be evidence of takeover by pod people, and thus not nice at all. Windows support for the original iPod arrived two years later.
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by irons 16y ago
Internationally Apple works with dozens of carriers, frequently more than one in a territory. This is still the company whose CEO referred to carriers as "orifices" not so long ago. They're going to keep putting a brave face on the AT&T
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by irons 16y ago
Suggesting that Apple silently correlates and feeds back iPhone GPS data to Skyhook's access point database is speculative, at best. Occam's razor says Skyhook is using off-the-shelf hardware to identify access points at a distance, especia
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by irons 16y ago
I enjoyed Daniel Kahneman on "The riddle of experience vs memory", which is about the ways people structure their lives for experiences they think they will enjoy remembering, rather than things they'd necessarily enjoy doing at the time. T
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by irons 16y ago
Cool project, but why saddle it with a search engine penalty for a name? It's like "Mail" redux.
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by irons 16y ago
Can you provide a wee scintilla of evidence that the constituency upset about Apple's position on Flash overlaps meaningfully with Apple's "core user base", either for the Mac or the iPhone? I would very much like to see it, and I don't.
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by irons 16y ago
I'd have thought there was a bright line between people like my parents who use the ubiquitous "share this link" site features, and people like me who send messages with links and excerpts tailored to the recipient. If I'm right, you're an
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by irons 16y ago
Wisdom and self-assurance matter less than the ability to conceive of a world where this kind of a response is possible. As widely-circulated an article as this was creates people capable of pulling it off.
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by irons 16y ago
Seattle could really use one of those Arizona-style harassment laws to keep Californian prop-13 refugees out.
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by irons 17y ago
With the first iPad model still at 256 MB RAM, and no sign of GC in the iPhone OS 4 preview, memory management will be with the platform for a long time. I think we'll see multi-core first.
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by irons 17y ago
Fair enough -- iPhone sales are up despite it being an inopportune time to buy an iPhone. This doesn't exactly refute my point.
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by irons 17y ago
It's not remotely the same. All iPhones made to date run the current OS, and are prompted to upgrade to it when users activate their phones or sync their music libraries or back up. Android's OS is upgraded by the carrier; most carriers are
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by irons 17y ago
You're comparing Android sales to iPhone sales in the iPhone's worst buying season, though. Expect the iPhone numbers to blow up when it's been one month instead of ten since the last hardware refresh.
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by irons 17y ago
Because those apps are running on the iPad unmodified. Nothing at all to do with IB.
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by irons 17y ago
To be pedantic, "Objective-C 2.0" features are things the iPhone always had, like properties and fast enumeration, and/or had first, like the modern runtime (which solves the fragile base class problem, and which Mac apps still only get if
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by irons 17y ago
There is a "Top Grossing" app store list, currently at the bottom right of the landing page. #1 is currently MLB 2010 which is $15. #2 is The Sims 3, $6.99. #3 is Red Laser, 99¢. #6 is an app called "iRa Pro" which integrates with surveilla
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by irons 17y ago
The intersection of ads with the new rules only has to do with location-targeting. Apple had unofficially discouraged it before, saying your app couldn't use Core Location "primarily" to serve targeted ads, and they've now strengthened that
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by irons 17y ago
Netflix and Redbox cut good deals in exchange for those windows -- they pay less for the discs, and Netflix got expanded licensing for its streaming service. First sale rights aren't at issue. Just look at the Weinstein Company discs that a
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by irons 17y ago
Your friends in Japan had never seen an iPod in 2005? Apple claimed the iPod had 60 percent of Japanese market share as early as November of that year. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/nov/16japan.html It kept the lead until September
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by irons 17y ago
Doubleclick doesn't allow proxied ad distribution, and I'm not sure a similar effect could be achieved through DNS. The Ars thread touches on this, where Kurt mentions that Doubleclick's ad deployment isn't smart enough to detect flash-bloc
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by irons 17y ago
Your insightful rejoinder is addressed in the article.
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by irons 17y ago
Those were probably the Coding Headstart videos, also not available to free ADC "online" members. I'm not sure what the online tier is called now, but it does still exist: http://developer.apple.com/programs/register/ Compatibility lab ac
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by irons 17y ago
Select and Premiere memberships didn't include WWDC videos per se. Premiere included a WWDC ticket, and attendees do get the video for that year's show, which can otherwise be purchased for about $700. It's a shame about the hardware discou
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by irons 17y ago
Tierney can be counted on to reflexively rubbish any topic. He's sometimes thought-provoking when I know something about the subject matter, and think it good, because he will attempt to convince me that I'm wrong and it's terrible (most no
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by irons 17y ago
Minimum standards of personal responsibility don't protect you from your customers, they protect your customers from you. Customers are not in a good position (to say the least) to evaluate whether a software shop is competent.