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by jad 15y ago
Meh. People said the same thing about the original iPad and it didn't seem to make much difference.
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by jad 15y ago
Actually, from what I understand, Apple products are used quite extensively by Google employees. I have friends who work there, and there are lots of developers there who use Macs for day-to-day work. My understanding is that the Google Voi
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by jad 15y ago
> I can only assume that there's some desire within Google to make sure the iPhone versions of their products are complete dogshit to try and encourage Android adoption. Do people think companies really behave this way? "Hey guys, how c
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by jad 15y ago
I think it's always questionable to approach people as if their personality traits can be selected a la carte, as if there's no interdependence between them. "Well, I love the world-changing products with the amazing attention to every deta
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by jad 15y ago
A big reason for this is that what Apple does is very, very _hard_. It's really hard to build physical objects with design good enough to be featured in museums. It's really hard to build your own software ecosystem, from operating system t
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by jad 15y ago
> So who does Apple's software design? Scott Forstall is responsible for iOS. My understanding is that Eddy Cue is responsible for the iTunes Store, including the App Store, and now, iCloud. He was promoted to Executive Vice President b
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by jad 15y ago
> I am not trying to start an argument, but you are aware that Google was working on Android for quite some time right? And this is what Android looked like: http://gizmodo.com/334909/google-android-prototype-in-the-wi...
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by jad 15y ago
Or maybe Apple doesn't know anything about the ad business and has executed poorly. No need to over think it.
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by jad 15y ago
> They are toast. Apple earns about 50% of the profit in mobile handsets, a share that is trending upwards.
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by jad 15y ago
You're missing the point. iOS devices have file systems. The simple fact is that people just don't understand them very well. Most normal users just put everything on their desktop because it's the only way they can ever find them again. Ma
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by jad 15y ago
I think others have explained this, but I'll give it a try anyway. Plug an SD card with photos on it into the iPad camera connection kit, and plug that into the iPad. The Photos app opens, you tap the photos you want to import, and you're d
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by jad 15y ago
> As above, the problem is corruption. We have a structure that is supposed to effectively keep the federal government almost completely incapable of doing anything besides maintaining international borders, treaties, and other boring m
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by jad 15y ago
I wasn't denying that NATO passed Article 5 for the first and only time in its history after the 9/11 attacks, and I wasn't denying that the US supported it. I was referring to the arm's length at which the Bush Administration held our NATO
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by jad 15y ago
On the contrary, our NATO allies offered to help, but the Bush Administration famously replied, "thanks but no thanks, we'll do this ourselves."
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by jad 15y ago
Apple is a very focused company. They build nice gadgets and sell them for nice profit margins. Everything they do is directed toward that goal. Entering the search business means entering the online advertising business. They don't know an
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by jad 15y ago
> I can at least conceive of situations in which I might care about the benefits that come with using Objective-C et al than I care about how verbose dictionary initialization is. Fair enough. I'm interested to hear more about what thes
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by jad 15y ago
Genuine question: what is the appeal here? I write iOS apps for a living, and appreciate what Objective-C and (especially) Cocoa have to offer, but why would anyone choose to use Objective-C when there are so many other great alternatives a
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by jad 15y ago
This also fits with the fact that they don't charge for new major versions of Safari, which also has a Windows version.
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by jad 15y ago
"Right after that e-book competitor shut it's doors (It's been like 3 weeks.)" "This is how apple kills off competitors. They "experiment", competitors close shop, then they come to their senses and undo the damage." Do you really think App
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by jad 15y ago
Ypu're reaching. Didn't Jobs say at the beginning that Apple is currently in "a motley assortment of buildings spread out over a large campus, some of which are better than others."
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by jad 15y ago
Agreed. Also don't forget that no one really made much noise about the lack of Flash on iPhones. It wasn't until iPads also had no Flash that Adobe could more clearly see the writing on the wall and started making a lot of noise. What's mor
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by jad 15y ago
> If they make most of their cash from enterprise, is it reasonable to criticise him for missing the phone/tablet revolution? I mean, we don't criticise jobs for missing the enterprise software market. Apple is a very focused company th
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by jad 15y ago
The order of operations was: * Twitter supported basic auth only. * Twitter forced all new apps, including native apps, to use OAuth. Existing basic auth apps were allowed to continue working without modification. * Twitter rolled out xAuth
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by jad 15y ago
As the maker of an iOS Twitter client that used to use OAuth (now uses xAuth), I can tell you it's trivial to retrieve the user's username and password from the embedded UIWebView. If someone wants to steal user credentials, they'll still b
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by jad 15y ago
> But my point was I don't think they changed the industry structure. Right, I think it depends on what you mean by "industry". If you mean handsets, they've obviously completely disrupted it. Touch was not a mainstream interaction mode
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by jad 16y ago
> Android is still much more open than Apple. Is the goal to be open, or just more open than Apple? As I'm sure you know, they're not the same thing.
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by jad 16y ago
It's important to keep in mind that for Apple, hardware and software are not independent products. The software, as great as it often is on its own, exists to sell the hardware. Most of the iPhone's most compelling features, judging from wh
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by jad 16y ago
As of about 6:50 PM EDT, this ad hominem attack on the article's author has almost as many upvotes (56) as every other top-level comment on this thread combined (67). Sad.
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by jad 16y ago
It's my impression that Google itself made Android's openness part of their marketing pitch. Then of course there's Andy Rubin's famous tweet: https://twitter.com/Arubin/status/27808662429 If they're going to make openness an issue, it se
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by jad 16y ago
Only minor updates. Major updates were always bundled with new OS versions. If memory serves, Xcode 3 shipped with Leopard, Xcode 2 with Tiger, etc.

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