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by jemmons 17y ago
I'm sorry, it seems one could conclude from your statement that you don't believe Jobs-era Apple (which, after all, has had basically the same business model all these years) hasn't changed the world. It seems to me they've already done th
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by jemmons 17y ago
Ahhhh! Hoist by my own petard! Mea culpa.
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by jemmons 17y ago
If you weren't prepared to back up your statement of millions, maybe you shouldn't have said "millions"? It makes it sound as if you're tying to inflate the importance of your argument hoping you wouldn't get called on it. I agree completel
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by jemmons 17y ago
Could you please cite sources for those numbers? Given that it's unlikely you could find millions of people who even know what DRM is, I find your claim... inventive. It seems unlikely that a corporation with so much to gain would not have
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by jemmons 17y ago
How to loose your argument before you've made it: Make up Mad Magazine-esque nicknames for the subject of your argument that you (but no one else) find clever and at least semi-derogatory. See also: M$, winblows, iSheep
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by jemmons 17y ago
I agree with you, but have to laugh at your labeling of the iTunes DRM terms as "draconian". iTunes represented the first case of DRM I can think of whose terms were so fair that most consumers never even knew they existed. 5 computers? U
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by jemmons 17y ago
Not even remotely true. Steve Jobs himself screamed bloody murder in his open letter speaking out against DRM and the music labels didn't even budge. Economic factors are the only indicators most copyright holders care about when it comes t
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by jemmons 17y ago
While they sold twice as many iPhones as they did macs, mac sales are up 4% from the year-ago quarter. That means they sold all those iPhones without cannibalizing mac sales . That's the big news.
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by jemmons 17y ago
"which this seems to be a clear-cut case of (of course, I am not a lawyer and have no idea what those terms actually mean)" Fixed that for you.
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by jemmons 17y ago
Spiteful? Really? You think Apple as a company acts out of a bitter, vicious, unreasoning desire for revenge? I think closing security holes and protecting IP both sound like far more reasonable motivations. Love to see evidence to the cont
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by jemmons 17y ago
Or their presentations are not any good? Yes. Exactly. I'd say "not as good", but whatever you like.
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by jemmons 17y ago
Your argument contradicts itself. It seems as if you are calling for a level playing field so that Apple and Palm products can compete against each other on their own merits. But remember, Apple out-competed their iPod opponents by making n
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by jemmons 17y ago
Do you have any idea how many man-hours go into the preparation of WWDC talks? Sure, other people may give away their development presentations. But then, they're not (IMHO, etc, etc) nearly as informative, polished, or well produced as sta
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by jemmons 17y ago
I've obviously used both I think it's far from obvious when you've been unable to point to one concrete (even biased and opinionated!) example of why you think a Macintosh computer is inferior to the technology you choose to use.
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by jemmons 17y ago
Why don't you tell me why paying more for the same hardware specs for the Mac should be justified? I'm not trying to convince you of anything. The burden of proof lies with you. Read the facts. Windows has what, like 86% of the desktop m
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by jemmons 17y ago
Care to give us any data points to back up your broad unsubstantiated claims? They're certainly at odds with my own experience.
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by jemmons 17y ago
For my part? I doubt the part that's " so nebulous that it would require further clarification to establish ".
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by jemmons 17y ago
Please note " especially on user-facing interfaces " above. The Pre identifying itself as an iPod in a protocol is not an issue. The problem is that doing so ultimately advertises to the user that the Pre is an iPod via dialogs, icons, an
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by jemmons 17y ago
Um, isn't Microsoft's whole business based on selling an OS that supports as many different varieties of hardware as possible? Specifically, in this very space, wasn't the whole point of "Plays for Sure" that there were a multitude of hardw
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by jemmons 17y ago
Not even. Competitors are (as far as I know) welcome to use iTunes' xml database and files. But they are not allowed to label themselves as iPods, especially on user-facing interfaces. That's exactly what the Pre does, and it's a clear and
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by jemmons 17y ago
You misunderstand. People did not refuse to believe that Apple would break support. They refused to believe you had any compelling evidence to support your claim that they would. That you happened to be right is no vindication when the odds
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by jemmons 17y ago
And a hint for you, in kind. When you post about Amarok, you don't get a bunch of people posting about how iTunes is "vastly better than" your chosen tech without anything other than dumb subjective anecdotes to back it up. Nor do people wh
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by jemmons 17y ago
Normally you have to be followed by someone in order to DM them. Note this is not true with the spam account. There's a special hack in the code to allow for this, so "d spam" away!
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by jemmons 17y ago
Clearly misleading. By this definition, Windows "scales" an order of magnitude better than OS X — a statement that, when considered in the classical sense, is, at very least, up for debate.
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by jemmons 17y ago
This is not an article. It's just some guy talking. There is not a single sentence in this post that would not be improved by asking the question "Why?" Today saw the announcement of ... something I’ve wanted for quite some time; an ...
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by jemmons 17y ago
Why is the ribbon usable? What positive effects have you seen that caused you to implement it in various apps. As a user interface designer, how is the ribbon better than the interface it replaces? I don't doubt what you say, but anecdotal
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by jemmons 17y ago
First, every single one of these is the same. Why is this interesting? Second, didn't we just have a post reminding us not to use numbers in the title of submissions? http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : If the original title be
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by jemmons 17y ago
Thank you! This saves me from commenting on the original now.
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by jemmons 17y ago
I've had mine two years and I've never found a need for flash. We could sit here and trade anecdotes all day if you like.
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by jemmons 17y ago
No.

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