jopt

9 ms·

91.
by jopt 14y ago
Lucky Apple, always getting there first with the inevitable.
92.
by jopt 14y ago
Isn't that a Tu Queue fallacy?
93.
by jopt 14y ago
Sure, but that's not what I was asking. Compared to these competitors, app.net has a business model that relies less on a huge customer base to show ads to. Could a smaller user base not suffice when you charge users upfront? Can it be succ
94.
by jopt 14y ago
Does the success of app.net depend on unseating the incumbent?
95.
by jopt 14y ago
Probably none. What advantage does a house have over a trailer if I don't care about space/heating and how is that worth $n to me?
96.
by jopt 14y ago
Noting that the money will be refunded if there aren't enough backers. This guarantees a non-trivial customer base and makes it a lower risk investment.
97.
by jopt 14y ago
Okay, so it's not a dichotomy, but doesn't the comparison still makes sense? Apple is way over toward the "pay for the product" end of the spectrum, and conversely Twitter are committed to the "selling the users' attention" business model.
98.
by jopt 14y ago
Gruber is pretty clear that he wants this to succeed because Twitter is getting shabby. I don't see why his express opinions are always second guessed. (e.g. Does he own Apple stock? Is he concerned about Google?) Is it so implausible that
99.
by jopt 14y ago
That's insane; it must be a bug. Perhaps they should just stick with the new document model. We'd have to relearn, but a clean break is better than this nonsense.
100.
by jopt 14y ago
Not quite. Cocoa is really just an Objective-C API, though it's coupled with Aqua through Xcode and recent innovations like AutoLayout, whereby HIG policies are enforced by code. Metro seems to be more than that.
101.
by jopt 14y ago
Words aren't sacred. Words become names and names become words. It's all fairly fluid. Future generations won't know what a college facebook is, and they'll think Google is an obvious name for a website where you google things.
102.
by jopt 14y ago
I hope the smiley is sarcastic?
103.
by jopt 14y ago
Perhaps it is more attractive to advertisers then to users. Demographic tracking etc.
104.
by jopt 14y ago
I don't think so. Easy is not homogenous. This ad doesn't show novice users browsing the web or reading their work e-mail without running into trouble. I think the ad is effective because the Genius doesn't help them with things that are "s
105.
by jopt 14y ago
No, I'm talking about what people take away from it. I don't think the target audience would equate the Genius with "tech support," regardless of what he actually is.
106.
by jopt 14y ago
Really? What makes you think that?
107.
by jopt 14y ago
They probably didn't. I don't think that was their focus.
108.
by jopt 14y ago
That's crazy talk. Why would most people equate this t-shirted sweetheart with tech support? The ad never calls him a "technician" or "support person." He never helps with technical problems; he just helps lowering the barrier to working cr
109.
by jopt 14y ago
Which would be a problem if the ad targeted people who expect it to be easy. Apple are trying to sell Macs to people who are afraid of clicking unfamiliar icons, people who don't read dialogue boxes. The Mac users in their commercials are f
110.
by jopt 14y ago
I take away a more positive message: you don't need to know how it works, and you don't need to be afraid of trying new things (photo books and home movies) that you'd never do with the Windows box they gave you at work. If you get stuck, h
111.
by jopt 14y ago
That would, if anything, show that you should expect problems with your Apple products. The present ads target users who are already certain that they will face problems whatever computer they buy, because they aren't into it. Besides, why
112.
by jopt 14y ago
Thinnovation
113.
by jopt 14y ago
Is this problem unique to mathematics? Consider natural sciences, history, geography. It's easy to make up real-world examples of when each could be an advantage, but it's hard to say anything is necessary. It is what you make it.
114.
by jopt 14y ago
The version that created the data reads it just fine. The new version just isn't backwards compatible.
115.
by jopt 14y ago
Lets not get of topic: A new version of the software refuses to read the old version's data. It's unworthy of a modern day app, especially a non-third-party app. It's especially unfortunate that this upgrade is bundled with a larger OS upgr
116.
by jopt 14y ago
Bullshit extreme
117.
by jopt 14y ago
To some extent. While things like e-mail are getting harder for non-experts to distinguish from web content, I think many kids understand that World of Warcraft isn't the web.
118.
by jopt 14y ago
I find that hard to believe. The songs are actually "shuffled," in the same sense as a deck of cards is. One a song is "drawn" from the shuffled deck, it is not put back until the deck is exhausted and shuffled again. So in any shuffle, eac
119.
by jopt 14y ago
Writing "pier" instead of "peer" is, just like writing "cat" instead of "dog," wiring something different from what you mean. Your reason for confusing "pier" and "peer" doesn't make them the same. Perhaps it's hard to get the right answer,
120.
by jopt 14y ago
I agree. It's a better point, but it's not the one he made, and it doesn't support the one he made. Shifting the goalposts seems to have become so ingrained in how we debate that we now do it on the behalf of others.

More ›