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by jpxxx 14y ago
A word I made up.
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I'm thinking it goes something like this: Let's assume Apple's map quality is more or less resolved within the near future and put it aside. What can they do with total control over a POI+venue database? -- They can generate statistics on w
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Yes it's biased, she's deeply opinionated, yes she's an opinioneer, etc... But she's still got a piece of the truth in hand: Maps are important, they're only becoming moreso, and Apple is extremely unlikely to sit on their ass now that the
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Trojankitten is extraordinarily astute and her opinion is not to be dismissed as partisanship. She is correct in that Maps are a fundamental and incredibly important platform service that will only become moreso over time. Doesn't change ho
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by jpxxx 14y ago
The native iOS 6 Maps are just short of wretched. No transit directions, unhelpful default views, a dramatically weaker points of interest database, weaker scrolling performance, and a busier UI that doesn't add anything of great use. It's
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I don't know if I have any grand thesis, I'm just complaining into a textbox. Bottom-basement minute-one functionality in Android still seems to be in flux, and it's bothersome to me. Hardware buttons become software buttons become contextu
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Thirded. And I think is the year smartphones finally reached something like feature and quality parity with each other. Sensor sets are mostly universal, few cameras embarrass themselves anymore, battery life is all in the same ballpark, et
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We're not on the same page.
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I couldn't agree more on Settings. Apple made the hideous mistake in iOS 2 of placing each third party app's settings in the OS's Settings app. Developers correctly determined that nobody wants to leave their app to change how it worked and
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Yep. My job rarely has me setting Android up for the first time.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Yep. If you go for public transit instructions, the Maps app will geolocate and prompt you to download a third party transit direction app that "might" be most appropriate. It's going to go over like a lead balloon next week - I find Google
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I'm not sure if this is a slam or a support, but sure, let's talk about iOS. There is no affordance for switching homepages, summoning notifications, deleting an application, moving an application, creating a folder, destroying a folder, or
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Well, I was only born one person. In the meantime, the world's most important new computing platform has some significant design issues that will probably require attention before we arrive at an era when "what's in your pocket" is your en
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Sure. In the meantime, the world's most important new computing platform has some significant design issues that require attention.
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shrug Your indignance over my experiences won't change anything from where I'm sitting. From a no-name candybar running 1.6 to a dead latest Galaxy S3 running 4.0, I have had the same miserable first five minutes. I've watched a Google m
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Every time I pick up an Android based phone it's always the same miserable first five minutes. "Where are the apps? Is... Oh. Are these all of the apps or some of the apps? Where are all of the apps? Do I hit a button? Oh.. Oh, there's a
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Correct. :) I have no tears to shed for this problem. Netflix in 2010: "Setting aside the debate around the value of content protection and DRM, they are requirements we must fulfill in order to obtain content from major studios for our sub
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by jpxxx 14y ago
So unaccountable nation-states have access to anything you say or do on a network, and random strangers have access to your account and billing details. Is there anything left standing here?
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Open iPhoto. Select all photos with Cmd-A. Drag them to a folder. The end! To preserve separate "rolls": open finder. Navigate to Photos. Right-click your iPhoto Library and choose "show package contents". Find the Originals folder and drag
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Strange, Netflix works fine on Android Linux. What's desktop Linux doing wrong?
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Ah, I see what you're arguing. Perhaps so. Ideally so, for sure.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I completely agree with everything you said. This is a Samsun and Apple game, with Samsung occupying every niche and market Apple won't take. There's no third platform evolving. And yeah, if Apple goes sub-$200, it's going to have to be wit
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Quite true. But then in a world of Asus Cloud and S-cloud you're still in the same boat. Backup, sync, and asst. services are fragmenting.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
This line is composed of attention seekers taking advantage of a colossal and global attention machine in action.
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Re-up is staying on the same phone. Retention is staying on the same carrier. Performance is not a wash, even comparing flagship phones. My greater point is that without excelling in all of those things I mentioned, people wouldn't be linin
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Yes, really. I argue that iCloud is a more robust and coherent offering at this point. It goes toe-to-toe with Android Backup when it comes to backing up relevant user-state (like SMS history, a very valuable datatype), offers desirable fea
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Apple's got the tightest hardware, best performance, best sales channel, widest distribution, widest manufacturing channel, best service, best support, best third-party ecosystem, best carrier support, best -working- voice assistant service
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It's to counter the needless and destructive megapixel race in phones. Until they get their claws on something truly gamechanging like Pureview they need to train their customers to talk about camera quality, not megapixellage.
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We are all fragile, lonely beasts. The history books don't bring that up either.
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I loved those books to death, but the parent is right. Mars is a rustier version of the moon with slightly better scenery. Imagine a life where you as a native Martian never get to go outside, never get to feel fresh air, never get to meet

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