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by jstevens85 17y ago
By removing Flash altogether, Apple is encouraging web developers to upgrade to new web technologies (HTML 5). If the iPhone/iPad had the option of using Flash, then web developers wouldn't have an incentive to produce non-Flash content. I'
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http://www.macworld.com/appguide/article.html?article=138409 Apple doesn't have a problem with third-party web browsers as long as they use the WebKit engine. Otherwise, the app would be implementing its own language interpreter and ther
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by jstevens85 17y ago
Yep, exactly. A lot of tech nerds don't understand just how unnecessarily complex computers are today. Watch a 60 year old try and use a PC for the first time and you'll realise how non-intuitive the modern desktop OS is today. The iPhone O
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by jstevens85 17y ago
Well, I don't think we've seen yet how the iPad will manage browser windows. Perhaps when you click on windows, it will be be able to display all of the open windows at the same time in a grid view.
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by jstevens85 17y ago
The argument against using Flash is that it's not suitable for a low-powered, long battery-life hand held device. My guess is that Jobs is worried that if Flash were enabled, the average consumer would notice a much shorter battery life. Th
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by jstevens85 17y ago
The crowd at reddit has gone rapidly downmarket in the last few months. Take this comment thread from a couple of days ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/ava3b/australia_bans_sm... Obviously the idea that the Australian censorship
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by jstevens85 17y ago
Perhaps the analysis is incorrect? Come on, this isn't reddit. We can't believe everything we read on the Internet.
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by jstevens85 17y ago
Perhaps it's an app that should be running in the cloud, similar to what Palm is trying to do with Project Ares. http://ares.palm.com/Ares/about.html I think Apple's attitude is that anything that can't run in a safe, restricted sandbox n
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by jstevens85 17y ago
Palm's Project Ares may be a sign of the future. Perhaps in the future development will be hosted in the cloud rather than on the programmers unit itself. http://ares.palm.com/Ares/about.html
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by jstevens85 17y ago
I'm guessing that you'll need to sync it to iTunes first before you can use it, but I may be wrong.
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by jstevens85 17y ago
While a netbook may do all of those tasks, it doesn't do them particularly well. The iPad will turn on instantaneously, will be easy to use, and apps will be optimised for the screen size. The biggest problem with netbooks is that they run
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by jstevens85 17y ago
As the iPad exists today, it's impossible to use without a laptop/desktop. If one day it evolves to the point of being a standalone device, I imagine that it may also be capable of running its own dev tools.
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Some of those apps might be LOGO or SCRATCH simulators.
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Sorry, I read your post as he joined in July 2009, which would make Apple's use of the bookshelf more suspicious.
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Yeah, according to this twitter post http://twitter.com/mike_matas/status/8292208676 he also worked on the Photos app.
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by jstevens85 17y ago
"The designer who designed the bookshelf UI at Delicious Monster was poached by Apple to work on the iPad team." If you're referring to Mike Matas, the co-founder of Delicious Monster, he left DM to join Apple back in 2005. While I imagine
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by jstevens85 17y ago
You're a bit off there. He joined Apple in 2005.
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I'm not sure if that's really true. The problem with the first Mac was that it launched a couple of years after the IBM PC, and the hardware was underpowered for a GUI OS. By the time the Mac became useful and suitable for businesses, MS ha
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by jstevens85 17y ago
I think the point is that the consumers Apple targets would value 10 hours battery life over multitasking. Engineering is all about trade offs, and if Apple were to deliver everything the geeks wanted (OSX, Flash, multitasking), then Apple
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by jstevens85 17y ago
"I still don't know why all the hoopla about it." The media hype is based on Apple's track record for releasing innovative desirable products. Neither the iPod (a hard drive based MP3 player) or the iPhone (a smart phone) sounded particular
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"plus that Titanic was released at a time when people didn't go to the cinema as much as today." My guess is that the opposite is true. Large LCD and plasma screens with 5.1 Surround Sound and DVD/Bluray make cinema less attractive than wha
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by jstevens85 17y ago
I never understood the American fascination with spending an entire decade of one's life playing the same character and saying the same jokes. After two seasons it's time to move on and do something different with your life.
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by jstevens85 17y ago
I find that some people have an Aspergers-like view on laptops. If two laptops have the same processor, HD size and RAM, then they're identical. But of course there are other important specs like the materials used in the construction. Allu
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The problem with the scatter plot is that you lose the average cost/average life expectancy info. On the original plot, the UK corresponds roughly to average health care costs and average LE. The slope shows if the country is getting value
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Yes, Apple has released a bunch of shitty products before, but none of them received any hype. I think what the parent is saying is what happens if Apple can't meet the expectations and the hype that has been appearing in the mainstream pre
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I don't think it's been able to make up for the revenue they've lost in film for still cameras.
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I don't think the holders of US debt are related to trade. I think most US securities are held by governments and institutions as reliable, steady investments.
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Anyone know if these guys will be moving to Sydney to join the Wave team?
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Your argument is that health care is the same as food/accomodation, and therefore should be treated the same way. It definitely isn't. Food and rent are a fixed cost that are identical each week. By being frugal and possibly living at home
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I imagine it's because a lot of climate scientists have had to put up with skeptics misinterpreting their data and then slandering them in blogs. My understanding is that scientists are more than willing to exchange data with other qualifie

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