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811.
by jsz0 15y ago
What percentage of users are developers? 5 percent? Lower? It's unwise to cater the entire OS to the needs of such a small minority especially when they are the best suited to change the environment to meet their needs. Complaining about ne
812.
by jsz0 15y ago
It's always been interesting to me that the pin-stripe texture made it into iOS and has survived almost 5 years. Apple removed all traces of pin-stripes from 10.5 after toning it down for 10.3 and almost completely removing it for 10.4 So b
813.
by jsz0 15y ago
That may be why Apple has waited this long. Once you hit a certain level of performance (say a hypothetical A6 with a quad core processor, 1GB of RAM, and a very fast GPU) there's going to be diminishing returns with subsequent upgrades. We
814.
by jsz0 15y ago
Depending on what Apple's vision is for SmartTV functionality the A5 or A6 platform can last the life-time of 1080P HDTVs. It will be more like gaming consoles than phones/tablets/computers that are more open ended in their functionality. A
815.
by jsz0 15y ago
The nice thing about ALAC with AirPlay is it does not transcode to a compressed format for streaming.
816.
by jsz0 15y ago
I'm not familiar with the current state of FLAC but as of a few years ago ALAC offered better meta-data in the MP4 container. Part of the reason I abandoned FLAC years ago was constant problems with meta-data. I would often end up corrupt f
817.
by jsz0 15y ago
How so? From what I've seen the prices on the iTunes Store for books, movies and music are higher than Amazon.
818.
by jsz0 15y ago
Stallman should invest some of his time and passion into yelling at OSS developers for consistently failing to build products as usable and trouble-free as Apple's software. Almost no normal person cares about open vs closed. They care abou
819.
by jsz0 15y ago
The first releases of iOS4 for the 3G were pretty bad but the subsequent releases greatly improved things. I recently sold my old 3GS so I updated it to the latest 4.x version and it was totally usable. Slower than iOS2 but for a 3.5 year o
820.
by jsz0 15y ago
If the N1 won't be getting ICS it's highly likely none of the phones with a similar class of hardware will either. That's gotta be at least 50% of all Android devices. Most carriers are still selling phones today that are guaranteed to neve
821.
by jsz0 15y ago
The lack of feature-updates is disappointing but they can get by forcing people to buy new phones for new features. It's the security side of this that could really blow up in their face. It's only a matter of time before these lingering se
822.
by jsz0 15y ago
My understanding is Apple doesn't make all that much money off the iTunes Store using a similar model. Does it really work for digital media? (besides console games)
823.
by jsz0 15y ago
Doesn't prior art take commercial availability into consideration? (no clue if it applies to US law) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art
824.
by jsz0 15y ago
It seems very strange to me that a fictional device has any relevance. It's science-fiction. Something a person could invent someday but impossible at the time and lacking any practical details of how you might invent it. We could defeat al
825.
by jsz0 15y ago
It seems as though you're suggesting that the movie studios that spend tens, sometimes hundreds, of million of dollars to produce a single film should be forced to sell it to companies like Netflix for pennies. The basic problem here is tha
826.
by jsz0 15y ago
Problem is, due to the way Android is distributed, the vast majority of Android phones won't have ICS until mid-to-late 2012. There are still a couple popular phones like the Droid Incredible that don't even have the Gingerbread update yet.
827.
by jsz0 15y ago
I wonder if this is why Apple started showing their little 'how its made' videos at the end of new product announcements that have often featured Ives talking about design.
828.
by jsz0 15y ago
Honestly I don't really give a shit about how the weather is outside or what my co-workers are doing over the weekend either but small talk is pretty important to communication with other human beings. The artificial personality responses o
829.
by jsz0 15y ago
If that were true I think we'd all be happily using BlackBerries. They are fine communication tools. If he's correct then everyone using todo applications or calendars (which Google builds into Android) or listening to music (which google b
830.
by jsz0 15y ago
empowering users, providing the means to create meaningful works on these devices. If you limit your view of meaningful works to things that require thousands of keystrokes then yes -- SmartPhones are very limiting. If you expand on that
831.
by jsz0 15y ago
Perhaps. I'd have to try it out. My confusion stems from the contacts app. They swipe to get another 'page' of the UI like switching between home-screens. If it was consistent with the GMail app swiping on the individual contact should brin
832.
by jsz0 15y ago
Is it my imagination or did the consistency they talked about involve the same swiping action doing completely different things throughout the OS & apps?
833.
by jsz0 15y ago
I think so, yes. iCloud is a very different service but serves a similar purpose. I think ultimately it's a more elegant solution for what most people are using Dropbox for today. It's not just Apple though. It's Google & Microsoft too.
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by jsz0 15y ago
This study just completely contradicts what I have observed. The younger people I know look at FaceBook as something close to a force of nature. If you listen closely you can even hear it in how they talk. They don't 'post it to Facebook' t
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by jsz0 15y ago
It's also worth noting that there's a long history of IP fights in the mobile especially over 2G/3G technologies yet we still have an assortment of fantastic modern SmartPhones to choose from. What Microsoft is doing is really nothing new a
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by jsz0 15y ago
I mostly agree with his conclusions. Android is a very manic experience. Half a dozen icons I don't understand in the notification bar, beeps and bloops that make no sense to me, settings hidden under layers of menus, totally inconsistent U
837.
by jsz0 15y ago
Makes sense to me. Most people aren't seeking out software that is a radical departure to what they're used to. They are only interested when it becomes popular. Apple does a great job popularizing technologies and bringing them to the mass
838.
by jsz0 15y ago
That's how it is on the MacBook Air so Asus had to copy it. On OSX there is accentual key press detection so hitting it by mistake is no big deal. Nothing happens.
839.
by jsz0 15y ago
I assume there will be much tighter integration of Google+ into the next major release of Android which should help solve the 'ghost town' problem so many people are seeing with Google+ at this point. Ultimately they may have to give SmartP
840.
by jsz0 15y ago
I think that's part of the allure of larger screens. Most of the 4-4.5" Android phones don't even match the resolution of the iPhone 4's display at this point. Things are just physically larger and easier to see and tap.

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