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by lukasb 15y ago
Good luck getting people to pay for plastic discs in boxes.
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by lukasb 15y ago
The UI is easy to use, but I wouldn't call it simple. There is a lot of information, and there are a lot of ways to interact with the content. Every comment has at least seven clickable links and three pieces of metadata, compare with HN (f
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by lukasb 15y ago
See MetaFilter for an example of a community site that suffered a decline in quality (starting around 2002) and then recovered. I'm surprised that MeFi's "MetaTalk", which segregates talk about rules and norms in its own sub-forum, hasn't b
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by lukasb 15y ago
Metafilter is an interesting counter-example to the rule that communities degrade over time: it was a total shitshow for a while in the early 2000s, and then repaired itself.
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by lukasb 15y ago
“There’s always some stuff around the edges that won’t work perfectly, but compared to writing in seven different languages, it works.” Write once, run anywhere. Why didn't anyone think of this before?
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by lukasb 15y ago
Ways in which the old system was superior: - You interacted with that subset of your friends (and their friends) that cared enough about reading to use this weird software. - You could read your hand-selected feeds, share items and read oth
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by lukasb 15y ago
The "excessive processing of data" claim, if valid, would seem to make any social networking service a non-starter: "Facebook is hosting enormous amounts of personal data and it is processing all data for its own purposes. It seems Facebook
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by lukasb 16y ago
"Once things start to settle down" Ah right, when Apple stops innovating, then?
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by lukasb 16y ago
As long as there are non-trivial differences between hardware platforms, there will be room for native apps.
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by lukasb 16y ago
"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
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by lukasb 16y ago
I thought Goldman had a proprietary language called slang?
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by lukasb 16y ago
The "Apple makes more profit" angle is nice, I guess 51% of profit share, $238 of profit per phone sold. If market share was all they cared about, they could drop the price of the iphone by $200. http://www.asymco.com/2010/10/31/making-i
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by lukasb 16y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if someone looking at Launchpad for the first time would be surprised that their macbook "has apps now", even though they are looking at the same applications that have already been on their mac for months. Exactly
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by lukasb 16y ago
Given that different OSes have different UI idioms and capabilities, it's not clear that "write once, deploy everywhere" is the right strategy.
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by lukasb 16y ago
So we need a stateless browser and don't have one.
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by lukasb 16y ago
"If you want to rebut a post, then you can create your own blog and post your rebuttal there." Did he just ask commenters not to disagree with him?