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by mattparcher 17y ago
His closing thought on the matter: "You know what iPhone OS is missing that Mac OS X has? The SPOD." ("Spinning pinwheel of death", "rainbow beachball of death", etc.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_wait_cursor ) I'm nearly ashame
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by mattparcher 17y ago
"Insightful and Not Negative" (A reference to Steve Job's supposed appraisal of John Gruber's article about the iPhone TOS Section 3.3.1. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1255858 )
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by mattparcher 17y ago
cpr and swernli are correct: Skype can "listen" for incoming calls. This is demoed by Skype's head of product development, David Ponsford around 00:22:20 in the video of the iPhone OS 4 Event: http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1004fk8d
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by mattparcher 17y ago
I don't personally recall seeing anything to support this. Can you expand on who/what gave you that impression, in case I just missed it? The article suggests that this is both a hardware and software solution, so that it would be impossibl
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by mattparcher 17y ago
Sarcasm? I'm no Adobe fan, but give them some credit. They may be influenced by Apple's position, but whatever we're seeing from them now has surely been under development for a long time (i.e. months, not days).
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by mattparcher 17y ago
I don't think they're "worried". They may be a generally secretive company, but Steve has been replying to a lot of emails in the last few months. I'm not surprised to hear about someone else hearing from him, although I can't recall the la
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by mattparcher 17y ago
Everyone fears The Ignorant Boss For developers, this is the person who knows nothing about programming yet insists that you use X tool and write it in Y language. The author seems to imply that either Steve Jobs or Apple itself "knows no
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by mattparcher 17y ago
I agree with John Gruber, who cited this tweet from Dave Winer (developer, entrepreneur, writer, and a pioneer of RSS and podcasting): "My opinion, the NYT will never implement the paywall they talked about today. If they were going to do i
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by mattparcher 17y ago
The traditional analogy would be Apple's own iTunes Store for music downloads, where Apple makes money from iPods instead of 99¢/$1.29 downloads. Granted, they probably make a bit more with the apps than with music, but it presumably costs
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by mattparcher 17y ago
To be fair, Google has been making strong progress towards offline data storage for Gmail and other apps, and the Chrome OS will presumably incorporate this feature (which is actually part of the HTML 5 specification). This way, you could s
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Daring Fireball: Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle(daringfireball.net)
63 points by mattparcher 17y ago|29 comments
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by mattparcher 17y ago
Re: iTunes/iPod “lock-in”, Apple wants the best possible experience for users. Rightly or wrongly, they don’t believe that they can guarantee that with third-party devices. However, (except for old DRM’d tracks) your entire music library is
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Apple Introduces App Store Resource Center for iPhone Developers(macrumors.com)
1 points by mattparcher 17y ago|0 comments
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by mattparcher 17y ago
I know that we’re in a recession, and I don’t mean to nitpick such a huge technical/political advancement, but what happened to the guys who designed whitehouse.gov? This is clearly only meant for official use, but if we can see it, there’s
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by mattparcher 17y ago
As a Mac user, I can’t help but feel a bit thrown-off by the aliased text, even if it’s the right decision on their end :/
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by mattparcher 17y ago
Yes, Android is obscure, but the iPhone almost certainly is not the equivalent of Windows. By most estimates, the iPhone has half of RIM's share in the US, while Apple is a bit closer worldwide (figures vary). According to Information Week,