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by mcormier 18y ago
40 % of Apple's revenue is now coming from the iPhone, and iPod revenue is still increasing but not by leaps and bounds. A short-sighted analysis by someone who makes a decision by price alone. 1) Brand loyalty - Mac users consistently kee
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by mcormier 18y ago
... but doesn't do such a great job explaining it. Mike Lee formed Tapulous, one of the more successful iPhone development shops, but left after a dispute a while back. Links of note: http://tapulous.com/ http://unitedlemur.org/ http:/
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Mike Lee (Formerly of Tapulous) attempts to explain fundware...(atomicwang.org)
3 points by mcormier 18y ago|3 comments
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by mcormier 18y ago
I submitted this almost 3 months ago. ;) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=254256
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by mcormier 18y ago
I hereby declare this historic event the start of Web 3.0 ;)
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by mcormier 18y ago
It's a duplicate because this submission has a space at the end of the url. It also has rel="nofollow" in the link. My guess is that the author submitted " http://www.9to5mac.com/macbook-brick " rel="nofollow" as the url.
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by mcormier 18y ago
Especially if you consider the time it will cost you to setup a hackintosh. I believe VMWare now supports emulation of OS X on a macintosh so you should be able to use one mac mini and an external HD to test several different versions of O
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by mcormier 18y ago
For Canadians, or like minded thrifty purchasers, the iPod touch is a great alternative to the iPhone. I'm planning on getting one myself but I'm waiting until September as there is a rumor that Apple is changing/upgrading their iPod line.
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by mcormier 18y ago
I agree that it is pointlessly chic, however have you ever thought about it from the point of the people hiring? It is difficult to find good people to hire, and this company isn't making any bones about what they want. Also remember to s
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Indie Fever - Report on the independent Mac development community(madebysofa.com)
2 points by mcormier 18y ago|0 comments
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by mcormier 18y ago
No reason? Seriously? How about some business reasons? - Don't have to test on multiple browsers. - Can upgrade the browser engine automatically with application updates and tie new features to iTunes version - Less risk of HTML hacking (so
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by mcormier 18y ago
Saying that iTunes is anti-web is like saying that any desktop application is anti-web. When you click on a link in the browser it is forwarding the request to a desktop application. Just because the application connects to a remote server
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by mcormier 18y ago
I found this article very confusing and written very poorly. "My ideal workday usually starts at 3:00 am and ends three hours later" Drink coffee before taking a nap? How exactly does that work?
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by mcormier 18y ago
For information on android take a look at the videos from the google i/o conference. http://sites.google.com/site/io/
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by mcormier 18y ago
I also thought maybe snow leopard will fall under the 10.5 label, however apple insider has a screenshot up of 10.6 from the snow leopard developer preview. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/10/apple_seeds_ip...
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Teaser page up for Golden Braeburn, a payment processing option geared towards indie mac developers(golden-braeburn.com)
1 points by mcormier 18y ago|0 comments
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by mcormier 18y ago
This article is about the iPod touch, not the iPhone guys (serhei , dougp). The touch is not the new XP. XP was superceded by Vista whereas the touch and the iPhone are two distinct products. I expect features from the new iPhone to slowl
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by mcormier 18y ago
Apple went to intel for several reasons. - IBM PPC manufacturer reliability was killing them, there was a certain scandal with the G5's getting past the 2.0Ghz barrier on a scale of 90 nano meters I believe. - Boot camp, with an intel proce
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by mcormier 18y ago
A good friend of mine shared his philosophy on fixing bicycles once. Try to fix it yourself, and if you mess it up then just bring it in to a mechanic to fix it. Apple can easily attempt to design their own chip in house, and if things get
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by mcormier 18y ago
Download the keynote through iTunes once they publish it. http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-launche...
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by mcormier 18y ago
Ars will be posting on this page: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080609-ars-at-wwdc-08... and ars has the following irc channel [irc.arstechnica.com channel #wwdc ] Download the keynote through iTunes once they publish it. http:/
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by mcormier 18y ago
How insightful. Atwood states the obvious yet again.
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0.10 | 0.X What's in a version name?
5 points by mcormier 18y ago|16 comments
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by mcormier 18y ago
Now if they could just bring back http://www.suck.com we'd be rockin'
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by mcormier 18y ago
He uses too many semi-colons for my liking.
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by mcormier 18y ago
What's a floppy?
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by mcormier 18y ago
The author makes a blanket assumption that because you release something as open source, you will get feedback from other developers. From experience this will not happen unless the project reaches critical mass. Even then, the ratio of pe
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by mcormier 18y ago
That's a statement that's not as true as it used to be. Objective-C 2.0 introduced garbage collection, There are many novice programmers that are now jumping to ObjC because of the iPhone SDK hoopla.
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by mcormier 18y ago
Thanks Dan, It's interesting to note that 5 of those 13 acquisitions are for video editing software, and 1 is for DVD authoring software. It's also interesting to note that the last video editing software purchase was in 2006. Apple shoppi
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by mcormier 18y ago
Excluding Next has Apple ever bought a big company? All the acquisitions I know of have been small and medium size companies and the technology has been something strategic; like coverflow.

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