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by metachor 16y ago
The sad part of this story is that I used both Audion and SoundJam back in the day, and Audion was a far superior media player at the time. It's a shame the Panic guys didn't return Apple's call and thus lost the opportunity for Audion to
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by metachor 16y ago
You mean just like the iPad can run web apps for free? The same web apps that everyone decries for not providing the rich experience of native apps?
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by metachor 16y ago
"I wish [Bill Gates] the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger." (1997) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/72138
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by metachor 16y ago
It does cost $99 now, and it used to cost several thousand to join this same developer program. And you can still develop and distribute Mac applications at no charge to the developer (this developer program is only for additional professi
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by metachor 16y ago
This "warning" by Rixstep is pure FUD. Rixstep are kind of like the trolls of the Apple development community. They regularly publish "industry watch warnings" about changes in the Mac development ecosystem that are factually incorrect at
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by metachor 16y ago
Just to be clear, that's not really a Commodore-branded machine. Some hoaxer took pictures of another company's product (an all-in-one keyboard-computer meant to be used for Point-of-Sales systems) and threw up a poorly designed website cl
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by metachor 16y ago
Linux has had decent success on servers, but that's not really relevant to the consumer market. I think desktops (or laptops) makes a better comparison to mobile phones.
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by metachor 16y ago
Except you are now running Android instead of iPhone OS. You could just as well jailbreak the iPhone and use any of the multitude of open app stores for that.
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by metachor 16y ago
I don't recall a time when Linux overtook Windows for desktop OS market share.
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by metachor 16y ago
No, I think the issue was never about preventing people from accessing adult content on their Apple phones/devices. The issue is about Apple not wanting to sell certain adult content on their store front.
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by metachor 16y ago
"All four of them are rockstars. Only one of them wouldn't be where it is today without the other 3. Guess which one." Jonathan Ive. --- "[Steve Jobs'] return to Apple in 1997, after it purchased NeXT, is now the stuff of legend. In the des
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by metachor 17y ago
"It's a Unix system. I know this."
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by metachor 17y ago
Shake to undo always prompts for confirmation to undo the last action. Touching the top of the screen to scroll to the top of the page does not ask for confirmation, which is a pain when you are 3/4 of the way through a very long article.
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by metachor 17y ago
Regardless of the content of Jobs' response, and regardless of the merits or flaws of Section 3.3.1 for Apple, developers and consumers: It is interesting to see that Jobs is aware of the dissatisfaction with this clause. The man isn't st
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by metachor 17y ago
This was one of the most nonsense posts I've read so far regarding the whole apple/adobe... nonsense.
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by metachor 17y ago
This is off-topic, but I am not clear on what is meant by the phrase "technology vegans". Does this mean Adobe does not consume 'meat' (for some value of the symbol 'meat')?
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by metachor 17y ago
What is a use case for multi-tasking on a phone that you want/need that could only be covered by full preemptive multi-tasking of third party apps?
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by metachor 17y ago
If game makers take up this approach in force, that will be a fair sight better than the status quo of supporting "free" games by way of in-app purchases (that are essentially mandatory to get the full experience of the game).
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by metachor 17y ago
This is correct. The XNA framework for indie XBox 360 game development has serious technical limitations that set it apart from the "professional" development kit (which I am not able to obtain the price for, as I am not already an establi
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by metachor 17y ago
Can Chrome OS run games, or music-making applications (synthesizers, drum machines), or really anything that isn't in a web page?
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by metachor 17y ago
That, or the fact that it only runs a web browser.
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by metachor 17y ago
And this is opposed to the threat of having mail that needs to be signed-for turn up at your house only on a weekday while you are at work. Currently I can tell USPS to just deliver it again when I know I will be home (on Saturday).
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by metachor 17y ago
Good luck with that after unilaterally borking the UI design in the latest LTS release.
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by metachor 17y ago
As other people have mentioned, Apple consistently understates the battery life of their products in market copy while also pointing them out to be longer than those of competing products.
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by metachor 17y ago
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
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by metachor 17y ago
Every year we see whatever operating systems, browsers, and devices get hacked at Pwn2Own, and it seems like the initial attack vector is always the same: get the user to navigate to a maliciously-crafted website, open a maliciously-crafted
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by metachor 17y ago
Perhaps you could take up meditation to help clear your mind. I wouldn't call this a 'mental illness', but non-stop mental chatter is a sign of disease -- in that your mind is not at ease. You might find the symptoms to be relatively useful
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by metachor 17y ago
"I couldn't figure out how to make it work, so it must be broken."
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by metachor 17y ago
The conclusion to Martha Stewart's entry also makes a good quote, if only for the enthusiasm you can almost hear behind her words. This would make good ad copy for Apple: "There are some magazines that I would look at just to see in more d
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by metachor 17y ago
Looks very interesting. Nice to see a compilation like this.

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