mkaltenecker

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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
That’s a false dichotomy. Preventing absolutely every piece of malware would be great, but merely preventing very nearly every piece of malware is also nice. You only have to compare Google’s and Apple’s stores to see that Apple’s approach
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
That sounds suspiciously like group selection which we know does not work.
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
They basically swept through and fixed everything that was wrong with these devices a.k.a. innovation.
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
That’s kind of the point. You can be successful with the rich as a target group – but you can’t be successful the way Apple is.
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
It’s kind of astonishing that people still have such weird believes about Macs. You can’t be successful to the level Apple is by only selling to rich people. Macs are successful as a mass market product.
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
Apple will do so, too, in many cases. They are, in fact, pretty generous when it comes to replacing something they don’t have to. It’s, however, inconsistent and if there is any dispute the company always wins. That’s the case with any comp
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
Nope, they can’t. Local implementations differ wildly. In Germany, the burden of proof reverses after six months (i.e. after six months the buyer has to proof that a defect was present when they bought the product – I have not idea how you
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
My advice is to not be so sensitive. Android is very successful. There is no need to jump in loudly screaming whenever someone mentions Apple or the iPhone.
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
The iPhone very clearly disrupted the market for mobile phones. Whether or not someone else had the same idea at the same time (but couldn’t bring a disruptive product to the market) doesn’t really matter. Current market shares don’t really
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
This is how your comment reads to me: Misogyny is totally cool and you should never do anything to change it, not even write a harmless and polite blogpost. No, see, that's bitching. Mentioning a very clear and obvious problem is totally no
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
Exactly. You can't predict it. I can't predict it. All we can do is speculate — which we do.
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
If I understand that article correctly the headline and lead paragraph must have been written by someone who did not really understand the article and who had a distinctly different opinion than the author of the article. First, the article
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
I’m really saddened that you think I’m a troll. I’m honestly not. I’m trying to understand you. I just cannot see how spaceflight could be more important for humanity in the next, say, half-century than transportation. Cool, sure. (Maybe al
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
And? What’s the use case? Cars have certainly done more to lift humanity up than spaceflight has (unlike toilet paper, which is neither cool nor has it done much to lift humanity up). I don’t see how that can change within the next few deca
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
The only consequences I can think of are that the cost for the military is potentially decreased and that advocating war gets easier. The first one is a maybe. I’m willing to bet that you still need a lot of people to make those things fly,
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
And Ford didn’t invent the car. Industrial car production would most certainly have been done by someone else if he hadn’t done it. It’s not like industrialization was something new during Ford’s time, it had been done for a century before
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
Being innovative is more than being an inventor. Any novel idea that gets realized (turns into a product, becomes part of a product, gets used to change processes and structures) is very much part of what it means to innovate – and you shou
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
I think they only tested it with Macs (where it is a joy to use). That’s just plain stupid.
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
If things go like they did in the past, 4.1 being widely adopted is years away. I don’t see this having much if any impact on anything right now.
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
You mean civil lawsuits? That’s not what I was talking about.
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
US citizens most certainly can.
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
The experience of using a hotspot just plain sucks. That’s why it’s so stupid that hardly any notebooks include 3G/4G. I used to think that has something to do with stupidly expensive and restrictive US data plans, but you have some decent
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
Months away. And I don’t think that’s really an argument against Chrome on iOS. Different people like to use different browsers on the desktop. If you use Chrome you don’t get tab syncing with mobile Safari. Also, some people might for exam
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
Do you really think that's so clear cut? I/O has visibility well outside the developer community, it gets covered in the mainstream media. Just today I read about it on the website of the most widely read German news magazine (an article is
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
This seems like the Kindle Fire done right. High quality components, good build quality, competent software and despite that still only $200. It's nice to finally see Apple get some competition. I personally prefer the 10inch form factor bu
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
You can debate about this forever. It's like reading tea leaves. The real world consequence, however, is this: if you want to be able to update your device for as long as possible you should get an iOS device. I'm talking consequences, not
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
The iPod was actually a product at that point. That’s the big step that still has to be taken with Glasses. And it ain’t an easy one, probably the hardest thing about Glasses. It’s cool tech. No more. Certainly not a product. We’ll see how
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
“Planned obsolescence” implies that a device is made obsolete to force people to buy newer devices as opposed to other reasons. Just because a device becomes obsolete doesn’t mean it’s “planned obsolescence”, even with total control over th
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
Hihi, you are funny. You view of the companies clearly colors your view. It’s not really clear that either company plans or does not plan the obsolescence of their devices. The end result, however, is that iOS devices become obsolete much m
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by mkaltenecker 14y ago
OS X was very safe (I won’t dare to make any claims about security) for a long time exactly because PC viruses couldn’t touch it. That’s a real and practical benefit. OS X users didn’t have to deal with viruses. To an extent that is still t

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