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by nanairo 16y ago
While I completely agree with you (I am European) I think Apple is pretty US centric (as is Google). When Jobs said that the iPhone was only available in the USA, and most of its audience was probably american too. So yeah, I think he was t
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by nanairo 16y ago
Yeah, I think you are probably right (though maybe not quite on the prices). But remember when the iPad was still "secret"? How everyone thought it was going to cost 1000$ and it was going to be trashed by Android/Windows tablet at 500$? Ap
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by nanairo 16y ago
Completely agree with you about the trash talk... but don't put the Mac vs. PC ads in the same basket! a) They are ads: they are not making a prediction, just trying to explain the advantages of mac vs. pc (obviously ignoring the disadvanta
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by nanairo 16y ago
I am more surprised that you have been upvoted this much. Sure you may disagree but this is the point of a voting system like HN: it's a collective opinion. Some people will like it, some people won't. You don't get to call everyone stupid
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by nanairo 16y ago
Ok. And what happens if they then want them again? Stuff from the store can be re-downloaded. Hence why I either Apple will change them into store app (in the way I described, for example), or they won't remove them. I am not saying I agree
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think that the point is that you want open for the user but closed for the mobile providers. Apple is closer than Android for sure, but it's also off-limits from the providers (well, mostly: they can still veto some apps). Android is open
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by nanairo 16y ago
Shit! Are you serious? And me thinking that was limited to the USA. :( Do you have any link about that?
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by nanairo 16y ago
Yeah, and that's the problem. The moment Samsung says no to Verizon, Verizon will simply stop the deal and ask HTC. And the same is true for Apple or closed OS too: most normal people still don't know pros and cons of the specific OSes. The
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by nanairo 16y ago
(disclaimer: I realise HN is full of people who really like their Android so I hope not to get downvoted just to give a different opinion.) I think the problem with Android, which is behind what the author (a bit confusingly) presents as ev
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by nanairo 16y ago
Yeah, and my understanding is that sadly he was right too. As are you that in Europe things are very different: the author acknowledges that too. Basically my understanding is that Europe is so far from the USA that the iPhone did a first s
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by nanairo 16y ago
Sure, my guess is that Apple hasn't done so simply because they haven't got the time/resources/patience. It's not like Apple is making _any_ money from something like Stock! But if you remove it from the phone then those people who are usin
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by nanairo 16y ago
I can understand where they are coming from, but the problem with speed has never convinced me too much to be honest. Don't get me wrong: I believe Ruby has still a lot of room for optimisations, and it's nice to see developers putting effo
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by nanairo 16y ago
Yes, that's what I meant by short travel time. It would make it a lot harder for auto-correct to understand what you were trying to type.
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by nanairo 16y ago
Sure, but the same way people have two email addresses, one for home and one work work, they could have two of these bundles. Say: I am a University student. They could give me instead of an email address, a userid to access my University p
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by nanairo 16y ago
I wonder: would a system like Apple's automatic corrections for iOS work worse with Dvorak? If Dvorak really makes travel time for your fingers shorter, wouldn't that also make it harder for a predictive systems to cope with human's error?
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by nanairo 16y ago
I would like to believe you. I really would. But it's hard to see how your parallel applies. Being the Mercedes or the Apple of Social Network would be great... but it would be a failure as a social network. The example you give of brand as
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by nanairo 16y ago
I've actually heard that it's also used by smaller businesses as a way to communicate with their target audience. So, for example, if you are a chain of cinemas, you can let everyone keep up with when/where you are going to release the next
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by nanairo 16y ago
Did you read the article? The whole point is that they had already found it (or so claims the author). It's the author that just now realised.
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by nanairo 16y ago
I don't see why Apple would pull the plug. Sure, the app store has its problems (and I dislike those too) but it seems to me their only danger is that they are competing with Apple directly. There is already Kindle and iBooks... and there m
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by nanairo 16y ago
If you want to compare features, then please do. I love TextMate but it's a tool, and I'm happy to drop it if something better comes along (which might be TM2 or not, don't care). But discussing/comparing features is a sensible topic. Sayin
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by nanairo 16y ago
Sure. My point wasn't to say that E-text wasn't inspired by Textmate: it even states so clearly on its page. Simply that comparing version numbers is pointless: call it E-text 2010 for all I care, and it won't be better or worse for it.
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by nanairo 16y ago
Sad but I've got the same impression. The scariest bit for me is that people with whom I was exchanging emails, are now sending me FB messages instead. That is to say they already have my email address, it's there probably memorised in thei
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by nanairo 16y ago
In other news, Chrome, a Firefox clone, has beaten Firefox to version 4, and also to version 5... ... Or maybe, just maybe, comparing version numbers across different programs is completely useless.
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think that technically WiMax as in 802.16e (note the 'e') isn't properly 4G, but the following (802.16m, I think) is. A bit like LTE isn't 4G but LTE advanced is. However that's from a purely technical point of view. In terms of speed: LT
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by nanairo 16y ago
That might be an American thing, dunno... In Europe things seem quite clear (or at least they are consistent ;) ) * GSM -> 2G * GPRS -> 2.5G * EDGE -> 2.75G * UMTS -> 3G * HSPA -> 3.5G * HSPA+ -> 3.
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by nanairo 16y ago
Wow! This is really impressive! It seems all that we were promised for the age of the ebook and then some! It looks like a product of love and plenty of polish. My only worries is that they may risk becoming the artisan version of the ebook
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by nanairo 16y ago
Yeah. Some of us like to go to university just for the joy of the experience, leaning new stuff, being surrounded by experts in the field. Sadly these type of abstract advantages cannot be quantified and hence are always forgotten. If I too
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by nanairo 16y ago
You can find such people now and before the economic crisis. For the quote to be correct, the rate of employment among graduates before or during the crisis should be the same. I am not saying that he is correct (I don't know, I don't have
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by nanairo 16y ago
Those are anecdotal. Statistically take everyone without a degree, and everyone with. Check the unemployment rate in one group and compare it with the other. If you want to focus on one particular field (say software engineers) look if the
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by nanairo 16y ago
I am not convinced that Android will do so great in the long term: well yes, great maybe not. My guess would be more along the lines of (obviously I am no analyst and this are really just guesses): Android: 25% Apple: 25% WP7: 20% Meego/Sym

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