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by nanairo 16y ago
Yeah, I think we kind of agree. Re: #1 personally I think the reason why Apple could make a good onscreen keyboard is because they tried, and tried hard. I don't think there was any secret sauce: it's kind of the only thing you can do if yo
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by nanairo 16y ago
This was meant to be a reply to the comment by tomjen3. My bad. :)
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by nanairo 16y ago
Well, I'll reply to myself. From the 1996 (when the first PalmOS device came out) to 2003, they sold over 30.1 million PalmOS devices, of which 22 millions from the company itself (the rest from clones). [1] In comparison Apple released the
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by nanairo 16y ago
What data can you bring to show that we won't run out of addresses any time soon? It would seem that we have around 15-20 months left [1]. Given the scale of the change, isn't that "soon" enough for you? [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-pol
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by nanairo 16y ago
Sorry, I see your point and I kind of agree, in the sense that I find certain articles with similar fanboism annoying. (though I thought this was made a complex explanation very short and clear). But the whole point of digg/hackernews and s
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by nanairo 16y ago
Lol... I am sure it is... today. ;) If history is any indication, we'll find that there will be different input systems for different purposes. There's no reason for extremisms in the tech world. (personally I would love it if the iPad came
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by nanairo 16y ago
Well, I'd be surprised anyone read (or would write) a 500 words article on the last 5 years of smartphones and assume it wasn't a gross oversimplification.
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by nanairo 16y ago
I don't think the stylus is really that bad. In fact it may be better in some situation. But if you really think it's so great, then let me ask you this: why does no smartphone now come with a stylus? I am not saying that finger is better.
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by nanairo 16y ago
I agree with your argument, and I upvoted you for that. But that graph? Seriously??? A bit of a Job's fan? ;)
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by nanairo 16y ago
True, point taken (and I upvoted you as an apology). However your post still came out as a bit of a "Geez, Apple wasn't that special", though admittedly then I went a step too far and just assumed you were posting some anti-Apple stuff. Sor
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by nanairo 16y ago
To answer your three points: 1) Hindsight is always 20/20 right? People were predicting that the no keyboard thing was such a deal breaker than together with the no replaceable battery, it would make the iPhone a failure. Obviously nobody h
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by nanairo 16y ago
Where were all the finger-based touch screen back then? Do you remember how many people said it wouldn't work, because either someone tried it or failed, because it didn't have a stylus that was "clearly better", or because it didn't have a
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by nanairo 16y ago
When you say Palm Pilot sold a huge number of units, how huge are we talking? And in how many years? You know, just to compare things numbers are better than "huge" or "massive".
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by nanairo 16y ago
Let's assume that you are just one case and not "the world". Sure, you could say the same about the original article, and I would totally agree with you. But here it's the bottom line: if it works fine with 50% of the people, that's still n
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by nanairo 16y ago
Exactly. It's the "No porting necessary" bit that would be appealing and would let Flash swiftly be relevant on mobile. Little porting is fine too. But anything non trivial, like changing the user interface, puts Flash on mobile on much mor
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by nanairo 16y ago
Oh dear... on paper great, but can you imagine how long it would have taken them to come to a standard? I think HTML5 is already a bit on the side of being a step too wide, but I guess we've been stuck in HTML4 (and related technologies) fo
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by nanairo 16y ago
The cynic in me thinks that MS thought that rather than spending energy to "get it" and maybe failing, they could back all horses and see who would win. They usual strategy (and Google's current m.o. sadly).
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think the answer is a common one in free markets: cost. Adobe would need to invest a _lot_ to make a good HTML5 IDE, and what would they get then? At best they'd be in the same situation as they were before just with HTML5 instead of Flas
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by nanairo 16y ago
Imho the moral with Adobe/Acrobat and other such cases (eg. Microsoft/IE) is that when a company starts piling up features on their winning horse to take over _other_ fields, they may very well win that battle, but in the long run they'll h
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by nanairo 16y ago
The sad story is that Apple could deprecate Carbon all they want, but if Adobe, Microsoft, Quark and friends kept using it, Apple would need to oblige. Apple had no power, and these companies were basically "too big to fail" so to speak. It
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by nanairo 16y ago
But I am not sure Flash was really comparable to what it is today back in the days of Macromedia. Did we have Youtube and company back then? My gut feeling is that Adobe there went from "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" to "hey, wait a m
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by nanairo 16y ago
Then they might miss some great candidates and be crushed by the company that had better screening. The former will only pick candidates from the pool of full of people with perfect past, the latter from the pool of people with "acceptable"
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by nanairo 16y ago
Remember that the original supporters of Flash argued that you needed to have Flash to support all those applications that are _already_ available. This shows that actually they are not that available after all, they need to be modified, an
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by nanairo 16y ago
a) his phone has a keyboard... it just doesn't have a full keyboard with CTRL key and everything; b) _that_ is exactly his point. That most games, and most content was built on Flash with the "PC" as the target system. Quote: "Flash was des
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by nanairo 16y ago
I may be wrong, but I think Adobe 10 years ago was pushing for things like html5 video and canvas... because Flash was Macromedia's. It was a case of: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. (They were also one of the first big companies to pus
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by nanairo 16y ago
That I agree.
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by nanairo 16y ago
Good, detailed response. There is also a certain irony in that Adobe and friends dragging their feet in supporting Cocoa and Apple's latest stuff, was one of the reason why Apple waited so long to drop Cocoa... and now is so allergic to dev
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by nanairo 16y ago
Gosh, I hate articles like this. This one in particular seems to tick all the wrong boxes. - List structure (especially telling you what you should do) - The title is deceiving: it's not that you are doing something wrong if your flight get
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by nanairo 16y ago
Personally I've got little to say, but I think it's an important news, that should be displayed prominently (especially in this community full of LISP fans). So I up-voted it. I'd also like to learn Clojure at some point (or some other LISP
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by nanairo 16y ago
If history is any indication, by the next OS update (4.2 or 5) they will be merged. Apple seems to prefer to keep its horses decoupled: technologies percolate more slowly through its stack, but it allows them not to get stuck (so much). For

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