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by oliveremberton 14y ago
I respectfully disagree - in fact, I'd argue keeping them separate is one big reason why Windows Mobile failed in the past (the other reason is it sucked donkey balls). Windows will sell regardless. It's a bit like if Google does something
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
It's a fair point, but I don't believe the comparison holds this time round. Firstly, Windows CE was demonstrably years behind tech-wise - even a causal grandmother consumer could see the difference between an iPhone and a CE device. That's
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
OP here. I agree (and state in my article) that MS could completely screw this up by pricing themselves out of the market. I don't expect they will though, but mostly because they can afford to make it cheap - even sell at cost, if they hav
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
Windows Phone had to compete with entrenched rivals, and was very late to the party. Metro is bundled with an OS that is essentially assured a crap-tonne of sales before it's launched. It'll also have more exposure (in retail space etc) tha
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Surface changes everything: Android will be 3rd ranked tablet OS inside a year(blog.silktide.com)
12 points by oliveremberton 14y ago|31 comments
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
Frustratingly it took us hours to get this back up. Remind me never to write a popular article before testing our infrastructure first!
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
Not all companies get joy out of charging their customers to make their websites worse . Heaven forbid we're not all entirely motivated by money. And these websites are not all "tuppenny-ha'penny". Examples I'm personally familiar with inc
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Dear ICO: This Is Why Web Developers Hate You(blog.silktide.com)
5 points by oliveremberton 14y ago|6 comments
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
I'm the creator of the video. Just to clarify a few things: 1. I'm not against better privacy. Just a poorly written law. 2. The law doesn't just cover cookies - it also applies to HTML5 Local Storage, Flash objects etc. "Cookie Law" is a p
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Cookie law renders 95% of EU websites illegal [video](youtu.be)
2 points by oliveremberton 14y ago|1 comments
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by oliveremberton 15y ago
(Oliver from Silktide here, I wrote that article). Might be useful to see our own Terms, they're still online here: www.silktidestudios.com/tandc We always charged 50% upfront for anything over £1,000 (about $1,600). Projects over around £2
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by oliveremberton 15y ago
We had a lot of web design customers (about 200) but you can only work on so many projects at a time - we would typically have 30-40 in our pipeline, but only 10 or so would finish each month. And those projects aren't even in size - we'd n
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by oliveremberton 15y ago
Oliver here (I wrote the article, and run Silktide). It's early days for us, so I can't speak from years of experience, but so far there are marked differences for us: 1. We have a lot more customers. Before one or two of our web designer c
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The stupid EU cookie law in 2.5 minutes [video](blog.silktide.com)
1 points by oliveremberton 15y ago|0 comments