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by owenwil 12y ago
The author misunderstands just how much people care about screen size and completely misses the point of a watch. Choice is not confusing in that product category - people want something PERSONAL and that isn't likely to be the exact s
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People are reacting to Apple’s Watch the same way they did to the iPod in 2001(owened.co.nz)
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by owenwil 12y ago
Google Wallet required Carrier SIM support which forced consumers to actually go and get a SIM that supported it, as well as a handset that supported said SIM. Apple's solution does not require this and cuts MNO's out entirely
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by owenwil 12y ago
AKA tactics some of the worst, spammiest apps on the iOS app store use
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by owenwil 12y ago
How do you mean?
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by owenwil 12y ago
It's nothing to do with iCloud
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The Octodex(octodex.github.com)
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by owenwil 12y ago
Interesting, but not particularly surprising. Despite many people's hate for Buzzfeed they are quickly building up a powerful journalism team. I suspect they will be the biggest media/journalism/content powerhouse online with
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by owenwil 12y ago
I work at a startup in New Zealand -- Hoist -- where we're building a platform as a service type offering entirely in Node. It seemed like the best choice when we started out a year ago and has paid off. It's fast and freeing to w
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by owenwil 12y ago
I'm tired of the misinformation around this - the requirements to do this mean the user needs to know exactly what they're doing: 1) Unlock the phone 2) Trust the connected PC on the prompt Isn't it inherently compromised aft
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Google’s $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed(venturebeat.com)
237 points by owenwil 12y ago|96 comments
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by owenwil 12y ago
Wow - this is something Apple would have never done in the past. They're really pushing to make the point that they don't have any backdoors/participate with government agencies. Interesting turn, where Apple would have just
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Misleading interface design(owened.co.nz)
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by owenwil 12y ago
What have you heard bad about Backblaze? I backup my two machines there and have nothing but praise for them. It pushes up new files as soon as they are saved and they can post you a hard drive with your files if you need to do a restore.
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by owenwil 12y ago
I find this very interesting after many years of Apple not pushing the enterprise particularly hard, but the question that pops into my head is how many large companies are still using IBM technology? Do companies still use their software o
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by owenwil 12y ago
I thought this piece was fabulous and a great insight to a man who is finally turning around the company from being completely oblivious to helping the world into a company that cares about the mark it leaves on the world and the actions it
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by owenwil 12y ago
Wow! Nice to meet you, Twitter teacher! Crazy that it's still the same three years on; I know what you mean that it's easier to talk about building a better flow than actually doing it, but I do think that it's fundamentally
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by owenwil 12y ago
Added this to the post - it's actually even worse. Two steps, no on boarding at all.
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Signing up for a new Twitter account shows why the company is struggling to grow(owened.co.nz)
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by owenwil 12y ago
You may not have used an Apple mouse in some time, if you're saying you have to push a keyboard button to right click. Apple mice for many years have had a right click function, but, granted, you did for a long time have to enable it b
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by owenwil 12y ago
It looks like this company doesn't own any trademarks or copyright on the HealthKit name, but Apple does. Not sure how they can be upset if they haven't even tried to protect their brand. They filed the trademarks some months ago:
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by owenwil 12y ago
Thanks for all the responses - we ran this :) http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/06/03/developers-apples-swi...
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by owenwil 12y ago
We're writing a story for The Next Web on Swift. If anyone's interested in being interviewed for an article, can you flick me an email on owen@thenextweb.com with brief answers to some or all of the following questions. I'd l
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by owenwil 12y ago
I'm not sure how to feel about this. On one hand, it acknowledges that the company truly believes there's something to fix. On the other hand, it ignores the fact of what really happened with Julie and doesn't acknowledge (st
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by owenwil 12y ago
Is it Google closing this, or Lenovo, now that the sale has completed? It seems to me that the agenda has changed now that it's changed hands.
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by owenwil 12y ago
Here's a small review of how we use Slack at our company: http://hoistapps.com/blog/tools-we-love-slack/ tl;dr: it's awesome
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by owenwil 12y ago
I'm not sure why they're shifting the blame to Facebook; it didn't invent the crappy stories that get the most clicks, the news outlets did. They engineer titles in order to get the most shares/clicks out of humans, I do
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by owenwil 12y ago
Hacker News already took down Kirsten's site. Wordpress really doesn't handle load very well. Luckily, Google's cache has a copy already: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:m0OtEZT...
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by owenwil 12y ago
We absolutely think that open sourcing code is important, but not just a giant lump of all of it; a mountain of code not always useful. It's still early days for us but we are considering open sourcing reusable parts of our platform or
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by owenwil 12y ago
Thanks Mandatum, we would love the feedback! The team is having a great time in San Francisco, lots of amazing people to meet. Appreciate the kind words - we love our designer too :)

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