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by phil 17y ago
Thanks Gabor (et al)! This is fun to look through. I'm loling at the BuccheitTimer.
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by phil 17y ago
Uh, the green bars also mark the change in price from $399 to $200. Don't you think that might have been partly responsible?
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by phil 17y ago
Rollover doesn't have much meaning, but the start of a touch is analogous to the :active pseudoclass in CSS.
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by phil 17y ago
Do you mean UIControlEventTouchDragInside/UIControlEventTouchDragOutside?
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by phil 17y ago
I would guess that while games are very high grossing, gaming is pretty well understood and is unlikely to be a breakout new category of application on the iPad. For games, it's just going to be another handheld platform, maybe incrementall
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by phil 17y ago
Why wait? http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/0001193125100...
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by phil 17y ago
So do you contend that there are other companies that could build a device comparable to the iPad? Who are they? Why aren't we hearing about their competitive offerings?
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by phil 17y ago
I think Apple has decided they don't like multitasking on its merits. You can only do one thing at a time, so why run more than one application? Instead, they're putting their effort into making application launch and exit very fast, and ca
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by phil 17y ago
This is especially funny if you're a climber, because South Butt is actually meaningful (in context, it's common to abbreviate "buttress" to "butt"). Many of the world's great climbing and mountaineering routes are on S facing buttresses.
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by phil 17y ago
There are still problems. For example, if USV is typical and 1/3 of venture-backed companies are being attacked by patent trolls, then the premiums for this insurance would have to be extremely high -- enough to cover a third of the cost of
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by phil 17y ago
What if it's dry but cold?
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by phil 17y ago
The thing I like most about this post is that he doesn't know what percentage of their portfolio founders have degrees. That must be because they didn't ask, or checked on it while they were doing the funding, but don't really care anymore,
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by phil 17y ago
This is the same strategy that Sirius used when they tried to 'break' normal radio by signing Howard Stern. That deal seems to have worked out pretty well for Stern, but was a disaster for Sirius. It might work just as well for Bing!
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by phil 17y ago
...though that's probably an unsuitable strategy for most products.
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by phil 17y ago
It's too soon: we've just begun year 3 of a roughly 5 year cycle.
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by phil 17y ago
I have a hypothesis about this change: that in-app purchases were not, in fact, being adopted as rapidly as Apple hoped, and this is their response. Adding free apps opens up a lot of new uses for in-app purchases, and should drive more usa
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by phil 17y ago
Virtual currencies are explicitly not allowed.
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Augmented reality launches in Urbanspoon(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by phil 17y ago
See also: shake to undo typing
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by phil 17y ago
> a bit high Seriously? It must have taken at least a couple weeks of work to write and polish up this app. Then there's ongoing marketing, support, more dev if he adds the features people are asking for here, etc. If the app sells 1000
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by phil 17y ago
Huge increase in user growth rate this year means most users are new users. New userbase + long average time between early tweets -> most users have < 10 tweets.
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by phil 17y ago
Well, a native app might be cool here, because you'd be able to get at the Address Book. If I gave you a list of my contacts, could you automatically call them all into the conference once I joined?
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by phil 17y ago
There are many possible explanations for that phenomenon. I wouldn't necessarily assume malice. Rate-on-delete tends to produce a lot of one star ratings, especially for free apps: if they liked the app, they wouldn't be deleting it. For pa
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by phil 17y ago
That's some serious praise! "What the guys at DabbleDB built is amazing."
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by phil 17y ago
Supposedly airplane cabins are kept at the equivalent of about 6000 ft above sea level, which would make a month on a plane only a little worse for you than moving to Denver.
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by phil 17y ago
Seems like magazine journalism is much less susceptible to 1,2, and occasionally 3. I wonder how much of the missing information he describes is due to the lack of time and words that journalists face when they're working in a short cycle.
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by phil 17y ago
That's troubling. I've been thinking that it's OK if the ratings are strict or inflated, as long as there's no stigma attached to a 17+ rating. But a warning before you buy certainly stigmatizes 17+ apps. I bet lots of people hesitated.
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by phil 17y ago
Yeah, you get more granular control over the built-in apps. Why would it make the policy better or more consistent if that ability were taken away?
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by phil 17y ago
Gruber is uncharacteristically imprecise in the paragraph you quote. If you look at the parental controls interface on your iPhone (Settings -> General -> Restrictions), it's obvious that Safari, Mail, YouTube, and so on can be indi
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by phil 17y ago
It's worth noting that this paper refers to polyethylene glycol, which is not the stuff plastic bags are made from. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_glycol

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