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by rbarooah 16y ago
Netscape Navigator was free to consumers, and was the fastest growing software product in history before Microsoft started bundling IE. We'd still be using the web anyway. The free availability of IE bundled with Windows just stifled compe
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That choice was forced on them by regulators. They didn't choose it. The parent said that he didn't think it was best for our industry, but that it wouldn't be in Microsoft's best interest to do it. Does Microsoft believe it's in the indus
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I thought the title was talking about a meaningful glance between Jobs and Zuckerberg - not their dress sense!
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http://www.businessinsider.com/through-may-apples-ipod-had-7... Ok - so I was off by 4% - 24% of people pick non-Apple mp3 players.
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A work of genius. Final proof that Apple is doomed. The drunken flamingo is wild!
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Smart people can do ugly things.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
That point can be made, with vitriol, without resorting to attacking other members of HN.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
"#2 Since the iPad 2 wasn't shipping at all, its volume is 0 at the time this was said. That much is inarguable, full stop. Ergo it is a lie." No, he said when it was going to ship. It's a prediction. It's only a lie if he has good reason
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Which is irrelevant because when the iPad came out there are more than 3,000 dedicated apps, many of them from household brands, and there was no competition. I'm not saying the Android tablets aren't competitive with how the iPad was at l
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From a technical standpoint, probably not. But those we apps don't exist today, and people are buying tablets now based on what apps can do for them.
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So you're saying that people who buy iPads buy mostly iPhone apps to run pixel doubled in order to save money?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Some people for sure - like the 20% who buy MP3 players other than iPods, but most people bought Android in tbe beginnig because they couldn't buy apple or because apple was more expensive. Now, Android phones are genuinely competitive wit
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by rbarooah 16y ago
There were more than 3,000 tablet specific apps on day 1, and there was no competition. New platforms don't automatically lead to a gold rush. There hasn't been one for the palm pre. The argument you are making is that normal consumers wil
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Why do you need a term aside from for use in ad hominem attacks?
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True, but with the phones there were lots of people who couldn't buy an iPhone to use on their carrier or wanted something cheap. Android phones had a captive market. iPads are more useful, cheaper and not limited by carrier. Why would a n
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by rbarooah 16y ago
But that's irrelevant because people aren't using pixel doubled apps on the iPad. They are using specially designed apps. Are you seriously claiming that apps developed for android phones are as good as the dedicated iPad apps?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
They didn't make a tablet OS - they just added a wacom pen digitizer to some laptops instead of a mouse. And before you flame me for being anti-whatever, I developed software commercially as a contractor for HP for 'windows for pen' in 1993
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75%? Where does that come from?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Right - I said in my original comment that the situation would change over the year, but for now an average user would be silly to buy a Xoom and only have blown up phone apps and hope that stuff they like gets developed in future, when the
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I think that's probably true for some parts of the user base - particularly the more tech savvy - it's effectively true for me - I'll concede twitter and reeder as not much more than an extension of the browser or an ebook reader. However I
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What point did he make other than the vitriol itself?
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You're seriously trying to claim that blown up android phone apps, many of which don't even rescale properly, are competition to the dedicated iPad designs? Have you looked at iPad apps lately? Even if you don't include iMove and GarageBan
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I have tried one myself otherwise I wouldn't have asked. The relevance is that the apps are what provide the UI. For the iPad there are 65,000 of them customized to utilize the full screen. For the Xoom, there are 16 customized for the ful
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Yes but for most non geeks, the Xoom doesn't do much beyond the built in apps, whereas the iPad has 65,000 apps they can use today. That might be different in a year's time but the average user would be crazy to choose a Xoom over an iPad
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And the halo of the iPad will probably have a pretty powerful effect in boosting the iPhone, particularly if they release some cheaper iPhones for PAYG as rumored.
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What UI? The UI of the 65,000 full screen iPad specific apps, or the UI of the 16 Android Tablet apps? Have you actually tried a Xoom?
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"At least you had a hill to walk up. In my day we had to use our laptops in an icy hole covered in tarpaulin just to keep the things from overheating"
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Those aren't lies. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287053
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Many of the companies in the consumer electronics spent the last decade wasting energy trying to screw each other over interoperability and standards issues - failing to agree because none of them wanted one of the others to gain an advanta
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by rbarooah 16y ago
#2 depends on your definition of volume, and it's pretty clear that nobody is close to Apple there, so it's hardly even an exaggeration let alone a lie. #3 isn't a fabrication either. For it to be false, you either have to include e-reader

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