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by rbarooah 15y ago
Serious question - how do you see us getting to there from where we are now?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
In the context of Apple's "Mac vs PC" campaign, does anyone seriously have doubt about what they mean by a PC?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
A big question is how soon these can function as a standalone device, or whether they would be tethered to a phone in your pocket first. Otherwise, are they much more than a head mount display accessory for Android? Head mount displays for
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by rbarooah 15y ago
No. If they didn't qualify it with "PC" it would have that implication. By qualifying it, they make it unambiguous.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Apple already uses binary diffs. The only thing missing is a new UI (or lack thereof). I'd be surprised if 'update apps automatically' doesn't become an option in iOS6 (probably after the iCloud backup completes), because having to keep go
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by rbarooah 15y ago
None of this is in dispute - the point is that so far it hasn't resulted in end users being able to actually do more .
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by rbarooah 15y ago
You certainly can do #1 - there are apps for that. (e.g. Handoff - which I use sometimes) 2 and 3 are theoretical ways to let software do more that are no more available to Android end-users than Jailbreaking is available to iOS users. You'
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by rbarooah 15y ago
In a theoretical world you might in principle be able to do more with Android, but given the "iOS First" approach that major developers take, it's hard to argue that it lets regular users "do more" in the real world.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Instagram is a photo sharing social network. How would you expect it to work without creating an account?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Android is the world's most popular smartphone OS. Most users use it because it is the OS that powers the phone that they thought best fit their needs when they bought it, not because they have any special loyalty to a 'community'. Why woul
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What about macports?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Slippery slope fallacies notwithstanding, Apple isn't proposing to take anything away. My point is that the alternatives don't provide the user with the option to choose who to trust to begin with. The ability to trust code is something tha
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by rbarooah 15y ago
The only thing you seem to be saying you want is to be free from the fear of unintended negative consequences of code signing. It's tautological that nobody can both provide something and freedom from the fear of the unintended consequences
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Aren't these just a subset of what you can get on OSX? On OSX, as well as the FOSS tools you can also choose from a set of nicely tailored Cocoa apps, some free and some worth paying for.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
This is a one sided narrative which ignores the possibility that code signing provides meaningful anti-malware benefits. What would you have them do instead?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
How is that a counterpoint?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
You've already acknowledged that the intent is to reduce prejudice and priming and to allow comments to be judged on their merits.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
should HN be optimized towards mitigating user prejudice or an enhanced experience for the enlightened? Unless you really think that increased prejudice on HN would enhance the experience for the 'enlightened', then this is a false dichot
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I'm not ready to conclude that the argument is empty, but I do think it's interesting that instead of presenting actual arguments, people seem to be getting defensive. To me that suggests that whatever the real reason is, people aren't comf
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by rbarooah 15y ago
The quote from Vuc Gundotra in that article explains why they aren't worried. Android isn't about direct revenue for Google. Its purpose is to damage competitors who make money out of hardware or software by commoditizing the mobile platfo
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by rbarooah 15y ago
The kind of freedom you mention is not a reason why they are superior in some absolute way. It's a factor which, in the real world today, makes them better for some purposes and worse for others. There are reasonable but unproven conjecture
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It's worth pointing out that a considerable number of the people who did that hard work were on Jobs payroll.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
With all due respect, I don't think you've offered any kind of explanation here. Why is it more respectful to be dressed up if they are? You've simply restated that it is without explanation. What makes a polo shirt more respectful than a t
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Serious question - how and why do you think it shows disrespect, and for what? The only thing I can think of is tradition.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Presumably this means that bankers are, for the most part more trustworthy than programmers.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I don't know why you got downvoted for this. I upvoted you. I think you've hit the nail on the head. I'd like to hear someone explain why a suit (or whatever dress code) is better than what someone else chooses to wear. It's obviously m
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Showering and deodorant is a distracting straw man. Nobody is talking about being dirty or smelly. The interesting question is why is wearing a suit appropriate, other than because it's traditional? Are those advocating wearing suits rea
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Fragmentation is not the same thing as support for different hardware capabilities. Fragmentation itself doesn't serve anyone better.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It is real: http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/ Interestingly the EU mandated warranty is much less significant than you might think. It seems to cover only manufacturing defects that were present on delivery.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
We know by now that the approval process doesn't catch everything that later turns out to be a problem. Apple makes no secret of this.

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