rbarooah

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by rbarooah 15y ago
Why shouldn't this kind of attitude be publicly questioned?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It's not a limitation of experience. Regardless of how experienced you are, it will still cost you more. Higher development costs for apps is a problem for consumers as well as developers. When developers complain about fragmentation they
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Just like the feature in OSX Mail. It's nice to see how web UI is keeping par with native development.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
If it was "effectively public", there wouldn't be any issue with people being compelled to show their pages to their employers.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
How can something that raises the costs of development be regarded as a feature? It might not be a fatal problem, but it does raise the barrier to entry, and it does reduce profitability for apps that are more marginal.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
There are a bunch of comments here expressing outrage at the seeming arbitrary decision of Apple to pull this app. Whilst others have correctly pointed out that the app no longer works because FourSquare has cut off API access, Apple's poli
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Are you saying that you think that Ogg Vorbis will trump the other audio standards in the end?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What open standards should Apple be paying attention to that you don't think they are?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
The point about the market being 'large' is the very thing that fragmentation undermines. What matters is how many paying customers can receive a good user experience from your app, and what this costs to provide. You also assume that Andr
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by rbarooah 15y ago
30% by revenue. This compares to 36% for HP, and so is immaterial. Apple's desktop sales are growing at 4% year over year. Compared to HP's which are declining
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Android developers are incurring higher costs for less revenue. That may be 'fine' but it's still a disadvantage.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
But let's not kid ourselves. Apple lost the battle for the desktop computer in the 80s, and it never regained it. Jobs returned Apple to profitability by giving up on that market and positioned the company into a new one. This is simply i
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by rbarooah 15y ago
You also seem to be implying that nothing that actually results in an improvement should be patentable.
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Certainly, if you define 'superior' as whoever gets the most sales regardless of the utility produced, then there is nothing to debate. The argument against this is that certain tactics (such as predatory pricing) for achieving this are des
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by rbarooah 15y ago
The basic idea of these laws, is to help a superior but less well financed business to compete with an inferior business with larger coffers. You may be right that this is flawed, but I don't think you can dismiss it without a little more r
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It's only a win-win if it doesn't do too much damage to wolfram alpha, although I guess if Google pushes too hard it will drive Wolfram to try to integrate more and more into Apple's ecosystem.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
If that is indeed all they are trying to apply, then I agree with you. I was under the impression that they were also going after details of the trade dress which I think it is obvious that Samsung is copying in various products.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Do you believe that design patents in general should never hold?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
If I hadn't mentioned a camera it wouldn't have changed my point at all. What this tablet (and the non-clone tablets) actually show is that there is no need for Samsung to have copied Apple's trade dress of not using a bezel, having an all
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Fair enough - it does look obvious to me that those are automatic 'rubber stamps'. They don't read as particularly condescending to me, but I imagine that if one was used in error or with questionable judgement it might well come off that w
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Agreed - if Samsung cloned this grey, bulbous plastic tablet along with its screen printed label, I don't think Apple would care at all. It's the fact that they're copying the exact combination of flat glass front, curved metal back, black
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I do recall the context. What were you trying to convey with the phrase "It's a shame?" Was that not your judgement of their choice? Also, how do you propose to prevent other people from blaming one another for things? You didn't answer my
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I never said anything about intelligence level or other parties deciding what people should do. Are you able to consider the idea that someone's responsibility to themselves and their families might lead them to make decisions other than ma
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Why not? Do you think people have no responsibility for their choices other than to maximize their financial gain?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
If the messages are written in a tone that people generally find condescending, then they are condescending. The intent may be positive but doesn't change the impact of the writing style. As a matter of interest, do these template responses
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by rbarooah 15y ago
My point is that the existence of ports is irrelevant. A language is popular if it is used by a lot of people. The choice to use it involves a lot more than language preference. To claim that objective-c doesn't count as popular because a
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by rbarooah 15y ago
You could make the same argument for other languages - I've never used Java out of preference, but have written 100,000s of lines of it because it was what was required to get the job done in the context. I still think it's popular.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Since you acknowledge that this is not the prevailing view, do you have any data or sources to support it?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
The fact that you use automation to produce your responses doesn't make you any less responsible for them.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Why shouldn't we respect each other's work simply because we're people, and we suffer when we try to cooperate with those who don't respect us? Doesn't this go both ways?

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