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by reidmain 14y ago
I work on ScoreMobile and we're at 79%. Probably over 80% by now. 60% of Pocket users in five days. http://getpocket.com/blog/2012/09/more-than-60-of-pockets-da... http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ http://insights.chitika.com/201
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by reidmain 14y ago
And there are over 400 million iOS devices. If you think you can get a large enough percentage of iPad 1 users to make it worth you while then develop for it. I'd much rather spend my time ensuring it works well on 300+ million other device
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by reidmain 14y ago
Apps that have hundreds of thousands of daily users are already seeing over 80% of their users are on iOS 6 and this is only after 21 days of it being available. Any app I make from now on will be iOS 6 and up. The amount of time I spend no
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Facebook Fought SEC to Keep Mobile Risks Hidden Before IPO Crash(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by reidmain 14y ago|1 comments
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by reidmain 14y ago
Apple is using AutoNavi (not TomTom) for its map data in China (which Google is using as well). Here's a blog post from someone who lives in China describing why he likes iOS 6 maps more than Google Maps. http://anthonydrendel.com/blog/201
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by reidmain 14y ago
Google is in the strange position of wanting to get a piece of hardware into the hands of every person while at the same time having services that they want everyone to use because that is how they make their money. They are constantly biti
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by reidmain 14y ago
Do you have a source for that? All the chatter I've heard is that Apple Maps is actually really useful in China. EDIT: Blog post from someone living in China extolling the virtues of iOS 6 maps http://anthonydrendel.com/blog/2012/9/24/ios-
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by reidmain 14y ago
I'd flip a coin and then shoot myself.
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Video game on Android becomes free because of high piracy rate(theverge.com)
6 points by reidmain 14y ago|0 comments
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by reidmain 14y ago
"When Store Kit returns a completed purchase to your payment queue observer, the transaction’s transactionReceipt property contains a signed receipt that records all the critical information for the transaction. Your server can post this re
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by reidmain 14y ago
I haven't looked at this in depth but it sounds like they are pretending to be Apple and are sending a counterfeit response to the device. On the device there is a delegate callback that receives a SKPaymentTransaction object which has a b
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Apple’s in-app purchasing process circumvented by Russian hacker(9to5mac.com)
112 points by reidmain 14y ago|70 comments
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by reidmain 14y ago
My biggest critique with this KickStarter is they are promising hardware in eight months where only a single prototype exists currently. Like the article says, these guys are not Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, etc so I don't have very much faith
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The reality of the Ouya console doesn’t match the hype(penny-arcade.com)
65 points by reidmain 14y ago|86 comments
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by reidmain 14y ago
Nothing. That is another totally viable alternative.
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by reidmain 14y ago
"If a user has Chrome installed, chances are they wish that it would be their default browser." Horrible assumption. I am all for Apple stealing Android's intents. Assuming that because the user has an app installed they want it to be the d
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by reidmain 14y ago
Oh that is Facebook screwing up. I'm not trying to pardon that. I just hate people who complain about stuff when they take a well defined risk and it backfires on them.
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by reidmain 14y ago
"Since Facebook changed the email addresses on contacts, I've actually lost every single one of my email addresses including those for work." -Complaint from iOS 6 user My suggestion, don't use the very first beta release of a operating sys
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by reidmain 14y ago
Weather Underground did gather data from a variety of sources ( http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/index.asp ) and displayed more fine grain results that the "regular" person who cares about weather would never look at. I have Weath
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by reidmain 14y ago
I've just had absolutely no good experiences with antivirus software. I can count on my hands the number of times they blocked an actual virus in my life. And those times were way back in the days when I was young, naive and using Limewire.
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by reidmain 14y ago
I was trying to not make the post have a "Mac is better" tone but it was difficult. Most of the people I've advised learned on Windows 95 or 98. Those were horrible UX days and helped formed a lot of bad habits. I've never had to switch som
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by reidmain 14y ago
I haven't used antivirus software in well over a decade and I will no longer instruct anyone to install it. I have had no good experiences with antivirus software and from what I have read over the last decade they seem to stop only the mos
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by reidmain 14y ago
The problem was that they were so ingrained with the Windows experience that they were resistant to change. They had their way of doing things and whenever I presented them with alternatives they would refuse to change, no matter how I pres
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by reidmain 14y ago
"Let's hope more Apple Mac owners are also learning to take important security steps -- such as installing antivirus protection." This is the worst possible step to take. When I switch someone over to Mac I take the opportunity to recalibra
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by reidmain 14y ago
You are again missing my point. I'm not asking for the site to work in the sense that I can do even 5% of the intended functionality. I just want to be able to see something to sell me on why I should enable JavaScript. Also 15 minutes to c
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Why go out?(brickmag.com)
273 points by reidmain 14y ago|107 comments
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by reidmain 14y ago
Most small business aren't rolling their own website. They are contracting the work out or just buying a prepackaged product from someone. If that person's work is so shoddy that I can't see anything about them, well then I'm glad I cannot
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by reidmain 14y ago
The problem most sites have is that they don't even attempt to convince users who block JavaScript. Too many devs rely on JavaScript to do even the most basic layout and end up throwing a blank screen saying "This site requires JavaScript".
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Canada's warrantless surveillance bill is back(boingboing.net)
5 points by reidmain 14y ago|0 comments
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Researching To Build a Rapid Prototyping Tool(blog.mozilla.org)
6 points by reidmain 14y ago|0 comments

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