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by sbuk 15y ago
What would have happened had Apple rejected this app? Politically, Apple are between a rock and a hard place here. Ultimately the culpability lies with the Gmail app team and they have acknowledged this and pulled the app. https://plus.goo
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by sbuk 15y ago
From the article: " So it’s probably best to ratchet the rhetoric down a notch and call it ingenuity "
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by sbuk 15y ago
It depends where you are coming from I suppose. Kiosk mode until recently didn't really fit in with the Mac (going way back to System 1.0 days) work flow, but when Apple integrated multiple desktop into OS X, it shifted the workflow enough
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by sbuk 15y ago
>> Xcode is for-pay now, while it was free earlier. It's back to being free if you have installed Lion. >> Apple keeps breaking SIMBL. SIMBL is a non-standard 3rd party framework. It would be more correct to say that SIM
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by sbuk 15y ago
Tu quoque fallacies are just as bad. Anyone using emotive words or unnecessary superlatives undermine the point they are attempting to make.
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by sbuk 15y ago
Resorting to ad verecundiam doesn't prove or disprove your point either way. It's just an opinion.
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by sbuk 15y ago
"For many people, being forbidden to use a piece of hardware that you legally own in whatever way you want is an unacceptable intrusion on personal freedom." So don't buy hardware with those restrictions! For all the acknowledged absurdity
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by sbuk 15y ago
So don't use Apple hardware. Simple.
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by sbuk 15y ago
I'm sure it is, I wasn't suggesting otherwise; just concurring with the poster I replied to that Apple have used the term for a long time and that they certainly used the term long before OS X was released. Programmer, by the way, referred
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by sbuk 15y ago
Turing gets an awful lot of credit for being a founding father of computing and the majority of it is undoubtedly deserved, but the man whom is consistently overlooked and really is one of the founders of modern computing is a man called To
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by sbuk 15y ago
From which point of view?
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by sbuk 15y ago
Which is not dissimilar to a Palm Treo, and Palms OS was very similar to Newton.
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by sbuk 15y ago
I recall referring to 'apps' when discussing MacPaint and Hypercard in the late 80s. Apple have used the 'apps' term for many years.
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by sbuk 15y ago
I didn't intend to come off as snarky and apologise if you feel in anyway aggrieved (you clearly do). I mere intended to point aout that things are never that black and white and often the truth can be found somewhere in-between.
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by sbuk 15y ago
"Even at their very foundation, Apple stole innovations from the workers at Xerox PARC" You betray you ignorance with that line alone. The workers at Xerox PARC stole those same ideas from people like Engelbart and Sutherland, at the very l
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by sbuk 15y ago
Perhaps, like mosts things in life, the truth lies somewhere between the perceived overstatements of Jobs' achievements and qualities and your "understanding".
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by sbuk 15y ago
I know what the point is, but I'd say that the extent to which their innovations are understated borders on the ridiculous. The only people I ever see really overstating Apple's contributions are those that are refuting the fact. <ran
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by sbuk 15y ago
I have seen this banded about the internet too much of late and it's about time it stopped, I mean it's not as if the information is out there, is it? The mouse wasn't invented by Xerox. The concept was invented by Doug Engelbart of SRI in
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by sbuk 15y ago
Manufacturing process and material science are critical to the education of industrial and product design. A designer that isn't thinking about how a product will be produced isn't really a good designer.
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by sbuk 15y ago
The article you link to has a photo of arguably some of the greatest designers of the mid 20th century, and Ive and his team are perhaps as consistent as the Eames or Saarinen. Doing good design is easy, great design however is much, much h
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by sbuk 15y ago
My girlfriend has an Android phone. Her reasons are threefold (in order of importance); 1) It's cheap. 2) It's relatively small (Wildfire S is smaller that the iPhone). 3) She uses only Google services (Gmail etc.) so it makes sense to use
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by sbuk 15y ago
Google push their "openness" in their marketing to Android users. It's part of the sales patter. It is sold as if it develops in the open and their whole stack is OSS. It isn't. If you present yourself as a paragon of virtue and suggest tha
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by sbuk 15y ago
I'm sorry, but why should people have an issue with how software is developed? What makes OSS that much better?
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by sbuk 15y ago
Xerox categorically did not invent the mouse. Doug Engelbart invented the mouse in the mid-to-late 1960s. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs for what is described as "The Mother of All Demos". As to the GUI, again PARC then Ap
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by sbuk 15y ago
"Where's the line between copying and being inspired by a better way to do things?" Somewhere between here; http://cl.ly/8lZ5 and here; http://cl.ly/8lIC "I don't know, but I think we have to be careful where we put that line." The line
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by sbuk 15y ago
Wow. It's the sort of rubbish that I'd expect to see on The Register. ZDNet is the National Enquirer of the IT and computing blogosphere I suppose.