technoslut

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by technoslut 14y ago
I'm not defending Apple in this situation. I don't care about this patent nonsense. It has replaced chess as the game of kings. If you looked at my comments recently I question the motives behind Apple bloggers I read. I've criticized Apple
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by technoslut 14y ago
You're not mad that Apple is suing. You're mad that Apple is winning some arguments. What they've been winning is off of UI/UX. It's one thing to argue if software patents should even exist but you were not even arguing that. It's hard to t
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by technoslut 14y ago
That's your opinion. I've read a post from Ben Brooks calling anyone who uses a stylus on an iPad an idiot. In that time frame, Marco bought a Cosmonaut stylus and enjoyed it. A month or two later, Brooks bought the same. It didn't bother m
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by technoslut 14y ago
This post is a rant of a fanboy which is why I downvoted it. It's one thing to prove your point but you didn't even do that. The BGR report is garbage as is most of their posts that doesn't involve Gellar's connections at RIM. No one is cla
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by technoslut 14y ago
That was about Apple paying taxes on what profits they bought into the US. I'm talking about the offshore tax havens where most of their money is kept. I'm talking about this: Google Joins Apple In Push For Tax Holiday http://www.bloomberg
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by technoslut 14y ago
Gruber seems to take politics in the US relatively seriously. I've seen posts where he supported the protests on the 1% within the past few months yet he has never written one post on how Apple keeps well over half of their profits overseas
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by technoslut 14y ago
>Sadly, he's utterly vapid and agenda-driven when talking about Android and Google A big part of the element not being discussed is money. Less people who use Apple products probably means less page views for Daring Fireball. I don't th
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by technoslut 14y ago
>I don't think Microsoft can reasonably compete with Apple in the hardware game. Apple's too good, and they have too much practice. MS is good at hardware but the problem is margins and the lack of proper leadership. Apple has been buil
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by technoslut 14y ago
I expect him to have certain biases but I don't find it unbearable like I do with Benjamin Brooks and Matt Gemmell where I always get a sense of anger, contempt and general negativity in their writing.
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by technoslut 14y ago
Playing devil's advocate, can MS and Apple deliver new features every year that would push someone to upgrade at a low price? With mobile devices being so young compared to the PC I can understand why there is an annual update. For the PC I
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by technoslut 14y ago
Matt Gemmell has always insulted people and this is no difference. It's okay that Sparrow was acquired but his blog posts, along with Benjamin Brooks, is why I never pay attention to it. It may be intelligent but it's riddled with hate. Mos
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by technoslut 14y ago
What should be a relief to all is that this isn't permanent. There will come a point where wifi will defeat cellular in terms of technology. This is what Apple, Google and MS are all waiting for and why none of them have bought a telco. The
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by technoslut 14y ago
The difference with your car analogy is that the car doesn't stop working because other cars are adopting new technology or that the roads became worse. Quicksilver broke once Leopard was released.
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by technoslut 14y ago
I realize that many Quicksilver fans will be upset with my comments but I can't rely on something that was essentially broken for five years and count on it being something I can use a couple of hundred times everyday. What happens the next
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by technoslut 14y ago
I don't think any Quicksilver user was anything other than a power user.
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by technoslut 14y ago
Much of what is left of Quicksilver today is about fixing bugs and keeping it on life support which is why I used the term "fell apart" instead of "dead". This was an app that the developer stopped programming for in 2006 and the bug fixing
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by technoslut 14y ago
I don't believe that changes the situation at all. An example of this is Quicksilver on the Mac. It's considered to be one of the best Mac apps ever and the developer who made it, decided to open source it after he decided to take a job at
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by technoslut 14y ago
And you've also proved why any dev can't make any money off of open source unless they have speaking engagements lined up.
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by technoslut 14y ago
Yahoo is one of those companies who has so many great properties that it will be easier than it seems to resurrect that company. They just needed a competent CEO. I think Mayer is the right choice.
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by technoslut 14y ago
Many analysts believe that WP will see more success which is where it starts (with consumer interest). Many devs put up with Apple's flawed and constantly evolving policies because they believe there is financial success waiting on the othe
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by technoslut 14y ago
Sometimes I think it's best for a developer to take a chance instead of playing it safe because it can bring a greater reward. They chose a platform they enjoyed and which they could get in on the ground floor. As they say, fortune favors t
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by technoslut 14y ago
>I am two minds on the subject of nuclear power. But the "ain't so safe" side tends to win out because humans make mistakes. I'm of two minds about this as well but I came to a different conclusion. In the case of Fukushima and Chernoby
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by technoslut 14y ago
You're pointing to an article that was very short and provided no detail. I had to go through the HN thread to see that it's more complicated than what you make it out to be but I also read a story by John Paczkowski regarding this: http:/
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by technoslut 14y ago
I did click on the link and did read the article though it lacked virtually any detail. Of course Apple cares about money but they make their money by customers buying their hardware. They put their customers first because that is where the
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by technoslut 14y ago
>You're telling me Apple is unresponsive to support requests from their developer ecosystem? Really? GET OUT OF TOWN! I don't believe it. This isn't something that is exclusive to Apple though this has always been an issue with them eve
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by technoslut 14y ago
You miss the entire point about why the iPhone was revolutionary. Yes, there were other touchscreen devices (mostly capacitive and plastic). There were fundamental rethinking of the hardware internally which hadn't been done before. However
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by technoslut 14y ago
I don't know if Panic had any patents regarding this. The patent system doesn't really benefit the small developer. I was listening to Build & Analyze and Marco Arment was asked if he would patent features of Instapaper and he essential
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by technoslut 14y ago
It's fun to think about but it wouldn't change Facebook's model at all. The power of Facebook is based upon the number of users it has.
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by technoslut 14y ago
Being a fan of Google doesn't mean that you're disinterested in a competitor's product. I'm sure there were Apple forums that had a lot of comments (both positive and negative) regarding the events held by MS and Google.
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by technoslut 14y ago
>Why should a product judge whether its successful or not based on other product. I think it's his intent to show that nobody outside of tech really cares about this. >Google plus has some of the most tech savvy users and level of c

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