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by tjogin 17y ago
Eat little fluffy bunnies? Come on now, we're not barbarians!
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by tjogin 17y ago
Software patent disputes are uncommon in the little league, but unfortunately not uncommon in the big boys' league. It wasn't more than a few weeks ago that Microsoft was ordered to stop selling Word due to software patents.
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by tjogin 17y ago
They added lists not too long ago, and they added native support for retweeting while at the same time making it even simpler. Twitter aren't limited by your inability to imagine where they can go next. If anything, their limited feature se
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by tjogin 17y ago
Nobody is claiming it's a technological marvel, and I certainly didn't mention economics. I'm just saying that it's kind of strange seeing people say so-and-so is doing essential-thing to successful-product completely wrong. I mean, maybe,
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by tjogin 17y ago
Ok, so Twitter is basically doing everything wrong in your view, and yet they are tremendously popular. Have you considered the possibility that you are wrong, and they are in fact doing it right, in light of their success, I mean?
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by tjogin 17y ago
I don't know, depends on your definition of "big hit". Is crushing industry expectations and becoming the best selling phone in the world a "big hit"?
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by tjogin 17y ago
Very good point, and quite illustrative. Same thing with cars; normal people rarely buy cars based on pure performance metrics.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Do you mean to say that there are plenty of fanboys who will go to great lengths about how great the AppStore review process it, that is to say that it is without flaws? Because in all seriousness, I haven't seen any. Even hardcore fans of
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by tjogin 17y ago
Oh, right.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Nothing will stop people from simply emailing that address without checking/guessing if it exists first. The whole subject of this post is an exercise in futility.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Then by all means, out-facebook Facebook. I'll be cheering for you.
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by tjogin 17y ago
He's not really saying it's impossible to succeed at these things. Only that there are other ideas out there with far better conditions and chances.
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by tjogin 17y ago
What is "probable" about that theory?
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by tjogin 17y ago
Yeah, obvious trolling. Had this come from someone unknown it wouldn't had gotten any attention.
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by tjogin 17y ago
That's not a store, that's a catalogue.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Comparatively, if the same song were to be played in a radio show with a million listeners, she'd have earned not even half of what she got from Spotify. Comparisons with the CD model are misguided, because the CD business model was an ex
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by tjogin 17y ago
Apple's actual reason for the approval process is quality control. And by quality control, I mean everything from ensuring a lack of bugs to a polished interface and, last but certainly not least, lack of malware. Apple wants people to ac
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by tjogin 17y ago
Conversely, having a horrible train-wreck of an approval process like Apple does clearly doesn't mean you can't have unparalleled success either. So I guess we're back to square one.
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by tjogin 17y ago
You're sort of right, but that's true for all other platforms as well, so it doesn't really tell us anything about the state of app use on the iPhone platform. The OS bundled ones are the ones people use the most. Across the board. If I had
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by tjogin 17y ago
Mac developers mostly did (and still do). If you're developing anything other than Mac applications, you probably don't know a lot about what it's like either.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Do you think Apple should look at Microsoft's mobile strategy with envy?
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by tjogin 17y ago
If their offering to mobile app developers isn't revolutionary, why is the number and quality of apps revolutionary?
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by tjogin 17y ago
I'm not talking about the interface of the device, I'm talking about the complete picture of developing mobile apps — Apple's offering, while flawed, is a huge step up from the state of mobile development prior to the iPhone.
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by tjogin 17y ago
I agree that advantages for developers and businesses are key to success in the long term, for any platform. But I don't agree that openness of the platform is necessarily the exclusive nor primary way of doing that — it's just a way of
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by tjogin 17y ago
Then why don't you take a few minutes to write every five-letter combination possible and thereby secure the ownership of those names?
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by tjogin 17y ago
You think you have "copyright" of it because you just typed the word?
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by tjogin 17y ago
They're marketing the iPod touch primarily as a game machine, I don't think Carmack is right — maybe they're just not as extraordinarily enthused about gaming as Carmack is.
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by tjogin 17y ago
A lot of it looks like this even today. It's funny that people, even today , are giving Apple advice on how they should change their business strategies, considering that Apple is hugely successful and extraordinarily profitable.
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by tjogin 17y ago
> Of course the body is a complex thing, but the physics is easy, and understanding the physics makes the mental side easier too. I think this is actually quite profound. So many people don't understand the (relatively simple) physics o
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by tjogin 17y ago
My personal observations: a lot of people who think they exercise actually do not. While they may be physically located in a facility that describes itself as a gym, and while they may be moving their body and limbs to some degree, they don

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