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by tjogin 17y ago
I guess that also means that almost everyone thinks sixteen of the buttons are just in the way.
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by tjogin 17y ago
To protect yourself from damage and code corruption, use source control and tests in combination with code reviews and coding standards. Don't use a straightjacket for a language. The Rails community with all its various gem and plugin auth
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by tjogin 17y ago
But enforcing that law means breaking an other inalienable human right; that of privacy. And I'd say that law is more important.
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by tjogin 17y ago
I don't believe that for a second. It sure doesn't explain why Flash isn't performant on Linux, or are you going to blame that on Linus Torvalds?
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by tjogin 17y ago
Let's add insult to injury: Apple has reported that a majority of crashes on a Mac — across the board — are due to Flash.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Adobe can't even make a performant flash plugin for Mac OS X or Linux, why on god's green earth would it be any different for lesser hardware?
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by tjogin 17y ago
I think you are both right.
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by tjogin 17y ago
It's not that I disagree with you, but there's also the option of paying patent licenses.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Also, I don't think the difficulty of coding something up has any real baring on how well it does.
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by tjogin 17y ago
No, it suggests you don't realize just how very well they actually are doing.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Assuming your exposure on Haystack brought you business worth substantially more than $99 a month, why ought you be in a position to demand anything at all?
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by tjogin 17y ago
That helps them get exposure, but it does not guarantee long-term success. Besides, 37signals weren't born with their readership, they built it.
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by tjogin 17y ago
If you're dissatisfied with the service, why just not stop paying for it? Isn't that so much easier than getting all upset and demanding things?
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by tjogin 17y ago
It didn't require a super-unique idea that needed to be rushed to market before the window of opportunity closed, either. Just another common idea, executed well. (Ok, so they're not quite there yet.)
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by tjogin 17y ago
If they make a small fortune from this, it'll be because the having the pro account brings a lot more than $99 to the designer; i.e. because of the value of the service provided, not the cost of signing up. Because if the service doesn't
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by tjogin 17y ago
I'm really disappointed to learn this. I've been really curious as to how Palm succeeded to make their apps based on javascript so fast as to be even comparable with iPhone apps. Turns out they haven't, they've just got really low standards
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by tjogin 17y ago
It's never been about elitism for Apple, that's just the way the people who don't buy Apple perceive it. Apple has used a slogan like the following for several of their products: "X for the rest of us", where X is some product or service
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by tjogin 17y ago
Not sure how common that is outside of the US. In Sweden it's available on all carriers, I think. (It was exclusive to one carrier for the first year or so.)
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by tjogin 17y ago
Save for time-travel, they can't really do that when they decide to pick up and "publish" a book that's been freely available in electronic form for eight years.
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by tjogin 17y ago
If you don't think the AppStore approval process squashes bugs then you're simply ignorant about the feedback developers get from them. Sure, not everybody doing iPhone apps are bathing in cash. But before the iPhone came along, there was
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by tjogin 17y ago
It's called the AppStore. And of course it's also about controlling quality, are you kidding? Don't reduce this to only being about either one thing or the other — like you apparently love to do — it's obviously a multifaceted issue. Qu
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by tjogin 17y ago
I don't think its about arguing against Apple, I sure as hell don't feel I'm arguing for Apple. Just allow yourself to see that there are many many aspects to this, it's not as simple as you made it out to be (and it's not just about you
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by tjogin 17y ago
> I have nothing against software stores, but they should be optional not required. I agree completely. My hope is that AppStore will become optional, rather than the exclusive way to get apps on the iPhone. But I do think it was a wise
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by tjogin 17y ago
> Meaning Apple will have to justify why they're keeping Flash off the iPhone. Piss poor performance.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Apple very much realizes that they're after a completely different segment of the market than MS is, but they also realize that many consumers cannot clearly see where one segment starts and the other one ends, because, if all you ever had
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by tjogin 17y ago
Do you seriously think that "cute bouncing pixels" is what made the iPhone the fastest selling piece of consumer electronic of all time? No, of course not! That's just silly. Clearly, the iPhone has a number of very attractive attributes, a
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by tjogin 17y ago
Adobe are still, to this day, incapable of producing a performant Flash runtime for Linux and Mac OS X — in spite of this having been a known issue for like a decade . Why on god's green earth would they suddenly produce a performant Flash
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by tjogin 17y ago
Why is it so much less healthy for mobile phones than it is for consoles? I mean, the difference is staggering: Apple gets cussed out daily because of how closed their iPhone app distribution system is — but nobody is wasting a single breat
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by tjogin 17y ago
They're really not that different if you look at a wider perspective than just mobile phones. Microsoft's Xbox is as closed a system, if not even more so. Not so coincidentally, their Xbox is also far more robust and less bug prone than the
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by tjogin 17y ago
I don't think the part where they use and love the library since previously is as important as you think. The important part is probably more about creating and/or contributing to open-source projects, with everything that entails.

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