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by tjogin 15y ago
They make very little money.
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by tjogin 15y ago
If a designer thinks learning a little bit about how things work under the hood is somehow going to make them worse at designing, then they ought to also become worse at designing if they learn about anything else outside of their craft, li
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by tjogin 15y ago
Invisible actions are harder to discover than visible ones, not that illogical really, and one of the key ways in which the Mac is more user friendly as it depends on context menus to a lesser degree.
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by tjogin 15y ago
I guess what they really mean is that nobody could replace Jobs except they themselves. That is the only logical conclusion I can think of, at least.
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by tjogin 15y ago
I'm not talking about about having an opinion. I'm talking about being so extremely full of yourself that you'd think that you can do a better job running the world's most successful tech company than they do. But I don't mind people do
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by tjogin 15y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how much amateur advice people have for the most successful tech company in the world.
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by tjogin 15y ago
I guess it's one way of taking money out of the equation, assuring that he'll stay or leave for other reasons. If $58M wasn't enough already.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Apple aren't even trying to make it hard to leave their platforms, they're trying to make you not want to leave them.
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by tjogin 15y ago
That Apple has competition does not mean that they are unable to compete. They are _extremely_ able to compete.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Good design seems obvious in hindsight, but there is no denying that Apple are often the first to either do something, or the first to make something work. And then everyone copies that thing. Doesn't mean I like software patents, just sayi
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by tjogin 15y ago
Apple can't compete with Android? That's your conclusion? Maybe you should revisit that thought, I mean considering the mountain of evidence (money) to the contrary?
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by tjogin 15y ago
Sounds like a bit of a straw man to me. It'd depend on just how big the difference in the number of keystrokes there are, would it not? Do you not agree that writing 100 lines of code instead of 1000 lines saves time, when writing it but
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by tjogin 15y ago
He'd probably have to stop and think more often if he hadn't built a dozen or more similar games before.
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by tjogin 15y ago
I think the most interesting and least talked about thing is b) "$10b to jump into a new market via acquisition which we just proved we're not good at." HP has never been good at software. Hands up, who fondly remembers a nice HP software e
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by tjogin 15y ago
And then, on top of all these fine points, you'll get into trouble when you want to do something outside of what the tool provides. Then you need to touch the code, which is a horrible mess; with code this bad you'll want to kill yourself.
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by tjogin 15y ago
I'm not saying you would, I'm saying PR wise Mojang and Notch have everything to gain from settling this matter of law in a game of Quake, while Bethesda has very little .
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by tjogin 15y ago
Right. But, Bethesda already have a stellar reputation in the gaming community, their "The Elder Scrolls" series is many many orders of magnitude more well known than Mojang's upcoming game "Scrolls". The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of
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by tjogin 15y ago
Does that count as legally defending your trademark on Bethesda's part? And if Bethesda is right in that "Scrolls" is too similar to "The Elder Scrolls", as to cause confusion in the market place, how would a game of Quake rectify that?
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by tjogin 15y ago
I wouldn't rely on a $3/month web host for my one and only copy, that's my point.
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by tjogin 15y ago
It wasn't awesome. But we're talking about a $3/month host here, is that something you should rely on for backups, even before your account is terminated? If the abusive customer didn't keep a local copy, well, now he's probably learnt to k
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by tjogin 15y ago
Another example, I'm not sure it qualifies, is that Gruber never liked the brushed metal theme and the inconsistency with which Apple applied it to different applications. Apple did eventually retire the brushed metal theme and is getting a
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by tjogin 15y ago
That patent portfolio can't be that threatening to neither Apple nor Microsoft, considering the fact that both companies are already in litigation against Motorola and those specific patents, and so far it's not looking grim.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Well, the first and most obvious example is the inconsistency and arbitrariness with which Apple approved or rejected AppStore applications. Gruber was probably Apple's most vocal critic at the time. Apple have improved a lot since, but s
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by tjogin 15y ago
I have to agree, this was a very insightful piece if you ask me. Not rambling or scrambling to make sense of everything, which is how some of the other analysis reads on the topic. Gruber took a few steps back, somehow saw the hole picture
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by tjogin 15y ago
I agree it sounds unlike Jobs, or at least my preconceived notions about Jobs. Maybe it's because he specifically wanted Walter Isaacson to write it, based on admiration of his previous work?
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by tjogin 15y ago
Looks terrific. I only wish for a way to install new rubies the same way you do it in RVM, rather than a "manual" install.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Computer resources are only cheap if you don't care about energy preservation. I think Apple are trying to maximize battery life, as well as taking OS X to iOS levels of user friendliness.
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by tjogin 15y ago
It's not that simple. In the tablet space, for example, there is no such thing as an equivalent product of a competitor. The "value" of a product is more than it's technical specification, consumers have figured that out.
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by tjogin 15y ago
You may be right about that specific report, but the same seems to be true for Samsung's tablets. Nobody are selling tablets, other than Apple.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Yeah, I have a feeling this is going to be worse for Apple than it is for Samsung. Like you said, Samsung's tablets aren't really selling that well (more were returned last month than sold, I heard), so it's not going to be a significan

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