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by ugh 15y ago
No, not really. Siri is not central to the experience. It’s an add-on. It doesn’t make the old iOS devices obsolete (like, say, not supporting iCloud would).
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by ugh 15y ago
Will ads use CSS animations? The most obvious candidate for ads seems to be canvas which is trivially easy to block. Just like Flash. Either way, the way the advertising industry works there is going to be some sort of de-facto standardized
483.
by ugh 15y ago
Certainly. There is also nothing wrong with only bringing new features to new devices. I really honestly don’t understand why this is the slightest bit controversial.
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by ugh 15y ago
See, that I don’t understand at all. To me “f k” and “fuck” are equivalent. If you want to use a word you should stand by it – it’s also typographically much nicer. “F k” is a lazy cop-out. It doesn’t soften the blow, it only looks ugly.
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by ugh 15y ago
That sounds like a lame excuse. Maybe he was just unaware that he was swearing so much. I think it’s generally easier to swear in a second language: There are no parents around to tell you not to use certain words. I certainly don’t feel th
486.
by ugh 15y ago
Lego are mass produced and they just don’t break. They are basically forever. I played with Lego through all my childhood and I broke maybe a handful of blocks. “Mass produced” is just a bad heuristic for quality.
487.
by ugh 15y ago
Why? I’m German and that seems bizarre to me. Swearing is definitely not used independently of context in German.
488.
by ugh 15y ago
I’m not really sure why that needs an explanation. All our imaging technologies have a certain maximum resolution. The asteroid is small and far away, ergo we are not going to get many pixels.
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by ugh 15y ago
But even Murdoch isn't some kind of tyrant – he can't be, even if he wanted to. There is still a lot of pluralism inside of News Corp. You are, of course, correct: Concentration of media ownership is prevalent and a worrying development.
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by ugh 15y ago
Agenda setting, framing or priming are not opinion change. It's not really known how and how effectivly those effects can change opinions. I would also be wary of characterizing mass media as a single entity. That's just doesn't reflect rea
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by ugh 15y ago
People didn't really search for content when there were a handful or just one TV station or radio station. That's exactly the time when the hypothesis of strong media effects was very popular (also because of the then current fascist or com
492.
by ugh 15y ago
Media effects studies were done with television, radio, print and web content. Opinion changes in response to media content would generally be considered strong media effects. Agenda setting, framing and priming are of course also media eff
493.
by ugh 15y ago
Media effects research suggests otherwise. This is a hot sociology research topic and debates about how easily media can influence people have been raging for nearly the past century (well, basically ever since mass media arrived). Empirica
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by ugh 15y ago
No they don’t. Some people genuinely hate notifications. I do, for example. That’s a valid reason for not liking Growl, configurability doesn’t figure into it. If those who hate Growl were to claim that everyone should hate Growl they wou
495.
by ugh 15y ago
Please don’t use that. It’s confusing and spits in the face of iOS UI conventions.
496.
by ugh 15y ago
Not in Germany. To get the iPhone 3GS for 1€ from Deutsche Telekom you have to sign their 60€ contract for 24 months. That’s 1,440€. The same contract costs 50€ without a phone, that’s 1,200€ for 24 months or 240€ less. It’s not really wort
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by ugh 15y ago
(Doesn’t WP7 have springy lists? Not that it matters, really.) Apple certainly is in a position to not allow arbitrary software. That said, I’m not all that sure whether that’s – all things considered – a net plus for Apple. Jailbreaking is
498.
by ugh 15y ago
+++Breaking+++ Apple Store geniuses can be clueless idiots, too, and say stupid and insulting stuff +++Breaking+++
499.
by ugh 15y ago
Well, VLC isn’t really comparable with iTunes. That’s like comparing Lightroom with Photoshop.
500.
by ugh 15y ago
This is not in any way comparable with iTunes. It’s a list of your songs. You can create playlists. That’s it. It’s ugly and it has jerky scrolling. There is no way to edit metadata. It fails completely as a music library and there are much
501.
by ugh 15y ago
The iOS and OS X screenreader VoiceOver, for example. (JAWS, too, of course.) It’s pretty cool actually: You can rotate with two fingers to switch between different ways of navigating the page: headline to headline, link to link, container
502.
by ugh 15y ago
It’s still clearly recognizable as a button. That’s all that matters.
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by ugh 15y ago
Ok, then. Let’s not talk about future goals, talk about current benefits. Headline tags allow the visually impaired to efficiently navigate webpages. Their screenreader doesn’t have to read everything, they can jump from headline to headlin
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by ugh 15y ago
This video would be pretty uninteresting had they used artificial jelly beans. I think everyone is aware that it’s trivial to convert a simple animation to a jelly bean animation. That’s not the point. Art works by different rules. (Hey, an
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by ugh 15y ago
I don’t understand. Why does that make the comparison invalid? That makes no sense at all. You are naming one factor that might explain the difference – but that is exactly the point of such comparisons! To figure out what the difference is
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by ugh 15y ago
Of course not! Why would you think that? All this says is that devices running Android fail on average more often than iPhones – for whatever reason (regression to the mean, one designer and manufacturer vs many, lower priced devices, and s
507.
by ugh 15y ago
“More examples: Calendar for iPad. (Leatherette buttons? Really?) Notes app. (Marker Felt makes me want to throw up.) Contacts.” That’s aesthetics, not UI design.
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by ugh 15y ago
Versions (the feature that was added to Lion) would be a good fit. (It however doesn’t seem to be used in that way currently.) There is no one correct way of handling conflicts, how to best resolve them depends entirely on context, context
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by ugh 15y ago
That’s mostly true for iCal and Address Book on OS X, not any iOS app. Those are generally well thought out and they usually at least don’t deceive. Yeah, iBooks for the iPad shows pages left and right that never change, no matter how littl
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by ugh 15y ago
I still don’t see why this is not a valid comparison. Sure, hardware is independent from software (more or less) but that doesn’t mean you can’t meaningfully compare the two.

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