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by ugh 15y ago
I’m not really sure whether that’s Apple’s goal in the first place. Realistically the vast majority of people is not going to buy a new phone every year. Apple is not selling the iPhone to a handful crazy devotees, those are (at least by no
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by ugh 15y ago
It’s perfectly alright to believe that they assembled this in the last minute. It’s a bit naive to believe that they created all the content in the last minute. (Some of the content, however, most certainly had to be created in the last
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by ugh 15y ago
Exactly. There is nothing that would stop us from making smartphones water resistant and shock resistant and sowing them into clothes. It’s not that we don’t do it because it’s impossible, we don’t do it because it’s a stupid idea.
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by ugh 15y ago
Huh? Seems pretty clear from that that smartphones are obviously wearable computers.
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by ugh 15y ago
What do you mean? Smartphones are obviously wearable computers and they already exist.
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by ugh 15y ago
And they needed an analyst to find that out? I thought Apple was quite clear about that in their presentation, there was no way any alert listener could have missed that. Siri has the potential to be awesome because of that if it works well
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by ugh 15y ago
And crazy conspiracy theories!
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by ugh 15y ago
Meh. As if that matters. It’s not really a common use case and I don’t see it becoming one. Flash will die and then rot in its niche.
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by ugh 15y ago
Morals? I think I have been talking squarely about effective communication, not morals.
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by ugh 15y ago
Certainly. Quite often actually. Especially during the last years it were, for example, often the leading engineers themselves who demoed their software. In his public appearances I followed (all post-2000) I never ever had the feeling that
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by ugh 15y ago
My argument doesn’t require me to lead by example. I’m some random commenter. And since you understood me perfectly well there doesn’t seem to be a problem in this specific case.
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by ugh 15y ago
I think I’m justified in saying that someone is clueless about communication if that person honestly believes that a statement by a very public spokesperson in any public place – no matter how obscure – will or should remain obscure. That’s
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by ugh 15y ago
I have nothing whatsoever on rms’ hacking.
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by ugh 15y ago
This is a serious question, no sarcasm: What would not have been a marginal update? I’m not quite sure myself. The iPhone 4 was clearly a major update compared to the iPhone 3GS: On the outside the design and materials improved. The resolut
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by ugh 15y ago
Hey, you seem to be as clueless about communication as he is.
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by ugh 15y ago
Adobe (for example) offers automatic kerning. It’s great most of the time but not all of the time.
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by ugh 15y ago
Stallman is not some random blogger.
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by ugh 15y ago
OS X != iOS Simple as that.
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by ugh 15y ago
What matters is not confusing customers. I think thought patterns like yours might be responsible for all those cryptic product names we are faced with all the time ;-)
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by ugh 15y ago
Meh. Apple has at various times failed to control expectations (iPad, MacBook Air). It’s a failure, sure, but I wouldn’t read too much into it. In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter all that much. (I think Gruber predicted an unch
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by ugh 15y ago
Let me break it down further: There was the original iPhone sans number. Then there was the second iPhone described by the standards it supported (“3G”) and a faster version of said iPhone with an added “S”. Imagine an alternate timeline wh
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by ugh 15y ago
That’s logical if you insist on looking at it that way but it would be utterly stupid to actually do. It would confuse people. I don’t know what the next iPhone will be called but I’m willing to bet that it won’t be “iPhone 6”.
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by ugh 15y ago
Great fun! I also like that you can submit your own version if you think it’s better. It’s a nice touch that visibly acknowledges the subjectiveness of the game.
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by ugh 15y ago
I could by clicking somewhere else on the page.
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by ugh 15y ago
He could communicate even more effectively if he wanted to. It’s not necessary to violate norms all the time. That’s all I’m saying.
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by ugh 15y ago
Terrible for some people. I have no problem at all reading long texts on the iPad. It’s an ok compromise for me.
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by ugh 15y ago
Hm, I don’t know, Marco seems to agree with you, doesn’t he? Ads make the Kindle look cheap but he doesn’t actually seem to think that’s a problem. The Kindle is cheap and he likes it that way.
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by ugh 15y ago
I’m not so much talking about content but about delivery and style.
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by ugh 15y ago
Not according to their own website they are not: http://www.fsf.org/ First bullet point.
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by ugh 15y ago
What?! I think Stallman has always been pretty clear about what he wants. It’s not clarity that he lacks as a spokesperson.

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