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by jad 2y ago
Companies can iterate on their products much faster if they're not required to publish all of their functionality as public APIs. Once the APIs have been published, it's much harder for them to be changed. Doing this also puts the
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by jad 11y ago
I think there are a few concrete things going on: * There are many more integration points between their products now. Shipping only the Mac or only the Mac and an iPod or even a first gen iPhone that can only get data into system apps via
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by jad 11y ago
> There's just no way in hell Steve Jobs would be putting up with this Says everyone who disagrees with any decision Apple makes. "Steve would have had the same opinion about this I do!" Statements like this are just you p
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by jad 11y ago
How's that? To search the web, I'd go to DuckDuckGo or Bing or whatever. Other companies also provide web mail, maps, office document solutions, etc. Google's definitely better at those things, but using a worse version of th
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by jad 11y ago
I think there's almost no chance that the percentage of iOS users blocking ads is enough to meaningfully impact Wired's overall revenue from that story. Even given that ad blocking apps have been top sellers, it's still only
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by jad 13y ago
> Probably when the NSA stops illegally spying... Who said what they're doing is illegal? The whole problem is that the entire surveillance regime is completely secret and completely legal.
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by jad 13y ago
> Grabbing a company that's making some of the best living room hardware makes a lot of sense. Samsung doesn't need help building hardware. They need help building software. I suspect that's why they bought Boxee.
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by jad 13y ago
> Elop needs to go now. What an ass clown. It's been a while since we've seen someone with such bad ideas making such horrible decisions, one after another. He reaped what he sowed, and the board can thank him for decimating a
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by jad 13y ago
> Steve Jobs had such a way with words. More importantly, his way with words was indicative of a remarkable clarity of thought.
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by jad 14y ago
> They "did not" stock 8GB models, or SSD models. Not "were out of", but did not. This is a Retina MacBook Pro, not the "traditional" MacBook Pros with the optical drive. All Retina MacBook Pros have SSDs, so I'm not sure what models yo
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by jad 14y ago
I had the same problem with a rMBP. Apple replaced mine at the Apple Store even though I couldn't show them the problem while I was there. They even gave me the extra charging brick that came in the new machine's box. I have a friend with a
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by jad 14y ago
> What to say? The fact that such a public letter had to be issued means that there's a lot of push-back. Apple just doesn't do that. In fact, I don't remember any software company doing this. I could be wrong. This feels unprecedented.
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by jad 14y ago
The concluding paragraph: "It’s also worth noting that despite a slight decrease in satisfaction vs. iOS 5, generally, satisfaction is still very high overall, and Apple still seems to have a significant lead on Android devices, according t
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by jad 14y ago
> Jobs would have clearly done things differently. What's almost as tiresome as the now persistent refrain of "this wouldn't have happened if Steve was still alive" are claims to know what Steve would have actually done if he were still
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by jad 14y ago
> The negative PR and reduction in the quality of the core experience might cause a reduction in sales or consumer opinion of Apple. Could be. Remember though that they also added at least one notable feature (turn-by-turn), so it's mor
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by jad 14y ago
> It seems like the quality level maintained by Steve Jobs is quickly deteriorating in favour of business moves designed to wrest more control off Google. This stuff gets so tiresome. Apple has been buying maps companies for years . St
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by jad 14y ago
> it seems like the product is intentionally kept away from more critical reviewers. Macworld didn't get one either, and they're not exactly known for their critical reviews of Apple products: https://twitter.com/jsnell/status/24823349
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by jad 14y ago
Right. I was saying that in the PC industry, it was the Windows monopoly that commoditized PC hardware. I wasn't saying that every monopoly necessarily leads to commoditization.
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by jad 14y ago
> To play devil's advocate, how much innovation is needed for toothpaste? Having the market structured such that innovation is rewarded might not be important in toothpaste, but it's really important in technology. Commoditization can k
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by jad 14y ago
> If the app wishes to not show ads or to use twitter for more of an "infrastructure-like" purpose, then there should be some kind of use-fee-based pricing model on the API side. No need for this complexity. They could just revoke API a
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by jad 14y ago
> Maybe Tim wants to change Apple's core identity. The Wall Street Journal has its own article on this[1], and it reports that "Apple Inc. held discussions with Twitter Inc. more than a year ago about taking a strategic investment in th
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by jad 14y ago
>> - Objective-C Is Tedious > > Matter of opinion. One person's tedium is another being explicit and reaping the > benefits during refactoring, code completion and compilation speed. This is not a matter of
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by jad 14y ago
Let me paraphrase: "I bemoan the rise of Internet tollbooths and gatekeepers, such as the ones put up by Facebook and Apple. By the way, please build native apps for Android, and please use Google+ to connect with your friends and family."
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by jad 14y ago
> The phone market is indeed significantly warped by subsidies from the carriers. If carrier subsidies didn't exist (if people didn't fall for it being subsumed into the cost of plans) the iPhone market would never have taken off. The p
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by jad 14y ago
> I believe it's only a matter of time before tablets become commoditized like the smartphone market is doing right now. Why wouldn't tablets be more like, say, the iPod than the iPhone? The phone market is significantly warped by carri
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by jad 15y ago
> Lastly, never underestimate Microsoft (Tim Cook certainly isn't). "I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple." - Tim Cook as quoted in the Wall Street Journal ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240529702
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by jad 15y ago
The reason is because they view it as a consumer electronics device. How much RAM is in your DVD player?
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by jad 15y ago
> I also wonder how many of these startups have been killed. I have to think that keeping things secret means that the execs can halt projects without reporting this to investors. The advantages Apple's secrecy provides can't really be
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by jad 15y ago
> you would think they would market that ability more Maybe Amazon thinks that if it is obvious, no one will pay up front to have ads removed, and getting more money at the time of purchase is more valuable than future ad revenue.
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by jad 15y ago
> Which will likely pass. Pass the House of Representatives. Then a similar bill has to pass in the Senate, which, because of filibuster rules, now effectively requires 60 votes to pass anything significant rather than a simple majority

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