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Horace Dediu: The Dawn of Gestural Computing(asymco.com)
1 points by pixxa 1d ago|0 comments
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If you ever mention AI again, I'll [redacted](ludic.mataroa.blog)
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by pixxa 6mo ago
Apple's AI Strategy: Let Rivals Spend .6T in Data Centers. The "back end" vendors (Google, Microsoft, Amazon AWS, Facebook) don't have much of a choice than to jump in head first, to compete with likes of OpenAI and Anth
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by pixxa 2y ago
This is true (about Twitter.) Apple falls very far from that tree. Lots of money is being transferred to developers even today. It's just hard to see because so much is getting sloshed around.
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Developer as an Investor(apple.wwic.live)
6 points by pixxa 2y ago|3 comments
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by pixxa 2y ago
Developers on Apple's platforms pour their careers and lives into building apps that predominately depend on Apple. This is a very large commitment, yet most developers tend to have a scant understanding of Apple's business model
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Diet of Worms(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pixxa 7y ago|0 comments
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Apple Watch Myths(linkedin.com)
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The Desktop Computer – Horace Dediu Reviews iPad Pro(youtube.com)
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by pixxa 11y ago
"Best stuff" depends on who "we" are... Here are some other users who may feel they are getting the "best stuff": Compiler designers, programming language researchers, or even CS students the Swift core is a fo
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by pixxa 11y ago
It's in Apple's advantage for server-side Swift to take off, and do so quickly and robustly. It also makes little sense (nor is in character) for Apple to agree to open source Swift and not take a leadership role in the effort. On
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MondayNote: The Apple Game: New Categories vs. Ecosystems(mondaynote.com)
1 points by pixxa 13y ago|0 comments
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Who funded Silicon Valley? [video](airshow.asymco.com)
1 points by pixxa 13y ago|0 comments
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by pixxa 13y ago
Speculation of course is that this is the foreshadowing the arrival of Kindle Phone. A more intriguing possibility is that Amazon is setting stage for its next move in Platform Wars. Between his gigs at Microsoft & Amazon, Kindel was an
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Amazon hires Charlie Kindel, ex-Windows Phone exec(geekwire.com)
1 points by pixxa 13y ago|1 comments
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by pixxa 14y ago
The referenced Heer & Robertson paper discusses chained animated transitions that take you from one type of visualization to another in a way that explains the relationship between the two visualizations. The usefulness of chained trans
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by pixxa 14y ago
...And Urs Hoelzle worked on the implementation of Self programming language when he was a PhD student at Stanford. Self was the result of a drastic simplification of Smalltalk. Applying Occam's Razor, Self used the prototype concept as the
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by pixxa 14y ago
> This is leaps and bounds better than Apple Maps and even the original maps client on iOS that used Google Maps. Thus Apple has achieved its goal of upgrading the map experience on iOS!
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by pixxa 14y ago
Taking the blame sure beats blaming others (see tragic case of Philip Greenspun's ArsDigita http://rura.org/blog/category/businesscompaniesarsdigita/ ) Having said that, and realizing this is a motivational piece "It's my fault" is a com
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by pixxa 14y ago
1) Hard to use for mere mortal users (QA, testers, normal users posting issue for an App, etc. 2) If uploaded to another site, the images are under a different protection domain (for protected repositories.)
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by pixxa 14y ago
Horace Dediu of Asymco has produced a much better graphic and analysis to go along with it: http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-person...
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by pixxa 14y ago
My wish came true in less than one day! Check it out https://github.com/blog/1347-issue-attachments
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by pixxa 14y ago
The #1 missing feature in github for our team is that we can't attach files directly from Issues Web UI. Usually we need this for screenshots, but sometimes data files, logs and other artifacts. Workarounds are aplenty but all painful and p
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Wintel: Le Divorce Part II(mondaynote.com)
1 points by pixxa 14y ago|0 comments
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by pixxa 14y ago
Jacob Nielsen details many of the usability issues of Metro design, see Flat Style Reduces Discoverability in http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html . At the highest level, Metro design feels like a case of design overgeneralization
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by pixxa 14y ago
Most Desktop web browsers provide quite many affordances for links, and do so automatically upon hover: change cursor, underline, pop up link description, show URL in status area. Touch UIs can't have these "introspective" affordances becau
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by pixxa 14y ago
To get a sense of clarity of his vision, read Jobs's 1985 Playboy Interview where he predicts the future before setting out to spend the rest of his life to invent it. http://www.txtpost.com/playboy-interview-steven-jobs/ RIP Steve Jobs
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by pixxa 14y ago
Has there ever been another story (besides Jobs's death) that took over the front page of HN?