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by toadkick 13y ago
I did read the article. Sorry, I conflated pinch-zoom with double-tap zooming. facepalm
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by toadkick 13y ago
How about we instead stop turning off page zooming on mobile sites. The least of my concerns here is the stupid 300ms lag, when it seems like 80% of mobile sites these days don't even allow pinch-zooming anyway. Remember when one of th
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by toadkick 13y ago
Sure, if taste is not at all a factor. But since we're human beings, it is a factor. It's "easy" unless you are someone who is repulsed completely by the taste of most vegetables. There's nothing "easy" ab
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by toadkick 14y ago
I posted a very similar reply to a post a couple of days ago linking to the same article (uh..see EDIT below, this is slightly different article), submitted by the same person, who also happens to be the the author of the story ( http://new
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by toadkick 14y ago
I wish they would/could also include Snow Leopard in this comparison. I lost about 20-30% of my battery life after upgrading to Lion, so the further reduction seems pretty horrible. Guess I'll be waiting a little longer still before upgradi
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by toadkick 14y ago
It's one thing for suppliers to leak info on hardware they are supplying, but I'm sure Apple doesn't give inside information such as pricing strategy to them. It's BS. And the fact that it's coming from Digitimes makes it even more suspect.
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by toadkick 14y ago
It's one thing for suppliers to leak info on hardware they are supplying, but I'm sure Apple doesn't give inside information such as end product pricing to them. It's BS. And the fact that it's coming from Digitimes makes it even more suspe
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So what happened to Sketchshare?(abitofcode.com)
2 points by toadkick 14y ago|0 comments
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by toadkick 14y ago
Yeah, Digitimes is notorious for being completely wrong about Apple's plans. #1 and #2 are fair points, in light of the fact that the iPhone completely cannibalized the iPod market. But, the amazing iPod sales weren't going to continue fore
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by toadkick 14y ago
Well, typically Apple just sells all of the stock of their current Macs when they are about to release a new model. The rumor mill usually kicks into high gear around the time all of the retail and online stores start running low on stock.
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by toadkick 14y ago
I don't think that's competing on price first, I think that's a graceful and inexpensive way to increase market share in a very competitive mobile environment. From everything I've read, it's the $0 with contract 3GS that is accomplishing t
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by toadkick 14y ago
I'd hardly call the 64 GB in the $999 model "massive". I still know a lot of people who won't make the switch to an Air due to the lack of an optical drive, and reducing the already small hard disk capacity would reduce the attractiveness o
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by toadkick 14y ago
I don't buy it, and this article doesn't really make a strong case for it either. If the MB Air is a strong seller (and by all accounts it is), what sense does it make for Apple to drop the price down $200 to "compete" in a segment where it
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by toadkick 14y ago
Mysteriously, AT&T changed their plans very shortly after Apple announced iMessage. Obviously they foresaw a lot of people downgrading their plans so they just did away with the tiered plans completely.
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by toadkick 14y ago
I worked at BB for a year back in the day. I can say that the blue shirt employees were only good for 2 things: attaching overpriced high-margin peripherals/cables to sales, and pushing the extended warranties. Those who were not good at ei
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by toadkick 14y ago
Yeah, I was wondering how they would have let something like this slip through. I figure either a) they weren't aware of the exploit (unlikely, but possible...Draw Something, while fun, is not a very polished game), or b) they know of the e
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by toadkick 14y ago
That's very strange. My girlfriend's iPhone 4 handles it just fine.
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by toadkick 14y ago
Heh, which I find myself doing frequently. Every time I get to the point where there are no "easy" choices for words to draw, I find myself force-quitting the app, relaunching, and playing a round with someone different, and then coming bac
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by toadkick 15y ago
Sounds like on the new iPad the max has further increased to 4096x4096
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by toadkick 15y ago
The max texture size has been 2048x2048 since the 3GS
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by toadkick 15y ago
Agreed. I've had to use factories in Obj-C plenty. I guess the argument that I would make is that they are much easier to implement in Obj-C and require less boilerplate (especially if you use blocks), not that the pattern doesn't exist in
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by toadkick 15y ago
This may be a nitpick, but how can something be "fairly deterministic"? Is it possible for there to be degrees of determinism? I would consider determinism to binary, either something is deterministic, or it is not. If a thing cannot be dem
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by toadkick 15y ago
It'd be nice if the author of the story would point out how Instapaper is different than Business Insider, in that the content it "harvests" is content that the user must first see by going to the actual website where the content exists, an
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by toadkick 15y ago
You mean like how the competition has caught up with the iPad? Oh, wait... edit: Also, they've been selling the iPhone 4 for a long time now, it has sold better than all of the previous models, and it's still selling incredibly well in spit
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by toadkick 15y ago
This old chestnut. First, before I get started on the piracy bit, there are a few things in this article that are cliche and offputting. The minute I saw these things, I was immediately unsurprised about their app's lack of success. "GAMEiz
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by toadkick 15y ago
Indeed. In fact, Gruber has, on several occasions, encouraged readers to go Flash-free, which I'm sure has an impact on the number of his visitors that don't have Flash installed.
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by toadkick 15y ago
They didn't, they licensed the patents from Intellectual Ventures years ago. Lodsys acquired the patents after the fact.
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by toadkick 15y ago
Perhaps, but now Apple has contested that their developers are in fact licensed, and that Lodsys has already received what they claim is due to them. Seems like they've found a way to inject themselves into the battle in a way that should b
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by toadkick 15y ago
Most apps who are able to make anything at all average somewhere around $4000-7000 in sales for the lifetime of their app. I can attest to that firsthand. Even at 70% it is not a viable business model for most (except for the <1% who ar
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by toadkick 15y ago
The smartphone market and the tablet market are two different beasts though. Sure, they both have iOS and Android, but that's where the similarity stops. Android has 3 significant advantages with smartphones that it doesn't have with tablet

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