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Re:Rhapsody passes on Apple's "economically untenable" sub plans on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @03:18PM (#2228076)
This would make a nice video campaign for Pandora. Various different types of people saying "It's all my music." with references to the music they love.
Re:How Steve Jobs 'out-Japanned' Japan or out-Sony'ed Sony on Friday January 28, 2011 @08:36PM (#2154290)
"Our manufacturing technology has to equal or surpass that of Japan."

Good thing China's manufacturing technology is equal to or better than of Japan's!

Re:Pixelmator goes exclusive to Mac App Store on Friday January 07, 2011 @01:25PM (#2080476)
Another reason for being exclusive in the Mac App Store: Getting to the top of the Top Paid/Top Grossing lists which help more customers discover them and provide social proof the app is worth buying. By not having other ways of buying this app, it concentrates the buyers through the Mac App Store which helps their ranking.
Re:Mac App Store: Open for Business on Thursday January 06, 2011 @01:38PM (#2076533)
The app store significantly reduces the friction needed to discover and install apps. In the first 10 minutes of using it, I discovered 3 useful apps and installed them all without loading a disk image, installing it, dragging the mounted disk image to the trash, then deleting the disk image file.

This morning's productivity is probably blown...

Re:There isn't really much of a tablet market on Friday December 31, 2010 @08:24PM (#2056984)
I know many more people who have Kindles or iPads and nobody who own a Nook or a Tab... I live in the SF Bay Area but still, it's an oddly different market where you are... where are you?
Re:Adobe Posts Its First Billion-Dollar Quarter on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @01:59PM (#2032097)
CS4 was widely panned and coupled with the poor economy, many companies skipped it. Adobe took a loss this quarter last year. The article doesn't state it but many CS3 owners have upgraded to CS5 because of the improving economy, some new features and not wanting to be too far behind software revisions.
Re:Daring Fireball: Apple's Pricing Advantage on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @11:10PM (#1889121)
The Android vs. iOS marketshare race is one in which iOS is hobbled because of iOS's exclusivity. When the iPhone 4 hits Verizon next year, $199 Android phones will take a massive hit in demand and they will quickly be dropped in price to spur demand.

Apple has dropped it's prices to compete before. It'll be really interesting if Apple drops the price of the iPhone below the top of the line Android phones.

Re:Ask HN: Tips for writing compelling web copy. on Friday October 15, 2010 @02:07PM (#1795549)
Amazon has a kindle version for 99 cents. I downloaded the sample chapter to my Kindle for Mac.

http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Advertising-ebook/dp/B003Z4...

Re:Ask HN: Why is there no 'like' button on Twitter? on Friday October 15, 2010 @01:54PM (#1795507)
Facebook has said that they don't want to put in features that would discourage participation. If someone updates their status and lots of people "dislike" it, they might not want to update their status next time.

For HN, I'd like to see a "track it" button - I don't want to upvote a lame article but often the HN community has a lot of interesting things to say so I'd like to keep track of those article's conversations.

Re:Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @08:38PM (#1670648)
Try some Yerba Mate. Tea is made from the roots of that plant and has enough caffeine to give you a nice kick when you need it.
Re:Whitman's biggest goof could be Jobs's next coup on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @02:34PM (#1592497)
As a Skype user, if Apple made iChat video for windows and connected it to facetime users, it would make iChat really compelling.
Yes, we need to pay attention to our international users. Unicode is too much fun to ignore. :-)
Thanks! We'd love to hear about any ideas to make it more relevant.
We sort the tweets you'd normally get by relevance rather than chronologically so if you are actively looking at every tweet already then you'd have already seen the tweets we recommend.

It's more useful if you follow a lot of people and don't have time to read every single one.

Sure, try this out:

http://keytweet.com/celebrity/categories/ Let's you see top tweets for other people. We've got one for "The top tweeters from hacker news"

Thanks for the suggestions, we'll definitely have more people review the copy.

And you're right, people who don't follow very many people don't need this app and people who are on all day long don't need this app. But we suspect there are many people who do need it.

KeyTweet's blog is on Posterous which had a DoS attack.
Re:What Do You Lack? Probably Vitamin D on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @12:03PM (#1551649)
Season and location are factors too.

In the winter in the SF bay area, it's very unlikely your skin can make enough vitamin D.

After one winter here, I my D levels were at 20 ng/ml -- way below what many believe is the sufficient level of 30 ng/ml.

Re:WWDC10 videos are here and are available free. on Thursday June 17, 2010 @07:55PM (#1440836)
It's behind a registration wall. Why isn't there an iTube?
Is there actually a benefit from doing this for Mahalo? Wouldn't google just recognize that their content is duped all over the place?
Re:Is Windows 7 finally halting the Mac migration? on Sunday April 25, 2010 @05:12AM (#1292446)
Core i5 and i7 windows laptops were available for 6 months before similarly equipped mac laptops. It kept me from buying a MacBook Pro when it seemed like I'd be paying a premium for old chips.
Apple had problems in the 90s because Windows became similar enough to the Mac OS that people who once preferred the Mac no longer thought it was worth the price premium. Sales fell and developers "defected" to Windows.
Re:Why Apple did what they did on Saturday April 10, 2010 @01:17PM (#1255344)
Flash could have made it easy to target iPhone and Android with very similar code bases.

Now, developing for one, doesn't making porting to the other so simple.

It forces small developers to ask: bigger market or open market?

blasdel, would you reading Mac OS X Internals if Apple wasn't Unix?

Smart Geeks intelligently exploring and debating things like this is a win for any OS.

Re:Addressing The Outmoded Swapping And Paging Strategy in OSX on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @07:06PM (#1248666)
This article is an example of why Apple was smart for going Unix. It attracts really smart geeks that can help shed light on performance issues in a way normal consumers just can't.
Re:Walt Mossberg's Apple iPad Review on Thursday April 01, 2010 @03:27PM (#1235200)
Walt's iPad review video is in Flash. Slightly ironic but the bigger question is what is Apple doing about so much video content being in Flash? It's an issue for many.

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