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How can you define what is a "good experience" for other users? What is a "good experience" for you might not be for someone else, e.g., someone who knows how to program, someone w…

Did anyone say it was interesting? Maybe they are just trying to draw traffic. Use whatever sort of headlines traditionally work best for that. This particular one: "blah, blah, bl…

Unbelievable. I've seen people struggling with Macs based on this sort of thing. The only Mac I own is pre-OSX, from the the good ole days. I'm aware the hoop jumping has worsened,…

One word: choice. Starbucks has forced other coffee shops (assuming there were any- in many cities they wasn't anything comparable to Starbucks in recent times) out of the picture.…

I laughed at this. You are so right. I am a recovering DAW user, i.e. knob twiddler. Manipulating spacial environments (acoustics, not knobs) is, to me, the true "art" and the most…

"It's no different than Amazon's one-click." Right. But Amazon was wise. They could have seized major portions of the software patent landscape early on, they thought about going d…

Yes, I know that. Samsung is one company among many. For example, in the first iPods (which kicked off this insane run Apple is having), they relied on Toshiba for the drives. I al…

You're right about one thing: evaluation of audio qualities is incredibly subjective. In a word, it comes down to "preferences". If I really want to "hear things I've never heard b…

Beautiful. For Apple, it's all about controlling the minds of consumers. And controlling their access to information about the devices. For Samsung, it's less about that and more a…

11.) Governments who sell IPR won because more and more everyone thinks the path to success in IT must go through IP registration (of junk software patents in bulk) and (kangaroo c…

That's funny. For me it had the opposite effect. Obviously he has a conscience, for anyone with an intellect who is not the least bit offended by Zynga-ism is, arguably, lacking in…

Well, you must admit the average age of persons using Facebook in the span of a few years went from university age to something like mid-30's or 40's. It's just not "cool" anymore.…

This is a consumer. Do the opinions of consumers matter? All that matters to Apple is sales. Do they care what consumers say about them on the web? Silence the nonbelievers! Consum…

In the 1990's it was copyright. Now its patent. What next? All Apple does is whine. Even when they are winning. Their internal memo/public statement goes so far as to say "it's not…

Exactly. Specs/price is one thing. Dell was a clear winner in that department. But when something like a hinge breaks, or a fan starts wailing, or some other structural part of the…

"Do you want to be a sharecropper?" Beautifully put. Look at this way. Apple is not the first and last company to make a device that will function as a "phone". Or as an MP3 player…

I can "sandbox" code using the shell far easier than I can control what a "modern browser" can do. Because I know the shell and my OS better than I know a "modern browser". "People…

So distribute it some other way. If it's a great app and lots of people have a use for it, they will find a way to get it. You have the greatest distribution channel known to man a…

And today it's Javascript. Same problem. Running someone else's code without reading it first. Why? Because people want to see a "doodle" or some other silly graphic. Truthfully, i…

Who cares?! You bought the device. It's yours not Apple's.

Yep. I never use the laptop's keyboard. Always use a USB keyboard and have never had any problems (e.g. drivers). Doing real typing on a tiny little laptop keyboard is for masochis…

Amen. This is why I'll never buy another inexpensive Dell laptop. Stupid things like hinges or fans will fail and the way these laptops are contructed, it's more trouble than it's …