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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 harde…

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 f…

> 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 …

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 …

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…

> 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 complete…

> 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 susp…

> 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…

> Steve Jobs had such a way with words. More importantly, his way with words was indicative of a remarkable clarity of thought.

> 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 Retin…

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 bric…

> 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…

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 seem…

> 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 k…

> 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 …

> 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 tireso…

> 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 App…

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.

> 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…

> 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. N…

> 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 t…

>> - 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 spee…

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 p…

> 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 pl…

> 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 i…