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Come on. Big Brother? Really? And do you honestly believe that it is a bad thing that ordinary, unsavvy with computers users will not immediately be able to install applications fr…

Yes, I have. And I can confidently say that Mac OS X, even today after a decade of evolution and sweeping changes, is clearly a direct descendant of NeXTStep and has little in comm…

I disagree that Apple's goal was lock-in. If it was, they'd probably make the interactive textbooks iOS applications, similar to what PushPopPress did, instead of this bastardized …

I believe it was "Amazon Fire's Silk is actually slower than most other tablets in realworld[sic]".

Which is compltely idiotic business model for Netflix. They can sell their original content directly to me. Unlike traditional TV content producers, they don't have to rely on (and…

Lack of empathy is the definition of psychopathy. A psychopath will look at someone ran over on the street and think "too bad it ruined that nice jacket" or something similarly dis…

And tablets… and portable music players… and small and light laptops… and… The sentence you quote does look outright ridiculous when said about Apple.

Three years? Make that five. And every additional year makes your point even more relevant — I can understand, even if it is just subconsciously, that one cannot fit all the things…

"Let's be clear: Apple changed its delivery pattern for iPhone. It's a delay, and a big one.” Followed by absolutely no evidence supporting the statement. Yep, this is not link-bai…

The question is how many people will buy a PlayBook now on the off chance they’ll get a rebate at some future point. Not that many I reckon.

It is way too early to proclaim that history is repeating itself. 20 years ago Apple were a rudderless ship. Today they are on of the most efficiently operating computer companies …

The important thing is not whether Apple should or shouldn't have won, but that they did. A court of law, as biased as it may be, has concluded that Apple’s complaint has merit. An…

I still don't understand how a bunch of stored-to-file object graphs "dirty the code base" but I guess you are right -- it is a preference thing. Believe me, I have weirder quirks …

Would you care to qualify that. In my experience it has been the exact opposite -- setting up your UI in Interface Builder has always reduced the amount of code necessary and has a…

I'll believe that Google wants patent reform when I actually see them lobbying for it. For now it's all wishful thinking. Any and all legal expenses and patent royalties in "the sh…

Sure, it is. But Push Pop got a ton of publicity partly because of Al Gore and partly because of Mike's passionate Ted talk, so I presume they would have been able to get more than…

I'm definitely in the K&R camp. I keep alternating between 1TBS and Compact Control Readability, depending on the preferences of the other members of the team working on that parti…

How much do musicians get paid for Spotify streaming? Well, this much: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...

"Offline streaming", right. You can synch only music you have bought from Spotify. It does not work with the "all you can eat" subscription. So it is very much not an obsolete comp…

No, by that logic it means that since yesterday Adobe have tested Flash on at least one machine running Lion, on which GPU accelerated decoding worked and they realized their accus…

Yeah, I should stop hanging around iOS developers - I'm loosing sense of what is under NDA and what's not. :)

It is actually much more than probable that Apple will require Mac App Store apps to be sandboxed, it is certain — Apple have notified developers that come Fall (I can't remember t…