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I forget the term for it, but it's exactly like Terms and Conditions. Always expect the user to solve any puzzle put to them using the least amount of energy/effort. It's quite hon…

I wound up nearly writing a book in response to this so I'll try to sum it up. I agree with most of what you've said in this thread, but... > Why have a centralized legal roadblock…

Precisely. These are all very good examples of what to be careful of in designing any transformations or transitions. There are however, lots of incredibly useful and well designed…

I'm pretty sure we've already seen cases that prove that it doesn't, perhaps not enough to write a blog post about, but they are definitely out there (iOS 7's dramatic increase in …

Which part? Andreessen taking his anger out on Snowden or the NSA's tampering? To the latter, yes, yes I do. If for no other reason than the consequences of such tampering are obvi…

I was really excited to try this out, but then I hit the requirement to provide contact information just to download the library. This is, for good or bad, always off putting to me…

Personally, I think this sentiment cheapens his decision and makes less of what he's really done here. I think what he's done is pretty heroic, at least in modern terms, and someth…

There are quite literally thousands of documents that disagree with you on that, especially when it comes to physical addiction. Your response demonstrates a misunderstanding as to…

Addiction by itself is absolutely not a choice. Whatever it is that someone tried or was coerced to try that eventually resulted in that addiction may or may not have been a choice…

zimbatm's link to http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:generators was helpful here. https://wiki.python.org/moin/Generators seems to also have some useful background on w…

As someone who is grateful for your research and analysis, thank you, but filing a bug report is going to be WAY more effective, at least for iOS. https://bugreport.apple.com/ will…

I think you underestimate the impact these particular reviews are having for some, even if it's a minority. Apple has as much incentive here as they have with any customer complain…

I don't have numbers or sources to back it up, but in my experience at least, people who were satisfied with an entry-level model didn't keep track of newer models and weren't inte…

Apple is most definitely shy of squeezing the bucks out of customers and they've proven that they have been willing to go to bat for customers to get a reasonable price. Not the lo…

I'm getting really tired of seeing snarky comments like this show up in EVERY single post about Apple doing anything regardless of wether it was "good" or "bad". I'm also getting t…

It's certainly "fancy", but... as someone who has been forced to go down this road more than a few times for desktop and mobile platforms please do NOT encourage this. The level of…

1) In some ways they already do this by collating anonymized crowdsourced data (ex. the overblown debacle over the location cache and the subsequent discovery that they were crowds…

First, I find these pre-teardown estimates and price guestimates to be completely misleading and uninformative. It's foolish to base any opinion on a guess using information that h…

I get the impression that a lot of the anti-Apple camp get the same sense about people who "support" the decision, and I use that term loosely. I'd like to offer the following: App…

My apologies for singling you out with this, but many people seem to be jumping on this bandwagon all too much and I've about lost my patience with it. This isn't something that Ap…

Yep. But for people like my grandma and parents it was absolutely true. My apologies that I have nothing to cite but my own experience and analysis, but closed ecosystems are a tem…

I really love this approach, and I hope that my fear of the outcome of this is an irrational one. By not qualifying the offer to "just this once"/whatever I fear they may inspire m…

I really love this approach, and I hope that my fear of the outcome of this is an irrational one. By not qualifying the offer to "just this once"/whatever I fear they may inspire m…

Precisely. iTunes has grown to be many things, but Apple isn't going to sit on it's hands and do nothing to address emerging trends. They have stubbornly rejected the subscription …