What happens when it's all glass? • Hacker News Board

Re: What happens when it's all glass?

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Post by gamble » Thu, Sep 30, 2010, 5:26 AM UTC

ynniv wrote: post #47

The iPad can play HD video for an estimated 10 hours. That has nothing to do with the glassy interface, but I would still call it great hardware design.

Absolutely. I don't think many people appreciate just how dedicated Apple is to excellent power management. The iPad is a dramatic example, but Apple has excellent power management across its product lines. Macs have had near-perfect power management for years, whereas PCs still struggle to get it right. This is one area where controlling software and hardware is a huge win.

Re: What happens when it's all glass?

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Post by loewenskind » Thu, Sep 30, 2010, 7:16 AM UTC

jasonlotito wrote: post #88

loewenskind wrote: post #86

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Fair enough. Sounds like we have very different usage patterns. But I absolutely agree about Linux. I've always thought it had the worst desktop of the "big 3" but I love how one manages packages on e.g. Debian or Ubuntu. I agree that it's way on in front on that. The comparison of the App store and Linux package management (for most distros anyway) is very interesting. Online people groan endlessly about the App sto…

Doesn't stop people from groaning about Debian's package management. =) I've always said I know the Linux, Windows, and OSX well enough to hate them all for specific reasons. =) And, I know I'm fairly picky, probably too much. But I'm only that way because I care enough.

A little, but nothing like what people groan about the App store.

I'm the same about the "big 3" OSes. And it's good to remain picky. "The world only moves forward due to the unreasonable" and all that.

Re: What happens when it's all glass?

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Post by loewenskind » Thu, Sep 30, 2010, 7:17 AM UTC

elai wrote: post #90

loewenskind wrote: post #77

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The way you organize photos in iPhoto is the best thing about it. Why would the creators of gmail (i.e. they understand the power of tagging) go with a "simple directory method of organization"?

It's not stuck in some opaque iphoto library directory blob, and is significantly more portable (like the plain text of photography). Tagging and all the can be done with a separate library information file, and to be honest, I only organize by import events separated by dates. I don't do much else.

>I only organize by import events separated by dates.

That's what iPhoto does by default as well.