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I've been meaning to ask for a long time. Are you this http://www.mikeash.com Mike Ash?
The very same. I hesitate to ask, but, is that good or bad? :)
Thank you for the time and effort put into NSBlog. It's awesome. Had no idea you write for Android now. Will there ever be an NSBlog equivalent for Android?
"With Android (and T-Mobile) I killed my contract. Now I pay just $30/month. For $30/month I have unlimited texts, unlimited data, free tethering, and 100 minutes of talk" Anyone else have experience doing this? My monthly bill for an iPhone with AT&T is $76.40 which includes 300MB of data, 1000 messages, and a whopping 450 minutes (I do have ~2700 rollover minutes though). I don't feel strongly about Android vs iPho…
More recently, I switched to Straight Talk. $45/mo (plus tax), unlimited everything (warning unofficial 2GB data cap). They are an AT&T MVNO, so you get the same network at a reduced cost. Now when I leave the city, I still have coverage, and it's usually very good anywhere I go. The only catch is that you don't get 4G coverage, which if you're on an iPhone, doesn't matter.
Of note, if you are on an iPhone, it will still activate on Straight Talk without any hassle. Setting the proper carrier settings for data and sms is another story though, and requires either jailbreaking or doing a swap trick with a Tmo SIM (you can get a pre-paid SIM for $4 though).
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> And some of the android phones (like the flagship nexus 4) don't support transfer via USB? What? I have the Nexus 4 here and I'm 99% sure I transfered files over USB in the 1h before I installed a custom ROM. Additionally I've never heard that complaint before.
The android file transfer app does not work with the Nexus 4. At least, it doesn't if you're on Mountain Lion. Same goes for doubletwist. The Nexus 4 only supports USB MTP mode, not USB MSC (mass storage) mode. I think other newer phones are this way too.
rsync -rv ~/Music phone_ip:/
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Choice is great, my argument wasn't that choice is bad because that's silly. My argument was saying that a feature that a lot of people have no use for is a really big negative against a platform is an incredibly bad point. It's a feature that has inherent personal usefulness for the user, if there's a strong majority that don't have need of that then it's not a negative against a platform when it's functionality for…
But the iPhone isn't just lacking in one or two options. It's a very locked down platform in several ways. I have a hard time applying your argument of "a lot of people have no use" when it comes to something as fundamental as being allowed to run an app or browser that Apple does not like.
It's Apple's party, and they'll approve if they want to. They just don't, because they don't think it's what the majority of their customer base wants.
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Siri isn't about voice search. It's about voice-initiated tasks. Sometimes that's search, but sometimes it's a reminder, or a calendar appointment, etc. The innovation is in that distinction and in the context awareness. [1] And that truly is innovation. Regardless of where it came from. If/As Siri is expanded, it's going to become a Big Deal. And Google's going to deliver something similar. Something beyond literal…
Google search is also about voice-initiated tasks. Back in late 2010 /early 2011, when voice search was launched, I pulled out my phone and said "Navigate to ." It automatically pulled my friend's address out of my contact book and started turn-by-turn navigation. Obviously there are things about Siri that are different and better suited to certain tasks. I'm not saying Google search is better, I'm not even saying Go…
That's like claiming Wolfram Alpha isn't distinct from Google, because Google will occasionally hazard a guess at a canonical answer (if you formulate your search query precisely correctly).
Sure, Google does attempt such things some times. And it's genuinely useful if you know the syntax to make it happen more-often-than-not. But that remains qualitatively different from what Siri (and Wolfram Alpha) are doing.
> "Siri is a bad example of something ground-breaking that Apple created."
Only when you beg the question of whether it makes objective sense to try to parse out the parentage of technology as some qualifying factor.
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Which everyone wants of course. Except me. Or my girlfriend. Or my parents. Or my sister. Or in fact, everyone I know with one. A feature that you think is critical is a feature that is critical for you . The refrain that iOS suffers from a lack of file exploration or drag and drop of any kind of content is based around the assumption that everyone wants that. Most people don't.
Well let's broaden this, there is no concept of files on the iPhone, and yes, you DO need them. Example: try attaching an excel sheet you received from a friend to another email. Example: the powerful Android "share" mechanism --the sole reason I have several iPads but switched to Android for real work (ie on my phone). Share is not limited to a bunch of "friend-aware" apps, but every app can register themselves as a…
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Wow. I may have misread your initial diatribe, but the inference was that you don't use it often. But hey, being rude is the best way to correct me.
> So why do you feel qualified to comment? How dare you try to call someone out for being rude when your first comment to them was that .
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> And some of the android phones (like the flagship nexus 4) don't support transfer via USB? What? I have the Nexus 4 here and I'm 99% sure I transfered files over USB in the 1h before I installed a custom ROM. Additionally I've never heard that complaint before.
The android file transfer app does not work with the Nexus 4. At least, it doesn't if you're on Mountain Lion. Same goes for doubletwist. The Nexus 4 only supports USB MTP mode, not USB MSC (mass storage) mode. I think other newer phones are this way too.
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> So why do you feel qualified to comment? How dare you try to call someone out for being rude when your first comment to them was that .
How dare I? Who are you!? My question was a legitimate one, I was being serious, not fucking fatuous like the OP . As I explained, the post came across to me as if the OP didn't have much day to day experience using Xcode, hence the question. The OP initial comment was aggressive to begin with! How dare I? Wow.
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.[1]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_Simon [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Google should just buy Swiftkey. It's pretty great, and I love its Flow (Swype-like) feature, too.
Just buy Swype! :-)