Have any of you people done a single important thing today, or is arguing about what some guy on the internet said about [corporation] so vital that you couldn't ignore the Call to Troll?
Google Blindness
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#92We're currently in the stage of the Internet where we can choose our feudal masters[1]. Want Google? Fine. Prefer Apple. No problem. Microsoft? Why not. For me, the issue is that people are becoming more entrenched as time progresses. The cost of preparing to switch can be relatively low - pay $8/year for your own domain and it's possible to keep using the same systems you choose today. Yet if the technological elite…
>The cost of preparing to switch can be relatively low - pay $8/year for your own domain and it's possible to keep using the same systems you choose today. Domains are not the only thing you need to take into account. There is hosting, deployment, and keeping things up to date and secure. Take email for example. Google no longer offer free Google Apps accounts, so you have to spend at least $50/year for a single user…
What are my rights if I have a Digital Ocean box and they decide I suck (the same way Apple or Google might)?
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#93It doesn't seem very hard to believe that someone uses an iPhone but doesn't use iTunes to manage music. iTunes is next to useless if your music doesn't fit on your device. A service (such as Google Play Music All Access [worst product name ever]) makes more sense if you're always connected.
Apple has had iTunes Match since 2011 for music that doesn't fit on your device.
Sure, for a fee. Google Music is free for the first bazillion bytes (20k songs or something).
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#94Keep in mind that many iOS users are as tied to the Google ecosystem. My email, calendar, and contacts are all Google-synced. Most decent calendar apps tend to use Google as well; ditto for mail apps like Mailbox. Many of the Google apps (like Maps) make it too easy to login, which the features it adds.
Apple's policy of only supporting iOS definitely makes Google's popularity on iOS interesting. If the APIs open up a bit more it will be even more interesting--I would love to be able and never see Safari again.
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#95I usually disagree with marco posts here and i'm 99% sure he get's paid by apple :) but this point is pertinent and i'm looking for alternatives for gmail and maps and voice and failing.
How do we know you're not being paid by Google or Microsoft? I guess they might cut you off for that comment.
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#96In summary: Some unknown guy wants to be the Marco Arment of the Android world; He writes a highly polarized blog post and Marco falls for it and validates him.
Paul Stamatiou and Marco Arment are now the leading representatives in the Android vs iOS fanboi war. Congratulations to both.
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#97Marco's article is so poorly-written, so poorly thought-out, I don't know where to begin. It's really more an article about hating Google as a whole. Google blindness? Or blind hatred for Apple's competitors? Some gems, though: I think it’s unwise to use many proprietary, hard-to-replace services in such important roles, and I think it’s downright foolish to tie that much of your data and functionality into proprieta…
A long time ago back in the 3GS days I was a happy iPhone user, who happened to like podcasts. There were several very nice podcast apps which I liked since they would download everything I wanted to listen to over the night and I could listen to them on my walk to work without having to boot up Windows and sync via iTunes. Then one day after an update all the podcast apps were gone from the Appstore and my phone sin…
This is simply not true. There are several podcast apps in the AppStore that I'm aware of (Instacast, Downcast, Aural...) and certainly several I've never heard of. I've been using Instacast since before Apple's app came out and just recently bought Aural.
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#98Steve Jobs hated Android so much that he created Marco and Gruber to make sure his crusade is continued even after his death. They don't really exist, it's all written by the Apple puppet master.
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#99I would wager that the reason Marco (and many other mobile entrepreneurs) gravitate to iOS boils down to one line in his post that he doesn't feel the need to defend: "We can make a living developing for it." Android has (roughly) 4X market share but just 1/3 of the revenue compared to iOS. When the per user revenue gap closes, Marco's preference may change.
He already has a version of Instapaper for Android, so he clearly has no problem making money off the platform, whatever little it may be in comparison to iOS.
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#100Hey guys, use whatever products and services work best for you. There's no need to pledge allegiance to any company, nor is there a need to tear down somebody else for having an opinion.