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My favorite paragraph: http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/04/03/verdictAfterOneD...
The thing that nobody seems to acknowledge is that iTunes really has gotten a lot better over the last year.
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You make a good point, which proves that neither of us actually knows which phrasing Dave Winer meant. Don't be a jerk. We live in the same city and might actually meet at some point. I don't like being on bad terms with people I've never met.
I'm sorry if I came off as attacking you: there wasn't any intent to do that. I just was trying to point out where I think you misread Winer's article, which is in the grand scheme of things a pretty minor mistake, probably not even worth the downvotes. I certainly wasn't trying to make it personal. I think one issue may have been that what I wrote in my post was just the first two sentences; the whole second paragra…
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The thing that nobody seems to acknowledge is that iTunes really has gotten a lot better over the last year.
How so?
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Everyone realizes it. I think the contention is (right or wrong) that a pure-consumption device isn't what people want or need (given the other things that they have in their lives). It's redundant. It doesn't replace anything. I think if they had multi-tasking it'd go a long way to shutting up this criticism.
Hey Tony - Pity that seemingly everyone in Seattle is staying in tonight. Crappy weather... Two things: 1. You've probably forgotten more about this sort of data than I'll ever know, but I look around at folks on laptops in cafes and see nothing but Facebook or Gmail on Netbooks. I think we, as a class of users, are the exception: most people on computers spend the bulk of their time consuming information instead of…