April 2010
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What if I had bought Apple stock instead? →
jstn:
AAPL is worth twice what was just one year ago today, and 40x seven years ago. I became a shareholder recently, wish I’d done it long ago.
I remember my first Macintosh, a PowerMac G5 from 2003: $2399. In stocks: $68176.41.
More stock regrets, thanks to Alex.
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Instants! Collection →
Jingles. Buttons. YEAHHHH!
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Social fable →
Le Corbeau et le Renard (The Raven and the Fox), by Jean de la Fontaine, across the web.
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Microsoft controls the Xbox hardware and software. They require game developers to register themselves, and all Xbox games must be approved by Microsoft. You can’t even develop games using the Xbox.
Would you say the Xbox represents the end of video games?
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Why Apple did what they did →
Alex on the news rules for iPhone developers:
The major problem Apple is facing with the App Store is a struggle between quantity and quality.
Let’s not forget that, when Apple was struggling in the ’90s, their main argument was that while Windows had thousands of applications, you could do everything with a Mac, and better. Mac OS has always been the platform with the less...
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No hardware →
Alex:
Here’s the future of computing : no computer.
Great article about the iPad and how UI became more relevant than gigahertz.
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An Empty Canvas →
Jürgen from Cultured Code:
If you want to understand what makes the iPad special, you cannot look at what it has, but what it doesn’t have. The iPad is so thin and light, it becomes the display, and the display becomes the application. No input devices. The device vanishes and turns into the application you are using. The technology is transparent.
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Dropbox
Among the forty software engineering students I see every day, there are:
Mac OS X users
Ubuntu users
Windows XP users
Windows 7 users
We installed these OSes on our laptops, netbooks, desktops computers and smartphones. We don’t share the same point of view about how easy, intuitive or powerful our filesystem should be to use. We all have different user interfaces, we all joke about...
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