Comments by ginswizzle

@John that little icon "improvement" is a terrible design. at that tiny size it gives basically no indication of the function of the button (or even that it is a button). looks like a UI glitch.

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nice pictures. but AT&T; "jacking you"!?! c'mon. assuming you bought an iPhone 3G last July... you paid a highly subsidized price based on a two-year contract commitment that you haven't fulfilled. at least AT&T; has rules that enable some current customers to get the cheapest pricing. O2 in the UK requiring a contract buyout to get best pricing... £410 ($675) with new 18 month contract best I can do.

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or http://www.facebook.com/vulva

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rationale makes sense to some degree late in a release, but when there are dozens of issues like this it really detracts from the product.

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I don’t see an .ipcc file that corresponds to O2 UK. just Ireland and Czech Republic.

any tips on how to get this configured for O2 UK?

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I don’t see an .ipcc file that corresponds to O2 UK. just Ireland and Czech Republic.

any tips on how to get this configured for O2 UK?

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I didn't do the math so you may be right, but just to be clear I consider the iPhone ecosystem to consist of all Mac + iPhone developers since the API set and programming model is substantially the same. that's a lot more than 10,000 developers, no?

oh, and porting the iPhone tools/SDK to Windows doesn't make Cocoa Touch and Objective-C any more approachable to Windows developers. and creating different Windows-friendly tools doesn't seem like a useful strategy. Nokia sells more than 100M S60 phones a year and supports an astounding number of desktop platforms, IDEs and programming languages - but certainly hasn't achieved the economies of scale that investment might suggest.

agree good discussion and props for raising this idea which has gotten almost no coverage elsewhere.

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Apple didn't break the economics. cream will always rise. your argument seems to be based on the common but fallacious assertion that Apple's store is the only way people can discover great apps. it isn't. spend some marketing dollars outside Apple's store - or get lucky enough for Apple to hype you on primetime TV - and you should have no problem making money on compelling $5+ apps. just because you don't think you can make a million bucks in a month doesn't mean it isn't worth trying at all.

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based on what data can you argue that Mac and peripheral sales to developers is a drop in the bucket? maybe not a top-line driver for AAPL, but it's got to be several tens of millions of dollars in revenue.

thinking about this more, the cost of a couple Macs isn't enough to dissuade anyone except the absolute poorest hobby-only developer from creating apps for iPhone. as long as the market is large and profitable (check) and the tools/process is relatively friction-free (check).

also, I didn't read your original argument to have anything to do with persuading Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, Oracle - who btw have all already created their own iPhone apps.

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very unlikely to happen. too many deep-pocketed platform vendors and OEMs that don't want to play in anyone else's sandbox.

but if something like this were to happen, it would be driven by operators vs. some quasi-objective standards body. and I'm not sure that's a good thing for developers or consumers.

also, see J2ME.

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interesting idea and agree it's surprising this hasn't gotten wider coverage, but keeping the IDE Mac only sells more Macs, displays, peripherals, etc. end of story.

also, getting more developers isn't as important as catering to the best developers. <insert favorite Macs rule, Windows sucks truism>.

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but the Skype app seems to follow none of these guidelines. what gives?

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so how come the design of the Skype app is so awful? (with no apparent link to their branding)

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install URL doesn’t work. returns: “Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/.asteroid/brasonmyguitar/http/thejakemarsh.com/slimstat/i18n/en-us/index.php:273) in /home/.asteroid/brasonmyguitar/http/thejakemarsh.com/boxee/download/index.php on line 2″

RSS feed just returns “No results found…” after the spinny progress icon appears for a few seconds.

bummer!

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