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Sometimes the way I see Apple promoting iPad makes me see it as a fad, but sometimes it feels like there are spots it can secure for good.

For example, the new TV ad shows a clip of someone making a fake oil painting with their finger. That's a fad - people who use that will be people who want to see what it's like to paint once or twice, not serious painters. A fat finger on a glass pane will never be a substitute for a brush on canvas.

The other promotional video on their homepage right now shows a yuppie mom using it as a visual grocery list, a mechanic doing oily-fingered conversions on it on some gruddy garage floor while handling heavy metal equipment, old men playing backgammon, and a bunch of young adults around a table "jamming and recording" music together.

All of this is gimmickry.

The ads also show people browsing photos and videos and reading iBooks. These are things I can see people using iPad for more than few times, and the key to having tablets not fizzle out as a fad is letting the money pour in from gimmickry while focusing on these functions that can make tablets last - like a photo album and a book. People will never use iPads for half the stuff they're being marketed for. People will certainly try it (and make Apple a ton of money in the process), but they'll end up preferring the former methods because a pane of glass can only emulate them and not outdo them.
Microsoft is the only company that can compete with Apple in the consumer software space. The difference between the iPad and the iPod is that a consumer tablet platform really plays into Microsoft's strengths as a platform company in a way the iPod and iTunes absolutely did not.

The traditional cell phone manufacturers will continue to use Android (or whatever) to sell mountains of cell phones like they have been doing for over a decade, but a tablet is a consumer software platform and after using Windows 8 it's painfully clear that only Microsoft and Apple really understand how to deliver such a platform.

It will be a two horse race.

The problem for Microsoft is that it will be Windows 8 v2 or v3 before is starts to match iOS feature for feature, and that's at least 2 years away. I may be on my 3rd iPad by then.
> It’s 10x return on what they reserved to invest – a bigger number that takes in to account the total amount they predicted you’d need over the course of your company’s future

Does anyone know of any examples where a VC did not allow a sale to happen because they were going to do another round? The argument here makes logical sense but I have never actually seen an example of this.
It is not at all like that guy.
So the problem with Hacker News is you? After all, you're submitting these rants.
Look, I know "plural of anecdote != data", but I know several (5) people who have purchased a smartphone in the past 6 months, including myself.

2 got droids, 3 got iphones. I've know the rough usage patterns of all the folks by asking what apps/services they use.

The droid users use it as a 1) phone, 2) email/message device, 3) maps and 4) one or two apps (not games). Basically, a google core-apps phone.
One of the iPhone users is similar to the droid users (in addition, using the phone for taking photos/videos often).

Now the two remaining iPhone users are heavy data-folks. Both use bluetooth accessories, and in addition to the above uses, also play games, do twitter/social sharing, run lots of web searches.

Not a single of these users tethers or does advanced remote computing (ie, shell/vnc) - so are more "mainstream" users.
The "post-PC" era will eliminate PCs like McDonalds eliminated kitchens.
At the moment I don't know the details but I know I want to learn how to hook it up to motors/sensors/servos so that I can make a mechanical.

One idea is to make a little car that can run an obstacle course. Or attach a robot arm so that it can pick up small things.
4G LTE most anticipated for new iPad, says Twitter study
Aren't they legally required as a public company to try and make the most money for their shareholders?
The only thing to ever put in a cookie is the SESSION ID! Never put any user credentials into a cookie!

If you need the user's email or name on the client, put it into the HTML or load it via AJAX.
> However, putting the legality issues aside, we should be concerned the government is engaged in the wholesale monitoring of our social-media streams. This program is akin to the Chinese government's monitoring of the Internet. Our government must not emulate an authoritarian regime.

The author appears to have not heard about ECHELON.

(http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep.htm)
The idea that fundraising now is easy is a myth. I'll give you that it's as easy as it's ever been but it's not easy. It requires a lot of prep work, time, and full time dedication. And unlike 10 years ago, it now requires a prototype of some sort.

If he was going around with an idea asking for money, that would be a tough sell. If you're going around asking for him, that's an impossible sell.

Here are some red flags for investors:
- Do I want to invest in someone who's risk averse and will likely give up when things get tough? (and things will get tough)
- What's his track record for product execution and how can he prove he can build a product in a reasonable amount of time? (i.e. not two years)
- What's his team or reference that can confirm the genius behind the man?

It sounds like your friend is more of an employee #1 person than a founder, which is fine. Maybe instead of looking for money you should be looking for someone who can kick off the prototype and can later help with the fundraising process. In any case, your friend needs to be the one speaking.

Good luck!
Sure, there is variety but from a market perspective how many people really care about each of those special devices? The whole reason that Apple is so successful is they build the device that just works for most people out there. Most people just don't care about the 41MP camera, the projector, etc...

Most of my circle of close friends are not geeks and Android frustrates them, it confuses them....and none of them, not a single one have even asked me about an Android based tablet other than the Fire and that doesn't even really count. Most of these friends are the ones that Samsung and other higher end Android devices would love to have as customers...highly educated with high disposable income. And they don't even consider their devices.

Variety is over valued in the geek community and just doesn't drive real profits in most cases and I believe this is one of them. Each of those unique phones has a lower profit ratio and drives a race to the bottom in quality because of it. None of them will drive enough sales to have a decent profit margin due to additional engineering, marketing, and support costs due to the different models.

Now, to be sure, Android isn't going away and eventually someone will find a way to make a dent in the iPad's market share but I just think the tablet market is very very different from the smart phone market. Everyone pretty much has a mobile phone and when you can get a smartphone for free you take it...but the tablet market is more discretionary and there and I just don't see people going away from iPad. If anything, the iPad could be what helps continue to drive iPhone sales since you can share your apps across devices.
Valid points about bug fixes and outstanding issues. I think the Play 2 announcement was met with a mixture of trepidation and excitement from the community. If support for 1.2.x was to decrease further then I'd be concerned.

For what it's worth, I've been developing a Play (now 1.2.4) app for a year now and it's been a blast. Sometimes you can see the framework's immaturity, but I haven't run into any showstoppers like the author.
As far as I'm aware, most of the people who study this stuff don't believe most mammals are conscious, let alone insects.
Looks great. It seems to have the coarse level of detail that's great for my simple sales process. Anything more is just noise for me.

Not a deal-breaker, but does it support other currencies, namely GBP(£)?
I think calling this a "buddy exit" isn't really fair. Same with Hunch. That's like calling Next selling to Apple a "buddy exit". If Square went south, what kind of exit could they command based on Jack and his team? If Facebook was dying, what would Zuck and his team be worth?

Sam and Chris are both brilliant guys and great BRANDS. Not Steve Jobs great-- but great nonetheless. Guys like this attract A-players and attract PR. Could Sam and his group have $43M in impact for the buyer? Surely.

Listen, success is just a big multiplication formula. If your "leadership brand" number is high enough, you just about can't lose. But that holds true for any other number in the formula (product awesomeness, timing, marketing, business model, etc).
> The iPad is a different beast entirely and (as I've been saying for 1.5+ years now) IMHO much more important and will be a much bigger market than the phone market. It will (and already is) cannibalizing a lot of PC usage and sales.

Three questions/comments:

1) Why do you feel it is bigger than the phone market? I'm skeptical of this, at least until the day tablets and laptops merge (imagine a tablet that docks into a keyboard/touchpad). Almost everyone needs a phone these days. And if you could only have one, I imagine most would take the laptop/desktop over the tablet.

2) How much evidence is there for large-scale cannibalization? I always figured the iPad is growing so much faster than PCs, because the PC market is saturated and frequent upgrades are no longer necessary. Everyone has a computer already and a 4+ year old one works fine. Tablets are new and desirable - but is there that much evidence yet that a tablet is actually more desirable than a computer?

3) Strongly disagree that apps are more important on a tablet than a phone. Phones are lower power typically and screen space is at a premium, so I'd argue that native apps are more important on a phone. Tablets should be able to handle webapps fine.
The fact that the character was an android rather than a human made it easy for me to forget that it was CG because I expect an android to be somewhat artificial looking or acting. If they had shown a human character, I imagine the effect would have been less dramatic.
Agree. A quick search on Best Buy's site shows only 7 out of 47 android tablets are 499 or above. Granted, the Ipad2 just dropped to 399, but up until a week ago most of the android tablets were cheaper than the ipad.
Cool, Joystick support. I wonder if it will run FMS? (R/C model simulator, http://n.ethz.ch/~mmoeller/fms/index_e.html)

Once it runs that, and maybe Netflix, I have no reason to ever boot back to Windows.
Its funny.
Apple sells 15M iPads per quarter, more than any PC manufacturer sells PCs. For comparision, they sell around 2M Macs in that timeframe.
I know some people who own an iPad, i do so myself. But whenever i talk to them about it or look at myself i realize: almost noone really uses them.

Maybe thats a thing with techies, so we dont really have use for such a casual device but i use my iphone alot daily, like 10x more than my iPad.
TPB response: http://thepiratebay.se/blog/209
krschultz - We're talking about the arguments coming out of the people championing Apple products, not what the company has a responsibility to do.

Who ever said Apple wasn't going to try to maximize profit? I certainly didn't say that. So I'm not sure what your point is.
> more RAM, faster CPU, LTE, NFS, better front-facing camera, etc.

Beyond bragging rights, how much of Apple's market actually cares about this?

At home I run a PC I built myself and have Linux running in various places and even I don't care what CPU/RAM specs my phone has. My decision to buy an iPhone was driven by my existing collection of iOS apps (I used an iPod as a PDA for a few years) and the general reliability of the iOS experience (stuff doesn't stutter, webpages render properly, few/no OS-level crashes, etc). Things like the camera were a definite plus but not deciding factors. The retina display was probably the biggest selling point of a 4/4S over a 3GS actually since it makes the whole iOS experience even more pleasant.
What does "local" mean? Does a 501c3 have to be in Ohio to qualify? The Midwest? I'd like to spread the word, but I don't want to target groups that would automatically be out of the running because they're based in the northeast, or Michigan.
I actually explored some of the possible ends towards the end of my essay "On Copying and Owning," http://drostie.org/on_copying.html . My point there is that the copyright lobby is facing an existential struggle: and if they really want to "win" then everyday folks will also face an existential struggle when fighting against them. In that sense there is actually a surprising amount at stake.

I am not sure that the original post is "radicalized" per se. Piracy is becoming more and more accessible and mainstream, is how I would put it. The original post mentions how Napster changed everything, and I think that, when combined with BitTorrent, that's very true indeed.
This analogy really doesn't work at all. The factory does lose money on factory time and employee wages. The music company doesn't lose that time when a song is pirated. This is the same old argument of copying vs. theft.

What this guy (the OP) is doing is showing the straight economics of the situation, morals removed. It's a realistic viewpoint because for most people, morals go out the window when they cant see the face of who they wrong. And thats even assuming they see file-sharing as "wrong" to begin with.

Like it or not, this guy is accurately describing the current landscape as a whole. This is what content production companies have to deal with.
To sort of change the wording of what others have said, don't think of learning new languages. Learn to solve new problems. Sometimes the problem is best described in a language you don't already know. In that case learn it.

In my case, I've solved many interesting problems over the last decade using C and C++ and an odd shell script here and there. It just so happens those are good languages for solving the problems that I need to solve(which happen to occupy the world in between embedded programming and desktop programming).
I would assume (hope?) that you've tried it yourself? If/how did it work for you?
It also describes the state of many humans, who may have rights in law but who don't have anyone to enforce those rights.
I feel like the story would've worked better had the pleading for your life actually been a part of the initialization protocol.

The ones that don't cry for help as they're being disassembled actually do get disassembled - how else are you supposed to test the emotion chip?
Unless one goes through the 'installation process' anew each time one runs the software (this is of course all taking them at their word; I haven't actually analyzed the Tribler source myself), one can then be continuously tracked even when one's IP changes (not only during instances of travelling or being 'mobile', but of course in cases of users having dynamic IPs as well). The fact that one can thus be tracked across multiple IPs is precisely what makes this a cause for concern.

Add to that the statement that the entire Tribler network is 'constantly monitored' (cf. some organizations doubtlessly monitoring some torrent trackers, but it being improbable that every single torrent tracker is monitored), and one once again has a gross escalation of privacy erosion that surpasses the extent of mere IP-based tracking.
Not to forget that she is put into a glass box with the number five on it...
How Python 3 Should Have Worked
No, it's mostly because the Makefile grammar is incredibly well suited to any of the things you've mentioned -- it's just seen as "old", and most people don't know it anymore.

It's neither legacy nor voodoo. Your statement that if you suggest using one tool in place of another makes you something besides a hacker is incomprehensible.

PUppet/chef/capistrano are specialized versions of Make. Rake is a misnomer, as it's just a collect of "tasks". Again, it's a subset of what Makefiles can do.

It's a little bit like using Lisp -- it's a "dilapidated", "old" tool but most modern tools are subsets of it in some manner.
Agreed, poor choice of words on my part. I was using it colloquially as concerning legal matters, which was inaccurate.
2011 was also supposed to be the year of the clones. We'll see about 2012 and 2013. As mentioned in the article, by looking at sales numbers so far, the iPad launch looks much more like the iPod than the iPhone.
Really interesting idea. With Backbone.js and RESTful APIs (which ThetaBoard is using), it wouldn't be too difficult to implement on the UI side. The hardpart would be getting organizations like yours to build their own public api exposing their business data.
Don't forget legal non-citizen immigrants :)
Tense matters. In 1979 the IBM 370 was unbeatable. “The iPad is unbeatable” is true. “The iPad will always be unbeatable” is a different statement.
Kudos for the title if nothing else.
I don't see why you need to open with an insult.

By your analogy, all copyable digital goods are like water, regardless of what they cost to produce initially, because the cost of copying is close to zero. If I'm wrong, please explain.

In your second paragraph are you suggesting that digital goods will be supported by donations?

Github doesn't sell digital goods. They operate a service.
Who owns Taiwan's future? Which huge country doesn't regard Taiwan as being separate?

You don't have to like it, but the answer is: the same country that now owns Hong Kong.

Foxconn is a Chinese company. It's why they're given special privileges that no foreign company can ever get, when it comes to everything from trade protections to labor regulations.
He needs to learn how to make money himself to fund his vision. This is key. Is he a good market trader? Can he do little things to setup his life and fund his big vision? Can he use up Amazon's AW3 service? Can he make more efficient algorithms? Can he make better guesses to not need so much capital and time?

I think the VCs are not a good fit for him at this stage. Maybe when his ideas are further along (giving him enough leverage to hold on to most of the company) then he'll be ready for venture capital.
cmiiw, but imho play is too similar with others web framework, like rails.
i'd prefer scala community to push lift instead.
lift has some great ideas, and has many things to improve.
Congratulations, it looks like you're on your way to escaping from developer obscurity :) I really like the clean spare design of your calendar app. Great job on the promotional page and video, it looks very professional. However, when I watched the video I had a bit of difficulty understanding the number of steps required to set the background color for each list item. Very sharp looking, though, I like it.
The DRM user is the publisher, not the user of the program itself.
I would rather ship an extra copy of all of the libraries than tell the user that he has to update libc6 (and therefor almost all of the other software he uses) to run my software.
Blocky: a visual dialect of Common Lisp paired with an Emacs-like user interface
There's no way to change the currency symbol right now. That's definitely something we should add to the list, I'll add it to our backlog! :)
The iPod Touch has had a retina display since it first came out in September 2010.

The last update to the iPod Touch was in October 2011, so that may be the one you're looking for.
This is my first ever real blog post, id love any feedback especially from HN, as i spend quite a bit of time reading on here.

Thanks a million.
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Zaarly releases version 2.0 with profiles and reputation.
> 1993: Windows is unbeatable.

When did Windows stop being the dominant PC platform? Sure it's on it's way down in the "post-PC" era, but AFAIK it's still far and away the dominant platform on traditional PCs. But, even if you assume that Windows is no longer dominant when did that happen? 2010, maybe 2007 at the earliest? That's at least 14 years of complete domination of the personal computing market. So by this standard we should expect an iPad killer in 2024?
>as for Sequoia, it is pretty well known that the top tier VCs look after their own. Look through the Sequoia history and you won't find very many outright failures, it is a reason why entrepreneurs choose to work with them.

Oh, I just want people to stop pretending this is a meritocracy.
It's worth pointing out that DOS was never beaten, as Windows is its direct successor.

In other cases, the market dominance was quite complete and it took a market shift to unseat them (Kodak, Sony).

In any case, even if the iPad is bettered, how much of the competition will be around to see it? I think that's more the point of the article than the hyperbolic title.
The iPad has no more of a moat around it than the iPhone does.

The iPod had a moat around it courtesy of the extremely difficult dynamics of dealing with the music cartels. Apple broke the cartels and came to dominate them; nobody else was able to. Such problems don't exist in either smart phones or tablets.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5317066/2012-clark.pdf "TDCS guided using fMRI significantly accelerates learning to identify concealed objects"
About the app:

- I'm really surprised Apple's ical doesn't let me create entries like that. You've out appled apple. If I could create todo's and categorize them GTD style I might return to iOS.

- Floating Tasks (where they carry over) to me would be an instant sell. It's an absolute must and few people even know about it. I'd buy it on the spot if there was there.

- My work flow is - create todo's in general, and then the floating todo's get scheduled on a day. Each day, I then assign a time to them (drag them) and I have my schedule for the day. My job is just to create the todo's as they come up, or enter the hard appointments. In the end, todo's become calendar items.

- Allow syncing via wifi to your computer instead of just through icloud or google sync. All three would appeal to everyone

- If you want to connect off line feel free, I have obsessed over the perfect calendar/todo system for about 6 years trying to replicate the productivity nirvana I had on Palm OS with DateBK6. DateBK6 was the one app made me use the Treo years after it was outdated and it was by far the smartest and most productive app I've ever used in my life. All my efforts through Windows Mobile, iOS and now Android have been to replicate that experience.

Pimlical is becoming more intuitive by the day, it's highly gestured workflow is sinking it's teeth into me. I might not be fond of Gingerbread but the tractorbeam of a working calendar/todo is too strong. The app was built by the same company that has built the best calendar/todo I've ever used, DateBK6.

About the site:

- The video was great. The music selection helped express the magicalness of how light and easy it is.

- It might be worthwhile having an interactive demo where people can drag things themselves. Might be a moot point in the beginning but a lack of buttons can be intimidating. Not for me though.

Good luck.

What I like about yours is natively tying in the power of gestures. They're simple, but could become advanced easily for advanced users.
The 1500 for 700 square feet is right in the middle of town and has a restaurant on the bottom of one of the buildings. Red 160 is its name.
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Damn. Nice catch.
1) I would rather have a dumbphone and a tablet than just a smartphone. You can do way more on a tablet than on a phone, simply because of screen size. On top of that the tablet is an attractive choice over a laptop/desktop because of the price and the portability.