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I need a 3rd party company that does manual mobile (iOS) testing
Our app, Scan, http://scan.me, has over 20 million installs. Since the beginning, we have all of the team run manual tests with release candidates of the app. This is starting to get unwieldy, especially with the varying amount of devices coming out (iPad Mini, are you serious?!).

That being said, we are looking for a third party company that can run a full test suite against our app with all of the supported iOS devices. Anyone know of a team that does this?
This is the equivalent of a plain looking girl dying her hair some crazy color.

Personally I don't understand this concept of forcing a clunky and strange UI on people and having change just for the sake of change. Both suffer from huge amounts of backlash, yet their creators stand by it, for one simple reason: They have to change, so things don't appear stale. These interfaces aren't better, they're just new.

It's really that simple, we've had 10 years of the same type of interface in Windows, Linux and OSX and they need something new. Apple of course knows they have something good with OSX and are unwilling to slap their users in the face, and they generally don't fix what is broke.
I'm pretty blown away they're already on a fourth generation of iPads. It seemed like they just released the last one not too long ago. Are people upset over how quickly it released or happy to have a potential upgrade?
I'm still having a difficult time understanding why any user who has figured out how to hit the window key and start typing an application name would find browsing across oversized tiles to be a more efficient application launching experience on a desktop.

Window Key + "Su" + Enter -> Sublime Text 2 is open

vs.

Mouse over on the bottom left of the screen + Click + Wait for Metro interface to pan into view + Wheel over a horizontally scrolling screen of tiles scanning for a "Development Tools" group + Find Sublime Text 2 + Click -> Sublime Text 2 is Open
Perhaps hardware companies don't have the "dropbox" effect of such quick growth. Do you think though that hardware companies may be a less risky proposition in some ways?

For example they are less likely to have the sort of network effects problem that some social media based application would.
The worst part is, even being $100 more than a Nexus 7 and with worse specs, people will buy this. I just don't get it.
Startups should obviously hire her as a good luck charm for getting acquired!
Alternatively, the moral is "DRM lockouts happen, but very rarely, the chance of it happening to you is pretty low."

It still shouldn't have taken a front page story to get this fixed, though.
This is a good read with some great points... more and more people are coming into the fold and realizing what you can do with platforms like the Arduino in the space of physical/embedded computing. This is where real innovation is happening. Coming from a software dev background, I picked up an Arduino about a year and a half ago - and it is awesome...it's just so much fun...it's like the feeling you get when you make a great web app but times 100 because it's a real physical thing that moves, senses the world around it and lights up (or whatever). Even if you don't believe it's the "next big thing", if you are a sofware dev, you should get into it because it's so much fun and it makes you better developer when you learn about things about digital logic like shift registers.

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I really think the culmination of all this will be what I see as the next logical step after "mobility" in computing (i.e. the idea that you "take your computer everywhere with you"): "ubiquity" - or, in other words, the idea that everything around you - the table you are sitting at in your restaurant, the walls in your office, things that farm your food and control your air conditioner, are computers..and perhaps the most exceiting thing is that this next revolution will (hopefully) be ushered in and controlled by startups. Exciting times.
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I have the current (err, previous!) gen iPad. I don't particularly care that there are new models. I'm still happy with mine, and don't have any plans on buying the new one.

Why do you think this would make someone upset?
The 4th gen is just an incremental push on components the 3rd gen. It seems like Apple is staggering products with their processor releases to let them accelerate that tick-tock for phones and tablets.
Different kinds of "good". If you don't limit the true competition that capitalism is supposed to offer, then you can't make economic profit in the long term. If your goal, in starting a company, is to continue to make out-sized profits, then there being barriers to entry that you can overcome better than others is a good thing. One way, but not the only way, of overcoming obstacles better is simply overcoming them first: if the cost of overcoming the obstacles is more than the upside in a competitive environment, then you can rake in monopoly profits without it being worth it for others to join you.

Most of this is not necessarily "good" for the consumer or the economy as a whole - although if the barriers to entry are natural and it means that problems are being addressed that otherwise wouldn't be addressed at all, then it might be.
Can I ask, what was the form of protest that he engaged in? I can't find it in the article and the brief google search I did was also unsuccessful.
Completely disagree! I work in a unionized IT environment and I would accept a reasonable offer to go back to IBM.

Unions further complicate the relationship between employer and employee. It created "us vs. them" in every single implementation of unions. In the traditional 'Employee Relations' model, you could at least find a handful of good employers that value people. Not so the case in unionized environments. Employers' hands are forced to treat every employee as equal; the amazing, the good and the horrible all get the same treatment.
Consumer choice - $209 Nexus Tablet from Google or $329 for the iPad Mini.... what do you think the public will choose?
The way they compared the new iPad Mini with the Nexus 7 was laughable at best.

They complain about Nexus 7 being made of plastic and having broader basel, and completely forget that Nexus 7 has a higher resolution screen and most importantly is a $199 device while the new ipad is $329. What a joke.
Wow, this is way more expensive than I predicted. I don't see how the iPad Mini can compete with a $199 Nexus 7.
That's like saying Pets.com could have worked out -- given how readily people took to buying pet meds, food and accessories over the internet -- if only they hadn't grown so fast.

Growing so fast is not only a problem of expectation, it's a problem of massive overhead that competitors don't have. That's going to harm their competitiveness in anything they do.
This kind of sentiment is why everything nowadays comes with 20 pages of fine print that nobody can wade through. It's not enough just to expect people to be reasonable — everything must be clearly spelled out in excruciating detail, as people will feel free to do any insane thing that comes to their mind if you do not restrict it explicitly, and they will loudly object if you tell them that what they're doing is not reasonable. I'm not sure it is a much more desirable state of affairs.

(Clarification: I'm specifically addressing the idea that there can be no "abusive" use of a lifetime offer. Obviously the TextDrive customers are not in this category.)
That ship is sinking fast. Heart goes out to those who are now out of work, but a part of me can't help but be glad that the "exploitative spamming social games" market might be dealt a mortal wound.
I think maybe they just wanted to turn the line over to the new dock faster so this year they went with 2 releases.
Doesn't appear to offer the Pocketbook Touch. I can't find anywhere but eBay to buy them.
I actually said your first point.

Re registry editing, it's easy and you can edit it in windows with any script based tools as the registry is a filesystem in powershell. Enumeration example - google the rest:

PS C:\> cd hklm:
PS HKLM:\> cd ./SOFTWARE/Microsoft/windows
PS HKLM:\software\Microsoft\windows> gci
I absolutely love how they reframed the iPad mini from a "reduction" to a "concentration" of the iPad.

I takes the most obvious quip to make about the new product and gives the Apple fan-base a ready-made, perfect, emotional yet simple retort.

Brilliant marketing ...
I don't know a lot about iPads, but that price is about $50 more than I would have naively guessed. Spec for spec, the Nexus 7 (disclosure: I own this) seems to offer more for less (yes, the screen is smaller, but the information quantity & density is actually greater). Sure, there is the value of Apple's ecosystem, but I imagine Android will catch up on this sooner or later.
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Good to see Zynga starting to focus on profitability ...
ARM processors are starting to move up into the higher end as well, like servers. On an energy/computation basis they make more sense than x86 processors right now.

The only issue is that software needs to be optimized for ARM processors but if the savings are there, this will happen pretty quickly.

So I'd actually be worried for Intel as well. Not just AMD.
https://support.enterprise.github.com/entries/21243936-ssh-a...

In order to preserve the integrity of the appliance and ensure that it remains in a consistent state, we have these limitations in place:

- Root access is not provided.
- The admin user password is not provided.
- Installation and execution of third party software is not permitted.
- Modification of the underlying VM configuration is not permitted.

Bypassing any of these limitations will void all warranties and may put your installation in an unsupportable state.
On the other hand, having an sign-in-less "Explore" type experience may actually hurt your signup conversions. Users get a feel for the app, decide that they'll sign up later, close the app, and never come again.

I might be hallucinating but I think Instagram used to have an "Explore" screen with interesting pics pre-signup, and in the latest versions they got rid of that.
I suspect the driver for the new full-size iPad is the lightning connector. Now all of the iOS devices (except the iPad 2?) use it.
I don't know how they are going to compete with Microsoft Surface(1366 x 768) with this Mini(1,024 x 768) without Retina Display.

Edit: Price difference - I see.
I'm pretty surprised by the price. It's more than twice as expensive than the entry-level Kindle Fire at $159. Now, it's obviously a much better product, but that's a big gap.

Apple has maintained pretty aggressive pricing compared to the 10" Android tablets, but that's just not the case here. They're going to try competing on product quality, not price. It will be interesting to see how that pans out.
My favorite part was when they listed the bigger screen as an advantage.
But we here have known about it for a long time. The shitstorm might come from the average user. I guess that it won't. But seeing HN folks screaming at the walls every time some blog troll writes an article saying "Windows 8 Sucks!" really gets old. I'm getting sick of writing long-form comments pointing out the truth about Windows 8 rather than the lies that are being spread, having those comments get upvoted and some good comments on them, and then five minutes later there's another post that makes people scream and holler again.

It gets old. I'm getting tired of sounding like a Windows 8 fanboy (I'm actually fairly ambivalent) just in comparison with the ridiculous hyperbole and FUD being spewed here constantly.
Dear Apple, thanks for keeping the same display dimensions as the iPad -- I was actually starting to sweat about the prospect of having to do more AutoLayout work!
Ipad Mini (Apple site)
For the vast majority of people with any stake in video on the web, convenient is good.
And professional athletes unions are usually restrained to sports where the employers are a cartel (or even a single entity). The cartel phenomenon is similar in the case of actors.

Interesting point about the employer cartel, since the SV Tech Giants (Google, Apple, etc.) were outed as colluding to keep salaries down and not poach employees from one another earlier this year. Maybe that is a starting point for grounds to consider unionizing? Maybe?
You're underestimating the pull Apple has on people. There are plenty who will pay an extra $120 just because it's Apple.
Techcrunch and other sites have become irrelevant for me. Reddit and hacker news actually serve as a much better, much more informed news/link filter. There is nothing the tech blogs do that I don't get on these two sites.
Apple just made its first mistake in a long time
I'm actually shocked Apple came in at $329 for the base iPad Mini. This pricing is a huge error because it actually gives hope to the competition. Prior to today they would come out with a superior product at the same price.

But today they fumbled hard. I'm sure they'll sell a ton of these but not as many as they could have; and more importantly now Nexus 7 and Kindles look that much better and will sell better this holiday season they would have.

Bottom line, this is a huge error by Apple.
We all know Apple's products don't compete on price directly... but they sure seem to be selling plenty of them.
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Good point, Facebook login might cost you in the middle of the funnel but help you at the end.
I suspect this would be less of a worry if you focussed on low volume high value products. If you are selling solutions that are $10,000+ then you can afford a less efficient manufacturing process. I know a few people in my local area who are doing just that in some interesting niches.
Why stop there? We just have to look around and find someone knowledgeable about something that just happened and is bad. Then you can sue them for not reporting that it was going to happen.

I think I'm going to promptly forget everything I know about computers before I get sued by a local store for not warning them that a virus is in the wild.
Also rumored to have shut down their Boston and Chicago offices.
That has always been Apple forte. Create value by advertising
FTA:

> We held a community rally and march through Jamaica, Queens, which ended at the 103rd Precinct. As our march arrived at the precinct, it was completely barricaded on all sides – on lock-down in anticipation of the protest. An officer slides open one of the metal grates and motions us inward so that we may protest at the precinct doors. After minutes of chanting and singing outside of the precinct steps, 20 of us were arrested, quite quickly, but held for hours late into the next day. For less than ten minutes of protesting stop-and-frisk outside of the doors 103rd precinct, which houses the NYPD officers who put fifty shots into Sean Bell, 12 co-defendants and I now find ourselves facing two years of jail time.
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The general consensus is that they timed it to coincide with Apple's announcement, so that the news of them laying off employees would be buried by all the Apple press.
Arrington is fine. But MG? Really? Online journalism is getting Honey Boo Booed.
It could be "just because it's Apple," or it could be because they already own a lot of useful iOS software.
Given that (IMO, rather unfortunately) Techcrunch stories are posted and upvoted to the front page on a daily basis, this is also front page worthy.
I sold the Nexus because it was too small to read a PDF. The iPad mini may also be too small, but if I can comfortably read PDFs on it, then that's a huge advantage to me.
$209? It's $199 (albeit for 8GB, though Google doesn't really encourage loading stuff onto it in favor of streaming).
I find the pricing odd - is the 30 dollars really worth giving up the appeal of a 299 price point?
Price, app ecosystem.
that's my guess as well.

I'm not sure how it aligns with previous launches, but I imagined they were going to discontinue the 2 as well.
The spec is useless, even harmful, if 3 years from now MPEG LA decides to start charging content providers a licensing fee for their content, even if that content is distributed for free.

If we start using a codec for which the patents are owned by a company, and that company dictates the licensing terms for that codec, then aren't we handing control to how the content is distributed to said company?

what do we know about MPEG LA?
>There is nothing preventing the desktop software from using a system-wide notification system.

But there is already one integrated into Windows 8, there is also sharing and searching integrated

Sharing

http://i.minus.com/ixWDWz6QqMRvG.jpg

Searching

http://i.minus.com/ieIlX6e9QyL16.jpg

shifting search to a different app/service with a click

http://i.minus.com/i8CxZ5i2wILEW.jpg

I'm not trying to become the Windows 8 advocate here but just showing how it has utility and value in many uses for me.
Farmville was a great social game and their Words with Friends acquisition was very good... then they started making Farmville clones, blatantly ripping off competitor's games, and paid $200 million for Draw Something.
I'm guessing you didn't watch the keynote. Apple highlighted the fact that there is a severe lack of tabletized Android apps. So, an iPad app vs. what is essentially an Android phone app, the information density is actually much greater on the iPad because its app are actually designed to utilize the space.

The materials are a lot better, as well. Aluminum vs. plastic (although I don't mind the N7's build at all). The iPad's screen is a much higher quality IPS display than the N7. Of course, I'm going to expect all of this in a tablet with a $70 higher price point, comparing 16GB vis a vis.

I would have liked to see the price come in at $299, but $329 is perfectly reasonable and this will be a best seller for Apple.

(I own and use both an iPad and a Nexus 7)
Looks like someone is a bitter Android and PC user.
True but i would say these people would buy want to buy an iPad anyways, i don't think this is really expanding their user base. Maybe a little but not near as much a they could have with a lower price point that actually competes on price rather than just going of "we are apple" reasoning.

People will buy it, but its not the homerun they were setup for, making it to 2nd base. Game is still on.
So cool to see these kind of events happening in Naples!
His hand looked really stretched out
That is the exact problem, and one they seem to have very much avoided addressing. I have absolutely no doubt that 99% of these sort of problems would be quickly and easily resolved, IF one could adequately contact a responsive customers services department.

Yeah, this is about DRM, but IMHO, the bigger issue is that of getting hold of some one to help and resolve these issues. I don't think any of us mind thongs going wrong, that happens, its what these people do or don't do that counts.

(Yes, I see the typo, it amused me so I left it :) )
Small quibble: the 16gb N7 (the most comparable in this case) is actually $250. That might change later this week... but for now - that is still the case.
I don't mouse over to the corner of the screen in all but my laziest moments; but sometimes I happen to only have one hand on they keyboard (perhaps I was just closing a tab in Firefox, or upvoting a comment on Hacker News?). It so happens I'm right-handed, and so my mouse is on my right side, leaving my left hand in the perfect position for the windows key.

My common experience is to press the windows key and mouse around to click. While I proudly tout myself as a keyboard-primary user (and this is still the case. I use the keyboard as my sole tool in many more cases than some of my co-workers), I still happen to use the mouse from time to time and this is an example of it.

Also, when you're using an interface that has such accessible buttons, you tend to learn the general area of buttons, so it's not so much "scanning" as it is "oh yeah, that one repository is about here on the screen, let me swing my mouse over there and click it". The large buttons, again, help make that easier;* so, I don't quite have the same experience.* *

For my less-commonly used applications, I do follow the [windows key] enough text to load a program, usually the whole first word in its name because I type around 90-100 wpm and it's easier for me to type words than sub-sequences of letters [enter]; but it's rather surprising how much I've found myself actually adding apps to the start menu because I find clicking easier. Again, this is just from my personal experience, YMMV.

* I'm not a usability engineer, but I've read an article or two that talks about how difficult actions are for a user, and precision vs speed comes up.

edit:

* * As an example of this experience in progress, you probably know where commonly-clicked icons are on your desktop, if you happen to use your desktop to hold frequently edited documents or shortcuts. If someone re-arranged your icons, you'd be slower because they would no longer be in their previous, familiar locations.
Not commenting on anything else here, anecdotally the meme is very accurate.

All of my relatives in their 50's and older (and their friends) bought cheap netbooks 5 years ago, and every last one of them is replacing them with iPads as they break, etc. This is I think, oddly, the majority of the iPad owners I know (the rest are young(ish) geeks, like me, for whom the iPad is a 3rd or 5th device.)

From my perspective this meme is dead on.
The lesson to take away from this is that Apple does not compromise on price. If the iPad mini with a 30% or so margin has to be priced at $330 it will be priced at that.
I'd like to know how many of these stop-and-frisk cases result in discovery of a crime.
It was just a minor bump so they can speed along the painful transition to the Lightning connector ASAP. No one's going to sell their iPad 3rd gen and upgrade.
You're talking about "the public" like it's a monolithic entity that makes a single choice in the market. That's silly. Many people will buy both. Apple is the most profitable company in the world and prices their goods to turn a profit. Google/Amazon sell near break even for market share/ecosystem returns.
Title is fail. For some reason I don't think iPods or Gmail count as FOSS... among many others on that list.
Remember it has a lower resolution than the Nexus 7. May still be more readable if the physical size was the issue, but chances are it's still too small.

A larger, higher res solution would probably be what you need, i would wait for google upcoming announcement.
The fact that Android tablets apps of large corporations suck is more of a reflection on the companies themselves than on Android as a platform.

How do the developers of the demoed apps feel? Basically they work was called a piece of shit.
I've been using this since '09. I love it!
During the Apple event, no less. Maybe I'm very cynical, but that seems like a deliberate attempt to bury the story.
Node.js is the middle road between RoR and Go.
RoR is the establishment, Go the frontier. The Node middle road provides the best trade off between community infrastructure and advanced design. Thinking in async is an acquired habit which will be frustrating at first, but fine after a while.
Part of that's due to a physically larger screen and part of it's because apps aren't constantly letterboxed by on-screen OS buttons.
Too expensive for me, but the tech uninformed have probably never heard of the Nexus 7 and will probably think this is a great deal. The bezel seems really thin too, how are you supposed to hold it?