I feel like Slashdot has run it's course for me. This wasn't even close to the worst recent summary but for some reason, to me, it seems the most intentional.
Single menu is the perfect example here. It is 100% pure form over function. All it buys is an unadorned display pane. It does this at the cost of always making the menu bar take up the maximum possible space and always positioning it away from where your focus, and usually your cursor, are.
I couldn't agree more. I even stated as much. If you are targeting a market that is very crowded on one platform and very open on another much smaller platform then it MAY be better to target the smaller one. Your office example is an excellent example of this. A second scenario where the smaller platform may be better is for highly skewed demographics or usage patterns. For instance if I were developing a LOB app BB7 may very well be the best place to start. It would be worth investigating at the very least.
My issue is not with that fact that there are edge cases where the smaller platform can win. It is with the idea, that in general, you should start with the smaller, in this case smallest, platform. (smallest because BB10 hasn't been released yet)
"Because everyone is writing for iOS, and you'd have a lot less competition on the BB10 platform"
All fine and good. No one is suggesting that you can't make money on Linux or the Mac. I am not even suggesting that people won't make money coding for BB10. Hell, I will go as far as to say that people that specifically target deficiencies in BB10 may do well.
My reply was specifically about the idea that you should target low adoption platforms before high adoption ones "because there is less competition". It is nonsense, and that is what I wanted to illustrate with my analogy.
So you're suggesting that desktop software developers should develop for Linux instead of Windows? It is hard to overstate the absurdity of that statement.
Horrible statistical assumptions here. To compare success rates only, is to assume that the quality of the complaints in all districts had the same distribution. For the sake of argument lets say that 100% of the frivolous cases were filed in E. Texas and 0% in S. NY. You can plainly see that success rate alone would tell you nothing. I understand that this is not the case, the numbers are simply meant to illustrate the assumption being made.
In real terms there is reason to believe that there is indeed a skew in the validity of the cases brought however. How much? I have no idea. Perhaps a better statistic would be the number or trials verdicts that have been overturned?
Not to sound to harsh or anything but your users that can't figure how to print are allowed to install arbitrary software?
Also, if you are resource constrained then I assume you are still primarily on XP. Which caps your IE version at 8. Though an improvement on 7 and a huge leap from 6, still very long in the tooth compared to any modern browser including IE9.
If of course you have migrated to Vista or 7 then it sounds more like resource misallocation rather than limitations.
The chrome version of adblock has an option to permit only google text ads when it is installed. Either way, even if there was no FF there would still be a lot of other browsers if google went all rouge.
Nah, Nintendo couldn't care less about older gamers. Their target audiences are children, teens and young adults. They can continue to re-release effectively the exact same game over and over forever to this group because the group it's self it transitory.
It is a jarring experience when you lose adblock. Was dicking around with chromium and managed to break my plugins a few months ago. It had literally been years since I had seen the unfiltered net... yuk:)
I am not sure that follows. Even if every android app used google's mobile ad platform, which isn't even close to being reality, the conversion quality matters. In fact it matters a lot. Even CPM contracts are highly non linear with quality. At least they were when I was around the business in 2002ish.
Is it possible to do the same thing with built in data manager in ICS? I know it can be configured per app so I guess the real question is, can it be set to zero?
It missed Backspace As Back for linux, Kill Flash and Keep my Opt-Outs. Oddly, I don't feel violated. I had always, incorrectly it seems, assumed that a web app could request a list of available plugins.
As far as I know there have been exactly zero details about WP8 released. Although it is certainly reasonable to believe that MS wants to consolidate their markets it isn't clear that enough can be stripped from Win7/8 to make it work on phone hardware. And, it is a near certainty that no force on earth can push win7/8 down to the new 256MB ram devices that were just announced for the "tango" version of wp7.
It also begs the question what will happen to the existing silverlight based wp7 apps. Win8 "metro" apps are, as far as I know. written against the new WinRT APIs. Even if the migration is quite easy it isn't clear that an app written for the desktop will work on the very limited resources of existing WP7 devices.
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the effort it takes to be so willfully ignorant....
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromebook_acer_c710
I feel like Slashdot has run it's course for me. This wasn't even close to the worst recent summary but for some reason, to me, it seems the most intentional.
Goodbye /. and thanks for all the fish.
Single menu is the perfect example here. It is 100% pure form over function. All it buys is an unadorned display pane. It does this at the cost of always making the menu bar take up the maximum possible space and always positioning it away from where your focus, and usually your cursor, are.
A pretty good analogy to WP7 maybe?
Protip: They are quite stretchy
Spoiler: That is where babies come from
Ugg, I know you mean well and all but I never would have had to have seen that drivel if you hadn't responded :(
I couldn't agree more. I even stated as much.
If you are targeting a market that is very crowded on one platform and very open on another much smaller platform then it MAY be better to target the smaller one. Your office example is an excellent example of this.
A second scenario where the smaller platform may be better is for highly skewed demographics or usage patterns. For instance if I were developing a LOB app BB7 may very well be the best place to start. It would be worth investigating at the very least.
My issue is not with that fact that there are edge cases where the smaller platform can win. It is with the idea, that in general, you should start with the smaller, in this case smallest, platform. (smallest because BB10 hasn't been released yet)
"Because everyone is writing for iOS, and you'd have a lot less competition on the BB10 platform"
All fine and good. No one is suggesting that you can't make money on Linux or the Mac. I am not even suggesting that people won't make money coding for BB10. Hell, I will go as far as to say that people that specifically target deficiencies in BB10 may do well.
My reply was specifically about the idea that you should target low adoption platforms before high adoption ones "because there is less competition". It is nonsense, and that is what I wanted to illustrate with my analogy.
So you're suggesting that desktop software developers should develop for Linux instead of Windows? It is hard to overstate the absurdity of that statement.
You have invented the PadFone!
http://www.androidauthority.com/asus-padfone-release-date-specs-stylus-headset-57617/
Horrible statistical assumptions here. To compare success rates only, is to assume that the quality of the complaints in all districts had the same distribution. For the sake of argument lets say that 100% of the frivolous cases were filed in E. Texas and 0% in S. NY. You can plainly see that success rate alone would tell you nothing. I understand that this is not the case, the numbers are simply meant to illustrate the assumption being made.
In real terms there is reason to believe that there is indeed a skew in the validity of the cases brought however. How much? I have no idea. Perhaps a better statistic would be the number or trials verdicts that have been overturned?
Ahh the good old days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gj8bin3vlQ
Not to sound to harsh or anything but your users that can't figure how to print are allowed to install arbitrary software?
Also, if you are resource constrained then I assume you are still primarily on XP. Which caps your IE version at 8. Though an improvement on 7 and a huge leap from 6, still very long in the tooth compared to any modern browser including IE9.
If of course you have migrated to Vista or 7 then it sounds more like resource misallocation rather than limitations.
The chrome version of adblock has an option to permit only google text ads when it is installed. Either way, even if there was no FF there would still be a lot of other browsers if google went all rouge.
But, since those publicly available patents were so important to Microsoft's business they required an NDA. So, we will never know.
Nah, Nintendo couldn't care less about older gamers. Their target audiences are children, teens and young adults. They can continue to re-release effectively the exact same game over and over forever to this group because the group it's self it transitory.
It is a jarring experience when you lose adblock. Was dicking around with chromium and managed to break my plugins a few months ago. It had literally been years since I had seen the unfiltered net... yuk :)
I am not sure that follows. Even if every android app used google's mobile ad platform, which isn't even close to being reality, the conversion quality matters. In fact it matters a lot. Even CPM contracts are highly non linear with quality. At least they were when I was around the business in 2002ish.
PS: Looks like google currently has around 1/4 of the mobile ad space;
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-12/google-millennial-media-take-ad-share-away-from-apple-idc-says.html
Is it possible to do the same thing with built in data manager in ICS? I know it can be configured per app so I guess the real question is, can it be set to zero?
I got this:
[*] Detected addon: AdBlock (gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom)
[*] Detected addon: TinEye Reverse Image Search (haebnnbpedcbhciplfhjjkbafijpncjl)
[*] Detected addon: Scientific Calculator (npoipmeppdioagbkigdlnpmjphnolaog)
[*] Detected addon: Personal Blocklist (by Google) (nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef)
[*] Detected addon: YoWindow Weather (fanogbnclpilemkifpjeglokomebpnef)
It missed Backspace As Back for linux, Kill Flash and Keep my Opt-Outs. Oddly, I don't feel violated. I had always, incorrectly it seems, assumed that a web app could request a list of available plugins.
state machines are for cowards :p
Except it is about the size of Jupiter. The Mayans were way to lazy to build something like that, hell they couldn't even finish their calendar.
Speak for yourself..
Thanks, not sure how I missed that.
BTW, I would swap ballot and soap so that they are in order of effort.
As far as I know there have been exactly zero details about WP8 released. Although it is certainly reasonable to believe that MS wants to consolidate their markets it isn't clear that enough can be stripped from Win7/8 to make it work on phone hardware. And, it is a near certainty that no force on earth can push win7/8 down to the new 256MB ram devices that were just announced for the "tango" version of wp7.
It also begs the question what will happen to the existing silverlight based wp7 apps. Win8 "metro" apps are, as far as I know. written against the new WinRT APIs. Even if the migration is quite easy it isn't clear that an app written for the desktop will work on the very limited resources of existing WP7 devices.
Nothing will. This has been the case forever it seems.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/8/2855744/google-play-in-app-payments-wallet