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jrubyeron Indians cry out for Apple's attention

> How long have you been on Hacker News? Your account is only 20 days old; can you pass adequate judgment on the matter?

So, if a person's userid is 20 days old, then does it directly mean that the person has been using the site for only 20 days? what kind of logic is this?

jrubyeron Indians cry out for Apple's attention

sigh

Nope, I thought HN was for news related to startups and things that are interesting to hackers. If more and more of news submissions here become related to Apple, then doesn't this make it Apple News?

jrubyeron Indians cry out for Apple's attention

Why is Hacker News becoming more and more Apple News?

//I don't care about the downvotes, this needs to be said.

jrubyeron Save IE6

Is the browser render speed actually true? http://saveie6.com/compare.php

O_o

jrubyeron New Chrome Logo

Yes, it certainly seems that way. Recently Google has also changed the logos of gmail, gcal, greader etc and this looks like Chrome's turn.

jrubyeron New Chrome Logo

Is there any design related reason that explains this change? Or is this just random?

jrubyeron Flickr Burning As Yahoo Fiddles: Head Of Service Walks Away

I recommend deviantart (unless you're going to upload personal photos)

jrubyeron Xcode 4 - review

Why $5? Seems to be a bit random.

jrubyeron Convince me to quit my day job

explain?

jrubyeron WebOS will be on 'every HP PC' shipping next year, says CEO

Interesting times we live in..

jrubyeron Nokia X1-00 for developing countries: built-in flashlight, 61-day battery life

>>Flashlight, Loud speaker, Battery life

This is gonna sell truckloads.

jrubyeron Nintendo reserves the right to brick your 3DS if piracy detected

>>Nintendo has proven that you don't need bleeding edge graphics to sell consoles

That's true, but you do need a deep and enjoyable gaming experience to be successful - something which I don't think the appstore model of pricing around 99cents is going to bring out soon. So, the DS and PSP are here to stay.

tl:dr deep and fun games > graphics power

jrubyeron Ubuntu 11.10 named Oneiric Ocelot

I was wondering the same too. Anyone have any info on this?

jrubyeron The Chair

>>Realistically, if you have maybe 1500 of the most popular apps, you have enough to pretty well serve the market.

Yes, that's the point. It's just that iPad now has so many good quality apps compared to Android. It _may_ change in future, but for the time being iPad wins. (The total number of apps never matters, most of them are crap anyway)

jrubyeron The Chair

>> I don't really see the relevance of the number of applications to the the UI experience.

This is silly, without apps what value does it offer?

jrubyeron Microsoft tablet OS not coming until fall 2012?

If you actually think about this for more than 5 seconds, you'd realise that they're releasing an OS that's both a successor to windows 7 and a tablet OS. It's like Apple merging iOS and OSX[1] and releasing it as OSX 10.8!

[1] yes, both have same core, but they have different set of functionalities. And they are gonna merge it somewhere down the road.

jrubyeron Ask HN: How does Google make money off of Android?

Funny, that's around the same amount MS charges for WP7! And they say WP7 can't compete with Android b'coz it's non-free.

jrubyeron Live from Apple's iPad 2 event

>>My parents aren't Apple fans. They're not nerds. They spend a lot of time frustrated with technology. They're nuts about their iPad because it works really well. That's it. Adding a USB port isn't going to make them like it better. It's going to make it more complex, which is going to degrade their experience in using it.

This is interesting. I'm curious, how do they manage the music/photos/videos in their ipad? Doesn't syncing by cord with the computer a messy thing? Or do you do it for them? How do they use it?

jrubyeron Ask HN: Why do OSX applications look more polished than Windows/Linux?

>>Making an app pretty is more deeply ingrained into the development culture on the Mac side.

This is actually my question, why is it like this? Any reasons behind it?

jrubyeron Ask HN: Why do OSX applications look more polished than Windows/Linux?

I actually meant third party applications. Sorry for causing misunderstanding, question updated.