I still wish they'd give reasons why. even if it was a checkbox thing. 'primary reason of rejection: no-cofounder' or 'bad idea', 'need more demo', 'not our area of interest', 'try again with this team and idea in 6 months' etc.
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I disagree with Speed of the remote too. sure it's fast to flip channels and radio stations but that's not much different than clicking next on a page as long as the button doesn't move it's just as fast. I for the life of me can't figure out how to turn on closed captioning on my tv with the comcast remote. I know it can be done, but to be honest where ever it is it's not obvious. And how do I find the channel comedy central is on if I don't know it? I have browse a channel at a time? this is horrible with a few hundred channels, they need to make it more scalable like DNS + search engines is (on demand actually has a decent interface lets make the whole guide alphabetical shall we). On a radio the only reason I can get directly to say station 106.1 is because I have it programmed in to my favorites. Radio's UI would be much simpler if they had a keypad like a phone and you could type in numbers as well as with a seek.
He says designers need to learn more about traditional product design but honestly tell me how you're going to translate a 3D dresser drawer to a website.
He says that more users move from individual designed websites to "platforms" (my simplification) this is not true, lots of people who had there own site now use these platforms for additional marketing, most have not moved from there original source. Most users using these sites do not have, never did, and never will have a need for a professionally built site.
Also Technology moves from primitive to complicated to simple? that what I call the Comcast remote with 100 buttons and not one can turn on closed captioning. I can't honestly think of technologies that moved from primitive to complicated to simple. Most I see only get more complicated as features are added, sure some have really bad UI and are complicated but that doesn't mean that's how technology works. Would you say the telephone today is more or less complicated than even 20 years ago? In fact I'd say that all technology just gets more complicated not less, though sometimes the UI gets improved to hide that complication.
Honestly I don't think this guy has a clue at reality, his head is in a Silicon Valley reality perhaps.
um... wow... this 1 sentence discredits the entire email. Object Oriented Databases were a HUGE failure. I can't be sure but PostgreSQL might be the only surviving one, and it survived because it went relational. just my 2 cents.
I think I'd rather not have 100% uptime and have periodically tested systems, to increase reliability as long as I know when my server MAY go down.
in a non trolling way, I'd like to see a PostgreSQL for MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle users.
of course you are right there aren't a thousand people like jobs, you'd be lucky to find 1, but the point of it is that there are plenty of people to fill his position, you just want to find half his brilliance. however, if your product is abysmal crap nothing will save it, not even Jobs. In fact part of the reason Jobs is so good is he'll cut your product, and you, for doing a crappy job.