Remove features. Get rid of options. Don’t ask the user to make decisions.
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It’s also why people who don’t use Apple products don’t understand what all the fuss is about. The fuss is about all of the fuss put into making sure every pixel is exactly where it should be on every screen, in every program, all the time.
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Though confirmed by this week’s HP decisions to change direction and ditch the PC business, let’s understand something: the HP I knew died many years ago.
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Get a Free Android to your haircut. Anyone still wondering why there are so many Androids sold?
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I’d rather use a service that has a strong, single-minded vision, even if some of the decisions aren’t exactly how I’d want them, than a washed-out, milquetoast service created by committee, designed to meet market demand, that tries to make everybody happy.
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A friend of mine has a Nexus S and it is a pleasure to use. The UI is elegant and functional. The battery lasts for days. In short, it is everything that the Charge wasn’t. I’d love to see Google somehow mandate the stock Android experience on all phones, or somehow rigorously test all new phones before they could be launched.
Because open is just great.
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Let me further this by saying that this has nothing to do with “open” and “closed” systems. Maybe I went into this dumb experiment not knowing what “open” meant. But if I’m to learn anything, I guess I’ll take away that open means way too many shitty, plagiarized apps; the ability to add different, shittier keyboards; gaping holes left by Google to be filled by third parties2; dozens, if not hundreds, of different devices that may or may not be able to run certain apps or do certain things; and a general lack of coherency.
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Here’s what’s funny: When I’ve seen Nathan speak publicly about this and when I’ve seen spokespeople from IV they constantly remind us that they themselves don’t bring lawsuits, that they themselves aren’t litigators, that they are a defensive player. But the truth is the threat of their patent arsenal can’t actually be realized, it can’t be taken seriously, unless they have that offensive posture, unless they’re willing to assert those patents. And so it’s this very delicate balancing act that is quite reminiscent of scenes you see in movies when the mafia comes and visits your butcher shop and they say, “Hey, It would be a real shame if they came and sued you. Tell you what: pay us an exorbitant membership fee into our collective and we’ll keep you protected that way.” A protection scheme isn’t credible if some butcher shops don’t burn down now and then.
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Users of pretender apps get an experience that falls squarely in the uncanny valley — it looks like a native app, but something isn’t quite right. If you’ve decided to deliver your app via the Web, you should embrace the capabilities and constraints of the Web. Don’t spend time and resources making a pretender app, spend that time making a great app that works on the Web.
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No matter how much you try, you can’t stop people from sticking beans up their nose. The idea is blindingly simple, actually. Every so often, you’ll run into someone with beans who has, for no good reason, decided to put them up their own nose. Way up there. In a place where beans should not go.
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Arthur C. Clarke
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