ocean12's comments

No serious person can argue the skill level of today’s NBA players isn’t vastly superior to those of 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago.

“The number one thing to look for in a great moka pot is a basket that’s large enough to accommodate a proper coffee-to-water ratio. It should also be easy to assemble and have thicker walls and a wide base for better heat distribution.“

Serious Eats says Bialetti, even after all the changes, is still much better than anything on the market.

https://www.seriouseats.com/moka-pot-cheap-espresso-alternat...

That’s because it required a special person to fix the telescope.

I refuse to use them, even when it pushes me back to the default apps that came with the device.

As a tech enthusiast, I've spent the last several months watching the iOS7 design arguments play out online, and I've read a few reviews with interest this week.

So it was with interest that I observed my wife and MIL's reactions to the upgrade on their iPads, which was really no big deal at all.

A cogent reminder to me that there's a vast difference between us and them.

"the best instant coffee"

I'm sorry, but no such thing exists. :)

I love the promotions tab for exactly the reason that marketers hate it. If I haven't opened an email in the promotions folder after a week, I've begun unsubscribing from it.

And now a few weeks later my inbox's without the tabs (phone and tablet) are a lot cleaner and more sane.

Newegg and Groupon and other mass marketers _have_ to hate this.

This is absolutely a true statement:

"(T)he primary problem with using market share as a measure of business health is it provides no insight into the profitability of the product being sold."

But other than that, the answer to "who is winning" is first defined by what goals the competitors are competing to reach.

If Androids goal is market share, and Apples goal is profit, both could be winning...and at the same time.

I thought that the more interesting part of the interview was this answer about why Chrome OS and Android both exist:

q: But can’t it be confusing having two operating systems?

a: Users care about applications and services they use, not operating systems. Very few people will ask you, “Hey, how come MacBooks are on Mac OS-X and iPhone and iPad are on iOS? Why is this?” They think of Apple as iTunes, iCloud, iPhoto...The picture may look different a year or two from from now, but in the short term, we have Android and we have Chrome, and we are not changing course.

I'm curious: in which areas does iOS functionality lag the other competing mobile OS's?

A 'meh' review of the alpha (beta?) devices floating around right now:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/google-glass-googles-wearab...

It's good to have options...and options are what the market is providing to us.

I don't see how anyone who makes an open-minded choice can go wrong when selecting what best fits _them_.

TLDR answer: in about the same place, with Samsung still being their biggest competitor using something other than Android as their mobile OS.

Ars Technica has been doing a lot of excellent work recently.

" Was I the only one that missed the part where the article explains why "It's Still the Platform to Beat"? "

I don't think you missed it; I think you dismissed or disagreed with it.

It's here: iOS has undeniably great, intuitive touch-based gestures and a straightforward layout.

And here: “It’s that simplicity, combined with a deep developer and app ecosystem, that really has given iOS its power with users.”

And here: One of the biggest benefits of the current iOS platform, from a developer standpoint, is that no matter what type of app you’re creating, you can find a few hundred existing examples of what works. And that isn’t always true on other platforms

For example, WNM Live CEO Brian Hamachek said when his company decided to create a Windows Phone app, there was “not much we could use as a basis for how it should be laid out, we had to come out with own path — which can be a little risky.” As for Android, Hamachek said it’s “like the wild west” and that there really isn’t much of a standard user interface to go off of, which isn’t good for devs or users.

Apple’s human interface guidelines make it easy create an app that looks and feels like an iOS app.

" If you look at the progress not just in design, but software, hardware and everything. Samsung, HTC, Nokia, all the major manfs have come miles further than Apple in the last 5 years when it comes to hardware design. "

Hardware design is just one (of many) important characteristics in smartphone design. Of much greater importance is the balance across the different characteristics.

" is iOS really stale? "

They are still selling every phone they can make, so I would guess no. The hardware, mostly the screen, needs some refreshing to be current with hardware on other platforms, but no, I wouldn't call it stale.

More like the media looking for something to talk about while waiting for the new, next iPhone to come out.

It's only Android 4 and higher.

Awful.

Paul Thurrott:

"You start using it, I'll start my countdown to the service's death."

https://twitter.com/thurrott/status/314476511497445376