sgarg's comments

One area where I think camera makers could really improve is in coaching people how to take better pictures. I'm sure there are some good mobile apps out there but as a casual camera user, I would love to take my camera off auto-mode and actually learn how to use the advanced features. If I'm shooting portraits or landscapes, it would be great if the camera could intelligently let me know, "Why don't you try this exposure/aperture for a better picture". Pretty soon I would start to learn on my own.

Thanks for the reply. Are you saying that all of these countries support two-way messaging? It's my impression after signing up and looking at pricing pages that many of these countries only support outbound messaging.

The 200+ countries is slightly misleading, especially when the title mentions two-way messaging. I've done a lot of research into messaging/SMS providers like Twilio, Nexmo, Plivo, etc for supporting two-way messaging in developing countries. Most providers currently only support two-way messaging in similar subset of countries in North America and Europe. Since it is powered by Twilio, I don't think it adds any new countries and definitely not 200.

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223183068-Twili...

I really liked this write-up because it focused on the practicality of the various security mechanisms. Most articles I see usually have a blanket statement like "All biometric security mechanisms are bad!". I think this article does a good job comparing the various logins and describing the pros and cons for different people. Specifically, I appreciate the author calling out when people bring up the "What if" edge-cases, where the correct response is you likely have much bigger problems at that point than the security level of your phone.

I'm with you. Before watching the keynote, I was looking forward to the new phones but the presentation made me more excited about the new Apple Watch with LTE.

I may be in a minority, but over the past few years, I've been trying to actively reduce the amount of times I pull out my phone. I feel like it will be liberating to leave home without your phone to go to dinner or go for a run, but still connected through the Apple Watch. Although it will still display notifications, I personally won't be tempted to browse Twitter or Instagram when I have a free moment.

You are right. I realize I contradicted myself. I guess what I mean is that Bootstrap lowers the barrier for good web design substantially and shares some of Twitter's best known methods. Similarly I wish a big app development company would share some of their experiences and maybe provide some insight on the best way to customize and modify the existing Apple UI elements. For example, I can modify the existing design by using several subviews or imageviews or drawing layers but I don't know which is the best way in terms of performance or if other companies do this.

I think this is really great. I started iOS development a few months ago and I find one of the hardest parts about making applications is differentiating the design. While I like the standard iOS design elements, to make a professional looking application you have to spend a lot of time tweaking the design. For me specifically it has been UITableView and the corresponding cells. I am glad that this gives me another option to explore and obviously I would have to customize this as well. But its a step in the right direction and hopefully other companies follow suit.

Maybe its just me but what would really make my day is some sort of equivalent of Bootstrap for iOS applications. A set of Objective-C classes that standardize and make it easy to quickly reach a certain level of quality design.

I came across this article last summer, also featured in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/world/asia/09gurgaon.html?...

I think it is a much better analysis and look at the underlying issues that plague India as it struggles to deal with modernization and globalization. The article in this post wasn't quite an analysis but more of a description or summarization of the what is happening. The article from last summer, while it doesn't exactly cover the same scope and exact subject matter, focuses on many of the same phenomenon. Definitely worth checking out.

I completely agree. Would you trust Yelp for restaurant reviews if Yelp invested in the restaurants it provided reviews for? Of course not. Like you said, the only way to really punish behavior like this is to stop using their product.