tdm911's comments

I'm not sure your points are valid.

The iPhone is not priced three times more than equivalent phones. Outright prices are not available in the US, but in England an iPhone 4 starts at £499 and a HTC Desire is £449.

Software updates for the iPhone have always been free from Apple (iPod Touch was different).

Finally, with regard to accessories, I don't think that's a fair comment either. If I purchased a HTC phone 12 months ago and then replaced it with a Desire/Hero etc, then there is every chance the accessories would be different.

I wish Apple would keep the dock the same over all iPhones, but I understand why they change it too. They have universal docks available and offer the slip in connectors allowing you to use the dock for multiple devices. This is more than I can say of most companies.

i like:

"Please contact us with any questions by e-mailing us at the address below. All complaints and feature requests will be immediately stored using our S4-backed user request database."

you're right, i don't, but that's where the phone point is, so i'm kind of stuck with it unless i re-cable the house somewhat.

you're correct in some ways, but it's not that easy. plugged into the usb hub are:

keyboard (could be replaced with wireless) external hard drive - time machine. i prefer it this way than over wireless iphone dock (hidden underneath macbook) speakers - they are usb based

the second power board is simply there because i may need it in the future.

i'm interested, has anyone else got a different take on cable management? surely other HN readers have their own solutions?

they are batched up to some extent. i find i get 2-3 apps appear on each invoice (sometimes more). it only seems to cover a couple of days generally though.

what will this mean for other twitter app developers? twitter will be competing head on with them and presumably be able to implement new features quicker and easier.

along similar lines, one of my favourite things about the iphone is the lack of carrier branding. i can only speak for australia, but carriers over here like to stick their logos all over the phone itself and re-brand the software interface also. it creates a horrible ugly mess.

well, i hear there are some jobs opening up at garmin.

no, not on hand. it's my impression as a user, from blog posts by developers and the comments here on hacker news.

true, but as i recall that only had 2 or 3 purchases in total before being pulled. it also had notoriety as the most expensive app on the app store.

i don't mean to doubt the experiment, but 14 people paid $299 for this game? my understanding is that sales of any app over $5 are quite hard to come by. looking at this game in itunes, it really shows nothing that i imagine would convince someone to pay any more that a few dollars for.

itunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/zits-giggles/id309069413?mt=8

though some media reports may say otherwise, australia hasn't had a significant decrease in property values in the last 5 years.

there are some isolated cases of properties/suburbs falling significantly in price, but absolutely nothing like what has happened in the united states.

in particular, inner city areas have continued to experience growth year on year.

i tried under the sheet, it annoyed me and was inconvenient. personal preference though.

my phone sits on my bedside table, next to my bed. easily close enough for the wakemate connection.

for me, the biggest hurdle to sleep cycle is that it needs to be physically on my bed whilst i sleep, whereas WakeMate is a wrist band.

i used sleep cycle for a while, however the phone would fall off my bed or i had to place it under my pillow (which is not recommended because of heat). plus, i don't really like having the phone that close to me whilst sleeping.

i look forward to WakeMate, i think it will be a more complete solution.

Whilst I agree with your comments in most circumstances, Gruber has an excellent track record with Apple rumours.

Have the goal posts moved again Jason?

i'm also getting a list of every page under 300 words and having the page managers build them out in 30 days or deleting them.

from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1143512

or

we're removing (or building out) any page in our system created by our users with under 200 words of original content. This will take a couple of weeks but it's tarted.

from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144174

and now 100 words?

sadly, yes. i used to read his blog when it was good natured poking of fun at the tech industry (arrington, scoble etc) but since he seems to have developed some issue with tech crunch, he has become vindictive, nasty and nothing more than an internet troll.

Loren Feldman responds:

http://www.1938media.com/crunchgate-what-makes-sammy-run/

Me personally? I signed up for Divvyshot a few weeks ago and forgot about it. I'm about to go check it out again now. I like Sam's attitude and honesty.

Yes and then decided to give my take on it, much in the same way Gruber has given his take on it.

Neither of us know for sure why Apple did what they did.