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tommi | 11 years ago | on: Swift Resistance

How well do you see Clojure as a language fitting in the UIKit patterns?

tommi | 11 years ago | on: Trnio – Turn your iPhone into a 3D scanner

From testing this on iOS 8, I'd say you released the app too soon. Taking photos took very long, it crashed, I don't know what happens to the photos I take (where they will end up) and UI needs lots of polishing. The 3D tech side of it looked cool, though.

tommi | 11 years ago | on: UX Crash Course: User Psychology

> Also, it should NEVER be difficult to cancel. Just time consuming. And to be super clear "time consuming" to me is about 5 minutes.

As a user, I hate you for that.

tommi | 12 years ago | on: Google+ Is Walking Dead

> Also...is anyone else surprised by the 1,000 - 1,200 employee numbers for Google+?

Yes. I don't believe it. Here's some random numbers (head counts in teams)

  - Core 50
  - Ops 20
  - Web 50
  - Android 50
  - Other mobile platforms 50
  - Integrations to other products 150
  - Technical writers, support etc 30
That's still only 400 employees. How would you allocate 1,200 employees to Google+?

tommi | 12 years ago | on: Prismic.io goes live

Take this as a positive criticism. Good looking website but it me took too long to get it. Not really sure if I still fully got it.

The site doesn't really doesn't say what it is. "Manage your content in one place. Display it your way. Using your favorite technology. prismic.io is a different approach to content management." - all that seems like filler text to me.

I watched the video. It was way too complex. All the close up shots, error messages, etc. Make it simpler.

btw. I wouldn't go searching answer to API questions in a blog.

tommi | 12 years ago | on: Dropbox for Business

Not going to happen. Part of the reason is just what you mentioned: they care about their customers. With various clients they would have to support the problems coming from all of the clients and that would cause their service to look bad even though the problem lies within client app.

tommi | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Jelly

There are rarely questions that I'm willing to wait undefined amount of time to get an answer to, if the other option is to use little more time to get the answer right away. When I'm on the road, which seems to what Jelly is targeting, I'm interested in things right there. E.g. "I'm hungry in downtown Seattle, what's a good sushi place?"

tommi | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Jelly

Is the answer to build a new social network? No.

Funny, your phrase "what are those little people statues at the 14th St. 8th Ave. subway station" returns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Underground as the first response for me, which I assume is what you are looking for. It seems that many of the examples are just location based information that is better served via map.

tommi | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Jelly

Seems like the landing page is full of fluff. All I see are feel good sentences about helping each other, Albert Einstein, etc.

The big down side is this: "“What’s this?” That query is submitted to some people in your network who also have Jelly".

I have +400 friends on Facebook. Out of those, maybe 3 will install Jelly to try it out. Even with taking friends-of-friends taken in to consideration, it's just a very limited set of people. Would I really want to use this app to post a question that I can probably find answer just by looking a map, doing a google search or posting to Facebook/Twitter?

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