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Considering this is a developer conference, and you need to have a Mac to develop iPhone or OS X apps, it seems somewhat fair to expect someone wanting to watch to be on a Mac.

Maps are fine, searching still isn't as good as google. However, since google maps is available as a separate app now, that is better than iOS5 maps, there's no reason to not upgrade.

The "40% higher conversion rates" for not requiring CVV is extremely suspect to me. Looking at the paper, it wasn't an A/B test, but comparing entire sites. There could be any number of variables causing a difference in conversion rates.

On top of that, there is no published date, but it does mention May 2007 being in the future. Six years is an eternity in the ecommerce space, and I have a feeling people are more familiar with what the CVV code is and where it is located today.

None of the pages on your site appear to be scrollable on the desktop? It looks like you have an overflow:hidden attached to body, which will prevent anyone from being able to scroll down if their browser is not tall enough.

The objective is to have reusable stages. Instead of letting them burn up in the atmosphere, they land vertically to be reused.

Varies wildly from company to company. Some will keep an eye on the market, and make sure they are paying you market rate. If you're great, they'll make sure you're paid more than market so you don't have any reason to even talk.

However, many companies will only open their checkbooks when you're hired, or when you have an offer they need to counter. These are the companies that suck to work for because everyone is talking and interviewing to get their next raise. How can you trust your employees?

Apple airships pretty much everything. If you settle for transit by boat, you're going to have at least 4 weeks between leaving the factory and being in someones hands. Apple pushes to hold stock less than 1 week.

Their normal site has become so difficult to navigate, logo overhanging on videos, slow javascript/rendering, etc.

I've visited the basic tumblr site much more than I would normally visit their site.

Funded! Looks very well done from the prototypes, can't wait to see what you guys end up with.

This is no mystery to most of the third world, you just set up your own personal sweatshop.

I'm sure it will work great, until they alter their page layout ever so slightly. Change an id here or there. Then you have to scramble to fix for the new layout while your 'API' is down.

Foxconn denied the report this morning. This article is referencing a release from yesterday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/business/foxconn-denies-re...

If you want to limit yourself to a 500-700 machine, then do that. You can buy used macs, refurb macs, mac minis, etc.

There is no requirement to spend 1200 on a mac to begin development.

There is no requirement to get a DUNS number to develop on the App Store.

As far as a server certificate goes, there is no $175 certificate for notifications. However, if you are running a web service it would be sensible for you to acquire a SSL certificate, regardless of what platform you are developing for.

Volume data would be nice.

I'd say more than 75% of the registrars do this.

If the average price of hardware hasn't gone up, which it hasn't, then they have cut costs for consumers.

Regardless of where they handle the accounting on their end, cost of ownership has gone down.

Because Apple's cost cutting has increased competition. Increased competition is usually better for consumers.

Considering he has a 4 day work week, I imagine he gets a little more sleep Friday-Sunday to make up for it.

Yeah, I feel the slight advantages it brings to the table are easily overwhelmed by the fact that I have to carry two sets of images, and use browser detection to switch between them. Even if Firefox and IE picked it up, their older versions are still not going to support the format. This makes it not very useful for at least 4-5 years.

I know they're adding Vegas soon, but adding NYC would be absolutely killer. I would sign up immediately for LA-Vegas-NYC.

Looks good, but the textured background definitely doesn't help readability. The lighter grey on the visited text is fairly difficult to read against it.

Wouldn't 'avoiding the drama' be not making a post about this at all?

In question 17, he lists two code 9 relatives, which means sister. I thought his only sister was Mona Simpson?

I'd love to see how much the RIAA/MPAA claim that megaupload was costing them in piracy. Surely we'll see that money just come flying in now that megaupload has been shut down?

So you hate learning the "myriad of keyboard shortcuts needed to get stuff done on a Mac," but are praising the intuitiveness of "hold Alt and middle click anywhere near a corner of a window to start resizing it?"

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The big changes Tim Cook is going to make are adding flash to iOS and Blu-Ray to Mac? Are you kidding me? Maybe 3 years ago those would have been big, but both platforms are now getting along just fine without them.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like it would be better to speak with the VC directly about this. If you can't have a candid conversation about expenses with one of your investors, you probably shouldn't be in business with them.

Drafting up the expenses agreement, having the board approve it, and having the comptroller deal with it seems like a lot of work that could have been dealt with by a simple conversation instead.

"Mr. Cook sent an email around to everyone saying Apple wouldn’t change. That seems a little weird to me; I seem to remember that not too many years ago Apple was a computer company that didn’t do music. Isn’t change at the center of their success?"

I don't think he was saying that they will keep making the same products forever, it's that their core values aren't going to change, as they shouldn't. It's in the companies nature to experiment in new products, and that is what is not going to change.

"...in history’s rear-view, his biggest achievement will be having ripped music retailing out of the labels’ hands, and mobile software out of the telephone companies."

Those are great achievements, but Apple II? Lisa/Mac? Pixar? Rescuing a failing company and bringing it from oblivion to the most valuable company in the world in only 14 years?