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Is this an established theory? Out of curiosity, I'm interested in sources.

UI nag: the fixed header is not functional (how often do people search a blog)?

That is a very presumptuous observation. Reviews are subjective by definition. I have also spent a certain sum of money buying apps I could not return, despite the great reviews. For instance, many apps have very backwards UI's that I have no patience for, but some reviewers are seemingly OK with.

Apple certainly doesn't owe anyone a trial system, but more than anything I find it odd they don't see the value of it. For instance, it would arguably result in far more impulsive purchases.

Which is terrible UI. I don't think we're disagreeing so much as diverging on the definition of what constitutes an issue here.

The last point is a great idea. I've had my NAS Time Machine backup get corrupted and TM forcing me to redo a full backup a few times now to the point of me abandoning it entirely..

Agreed. Reminds me of the list headers in iOS, e.g. in the Address Book.

Surely you can't say that about `git branch -d` vs. `git rm` and other puzzling inconsistencies.

No, but the first thing I did was check to see if every button was a table. Was not disappointed.

That's the downside of keeping your data in a service. This is a conceptual problem due to the lack of agreed upon data protocols. Google Reader has highlighted the issue well, and more services are to follow I'm sure. This is an issue that never existed for files since they by definition conform to a specific format.

RSS and CalDAV are examples of web data formats which do work. I'd like to see more formats like that, or perhaps an ability to fall back to export data as files from web services.

The only thing I can think of is to set up contact, calendar etc. sync to Google (via ActiveSync or otherwise). Calendars won't magically transfer over since they're assigned to a particular calendar, on iCloud in your case, but contacts should get pushed to Google. That'll at least give you a backup of your contacts, and setting up the other devices the same way should sync them all up.

Can anyone else chime in? Does this sound reasonable? I've had everything on my iPhone synced up to Google services for about 4 years now and it's never caused any issues.

I don't know anything about Core Data so pardon my ignorance. How has Apple marketed Core Data? I'm asking because the issues you've mentioned are solved well by SQLite, but perhaps that's because Core Data wasn't designed to be used in anything but the simplest use cases? That tends to happen with solutions that are magical.

Where does euro fit in?

Being in it for the money is not the same as caring about your well-being. I have no trouble imagining someone who does not care about money but cares greatly about their well being.

That's not the point. The point is that I don't want to try the product until I know what it does…

>I also like that your demo is somehow hidden

I don't. I opened the page, stared at the massive QR code, tried to get an idea about the product based on the right-hand side list, and closed the page still unsure how the product works exactly.

But it has won nevertheless. The question then is what we are to do to move the web into the realm of applications. I don't have an answer, but one advantage mobile apps hold is UI standardization.

There is no one right way to build an app for the web the way there is for Android or iOS. That's a problem for both the applications authors and users. Cappuccino attempted to solve that problem in a way that did not appeal to programmers, it seems. jQuery UI succeeded to a point, and now Bootstrap seems to be the framework of choice. Perhaps a widget-based UI framework that can target the desktop and mobile devices would make sense.

There is typically nothing stopping you from using your email as a username, though. I like the freedom of using either, to be honest.

Such as the parent link of this post…

I've been waiting for years and i'll wait until the day there is an offline mode or a patch. It's the principle.

Some great insight, but I do wonder if it was ghost-written. Courtney certainly didn't give up her Prada pants, nor has she fully quit the machine: in 2004, she released a solo LP on Virgin records, and in 2010 she released another as part of reformed Hole on Mercury, a Universal Music subsidiary.

EDIT: On the other hand, Kevin Shields of the My Bloody Valentine whom Courtney mentions has made some great choices by waiting for digital distribution to mature and self-releasing his long-awaited album. Good work.

And your car is powered by corporate gasoline. And Tim Berners-Lee was using a corporate NeXT box. There is still a degree of freedom that Internet provides, and it's our duty to keep it at the same level or greater.

I was going to say. Disabling hjkl makes moving between word wrapped lines impossible

Indeed, mseebach's answer is really saying that those metrics are irrelevant to him.

> I'm sick of being given life advice by weathly, privileged Americans who think they're wise because they've made it to their thirties without massively fucking anything up.

Eek.

A somewhat unrelated conceptual question: if Chrome is putting web apps alongside desktop apps, what does that do for usability of apps on a platform in general? If a web app was created to emulate a native OS UI, wouldn't that be taking a bit of a step backwards (in terms of recreating all the widgets) compared to just coding in the native toolkit in the first place?

I guess what I'm really asking is, what's Google's plan for unifying the Web Store apps visually the way Android and iOS do with their UI kits?

What about iOS and Android? One is a Unix, the other a Linux. If you mean in the "truly open-source" fashion, then it's entirely up to the UI when it comes to the masses. I've personally never liked Unity due to very inconsistent buggy UI, and enjoyed Gnome 3 much more. The more competition the merrier, though.

What's wrong with hedonism? Or am I misreading what you're saying.

Please don't lump everyone wanting to JB into the same (laughable, to me) SBSettings or the even more presumptuous pirating use cases. For example, I'm in Canada, and my favourite music service is Grooveshark (Spotify is not available). The only way to get the Grooveshark iOS app is through jailbreaking.

Especially considering that Android is a Linux…

It has the added benefit of no one getting upset in case you have to change your plans. You were just inviting them to join you, versus you agreed to meet up together and then flaked out. Most people in my experience treat those two identical situations differently.