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I’m not sure about the methodology here… Apple has a huge retail workforce that almost certainly plays a role.

ETA: Sort of analogous to Amazon’s warehouse workforce.

I couldn’t find it in the source, but I assume they’re only counting people who _have_ left these companies? Otherwise growing companies with a higher percentage of newer employees would be heavily penalized.

The individual citizen (!) who lobbied tirelessly for this bill tried to get a broader version passed in the previous session. Unfortunately as bbanyc45 points out there was too much opposition from entrenched interests for that to pass. So he tried again (which is pretty admirable), this time using narrower language.

The preview video (linked elsewhere) shows the ability to add an Extension to run a specific workflow using iOS Profiles. I'm pretty sure that functionality isn't present in the released version.

There's a pretty straightforward SMS confirmation thing you can enable by logging in to your Square account. Tested and it seems to work well. Also note that the weekly transfer limit is $250 if you don't verify yourself, so the risk is somewhat limited.

Have you tried OnSip? We use Lylix with a customized Asterisk install with Cisco SIP phones, but it's kind of a headache to manage.

The only reasons not to get one are (1) Not-great hardware, if you love top-of-the-line stuff, it'll fall short, (2) Sprint's network is pretty sucky, and you can't roam onto Verizon like I believe you can with regular Sprint, (3) Virgin Mobile doesn't allow VM forwarding so you can't easily use Google Voice for Voicemail.

On the other hand, it's a nearly-pure Froyo experience, the battery life and performance is great, the plans are dead cheap, it has awesome hardware buttons not crappy haptic capacitive ones, a Market install of "Quick Settings" opens up the Wifi Hotspot feature. Seriously, $25/mo?!

Anyway, I bought one, and coming off an old iPhone (and AT&T), I think it's great so far. Might have to reevaluate after I spend some time out of the metro area and away from Interstates.

Right on. "Company announces Y, but Where's Z?" is just like the "Is X is a Y Killer?" template that does nothing more than drive page views and indulge the author's preconceived biases. The tech press is the worst!

Yeah, I feel like a lot of distributed startups have had these 'video portals' going at one time or another. I know we have.

Generally use drops off (in favor of standard one-on-one or one-to-many videoconferences) after the novelty ends. Primarily because the fidelity sucks and there are better uses for a large monitor, like watching YouTube videos during lunch.

There are some rough edges (like the SMS sending screen, yuck) but what I'm impressed by is how performant the app is on my old-ass 3G. It seems to open faster than the SMS or Dialer apps do. Probably 'cause it was developed back when the 3G was cutting-edge!

I love his "better ideas" series of videos: http://www.nenshi.ca/new/policy

I don't know anything about Calgary, but I was fascinated by the detail provided in the videos.

Wow, that's fascinating. My gut reaction to the term "corn sugar" is "that doesn't sound too bad."

True, and I believe Verizon is in the process of doing just that.

Great point. I'd also like to know how people actually use the devices. How many people download apps regularly, how many minutes they spend using the web browser daily. I bet you'd see some really differences between the platforms.

Weird then that he regularly uses an iPhone and iPad which presumably don't offer this functionality.

That, and more and more browsing is done using easily zoomable browsers like Mobile Safari. It's becoming less likely that users will experience your site at its "native" resolution, so anything that moves away from poorly-scalable images is a good thing.

I love how the common user suggestion to "just make it a setting" is immediately downvoted. Hacker News FTW.

Everything is dependent on your market. To paraphrase Dharmesh Shah, "enterprise products are sold, not bought." Part of that selling process is making sure prospects know you exist, and understand the value you provide. Cold calls are one way to do that. Not a very cost effective (or effective) way to do it, but still one way.

Personal example: today I got a cold call from a guy who runs a shop that produces short video interviews with companies and their customers. Their product looks awesome, but they're so small and I new I probably would have never found them otherwise. We'll probably use them.

On the other hand, if we do it, that'll be the second cold-call product I will have purchased in 10 years running this business.

In this example the Mercedes also costs the same as a Honda, right?

Look, Apple sets expectations super high, and to a certain extent that's their fault. But they're also innovating like crazy and, unfortunately, there are bound to be some missteps. Would you rather they slow things down a bit? I wouldn't.

It's a little weird that the iPad-ish device on the homepage appears to be running the Windows version of Firefox.

Great, I just lost like 20 minutes.

If you have an iPhone or Android device with GPS, I'd suggest Runkeeper (http://www.runkeeper.com). The app and site is top-notch.

This is absolutely going to get scribd bought by Adobe. It's a no-brainer. Case closed. Amazing work, guys!

All I know is that I love being part of a community that gets that joke.

In my experience Apple has pretty high quality refurb processes (replacing excessively scratches chassis, etc) - so while it might not be brand new you might end up with something better than what you started with.

That said, given some of the probable porno use cases of the iPad...

Just to clarify something that appears to be a common misconception - Apple doesn't ever replace the iPad battery, it just gives you a whole new iPad for $105.95:

http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/service/battery/

As a point of comparison, my Lenovo batteries that always seem to crap about a few years in cost about $100:

http://www.newegg.com/Store/BrandSubCategory.aspx?Brand=1041...

So... that's a pretty great deal. And I think speaks to how comfortable they are with the battery longevity. Or how fat their margins are.

Less space than a Nomad.

Sounds a lot like the people who said they would move to Canada if George W Bush won. It's one thing to make threats like this, it's another thing completely to follow through with them.

His complaints:

(1) You don't know how it will _feel_ (It's Apple so that's pretty much the one thing that is guaranteed to be fine)

(2) You don't know which iPhone apps will run correctly (get over it, the software will be buggy and under-featured for the first 6 months, but the web browser will work great and that's all that really matters. Remember iPhone OS 1.0?)

(3) How much will iPad-only apps cost? (A good question. My guess: another race to the bottom)

I'm also super impressed. You could have gone in any number of crazy directions but you kept it simple (dashboard, incoming, searches). I love it. It's like Campfire on steroids.

Personal feature request: preview youtube URLs, images, and tweets pasted into the chat area. Less important: let people select a range of chat messages and tag en-masse so they show up together in a search.

Hawaii is already doing this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/21/hawaii-schools-f...

It's been very problematic for parents who have to find childcare on Fridays -- it basically just shifts that cost back on to the taxpayer.