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This would make a nice video campaign for Pandora. Various different types of people saying "It's all my music." with references to the music they love.

"Our manufacturing technology has to equal or surpass that of Japan."

Good thing China's manufacturing technology is equal to or better than of Japan's!

Another reason for being exclusive in the Mac App Store: Getting to the top of the Top Paid/Top Grossing lists which help more customers discover them and provide social proof the app is worth buying. By not having other ways of buying this app, it concentrates the buyers through the Mac App Store which helps their ranking.

The app store significantly reduces the friction needed to discover and install apps. In the first 10 minutes of using it, I discovered 3 useful apps and installed them all without loading a disk image, installing it, dragging the mounted disk image to the trash, then deleting the disk image file.

This morning's productivity is probably blown...

I know many more people who have Kindles or iPads and nobody who own a Nook or a Tab... I live in the SF Bay Area but still, it's an oddly different market where you are... where are you?

CS4 was widely panned and coupled with the poor economy, many companies skipped it. Adobe took a loss this quarter last year. The article doesn't state it but many CS3 owners have upgraded to CS5 because of the improving economy, some new features and not wanting to be too far behind software revisions.

The Android vs. iOS marketshare race is one in which iOS is hobbled because of iOS's exclusivity. When the iPhone 4 hits Verizon next year, $199 Android phones will take a massive hit in demand and they will quickly be dropped in price to spur demand.

Apple has dropped it's prices to compete before. It'll be really interesting if Apple drops the price of the iPhone below the top of the line Android phones.

Amazon has a kindle version for 99 cents. I downloaded the sample chapter to my Kindle for Mac.

http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Advertising-ebook/dp/B003Z4...

Facebook has said that they don't want to put in features that would discourage participation. If someone updates their status and lots of people "dislike" it, they might not want to update their status next time.

For HN, I'd like to see a "track it" button - I don't want to upvote a lame article but often the HN community has a lot of interesting things to say so I'd like to keep track of those article's conversations.

Try some Yerba Mate. Tea is made from the roots of that plant and has enough caffeine to give you a nice kick when you need it.

As a Skype user, if Apple made iChat video for windows and connected it to facetime users, it would make iChat really compelling.

Yes, we need to pay attention to our international users. Unicode is too much fun to ignore. :-)

Thanks! We'd love to hear about any ideas to make it more relevant.

We sort the tweets you'd normally get by relevance rather than chronologically so if you are actively looking at every tweet already then you'd have already seen the tweets we recommend.

It's more useful if you follow a lot of people and don't have time to read every single one.

Sure, try this out:

http://keytweet.com/celebrity/categories/ Let's you see top tweets for other people. We've got one for "The top tweeters from hacker news"

Thanks for the suggestions, we'll definitely have more people review the copy.

And you're right, people who don't follow very many people don't need this app and people who are on all day long don't need this app. But we suspect there are many people who do need it.

KeyTweet's blog is on Posterous which had a DoS attack.

Season and location are factors too.

In the winter in the SF bay area, it's very unlikely your skin can make enough vitamin D.

After one winter here, I my D levels were at 20 ng/ml -- way below what many believe is the sufficient level of 30 ng/ml.

It's behind a registration wall. Why isn't there an iTube?

Is there actually a benefit from doing this for Mahalo? Wouldn't google just recognize that their content is duped all over the place?

Core i5 and i7 windows laptops were available for 6 months before similarly equipped mac laptops. It kept me from buying a MacBook Pro when it seemed like I'd be paying a premium for old chips.

Apple had problems in the 90s because Windows became similar enough to the Mac OS that people who once preferred the Mac no longer thought it was worth the price premium. Sales fell and developers "defected" to Windows.

Flash could have made it easy to target iPhone and Android with very similar code bases.

Now, developing for one, doesn't making porting to the other so simple.

It forces small developers to ask: bigger market or open market?

blasdel, would you reading Mac OS X Internals if Apple wasn't Unix?

Smart Geeks intelligently exploring and debating things like this is a win for any OS.

This article is an example of why Apple was smart for going Unix. It attracts really smart geeks that can help shed light on performance issues in a way normal consumers just can't.

Walt's iPad review video is in Flash. Slightly ironic but the bigger question is what is Apple doing about so much video content being in Flash? It's an issue for many.

Tonight there's another ACM Data Mining lecture in Mountain View. The subject is "Large Matrices beyond Singular Value Decomposition" given by Andrea Montanari, Stanford Professor in Electrical Engineering and Statistics.

http://www.sfbayacm.org/?p=1326#more-1326

Organization could have been better but this was a fantastic event. I could pretty much listen to Dr. Dunning all day long.

While these lectures are not for total programming newbies, they are very gentle if you know some other languages. He'll often contrast Python with Java, C++ and Javascript to highlight the differences.

Ha. It is but I think the point is that even before GPU assistance, Flash works better in Windows than on the Mac. It makes sense for Steve Jobs to pressure Adobe into improving the Mac version. HTML5 is turning out to be the hammer that forces Adobe to innovate.