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If it's just a matter of changing the variables, someone please let me know and I'll be glad to make it. From what I understand though, it isn't as straightforward a process of preparation as tea is.

Right. The hardest part was admitting the design was flawed and getting help to make something better. The technical issues, aside from some memory management bugs early on, could be solved in an evening.

Here's an apt analogy. Let's assume that customers preferred paperback books to hardback books, possibly because paperback books are lighter, take up less shelf space, and are easier to hold in one hand. They are, obviously, less expensive to make. It seems to me almost a given that these same customers complaining would be giving one-star reviews to the publisher for charging more for the paperback version. Under a utility model this wouldn't happen.

You need to reexamine the Amazon customer comments that this article is based on. Nobody is saying that ebooks are less useful therefore they should cost less. If that were the case people would simply purchase the hardback copy and be done with it. This is simply outrage over the "fairness" of charging more for something that is cheaper to produce.

Here's my evidence:

Sunk cost fallacy: http://cl.ly/1V0Y2L3W2Y0l3A3S3F28 Fairness in cost fallacy: http://cl.ly/0i3u0V183e0g273l421e, http://cl.ly/3s1Z3l3w06291g0N0W15

Who is saying that the Kindle version is worse?

To quote a reviewer: "We should not let the publishers hold us hostage because we prefer to read the electronic format.”

I think you're missing the principle matter: people are complaining that ebooks shouldn't cost as much as physical books because they cost less to produce. Nobody is saying they prefer physical books because they are physical objects, and nobody seems to be treating them like anything other than the same thing delivered in different ways at different costs. Find me evidence please that this whole thing isn't driven by the perception of fairness in what the product costs to produce.

Edit: Vote me down all you want, but lack of evidence is still lack of evidence. I guess when emotions run high people lose the need to make rational points and just downvote. Give me some justification. Argue with me.

Should the boxed version of Photoshop cost more than the digital download because the boxed version comes with higher marginal costs? What if additionally we made the assumption (which Ariely is making here) that the digital download version came with more features and conveniences? I think that our intuition (especially from the software maker's standpoint) is that they could at least charge the same for both.

According to classical economics, the manufacturer's costs should not have anything at all to do with deciding how much to pay for something. It's simply, "how much do I enjoy this?" Of course as we see consumers don't behave this way.

What about a bluetooth thermometer that uses the heat energy from the liquid to keep it charged? Is that even possible? If anyone knows, drop me an email at sam at teaapp. com!

Thanks. Will address.

Hi!

1) Inventory tracking was a risk we took because you're right, you can just look at your teas. However, there are some really cool features in the pipeline that will take advantage of the inventory tracker better. For example, you might have several teas, but some go stale more quickly than others. Tea can suggest for you which teas to use up more quickly, but only if it has an idea of how much you have left. Etc.

2) Thanks!

3) That feature is totally optional. Let us know if you find it intrusive.

The brew suggestions that ship with Tea were very meticulously done by one expert, not an average or random statistics online. Hope you enjoy the app if you decide to use it!

Howdy Jd!

1) We might try to figure out a way to shorten the video. So much new stuff to share! 2) All of the presets are editable. 3) I think that 95% of the use cases will eventually be using the timer, which will be preset perfectly for each tea. 4) We respect Teavana, but we're not a fan of their app's design. Maybe that's bias. 5) Agreed. 6) Agreed. We're working on. It was actually an original feature, but a little trickier than one would think.

Thanks for your feedback! If you have any more, drop me a line at sam at teaapp. com!

Yep, you can tweak the settings pretty much any way you like. One tap sharing on Twitter and Facebook also.

Hey, glad you enjoy it!

The main inspiration for the interface was believe it or not Apple's Phone. Like having a list of contacts that you could simply tap to call, it made sense for Tea to have a list of teas that you could tap to brew. And like Phone, we use the detail disclosure indicator pattern on each cell to provide more information. The interface kind of grew naturally from that starting point.

For sketching I used UIStencil's iPhone stencil kit, and the designer I collaborated with, Mac Tyler, sketched his ideas in Photoshop.

Yep.

And articles written in a stilted style peppered with sentences that begin with And and But.

A free and constantly updated gallery of professionally designed ads is nothing to scoff at, especially for creative professionals.

Profit. Maximization.

For whom does this article elucidate anything?

Fun fact about the technology: if there can be spam, there will be spam. If there can be porn, there will be porn. If there can be malware, there will be malware. If there can be scams, there will be scams.

Apple's goal is that these things can't be. Their solution is the top down approach and App Store. Other platforms will (or will not) have other solutions. It's really that simple.

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Speaking from personal experience, when I transitioned from C (first language that I was three months into) to Objective-C, I couldn't STAND the number of cutesy metaphors used to describe what objects were and how they functioned: "Like, you can send the duck a message to swim, or to fly." "Ducks inherit from birds."

Coming from a highly plausible programming world of data and operations on data, this came off as nonsense. I wanted to tear my hair out finding a sober explanation of what an object actually WAS, practically, in practice instead of hearing them referred to as things that could be told to do stuff. Apple's Object-Oriented Programming was by far the most enlightening document in my early days:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/c... (chapter 2)

In this title I think "bad" is being used in the sense of possessing qualities of bad leadership, not moral badness. For example, the stereotype of having a bad temper, being controlling, calling names, are all traditionally qualities of bad leadership. However, why do some leaders get away with it? What compensates for it? Seems like a perfectly sensible question to me.

Honestly iWork didn't work on the iPad the first time around because the performance wasn't there. I found Numbers and Pages too choppy for anything other than basic editing tasks.

Secondly lots of office apps are based on traditional paradigms and metaphors related to printed documents. I think the key insight will be to create a new document type that makes more sense for tablet consumption, and maybe this new document will lead to a new kind of office app less reliant on the keyboard and mouse.

While I agree with you, I think there's a better solution to allowing these kinds of comments in than to open the floodgates and allow any number of people to post under any name they wish. The thought is noble, and as you point out, the potential is very rewarding in terms of insight.

That said I've seen pseudonyms used far, far more to disparage and to make cheap, hurtful points that can't be backed up. I don't think anybody thinks that what Techcrunch had before is the best we can do in commenting systems.

There are certain topics, such as sexual abuse and drug addiction that merit anonymous conversation, but this is tech. The main thing that folks are hiding behind is the fear of being wrong in hindsight.

If you're going to make a bold prediction or have a strong opinion, be prepared to back it up enough to slap your name on it. That's really not asking a whole lot.

Anonymity has its place in civil discourse, but definitely not in public comment threads that require no registration.

Another thing that should be mentioned is timing. I noticed that Cut the Rope put in a request right at the end of the first group of levels, and to boot, they made the final level of the group really easy to get you feeling smart and euphoric. Sure, 5 stars!

While I'm not sure what the "euphoric moment" will be in my app, it's very wise to time your reminders to be placed in strategic areas associated with positive emotion: the end of a task, a major completion.

Precisely.

We follow who we follow because we aren't interested in the rest. It's really bad to force follow a source of information that we don't care about. These ads are way not relevant.

Twitter's new business model may well be subscriptions to turn off #dickbar.

It doesn't have to be either or. Both are probably true.

actually they'll unlock it in the store if you don't own a PC.

How does that account for finger size though? Children might have a hard press of the same area as my light press. Hm, could be they look at the rate of change in the growth of the tap event...but this wouldn't provide information about mass. I think it's a no go.

We need a force here. They know how heavy the iPad is. They have an acceleration. There's a force.