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Kind of like how iPod Nano cannibalized iPod Mini.

Nooooooooooo!

"...where they made Maps available incrementally "by region"

I can see where you're coming from but I don't know if isolating map availability by region would work. Hyper-local travel is used in the majority of cases, but there are cases of regional travel too. What happens if someone wants turn-by-turn navigation from California to, say, Oregon, to attend a conference, weekend getaway, job interview, or just simply meet at a coffee shop in the new region? I live in Seattle, and often drive to Vancouver BC or Portland for weekends, just as an example.

IMHO, the real mistake here was setting expectations so that it would be lower and not affixing the "Beta" label to it (as was done to Siri.) Apple should also have, side from collecting data logs, ensured there's a more prominent feedback loop. As to your suggestion, I think a broader approach would work better, and perhaps work in layers of information, drilling down more deeply with richer details in regional pockets, one broad layer at a time.

Because its a feel-good parable, or its just a slow Friday heading into a long holiday weekend.

I've been watching this with keen interest since it was first announced here sometime ago. Unfortunately, at the pace Pixate is raising funds on Kickstarter, it doesn't look like they'll achieve their goal. Does this mean they're screwed, or will they still push this product out the door through their corporate sponsor Appcelerator?

I use AT&T for my iPhone but have the unlimited plan in which tethering isn't allowed. Would this FCC mandate force AT&T to remove the tethering plan as Verizon did?

Too bad the videos are not subtitled/captioned.

Your background is primarily in Chrome and Android - are you sure your reply to my post isn't biased?

I use that term to include anyone who develops for the iOS platform and wants to develop an App for AppleTV. Feel free to take yourself out of that.

How do you know that Apple hasn't created new parterships for their upcoming efforts? Do you have AppleTV? Have you noticed a slow growth in subscribing to new content? You can even purchase it In-App if you'd like.

There's many different potential ways to challenge the incumbent Cable TV business model. Don't assume that top-tier content producers are not interested. By the looks of what I'm seeing on AppleTV today, they are slowly coming on board.

They aren't directly forcing the hand of cable tv companies, which is quite clever, imho.

We, the Developers will be tasked to do that with our content and that starts whenever they introduce APIs, likely to be this year's WWDC. Once we've built out Apps in the AppleTV app ecosystem, the consumer demand will follow.

The TV Channel/Show/Content is now an on-demand App. This will all coalesce slowly as people continue to unplug and switch over via internet as content is made available. I don't want to make any predictions about the AppleTV box vs iPanel but my guess is that both will coexist - with AppleTV box offering the best UX within its bubble while the iPanel will offer a more integrated comprehensive experience. Both utilize the same App ecosystem.

Apple has been laying the foundation for a while. Download the iOS remote control, play with any of the AirPlay functions, the regular tweaks to AppleTV's OS, etc... It's all right under our noses.

Not really a concern. Apple planned on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad cannibalizing their iPod line. This is how Apple has stayed ahead. It's better to disrupt your product than have a competitor do it to you.

This is why its important to fund R&D at companies. It enables exploration and innovation, to create the next disruption and/or continuous innovative use of products.

Android isn't just for phones. It is (and can be) more than just software for the smartphone form factor.

You're all forgetting about Blackberry and Palm.

Page and Brin purchased Rubin & Co.'s Android to compete against Blackberry and Palm as well. The earliest Android models borrowed heavily from the BB and Palm interface as well as Windows.

It wasn't until iPhone came out that Google realized Apple created a game-changer and decided to pursue that direction.

Here's what the original Android prototype looked like: http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/11/607064...

Looks very similiar to the other Windows/BB/Palm phones at that time. To Rubin's credit, his former company Danger created a great interface with the HipTopOS (aka T-Mobile's Sidekick) that used the trackwheel pretty well.

They may have bought the technology but they definitely improved on it across the board while integrating it into iOS.

He probably could have been a bit clearer but he did acknowledge that Nokia's procedures had been changed by putting "pre-iPhone" in front of Nokia's name.

Actually, that's 20mb, but I'm pretty sure this went up to 50mb with the new iOS 5.1 update.

"Would love to see ESPN/Disney/ABC partner with Apple to build a real interactive TV platform."

With Iger being on the Apple board of directors and recently purchasing a chunk of AAPL stock for himself, it's quite possible that he'll do whatever he can to help Apple get access to ESPN/Disney/ABC content.

Probably not going to happen but to entertain a wild speculative guess, he could finesse an AAPL buyout of Disney/ESPN/ABC too if the partnership is successful from their business viewpoints.

No, Steve designed the iPhone to be a smartphone that people would LOVE. That was the mission of creating the iPhone.

Confirmed. This works using my iPad 3G connected to my Macbook Pro.

Now turning on Internet sharing from Ethernet to Wifi to see if I can have my Mac act as a Wifi hotspot using the iPhone tether.

From Friedmud on MacRumors: "It is true if you think about what they did here. All they did was make an App that talks over USB to your computer. Nothing wrong with that.

It just so happens though that the "talking" it is doing is transcribing bits to/from the internet connection of the phone.

The App itself is incapable of "tethering" without the piece installed on your computer that translates what the App is sending into a normal looking ethernet device.

Think of it this way... if I made an app that was called USBTwitter... and all it did was read bits over USB and posted them to your twitter account... then I made an executable that you ran on your Mac that sent text bits over USB... you would then be able to post to twitter _through_ your phone (ie tether).

This is the very same thing... but of course more general.

You honestly can't stop this without disallowing apps to use the USB port on the phone (or trying to explicitly ban it in the developer terms... but it would be hard because there would be plenty of "non-tethering" applications that would want to talk over USB and send bits over the phone's net connection simultaneously...)

It will be interesting to see what Apple does here..."

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=13929912#post13...

I just tried the iPhone app with my Macbook Pro and can verify it works. You have to keep the iPhone app front and center, not in the background in order for it to work. It still works when the iPhone is in sleep mode.

Now going to check if it will work with my iPad3G connected to my Macbook Pro.

Hope this info helps confirm/answer questions out there.

The same is true of any location, not just Seattle.

I had to copy/paste because it was too hard to read in dark reversed style of the blog's design. Here it is so you can read.

"A Letter to the Developer Community

Dear Mac/iOS Developer Community,

Empathy is the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes who may be different from yourself and attempt to understand/have compassion towards that person’s feelings, especially if their feelings are different from your own. If you do not consider yourself to be a particularly empathetic person, there’s no need to read any further.

I attended a Mac developer conference recently and overall had a great experience. I had the opportunity to meet and get to know many great developers while learning a few things too. Unfortunately, I left with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. This feeling I attribute to a lack of conduct standards, and a failure by many of us to understand the changes in the industry that have been occurring, like it or not, over the years.

Here is what happened. I sat down to listen to a talk that I could tell by the title of the talk, was going to be inappropriate. I thought to myself, I’m at a respectful Mac conference, the organizer is walking around in a suit and conducting himself very professionally, I’m sure it will be ok. This was, in fact, a poor assumption. The speaker prefaced his talk by basically stating there was a little substance, but that most of the topics were being presented simply because of the sexual or otherwise inappropriate jokes that could be formed from the topics. For instance, jokes that can be made about “autoreleasing”. I’ll let you think about that for a second and you basically understand how this went. About ten minutes in, I was thoroughly disappointed in the immaturity and inappropriateness and walked out of the room. As others informed me later, it did not get any better. There were tidbits of information weaved in, but the overarching theme remained the same.

Sadly, this was not the only offensive point in the week. The highly respected keynote speaker managed to weave in a reference to a female celebrity’s tits and ass in his discussion, which I found awfully distasteful.

Now, I know that being one of the handful of women in attendance at the conference, I am in a serious minority in terms of the way I experience and react to things such as this. I also know that it’s quite possible that others would not be offended as they may have the same, in my opinion immature, sense of humor. Yet, in discussing with others, including members of my team, I found that I was not alone in finding these references uncomfortable.

Why is it that an inappropriate talk would even be permitted on a stage at any respectable conference? How does this in any way further the advancement of the software industry at large, and the Mac community especially? In my opinion, it sets us back quite a bit. During one of the much more informative and respectable talks of the week, the topic of diversity was brought up. The speaker pointed out the fact that the Mac community is full of mostly men from an educated and higher income background. The context was in discussion of how we tend to gravitate towards like minded people. And in fact, it’s impossible to argue that this is a truly diverse field by any means because women and minorities are grossly underrepresented as I’m sure you know.

However, what this experience and other similar encounters I have had in the last three years as a Mac developer have started to suggest is, maybe the Mac community doesn’t want people like me to be comfortable? Perhaps they would rather keep this a boy’s club forever, and it’s simply irritating when people like me disrupt that.

Wow, does that thought scare me. Coming from a different industry where diversity is praised and encouraged, could it be that software developers want the exact opposite? Clearly not all of us. But, perhaps some of the organizers of this particular conference gravitate toward that mindset.

The Mac development community has changed a lot over the years. There are new iOS consulting companies popping up all the time. Macs are in more homes than ever before in history. Mac developers are hiring business partners, even donning suits sometimes, and prancing into major corporations to work on exciting applications. It’s a new world, folks. And as a result, there will likely be growing pains.

All I ask is this…

First, if you are in a position where you can control the conduct and standards at a software event that is intended to be in any way professional, you are therefore obligated to do so. Or at least warn people who may be attending otherwise, so we may steer clear.

Second, before you start to defend this kind of inappropriate behavior in a professional setting, think about how you would feel if I were your daughter or your sister. I’m not against inappropriate humor by any means, I just think there’s a time and a place. This was not it.

Do we want the Mac community to be a place where anyone, regardless of gender, race, religion, etc. feels uncomfortable?

Diversity is great. It shows that our field is growing up. But diversity can only happen with acceptance, tolerance, and the ability to empathize with those who may feel uncomfortable, even if you yourself do not. I sincerely hope that at future Mac community events, I will not be similarly offended.

Thank you to the wonderful guys who provided support and feedback in preparation for this article. It’s nice to know we have some gentlemen out there in the Mac community!

Sincerely,

Brit

Update: After getting in touch with the conference organizers, I have a lot of hope regarding this issue. They were very concerned, apologetic, and acknowledged that this should not happen at a professional event. Thank you!

Sorry, I meant to say the onboarding videos, but I spoke too soon. I just looked at the HTML video and it is indeed captioned, it might be a nice idea to put in a small blurb somewhere saying the lesson videos are captioned.

MANY thanks for doing this. CC is a big deal and helps more people than it gets credit for. I really do appreciate that you included it!

If the Treehouse folks are reading this, can they please add closed captions/subtitles to their videos? Lynda.com has captions and it has made the difference for me.

Apple's rotten? Oh please. The headline is a linkbait troll. Take the speculations within with a lot of salt.

Thank you so much for this great find! I really appreciate it.

It's great that CBS put this online for everyone to view, but I really wish they added captions/subtitles to the video clips. If it's hard to do, why not just add a text transcript so that deaf people like me can understand what's being said?

I moved to Seattle from Chicago to work at Amazon. When people ask me how I put up with the rain in Seattle, I just reply back "how do you put up with the snow?"

Seattle has a great diverse ecosystem for outdoors enthusiasts - drive for an hour or so, and you can go skiing, hiking, swimming, camping and more.

Seattle has a great craft beer culture as well. Some of my favorite bars are: Brouwers, Uber, Naked City, Beveridge Place Pub and Collins Pub.

If you want authentic mexican, check out Oaxaca in Ballard. As for taco truck food, check out El Camion in the parking lot of Home Depot on 135th and I-99 Aurora as well as Taqueria Tequila on 85th.

For Chicago style stuffed pizza, check out Delfino's in University Village and stay far away from Kylie's in Fremont (ugh)...for normal pizza, try Serious Pie, Flying Squirrel and Via Tribunali.

For breakfast, try Beth's Cafe and CJ's (my favorite eggs benedict)

For italian, try Cafe Lago. Great pasta.

For sandwiches - my 2 favorite places are Salumi's where you should try the Mole & Mozz. Salumi's is a few blocks away from where the Seahawks play. Second place is Tat's where they have the town's best philly cheese steak sandwich.

For ice cream, Molly Moon's wins hands down. They are in Wallingford as well as Capitol Hill.

Enjoy!

There are some nice tutorials/articles at flyosity.com and bjango.com

This is one of my favorites: http://flyosity.com/tutorial/crafting-subtle-realistic-user-...

How much longer before we all drive landspeeders?