Even coal powered electric plants are far more efficient than an ICE. So they are a cheaper source of fuel for the consumer and are putting out less C02. They are also far away from populated cities so the pollution isn't choking up the air in the city.
"Gas" powered cars are terrible. They choke up the roads with smog, they require way too much maintenance and they can't be fuelled with solar, wind or nuclear or other sustainable fuel sources.
Can you see how many light sources there are close to the beach in many of the shots? Watch the shape and size of the shadows that girl casts on the sand. Moonlight only? Not so much...
Their marketing is quite aggressive (I have been receiving "Last month to get Linkedin Premium for free" weekly for about an year!) but I wouldn't call them spammers.
What you describe I would describe as spam. Obviously there are wildly different informal definitions of "spam" in use. By my definition, Linkedin is definitely a spammer; I get frequent email from them and I don't have, and plan to never, get an account.
They seem to continuously invent new things to mail you about, as often as possible, which you then continuously have to uncheck on the site.
We can argue about definitions but in my mind LinkedIn are definitely spammers, that are now only tolerated because the site is too popular for jobs (especially if you're a contractor).
They didn't use to be like this, but they now have the questionable distinction of being the nr.1. deliverer of junk in my mailbox.
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Upvote for you sir! Exactly, you don't need a stylus to run the Win8 UI. A touch interface should be designed with a finger as the primary interface in ind, which was what Jobs was talking about.
A Pen is just an additional tool to make the tablet experience better in various use cases, just like a bluetooh keyboard.
Since they will be shipping just before the Christmas sales period, at the earliest... They have a whole 6 months or more to reveal further details and keep interest high.
This Sony "meeting" was a vast improvement over the PS Vita launch which was all about specs, and not games, and that's not what sells game consoles and why the Vita is all but dead as game dev platform.
Putting Jonathon Blow on stage, who is a big critic of Microsoft's support of indie gamers was also great promotion of Sony as the gaming world heads to GDC.
Yep, podcasts will remain niche if there is no built in support with a home screen app. Just as smartphone apps were niche until apple added the app store on the home screen.
Now if a podcaster wants to tweet "check out my podcast" with a link, they have to preface it by saying "make sure you already have a podcast app installed". A lot of friction for users unfamiliar with the medium.
Of course, Apple, even in a built in app, would never add all the features serious podcast listeners would need, so Pocket casts would still healthy exist. In fact, with the increased exposure podcasts would have on the home screen, Pocket casts would have even more people searching for "pro podcast apps".
Now all Pocket Casts has is the chance to compete with a free Apple podcast app tucked away in the app store.
So,in the future, iOS will no longer have built in podcast support? iPhone users will now always have to download a separate app to get podcasts?
This is a huge set-back for the podcast medium. There is so much friction convincing potential blue water podcast listeners to subscribe to podcasts.
Haters are going to automatically say "podcasts are a niche, they have a small audience" so who cares? Well, before Apple put in built in support for smart phone apps in iOS with an app store on the home screen. The smartphone app audience was one of the smallest around. Now look at where we are.
Hard to say. It may come bundled with the final release of iOS6. I think they just wanted to get it out the door now for whatever reason. The app uses a number of new UI metaphors and includes elements of the iOS6 App Store redesign so perhaps they are just testing the waters a little here.
Personally I hope they do more apps as app store downloads. I don't want a stock app and I want a different calculator app. They can come pre-installed, but I want to be able to delete them and redownload them as necessary.
Podcasts weren't particularly visible before. I may be remembering wrong (I've changed the tab order in my own app) but Podcasts were hidden under the "More..." tab.
If it comes pre-bundled, click link, that opens in Podcasts app, click Subscribe.
If it doesn't, they've still currently got podcast integration with iTunes desktop, which means there will still be an iTunes page and itunes links will work, they just won't redirect to the itms-podcast protocol or whatever it is. They could link to the app from there.
But a much better way would have just been to add a "subscribe" button to podcasts in the itunes store, even if they were still in the music app, (which was once called the "iPod" app). Just as magazines in Newstand are allowed to let users subscribe and download new issues in the background.
Being in the music app also allowed them to be searchable by spotlight, which even gave you a blue indicator of what episode was un-listened.
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So if one Steam game starts messing up Macs, Apple could pull Valve's certificate and all Steam games would stop running on Macs with the default settings? I guess that just encourages Valve to be careful about what they sell on their store.
It will be interesting to see what Valve decides to do.
Even coal powered electric plants are far more efficient than an ICE. So they are a cheaper source of fuel for the consumer and are putting out less C02. They are also far away from populated cities so the pollution isn't choking up the air in the city.