It takes a lot of fine-tuning to achieve a polished experience on multiple platforms.
— Interview: Financial Times Experience with Web Apps - W3C Blog
Waren Ästhetik und Eleganz bisher Merkmale von Luxusherstellern mit einer exquisiten, stark begrenzten Zielgruppe, hat Apple Schönheit als Qualitätskriterium und übergreifendes Konzept der Harmonie aus Hardware, Software und Design für gute, nicht billige aber dennoch für viele erschwingliche Produkte massentauglich gemacht.
— Apple macht’s vor, andere machen’s nach: Schönheit als Erfolgsrezept » netzwertig.com
Investment analysts at Piper Jaffray boosted their price target on shares of Apple to $670.00.
Node is fast. Really fast. Much faster than Apache - many more requests per second, higher transfer rate with much smaller number of failed requests at the same time. Really shining.
— Benchmarking Node.js - basic performance tests against Apache PHP :: Change(b)log
Egal, wie man zu Apple steht, es ist mittlerweile nicht mehr zu leugnen, dass das Unternehmen aktuell beispiellose Wirtschaftsgeschichte schreibt.
Apple has taught everyone that people value an integrated ecosystem that just works. There’s a real possibility that Android could succeed, but not deliver what Google hopes it will.
— Michael Gartenberg via Amazon Fire Takes Android, Leaves Google Apps - Bloomberg
Don’t yell and scream about how you’re losing business to piracy when your stuff isn’t even available in the box I have on top of my TV.
In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to.
Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.
Google’s push to wring mobile-ad revenue from Android could be impeded if more device makers emulate and succeed with Amazon’s scaled-back approach.
Over time, software builds up legacy. The old technology is baked in, and the roots of the product are so knotted that simply unwinding them becomes a massive undertaking.
Even if RIM had tools that were better than Apple’s or Google’s, it would still be nearly impossible to gain traction with developers.
Understanding comes from context, and context comes from knowing stuff.
