I think I'm gonna do an app that displays a customizable digital clock. There's this chump who's got #1 best-seller place with his $0,99 digital clock that you can't edit, so there is obviously a large market for digital clocks among Apple users.
I'm thinking of adding the following features:
- 3D display
- Select from 14 COOL fonts and 38 AWESOME backgrounds
- AM/PM or 24 hours selector
- Enable/disable the blinking ":"
- Display the date
Do you think I should compete at $0,99 or sell it for $1,49? Selling it the same price risks sending the message that this app does not build upon the competitor's in significant ways.
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Anonymous2008-09-05 17:42
>>6
Unless you've got experts to say your clock is better, you'd better go with the higher price. Seems like you ought to do an analog mode as well though.
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Anonymous2008-09-05 18:49
>>7
Yes, and binary, too. Then he can sell it for $1.99!
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Anonymous2008-09-05 19:40
>>7
Usability testing proves that analog clocks are not as user-friendly. Apple fans expect a world-class user experience, not tired paradigms that stuck because of tradition rather than their solid interaction design.
>>10
No desktop Mac has shipped with a one mouse button for years.
MacBooks only have one button, but right clicking is actually nicer than on regular laptops. Just tap the pad and then click the mouse button instead of having to move your thumb left to find the second button. I use a lot of laptops, and the touchpad on Macbooks (at least on MBPs) are the nicest I've ever used.
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Anonymous2008-09-06 1:58
>>13
Functionality activated by tapping the touchpad is the worst idea in the history of user interfaces.
It took until 2006 for Apple to stop shipping desktops with one-button mice, by the way. Technically that is years, but it's still a fuck a long time to admit an obvious mistake.
And the Mighty Mouse still had the tactile feedback of a one-button mouse and you can't right-click if your finger is resting on the left side of the mouse, so I'm not convinced it even counts.
having to move your thumb left to find the second button
Am I the only one who keeps my thumb on the left button, index and middle on the trackpad, and uses my little finger to right-click?
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Anonymous2008-09-06 3:31
>>16
Probably. You must have teensy little hands. I just keep my thumb on the right button and use the pad to left and middle click.
>>15
I own one, thought the scrollball was an awesome idea.
Worst piece of shit I ever used. You must lift your fingers from the left side to right-click. Shit gets under the scrollball very fast, and it stop working completely. You can't clean it from the outside, so you need to open it to clean it up... oh wait you can't open it.
The trackpad on macbooks is way ahead of the competition, but I'd never use a mac with anything else than a cheap wireless logitech or microsoft mouse.
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Anonymous2008-09-06 15:35
I have run all but dry of understanding for programmers that willfully pick anything else than OS X as their platform of choice. I know a few that are still stuck in the rut for various reasons -- none of them desire.
Apple will continue to trounce everyone else for the preferred geek platform. The stigma of not being able to use Textmate will increase (watch the Rails screencasts).
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Anonymous2008-09-06 16:02
Girls with tiny hands are fucking sexy.
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Anonymous2008-09-06 19:31
>>20
Please stop copy-pasting that from that other blog.
>>14
It's not tapping. You right click by resting your fingers on the touchpad and then clicking the mouse button. Infinitely superior to any other right click on any other trackpad that I used.
I never liked clicking through tapping the touchpad. It feels like it takes too long. But if you like tapping, you can get a right click by tapping with two fingers.
and you can't right-click if your finger is resting on the left side of the mouse
I don't like the Mighty Mouse either, but that's a ridiculous claim. Or maybe you just have an old model. I dislike the Mighty Mouse because my scrollball stops working all the time (what's the point of having an optical mouse if you still have to clean balls?) and you can't press both buttons at once (useful on some games), but I leave both fingers on the mouse and I never had problems registering clicks.
Maybe it has changed since it was introduced, but by design, the mouse will never register a right-click if you touch it anywhere on the top-left side - where you apply the pressure is irrelevant. It's not "sometimes it doesn't work", it's supposed to be like this, and it's fucking retarded.
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Anonymous2008-09-07 0:57
I dislike the Mighty Mouse because my scrollball stops working all the time (what's the point of having an optical mouse if you still have to clean balls?)
Has no mouse designer ever thought to have an optical sensor mounted on the top, where the scrollball is? Behold, a mouse with MULTI-DIRECTIONAL OPTICAL SCROLLING
>>20 I have run all but dry of understanding for programmers that willfully pick anything else than OS X as their platform of choice
As an EXPERT PROGRAMMER, I never work on Apple's shit because:
1. I don't like Apple's shit for faggots and retards
2. I don't do DRM
3. I don't have $5000
4. I'm not a faggot
Apple will continue to trounce everyone else for the preferred geek platform
Geek platform? That's a metrosexual faggot retarded luser platform, not a geek platform. Geeks look like Richard Stallman, not like David Beckham.
>>21
I want one to masturabate me with her little hands, while calling me onii-chan.
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Anonymous2008-09-07 9:13
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Anonymous2009-03-06 8:32
The room will be taken lecture is a good way to create a sort of dynamic typing with no luck HELP PLEASE let me know Do you have no power to run something such as Firefox smoothly or where a bunch of unthinking programmers actually tried doing anything with it but I am only helping you cause of silly people like Anonymous who are.
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Anonymous2009-03-06 8:55
this thread is not about what this thread is not you only need one LEA instead?