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Wow, it's amazing what passes for journalism nowadays.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It is shotty journalism but awesome click-bait.
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Microsoft is clearly moving in the direction of one OS for every form factor.
How a journalist can get from that to 'no phones' is beyond me.
That said, if Microsoft killed Windows phone I'd abandon the entire Microsoft ecosystem - development environment, desktop, laptop, the whole thing. It would be the straw that broke this camel's back.
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MehGerbil wrote: That said, if Microsoft killed Windows phone I'd abandon the entire Microsoft ecosystem
Funny, it was the push to Metro in Windows 8 that encouraged me to move to Mac.
I think Microsoft are very confused over what they should be doing, and which direction they should be heading in at the moment.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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Yahoo has cut a deal with Oracle to promote Yahoo alongside its Java technology Because they didn't learn from the Ask Toolbar fiasco?
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Oracle, Java, Yahoo!
Seems like a good match.
All 2nd choices. 
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Today we're proud to announce Atom 1.0. It's amazing to think Atom has only been out and available to the public for a little over a year. A lot has happened since then. Atom has been downloaded 1.3 million times, and serves 350,000 monthly active users. STOP THE PRESSES: text editor released!
I'm sorry. I'm done. There can be no bigger news in the history of mankind. I must go somewhere and weep.
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 We need a Federal Department of Text Editors to tell us all which underpowered text editor to use. 
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I saw the announcement on twitter and thought along the same lines.
"Yes! Another text editor. I haven't slept in quite some time, just contemplating all night when the next text editor would release."
Huge news. Huge.
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Can everyone gather round and give Kent a hug and/or a stiff drink.
It's been a rough day on the press floor.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Gets my sympathy vote 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Just like with Swift, what is Atom? 
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Its the text editor. For MS developer's, it may be best known as the editor they chose to base the new cross platform text editor Visual Studio Code.
The Next Web[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It's alright, I was only being sarcastic. But thanks for the clarification.
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Mobile app development (and the changes that it brings to the table) are influencing mobile platform architecture in a major way. At present, mobile app development is taking a new route owing to the changes in technology. How is this going to modify mobile platform architecture in the near future? Let us find out by going through six crucial design considerations that will be the torchbearers of the next-gen mobile platform architecture. Smartphones, tablets, phablets, wearables, oh my!
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For some reason, I find phrases like .."allow users to make the most of various mobile platforms." irritating. It is utter, meaningless fluff. A waste of good oxygen.
Sarcasm - it's not just a verbal skill - it's a lifestyle!
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Doesn't really say anything about the next generation of mobile architecture at all. It tells us what we have now, and simply tells us that we need more of the same.
There was no real insight or predictions being made.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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While these things may count as reasons why Clippy was never well received, another reported problem of the dreaded assistant has just been unearthed: the Office Assistant was found to be too masculine by people. Wait. Let me get this straight. Microsoft. Ignored feedback. Really?
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I can't see how it came to be news! It happened a thousand time in the past...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If they'd been really smart, they never would've had a focus group in the first place.
When they asked Steve Jobs why he didn't take customer feedback he replied something like:
"Did Thomas Edison ask for feedback when he invented the lightbulb?"
If you have to ask, then you probably don't know what is actually good anyway. 
Seriously, I take one look at Clippy and instantly know: LOSER!
EDIT
Here's another:
Henry Ford said, "If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse."
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The light bulb giving direct feedback on whether or not the idea is correct, same thing can not be said of modern software (or any man/machine interface). Edison was smart enough to know he did not need feedback.
Jobs comparing himself to Einstein is a bit funny though. Makes one wonder why he held back all those previous years 
newton.saber wrote: If you have to ask, then you probably don't know what is actually good anyway.
I'd recommend you read Joel Spolsky's blog, he knows a thing or two about the subject.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Except that Thomas Edison didn't invent the lightbulb. He just made a really, really good one.
Much like much of the work of Mr Jobs.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I know. I wondered how long it would take someone to point that out.
I kept the quote as it was. I wonder if Jobs too knew Edison didn't actually invent the lightbulb but only made the filament last longer thus making it a commercially viable product.
I think the point is that Steve Jobs could even bend a quote to suit his own needs. He was a genius after all. 
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Steve Jobs had an overactive aesthetic gland and to him, I suspect, a product wasn't a product (be it a light globe or a music player or a phone) until it was perfect (within the physical limitations of the time). No compromises, not pandering to comprises by committee.
I'm extremely sad that's now gone. Apple will continue to refine, based on market feedback, what they have going, but I think the "innovations" that will now come out will be market driven forays into areas they can simply apply their legacy formula.
That makes me sad. Very sad.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I agree and I'm an Androider. I don't use Apple products.
However, I'm currently reading the Walter Isaacson Bio of Steve Jobs and the best thing about Jobs was that he was The Visionary for the product. That is what Apple will truly miss.
I honestly think Jobs was a user of the stuff that he (his team) was building.
Then he was uber-opinionated about how he wanted to use those things.
At times his opinions about things such as even the inside of the product looking beautiful was absolutely ridiculous since you have to get the product to market at a reasonable price.
But, I'd much rather have a product by an Artist like Jobs than some person who churns out crap.
Interesting discussion.
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