From John Gruber (emphasis mine): This is a fundamentally different vision for the coming decade than Google’s. In both cases, your data is in the cloud, and you can access it from anywhere with a network connection. But Google’s vision is about software you run in a web browser. Apple’s is about native apps you [...]
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Two views on developing for Apple
Posted by svec on June 6, 2011
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Two different (opposing?) views on developing for the Apple ecosystem after today’s WWDC love-fest announcements: The first is from Des Traynor’s post, “Playing their game”: Apple always look out for their customers. They will always look to improve the experience. If that means adding software to their platform then so be it. If that software [...]
Google closing Austin office
Posted by svec on January 14, 2009
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It seems like just yesterday Google was celebrating the opening of their new office in downtown Austin, Texas – actually, it was mid-October, 2008, according to the Austin American Statesman (google has the story in their cache, but the Statesman’s link doesn’t work). But today Google announced that they are closing the Austin office, along [...]
Presentation Presence
Posted by svec on December 17, 2008
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A software vendor gave a sales presentation at my office today. The vendor sent two people to present – a sales guy and an engineer. The sales guy started the pitch with an overview of the software. Sounds great, says us, but we need a bunch of technical details to know if it’s worth pursuing. [...]
How Much Do You Make?
Posted by svec on June 10, 2007
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This piece from FastCompany.com talks about what would happen at a company if everyone knew what everyone else made. I’ve had that conversation a number of times, but I didn’t know of any company that had actually done it until I read that article: Whole Foods lets any employee see what any other employee makes. [...]
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