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• Ooops. You were talking about the quality/quality of app stores in general (as the article talks about).
  
  "Nevermind." In reply to: "App store or app sore?"

  October 28, 2009

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• "The market at large tends to sift out the (relatively) best ones and ignore the rest."
  
  This would be true if there are systems in place that allow for consumers to sort or "sift" effectively.
  
  Apple's App Store does not allow for people to sort by ranking. I suppose, since companies could "bash" their competitors with poor rankings, a furor would ensue if they allowed this option. In addition, I question Apple's motivation to weed out old, unsupported apps, apps that are not entirely compatible with newer OS's, etc.
  
  As a result, limiting my sort options to "Name", "Release Date", (and more importantly to me) "Popularity", I still have to weed through pages upon pages of battery charge indicators, clocks, and list-makers. Of those listed first (using a "popularity" sort), so many of them have really poor rankings and critical reviews. Sure, they were downloaded a lot (making them popular) but my issue is of quality, not quantity.
  
  In order for your market-based "natural selection" to work, App Stores need to provide consumers with effective and convenient tools (for better or for worse). Otherwise, that brilliant app which is on page 121 will remain buried, rarely (if ever) downloaded, and not paid for.
  
  P.S. Apple should have more categories or sub-categories like "Clocks" or "Battery Indicators" or "Fart Noises", things that just clutter up my experience, waste my time, and keep dollars in my pocket. In reply to: "App store or app sore?"

  October 28, 2009

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• You know, if it just allowed me to surf the internet in my living room (since I don't have a laptop), I'd buy one.
  
  Would it be all that hard to include a web browser and a wireless keyboard/trackpad? In reply to: "Apple TV gets a price drop"

  September 14, 2009

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• You know, if it just allowed me to surf the internet in my living room (since I don't have a laptop), I'd buy one.
  
  Would it be all that hard to include a web browser and a wireless keyboard/trackpad? In reply to: "Apple TV gets a price drop"

  September 14, 2009

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• I would buy it in a heart-beat.
  Mount it in my kitchen and use it for all my recipes, greasy fingers & all...
  
  Oh. And could I route my iPhone calls there, too? Speaker phone like the Verizon hub?
  
  Sweet... In reply to: "Pros and cons of a touch-screen Mac tablet"

  May 22, 2009

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• This is what I've been waiting for.
  
  The only thing that makes me hesitant is the Linux OS. Concerned about the learning curve.
  
  This will be great to house all my recipes in and be able to refer to them while cooking. In reply to: "Always Innovating launching touch-screen Netbook"

  March 2, 2009

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• Let's see, UBS helps rich Americans hide their wealth to avoid paying the IRS.
  
  This raises the US Nat'l debt, straining jobs & the economy. Spending goes down, people get laid-off because the same fat cats who hid their money/assets have to maintain profitability to their share/stock-holders somehow.
  
  In addition, these companies reduce their ad expenditures. THUS, UBS helped create the very "forecasted" problem you're writing about.
  
  I'm going to give you the benefit of doubt and assume your inclusion of "Surprise!" in your story header was sarcastic. In reply to: "Surprise! UBS lowers Internet ad spending estimates"

  November 14, 2008

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• I agree. What with the LCD price-fixing ruling against LG, Sharp & Chunghwa, I would think that LCD prices across the board would lower (i.e., "competition"?).
  
  Guess all those fat-cats who hid their savings in UBS Swiss Banks are thinking they'll need to shore up their IRS losses by keeping prices fairly level.
  
  Time to the pay the piper a living wage, eh?
  
  Then, because of their greed, we'll see more stories like this:
  
  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy;_ylt=AoBbNOb8JOwmCVSLfxPkJiis0NUE
  
  ...and then they'll cry for a bailout of their own, in order to keep their 7 houses.
  
  So what little we saved on our purchases on Black Friday, we'll be paying back into the fat cats' pockets with our income taxes. In reply to: "Take a sneak peek at Black Friday deals"

  November 14, 2008

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• There was no 4-D reconstruction in physical space, only an overlay on the outgoing feed. So...not a hologram.
  
  32 cameras arranged in a circle barely even qualifies as holographic technology.
  
  It was cool for about 10 seconds. The lack of alpha masking skills grated on my nerves, though.
  
  If Wolfie could have gone up to the hologram and swiped his arm through it...that would have been a hologram. "Hologram" = poor choice of words. In reply to: "Stop the insanity: CNN's 'hologram' was horrendous"

  November 6, 2008

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