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Re: Google releases redesigned Gmail for iOS app w/ enhanced search, Undo Send, & more

Tom Park — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:53:17 -0000

The Material Design animation is interfering with functionality. Say you're skimming emails before deleting them, so you're looking at an email and flick it so it's scrolling, then if you press the delete button while it's still scrolling, it won't delete. You have to hit the delete button again.

Re: Apple Is "Nearly Invisible" On GitHub, But Does It Matter? - by Matt Asay

Tom Park — Tue, 06 May 2014 23:45:25 -0000

Hello, the Indeed.com charts have multiple problems. For one thing, it replotted the identical curve for Android whether you choose "absolute" %postings or "relative" %growth. The second (%growth) curve should be the derivative of the first, meaning that it should spike during the steep part of the first curve, but instead it follows the same curve. Also, on the 1st graph you can see Android grew by 3X from mid-2010 to mid-2012, but if you pay attention to the y-axis on the 2nd graph, it says Android grew by 1200X in 2012. It's messed up.

Second, the iOS curves are on both charts are just wrong. iOS didn't exist before 2007, so why would there be jobs for it in 2006? In the %growth chart, iOS tripled between 2010-2013, just like Android. If you chart iOS alone, then it gives a more reasonable curve: http://www.indeed.com/jobtr...

You have some good points, but geez this article sounds so biased. There are probably more Github repos for Android than for iOS, but not like you make it sound. Ugh, I don't know why I bothered commenting.

Re: On Software Quality and Building a Better Evernote in 2014

Tom Park — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 23:56:54 -0000

After years of putting up with the differences between web and iOS, they finally fixed it, but then a couple years ago I gave up because of the file format differences between iOS and Android. They might have fixed it by now, but sounds like they haven't... glad I didn't wait.

Re: Scenes From Saturday’s Urban Air Market | Haighteration

Tom Park — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:00:30 -0000

I'm sure it's intentional. Looks like HDR filled in the shadows, and some filter tinted and oversaturated the colors.

Re: How Airbnb Evolved To Focus On Social Rather Than Searches

Tom Park — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:15:02 -0000

"if you want to see what the typical alternative is, I hate to say it, you can try out the infinite scroll on Co.Design’s homepage."

No, the scrolling on fastcodesign.com is MUCH WORSE than typical. It's infuriating. Why do you have to rewrite the url and the title bar when I try to scroll down the page? My browser completely freezes for a minute or more at each date boundary. It's so janky; your site is useless.

Re: Apple Wants to Build Its Own Pandora. Why?

Tom Park — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:22:19 -0000

"Apple customers are like lemmings, just not as smart, but surely as plentiful and gullible."

They are indeed plentiful -- hundreds of millions -- and many will jump into Apple's streaming music service if it exists.

I agree about iTunes being bloated, but this isn't the place for that discussion.

Re: Apple Wants to Build Its Own Pandora. Why?

Tom Park — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:36:12 -0000

Good point but superficial. iTunes is a notable counter-example, and you're overlooking how Apple's services provide necessary ecosystem support for their hardware.

App Store, iMessage, FaceTime, and Game Center are popular on iPhone. A streaming music service would make sense too.

Apple knows there's consumer demand for streaming music services. Pandora Radio is Top 20 Grossing and Top 40 Free in the App Store (All Apps, US), and has been there all year. Spotify is ranking high as well.

Re: Trello versus Asana

Tom Park — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:26:41 -0000

Does blossom.io have a mobile app? I can't find it in the App Store. Actually, the website isn't mobile-friendly, so I'm taking that as a signal... Funny how the home page says, "Ideal for developing Mobile & Web Apps".

Re: Apple’s Television

Tom Park — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:33:34 -0000

I said that same thing in a Quora thread ("Let's compare Louis CK's Live at the Beacon Theater to iFart"), but I'm not sure Apple would actually do it.

http://www.quora.com/Future...

It's very big thinking. Apple's thought big before, but with this they'd be competing with Hollywood studios. Would they really do it?

Re: China Telecom Starts Selling iPhone 4S, Receives Over 200,000 Pre-orders

Tom Park — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:01:19 -0000

What about the App Store? Does the iPhone 4S have Apple's App Store for iOS apps? Does China Telecom run a different one?

Re: Born Digital

Tom Park — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:44:43 -0000

These sorts of miscues could happen to anyone, based on one's immersion. Back in the 80's I started my career in computers and spent the majority of my day at a keyboard. So then at least a couple times, whenever I made a mistake dialing on a touchtone phone, I found myself instinctively looking for an "undo" button. It was over a decade later that I finally got a cellphone with a "backspace" key. I haven't had a landline in almost 8 years now, and can imagine that kids nowadays would easily have the same puzzlement over a landline phone.

Re: iPad 2 wasn't Apple's big March 2nd announcement

Tom Park — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:06:11 -0000

"Fun is the ingredient often missing from [enterprise business software]. People crave joy and happiness, something kids and teens seem to understand much better than many adults."

This reminds me of David Brooks's "Experience Economy" piece in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011...

Re: Thunderbolt: Everything You Need To Know

Tom Park — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:09:38 -0000

What I want to know is whether Apple will support Target Disk Mode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... for Thunderbolt.

Re: Niche travel social network WAYN hits profitability, mobile apps on the way

Tom Park — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:58:33 -0000

Is this WAYN site legit? It seems like a scammer site. A friend apparently "left a message" for me there, but the notification email looked suspicious, because it didn't say it was a membership invite. When I clicked through, it showed thumbnails of "People on WAYN you may also know" but didn't list their names so I couldn't tell if I knew them or not, but of course they were attractive people. Then when I actually created a brand new account, I already had 15 friends! And one of them had "liked" me! Clearly these were fake profiles. The whole site reeeeeks of SCAM. And it looks like MySpace. Furthermore it automatically assigned a crappy url to my profile. No thanks. And finally, when I tried to delete my account, I first had to go through a hassle to get the password, since the password had been automatically generated by the site and was tied to an email account that I don't normally use. I bet these guys phish their user's email passwords and then spam the user's contact list without letting the users know it's happening.

Re: Google Ventures Leads $600K Investment In LawPivot, A Quora For Startup Legal Advice

Tom Park — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:43:29 -0000

Because "questions are completely confidential", Lawpivot sounds more like Aardvark (vark.com) than Quora. This is a HUGE distinction, because you can not browse the Q&A on Aardvark, whereas Quora gets its mojo from being able to browse questions and read everyone's answers.

Lawpivot could be a valuable service, but if you want some simple business advice, it's actually easier to see what people say on Quora. I've already gotten some great startup advice on Quora by searching for questions that are already posted or by posting new questions anonymously.

Re: Angry Birds developer claims Microsoft jumped the gun, Rovio 'not committed' to Windows Phone 7

Tom Park — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:08:21 -0000

Yes, not only that but every OEM and ODM does it (except maybe Apple). Even Google paid developers to port to Android. It's completely commonplace in the mobile business. Engadget must know this.

Re: Dead Bodies Captured By Brazil’s Google Street View Debut

Tom Park — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:28:33 -0000

I lived in Sao Paulo for a little while, 10 years ago. Once I landed at the airport and took a taxi into town and saw a dead body at the side of the highway just where the airport access road merged onto the highway. It was surreal seeing the morning traffic jam flow slowly past that body. Earlier at night I had seen people running across the highway to and from the favela near there, running in their havaianas (flip flops), carrying shopping bags. It was crazy dangerous. So my impression, at least for that body, it was hit and run, not murder.

Re: The Way I Work: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch

Tom Park — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:34:17 -0000

Same here. I had to switch to Firefox with NoScript.

Re: BranchOut Unlocks The LinkedIn In Facebook

Tom Park — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:48:52 -0000

LinkedIn is great, but who says what Facebook is for? I make a living from platforms like Facebook. I can't yet say that about LinkedIn.

Re: BranchOut Unlocks The LinkedIn In Facebook

Tom Park — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:10:12 -0000

OK, I gave this a try. I don't have any work history on Facebook, but apparently some of my friends do.

I openly make connections on LinkedIn but am much more selective on Facebook, so BranchOut on FB could never replace LinkedIn. However, it's a useful supplement. I'll keep it installed for now.

The UI is super clunky though. I might hate on BranchOut for usability alone.

Re: Zuckerberg hints at location features, admits he uses Spotify in the US

Tom Park — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:12:03 -0000

Not that it matters, but even if you don't count the plain ol' Facebook Developer Garages as "official Facebook developer day" events, there was in London a "f8 Special Edition" in July 2008 and a "f8 Edition" in April 2010.

http://wiki.developers.face...

http://www.facebook.com/eve...

Re: What’s Palm’s Next Move? | mocoNews

Tom Park — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:34:33 -0000

First thing that came to my mind was RIM. Just sayin'.

Re: The right to link

Tom Park — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:48:51 -0000

I agree NewsNow should be allowed to link, but News Corp has rights too.

That is, News Corp may be foolish to block linking, but it's their right.

I don't see any mention that News Corp are filing a lawsuit against NewsNow for linking, so I don't see NewsNow's rights being violated.

I'm not sure what laws cover "the right to link" anyway. Could you clarify that point?

Re: The Price Of Google In China

Tom Park — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:56:43 -0000

I'm so glad you wrote this MG.
Google's actions this past week would have had much less impact if they had said in 2006 that they'd never enter China in the first place. The suggestion that they were doing poorly in terms of market share is ridiculous. Any other company entering the China search market in 2006 would have been proud to have achieved their market share.

Re: The+Switch+From+iPhone+To+Android%2C+And+Why+Your+First+Impression+Is%26nbsp%3BWrong

Tom Park — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:58:45 -0000

A lot of people seem to have missed that Gmail works great in the browser, and that’s definitely the way to do it on the iPhone. Do not use the Mail client. Just go to Gmail in mobile Safari, press the “+” plus sign and tap “Add to Home Screen”.

Web-based Gmail gives you more than the iPhone Mail app:
~threaded messages
~one-touch archiving
~shows labels and allows you to label manually
~shows personal indicators
~allows you to mark w/star, report spam, mute
~has a navbar for calendar, docs, more

Threaded messages and archiving are super important — you shouldn’t lose those by using the Mail client.

One thing you give up is push notification and unread badge count, but if you get way too many emails like me you don't care about those.