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Comment Re:If only ... (Score 1) 228

From my limited watching of (I think it was) Crunchyroll, they only seemed to have 2-3 ads to play so each adbreak was a repeat of the last one. This got old very quickly bad ads are annoying but endless repeats make it unwatchable.

Comment Re:The idiocy of the reporting (Score 1) 178

There are already internet enabled light bulbs and they have Security issues. Now in this case it appears that its just breaking into the bulbs mesh network and the manufacturer has released a fix, but most users won't apply it and what happens if they drop the product or just go out of business? The threat could easily more like the WiFi Kettle hack

Comment Re:The idiocy of the reporting (Score 1) 178

I think the more general problem with the IoT is that it's putting a vast population of ageing, unpatched and unmaintained computers onto the Internet running applications who's sole aim is to get them to market ASAP. I would expect a fridge to last anything up to 15 years I don't see Microsoft supporting Windows 98, LED lightbulbs should last 25 years and at end of life would be running the equivalent of Windows 3.1. Probably the only good thing is that at least its not a monocluture :-(
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Apple's App Store Needs a Radical Revamp; How Would You Go About It? 249

Nerval's Lobster (2598977) writes Given the hundreds of thousands of apps currently on offer, it's hard for any one app (no matter how well designed) to stand out on Apple's App Store, much less stay atop the bestseller charts for very long. In an August 10 blog posting, former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée offered Apple CEO Tim Cook some advice: Let humans curate the App Store. 'Instead of using algorithms to sort and promote the apps that you permit on your shelves, why not assign a small group of adepts to create and shepherd an App Store Guide,' he wrote. 'A weekly newsletter will identify notable new titles, respond to counter-opinions, perhaps present a developer profile, footnote the occasional errata and mea culpa.' Whether or not such an idea would effectively surface all the good content now buried under layers of Flappy Bird rip-offs is an open question; what's certain is that, despite Apple's rosy picture, developers around the world face a lot of uncertainty and competition when it comes to making significant money off their apps. Sure, some developers are making a ton of cash, but the rising tide doesn't necessarily float all boats. If you had the opportunity, how would you revamp/revise/upgrade/adjust/destroy the App Store to better serve the developers who put apps in it?

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