Analogy isn't needed at all. Address book uploaded without permission... enough said. To your second point, I agree, Apple should have a setting on the iPhone that denies ANYONE but the owner of the iPhone access to the address book. In addition, each app should be forced to ask for permission to use contacts. The ball is in Apple's court to explain.

That seems overly cynical. He designed a method of vectorising images in order to ensure quality of resized stamps - I don't think you should be complaining that he's charging for such work.

What I don't understand is why Apple wouldn't indicate why an app is featured - if for example high quality and innovation are prized then this should be lauded aloud to encourage others.

So I bought the app and checked it out. I may be cynical, but I also buy apps, (and my right to be cynical).

I made an image with the app just now: http://i44.tinypic.com/aua3ic.jpg

Review: 3 stars Good UX path on loading the app, guides you through steps. The designer of this app has done well to make a sensible interface, with only some work needed on the settings screen and the labeling choices there.

Replay value is another question. There's no sequencing layout tools or anything relating to more than the single image you're working on. Tools are not that powerful, but they do their job ok. It does one trick, and most people will probably use it one time.

Yep, the vector thing is pretty cool.

Now it just needs the ability to arrange and re-arrange multiple images, and swipe through them as a slideshow. Throw in a library of sound effects to assign each slide, with animated visual effects for little movie-making mobile graphic novels... and THEN it'd be a paid app worthy of promotion in my mind, but this is a good start.

Front end Developers seem to disagree a lot. Some embrace the webkit prefix and sprinkle it all through their CSS. Others prefer not to resort to old fashioned site building techniques and instead aim to get the functionality working everywhere in one hit without coding like it's 1996.

LOL, gold! I would buy that one too. As for the actual posters for sale, if people actually do want these on their walls, just type it in notepad and hit print. I'd sooner opt for a cheesy new age motivational slogan than Zuck-wisdom, but then I'm not a Facebook loyal.

Someone should mention: this "cloud" is not actually a cloud, but relies on physical things to exist. At both ends, loads of electric current is needed. It relies on mining to bring the infrastructure, and it replaces your own information management with facilities managed by people you'll never meet and companies you'll barely know. But you have to trust them and agree to their terms, and become their customer.

Living in the cloud could be the most you've ever sold out without knowing it.

My advice: keep a few books. Bookshelves can be left in standby mode for years without needing a recharge. When people come over you can hand them a book, maybe an art book, and they will enjoy flicking through the pages. The UX of a book is top notch. Leave and rotate a few on the coffee table (if you have a coffee table, or is that in the cloud too?).

"In reality, everything we are excited about today is going to be incredibly old and boring much faster than we ever expect".

Um.... speak for yourself.

I still appreciate and wow at the simplicity and brilliance of the humble transistor radio. It all depends how much you can appreciate the science and manufacturing details of these devices, their development history, design, performance, evolution, applications and use. Get into the details, and NOTHING gets boring.

This comment is longer and more substantial than the article it responds to. It gets its point across very, very well. Keeping it short at the expense of substance gets you Twitter; this is Hacker News.

One of the great things about Hacker News is that long, and well thought out, comments are encouraged.

I don't think the comment was overly long for the story it contained. And I really enjoyed reading it, I'm sure I'm not alone.

I don't know about you, but it was the most interesting thing I've read all day.

As far as I'm concerned the writer is more than welcome to post comments of this quality of any length and I'll happily read them.

Looks like unsharp mask filter is automatically applied to 4s.. which is fine for happy snaps, but if DSLR cameras applied such sharpening automatically without the option to turn it off, just watch photographers around the world take to the streets in protest! So many images on the web are so over-sharpened by people who don't know how to sharpen properly or just use the default settings.

We all have different lifetimes I suppose.

As a kid growing up, the Commodore 64 was more than a tinker-box that blinked a few lights. And later, the Amiga won hands down over the Mac that we had in the house. I was definitely no hacker. I was an average kid wanting to get enjoyment out of a computer.

For me, the Commodore stepped up to offer what you describe as "consumer-ready". We bought and swapped heaps of software for C64 and Amiga over many years, as did millions around the world. We would play Summer Games as a family... mum, dad, sis.. we'd have a ball.

Even at high school, the BBC was king in my day.

When I got to Uni, I saw all these Macs everywhere, and apart from the crisper display suitable for word processing, they did not offer anything I would have called a step up my previous experience with computers.

It was around then, that I discovered the 486 PC. I saved up and bought one. Never looked back.

Just trying to balance the perspective here. Let's not get too carried away with the history of computers and what the Apple co-founder did for his company, ok?

The post I replied to was lamenting that products from the "new Apple" weren't good hacker toy boxes like the Apple II. I'm pointing out that the shift was intentional.

I don't think I exaggerated computer history either; Altair 8800 to iPhone is a big leap, and I'm not dead yet.

I mostly avoid Macs. I prefer PC. But I dig the iPhone despite the various lock-down restrictions. I moved on to an android phone, and for the most part liked the new freedoms the android offered, but it was a step down in user interface design, general UX and is less "fun to use".

I'm grateful that Steve invested in Pixar. Those animations are inspiring.

So for me it's iPhone + Pixar. The rest, with respect, is just normal computer business - iMacs and so on. That is, build them cheap in China, sell them expensive in fancy stores with marble floors and huge glass windows. Not a lot going on there except manufacturing and clever business, and half-decent product design including the OS if you're a fan of that style of computer.

But for sure, it's sad he died young and he was obviously a hero to many. I liked his speech to the uni students, he seemed to have a calm outlook and interest in life and death and everything in between.