People will not adopt a technical solution that serves to replace a manual task, if that solution is less efficient than the manual task it replaces.

Sean Cummings

People value simplicity and efficiency, but QR codes make it harder to get to information. Companies that plaster them all over tend to lack both design sense and respect for their customers' time. The general response should be no surprise.

Posted in Simplify and tagged good quotes, qr codes, efficiency
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The area where most teams fail is insufficient polish. Cliff [Bleszinksi] always says there's the first 90 percent of the project, and then the second 90 percent. Because once your game is completely playable and it works, you're really only halfway. … It takes an incredible amount of tweaking ...

Posted in Refine and tagged good quotes, software
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The Times of Our Lives

Time to sell out of WWDC tickets:

  • 2010: 192 hours
  • 2011: 12 hours
  • 2012: 2 hours

Time to sell 67 million units:

  • Mac: 24 years
  • iPod: 5 years
  • iPhone: 3 years
  • iPad: 2 years

Time for Apple to make $1400 net profit:

  • Q2'10: 4 seconds
  • Q2'11: 2 seconds ...
Posted in General and tagged statistics, apple
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Launch

A fancy country code domain doesn't do much if it's just sitting there, and the Internet certainly needs more blogs, so here's another one.

Posted in General and tagged meta
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