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Amazingly no one asked this question at the meetup, but it just came up in an email from a famous journalist who works at a gadget site you've heard of and probably read.  The question goes like this.  Now that Apple is reading Flickr feeds in AppleTV, maybe there's no point continuing to develop FlickrFan.  I always wonder what's behind this question. Does the person think that people who use FlickrFan will stop using it because AppleTV can read the RSS feeds that Flickr produces? How would that work? I don't understand. I bought an AppleTV, I tried fitting it into my lifestyle, but it didn't. Apple's vision of how the Internet connects to the living room is a very controlling one. They attain a certain ease of use, true -- but the trade-off is too great. I like all the special effects, but I like to be in control of my own experience. I want to be the programmer. And I despise DRM as much as my customers hated copy protected software in the 80s. It does nothing positive for me, as a user, and I don't think it works for the vendors, but then that isn't my problem, it's theirs. I much prefer the Mac Mini to AppleTV, and to everything else. But this question has always been the stinkbomb lurking over the whole Mac market. The reporters don't stand up for the vendors. What does this guy want me to do? Would he prefer if I stopped developing FlickrFan? Will he say I'm stupid if I do. Maybe I am. Hey, I don't ask for any money for it. Basically I do it because I want to help create a DRM-less environment for us to enjoy networked living rooms.  FlickrFan is one of the things I'm working on. Sure it's crazy to think that I could actually contribute a little to the Mac platform. Apple surely is going to crush me tomorrow, maybe they already have. But why do users care? Why do reporters? It seems to me that we all benefit from choice. When it's a single-party system things stagnate. When there's competition, new ideas can gain traction even if it doesn't fit into the Apple vision for its users. (Which is fairly limited, read this Doc Searls piece written in 1997, it's every bit as true today as it was then.) Hey if you think building on Flickr is crazy, think about this. My next product competes with iTunes as a podcatcher! I must be out of my mind, eh?  Finally, I could ask this guy, who I respect enormously and whose work I read practically every day, a similar question. Hey Apple writes about gadgets on apple.com. What does that say about YourGadgetSite? Got any plans for a new job? Perhaps a new career? Now that would be just rude, wouldn't?  How about some respect for developers?  Can't believe we're still having this discussion in 2008. Can't we get past this?
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Does the one know anything about the other?
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Mike Mussina pitched seven scoreless innings on Tuesday night. (John Dunn for The New York Times) âI canât say that, because we havenât allowed ourselves the luxury of thinking that,â Joe Torre said. âNot only for him, but for anybody.â Maybe I should have known better than to ask that question before the Yankees have clinched. But [...].
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It&#39;s not about character. There&#39;s no moral lesson. It&#39;s not even about solving a mystery, though the question of what is happening is at first haunting.
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"Nobody knows the truth about what happened in  the house...
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Did they or didn&#39;t they? That is the answer no-one really has to the question of the marriage of Britney Spears to dancer Kevin Federline.
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This report ought to form the basis of tonight&#39;s presidential debate - but it most likely won&#39;t even be mentioned. The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University reported Thursday
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Parents have not received details of police evidence.
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There are broad talks afoot, according to one participant, who refused to name names or provide any specifics of what's being discussed.
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Welcome to the No-Maintenance Super Bowl. There were no media brush fires to extinguish, unless you count Tank Johnson. No supposed humanitarians got busted the night before the game. No one called out anyone. It was a weeklong display of mutual respect and kissy-kissy tributes from one side to the other.
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Who will emerge to supplant Tiger Woods as the worldâs No. 1 golfer? The usual answer is that we have not yet heard his name, or, if we have, it has not rung a bell.
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A question about battery replacement is usually easy to clear up. But at Apple, there is no such thing as a straightforward answer. There is only spin.
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Peerless Price repeated the question, buying himself a little more time to come up with the answer. Still, there was a moment of awkward silence that spoke volumes about his role with the Atlanta Falcons.
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Q: After being a dedicated fan of "24" for five years, there are a few things that I am still wondering about. No one ever seems to take a restroom break. No one ever either sleeps or takes a short nap break. No one ever seems to eat anything.
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If old age kills growth, well, no one told IHS.
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Pedro wasn't talking. The inference is that he would have his arm do all the talking necessary tonight.
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Nevermind the civil war debate -- the real question is why didn't the U.S. make a war declaration in the first place? That could bring an end to something that never should have been started