From a tether, getting slightly better than dial-up speeds, I get a (>) play indicator, presumably as the video is buffering, but it starts automatically, as expected of any video, when it buffers sufficiently to play without breaks or pauses.
All in all, it started playing 4 seconds after the page loaded.
The comparison here is not literal. It is an implied comparison of the iPhone to 'Android phones' made by your different companies.
In general, most of the latest and greatest Android phones sport larger displays and claim "4G" speeds, whatever that means for a given carrier. (Nexus One, Evo, Droid, Galaxy S, etc.)
Along the same sentiments here, is utilizing facebook login part of a larger strategy here? Curious as to why it's the only option for users to interact with the site.
The idea of theif floating data centers was well planned, and I'm assuming has not fallen completely off the table when factoring in their, already in place, shipping container server configurations.
This plant for water cooling has been in planning since 2009, at the time of purchase. So the flotilla of servers is entirely still possible. I would not be surprised to see it come out down the road.
The initial rounds of Gilt were very limited on offerings (unlike the 6 or 12 designers they now carry daily) it was still high end though, so that initial entry point was indeed there for the early "designer" items, but as momentum gained on revenue/capital they snowballed to the current state.
To further pad this shortcoming in the early stages Gilt was invitation only, and had a lot of control of the influx of new customers to the site, which helped two-fold: promote the air of exclusivity and buffer for the smaller initial supplies/vendors from being out of stock too quickly. This also promotes traffic to the site as items, as they do today, sell out in popular sizes/prices fast, your users are logging in sooner/more frequently to grab a "deal".
Many "weekend" projects are starting out as experiments or self-educating exercises. Depending on the overall scope or drive of the developer these have potential to become apps or small revenue generating adventures.
Outsourcing is done for efficiency from a startup sense. Is it cost-cutting? Yes, because to begin with you are probably running tight margins and an expensive contractor can be done at the end of his contract, but an expensive in house designer (who might not be a developer) is benched after the work is completed. The cost of acquiring an inhouse designer solely for UX/UI does not make sense when you need all hands to develop your functional features. (In the case of a startup - this probably does not apply as much to Skype)
Comparing ANYSITE.com to facebook.com can be generally assumed to be hand-waving given the degree to which facebook stands as a massive outlier to any set of startups regardless of how similar the ideas may be.
Being able to get rid of the notification alerts that hinder any functional progress on whatever it is you were doing before the pop-up came along is pretty nice.
Also, the notifications from the lock screen information view is very nice to have. From a usability standpoint being able to triage a sms or email ping sound with one button rather than:
- button click to end sleep,
- swipe to unlock,
- another button click to enter sms or email,
- (maybe) one last button click to open a message.
Not the 'simplest cell phone', it does not exist, and the author of the article is bleeding with excess bias "With his über perfected skills in design..." - also, this article is from July 2010. Not sure on the relevance, this is just a conceptual art project from a design student.
and again, discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4105325