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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Hey Apple! Give me a weighted “random” in iTunes. Yesterday.

02-Apr-09

So, I get the “Genius” thing. Mimicking pandora.com is the hotshit thing to do, but it’s not the Right thing to do. I’ve given you my ratings: give me a “random” weighted towards those ratings. This is mathematically simple, especially since you only give me a one to five scale. (How to deal with zero-star [...]

Dear VAR/vendor saleslime: Belittling your customer will not generate sales.

01-Apr-09

I’ve let this one kick around in the back of my mind for a while, because I’m about to accuse someone, in public, of being grossly unprofessional which could, itself, be considered unprofessional. I confess that my first impulse was to simply post the whole email thread, edited only mildly to conceal identities, but that’s [...]