Wait until you're a Canadian that like some American content, but you're physically outside of North America.
e.g. I like Mythbusters, and like to watch their latest episodes sans Ads at HD, in Hong Kong. I would pay something like $5USD to access Discovery.
The reverse case also happens, Lots of Chinese Canadians would like to see HK soap opera in a timely manner, but they'd need a VPN to get around to the location detection, and still put up with a bunch of ads with sub-par resolution. Again, I think they would pay $5-10 a month for that type of access. Instead, most pay through the nose through Shaw for a "local" chinese channel, where the shows that they want to watch is at minimum half a year behind.
Make it simple. A guy with a valid, paying credit card gets to see the shows they want, from whichever channel they want. Those channel will make money.
I don't agree with Gruber's gripe about Gladwell's view of Steve Jobs being a tweaker.
It's easy to point out that no one is a visionary if a visionary has to come up with something completely fresh. And I agree with Gruber on that front.
Yet Gruber, and Jeff Atwood on a tweet, really had a problem with tweaker.
Casting that visionary / innovator argument aside, Gladwell rightly pointed out that Jobs improved on an existing object, and took it to the next level. Macintosh stemmed from Xerox, iPod stemmed from the existing music players, iPhone stemmed from the BlackBerry and Treos at the time. But he created new products that are truly leaps forward from what they were.
And he did it iteratively. Yet people see the word tweaker and think that was a put down.
To me, Gladwell's piece serves a good reminder to people that without Jobs, computers, music players and phones existed. Jobs created the computers, music players, and phones that we know it today. Drawing the percentage of change needed to call Jobs an innovator or a tweaker is like defining how many whiskers would have to be on a guy's face to call it a beard.
Reliability, in this case, is none of the original author's concern.
The concern is accidental activation, which you kindly pointed out happens fairly easily.
Others already have made a point that the feedback would be useful for the disabled.
For me, the feedback is quite important - a lousy keyboard with those membrane keys causes un-registered keypresses or double taps. A good key will give the user that feedback without the need of viewing the screen.
Basically all the androids with the capacitive buttons drives me nuts because of that.
e.g. I like Mythbusters, and like to watch their latest episodes sans Ads at HD, in Hong Kong. I would pay something like $5USD to access Discovery.
The reverse case also happens, Lots of Chinese Canadians would like to see HK soap opera in a timely manner, but they'd need a VPN to get around to the location detection, and still put up with a bunch of ads with sub-par resolution. Again, I think they would pay $5-10 a month for that type of access. Instead, most pay through the nose through Shaw for a "local" chinese channel, where the shows that they want to watch is at minimum half a year behind.
Make it simple. A guy with a valid, paying credit card gets to see the shows they want, from whichever channel they want. Those channel will make money.