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Google Wants to Do Business with the Military–Many of Its Employees Don’t(bloomberg.com)
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by Despegar 7y ago
>It was the first to block third party cookies by default Which led to the FTC collecting a scalp for it. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/08/googl...
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The key difference being that Microsoft was found to have market dominance and using that position anticompetitvely.
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Apple is plainly saying that they are best positioned to protect iOS users privacy and security. One way they do that is by not allowing any app to use anything other than WebKit. If there's a flaw in some alternative browser that iOS
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What claim? Apple has not ever disclaimed that they have complete editorial control over what happens on their platform, in fact they've advertised that fact repeatedly over the years. Being "curated" has been a central part
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It didn't seem to help the Dash developer. As far as I know, he never got his developer account back. https://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/10/apple-and-kapeli-respond/
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I think it exists because they've got plenty of infrastructure assets all around the world because of GCP (and are investing in more) and they're probably trying to dream up ideas to drive up utilization and gain some operating le
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This is the study Apple did with Stanford. It's based on the photoplethysmograph (PPG) sensor from the pre-Series 4 Apple Watches. Presumably the new Apple heart study announced will also use the ECG in the Series 4 and later [1]. [1]
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Not necessarily. The law will be challenged in the courts and they'll have a strong case that it infringes their intellectual property rights.
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I was mainly attacking those think tanks for providing air cover for tech industry interests. I'm sure there are actual examples of tech companies also donating to EPIC, as well as employees of tech companies.
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Because I'm aware of their history and the positions they've taken on privacy issues. They've always been the actual pro-privacy group, unlike the others which represent tech industry interests. The EFF, popular with many tec
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>If anything it probably is a push by state actors who hope their intelligence services can use the hooks to circumvent the security Apple and even Android users have from their devices. It's not anything cloak-and-dagger like that.
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There should be scare quotes around Privacy Advocacy Groups. All of the listed think tanks are for sale. EPIC, an actual privacy advocacy group, is not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Privacy_Information...
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>If a memo, or meeting minutes were to come out showing that Apple was signing exclusivity agreements, or disabling payment apps on the iPhone (NFC) to specifically put competition out of business, well then that would be monopolistic. I
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Profit or non-profit doesn't really have anything to do with it. The issue is market power. Chrome has 70-80% market share according to this article. That's monopoly levels of market power and it's maintained through Android,
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The NFC issue isn't related to antitrust. If they thought they could make an antitrust case against Apple they would. But their market share is so low in Germany, and the EU, that they just passed a law instead (specifically an amendme
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They heyday of Google were the years Eric Schmidt was CEO and the short time Larry Page was CEO before the ill-fated Google+ strategy. After that he seems to have burned out, spun a tale about being a capital allocator with the whole Alphab
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>she likely reported her income as their joint income That's not in her post. Did DHH mention this?
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The crux of this issue is that Apple Card is only for individuals >“As with any other individual credit card, your application is evaluated independently,” Williams said in a statement. “We look at an individual’s income and an individua
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This is odd because history actually suggests the exact opposite. It suggests that not only will Apple be the company that makes AR a category for the mainstream (if it is to be one at all), but that they'll also own the revolution as
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Safari Privacy Overview [pdf](apple.com)
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The Czech Republic isn't in the Eurozone and doesn't face the structural disadvantages that Greece or Portugal do.
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How much each member contributes to the EU budget is a drop in the bucket compared to the transfer payments I'm talking about (healthcare, social security, defense). The Eurozone should either go all the way like the US, or they should
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Until German taxpayers are financing universal healthcare and pensions for Greeks and Italians, those things are marginal at best.
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The Eurozone is fatally flawed because they share a currency but have no transfer payments between rich and poor members. So you have countries like Germany that are effectively subsidized by poorer countries. It's been a great setup f
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The real war, as always, is class war. There are plenty of poor boomers and there are plenty of rich millennials. But in general I'd say that "Ok Boomer" works.
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Financial products exist only in databases and they can't kill you, yet they're heavily regulated for good reason.
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GDPR is literally the government protecting people's privacy and data. That's what this article is advocating for.
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The market power that iOS gives Apple in the browser market is the only thing that keeps the web from being shaped by an ad company.
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One benefit is that people will stop writing dumb posts about what companies you should buy

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