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by Despegar 7y ago
People with this line of critique against Tim Cook don't actually know how Apple works. By your own metrics Cook is Nadella. The stock more than doubled under his tenure and the installed base for Apple products has grown massively sin
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by Despegar 7y ago
Industrial Design works hand-in-hand with Operations. One without the other means products that can't scale to hundreds of millions at good quality. https://blog.bolt.io/manufacture-like-apple/
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by Despegar 7y ago
The titles at Apple don't really translate to other companies. Product marketing at Apple for example decides on how big features work.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Teams is winning because it's being bundled with Office 365. The business model and distribution lets them compete effectively with an inferior product. Slack doesn't have that luxury.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Slack is eventually going to write native apps once they realize that productivity software shouldn't be developed like an ad product from Google. It will take Teams winning because it gets included in the Office 365 subscription for s
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by Despegar 7y ago
Apple has already endorsed GDPR as the model for privacy legislation in the US in the highest profile way, with a keynote speech by the CEO in a conference for privacy regulators in the EU’s parliament [1]. And their statement basically say
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by Despegar 7y ago
The better solution is to regulate it. And fortunately governments everywhere are down that path.
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by Despegar 7y ago
This is like saying that Apple can't collect 30% if you make your app in React Native rather than a purely native iOS app. It doesn't matter what technology you use, they're going to get 30% because they control the store.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Biotechs focused on antibiotics are going bankrupt actually. It has to be publicly funded. https://www.ft.com/content/4da1c6e4-603d-11e9-9300-0becfc937...
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by Despegar 7y ago
>That's Courage. For real this time, one of the first things Steve Jobs did when he came back to Apple was that he slashed the product line and killed off a ton of things so that the company could focus on what truly mattered; build
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by Despegar 7y ago
It’s extremely silly that you (and others) are trying to say Tim Cook did something wrong when the actual article says he bent over backward to keep Jony in control.
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by Despegar 7y ago
If Apple is his client he's probably not going to take any clients that competes with them.
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by Despegar 7y ago
They linked to their previous reporting that they're working on it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/apple-is-...
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U.S. Tech Companies Sidestep a Ban, to Keep Selling to Huawei(nytimes.com)
120 points by Despegar 7y ago|81 comments
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by Despegar 7y ago
The DETOUR Act empowers the FTC to do this, not the FCC. The FTC already has the responsibility of policing "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" and this is an extension of that. The bill is 13 pages long. There are affordances
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by Despegar 7y ago
If Congress legislates they aren't going to be prescribing UI design in the text of the bill. They will give the FTC rulemaking authority and they'll be the cop on the beat that digs into the weeds.
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by Despegar 7y ago
As the other comments mentioned, I meant purging trackers from iOS apps. There's a privacy reason to do it but also a business reason. Apple shouldn't have apps on their platform with dependencies to major competitors like Google
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by Despegar 7y ago
>I hate dark patterns and wish they didn't exist. But I'm not sure that putting the government in charge of policing them is a good idea. I think after about 30 years of deregulation and "I'm not sure that putting the
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by Despegar 7y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. Antitrust is having a renaissance right now.
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by Despegar 7y ago
>That's the point of confusion. This is not an end around. Whether that's the intention or not doesn't matter, it has the potential to be and that is simply not acceptable. When a developing world country like India needs
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by Despegar 7y ago
>Single-payer would not fix the problem by itself, either... although using monopsony power could certainly help, if executed competently. The other half of this has to be aggressive antitrust enforcement in the healthcare sector.
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by Despegar 7y ago
You can use Will Strafach's new app Guardian that blocks trackers in apps. I think Apple is going to purge them from iOS apps over time, they've already started with kids apps. https://guardianapp.com/
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Inside Apple’s Walled Garden, Developers Take Cover from Silicon Valley’s Storms(theverge.com)
1 points by Despegar 7y ago|0 comments
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by Despegar 7y ago
So are you just against FCPA cases in general then? I think it's one of the most important laws in the US and its extraterritoriality reduces corruption everywhere in the world.
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by Despegar 7y ago
No one had any doubts that taxes or tariffs "work", corporations respond to incentives. If you want to get political about it, Apple's not going to be making their "big, beautiful plants" in the US [1]. [1] https:&
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by Despegar 7y ago
From the article: >The countries being considered include Mexico, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia. India and Vietnam are among the favorites for smartphones, Nikkei said, citing sources who did not want to be identified as the dis
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by Despegar 7y ago
So if a company or person is sanctioned, can Facebook or someone else freeze their Libra currency?
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by Despegar 7y ago
Haven't read any of the news about how this currency is supposed to work, but if it lets anyone bypass the SWIFT system then the US should probably ban it too. Being able to sanction anyone is a powerful tool to give up to Facebook of
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by Despegar 7y ago
iOS 13 makes apps ask permission to use Bluetooth, so at the very least it's going to massively cut down on passive data collection. They've already banned these SDKs in the kids category. I'm sure the next step is to ban the
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by Despegar 7y ago
Orenstein was also the judge that ruled against the DoJ/FBI during the iPhone backdoor case. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/technology/apple-wins-rul...

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