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by Despegar 7y ago
>Well, totalitarian in this context means shackling developers with micro-management of basic functions of software development. This might be an interesting philosophical/religious debate about computers to some, but it's also
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by Despegar 7y ago
>IMHO a better idea would be to create privacy jails for apps and then users can decide if they want to stick certain apps inside jails where they don't get access to your IP, GPS data, accelerometer, camera, contacts, etc. Jails wo
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by Despegar 7y ago
This is a good piece in the sense that it will get Apple to do something I've wanted for a long time, which is to ban all the third party frameworks that developers are shipping in their apps. They should either provide their own first
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by Despegar 7y ago
Apple's installed base is 1.4 billion devices. 1.4 billion of any consumer product isn't "luxury". Words mean things and "luxury goods" are from brands like Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci, Rolex, and Ferr
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by Despegar 7y ago
Being first is often not a sustainable competitive advantage and we have a good case study in looking at the recent past with 3G and 4G. Apple makes all the profit in smartphones and all the incumbents like Nokia, RIM, Ericsson are gone.
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by Despegar 7y ago
>Winning the "race to 5G" means the US will be the first to innovate in systems that take advantage of faster wireless broadband networks. That's important. Why is being "first to innovate" important? What happen
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by Despegar 7y ago
There's nothing self-congratulatory about that sentence at all. Facebook's algorithm used to promote a certain kind of clickbait until they changed it in favor of real news (which killed a bunch of media startups that were optimiz
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by Despegar 7y ago
Yes they can. Section 230 immunizes them from liability and allows them to moderate (or not) as they please.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Apple should reduce the fidelity of targeting so that an online ad is the equivalent of a billboard ad.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Apple is banning targeting (ITP) and creating a privacy-preserving technology to address the only legitimate interest of the ad-tech complex.
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by Despegar 7y ago
They wouldn't mandate any specific technology, but it makes it infinitely more likely that Congress would pass a GDPR clone when they are confident that doing so wouldn't just destroy every web publisher's business. And it ce
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by Despegar 7y ago
It also makes it easier to lobby for a privacy law with teeth (which Apple should absolutely be doing if they aren't already) when you can offer a solution to politicians who might have genuine concerns about the economic impact.
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by Despegar 7y ago
>why would an ad company stop using their existing tracking? This can be addressed in law, but technical alternatives should exist. The alternative existing will also make it easier to pass it in law.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Tencent's equity will get wiped out as well, and I doubt they're going to invest more into it after that. Also I'm pretty sure CFIUS will block it anyway.
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by Despegar 7y ago
It doesn't matter what you believe because Apple said that was the case in court filings during the FBI legal fight. Tim Cook reaffirmed that in an interview with Vice last fall.
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by Despegar 7y ago
This isn't very complicated to solve: redistribute more of the wealth. MMTers say that isn't even necessary, but it is to fix inequality.
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by Despegar 7y ago
That's no different anywhere else in the world.
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by Despegar 7y ago
iMessage is end-to-end encrypted.
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by Despegar 7y ago
The last thing China wants during a trade war is to have the 3 million people in Apple's supply chain unemployed and angry. This particular leverage is also why iMessage isn't blocked in China.
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Inside Google's Civil War(fortune.com)
6 points by Despegar 7y ago|1 comments
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by Despegar 7y ago
FactSet
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by Despegar 7y ago
That's not a good chart for banks. Their cost of capital is 8-10%, doing 11 or 12% is pretty shitty compared to the pre-crisis era. And the smaller community banks have less onerous regulations than the big ones. Banks have to be much
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by Despegar 7y ago
Goldman Sachs's return on equity used to average 20-30% before the crisis. Now a decade after the crisis they're glad to be doing more than 10%. https://i.imgur.com/gtE05WX.png
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by Despegar 7y ago
I wonder if the exec team realizes that the ad-tech industry had their Great Financial Crisis. Nobody is in love with them anymore. They'll get as much reception from politicians as Wall Street did when Congress passed Dodd-Frank. Bank
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Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal(cnbc.com)
634 points by Despegar 7y ago|423 comments
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by Despegar 7y ago
I wonder if they have an alternative to Android.
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by Despegar 7y ago
What semiconductor production is outsourced to China?
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by Despegar 7y ago
That reminds me of newspaper ads for someone selling beige box PCs.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Growth is slowing and ad load has already reached its limits. If Google has any undeveloped real estate left, there's going to be ads on it.
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by Despegar 7y ago
This is "break glass in case of emergency" levels of desperation.

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