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by Despegar 8y ago
I mean sure. Google certainly doesn't want wireless carriers to compete with them in advertising, and everyone having access to location data from smartphones just devalues Google's own access. https://qz.com/11315
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by Despegar 8y ago
>It’s a tired trope to imagine what Jobs would have done, but when he returned to Apple he saw a myriad of macs and decided that Apple would kill them all and sell 4: a laptop and a desktop in pro and consumer models. I honestly don&#x27
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by Despegar 8y ago
It's also much better for the platform that there isn't such a wide range between screen sizes. It's incredibly hard to make UIs scale from the SE to the XS Max and both be as functional and good looking on both.
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by Despegar 8y ago
There's no need to kill good and successful products. https://media.thinknum.com/articles/google-chromecast-sales-...
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by Despegar 8y ago
The entire installed base doesn't upgrade every single year. There are years of people upgrading to the X form factor left.
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by Despegar 8y ago
The iPhone XS was the exact same price as the X and that sold plenty fine. It wasn't the price as his letter points out, much to the dismay of many people.
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by Despegar 8y ago
>While we anticipated some challenges in key emerging markets, we did not foresee the magnitude of the economic deceleration, particularly in Greater China. In fact, most of our revenue shortfall to our guidance, and over 100 percent of
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by Despegar 8y ago
This is all well and good until Apple bans these lowest common denominator cross platform frameworks. I hope they do this once Marzipan is shipping. It's also not true that app startups aren't making money. https://www.
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by Despegar 8y ago
Yes, Facebook and Google were sued almost immediately by activists after GDPR went into effect [1][2]. Those test cases will take time to play out. [1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/25/schrems_is_back_
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by Despegar 8y ago
Apple needs to ban these SDKs from being included in apps. No one reads the privacy policies and they leak data to another party that the user doesn't have a relationship with. Provide first party services, intermediate between apps an
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Facebook Data Scandals Stoke Criticism That a Privacy Watchdog Too Rarely Bites(nytimes.com)
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by Despegar 8y ago
Anybody suggesting technical solutions to this problem is completely misunderstanding the scale of it. The only acceptable answer is a legal/regulatory solution.
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by Despegar 8y ago
>An iPhone not bought is a Huawei phone that is People outside of China aren't going to buy Huawei phones, partly because Huawei is being banned from western nations as we speak. Android phones are not really substitutes for iPhones
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by Despegar 8y ago
The CPC will never do anything to materially harm Apple because their only real concern is their continued rule of China. Assembly of Apple products employs hundreds of thousands of workers and having that many people unemployed and angry i
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by Despegar 8y ago
The only way this will change is if Apple starts using more "stick" approaches. Marzipan and whatever other technologies they're working on are the "carrot".
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by Despegar 8y ago
The GUI is not something I'd break out separately from the PC. And the internet is something that massively improved the utility of PCs and increased demand for them, it wasn't something that was going to replace it.
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by Despegar 8y ago
Shifts in computing paradigms are incredibly rare. The smartphone is unlikely to be replaced for a long time to come. There will be plenty of head fakes along the way no doubt (smart speakers and voice bots come to mind), but the smartphone
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by Despegar 8y ago
I'll take that bet. The iPhone is going to keep printing money for the next 15-20 years at least. Apple is a 40 year old company, and they're still raking in the dough from their original product category.
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by Despegar 8y ago
There's a difference between tech industry "consent" and informed consent.
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That's referring to the Facebook integration in iOS. There were similar integrations for Flickr, Vimeo and Twitter as well. These have been removed as of iOS 11. It would let you sync your contacts and add their Facebook profile pic to
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by Despegar 8y ago
If the whistle blowers wanted the prestige there's a way they could have done that: go on-the-record. They chose not to, perhaps fearing retaliation, which is fine. I don't see how that takes away at all from Ryan Gallagher. His s
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by Despegar 8y ago
The point of end-to-end encryption is that Apple doesn't have any keys to give.
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iMessage and FaceTime are end-to-end encrypted and work in China. There's different rules for Apple.
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Great reporting by Gallagher. He should win a Pulitzer for his reporting on Dragonfly. The fact that Pichai refused to say they wouldn't re-enter China shows this is probably just a pause until things die down.
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Bloomberg is in the process of re-reporting the story according to Erik Wemple. They've assigned a new reporter to find out what's going on. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018&#
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by Despegar 8y ago
Well I'd say it's certainly a big risk to Intel. For one, a lot of Intel customers are going in-house with chip design. Apple on its own might not hurt much, but add a few more like Amazon or Google, and things can really unravel.
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by Despegar 8y ago
Apple in some ways is like a quasi data privacy regulator because they have control of the App Store. They can use App Store policy to forbid these third party frameworks being included in apps. But that's not a scalable solution. Priv
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by Despegar 8y ago
>Putting my tin foil hat, I hypothesize Google anonymously tracks your location even if your location services if off (allowing them to do traffic, how busy a restaurant is, etc.). This has already been reported. https://qz.co
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by Despegar 8y ago
>On GDPR, I've seen people complaining about the high cost for implementing it The bigger cost is to people's privacy, which is hard to quantify and hard for people to articulate why it's necessary. Collection and use of p
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by Despegar 8y ago
A privacy bill is in the works right now. And a lot of big ad-tech companies (Google, Facebook) are fighting to shape it in their favor.

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