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by IBM 9y ago
Were they given the statement or is Bloomberg quoting what was given to other publications? In either case, if they got Bloomberg to slag themselves I tip my hat to Apple PR.
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by IBM 9y ago
Giving a rival publication the statement instead of Bloomberg is classic Apple. The spirit of Katie Cotton lives on in Apple PR.
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by IBM 9y ago
As someone who's only casually interested in this field, what are the prospects of any of these upstarts actually unseating Illumina from the throne?
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by IBM 9y ago
This isn't new, every year there's complaints about battery life or other bugs that get fixed in the 0.0.x updates. The 0.1 update basically knocks out anything else. It also doesn't matter if "we" don't need y
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by IBM 9y ago
It may be a test but having pricing power doesn't mean they're a monopoly. They have pricing power because they deliver more consumer surplus in their products than what they capture. Even in the case of the iPhone business having
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by IBM 9y ago
The EU is already moving on multiple cases against Google. The US would have too if Google wasn't so politically connected with the Obama administration, but the anti-trust movement is slowly building itself up again now.
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by IBM 9y ago
That pinhead was Steve Jobs.
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FOSS religion is only going to fade as we get further from 90s Microsoft.
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by IBM 9y ago
They're big companies that can afford to invest in Sprint's network and could bundle wireless service with other products. And most importantly it doesn't let the industry consolidate from 4 to 3 players.
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by IBM 9y ago
They should not let this merger go through. If Sprint needs to sell they should sell themselves to Comcast/Charter. http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/sprint-talks-comcast-...
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by IBM 9y ago
That's exactly what's happening here [1]. John Sculley stays in the press in the same way. In fact he got another hit just today [2]. [1] https://www.techinasia.com/talk/steve-wozniak-walking-billbo... [2] h
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by IBM 9y ago
Wozniak has been a rampant self-promoter for years so this isn't a surprise to me at all. He'll put his name on anything. https://www.techinasia.com/talk/steve-wozniak-walking-billbo...
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by IBM 9y ago
Makes sense given the antitrust movement is getting stronger.
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I'm not sure how that's relevant to the discussion.
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by IBM 9y ago
Before Uber became Public Enemy #1 and prior to the Otto/Levandowski dispute, Google was planning on competing with Uber despite being an investor, which led Kalanick to e-mail David Drummond about it [1]. Drummond eventually left Uber
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by IBM 9y ago
Jobs was on another plane entirely. One where having more than technical acumen was necessary to actually have impact in the world.
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by IBM 9y ago
Apple removed the Home button after 10 years in the iPhone X and replaced it with a little bar drawn in software at the bottom of the phone. Just like users will learn new behaviors to exit apps, they will learn that the control center beha
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by IBM 9y ago
Most users when turning "off" Wi-Fi, particularly from the control center, are doing so to get them off whatever network they're on. What their mental model is for what "Wi-Fi off" is doesn't matter because the
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by IBM 9y ago
The UI informs the user directly that they're disconnecting from a network. This support document explains the change and how it all works in-depth for anyone who will actually care to know (everyone who reads HN or tech blogs and pret
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by IBM 9y ago
I just have to laugh at this entire thread. This is a clear example of Apple making a positive UX change for the vast majority of iOS users and it's completely invisible. Apple doesn't expect any user to "memorize" how t
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by IBM 9y ago
They did inform users. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208086
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Even if we accept your premise, it would be Craig Federighi's "influence" since he actually runs software engineering.
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by IBM 9y ago
Why buy any company when poaching is working just fine? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-21/apple-s-g...
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by IBM 9y ago
The idea that Google has been spending engineering hours on other parts of Google Finance is ridiculous to me. I don't think there's been an update to it in over 5 years. They seem to be doing something to it finally, because the
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U.S. Slaps Duties on Bombardier's C Series Jet in Win for Boeing(bloomberg.com)
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by IBM 9y ago
Apple was good about privacy and security long before they ever started talking about it. They only started talking about it after the celeb "iCloud hack" (which turned out not to be an iCloud vulnerability [1]). The fact that the
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by IBM 9y ago
Turn off "ask to join" and it will only connect to known networks.
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by IBM 9y ago
>At a White House dinner in 2015, Mr. Zuckerberg had even asked the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, whether Mr. Xi might offer a Chinese name for his soon-to-be-born first child — usually a privilege reserved for older relatives, or somet
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by IBM 9y ago
There's probably a handful of acquisitions in this release cycle: WiFiSLAM in 2013 PrimeSense in 2013 LinX in 2015 Metaio in 2015 Faceshift in 2015 Emotient in 2016 Flyby Media in 2016 RealFace in 2017 and probably more that isn't
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No doubt the skeptics will continue to contort themselves into creating even more contrived scenarios.

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