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by IBM 11y ago
Screenshot of the interview from the source. http://i.imgur.com/r3nBUEe.png
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by IBM 11y ago
Here's a screenshot of the interview from the German paper. http://i.imgur.com/5tvoJUg.png https://global.handelsblatt.com/edition/271/ressort/companie...
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by IBM 11y ago
It's interesting that certain bloggers such as Dustin Curtis and Ben Thompson have claimed that Apple's privacy stance will ultimately hurt them because they'll be at a disadvantage to competitors, but it seems like they&#x27
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by IBM 11y ago
It's also not true that Jobs didn't give to charity. The Jobs family has been giving to charity anonymously for more than two decades according to this report. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/24&#x2
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by IBM 11y ago
In the 1990s Apple didn't have leverage over the web like they do now and not being an internet company that makes money from ads, their incentives are aligned with combating this more than ever.
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Actually he's repeatedly said in public that there's no backdoors. http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/24/apples-tim-cook-there-is-...
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by IBM 11y ago
That's not relevant at all to the iCloud "hack". It's a cloud service, the whole point is to store data online. Those accounts were breached because celebs were phished and not because of bruteforcing, as some people wer
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They have been for years and people wondered why they didn't talk about it because of how it differentiates them from the competition. Now they're talking about it and a common comment here is "they're only doing it beca
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by IBM 11y ago
XcodeGhost wouldn't have happened if developers weren't able to disable Gatekeeper and the iCloud hack was done with phishing for security question answers. http://gawker.com/feds-seized-chicago-mans-computers-in-c
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by IBM 11y ago
Made me cringe when customers came up to drive off with their cars. Really felt like a Samsung tier presentation.
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by IBM 11y ago
https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Microsoft-punished-for-violati...
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by IBM 11y ago
Must be because Europe can't compete with American tech companies.
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by IBM 11y ago
This is a good move and will help the US and its allies balance China.
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iOS 9 Security and Privacy Features(medium.com)
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The hands on that Techcrunch had with it affirms what she said. http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/09/apple-pencil-hands-on-with-...
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by IBM 11y ago
She also worked on the iPad Pro + Pencil herself. https://twitter.com/lindadong/status/641665748008435712 https://twitter.com/lindadong/status/641667180560420864
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by IBM 11y ago
I literally laughed out loud at this comment. HN is always predictable.
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by IBM 11y ago
Edge supports HLS, the others don't.
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It's only really debatable on reddit, HN, Slashdot, etc.
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by IBM 11y ago
And the obvious: they sell them another pair.
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by IBM 11y ago
How does Nike deal with saturation once everyone who's going to buy one gets a pair of Nike running shoes?
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by IBM 11y ago
That one trick pony is going to be minting cash for the next 20 years at least, just like the Mac has been for the past 40 years.
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by IBM 11y ago
The Kindle worked out only after iteration. It was the same for Apple with the iPod and iPhone as well. Amazon has quit in the first inning because their phone wasn't an overnight success. If they were truly focused on the long-term th
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by IBM 11y ago
Are you telling me that Amazon has written off the smartphone business, one of the most quickly adopted pieces of technology since the original PC and which has made Apple one of the most profitable businesses in the world, as an idea not w
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by IBM 11y ago
The entire bull case for AMZN is always "Amazon reinvests all their cash flow into the business" and "Bezos is focused on the long term". Why are they calling it quits already? The same is true for Google. So much lip se
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by IBM 11y ago
Who are the best VC firms and what are their returns?
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Amazon's shitty culture was well known long before the NYT published their article.
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Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace(nytimes.com)
708 points by IBM 11y ago|424 comments
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by IBM 11y ago
Are you aware that 25% of TSLA's float is short? That's insanely high.
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Markets are inefficient and frequently overvalue/undervalue companies. Lots of companies in tech and biotech are overvalued right now including Tesla. I haven't valued Tesla since 2013 but it was overvalued then so it went into th

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