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by IBM 8y ago
The decision to prosecute Google or Facebook on antitrust grounds is inherently political. It went in favor of Google during the Obama years when the FTC's political appointees overruled the FTC staff's recommendation to bring an
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by IBM 8y ago
Apple told Reuters that is not what's happening: >Apple says the joint venture does not mean that China has any kind of “backdoor” into user data and that Apple alone – not its Chinese partner – will control the encryption keys. ht
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by IBM 8y ago
Apple definitely has leverage because we now know they have not made any "special accommodations" for China in their products and services. And as far as I know, iMessage remains unblocked unlike other encrypted services like What
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>so you think the Chinese government would really allow the sale of unbreakable end to end encryption domestically just because it's Apple? Yes. Apple has even said this in court filings during the FBI legal fight [1]: >Finally,
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>No, the Chinese government now owns the servers with the key storage. They now have access to all the keys and user data. >If the Chinese government is accessing all the user data because they requested Apple to put the user keys on
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>Even if it does (which is unclear), do you think Apple will be able to refuse if the Chinese government asks for them? I wouldn't be surprised of "the laws and regulations of China" say that Apple is required to turn them
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>Nobody said that Apple no longer retains control of the keys. The point is that the Chinese government has access to Apple user data and Apple is complicit. The Chinese government has the exact same access to Apple user data as before,
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That report doesn't say that Apple no longer retains control of the keys.
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Not according to Apple [1]: >Apple says the joint venture does not mean that China has any kind of “backdoor” into user data and that Apple alone – not its Chinese partner – will control the encryption keys. [1] https://www.re
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by IBM 8y ago
Ryan Gallagher seems to own this story like John Carreyrou did Theranos. Pretty much every scoop about Dragonfly has been reported by him.
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Why Jeff Bezos Should Push for Nobody to Get as Rich as Jeff Bezos(nytimes.com)
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EU's antitrust commissioner opens probe into Amazon(cnbc.com)
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You can only use his strategy if you do the work on the short side and come up with good ideas. That's what his actual edge is. He doesn't have to disclose short positions like he does long positions in 13-F filings, so you only k
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You don't have to believe Apple. All you need to do is look at the secondary market and see how prices for used devices hold up and see that it's true.
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by IBM 8y ago
A new update in the Dragonfly story: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-l...
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by IBM 8y ago
In a few years doctors will be prescribing Apple Watches to patients and it will be reimbursed by health insurers. #TimeStamp
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by IBM 8y ago
Counterpoint: “We’re thrilled Apple Watch has become an essential part of people's lives,” said Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer. “The completely redesigned Apple Watch Series 4 continues to be an indispensable communicat
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Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple (2016)(steveblank.com)
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>The real problem is so much more difficult that it's easy to try to find something you can do, block the technology, so you feel like you are doing something even if it's completely ignoring the root of the issue. Blocking Wha
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I think it's the most pressing political issue right now.
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The focus of antitrust on prices is the direct result of Bork's influence on the Supreme Court, as this excellent article makes clear [1]: >And so Bork argued that federal judges must resolve the “paradox” by declaring that the only
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This is a profile of a person who has sparked a revival of antitrust in America. If you want to read the actual paper she wrote, which is linked to in the article, you should do that. https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note&#x2F
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by IBM 8y ago
Lina Khan is a rising superstar in antitrust/policy circles and the next Democrat in the White House should appoint her to the Supreme Court so she can start to undo Bork's Chicago School influence on antitrust doctrine. https:&#
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In India, Google races to parry the rise of Facebook(reuters.com)
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The Science of the Tennis Grunt(newyorker.com)
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There's even less of a moat for Tesla in selling batteries to utilities than there is for their cars. And SolarCity was heading to zero. It was acquired by Tesla because Elon had to bail himself out or the myth of Elon Musk as Tony Sta
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by IBM 8y ago
I follow Antonio García Martínez on Twitter and he's usually always making this same argument: that any privacy regulation is just going to entrench Facebook and Google. Which is very convenient because the implied solution to that is
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by IBM 8y ago
It's been obvious for a while now, but I think this pretty much seals it: the smartwatch category is basically the iPod redux; there's no viable competition to the Apple Watch.
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by IBM 8y ago
I'd gladly support BuzzFeed News. Just today they broke this huge story [1]. [1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christinekenneally/orph...
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by IBM 8y ago
The SEC will have a great opportunity with Elon Musk.

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