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by IBM 9y ago
The political momentum is building for America to import GDPR. Feels good.
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by IBM 9y ago
Anything Google can do to help make the antitrust case against themselves is welcome.
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by IBM 9y ago
Hey Siri doesn't work on the iPhone 6 if it's not plugged in. Only the 6s and later do, and it's enabled by a specific low power chip.
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by IBM 9y ago
You don't have to wait for Siri to respond and you haven't had to for a while. Just say "Hey Siri" followed by the command with no pauses and it will handle it just fine.
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by IBM 9y ago
>Honestly, I don’t know the full details, but I still hold that Forstall took the fall for the poor execution of Williamson in the Maps debacle. Well that's not true because Eddy Cue fired Williamson [1]. Maps might have been the st
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by IBM 9y ago
So Forstall and his direct report were responsible for two botched product launches, Siri and Maps. This is a big blow to the camp suggesting firing Forstall was a mistake.
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by IBM 9y ago
I keep this answer by Keith Rabois bookmarked for whenever this question pops up [1]: >Simple answer: American antirust law is not a mandate to "play nice" with competitors and only governs a very small set of prohibited activ
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by IBM 9y ago
I don't think having minority stakes in Spotify makes up for the alternative scenario where Spotify becomes the dominant music streamer and devalues their current music assets.
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by IBM 9y ago
Spotify and the music publishers are mutually dependent. They could crush them but they'd be torpedoing their own revenue. >Even their current scale, the surviving music industry oligopoly could probably still crush Spotify if it tr
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by IBM 9y ago
Music streaming has relatively low gross margins compared to other tech businesses (though as they scale up they'll have more leverage with the rights holders) but a large addressable market to tap. Spotify could be a great investment
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by IBM 9y ago
>The reality is that technology has flipped the entire argument for patents — that they spur innovation — completely on its head. The very nature of technology — that costs are fixed and best maximized over huge user-bases, along with th
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UN blames Facebook for spreading hatred of Rohingya(theguardian.com)
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It's not really a secret that Apple News is incredibly popular. Everyone on the publisher side has been talking about how much traffic it drives to their stories for a while now. Journalists even pitch their stories to the Apple News e
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by IBM 9y ago
Does this include chicken and turkey that you get at the deli counter at the grocery store?
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by IBM 9y ago
Newsflash: the thing you're afraid of happening is already happening. Google, Facebook, Amazon exercise editorial control of their platforms all the time. They delete spam, malware, porn. Just this week Google pulled right wing YouTu
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by IBM 9y ago
Look any time anyone suggests a regulation this is always what everyone responds with. But this isn't even a new regulation, this would be the elimination of a freebie for the tech industry. It'd be extremely easy to limit the imp
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by IBM 9y ago
>So if you wanted tech giants to have less power what exactly would you do? It's really easy. This is the nuclear option, but it's very doable: eliminate their Section 230 immunity [1]. All of these internet businesses and plat
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by IBM 9y ago
>The story I hear is that Cellebrite hires ex-Apple engineers and moves them to countries where Apple can't prosecute them under the DMCA or its equivalents. Crazy if true. Doesn't this also create a weird incentive problem whe
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by IBM 9y ago
Hope some white hats are able to figure out what vulnerabilities they're using and have them patched.
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by IBM 9y ago
BOGO deals always come out of the carrier's pocket. The iPhone is the best customer acquisition tool so it all works out for the carrier in the end. Apple is certainly not going to cut prices to enable that.
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by IBM 9y ago
Here's something more unequivocal from Apple's main response [1]. >Finally, the government attempts to disclaim the obvious international implications of its demand, asserting that any pressure to hand over the same software to
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by IBM 9y ago
Their press statements about this "recent decision" have always reiterated that there are no backdoors. >Why would they choose to be guarded and opaque? I mean isn't the answer to this obvious? Sure, Apple could come out a
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by IBM 9y ago
Apple's statements to the press about this have repeatedly said [1]: >Apple has strong data privacy and security protections in place and no backdoors will be created into any of our systems. iMessage is end-to-end encrypted and has
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by IBM 9y ago
Amazon also had to sell to local partners. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-amazon-cloud/amazon...
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by IBM 9y ago
You should judge the coverage based on the credibility of the WSJ newsroom (it's high) as well as the reporter (also high) rather than on who owns the publication. Especially if you have no evidence of them interfering with the newsroo
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by IBM 9y ago
The alternative is hearing what web and app developers think Apple should/shouldn't be doing, which Twitter and HN are full of.
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by IBM 9y ago
Steven Sinofsky has a good Twitter thread about this [1]. He's one of the few people actually qualified to talk about managing platforms and operating systems at Apple's scale. [1] https://twitter.com/stevesi/
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by IBM 9y ago
The Android app has 3.5 stars. It must not be buggy for most people. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...
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by IBM 9y ago
>Many corporations were slapped with a massive bill after the passage of Trump's tax cuts. That only happened to companies who weren't booking deferred tax liabilities this entire time. Apple on the other hand has been conserva
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by IBM 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the Secure Enclave is an Apple technology. It's similar to ARM's TrustZone but not the same thing.

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