Steko

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3031.
by Steko 15y ago
I'm sure Apple thinks it's positive because otherwise they'd just follow Amazon/Google. So it's hardly "spin", quite clearly Apple feels that what they're getting is going to be well worth the costs. They have a decent track record too. I
3032.
by Steko 15y ago
When sales of pcs suddenly start tanking right as a new near substitute is released to blockbuster sales and then the chairman of Asus comes out and blames the iPad himself it seems like a pretty small jump and speculation at worst. It does
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by Steko 15y ago
I don't think most people care about "brand trust" too much (some do), HTC is one of the most profitable handset makers and most people don't even know the company exists. For most people, they buy what their friend has, what they saw on t
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by Steko 15y ago
Declaring WP7 dead in the water after 1 batch of phones is like saying Android was dead after the first couple phones fizzled. The upside certainly doesn't look as good but the fact is these OS's all seem to launch in beta and most of the m
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by Steko 16y ago
I love the admonition to "stay classy" (not a quote) while you name call people as "rabid fanboys" with "knee jerk emotional reactions". "The fact is that if you have more relative profit margins than revenues, that more of the money people
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by Steko 16y ago
It's also interesting that Nintendo and Apple often innovate with similar technologies. The central innovations of the DS and wii -- touchscreen and motion controls respectively -- would up being tentpoles of the iPhone. Four years later a
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by Steko 16y ago
I can see micromanaging parents more interested in this then the keyless entry aspect.
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by Steko 16y ago
"This is a taste of Apple's own medicine" This analogy seems pretty thin since Android's ecosystem is equally at risk here. This isn't going to scare these devs to another platform, it's going to scare them into not using the API.
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by Steko 16y ago
Today we are all social media experts.
3040.
by Steko 16y ago
I think my actual point was actually that Apple has been great for developers not hostile as you claimed. I think that's true by inspection. I think this developer had a terrible business model that was exposed by entirely predictable cha
3041.
by Steko 16y ago
If it's truly innovative and worth something maybe their business model should have been to sell/license the e-reader instead of being a third middleman in the ebook market.
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by Steko 16y ago
I think they have more choices: (4) negotiate a deal where they get more then 30%. (5) negotiate to remove DRM and operate as a Web App. (6) change business models to subscription. (7) license the app part of the business model to another c
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by Steko 16y ago
Speaking of bad analogies, iOS is not a town that Apple just happened to get elected mayor of. It's more like Disney World and Apple is Disney. Good luck starting your business inside Disney World without living by their rules.
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by Steko 16y ago
iFlow's plan was to be a middleman buying zero marginal cost goods from a wholesalers (WTF) selling in another middleman's store. Please don't lose sleep shedding tears for the failure of this great innovation to catch fire.
3045.
by Steko 16y ago
If only we could go back to the salad days before Apple's app store when mobile developers had it good.
3046.
by Steko 16y ago
Honestly what is problematic about Apple here? I mean if I start selling ebooks in the corner at Starbucks they may tolerate that but when Starbucks gets into the ebook business there should be a huge red flag going off telling you that the
3047.
by Steko 16y ago
"There has to be some middle ground between Apple's style and Google's style." Isn't Apple's approach actually the middle ground? Traditionally when you bought software in a store you were looking at quite a bit more curation then Apple do
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by Steko 16y ago
By the same logic Apple should buy Google.
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by Steko 16y ago
The problem is most artists aren't happy with the amount of fame and sales their skills would deliver in a total meritocratic market. And so there's never a shortage of takers for the labels' Faustian bargian. Someone's got to handle the p
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by Steko 16y ago
Apple seems to be interested in their permission. What a lot of people miss, but was spelled out in Jason Kincaid's TC article* is that label permission is not so much about lawsuits but about making it massively more convenient for the us
3051.
by Steko 16y ago
You can bet Skype will relaunch in 2012 as Windows SomethingLame (with Skype) and finally just Windows SomethingLame.
3052.
by Steko 16y ago
I'm sure integrating a truckload of companies all with wildly incompatible systems and personnel would work out more horribly then we could possibly imagine.
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by Steko 16y ago
I love these 'founder predicts massive growth in near future' items. If you added up the market share that everyone expected to get in 4 years I would be surprised if the number was under 1000% of the actual market size at that time.
3054.
by Steko 16y ago
"This code and the technical details of the underlying vulnerabilities will not be publicly disclosed. They are shared exclusively with our Government customers" Love the capital G.
3055.
by Steko 16y ago
"So what exactly is not open about this? " Presumably the non-open services that are required for "Android Compatibility" that they wield like a "club" against their partners.
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by Steko 16y ago
Generally the tiktok reviews have been: cool idea but you need to touch the watch to activate the screen which cripples it. Metawatch promises always on with it's OLEDs so you can... know what the temperature is at the airport. Pretty sad
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by Steko 16y ago
The link ignores most of the arguments made in what it purports to reply to: No response to the Great Depression argument. No response to the governments will declare it illegal argument. No response to the offline argument. No response