Steko

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by Steko 11y ago
Apple's consumer products have been sold by Best Buy since 2002.
812.
by Steko 11y ago
Silly strawmen and hyperbole aside, the fact that trash articles like this make it to (or near) the top of HN, however briefly, is certainly to it's detriment.
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by Steko 11y ago
Maybe you should read the comment again, it does not say management brought it up. My understanding of these google meetings is anyone can bring up things. Also: (1) The fact that management can discuss something does not mean they do not
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by Steko 11y ago
Linked comment from 'guy on reddit who claims to have a friend at google' doesn't actually dispute substance of @EricaJoy's claims although it thinks it does. Seeing the upvoted comments here makes me /sigh for HN,
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by Steko 11y ago
Smartphones are not PCs. Redefining all these terms is a silly way to buttress your POV.
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by Steko 11y ago
That seobook post has some gems: https://twitter.com/danbarker/status/439125570115223552/phot...
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by Steko 11y ago
Shouldn't this also block Chrome updates since they have been known to download malware that allows Google to override your microphone settings?
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by Steko 11y ago
I don't think "buy everyone who's good at X to keep the competition from being able to do X" is a realistic strategy generally. For Apple buying Nest you also have to consider how does Tony Fadell, who has a Jobs type ro
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by Steko 11y ago
No I'm positing that this one particular characteristic not only hasn't been completely eradicated yet, but I don't think they're even trying to eradicate it (although they are trying to mitigate it). Fundamentally Apple
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by Steko 11y ago
Strange that you go right to Inbox as an example because, like Nest, it was the result of an expensive acquisition of a noted design team. Which just supports my point, that design isn't a core competence at Google. Are they improving?
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by Steko 11y ago
Not to denigrate Nest but I don't think not having them is going to make Apple any less formidable in the home. Nest's competence is design sense/simple ux which Apple already has plenty of but Google doesn't. That makes
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by Steko 11y ago
It failed because it was designed backwards by starting with the most impressive screen/camera/chipset possible and then unsurprisingly ended up with shit battery life. That is a deal breaker on a wearable who's killer apps
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by Steko 11y ago
> Instead Apple spends over twice as much on Beats. According to wikipedia both acquisitions were $3.2 billion. Beats revenue was 5 times Nest's though.
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by Steko 11y ago
Here comes the context... In 1985, after learning of Steve Jobs's plan to oust CEO John Sculley over Memorial Day weekend while Sculley was in China, Gassée preemptively informed the board of directors, which eventually led to Jobs&#x
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by Steko 11y ago
Did that lamp really bring him joy though?
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by Steko 11y ago
It all started with the headline of Roberto Ferdman's WaPo article on the original linked study which appeared a few months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9138580 A dozen other blogspam variants on that arti
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by Steko 11y ago
"It seems Apple has started down a slippery slope." A more reasonable interpretation is that there was a vaguely defined rule that was applied in a silly way and it will all be straightened out as we might expect and has happened
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by Steko 11y ago
It bears mentioning that the example you cite is possibly fictional: The book illustrated this reality with a series of stories (I’m not sure how many of these were true, versus useful dramatizations)
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by Steko 11y ago
I'm curious, for how many of your (say) 10 closest friends do you know where they buy their razors? For me I'm going with one; I know one friend who swears by his electric and although I'm sure he also has some sort of low te
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by Steko 11y ago
The meteoric rise of Eddie Cue hits a bump in the road here as the supposed uber-negotiator at Apple left them in a bad position with no leverage against independents who had literally nothing to lose by withholding their catalogs from the
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by Steko 11y ago
I think release in the window is a good point but the point of streaming services is to mitigate this by shifting a much larger percent of income to back catalog. I also take issue with characterizing streaming income as a "ton of reve
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by Steko 11y ago
I'll suggest this is all a fairly straightforward negotiation ploy. Apple's deal obviously makes sense for the artist otherwise the major labels would not have signed up, full stop. What then are these independent's doing? I
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by Steko 11y ago
I imagine Apple's argument is: (1) They bring an enormous number of new subscribers and that this 3 month trial maximizes revenue for everyone including the artist. (2) they pay a slightly higher royaly share than spotify in part becau
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New DNA Results Show Kennewick Man Was Native American(nytimes.com)
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by Steko 11y ago
The problem with the logic is you can basically plug any number in there and say they should have settled for that number too. If people always just settled becuase they might lose guess how much Big Corps will offer for settlements? It&#x2
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by Steko 11y ago
Banning hate and harrassment subreddits has value to many people.
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by Steko 11y ago
That controller really better be awesome because the thing is two years behind the PS/Xbox and will arrive two months after Apple's new TV makes it's bid for console killing.
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by Steko 11y ago
Isn't 'Google Design' a bit of an oxymoron to begin with? I mean isn't their entire hiring process designed to weed out people whose strength is design, to the point where now when they need to compete on design they go
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by Steko 11y ago
It's really come a long way since launch. http://typographica.org/on-typography/roboto-typeface-is-a-f... Kudos to Stephen Coles for keeping that article updated as the font has evolved and improved.
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by Steko 11y ago
As long as we're assigning blame let's actually blame the people directly encouraging this, the wahhabist/salafi crusaders that are heavily funded and protected by the Saudi government and who have been at it long before Isis

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