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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
But the point the article makes is they didn't apologize or provide a partial solutions at first. That's what the rules say you should do and that's absolutely not what Apple did (Unless "hold it differently" is the partial solution you're
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All the facts they report are correct but I really don't think this option was "available to any of their competitors to use". The reason Apple "got away with" AntennaGate is because they'd built up so much good will with their customers.
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On "B" I have to say that's just character assassination and anti-intellectual character assassination at that. It's perfectly acceptable from an intellectual perspective to admire some aspects of a person while disliking others. Rand's p
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In fairness this really isn't inconsistent. You can not support the Government giving out money to everyone and still be rational enough to realize it's stupid to turn down free money (which you believe the government would only waste anyw
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It is as anecdotal as anecdotal gets but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a grain of truth to it. McDonalds franchises are expensive by American standards. They are even more expensive by poor country standards. So one has to be pretty
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Either I'm too lazy to read or you're too dumb to realize what the word "extrapolate" means. Here's a quote for you... In mathematics, extrapolation is the process of constructing new data points outside a discrete set of known data point
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How would that work? I mean, I'd like you to explain to me how an ice core from one specific location could give you an accurate reading on the global climate? And if it's really possible to determine global climate from one location than
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I'm sorry and I mean this in the least insulting way I can manage but how on earth can you not see the contradiction there? You actually said... The weather is not the same as climate. When climate changes (and it has always changed in th
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And that's really the question as far as I'm concerned. I think the author would be unquestionably right 10 years ago. But as Universities have become more self aggrandizing in what they teach the value of that education has gone down to
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From a strategic standpoint I think HTC and Samsung will be in favor of this deal. Nokia still has dominance in a lot of places around the world. This deal locks Nokia into WP7 and with that being true other manufacturers can enter Nokia
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The point I was making was that they had very little control over the state government because they elect republicans. So only the voters are relative to that argument. Beyond that your evidence is all anecdotal. There are certainly citie
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That's always been a popular theory but if you look at the facts it's not really true. Yes things in central California are bad but the worst city in California (and the one cited in the article) is Stockton which is Northern California by
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
In some ways you are right but as a Nokia employee you should know Nokia's put a decent amount of effort into embracing an "open" philosophy. In fact, the make up and goals of MeeGo are not all that different from Android (Open source OS r
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It takes some impressive cognitive dissonance to say this... So, should Nokia have gone Android? No way. That takes them through a real commoditization (IE, non differentiated) minefield. One that Nokia execs aren’t smart enough to get thr
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I guess expensive is relative but last I checked it was about $1,100 for a 300sq ft office (and they clearly have a lot more than 300sq ft). That was a few years ago when I had a friend who moved his offices out of there because the locati
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Wow. I don't mean this as negative towards Dropbox at all but I never thought I'd see that level of decadence again. I mean, the Phelan Building (where they're located) is massively expensive (its a 105 year old historic landmark). Custom
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Well Jon Rubinstein was an apple employee for 9 years (left in 2006) so I'd think an Apple like presentation style is to be expected.
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It doesn't really mean the end of anything it just means congress will look at alternative proposals. With both the Republican leadership and the Obama administration supporting it the passage of something similar is practically a lock. Ho
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This has never really been a partisan issue. This is a bill proposed by the Republican leadership at the behest of the Obama administration (who wanted to see an extension through the next election). But so-called Republicans like Rand and
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The fragmentation issue has been over blown to a certain extent but for apps just starting out it is an issue. There are tons of Android apps out there and virtually no way to test your app on all of them. Apple on the other hand has almos
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The problem I had with the article is he didn't prove that these interfaces impede functionality. I don't know the market well enough but you seem to be a user of Reason and the interface obviously appeals to you. Same with iBooks. I know
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Clearly some kind of deal was struck with Verizon. Since the initial Xoom press release said the WiFi version would come first and we have confirmation that it does exist ( http://tinyurl.com/5wr82ge ). Plus Verizon made a big deal about
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I agree and think this article gives a perfect example of why it isn't accurate. Why would Javascript fall out of the top 10 last year? It makes no sense if you trust the methodology. BUT...if you think about it a system that gives a lot
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I don't see how this as insulting to Apple users (and I own a Mac, iPhone and iPad). The allusion to 1984 is one of people having no choice. Just as people had no choice but to follow Big Brother or people had no choice but to use a DOS b
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I don't disagree but when you say this "proves" that point I'm not sure that's true. You can just as easily hire people that can "hit the high notes" and fail because of mismanagement. The best example of this is Apple's Copland (a.k.a. Sy
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I agree with you but I think you miss part of the argument. Yes there's a very small number of users who are that proficient but even those who are would have spend a monstrous amount of time to update the phone and make sure it works. Ti
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I'm having trouble imagining a scenario in which this is not exactly what Paul Carr (the Techcrunch author) wanted. The whole article was designed to stir up controversy and get people's blood pumping. Because controversial posts drive tr
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By that logic Microsoft might as well pack it up and close shop. Because any act they would take would be an act funded by Microsoft. So if they can't do anything because people will say it was funded by Microsoft than they can't do anyth
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It's funny because Microsoft is known for selling their solutions but in my experience their main problem is they don't know how to sell solutions. A lot of the white papers they put out are just laughable. If what is being said in this po

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