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by barista 15y ago
Microsoft dissed tablets because they were not winning at it. Remember they were the first ones to bring tablets to the market. They screwed up on the form factor and the overall experience though.
482.
by barista 15y ago
Now sudddenly Nokia doesn't look too dumb right? Replace HP with nokia and webos with symbian and this could a story we'd be reading sometime in future.
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Android Isn't Free(slate.com)
5 points by barista 15y ago|7 comments
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by barista 15y ago
Yup. I get these on my windows phone. Perfect companion for my lunch time listening.
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by barista 15y ago
So why is this specific to android again?
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by barista 15y ago
But given that all these device makers are facing the lawsuits because of their adoption of android its fair for Google to take the moral responsibility and countersue everyone who is suing the device makers. It looks odd that they are left
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by barista 15y ago
Download??? Why? Why not put it all online?
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by barista 15y ago
Wouldn't it help if Google sued on behalf of all device makers now that it has much larger trove?
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by barista 15y ago
Too bad Jobs' reality distortion does not work on the european courts.
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by barista 15y ago
There will always be two sides of a story just like Paul Allen's biography didn't particularly describe Bill Gates in a very appealing light. But that does not undermine the status of these two figures(Jobs, Gates) as the heros of our era.
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by barista 15y ago
I think he's a president at Microsoft. Nothing but great respect for this guy.
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by barista 15y ago
I think what he is referring to by "industry wide effort" is the fact that microsoft works with a lot of partners early through the milestone and incorporates a lot of feedback. That way a lot of partner companies other than Microsoft have
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by barista 15y ago
It is considered evil to use play of words to twist meaning like that. At least in my books.
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by barista 15y ago
My point was regarding profit margins. They are getting slimmer by the day as every device maker joins the downward spiral to get the phones out at a cheaper rate. Most these device makers outsource and do not have their own manufacturing.
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by barista 15y ago
by that logic when microsoft was trying to buy yahoo a couple of years ago they were getting a huge discount compared to the 2001 high. Microsoft should have really upped the offer.
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by barista 15y ago
Besides android vendors aren't really profitable by big margins. Motorola in fact has continued losing money for past few years even after introducing android.
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by barista 15y ago
One thing that beats me is how are they going to assert their position about openeness when talking to partners like HTC and Samsung? What credibility does google have when in past they have already tried to restrict access to newer android
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by barista 15y ago
by that logic touting that their biggest market is a secure OS does not help their bottomline does it?
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by barista 15y ago
You really think the hackers who spend hours of meticulous planning in preparing the hacks do it for the material prize? Insightful...
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by barista 15y ago
But isn't he just reporting Kaspersky's finding. Unless you are saying those are PR too...
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Think Windows is insecure? You're wrong, says security firm Kaspersky.(blogs.computerworld.com)
53 points by barista 15y ago|72 comments
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by barista 15y ago
obviously a typo.
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by barista 15y ago
whatevar this ain't seeing the front page of HN.
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by barista 15y ago
Digg handled this very well. When you submit a new story it looks up current submitted stories to see anything matches and recommends those to be used instead. I loved that because it leaves the decision to the user and gave them option to
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by barista 15y ago
She should have tried Windows Phone. Same benefits of iPhone with choice of hardware
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by barista 15y ago
definitely working better than giving up search and handing over keys of the biggest money making opportunity on the internet to the competitior.
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by barista 15y ago
my yahoo is my reader of choice.
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by barista 15y ago
Or use android for that matter
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by barista 15y ago
Upvote for anything that blames Microsoft! ;)
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by barista 15y ago
What about Apple? They have used saimilar tactic. How about Oracle? IBM? Cisco? Lost respect for those too? Pretty much every company follows similar tactic to protect its interest. The fact Google does not use it is not because they "do no

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