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by bigtones 6y ago
Especially Google Play ratings - they're not at all meaningful.
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Apple set a new quarterly record with $111.4 billion in Revenue: iPhone Revenue was $65.6 billion since iPhone 12 October release Services Revenue was $15.76 billion Products revenue was $95.68 billion Wearables Revenue was $12.97 billion
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by bigtones 6y ago
I think they can keep it up - their services revenue growth has been pretty spectacular over the last few quarters, and with more people at home due to COVID their new Apple Fitness thing is going to take off.
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by bigtones 6y ago
Not quite a league of their own but a short list of companies for sure - Microsoft posted revenue of $43B this quarter (not as high as Apples $110B Q) but with a 32% net profit margin.
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They beat the street...the wall street analyst estimates of revenue and profit growth for the quarter.
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And how fun it would be to ride it.
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by bigtones 6y ago
The largest known dinosaur prior to this find was also found in Argentina, and aptly named the Argentinosaurus. He was 30m to 40m in length and weighed up to 100 Tonnes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectricity
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Billionaire Peter Thiel and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey supported Levandowski’s pardon according to the White House. In March, Levandowski declared bankruptcy after a court said he had to pay $179 million to Google, so there is still some
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by bigtones 6y ago
Yeah really well written and researched piece. This is the first I had heard of Newcomer, it might be worth subscribing to.
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by bigtones 6y ago
TWIST - 'This Week In Startups' is the Jason Calacanis podcast the parent was referring to, it's an acronym.
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by bigtones 6y ago
It's worse than that. It's knowing a car crash will happen, wait until it does, and then writing a self promotional article about how awesome you are at predicting car crashes in an attempt to sell your car crash prediction servic
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by bigtones 6y ago
Same on Cable TV. It's full of ads in the USA - and that's after you pay $100 per month for a cable subscription.
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by bigtones 6y ago
Yes, I agree - the ISP block is censorship also. When China blocks sites with The Great Firewall, we all agree that's censorship. This is the same thing.
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7.2 B ii). We may also terminate this Agreement immediately upon notice to you (A) for cause if we have the right to suspend under Section 6
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by bigtones 6y ago
Parler have actually said they don't use any of the proprietary AWS Services because of the danger of lock in - so I think they could. They just have to move 50TB+ of data to a new provider, which is not something that can be done quic
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by bigtones 6y ago
1). AWS can suspend service for any customer immediately upon giving that customer notice. They do not have to provide a "remediation period" or give the customer any grace time at all. Every customer agrees to this as part of the
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by bigtones 6y ago
And the UK Government is willingly sending details of every one of these page requests and website visitors to Google so Google can profit by better serving ads to the people of the UK. How nice. Also their content security policy in produc
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by bigtones 6y ago
Agreed. Also, Prime Video IS a major incentive for a lot of people to sign up for Amazon Prime and thereby helping perpetrate their near monopoly - so I guess it's a win win for Amazon and for Jeff's sex life.
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by bigtones 6y ago
Apple has been on the receiving end of literally dozens of billion dollar lawsuits from many many companies. They battle lawsuits every day for IP infringement, to trade craft, to patents - and have over 200 in-house lawyers.
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by bigtones 6y ago
FYI: Neverware is a Google Chromium OS based distribution that you can load onto most laptops through a USB stick. It's main aim is to be able to transform your old PC or Mac laptop into a ChromeOS laptop. They've been working pre
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by bigtones 6y ago
Yes, that is one of the things I was amazed with when I moved from Australia to the USA. You can buy Acetaminophen over here in America in jumbo size 500 or even 1000 tablet containers over the counter - that's a lot of a pretty powerf
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Tylenol is deadly, the difference in the dosing between Children's Tylenol and Infants Tylenol has also unfortunately killed many babies - Acetaminophen is a very powerful drug. The FDA failed to fix it for more than 15 years during wh
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by bigtones 6y ago
They have done exactly that already. The lightweight versions of all those apps are called the "Go Editions" of all the G-Suite apps, and they're bundled with the Go edition of Android for phones.
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That Atlassian Confluence model you gave had some serious issues, they they are going to turn off the option to keep the old UI as well, and it is an enormous strain on Engineering resources to keep two different versions of an entire appli
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by bigtones 6y ago
Microsoft faced significant blowback for that ribbon change, and billions of dollars were spend on re-training hundreds of millions of office workers to do it. Because that change was in desktop software - users had the option of just stick
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by bigtones 6y ago
The issue with user interfaces and web apps like Google's properties with billions of users is that you cannot change the user interface significantly, period. Doing so will alienate many hundreds of millions of users that rely on that
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That $68,703 figure is the median HOUSEHOLD income that encompasses more than one bread winner on average.
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It does allow you to block channels. It's the option "Don't recommend channel".
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Dude had a Hitler mustache, wearing a white pride t-shirt, and is standing next to a Nazi Swastika flag in the pic. That's pretty telling.

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