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by brisance 15y ago
iPhone users tend to be heavy data users. So what Gruber implies is that the relative lower volume of data usage on Android phones means the phone company earns less on a per unit basis.
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by brisance 15y ago
If Derek were to rephrase the question as, "How many of you would like to work in government some day?", I would bet almost all 50 hands would go up. The reason for it is that in Singapore, many regard a government job as one with the highe
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by brisance 15y ago
I made no mention comparing the quality of search results because that's a whole other topic. I'm saying the App Store has categories, "Staff Picks", "iPad App of the Week" etc and it helps in discovery, just like Yahoo did back in the day.
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by brisance 15y ago
I don't think it's that easy to identify the hackers. Even if you could, which legal jurisdiction applies? What are the legal remedies? Securing networks is indeed a noble goal, but are we prepared to pay for the infrastructure? The end res
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by brisance 15y ago
We'll have to agree to disagree. URL discovery is still a major problem, it's what made Yahoo as a human-curated index popular back in the 90s. In my admittedly anecdotal experience with seniors, many of them still have difficulty understan
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by brisance 15y ago
This is a great story. Not only were the engineers brave enough to defy Jobs, but also Jobs being able to admit his own mistake and not fire the entire team upon finding out. Signs of true leadership all round.
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by brisance 15y ago
That's because "tech people" have been conditioned, through the years, by the limitations of the hardware (limited memory) and operating system. It's the OS's job to manage resources, but we still do it anyway. Which is why Apple's upcoming
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by brisance 15y ago
I think great scientists and thinkers wouldn't tell another person that they're "full of shit", just in case they themselves are wrong. Scientists tend to be tolerant, sometimes to a fault, of differing views. Their training demands of it.
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by brisance 15y ago
There is no need for Apple to "kill" Microsoft. Ballmer himself seems to be doing a good job for the last 10 years since Gates left. And with the recent over-priced acquisition of Skype, seems well on the way to killing his own company. iCl
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by brisance 15y ago
It seems the author is missing the forest for the trees. It's not iOS 5 itself that is threatening apps, and not just apps. It's the entire Apple ecosystem which includes iOS 5, OS X Lion and iCloud versus everything else. With iCloud being
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by brisance 15y ago
Of course Steve doesn't walk on water. The engineers do. Seriously though, iCloud is a major undertaking and it's unclear whether it'll work as advertised. 200+M devices getting synced daily is quite a feat.
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by brisance 15y ago
And I've personally observed these Jehovah's Witnesses in the grounds of detention barracks. Let me ask you then: what would you do to apply the conscription law equally? There is no "escape clause" even for sons of state officials. All mal
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by brisance 15y ago
Singapore isn't perfect, but no place is. These are some issues that Singaporeans face: 1) Rising cost of living through inflation. 2) Expensive housing. 3) Lack of financial liquidity. Singaporeans are asset-rich but cash-poor. 4) Apathy a
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by brisance 15y ago
>>Capital punishment is required for being in the company with someone possessing a small amount of weed. Capital punishment is meted out to persons who possess or have reasonable knowledge of someone who possesses or deals in drugs
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by brisance 15y ago
Not exactly. Apple changed their developer agreement such that programs that weren't developed using the iOS SDK weren't allowed on the App Store. They reversed the decision only later on, and now you can develop on Adobe AIR and have the L
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by brisance 15y ago
Mossberg missed a chance to ask him about the other ugly side of Flash: its security vulnerabilities.
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by brisance 15y ago
Agreed. It's a good effort, but there seem to be many UI problems. e.g. when he launches Excel 2010 under Windows 7, focus has to be in the Excel context otherwise touches on the right side will bring up the task switcher instead of scrolli
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by brisance 15y ago
It's neither the career move nor the concept of the e-wallet that is in dispute... refer to the Mark Papermaster hiring fiasco that involved Apple and IBM a few years ago. The complaint is about a high-level executive acting against the com
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by brisance 15y ago
Why couldn't the shares have been offered in 2 classes: one with voting rights and one without. Offer more of those without. Lots of companies do this e.g. Berkshire Hathaway, Google etc. That would solve the "mispricing" problem.
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by brisance 15y ago
I'm not familiar with the legal nuances. Does buying licensed music through iTunes Music Store count as "in-app purchase" which would be in effect, prior art, thereby violating the patent?
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by brisance 15y ago
What are Skype's patent holdings? Could those be worth $8.5 billion?
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by brisance 15y ago
Actually Sony brought this unto themselves longer than that, starting with the Sony-BMG rootkit. I've actively avoided buying Sony products since.
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by brisance 15y ago
Is their own videoconferencing solution that broken to begin with? Seven billion is a big chunk of change. And tech M&As typically do not end well.
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by brisance 15y ago
I fail to see how this is a wise business decision. Skype has been losing money for a long time, and with cheap/free competition like Google video chat and FaceTime etc, why would MSFT invest in this?
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by brisance 16y ago
They may not necessarily change into Euros either, considering many of the European nations adopting the Euro are experiencing debt crises themselves. This is why investors are flocking to precious metals like gold and silver and commoditie
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by brisance 16y ago
According to the article, the "FUD" is coming from those partners you listed above. BusinessWeek attributed complaints about Android's waning openness to "a dozen executives" at companies that are major Android stakeholders, including L
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by brisance 16y ago
I think it's the App Store review people who have generally done a good job in ensuring that an iOS app looks and behaves the way it's expected to. I'm not saying whether it's "wrong" or "right", just the mere fact that some warm body is
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by brisance 16y ago
This is entirely anecdotal and may not be representative of everyone else's experience, but since the launch of iPhone and iPad, I have yet to receive a frantic, middle-of-the-night-my-iOS-device-crashed call. Sure, there are the odd hardwa
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by brisance 16y ago
While it is admirable and good that they have learned from their mistakes and are taking steps to reduce the likelihood of getting hacked in future, to say "never again" is to paint a big red bullseye on yourself.
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by brisance 16y ago
You must stay signed in to your Amazon account to use the app though. I can't see how Google or the EFF would be pleased about it if it's for analytics. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?&no...

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