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by cooldeal 15y ago
The OEMs get a special section of the Marketplace where they can have special apps for just their phones. For example, the HTC apps cannot be installed on Samsung phones. This is a much better way for the OEMs to differentiate and add value
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Link to the original NYTimes article with more text. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24sun4.html...
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Dude, this is HN, full of Macbook toting Apple fans and 'M$' haters. No one wants Microsoft news coverage here, unless when it's one of Gruber's deprecating takes on important Microsoft news. Those get a LOT more votes than the links to the
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>You can talk up your favorite team, principle or country without a point by point attack on your rivals. I think that applies more to Gruber and Siegler than anyone else, as their attacks on all things Google and Android have only beco
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by cooldeal 15y ago
I bet your startup has bigger problems than the software platform. Solving a problem in a new platform takes around 5x the time it takes to do it in a known platform. And this delay can easily kill a startup. Worry about the platform later
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Interesting. Didn't know that, downloading now. As an aside, consider submitting it to sites like http://www.wmpoweruser.com and http://wpcentral.com for more exposure.
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>Just look at how many H1B positions are advertised and how much legal but shady stuff goes on. Put ad in local paper among classifieds for "free dirt available", if any resumes are received from US citizens they are discarded (note the
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Motorola's press release is trying to spin the news into a positive for them. Better coverage here http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/20/itc-judge-issues-initial-... > ...have been declared invalid. Someone specific declared not infringi
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More than 3200 Android diss their droid for a Windows Phone | WMPoweruser(wmpoweruser.com)
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Android devices are kicking ass and increasing marketshare percentage every month, whereas Apple is mostly stagnant or growing slowly as a percentage of smartphone sales. Sure you can pull out some metric like "profit derived"(by which Wind
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by cooldeal 15y ago
It can be construed as either way, but the face that there were tens of thousands of programs and libraries under the GPL when the App Store guidelines were released, it leans towards saying that Apple banned GPL'ed apps from the App Store.
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>Yes, from the perspective of the individual countries, the old policy is more fair. If you gave all of the countries of the world one vote each and had them vote, that's what you would get. However, if you gave all of the people of the
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>To be fair, each country gets quota for working visa based on a size of population. Right now, that's not the case, each country is capped to 7% regardless of the population. Making it proportional to population would be much fairer th
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by cooldeal 15y ago
It's not really fair when the size of the groups varies wildly.
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Imagine a world in which you could load WP onto the iPhone and Android on your Windows Phone. The freedoms that we take granted on PCs(running Windows 7 on Macs) seem to be lost now.
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by cooldeal 15y ago
The bottom 80% of apps split just 3% of the revenue. From http://www.fastcompany.com/1792313/striking-it-rich-in-the-a... Developer Daniel Markham calls iPhone development “App Store Roulette,” and Andy Finnell of the software studio Fort
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Not sure if I am replying to a troll(plus much of the above is copy/paste or very similar to an earlier comment from you). >they've just heard the lie that Apple stole the GUI from Xerox (impossible since there was no GUI at Xerox at th
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Any transcript of the podcast available so that people at work can actually read what he's talking about?
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Let me try(not the GP here). From 2002 to 2007, the only smartphones in the game were Blackberry and Windows Mobile(and Palm?). The hardware was slow and not mature and the software was slow, clunky and needed a stylus. Battery life was pre
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Interesting that the tone here when it's Apple suing over flimsy multitouch, pinch-to-zoom and design patents that look like a rectangle(and demanding that they stop production, not even ask for a licensing fee) is they're protecting their
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>Making a Windows Mobile phone only teaches you how not to make a smartphone. Not to say it's not valuable knowledge. You seem to have no idea how hard it is to make mobile hardware. There's a ton of work involved including having to ma
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>They've probably done a lot of this behind the scenes with Linux and other browsers before. Other browsers? Like what? Opera? Doubt we wouldn't hear of it. > HTC has grown 3x every year for the past 2 years because of Android, Sure
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Groklaw used to be good a while ago, but now seems to have degenerated into extreme bias against Microsoft. We do not see such articles written by PJ on Apple, for example. While they're still interesting, they need to be taken with a large
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Fandroids? Wow, had to check if I was on Reddit. >From this I conclude that most people who oppose patents and innovation do not understand technology well enough, or do not have any engineering background, and thus cannot tell the diff
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by cooldeal 15y ago
> At least I've met a few people in the banking community that had their fair amount of crude jokes. Sure, but how many banking conferences do you see jokes as crass as the ones that were mentioned here? No one is getting hot and bother
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>that someone else - or a third party would not have been able to help kickstart the clone industry the same way Microsoft did by being willing to provide a license. That someone else would have to resist the temptation of making mega b
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>Who hates Bill Gates? Umm, just read some of the comments on this article? Or any Microsoft related posts on Slashdot?
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by cooldeal 15y ago
The turning point was when Microsoft licensed DOS to Compaq. This suddenly send hardware prices tumbling and made computers cheap enough to penetrate the corners of the world. This even made Linux possible in the early 90s by leverage chea
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by cooldeal 15y ago
This is not about you personally but Steve Jobs is idolized by many entrepreneurs on HN and elsewhere. Look at this huge discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3177729 about something that he said. So I believe Jobs saying th
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>My family couldn't afford a $1k+ mac in the 90s - that was an upper-middle class monthly income in India. Thank god for windows. If your family made the equivalent of Rs. 50,000 monthly in the 90s in India, they were definitely upper c

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