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by cremnob 14y ago
Why are any of them stupid? They hold the ultimate card. They own and produce the content. Universal sold their content to the highest bidder, which was HBO. HBO sells their content (and their own) to the highest bidder, which are cable/sat
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by cremnob 14y ago
In recent years I've really grown to despise Reddit, so I'm going to get a kick out of the angst that Redditors will feel when they gradually realize that their interests and Reddit's interests diverge.
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I've been reading about this randomly over the years so I don't have any links in mind, these are off Wikipedia. http://www.thenational.ae/business/technology/an-automated-a... http://www.wired.com/autopia/2008/01/gm-says-driverl/ http
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Why should they buy it? I think a lot of people in the tech community are under the impression that this is something Google has invented and that this will be a new cash cow. The reality is car companies have been working on this technolog
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I'd like to know from some developers if their apps are monetizing better on Android with the larger install base than it is on iOS.
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by cremnob 14y ago
This is great for the iOS ecosystem (until an alternative pops up, but hopefully the community will be splintered).
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Ask HN: An Apple App Store strategy
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Amazon's Snafu Rattles Customers(online.wsj.com)
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by cremnob 14y ago
I was being sarcastic.
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by cremnob 14y ago
Another patent troll hurting innovation.
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Is this really surprising though? You don't have a typical relationship with Google like you do with Apple. Their main profit center is advertising revenue so their interests aren't exactly aligned with a customer trying to purchase a smart
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Is the lag any better on an iPhone 5?
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by cremnob 14y ago
Perhaps you are greatly overestimating how much "a lot of people" actually are.
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I don't think you've read my posts because I KNOW people think pirating isn't wrong. And they go through a variety of mental hoops to rationalize why it isn't. They're wrong. And nothing you've said defends their position, all you've said
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by cremnob 14y ago
If a builder wants to take a payment every time you enter the building he is free to do so, thinking otherwise is highly presumptuous. Whether that business model will be viable in the market will be left for him to see (hotel managers oper
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by cremnob 14y ago
It's semantics and is irrelevant every time this topic comes up because no one is actually talking about legal definitions. Pirates always seem to miss that it's a moral argument when they trot out these familiar lines (the irony isn't lost
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This trope comes up every time piracy is discussed. The point is no one is talking about the legal meaning of "stealing" versus "copyright infringement". What people are saying is that it's immoral. The fact that a content company's product
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Executives' Good Luck in Trading Own Stock(online.wsj.com)
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by cremnob 14y ago
Paul Thurrott has said Win8 sales are below Microsoft's internal targets. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57551433-75/windows-8-sale...
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by cremnob 14y ago
There's a certain irony about a 4-hour old story on the front page about building quality tablet apps for Android with zero discussion.
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by cremnob 14y ago
I'm also in finance. I'm constantly amused by comments on HN that dismiss "Wall Street" and the investor class in general as being stupid when they show a poor understanding of markets themselves.
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by cremnob 14y ago
I'm more inclined to blame Forstall, especially after reading this feature on him by Businessweek. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/scott-forstall-the-sorc...
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Apple Software Chief Refused to Sign Maps Apology(online.wsj.com)
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by cremnob 14y ago
And this is one of the reasons unemployment in certain Eurozone countries is so high. It's better not to hire when you're unsure about future demand because you're sure as hell not going to be able to fire them.
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People employed by the US government.
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by cremnob 14y ago
And before this starts playing into recent popular narratives, 4 years ago the bankers were Obama's top donors. It's also important to remember that these are donations from employees of these firms and not the firms themselves.
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by cremnob 14y ago
Or they could just do their own thing.
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Outside of tech geeks, real people don't care about this. They care about the UX.
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A victory for Apple but inventors still lose(ft.com)
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by cremnob 14y ago
"Interchangeable code" wasn't the standard. In fact "interchangeable code" doesn't appear anywhere in the article. What would have invalidated Apple's patent was if the implementation in their patent was "sufficiently similar" to the prior

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