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by czhiddy 14y ago
> Business practices like this make me feel guilty for purchasing Apple products. Samsung's history of corporate scandals and widespread corruption would make them even less palatable then, no?
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Wow, I'd love to see some of your citations for (1). If anything, their aggressive supply chain management has helped drive down prices for things like capacitative touch screens, NAND flash, hi-dpi LCDs, etc. Last week, I ordered some part
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Your line of reasoning follows from the assumption that Apple dropped Google, and not vice versa. It's entirely possible that Google declined to renew their licensing agreement with Apple after the initial X years were up. Google had Apple
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Yup, no more public transport info. Until Google releases their iOS Maps app (assuming they do), the best solution seems to be loading up maps.google.com in Safari instead.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
If every journalist/blogger who has been bearish on Apple (versus trolling for pagehits) actually shorted the stock, there would be no naysayers at this point :)
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by czhiddy 14y ago
> So I have no clue why on earth Apple created such a neutered mapping app for a mobile device. The terms of the license agreement with Google for maps data likely didn't include the ability to perform turn-by-turn navigation. Another r
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by czhiddy 15y ago
Tim implies that Apple knowingly ordered the switch to n-hexane in "their factories" (actually Wintek's) to improve production numbers, with no regard for the safety of the workers. Evil indeed! Sorry, I'm gonna need to see some proof befor
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by czhiddy 15y ago
Foxconn employs over a million Chinese citizens. They undoubtably have enormous amounts of guanxi ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi ) with all levels of the government, from local to national.
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by czhiddy 15y ago
What was your experience with CoreImage like? Is the accelerated rendering noticeably faster than compositing with CG?
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by czhiddy 15y ago
2x the CPU speed and 7x the GPU speed, all with equal or better battery life = marginal? I'm curious what what your idea of a "substantial" upgrade would be.
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by czhiddy 15y ago
3G, 3GS, 4, 4S Makes sense - Apple's using an Intel-like tick/tock release approach. Coming out with a brand new industrial design every year is expensive, since Apple opts for glass/aluminum nowadays rather than plastic.
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Amazon Fever Is Killing Netflix Stock (theatlanticwire.com)
1 points by czhiddy 15y ago|1 comments
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by czhiddy 15y ago
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=aapl+yhoo+ebay+goog+pe+...
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by czhiddy 15y ago
I'm curious - can someone explain to me how Yahoo still has a higher P/E ratio than say, Apple? For that matter, why is EBay's P/E higher than Google's?
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by czhiddy 15y ago
Wasn't Coca Cola the most valuable brand in the world? Or were they just the most recognizable?
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Google outbid itself by 33 percent in Motorola Mobility acquisition(engadget.com)
2 points by czhiddy 15y ago|0 comments
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by czhiddy 15y ago
This angle of attack definitely makes sense when you consider HTC's $300 million investment in Beats By Dre - a brand that primarily targets the youth market. Good luck convincing a generation raised on iPods that the iPhone is old and stod
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by czhiddy 15y ago
"Even if current generation Android hardware were experiencing poorer battery performance (and they generally don't)" Really? http://www.anandtech.com/show/4686/samsung-galaxy-s-2-intern...
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by czhiddy 15y ago
It's a little amusing how popular these WebGL reimplementations of 2004-era OpenGL demos are.
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by czhiddy 15y ago
Was the Courier ever anything more than a bunch of concept videos? Was there ever a prototype or anything close to that? Making futuristic looking concept movies is pretty easy compared to actually making and shipping a physical product.
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by czhiddy 15y ago
I'm curious why that image is "misleading." Is that not a photo of an early pre-release Android prototype?
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by czhiddy 15y ago
World's most valuable _public_ company, perhaps. Saudi Aramco ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco ) has an estimated market value in the trillions.
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by czhiddy 15y ago
From what I've read, Apple has never participated in those "top workplace" surveys, so saying they've never made the top 100 is a useless statement at best. glassdoor.com satisfaction surveys place them somewhere between Intel and Google, b
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by czhiddy 15y ago
I didn't bother to downvote, but do you honestly think that the Gizmodo iPhone 4 incident was a carefully orchestrated PR stunt? Seriously?
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by czhiddy 15y ago
Facebook also benefits from not having any real competitors (in the US, at least). If they fuck up and make a terrible UI change, it's not like the user base will protest and move to Myspace. If Apple fucks up the iPhone, there's a strong
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by czhiddy 15y ago
From what I can tell, it's a replacement for the current SMS/MMS app on iPhones (and new on iPad, sans SMS/MMSing). People you text messaged before can now be iMessaged instead for free. People with non-iOS phones can still be SMSed as usua
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by czhiddy 15y ago
Your music is already legal. Not sure what you don't like about the "legalizing" aspect, as it doesn't pertain to you. iTunes Match sounds like a way for the labels to get finally get income from the music pirates who torrent stuff off of P
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by czhiddy 15y ago
I think the proponents of web apps only consider the twitter/facebook/etc type of apps in these arguments. If the types of game you're interested in are relatively simple affairs (Angry Birds/Cut the Rope/etc), sure, you could probably mak
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by czhiddy 15y ago
It looks like Refocus Imaging changed their name. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/refocus-imaging
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by czhiddy 15y ago
Interesting how AMZN jumps 5% after missing earnings, yet GOOG drops nearly 10% with nearly the exact same results (increased hiring and expenses resulting in lower than expected profit).

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