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czhiddy
16y ago
While I can see something like this doing very well against the Wii in the casual gaming market, the hardware is too slow to compete with the 360/PS3 graphically for hardcore gamers. That said, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Hasn't th
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czhiddy
16y ago
This was from close to a year ago. How much better (or worse?) is the process for the average developer today? I've read that the reviewing process is much faster; are the frivolous rejections less common now?
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16y ago
To be fair, just about any tech stock you bought at that time period would have had similar returns. (Even MSFT doubled from it's low of 15)
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16y ago
AFAIK, this isn't because of the underlying GSM vs CDMA technology. Verizon just has more towers around and better backend infrastructure to handle high loads.
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czhiddy
16y ago
Agreed. http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Apple-has-91-of-ma... I'd much rather have low market share and much higher profits than vice versa.
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czhiddy
16y ago
Agreed. It's not as if Android devices would switch to this Flash implementation to playback videos. Why not demo something like Farmville?
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16y ago
> Apple's response? They sent in the police ... This, like much of the article, is complete hyperbole (unless you actually believe Apple controls the police force).
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16y ago
Apps like Mint and Facebook exist across the various mobile platforms (namely Android + iPhone). Apple doesn't seem to ban apps that are cross-platform as long as they're written with native APIs. Now imagine if you took Call of Duty on PS
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16y ago
> Why is that a flaw? Why should the numbers include those devices? My guess is that he's trying to compare OS vs OS, as opposed to OS vs device. Do these #s include traffic from Android tablets or MIDs? (Are there even any available f
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16y ago
> Well if you try and review the iPhone 4G you get arrested. Only if you buy a stolen unit to review :-)
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17y ago
This post says it better than I could: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/bt3cp/this_is_ap...
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czhiddy
17y ago
> So yeah, Apple has issued more stock, and by stock prices it is more "valuable". Are you saying you can create value simply by splitting the stock? :)