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by dkrich 9y ago
I'm not a security expert by any means, but I have to ask- if it's acceptable and most people use a four digit pin to unlock a phone, is the idea of somebody going to the trouble of lifting and replicating fingerprints that worris
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by dkrich 9y ago
You're right, I stand corrected. Nobody uses Apple products. Let's move on.
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by dkrich 9y ago
Well, Apple sells about 200 million iPhones a year, so when you add in iPad sales to that, unless you are outside the US, you should consider yourself in a very select minority.
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by dkrich 9y ago
My point is that the iPhone/iPad/Android-enabled tablet is a ubiquitous IoT control panel. I disagree that the most natural of human interfaces is voice. It's like saying that listening to an audiobook will always be a bett
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by dkrich 9y ago
Apple spends years meticulously developing and then releasing the most successful (and profitable) consumer computing platform of all time. Nearly every man, woman and child in the US has an Apple device no more than five feet from them at
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by dkrich 9y ago
Otherwise I'd see a use of this device for small kids (parents would protect them from generic chat apps, and they're not good at typing yet) and people who put their phone in random places in the house and only check when they a
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by dkrich 9y ago
Agreed, and that's why I think iMessage and (BBM when people were using Blackberry's) are the best version of this. Two people with Apple devices can seamlessly take advantage of the Apple ecosystem or switch to SMS when communica
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by dkrich 9y ago
This feels forced and sort of flies in the face of how people have demonstrated that they prefer to communicate over the past 20 years or so. I already have a phone that I can pull out and send a text or make a call with to anybody, without
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by dkrich 9y ago
I think that holds for pretty much all of their products, successful or not. But if you want to argue that Amazon is a better product company than Apple, then have at it.
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by dkrich 9y ago
Also the Fire Phone, which as I remember was priced at about $650.
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by dkrich 9y ago
I don't own an Apple Watch, but I know lots of people who do and love them. But in any case, I think the last ten years of iPhone and iPad releases do somewhat agree with me.
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by dkrich 9y ago
When I saw this, I actually had the opposite reaction. I remember when I first saw an iPod Nano with the color screen and the scroll wheel that magically scrolled up and down by just moving your finger around it without actually turning a w
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by dkrich 9y ago
Problem is that it's the whales that make them a $3 billion company. Snag one Uber or Facebook and that's worth about a million small SaaS companies (I actually don't think that's an exaggeration). Yes, if they leave you
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by dkrich 9y ago
Here's an idea- give people with a certain income the option to not pay into SS with the obvious consequence of not being able to collect. Make this option available to people at a certain age or less (maybe 40), so that those closer t
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by dkrich 9y ago
The main problem I have with the article is that it is phrasing it as a "handout" and the payouts coming as "courtesy of the American taxpayer." In reality, they are collecting money that they put in, so the article is m
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by dkrich 9y ago
From what I've seen they've done two things. First, yes, they've basically spent huge amounts of what would otherwise be profits on subsidizing two day delivery. They have dabbled in various methods of last mile delivery, lik
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by dkrich 9y ago
Being long is a stock market term that means you are invested in a company and believe the stock price will increase. It's the opposite of being short.
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by dkrich 9y ago
How do you get to a 100B valuation? They are set to earn just over 2B this year. So you're willing to pay 50x earnings? Remember, this is IT, where margins should be some of the highest of any industry. Compared to software or traditio
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by dkrich 9y ago
Do you typically down-vote posts that don't happen to agree with your world view? I don't see how your points are any more well-founded than mine as they are all based on conjecture and not facts. Arguments like "Cloud's
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by dkrich 9y ago
Google works on tons of different products but their only real business is the ad business and it is hugely profitable and has been so for a very long time. I have no doubt about Google's ability to make large profits because they&#x27
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by dkrich 9y ago
Okay, no money was hyperbole. It makes some money. But in the large cap tech space, it's a pittance. Apple probably makes more money on sales of the iPhone 6S. It's 10% of their business and yet it makes them the more money than t
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by dkrich 9y ago
My thought is that the cost of delivery will eventually drop so much from technological shifts (self-driving vehicles, robotics, etc.) that all retailers will enjoy the same cost savings that people are predicting for Amazon. In other words
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by dkrich 9y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out. I'm always open to opposing views and don't have any personal problem with Amazon or reason to want them to not succeed. I just see all the hoopla for Amazon and a lot of it seems based on ignoring
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by dkrich 9y ago
If that's true, why doesn't their e-commerce business make any money? I constantly hear this argument that they can turn on the profit spigot any time they want, they just haven't yet because, "strategy." But if wha
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by dkrich 9y ago
> When they run out of warehouses to build (or crazy ideas to invest in) their costs will drop and that will turn into profit in an instant. I don't think there's any evidence to back that up. There are two types of costs- fixe
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by dkrich 9y ago
Exactly- they made $604 million in profit in the quarter. Certainly nothing to sneeze at, but to put that into perspective, the company currently has a market cap of about $430 billion.
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by dkrich 9y ago
Making poor purchasing decisions and being willing to spend more for something you could get for less are two different things though. The fact that most people buy flights based on price and time of the flight over the quality of the airli
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by dkrich 9y ago
I have an Echo Dot and I couldn't tell you because the only things I've used it for are setting timers while I'm cooking and occasionally playing music when I'm too lazy to sync my phone to my Bluetooth speaker system. I
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by dkrich 9y ago
I continue to be bearish on Amazon long-term. The notion that shoppers will one day buy things simply with the push of a button or saying "Alexa, get me some paper towels" seems extremely far-fetched to me. Most shoppers are extre
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by dkrich 9y ago
I don't think battery use is a real important issue simply because the cost of batteries is so low. I was able to buy two extras for my a6000 for about $19.

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