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by dkrich 8y ago
I disagree. It’s a pretty equal symbiotic relationship IMO. I keep reading people saying “NO other developer would ever get away with this!” Yes they would- if they had 2.2 billion active users on their platform. This may shock a lot in the
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by dkrich 8y ago
I think a lot has to do with media outlets like TechCrunch having an “oh shit” moment wherein they realize Facebook is taking their profit machine from them (advertising). He even admits as much in the Twitter comments where he posted this.
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by dkrich 8y ago
Not really. It’s a hard pill to swallow for Apple that most iPhone users are active Instagram/Facebook/WhatsApp/Messenger users. If they took those apps down people would be super pissed. I know I’d be extremely annoyed. It w
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Of course it ends with a link to her podcast
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I don't like the assertion that the only thing that was valuable on CD's was the convenience, not the music. I'd argue that the copyright itself is the reason the music industry had pricing power. As everyone knows, they lost
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This is true. Sears is easy to pick on, but the truth is that Amazon is seemingly the only company that was early to understand ecommerce and how to effectively gain market share by continually innovating and creating customer-centric pract
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The most common dig I continue to read about Apple’s strategy is that the phones are too expensive. But there’s little evidence from their earnings that this is the case. Today’s report reduced guidance by $6 billion and was fully attribute
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by dkrich 8y ago
There is very little evidence that markets care much at all about what happens in Washington. If Trump resigns or doesn't it is very unlikely to have a lasting effect on equity prices. There's lots of evidence to back this up. Whe
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I still remember changing from MySpace to Facebook and the reasons had nothing to do with exclusivity. What happened was that my friends and I were using MySpace and one of us tried Facebook and convinced us all to try it. We stayed because
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by dkrich 8y ago
I had begun to give up hope on the common sense of the masses to whom these stories are being pitched, but the comments in this thread have renewed my hope. These hit-pieces are getting very tired and don't really do anything but put s
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by dkrich 8y ago
And I'm establishing that the precedent cited doesn't exist, not in modern times anyway. If the argument is that home sellers are punished if they don't protect the buyer and so data sellers should be punished if they don&#x2
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But they aren’t. Most home sales in the US follow caveat emptor. If you buy a house from a private seller and then later discover mold in the walls or a crack in the foundation I wish you luck in getting the seller to pay for the repair.
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by dkrich 8y ago
So now society is frustrated because it’s data isn’t being analyzed and used to serve ads effectively enough? We’ve officially come full circle. How about this- if you are uncomfortable with the prospect of ads potentially shown to you that
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I feel like I’m alone in asking this but does personal responsibility play no part in this? She starts by admitting that she voluntarily signaled to these platforms that she was pregnant. They are ad platforms. She then goes on to admit tha
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by dkrich 8y ago
I agree with most of the article, but don't really like how it just breezes through this part: [Apple] can leverage its smartphone share into monopoly profits on digital goods and services that are on iOS not because iOS is anything s
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by dkrich 8y ago
Share prices expand when revenues look to be expanding. What the price action in MSFT and AAPL tells me is that the market sees MSFT as growing over the next few years (at least) and AAPL not growing much from where it is now. This story st
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Not at the height of its popularity
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> Google has more of a chance of diversifying their business enough that they may survive. Had to laugh a little at this. Alphabet made $9 billion in profit in three months.
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by dkrich 8y ago
Google still makes most of its money from search based ads. That pesky part about making a living and so on.
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This seems implausible precisely because it’s the crowded view. But can anyone recall a time that the crowd correctly predicted the ascent of an unpopular product or the descent of a popular one? I’m old enough to remember Yahoo’s rise and
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by dkrich 8y ago
Unfortunately I think casting Amazon as the villain here is incorrect. I say unfortunately because that would be the convenient thing to do. But Amazon doesn't have an obligation to repair America's infrastructure or create jobs i
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by dkrich 8y ago
I agree with this. I think voice is a curiosity that feels like it's futuristic and thus makes Echo Dots a great gift, but isn't actually all that useful when compared to a software interface which is why I believe Apple not going
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by dkrich 8y ago
> When has first (early) mover advantage been used successfully against Apple? Maps, streaming music, video, voice assistant, home speakers, browsers...
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That's fine, but my problem with that line of thinking is that the norms we live with now have evolved to reward the workers who are serving the most affluent guests, not necessarily those working the hardest or who are paid the least.
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This is all true. Security is best implemented when it’s baked into an organization’s processes. The government barely has enough budget to pay for server space let alone invest heavily into dedicated security teams. Most work is handed off
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I don’t get the premise of this. On the one hand he’s making the assertion that government regulation is needed because consumers won’t pay for added security. He then immediately goes on to say that in the past security breaches weren’t li
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I've held the same position since the CA scandal first broke and I still stand by it: that regulation is not that likely. The reason I believe that is pretty simple- the government typically doesn't get things done and its been th
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That’s not tracking web activity though. Also, why is google given a pass here? They use info gathered from my emails all over the place and that surely has more sensitive data than my Facebook account. What about amazon who has been report
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FWIW, I’m also not what most would consider an active user although I do have an account. I’m usually more turned off by what people post than the platform itself. I just think the attacks are a bit too sensationalist.
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by dkrich 8y ago
Do you know Facebook creates shadow profiles of you by tracking your online activities? How would they do this if you never visit the site or download the app? If you're referring to the use of a pixel, compared to the full-fledge us

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