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by ergo98 16y ago
Not to mention the whole subtle warning to Google not to implement multi-touch. Google finally opened up that can of worms after the organizations had a falling out.
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by ergo98 16y ago
"Really? Is this what it has come to? I bought an iPhone 3G on day one, used it until the Nexus One came out, and have recently gone back to iOS and bought an iPhone 4." I think you are misreading what the "writing on the wall" is. It is no
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by ergo98 16y ago
It's some delicious sour grapes. Go back in time a while, and the reason that Android was absolutely doomed was that it was a fragmented collection of devices and interfaces that would only confuse and turn off the consumer, with little or
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by ergo98 16y ago
>I like Android, I make an Android app What app? >Over 230,000 iDevices sold per day, compared to less than 100K Androids Groan. Android was past 160K per day many months ago. It has only accelerated since. >Multiple studies say
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Six months ago it was obvious to knowledgeable people that Android would surpass iPhone, and I'm pretty sure that was true a year ago, too, notwithstanding the occasional contrary opinion. The dominant opinion was absolutely that And
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by ergo98 16y ago
>But Apple (under Jobs anyway) is much more interested in profit share Microsoft blazed a trail of both incredible profit margins and dominant market shares. I have absolutely no doubt that Apple was dreaming of the same scenario. I d
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Ever think that maybe you didn't understand it? You purport that I didn't understand it, yet then you go on to state exactly what my interpretation of the statement was. I suggest that you choose your approach more consistently. >D
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by ergo98 16y ago
>I don't think mobile search/advertising threatens web search - it's a new industry I imagine someone in the buggy whip industry said that when cars started to hit the road. A more adept business mind would have probably try to adapt th
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by ergo98 16y ago
I did keep reading, and it's a very interesting entry. That point, however, was so detached from reality that it completely threw me off.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>That's a great quote. It seems that once a company becomes undisputed champion of a particular area they redeploy their resources trying to find something else to dominate. Or they realize that their domination is fragile. Google worri
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by ergo98 16y ago
"Apple has never tried to lock-out their competitors, they've never designed their product strategies for market share." This statement is absolutely crazy insane. Of course Apple design their product strategies for market share. EVERYTHING
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by ergo98 16y ago
>the iPhone has much stricter (DEP-style) page protections than OSX Not sure relative to OSX (or why that relates to Android), however note that Android makes just as heavy of a use of the ARM's NX bit. Gruber recently subtly implied th
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by ergo98 16y ago
Expected to be offended and confrontational, but ended up really enjoying it. Spot on.
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by ergo98 16y ago
1. I really don't think this is the job of a marketplace with tens of thousands of entrants. In the Android world there has been a heavy push for QR codes to apps, so I seldom ever browse the market, and instead read reviews and blog entrie
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by ergo98 16y ago
>The problem is that developers are making a lot more money on iPhone apps. I've heard several developers complaining that their apps don't sell on Android. Will this eventually change? The monetary rewards for trivial apps on the iPhon
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by ergo98 16y ago
>as of April 2010, so pre iPhone 4 launch That's pre-almost every Android handset worth owning overseas, around the time that the Desire was starting to make an appearance. The iPhone 4 was a big launch. Yet in that same time period a l
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by ergo98 16y ago
Almost everyone honours the 4th normal form without thinking about it. I think the "the 3rd normal form is the practical level" just became a bit of a meme.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>With modern software design and especially OOP the risk of data inconsistency is less of a problem This sounds mighty hand-wavy. How does "modern software design" reduce the risk of data inconsistency? >On the other hand duplicatio
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by ergo98 16y ago
Good programmers don't go rewriting code without understanding what and why it is doing what it is doing. Bad programmers will always have a reason to call everyone else a bad programmer, because that's the easiest excuse for sucking.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>The only way these patents are going to matter to you is ...if you want financing. The investment community keeps a close eye on patents, because it's a major potential liability. >Obviously, I don't know if Apple is being defensi
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by ergo98 16y ago
>It's got nothing to do with profitability, viability, maturity of technology, etc. So had the rest of the industry moved to electric vehicles, eating GM's lunch? Surely they must have given that GM was in bed with big oil and was turni
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Since the economic crisis happened. I'm not even on my way to saving for my first car, and I'm already looking for cars under $10,000. I'm not sure if the economic crisis has anything to do with that. I haven't seen any major slashing
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Why would you destroy your capital? They were trial products, and represented a significant liability to the corporation for no benefit. The automobile industry is pretty much the most litigious industry going, so eliminating what wasn
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by ergo98 16y ago
You really managed to fit it all in there. >Given that G.M. destroyed their first electric car of this decade why would anyone trust them to build a new one Because they had the experience of building an electric car, knowing it wasn't
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by ergo98 16y ago
Wriggle? What? I think you're confused. All of the major DB vendors have clauses saying that you can't publish benchmarks without their written consent. Not surprisingly that supports a hearty confirmation bias. What's the confusion?
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by ergo98 16y ago
It was sanctioned by Oracle.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>They are so scared that they prevent anyone with an Oracle license from publishing a benchmark of it I believe every single major database vendor does this. It's called a DeWitt clause. The arguable justification is that it avoids misl
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by ergo98 16y ago
>I know it's hard to believe, but there are people who legitimately enjoy finding the exact right word. Absolutely. There is an appropriate time and a place for such an exercise, however, and having the cognizance of when and where is u
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by ergo98 16y ago
While I think this story is largely fictitious, when someone argues that they're downtrodden and victimized because they sound smart -- in verbal or written form -- they're often missing the forest for the trees. Unless you're debating esot
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by ergo98 16y ago
>are anything like the banks in Canada Which Canadian bank charges for using the teller, aside from the exact fees you would get at the ATM? I have never seen this.

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