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by ergo98 16y ago
They announced it on the same day as Verizon's iPhone announcement. The video codec announcement had zero impact outside of the tech-heavy sphere. In no universe would it have undermined the Verizon announcement. The MP3 diversion is spur
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"So the argument I’ve heard against Google’s decision is that they are using an infrastructural technology decision (a new video codec) to placate or sustain Adobe Flash, at the expense of Apple, a potential or perceived rival." The "argume
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by ergo98 16y ago
If using a baseline format was their real argument they wouldn't be supporting a patent encumbered MP3 format for the audio tag, same as Firefox. The "if you don't fight every battle at once, you have no morals to fight any battle" angle
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by ergo98 16y ago
The only ads I can ever remember clicking on were accidental. The only ads that really make sense, I think, are the branding/image/guiding type ads, not the performance-based CTR ads that have taken over the tubes. Toyota did a whole damage
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by ergo98 16y ago
>It's the internet. People link to things. Absolutely. And of course people who believe the same thing naturally come together. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with that. It's how it is supposed to work. However there is a perspective
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by ergo98 16y ago
No, it's like I've paid attention to the various posts by Asymco, Daring Fireball, and Marco over the past couple of months. I fully anticipate Gruber will link to Marco's piece, Asymco will add some sort of twisted perversion of data that
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by ergo98 16y ago
An alternating circus of asymco, marco, and daring fireball all trying to spin everything in the iPhone's favor, each referencing each other as moral support.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Google uses us as tools in its battles and wars Every company does. Or do you really believe that Apple is actively preventing Flash just because they really care about the consumer? Google's hypocrisy is unbelievable Google is a big co
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by ergo98 16y ago
>The thing to remember is that when two systems each have patents, it's a false dichotomy to ask which set of patents trump the other. Where is the false dichotomy? The current talking point on the h264 versus WebM war is that WebM is a
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by ergo98 16y ago
by people who have actually implemented H.264 and are familiar with the patents ... I'm gonna go with the analysis of the guy who said his B-frame implementation gave x264 the project's single greatest encoding quality improvement over t
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by ergo98 16y ago
Sorry I should have been clearer. I'm talking about people selling their own products here. Yes, there is lots of money to be made in, essentially, consulting. That is true pretty much universally.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>It shouldn't be anything to do with the carrier. The carrier should be a pipe. Blame bandwidth delusions all around for that. Carriers price on the assumption that while your caps are high, they really want your usage to be low. This
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by ergo98 16y ago
I suspect it's greatly increased, but even with similar numbers of phones out, I also suspect iOS devs pull in more money The majority of iOS devs make little to nothing, documented countless times. Of course when you hear the rare succes
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by ergo98 16y ago
That would be a significant engineering change (above and beyond CDMA that they have been working on for years, and for which chipsets are mature) and would essentially make it an iPhone 4.5. LTE will certainly come to the iPhone 5, due in
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by ergo98 16y ago
Another terrible asymco entrant. Interesting how the author pushes one philosophy for processors (the inevitable superiority of a licensed model) but if you've read their many pro-Apple screeds, exactly the opposite conclusion is pursued re
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by ergo98 16y ago
The iPhone is not exclusive anywhere else in the world. Here in Canada the iPhone is carried by every carrier, and is sold everywhere. Since July of last year Android's marketshare has more than doubled. The Desire Z is making a particularl
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by ergo98 16y ago
They'll sell millions the first weekend. If AT&T were some regional wireless company serving just the South East or something, I could see this. If the iPhone were 12 months into its life and subscribers were rolling out of plans and
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by ergo98 16y ago
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/crime/article/810236--toront... Woman sued cellphone company for sending her cell bill to her husband, allowing him to discover her cheatin' ways. Was a pretty humorous story.
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by ergo98 16y ago
I did see the SMS bug mentioned on several mainstream news stories. However to get mentioned in mainstream news there needs to be a compelling story: Someone claiming that they missed a flight, missed their wedding, etc -- something to make
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by ergo98 16y ago
So i wouldn't be so sure about intel's bright future. I'm not invested in Intel. I wouldn't invest in Intel. I don't know where the market will go. However I'm not so knee-jerkish to instantly discount them. It is truly remarkable how man
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by ergo98 16y ago
Atom was created for the netbook market, where the target for low power consumption was significantly higher than it was for smartphones and from that tablets. How many netbooks shipped with ARM? Atom did what was necessary to win that race
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by ergo98 16y ago
Intel exclusivity? What? x86 is an architecture, like ARM, that has seen many contenders come and go over the years. Intel's dominance is because of engineering excellence, albeit coupled with some questionable business practices. Show me a
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by ergo98 16y ago
Totally agree with that. There is an opportunity for someone to take the content and actually improve on it somehow (e.g. an expert engine or something, or better machine driven ontological navigation, etc), however it thus far its just bee
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by ergo98 16y ago
Apple dictates the iPhone's selling price (just as they do with the iPad, the iPod Touch, their computers, etc), even among third parties like AT&T. Given that the telcos make most of their money in the contract (and the upfront cost is
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by ergo98 16y ago
Of course there are. It is a community and discussions can be interesting. However most of the time that I and most people come across SO it's the top search hit for a technical question. The answers are seldom unique, but instead are usual
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by ergo98 16y ago
2 points. I started at one. I desperately hope for more, though, as this is going to give me my big break. I'm trying to earn six more trophies, a ribbon, and link this profile on my resume.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Yup, that is exactly that sort of "machine knowledge" that is beneficial. I suspect where their algorithm isn't somewhat sure of the answer it essentially does A:B testing with users -- a while back I asked it who the governor of Illinois w
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by ergo98 16y ago
What do you think most StackOverflow answers are? It's a karma-paid labor pool where you can post questions and a lot of under-employed people will rush out and do the necessary Google searches, collating and slightly rewriting the results
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by ergo98 16y ago
One solution may be for Google to radically change their algorithms and policies for web search to de-emphasize phrase-matching and more strongly prioritize inbound links and credibility. Inbound links and the calculated "credibility" fro
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by ergo98 16y ago
First you said that Google just continued with free services. This is incorrect: Navigation was not free and they severely crippled the paid navigation market. Google Navigation is on Android, a paid add-on that providers add to products

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