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by fierarul 14y ago
The odd thing is the Shenzhen Foxcon factory is closer to Berlin than San Francisco. Somehow, even excluding taxes, it's still more expensive in Germany. And a difference of 7% is substantial for a product with no margins.
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by fierarul 14y ago
I do think they might sell bellow cost. Of course, it's illegal to say it so they claim it's at cost. Amazon even brags there is no margin: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/10/12/amazon-ma... but I wonder, if they are so despe
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by fierarul 14y ago
It's nice how when you are rich enough you have a choice of paying taxes? You know what startup would grow the size of Google? One that would provide fully automated, dirt cheap tax avoidance for the masses. If anything, that would be one
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by fierarul 14y ago
I think it's actually illegal in the EU to sell products bellow cost. We call it dumping but it seems Amazon and Google are able to do it just fine in the US. So that might be one reason.
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by fierarul 14y ago
Yep, Apple imagines people are just as perfect as their own devices. On the iPhone I had to make a custom app ( https://bitbucket.org/emilianbold/noblocked/wiki ) just to block calls from hidden numbers. I guess the current iOS 6 with "Do
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by fierarul 14y ago
Why would companies want you to service your laptop when you should either buy another one ($$) or take it to their own blessed service company to fix ($)? Oh, well, there was a slim chance of buying Toshiba, but now I'll just have a small
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by fierarul 14y ago
I hope this gets released in the rest of the EU too. You couldn't even get the previous Chromebooks in Germany, let alone Romania. A 250 euro Chromebook (VAT included) would be a nice buy. This means an ARM-based Chromebox should be around
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by fierarul 14y ago
This is genius: they give you a credit card so you can buy more AdWords from them! I've been getting these AdWords vouchers that had 'this is not a credit card' printed on them. In a few years it will actually be a credit card! Just activat
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by fierarul 14y ago
So true. The actual trick is that in a broken country they don't expect people to be honest. Quite the contrary -- it's more profitable for everybody else if you are corrupt. Actual quote from an IRS employee from Romania: "Don't you worry
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by fierarul 14y ago
>Sounds nice, but the way the market in consumer electronics is going How is it going? >it's about time for Apple to do something disruptive How many disruptions do people need? The iPad is 2 years old! Some people get bored so easi
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by fierarul 14y ago
Totally didn't see this coming. I was actually looking into Settings to see if it detects the iOS 6 release and only afterwards I bothered searching the net and finding out there will be no iOS 6 update! But this is not the biggest disappoi
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by fierarul 14y ago
A product that gets better as people use it is basically a beta. Apple isn't known for releasing beta products so I think it's not a wonder they are noticing the consumers backlash. I won't be upgrading to iOS6 until I have Google Maps.
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by fierarul 14y ago
Precisely. The biggest mistake newbie freelancers do is go for fixed prices projects and then allow feature creep.
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by fierarul 14y ago
> What material would you suggest they could use? Bamboo would drive Greenpeace mad.
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by fierarul 14y ago
This is a rather poor attempt at philosophy that basically rides on yesterday's blog (the pendulum one) remark about Life-as-a-Service. If anything it should teach people about how to keep the blog audience interested. I was pretty sure I c
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by fierarul 14y ago
How come are you giving up on Apple gear? I'm starting to think it's almost a trend and I'm curious about your reasoning.
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by fierarul 14y ago
>These are results from underlying scopes, surfaced to the Home lens, because you didn’t narrow the scope to a specific, well scope. This sounds kinda buzzword-ish and ignores the fact that people, basically, don't need Dash to do any o
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by fierarul 14y ago
It's not the same thing. Installing binaries from them doesn't send them any of my local data. I guess their apps could start uploading stuff, but people will figure out pretty soon Ubuntu has/is trojans. What we are talking here is about a
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by fierarul 14y ago
I know about them, but they have no presence in Europe.
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by fierarul 14y ago
I would buy this. Even if Acer would come with Ubuntu instead of their Linpus thing, it would be a huge win. Knowing I get a 100% Ubuntu certified laptop would make me ignore the brand.
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by fierarul 14y ago
I stopped registering when that link didn't work.
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by fierarul 14y ago
Hm, I guess it's better seing that it's Canonical doing the patches although I would prefer for these things to be part of the upstream kernel or at least of the official Ubuntu ISO. Right now the http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-q/dellxps/ link
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by fierarul 14y ago
> Two days ago I got my Dell XPS 13 as part of a Dell beta progam called project Sputnik. This makes it unclear if I can actually buy this thing (in Europe). >I got a special version of Ubuntu, with some kernel patches, and some pat
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by fierarul 14y ago
I don't see how there are so few people given the success that iPhone has been: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_sales_per_quarter_s... A 3-5 year old phone should do the job just fine. I gave an old iPod Touch 2nd gen to a relati
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by fierarul 14y ago
If you judge the user base or commercial success it's pretty easy to pass judgment and say it failed. I can't even buy one on amazon.de! If you assume ChromeOS will be maintained for years to come by Google (because they can afford it) and
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by fierarul 14y ago
You pay for the bandwidth on AWS. Of course they would be glad to redirect a DDOS their way. It's pure gold for AWS.
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by fierarul 14y ago
Basically, I want to see the Google Chrome of email servers.
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by fierarul 14y ago
Web browsers seem to handle malicious web pages just fine. Why is email so special?
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by fierarul 14y ago
How weird is it that something as basic as email still needs mad hacker skills to set up and dedication to maintain? Why can't I plug a Linux box to the Internet, have a wizard auto-configure most of it (including DNS stuff, etc), let me to
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by fierarul 14y ago
>Computing devices are pretty much in the same category as other electronics for a lot of people While you see them as thin clients I presume?

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