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by fpgeek 12y ago
I'm a bit surprised no one has suggested what I consider the most likely possibility: They had no idea what getting you a visa actually entailed and bailed once you started and they discovered how hard it would be. I'm leaning tha
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Admittedly, this is a low bar, but at least they mentioned the pro-Amazon petition in passing. More than a few pieces covering the anti-Amazon petition completely forget about the other one.
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> Because market data suggests that most people won't switch. They will buy book from "the new, hip writer X" or they won't buy at all. Which is why publishers don't care whether or not stores like Amazon discoun
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I'm a bit surprised that Amazon said listed "no returns" as one of the differences with ebooks. I have personal experience with their incredibly generous ebook return policy (right in line with their other generous return pol
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This kind information (and a lot more) is effectively public already via KDP Pricing Support (Beta): https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A22DBITFA52H1S I imagine there's some sort of non-disclosure agreement attached t
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Amazon doesn't agree. They are currently lobbying for Internet sales taxes and have been for at least a few years: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021778597_amazonlobb... So far as I can tell, today
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Frankly, the only perspective I care about in this mess is mine - that of a non-EU Google user. I'm only reasoning from Google's because I want to understand how these EU regulations are likely to impact me. Now that EU regulators
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This is nonsense. Google isn't making policy decisions about censorship and privacy, nor should they be. Instead, they're assessing when it is and isn't legally risky / expensive to return search result X to a user in co
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Well, if Google wasn't the only one trying to buy Twitch, I'd imagine any losing bidders wouldn't have any problems with someone leaking what they know.
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Yes, keeping the information available where the EU's jurisdiction doesn't reach subverts the spirit of the EU's laws, but what alternative is there? By that standard, even delivering censored results to all EU IP addresses i
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I wonder how EU regulators are going to react when, for example, Russian regulators demand that Google remove all links to "inaccurate" (i.e. not Russian propaganda) stories about MH17, worldwide.
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Google under fire from regulators on EU privacy ruling(reuters.com)
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Why would you expect a larger (than current) iPhone to be running iPad apps? Even a 5.5 inch iPhone would be closer in aspect ratio and size to a 16:9 4 inch iPhone than it would be to a 4:3 7.9 inch iPad Mini (let alone a full-size iPad).
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That wasn't GP's point. Whether Apple cares or not, if a larger iPhone hurts iPad sales, that's another reduction in the potential scope of tablet computing.
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> Tim Cook mentioned that in emerging markets iPads grow much faster and that's likely because it is their main computer. In emerging markets, the most common "main computer" isn't a tablet, it's a smartphone, by
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> On mobile, t.co makes it so that you end up always launching a browser before launching the appropriate application (i.e. YouTube) That's what URL unshorteners and/or Link Bubble (which automatically redirects to apps for you
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That depends on what you think the problem is. Sure, if you think it's "people don't like Google Glass", ditching the camera is one option. If, on the other hand, you think the problem is "people don't like bei
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The rest of that response is: "What we decided to do instead was have a living laboratory for a very public experiment. Is it messy? Sure. And are there are things that you couldn't predict? Absolutely. But there is all of this fe
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> Finding ways to lock those enterprise clients, with their huge budgets, into the Apple ecosystem for 10+ years is nicer still. No, it's not. And if there's anyone at Apple thinking that (I'd bet there isn't), they&#
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> Apple has billions/trillions of iMessages/Push Notifications going through iCloud and how often have they failed ? Rarely. Well, there was that 2+ year problem with sending messages to people who'd switched away from iOS
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And then they'll eventually send your account to collections, where it will be an even bigger pain to straighten out. Something similar happened to me with AT&T (now Comcast, I believe) in Chicago. I was moving away so I canceled s
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You're making tons of unnecessarily limiting assumptions about the segment a startup might be targeting. There are plenty of segments worth targeting beyond people who pay attention to startup and early-adopter news. They might require
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Instagram's monetization strategy was selling the company. That effectively required an Android version to protect and maximize their network's value. I wonder if Instagram would have gotten more money if they'd embraced Andr
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> "Market transparency" is a red herring. You pay $10 per month to Netflix, because that's the value of that content to you. You don't care if some of that money goes to Verizon any more than you care that some of it
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Apartment buildings often make exclusive deals with cable companies for a variety of reasons. And even when they don't, it can be very hard to deploy new infrastructure anyway.
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Well there was that generation of web designers that believed the world was 1024x768 (or 800x600).
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The core infrastructure for variable screen sizes and densities was introduced in Android 1.6 Donut (September 2009). There have been improvements with newer versions (e.g. more sizes and densities), but that's straightforward to deal
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Interesting counterpoint: http://www.vox.com/2014/7/7/5878603/taylor-swift-doesnt-unde...
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If Google is the one making the call about whether or not someone is a public figure, where exactly do you expect them to draw the line? Do you honestly expect them to draw a line in the public interest? Personally, I'd expect them to
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Some firms have email triggers that tell you when you're sending something outside the firm to minimize those accidents (and to make the employee carelessness associated with any remaining accidents clearer).

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