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by fpgeek 13y ago
By dragging out negotiations for years and then trying to use the courts to establish a ceiling (but not a floor) on FRAND licensing costs, I think Apple has done more to undermine FRAND. They've developed a "heads I win, tails
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by fpgeek 13y ago
There's a very, very simple problem with your argument: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers#razor
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by fpgeek 13y ago
In fact, the boundaries of the compatibility requirement are pretty fuzzy. For instance, the Acer/Aliyun situation is more complicated than presented. The Aliyun app store was distributing pirated apps (including pirated Google apps):
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by fpgeek 13y ago
And, in fact, the same author made the exact same point about Google Play Services being a big tool Google is using to get past OS version fragmentation about a month-and-a-half ago: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013&
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by fpgeek 13y ago
You forgot one of the biggest reasons for the exchanges: they're the mechanism through which the government provides premium subsidies to people who qualify. I think there are a variety of reasons for that (e.g. keeping better tabs on
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Insurance companies are not required to participate in the exchanges (and many don't). And while people are required to buy insurance, they aren't required to buy it from the exchanges (many will still get insurance via their empl
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by fpgeek 13y ago
If you want to know why no one in the federal government will take you up on your offer you should read about the Anti-Deficiency Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antideficiency_Act http://www.gao.gov/
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Indeed. This is why Apple sending your AppleID and password in the clear inside the SSL connection to Apple is troubling. That makes it relatively easy for the right IT people to steal those credentials. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Suppose Apple made the broad, unequivocal claim before they got an iMessage-related NSL. While the NSL can't compel Apple to lie, would Apple choose tone down their language afterwards?
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by fpgeek 13y ago
The point isn't the phone in and of itself. The point is to build something real with the new display material, which has its own benefits, most notably "unbreakable" displays.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Based on that comment, you have no idea what a downmarket customer is (even in the US). They aren't people who get phones "free" on contract. Downmarket customers don't have contracts. Sometimes they can't afford th
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I believe the CDMA 4s have an improved antenna design compared to the original GSM 4s (see: http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/08/apples_verizon_iph... ).
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Is Gmail Ilegal? (Orin Kerr on Judge Koh's recent decision)(volokh.com)
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I don't think they are. I think I may have cut my quote in a bad place from that perspective. They continue: "That was the death knell for the drug. Most insurers stopped paying for it." I don't think they're implyi
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I completely agree that the key question for SimplyInsured is how much value they can add once the decent exchanges are up and running. That's why I'm surprised that they've been focusing on California rather than Massachuset
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I'll suggest reading to the end of the article. They did do another trial targeted at people with mild to moderate illness. It failed: "A little more than a year into the study, more people on the drug had died (15 percent) than p
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Um, what about the HTC One?
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Aside from their own projects, I don't think Netflix gets episodes from the current seasons of popular TV shows the way Hulu does.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Overseas Americans who eventually return to the US do receive one benefit from the ACA: the ban on excluding coverage of preexisting conditions. That means the most for those whose coverage in their host country wouldn't have met the H
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Ironically, you can't straightforwardly get to the USDA contingency plans. The whitehouse.gov link on the page points to an index of all the contingency plans (across the federal government). Unfortunately, the entries for the USDA pla
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> The whole problem comes from Apple not allowing trial apps. The problem with this hypothesis is that Google (among others) does allow a variety of trial apps (I've bought several). Unfortunately, that isn't having a significa
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Yawn. I'll believe this is something other than a publicity stunt when they start going after Microsoft with the same zeal for making essentially the same privacy policy changes: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10&#x2F
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by fpgeek 13y ago
But strangely the Asian models (e.g. Hong Kong) you'd think Samsung would worry most about in the grey market don't seem to have this restriction: http://ausdroid.net/2013/09/26/galaxy-note-3-sim-res
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Absolutely. Carriers are Apple's biggest customers, not end users. Possibly the funniest part of the "you are the product" meme many Apple fans are fond of is how many of them fail to notice that they are the product that A
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Yes and no. Apparently there's a bug that can crash iTunes if you put Newsstand in a folder: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23039388#23039388
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Um, last time I checked, movies and TV shows purchased from iTunes were still locked down tight. For that matter, for a long-term user it is surprisingly easy to have random DRMed music in an iTunes library unless you were very diligent abo
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Samsung is actually having trouble meeting their own internal demand for components. IIRC, they were even getting memory from arch-rival Hynix at some point this year. Having Apple dial back might not be such a bad thing for Samsung if it h
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Given that Omni would love to offer upgrade pricing on Apple's App Store, I don't think outside it or the 30% were the barrier. In fact, I'd be more than a bit surprised if Omni hadn't suggested the alternatives like Omn
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Assuming that the OS is set to permit developer-signed apps. That's the default for now. If the Mac moves further in the direction of iOS, it might not stay that way.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
You're missing the point. It's not about what is technically feasible. Omni Group didn't have technical issues implementing their upgrade solution and it contradicted no policy that they were aware of at the time. Nevertheles

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