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by fpgeek 13y ago
Comparing the Zenbook Prime's battery life to a current-generation Macbook Air doesn't tell you anything about ASUS vs Apple. It just tells you that Haswell is much more power-efficient than Ivy Bridge, which should have been obvi
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Ah, but if you're going to talk about multi-threaded applications, we're going to have to start talking about things like thread-safe reference counts...
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I don't know, but I wouldn't be too impressed with the security of the existing iMessage: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/can-apple-read-your-...
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> There's a non-trivial portion of the market that is determined to buy a Windows phone Is there any evidence of that? From what I could Google, Windows Phone market share is still under 5% and only recently surpassed Blackberry: h
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Not to mention Firefox OS and Ubuntu Touch (both made possible by re-using low-level parts of the Android stack).
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by fpgeek 13y ago
The could have done even better. Qt for iOS and Qt for Android existed at the time and have now become officially supported (despite all of the major cutbacks Qt development has gone through since then): http://blog.qt.digia.com&
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Not comparable to Cyanogenmod is an understatement. According to their own site, Chevron is just a third-party implementation of the Android's "Unknown Sources" (i.e. sideloading) checkbox: http://chevronwp7.tumblr
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Also, it's not like Samsung and several other Android OEMs aren't keeping Windows Phone projects going on the side. If Windows Phone does start to get any traction, Nokia will soon see exactly sort of competition they were trying
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Might not even be next year. Even if you don't count the new Galaxy Camera since it is a connected camera, not a phone, Sony is rumored to be pulling technology from their camera division for their next flagship phone, due this fall.
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Are mobile web apps really slow?(danbricklin.com)
87 points by fpgeek 13y ago|56 comments
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by fpgeek 13y ago
First, no one has proven that Amazon was ever playing a true loss-leader strategy in ebooks, as opposed to losing money on bestsellers and making it up on the backlist. Second, the existing DoJ settlement specifically allows publishers to p
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by fpgeek 13y ago
There are plenty of other companies that can check Amazon. Consider Google. They make they can easily out-discount Amazon, they're also cross-platform and... and now that the Google Books scanning cases are turning in their favor they
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Breaking open the ebook market after many other companies had tried and failed certainly was a new thing.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Apple wasn't trying to create any old sustainable marketplace. They were trying to create a marketplace where they didn't have to compete on price so they could win on a more favorable dimension (like platform integration). Ther
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by fpgeek 13y ago
The biggest tactical difference between Bill's Microsoft and Steve's Apple was always in the level of market power each could exert at any given point in time.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Oh? I hadn't heard about that. It certainly sounds bad. Do you have a pointer to more on this?
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by fpgeek 13y ago
That's one of the issues that's still up in the air. If this verdict holds up, Apple is going to have some sort of antitrust compliance program, but I don't think anyone has a handle on what that might look like yet.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Put Apple to the side for the moment and just look at the publishers. Did they conspire? I think it is obvious that they did. At the time of the agency switch it was obvious something fishy was going on with the whole Amazon v MacMillan &qu
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by fpgeek 13y ago
To be fair, any book a publisher wants sold DRM-free, Amazon sells DRM-free. Many publishers insist on DRM as a condition of sale. Your beef is with them, not Amazon. And by the way, DRM is at the heart of this ebook conspiracy. One of the
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by fpgeek 13y ago
To be fair, OEMs didn't kill netbooks. Microsoft and Intel did - by stopping the OS and processor deals that made netbooks possible in the first place.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
An issue with an ISP would certainly be consistent with the reports that the outage is geographically limited.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Hold on. Apple has huge incentives to push content competitors off of iOS. It dramatically increases the switching costs to other platforms (see: video in particular). And while pushing competitors off of iOS technically might not be squeez
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Amazon's customer service (especially with respect to books) second-to-none, by a large margin. Consumers are doing far better than zero. And I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that ebook monopoly. Even if Microsoft/B&
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> and it doesn't look like they will be anytime soon. Bay Trail tablets, due out for the holidays, easily beating the ARM side's upcoming champion (SnapDragon 800): http://www.extremetech.com/computing/16
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Here's a specific comparison of the Razr i vs the Razr M. http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/04/motorola-razr-i-review/ Yes, the Razr i lost (mostly modestly) on 4 out of 5 performance benchmarks, but.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I think the author is making a big mistake in selling short the possibility of x86-class CPU performance on mobile. Perhaps it comes from his iOS focus, but he's just wrong about the difficulty of transitioning the mobile software ecos
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> Google may have been able to comply with the letter of the law without giving up user data by using e2e cryptography. Only at the cost of not providing the service that users want, which includes such things as fast, full-text email se
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> You mean companies that comply with US law? So your advice is to work outside of the US? What makes you think you don't have to comply with US law if you work outside of the US? If you're a US citizen living and working abroa
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by fpgeek 13y ago
For a trial, I'd expect you started on the paid infrastructure from day 1, even though you hadn't paid yet. That would mean no migration and no downtime.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> Once the people start creating new laws, and getting them passed, we'll win. There's an important step you forgot to include: Getting the new laws enforced. When most of the people in charge of the enforcement are used to (an

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