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by fpgeek 10y ago
The original link seems down, but it has been saved at archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20160912105232/https://blog.steve...
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SightSound versus Apple, and the Death Squad for Patents(medium.com)
2 points by fpgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 10y ago
You're getting more than two years of updates. There's another year of security updates, plus at least two years (probably more given historical trends) of system-level app updates ( Google Play Services, Chrome, WebView, Play Sto
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Tim Cook: 'Apple could unlock iPhones, but won't'(engadget.com)
2 points by fpgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 10y ago
> Did Tokyo's decision to allow high density housing solve their 'housing is too expensive in Tokyo' problem? http://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-c... Why yes, it
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by fpgeek 10y ago
> I mean, it's a Bay wide problem, why can't all the building be done right outside Palo Alto? I mean, climate change is a worldwide problem, why can't all the cutting of greenhouse gas emissions be done outside the US?
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by fpgeek 10y ago
I just tried this in a private window. Yes, "google" is a suggested search when you type "hoogle", but that seems only fair. After all, G and H are next to each other on a QWERTY keyboard. I'm sure a typo for google
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by fpgeek 10y ago
iOS and Windows Phone devices may be limited to a single package provider, but Android devices are not. I've had more than one store on my Android phones and tablets for over five years now. And, yes, I'd love it if there were a s
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by fpgeek 10y ago
Let's run with the Windows analogy for the moment. Microsoft did make an iOS-like Windows Store with a standardized cut, though they did let developers have control over pricing. And they bundled it with Windows 8, gave Windows Store
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by fpgeek 10y ago
Thiel suing Gawker has is absolutely related to his Trump support. Trump is the presidential candidate who wants to "open up those libel laws" to make it easier to sue the press. It is certainly notable that one of Trump's pr
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by fpgeek 10y ago
> The decision to support SD cards made a lot of sense back in the days when internal storage was a lot more limited. And it still makes sense today. See: Android One (and most other handsets targeted at the developing world), manufactur
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by fpgeek 10y ago
But that's the amazing part of the story. What happened wasn't in the interest of any of the middlemen involved! They just want to skim off their slice. The last thing they want is any whiff that the ultimate owner might not get t
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by fpgeek 10y ago
Isn't that the space Rust is going after? That's certainly whst I find interesting about it.
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by fpgeek 10y ago
Well considering that one of his major competitors has claimed 5x higher unit sales on Android vs iOS (and the Andriod price was $1 more at the time) [1], I think you can draw your own conclusions. [1] See: https://blog.shiftyjel
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by fpgeek 10y ago
There is an important difference. Google is transparent about what is going on. When I set up Google Photos I was asked: Do you want to use Google's high quality or do you want to preserve the original photos and have them count agains
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by fpgeek 10y ago
We're not talking about most developed countries, we're talking about the United States. The Internet, like many other things that are considered basic human rights in other countries, isn't a basic human right here. You can
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by fpgeek 10y ago
Even easier (or as a first step), Amazon could count the pages that were actually displayed, not the ones that were skipped past. I'm pretty surprised they're not doing that already since it would be a good way to account for book
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The GPL Is Almost an All Writs Canary(2d.laboratorium.net)
2 points by fpgeek 10y ago|1 comments
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by fpgeek 11y ago
I really don't understand what Oracle's lawyers are thinking. Yes, coming up with ever-more-creative theories about why Google owes Oracle might have some tactical advantages, but any victory in court on those terms would be pyrrh
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Conversely, my 7 year old daughter dramatically prefers her guest account on my touchscreen laptop as opposed to the non-touch Chromebook we had intended for her to use. She just has a hard time wrapping her head around the idea of a screen
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Sony has its own substantial patent portfolio, which makes a big difference. That being said, I know from personal experience that many Sony Xperia devices support exFAT, which, to me, doesn't sound like they're showing the middle
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by fpgeek 11y ago
No, I mean 2010-2013 when agency pricing made shopping across ebookstores a waste of time.
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by fpgeek 11y ago
If you're mad about the ebook market concentrating on Amazon, you should be absolutely furious at Apple over agency pricing. That was when ebookstores were launching and competing for attention. Agency pricing blocked a critical dime
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by fpgeek 11y ago
I'd say it is even worse than that. The years of strict agency pricing trained people to not even bother looking at competing ebookstores, entrenching Amazon's dominance.
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by fpgeek 11y ago
> Jobs wanted to launch iBooks right now and was willing to cut corners to get what he wanted. We should be precise here. Jobs preferred to cut legal corners with respect to the antitrust laws instead of cutting financial corners by dire
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by fpgeek 11y ago
As I understand it, the core problem is that when Apple price-matches, the 70/30 split between the publisher and Apple doesn't change. If the other retailer (e.g. Amazon) has the freedom to set their prices via the wholesale model
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Try reading this: http://www.drinkerbiddle.com/files/ftpupload/PORTAL/Kunz_Art... This is an article the legal reasoning behind why the iBookstore MFN clause was an antitrust violation - it was designed to im
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by fpgeek 11y ago
I used to feel like that - that Justice Scalia was an thoughtful, intellectually honest justice that I profoundly disagreed with simply because I found his foundational principles alien and wrong. Then came Eldred v. Ashcroft . Larry Lessi
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by fpgeek 11y ago
They thought everyone would go nuts over the guy with the mask. They didn't understand that the mask was only a small part of what made Darth Vader such an amazing character.
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by fpgeek 11y ago
I don't think it's about the market value of Google search in isolation (which is large and positive). Instead, it's about two things: 1. The power of browser defaults puts browser vendors in a strong position to demand a cut

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