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by fpgeek 13y ago
There's a difference between choosing to control your own destiny (Apple and NeXT) and choosing between different masters (Nokia and Android vs Windows Phone). I think it's obvious that Android would have been a better master 2-3
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by fpgeek 13y ago
From what I understand, it's not entirely stubbornness. The exclusivity agreement they made with Microsoft has significant penalties if they pull out - starting with paying back all of Microsoft's "platform support" paym
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by fpgeek 13y ago
The Play Store has gotten a LOT better. There was a time when I routinely did a Google web search of: <terms> site:play.google.com (or, earlier, site:market.android.com) as opposed to using the store's own search interface. Now I
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> (when you add a new device to iMessage all the other devices "see" the new device being added and tell you about it) And who writes the software on those devices that tells you about the new key again? Based on what I'm
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by fpgeek 13y ago
These people come from the Sony Ericsson joint venture. Technically speaking, they weren't part of Sony until February of last year, when Sony bought out Ericsson's stake in the joint venture. Sony Ericsson had a reasonably good
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by fpgeek 13y ago
So? Old, poorly-maintained systems have all sorts of issues. Not working with newer browsers is just one of them. Consider these possibilities: - Maintenance and support costs are notably higher than they would be with a newer system. It is
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Who says the cruise line, insurance company, bank, agrobusiness and so on are going to get outmaneuvered by a startup? They're going to get outmaneuvered by another big company in their line of business with less-stupid IT policies. Ge
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No user is an island(benlog.com)
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> The only solution to a private internet is to fully embrace cryptography for all our communications. Mozilla (or at least the Mozilla employee that wrote the OP) does not believe that: http://benlog.com/articles/20
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Based on the rumors (and partially supported by Firefox with Bing), both Microsoft and Yahoo were actively bidding against Google (for the ad revenue, presumably). Microsoft also probably has some interest in supporting Firefox for "br
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Well, the Publication Type is Grant so... At least the priority date only goes back to 2006, so hopefully there's plenty of prior art.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
So Mozilla should throw away their funding, lay off the majority of their employees and then fight the good fight? How much of Mozilla would be left to do that again?
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Why would a company whose only connection to the US is a few US citizen and/or permanent resident employees have to worry about whether or not certain transactions involve those employees? You might not know why, but they do. The US
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Google's funding isn't the end of the story. There are others (e.g. Microsoft) who would be happy to fund Mozilla. The real question is: How much cash could Mozilla get from non-US sources? I'd guess orders of magnitude less,
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> Move the company out of the US. But that's not enough. If they really want to be free from the US's reach they'd have to: - not do business with any companies under US jurisdiction (oops - Google and Microsoft) - not emp
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Indeed. One of the things Marco is glossing over is how the iOS 7 overhaul makes iOS development riskier: - Will I (and the apps I'm planning) be able to adapt to the UI changes smoothly or not? - How are these changes going to p
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Just because a change was necessary doesn't mean this change was necessary. I'm still flabbergasted that Apple did their big overhaul (apparently) without addressing inter-application communication, default apps, Siri APIs or mo
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I think you forgot the parts where even devices with a 3 year old OS [1] regularly get updates of many APIs that have been (sensibly) decoupled from the OS, have access to substantial compatibility libraries and so on. [1] By which I mean F
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by fpgeek 13y ago
The 3GS was on sale as recently as last September (maybe a bit later in some emerging markets).
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by fpgeek 13y ago
First, if you're going to quote me, please do so accurately. I said "Nothing that invasive is required." [emphasis added], comparing to the proposal further above that called for comprehensive regulation of the Apple's
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Eh. Nothing that invasive is required. Just mandate that Apple allow sideloading and/or third-party app stores and the rest will take care of itself. The elegant part is that regulation would target the real problem - the tying of the
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by fpgeek 13y ago
True, but I think you're missing the point that competition between app stores can mitigate the worst aspects of the app store model.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> I don't know of any 2nd amendment supporters who are also not strong 1st and 4th supporters Are you sure? For instance, on cultural grounds, I'd guess that there are plenty of 2nd amendment supporters who would be happy to ba
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by fpgeek 13y ago
He clearly wasn't. There aren't that many Treo-mentions on DF pre-iPhone and almost all of those are about kicking the Windows Mobile 700w (which was justified to a point, but still...).
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by fpgeek 13y ago
It will be interesting to see if HTC tries to set up some sort of Zoe to Vine integration.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> there aren't huge issues to protest Aside from the issues mentioned in the OP? Or if you are gay? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_377A_of_the_Penal_Code_... Or immigration policy? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21485729
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Yes, on the one hand the working conditions are shocking and horrifying and deplorable and I would move mountains to keep my children from ever working anywhere even remotely like that. On the other, every kid working in one of those factor
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Samsung does build a Wacom digitizer into all of their Galaxy Notes, no matter the size. I don't know how they compare to Wacom's more specialized equipment, but I've found writing, drawing and notetaking to be very natural on my Note 2 (to
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Unlike VideoLAN, Mozilla has a big, obvious income stream for H.264 patent-holders to go after. Mozilla, quite reasonably, thinks they should spend that income advancing their mission rather than paying off patent holders (in a way that und
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I think I understand why Google doesn't do it. They're relatively comfortable with the telephony status quo. Via Chrome on the desktop and Android on mobile, they've ensured that no one is in a position to "deal out" their services on any c

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