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by fpgeek 14y ago
Hold on. Let's not forget where this started. They did try to tell their customers - via email. Your objection is that the form of notice they used was inadequate. That's a fair objection, but choosing an inadequate form of notice, by itsel
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by fpgeek 14y ago
And then someone would complain that they were ambushed for an extra $99 fee right when they just wanted to order groceries...
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Microsoft isn't being stupid here. The puzzle is a hurdle. The donation and (waiting for) shipping are additional hurdles. Hopefully all of these hurdles filter well for the kind of developer Microsoft want to attract.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Wow. Even though they must be (given the realities of software development and the time windows they want to hit), it is still mind-boggling to think of a company like Apple (with its vast cash hoard) as resource-constrained with respect to
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Reading his service-by-service comments paints a much less favorable picture of his Google "divorce": Search: Push (possible win with DuckDuckGo booleans, possible loss with Craigslist search) Mail: Push (mainly using own server, Yahoo vs G
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by fpgeek 14y ago
From the perspective of privacy, Microsoft/Bing anything isn't a meaningful alternative to Google. They have almost the same privacy policy and were far less transparent about adopting it. See: http://marketingland.com/microsoft-privacy-ch
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Wow. That's impressively bad, even for Verizon. A few years ago, when I moved overseas, T-Mobile had no trouble waiving the termination fees (for both my line and my wife's) once I'd shown them proof of the move. And they'd already unlocked
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Don't forget that university student plans are often unusually cheap because the enrollment requirement ensures a relatively inexpensive risk pool. They can also come with unusual restrictions (e.g. your PCP must be at the campus health cen
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by fpgeek 14y ago
It's great that you're happy in the Microsoft ecosystem, but other than the "not Google" checkbox, what issues with being in the Google ecosystem does being in the Microsoft ecosystem solve?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Isn't improved browser-level authentication handling (including not letting information leak via authentication) one of the things BrowserID is about?
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Cyanogen leaves Samsung(androidbeat.com)
1 points by fpgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I disagree. The post ends with "We HATE it!", with "HATE" bolded. The title (rage included) is a pretty accurate summary of what you're going to read. Now if you're asking if this is a useful way of starting an HN discussion about whether o
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Google's decision to scrap Reader influenced by cost of privacy compliance (mobile.theverge.com)
3 points by fpgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 14y ago
T-Mobile is actually expected to be launching an LTE version of the Galaxy S3 soon: http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mobile-set-launch-galaxy-s3-... Given that, I think it is very possible they misidentified the device. As many have noted,
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I agree that Swype on a Nexus 7 is disaster, it certainly was on mine. However, at my most frustrated, I started poking around the Swype Beta forums and learned that the Swype I was using (and all of the betas available at the time) target
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Isn't avoiding staleness one of the reasons behind the Google Doodles?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Wow. The contrast with Android is stunning. Google has been focused on enabling backwards compatibility since at least Android 1.5 (well before anyone knew how Android updates would play out in practice): http://android-developers.blogspot
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Citation please? Cannot seems like an unreasonably strong claim. Given the way older iOS devices are often sluggish on newer OS releases, it seems entirely possible that the animations on the switched-from device were slower and less smooth
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Agreed, the wriggling is an issue. I've always been able to deal with it, but it is frustrating (especially since I primarily run Linux - support is probably the top reason I dual-boot). I've found that I can minimize it by buying the "busi
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Screwdrivers capable of opening up every Thinkpad I've ever used are included in every generic screwdriver set I've ever bought for "jobs around the house" (tightening screws on furniture, opening up toys to replace batteries [sometimes req
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Dell, HP and Lenovo (I'm not sure about Samsung) all have support options where they will send someone to your house to fix things. To me, that sounds a whole lot nicer than carrying an iMac to an Apple Store, no matter how good the support
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Unlike Apple (at least the last time my wife bought one), other PC vendors are happy to sell you accidental damage protection with a laptop. I'd say that is a pretty big difference.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
File formats, sure, but I don't think Dropbox is that interested in open protocols (or at least open storage/sync protocols), for obvious reasons.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Influential or not, Opera surrendered when they switched to WebKit/Chromium. In terms of defending the open web, they're irrelevant now. However, I wouldn't dismiss Microsoft so quickly. They're a serious problem on many fronts and will pro
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Anyone in the "Just let me pay for Reader" brigade (I'm not sure whether or not Om is a member, though it seems likely given the "How much would you pay" poll I saw on one of his posts) has no basis for complaining about Keep. Keep, unlike
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Yes, you only know a company that would remove a feature hundreds of millions of people use every day, from a product they've paid for to boot (see: Apple Maps).
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Microsoft's $100 per app bounty is too much and not enough(arstechnica.com)
2 points by fpgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> I'm not sure there are any commercial products that were in the App Store and were then removed because of a change in Apple's TOS Well, at the very least, the removal gun has been pointed at a lot of commercial apps when Apple has de
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by fpgeek 14y ago
paid/open: vulnerable to a race to the bottom as the open alternatives undercut each other on price
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Disconnect: why Andy Rubin and Android called it quits(mobile.theverge.com)
1 points by fpgeek 14y ago|0 comments

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