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by fpgeek 11y ago
Since running YouTube isn't cheap and Google isn't a charity, that seems practically equivalent to shutting down YouTube altogether (after some reasonable notice period).
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by fpgeek 11y ago
In that future, even an EU company may not be enough if that company does business in the US (or, in the most extreme case, accepts and/or makes a significant amount of USD payments). The US government can coerce them too (and in some
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by fpgeek 11y ago
While I applaud the spirit, I don't think actually implementing it like GateKeeper is a good idea: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/drop-dead-simple-exp...
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Exactly. The point of the page is to pique your interest, ideally to the point where you decide to sign up for email updates. In many ways, giving more concrete information works against that goal, so the page doesn't do that.
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Also, I wouldn't give up on native pen support just yet. NVIDIA's DirectStylus technology is supposed to be processor-based and, more importantly, uses standard touch sensors (no active digitizer required), though it does seem to
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by fpgeek 11y ago
I disagree. I see them as very different value propositions. Chrome OS is about giving you a baseline (80-90%) computing environment with as little administrative overhead as possible (easy to setup, easy to share device, no driver issues a
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by fpgeek 11y ago
> Why is this running Android instead of Chrome OS? Because you can already get convertible touchscreen Chromebooks (e.g. ASUS Chromebook Flip, ThinkPad Yoga 11e Chromebook). Yes, a Chrome OS Pixel C would add a detachable keyboard, but
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by fpgeek 11y ago
From what I recall, there was a big price increase for asthma inhalers when they switched from CFCs to other propellants. That being said, I thought the new propellants were going to go generic after a few years. Has that not happened yet?
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Sigh. I was hoping you were going for an analogy with self-checkout. That would have neatly and effectively pointed at the missing piece of the puzzle. Instead you went for the cheap moralizing, which can make you feel good but doesn't
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UK orders Google to kill links to 'right to be forgotten' stories(engadget.com)
1 points by fpgeek 11y ago|0 comments
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Finding the sweet spot between memory and speed on Android(swiftkey.com)
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by fpgeek 11y ago
> Does Google let you replace default search with Bing if you want ? Why yes, they do. If you want, you can even replace Google Now with Firefox search (using Yahoo by default, unless you change it).
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Not there aren't issues that get through (like this one, I believe), but you forgot: 1a) If the issue can be fixed and/or worked around in Play Services, Google does that and "everyone" gets the fix without even having t
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by fpgeek 11y ago
So the Hangouts bit is just about triggering the problem without user intervention? If an attacker can find another way to get you to play a malicious video, there's still a hole? That's clearly more serious.
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by fpgeek 11y ago
The update strategy has been rethought and, frankly, I'd be surprised if anyone needs to release an OS update to fix this. Google clearly can and will just update the Hangouts app (if they haven't already). I'd expect most ot
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by fpgeek 11y ago
> The amount of cash Apple and now Samaung can throw at their custom designs may be overwhelming. Not to mention all of the soon-to-be-ex Qualcomm engineers it just got a lot easier for them to hire.
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by fpgeek 11y ago
"Owner" is usually an overstatement. Yes, an activist investor has to own some chunk of the company (and it has to be a big enough chunk that management will pay attention to them), but they don't own the whole thing - or eve
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Yes, they had to pay Qualcomm for their LTE patents, but that didn't mean they had to use Qualcomm SoCs. Other devices (e.g. Galaxy Nexus, Droid Bionic, HTC One X+) married Qualcomm LTE radios with non-Qualcomm SoCs. Even Samsung did t
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Um, what? Yes, the ARMv8 transition was a problem, but until then, Qualcomm had been consistently delivering the best combination of power and performance all the way back to the Snapdragon S4. It's not like Samsung was putting Qualcom
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by fpgeek 11y ago
If you believe the article (I'm not sure whether or not I do), the shareholders didn't freak out because of the bad quarter - it was just an opportunity to push their pre-existing agenda of prioritizing returning capital to shareh
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by fpgeek 11y ago
It's not about the money from the app store, it's about the lock-in from apps, which is far more valuable.
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Well they did add YouTube Music Key (no ads, background play and offline access for many music videos) pretty recently, but they've done their typical terrible job of publicizing that.
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Apple did not become one of the most profitable companies in the world by paying expenses partners can be convinced to eat instead.
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French Regulator Wants Google to Apply ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Ruling Worldwide(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by fpgeek 11y ago
All the encryption in the world doesn't make any difference if it's easy to steal your account. Unlike Facebook or Google, Apple practically had to be shamed into fixing an easily-gamed account reset process and adding two-factor
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Comcast also makes most of its money from users directly. Yet, somehow, the incentives are not aligned. Why is that? How might that apply to Apple?
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by fpgeek 11y ago
I think the strong reaction is because the distinction between Apple and Google is much fuzzier and weaker than Tim Cook (and some commenters here) are trying to make it sound. Apple makes money from device sales. Apple can make more money
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by fpgeek 11y ago
> if every time Amazon added a new major product they took the ENTIRE STORE DOWN FOR HOURS. In that case, would Amazon ever be up?
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by fpgeek 11y ago
> 2. Not sure why you are comparing App Store with Amazon when Apple has an equivalent: the Apple Online Store. It does have physical products and has to deal with figuring out shipping across multiple regions. It's actually compara
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by fpgeek 11y ago
How about Apple has admitting they do exactly that? http://www.imore.com/yosemite-ios-8-spotlight-and-privacy-wh... Yes, they say they properly anonymize and location-scrub this personal information before they store, aggre

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