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by fpgeek 12y ago
Say what now? I just opened my Kindle app and the store hasn't gone anywhere. Are you maybe thinking of Google blocking Amazon from including the Amazon Appstore in the Amazon shopping app? That's a different issue and, more impo
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Ireland: US courts need our permission to view emails stored on Dublin server(engadget.com)
5 points by fpgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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If you're talking about building blocks, goto is also a necessary evil...
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It's worth noting that the group accusing Lessig's SuperPAC of violating FEC disclosure rules is a well-known opponent of exactly those rules: http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/103204564762/on-the-center-for.
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I can think of three reasons I use Amazon's store beyond the free apps: 1. It's a great way to share paid apps within a household without sharing Google accounts. 2. We have one device (a kids' tablet) that didn't come w
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Amazon's store absolutely is allowed. Users just have to go to Amazon's website to download and install it for themselves. Considering that using Amazon's store means trusting not only Amazon and the store app, but every app
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Well, considering how long they were separate and the little or no user benefit that came from merger of their app store and Amazon's other shopping app (especially post-Amazon SSO), it seems pretty clear that the primary purpose of th
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I think their plan was to see how far they could get twisting the Play Store guidelines using the extra leverage they got from the long-awaited Instant Video app release. From their perspective, the worst case was returning to the previous
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> They are NOT GEO-BLOCKING IT. FOR NOW. As we all know, Google's reaction isn't the result the people pushing for the law intended. Do you think they will just give up? They've already gone through several rounds in sever
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How many people really care about Google Services?(ben-evans.com)
12 points by fpgeek 12y ago|12 comments
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The selling point is that there's enough uncertainty and complexity in the process that many (most?) people won't successfully avoid charges for re-buying music. The icing is that the mere existence of the complex, uncertain proce
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I can get at the post and I also couldn't see anything about the default outside of US/Russia/China. What makes this particularly interesting is the rest of the globe includes some of Firefox's strongest markets. My gut
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Um, there's more to the world outside the US than Russia and China...
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French 'right to be forgotten' decision takes link removal beyond Europe(zdnet.com)
1 points by fpgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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Well, the people caught in this trap can find it difficult to take time out of their schedule on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, not to mention the many other hoops they may have to jump through in order to be counted politi
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Of course money. You make the argument that your audience is most likely to hear. And between lobbying and campaign contributions, jobs for their constituents, lost tax revenue and so on... money is the argument Congress is most likely to h
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Is there an Android version? I can't find a download link when browsing from my Nexus 7.
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As I understand it, retailers use loyalty cards to improve their customer-level data and as a way to act on that data (e.g. targeted coupons), but even the baseline they can extract without loyalty cards is very important to them. In fact,
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> But what's more, tokenization removes a huge storage burden from merchants, since they never see a person's actual credit card information and it never enters their POS system or online payment portal. Yes, merchants think th
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That's because the original submitter wanted to highlight the garbage-collection discussion, not the whole article. Of course, now that the title has been changed...
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by fpgeek 12y ago
According to this: http://www.quora.com/Is-Google-Wallet-considered-a-card-pres... Google Wallet is card-present for the merchant, but card-not-present between Google and the consumer. I guess that means Google is eating th
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by fpgeek 12y ago
There's a difference between inexplicable and an explanation you disagree with.
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Who said a docile workforce is lucrative for the companies? There are many reasons they may not be. However, in most cases, "the company" doesn't make these decisions - managers do. And plenty of managers prefer a docile work
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Apple reverses course: calculator widgets now allowed in App Store(mashable.com)
4 points by fpgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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Nextbit Baton is real-time app data sharing, beta coming to CyanogenMod(androidcentral.com)
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Why do you say that? With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that Android phones didn't get AIV until it was clear the Fire Phone flopped. And unless you mess around with sideloading, it still isn't supported on Android tablet
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Is it sad my first thought was: There goes any chance for Amazon Instant Video on Chromecast and/or Android TV for the foreseeable future?
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They're also owned by Amazon. I don't have a problem with that, but I imagine someone trying to get away from Amazon would.
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Amazon doesn't want to push prices down for the sake of pushing prices down. They want to push prices to where their data says they'll make more money (and, assuming they get a cut of the total, to where everyone will make more).
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> once you've got that original library of books on your reading device on what app are you going to purchase additional books on? My answer is: it depends. My wife and I have well over a thousand books on Kindle, but I've got

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