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by fpgeek 12y ago
Yes, but the Kindles on bedside cabinets are a rounding error compared to the smartphones and tablets in use today (let alone in a few years). I know there are people who prefer e-ink readers, but they're a small and shrinking slice of
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Unless you're talking about predatory VCs, comparing them to publishers is an insult. Publishers routinely demand that authors submit their next book (or even everything you write in the same genre for years) to them first and even if
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Disrupting editors does not mean eliminating them. Successful self-publishers pay for, among other things, their own editors. Readers are not stupid. Between descriptions, reviews, free samples and so on assessing quality (both abstractly a
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by fpgeek 12y ago
> I have no idea where this meme that free market health care looks like the US comes from. India shouldn't be in a Canadian's comparison set with respect to health care systems. The resource differences are too great to learn
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Yes, but how hard is Apple going to chase those certs? Unless someone is doing something big or strategic to Apple (and random app piracy doesn't qualify, IMO), I just don't see it. Chasing "rogue" enterprise certs is al
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I still glower, but I know of two loopholes: 1. You can get Amazon Instant Video on your cellular tablet if you use the Amazon Appstore directly. It's kinda vague on the distinction between a cellular tablet and a phone. 2. Amazon Inst
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by fpgeek 12y ago
While frustrating, the SD card situation is very different. With SD cards, the "old way" had serious problems (security and robustness issues because apps could stomp on each other's data, all sorts of complexity and confusio
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Oh, please. This piece is silly. Amazon's ebook "monopoly" is incredibly fragile. Either Apple or Google could squash it without breaking a sweat. Microsoft, Facebook and others could too, they'd just probably sweat a bi
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Google stops displaying news snippets from German publishers that sued it(zdnet.com)
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by fpgeek 12y ago
> A third is to move your servers to Switzerland, though then you get served with process from the Swiss authorities instead of FBIDHSDEAetc. And, if you keep your headquarters in Cupertino, quite possibly from US authorities as well (se
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by fpgeek 12y ago
My fundamental issue with Apple's privacy claims is they are pretending that they have a technological solution to what is, ultimately, a political problem. As the laws in the US (and I imagine some other countries stand), Apple can be
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by fpgeek 12y ago
No, my paid videos also work. The only limitation (vs Amazon devices) I'm aware of is that you can't download videos to play later. I've seen people claim that there are SD/HD issues, but I haven't noticed (though,
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by fpgeek 12y ago
> I don't know, if Amazon Video were available on a real Android tablet I'd get that, but until then I'm using these Fire tablets. It is. You just have to go to the Amazon Appstore and install the "phone" versio
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I thought OP was very clear about the serious business reasons they see for US startups to make an earlier and more serious commitment to Android: 1. You will need Android support eventually (to go global, because users demand it, etc.). 2.
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by fpgeek 12y ago
> i think it's fair to assume that the android wear manufacturers have shown their cards. Um, the Android Wear manufacturers may not have any secret plans of their own, but... The Android Wear OS developer is practically jumping up
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by fpgeek 12y ago
What sort of tracking are you worried about? If you're worried about merchant-level tracking, I think tokenization makes little or no difference. Quoting from the article: "Tokenization is typically handled by the payment network,
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by fpgeek 12y ago
It's even worse that that. As of about a year ago, iMessage didn't do any certificate pinning: http://blog.quarkslab.com/imessage-privacy.html Unless that's been fixed (I haven't come across any evidence
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by fpgeek 12y ago
As one of the many whose international 2013 Nexus 7 LTE mysteriously took three extra weeks (compared to the other Nexus devices) to get the 4.4.3 update and still hasn't gotten 4.4.4 (unless that fix was rolled into the late 4.4.3),
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by fpgeek 12y ago
To be fair, Android One's "up to 2 years" is a huge improvement over the typical update policy in this price bracket: not in a million years.
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by fpgeek 12y ago
One the one hand, this argument sounds plausible. On the other, we've seen this movie before. Remember Verizon? The iPhone 5 (LTE and a screen-size bump)? NTT DoCoMo and China Mobile? These were all supposed to be game-changers. And wh
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by fpgeek 12y ago
It's not necessarily futile. If Intel can grab enough of a slice of the Android tablet market that developers of Android apps that use significant native code start caring about x86 Android... all sorts of opportunities open up for the
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Unlike other manufacturers, the international editions of Sony phones have all of the HSPA+ and LTE bands to work well on AT&T and T-Mobile and these days you can get back the extra upfront cost of buying an unlocked phone with monthly
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I agree. The S-Pen isn't quite paper, but after the original Note Samsung got it close enough. On that front, I'm just waiting for Samsung to finish polishing the Note Pro so I can finally get the magic electronic notebook I start
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by fpgeek 12y ago
From what I remember, the TRIM bugs were finally completely squashed in Android 4.3 (they were particularly severe for the Nexus 7 2012 because it had relatively slow internal storage). Assuming Samsung didn't reintroduce them somehow,
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by fpgeek 12y ago
The hardware works fine (including pressure sensitivity and the pen button), you just lose the proprietary Samsung apps. But, as noted in other comments, those apps have their own issues, so they're no great loss. You're probably
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I'm actually running CyanogenMod on my N7105 (international Note 2 with Exynos processor and LTE) and it is a big upgrade from TouchWiz. From what I remember, CM11 M6 (my first attempt) had a some painful rough edges, but things got a
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by fpgeek 12y ago
> 6. iCloud is the most popular target because Picture Roll backups are enabled > by default and iPhone is a popular platform. Windows Phone backups are > available on all devices but are disabled by default (it is frequen
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Hold on there. Society has already made a judgement that those overtime hours only make society better off when an employer is willing to pay extra for them. Implicit in that is a judgment that neither employers nor employees properly accou
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by fpgeek 12y ago
You're suggesting that there is some sort of technical workaround that can be deployed to solve this possible legal (and, ultimately, political) problem. I'm not that optimistic. As far as I can tell, the argument being made in th
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I wonder if Argentina and the hedge funds suing them are watching this case. If ICANN loses here, the consequences of that loss for their legal battle might be very interesting.

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