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by gamble 16y ago
Before poo-poo'ing the idea, consider that a conspiracy isn't required for Google to be unconcerned with paid app sales. Android only exists because Google was afraid of being cut out of mobile search advertising. Their priority has been ge
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by gamble 16y ago
Remember when NTP sued RIM and won over $400 million? Their patent for sending email over RF seemed pretty silly at the time too. So, while this is a good article on the whole, it may be a bit naive to assume that Oracle can't win the case
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by gamble 16y ago
People love the idea of being first into a market, because it offers the illusion that you won't have any competition. In the real world, by the time there's a significant market for your product you'll have plenty of competitors, all of wh
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by gamble 16y ago
There are two problems with charging people to park: one is enforcement, which isn't free, and the other is that customers strongly prefer to shop where free parking is available. Even if prices are lower at the shop that charges for parkin
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by gamble 16y ago
Sun went out of business making decisions that made Java popular, but not lucrative. Oracle has a reputation as a place where people would climb over their own mothers to get a sale; they won't make the same mistake. Moreover, Android is a
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by gamble 16y ago
Exactly, though any amount of licensing fees or control by Oracle cuts to the heart of Android's appeal to handset manufacturers.
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by gamble 16y ago
Yeah, practically every Apple product in recent years has been leaked before the official announcement. The difficult part is separating fact from the false rumors and fabrications.
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The Maes-Garreau Point(kk.org)
2 points by gamble 16y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
If Oracle was worried about looking evil, they've had thirty years to come to their senses. If their employees are concerned about working for an evil company, they haven't been paying attention.
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by gamble 16y ago
Except that the proposal for wired networks has giant loopholes, and one can easily interpret this deal as a fig leaf designed to get the issue off the table so that the network providers can create a reality on the ground that makes furthe
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by gamble 16y ago
Google's problem is not that net neutrality is bad for them, exactly, but that Verizon loathes it. And Google is utterly dependent on Verizon pushing Android. Half of all Android phones are Droids on Verizon, and you can ascribe a lot of
702.
by gamble 16y ago
Maybe with open-source developers, but not with Java's corporate bread-and-butter. They might actually like the warm security blanket provided by purchasing official Java licenses, support contracts, certifications, etc that Sun wasn't quit
703.
by gamble 16y ago
That's why I used the word 'developers'. Even twenty to thirty programmers is still a lot to manage, particularly if you have ambitions to do any of the programming yourself.
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by gamble 16y ago
> the 30 second video I uploaded to YouTube got over 50K views within the first week I'm astounded everyone doesn't do this. It's free, and far more compelling than the handful of screenshots Apple allows.
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by gamble 16y ago
They're clearly making more of an effort with Rage than they did with previous engines. They were spoiled to a degree by how eagerly 3rd-parties licensed the Doom, Quake, and Quake II engines. Id developed a nasty reputation for dumping cod
706.
by gamble 16y ago
It was a terrible idea, but not because the stock market crashed. It was a bad idea because private retirement savings plans have been a disaster. Those people who didn't lose their money playing markets they don't understand in a fit of ir
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by gamble 16y ago
It seems strange to me that the comments on this thread are so dismissive of retirement. Retirement is FU money for the average man. Planning for retirement doesn't have to mean ignoring the present, or wasting away on a beach in Boca when
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by gamble 16y ago
Carmack is a lot like Steve Wozniak. There's no question that he's an incredible hacker, but (as I've heard second-hand) he isn't crazy about managing large teams. Carmack was his most influential in the late '90s, when a small group of dev
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by gamble 16y ago
Market share != revenue. China only represented 1% of Google's revenue when they pulled out. They saw the writing on the wall - China would not allow foreign Internet companies to be successful in the long term - and decided to pull out bef
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by gamble 16y ago
When a supposedly whole-hearted net neutrality supporter flips overnight to a watered-down proposal with the fastest-growing market excluded from consideration, you have to question whether they have any credibility at all. Particularly whe
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by gamble 16y ago
And what would they do if that auction was taking place today? Google only supported net neutrality when they were an outsider with nothing to lose and everything to gain. Now they're part of the club and, conveniently, compromise is the vi
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by gamble 16y ago
Yeah, it was Verizon pushing Android in exchange for a cop-out on net neutrality.
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by gamble 16y ago
MYTH: Google has “sold out” on network neutrality. FACT: Sure, we were all ready to pay $4.6 billion to keep the 700MHz band open a couple years ago. Hey, had you seen that iPhone thing? It was killing us. But that was yesterday. Just the
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by gamble 16y ago
There was also a strong political movement to create fair regulation, until Google threw it under the bus.
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by gamble 16y ago
He gets it in his the first point. Exits are so low these days that a <1% pre-dilution employee grant is basically meaningless. Unless you work for the next Google (and how many of those have their been in the last decade?) the best-c
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by gamble 16y ago
There are hundreds of technology 'startups' out there that exist to fleece investors. None of them go out with a bang as in The Producers, because it's far more lucrative to maintain the illusion of a technology perpetually on the cusp of c
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by gamble 16y ago
The key problem with the Apple TV is that it won't play the most common video formats. Opening it to 3rd-party apps that could support those formats would make a real difference. However, like other commenters I'm skeptical that Apple will
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by gamble 16y ago
The Starbucks Principle: Just because something seems stupid and wrong, like opening four Starbucks outlets on the same intersection, that doesn't mean the market will punish it. Some people are deeply offended by the fact that America's un
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by gamble 16y ago
Not in a way Wall Street would recognize. China is following the Japanese development model - firm state control of key firms and financing, with protectionist regulation and capital controls to ensure that foreign companies have little acc
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by gamble 16y ago
Fortunately for China, Chinese corporations don't believe that.

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