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12y ago
What makes you think the signal is stronger than the noise?
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12y ago
Jeff Bezos's newspaper publishes an article impugning Apple.
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12y ago
The main user-facing applications and services in Android are closed source, and send your data to Google, who has made no assurance at all about what they will do with it.
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12y ago
It sounds as though you are assuming that the signal that dentists receive from advertising will be equal for all toothpastes and so the signal from some evaluation of knowledge of toothpaste quality will still be enough to make the better
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12y ago
Given competitors like Google, who is also secretive, duplicitous and is about centralizing the web, and Samsung, who openly operate as a 'fast follower' what do you expect?
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12y ago
It's froopught actually.
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12y ago
There doesn't seem to be any trolling. Adwords provides exactly the function of allowing people to pay to have their results placed above the highest pageranking result. The claim that offering this spot to the highest bidder is '
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12y ago
Nope. Thst's just you presenting more cynicism without a shred of evidence.
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12y ago
So you simply choose to believe they are lying with no evidence at all. Not much point in discussing anything with you, I guess.
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12y ago
"Apple's devotion to privacy ends at phone unlock." If you had read either the privacy policy or security architecture, you would know that you have made a false statement here. I think it's you who is trying to distract
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12y ago
"We’re excited for a future where people won’t have to choose between ease and security, and where tools that allow people to secure their communications, content, and online activity are as easy as choosing to use them." That fut
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12y ago
But Google doesn't protect user privacy from itself.
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Social engineering was used to get the answers to the users security questions.
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12y ago
Nope. The price to earnings ratio is based on investors understanding of the technology business. It's very hard to maintain an advertising based search business for decades. Just ask Yahoo.
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12y ago
The 5S is an excellent 4" device which is more than powerful enough to run iOS8. Sales numbers will determine whether they produce new 4" models next year.
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12y ago
It's been years since Google switched away from that claim.
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12y ago
That's not chrome.
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12y ago
That's because most web traffic comes from iOS. AOSP Browser represents about half of the Android traffic.
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12y ago
If there is no evidence, and they have stated that it wasn't them, anything else is malicious innuendo. Google recently stated that the 5 million sets of Google account credentials were not stolen directly from them and only 20% of the
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12y ago
Not only is it not proven, it is proven false. But, I totally agree that this U2 move was absurdly ill considered.
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Square's value is that it reduces the overhead for economic participation. If you believe that in the future there will be a more networked economy with a larger number of small businesses and individual tradespeople, then Square is a
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12y ago
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to interact with someone who believes that.
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12y ago
Is there anything anout Apple Pay that prevents the underlying banking infrastructure to be replaced with another model while keeping the same experience? A credit card is just a token that represents an intermediary that both sides trust t
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12y ago
No, it's part of what it means to conform.
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People do not wear ties because they look good. They wear them because of antiquated social convention.
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12y ago
They were the first company to make a successful mouse based computer. What are you claiming is a lie?
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12y ago
If you buy her an Apple Watch, she'll get haptic notifications when you call. Apple is solving your problem.
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12y ago
I noticed you took it out of your profile.
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12y ago
A marketing/sales retail machine, with the best product design and engineering on the planet to supply it.
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12y ago
There is no magic formula that says Apple is successful because it waits . Apple builds what they believe is a meaningful product, and often this involves assembling many more components than their competitors, so it takes them longer.
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