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by gress 12y ago
$25 per resident per year is significant, $25M a year in a city of 1M. And how is this 'difficult'? It seems like it's a trivial software modification - certainly not $100,000 worth of work. I agree that it's a bizarre
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by gress 12y ago
It's evidence of intent.
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by gress 12y ago
If this is representative of Google's general approach to dealing with partners, then it should be fully exposed and prosecuted. Google has enough power and money not to need to act in bad faith like this.
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by gress 12y ago
So all processes that have been running for the past 200 years are sure to continue indefinitely?
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by gress 12y ago
Arguing that technology always creates more jobs than it replaces is as fallacious as arguing that technological progress should be blocked in order to protect jobs.
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by gress 12y ago
Just saying what? If you fine Apple $160B, then you have to fine Google a similar amount, since they are co-conspirators.
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by gress 12y ago
True but it seems hard to argue that the amount can reasonably be more than all of the cash on hand, since the companies wouldn't have been able to pay the employees anything like that amount, so it can't reflect the market value
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by gress 12y ago
How would an amount that is greater than the cash of the two combined companies not bankrupt them?
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by gress 12y ago
Try comparing an original iPhone, and an an iPhone 5s, or an original iPad and an iPad Air. The difference is monumental. If instead of releasing incremental updates, there had simply been no intermediate steps, everyone would be blown a
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by gress 12y ago
It could be those things, or it could just be that Google gave them a bigger discount.
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by gress 12y ago
They do, every day.
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by gress 12y ago
Why did you post this?
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by gress 12y ago
So, no. Not a consumer app.
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by gress 12y ago
That's fine - the point is that in those cases the end-user is not the customer, so cost-savings trump user-experience.
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by gress 12y ago
Actual consumer apps, or in-house line of business apps for corporations?
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by gress 12y ago
Presumably that is the only one. Xamarin features it, but everything else they feature is an in-house corporate line of business app. If there are 'lots of great apps' out there, you'd think they'd tell us. Not encoura
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by gress 12y ago
Has anyone actually done this?
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by gress 12y ago
I note that you didn't provide an example.
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by gress 12y ago
It's funny - I have the opposite view having worked in C# years ago and appreciated that it was a lot more flexible and pragmatic than Java (as a language - libraries and platform aside). To me the problem is that it's not native
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by gress 12y ago
From whom does it not get this love?
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by gress 12y ago
Intel is failing to deliver their existing roadmap on time. Is this because they just haven't 'decided' to play hardball?
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by gress 12y ago
It's always depressing to see casual dismissals based on the just-world fallacy and misrepresentation.
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by gress 12y ago
How is this not just a reflection of the fact that Risk scores include zip code as part of the calculus? The conclusion could equally well be 'As a distinct factor, neighborhood influences risk score by 1.5 points'
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by gress 12y ago
People have been saying Google+ is dead since it launched.
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by gress 12y ago
It may be a good move, but calling it 'Very Smart' seems like giving them too much credit given that it's really just returning to what everyone else does after the disaster of Google+
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by gress 12y ago
That would be a reasonable course of action for Google to take.
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by gress 12y ago
Where are these agnostic APIs?
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by gress 12y ago
How does it not? Operating in more than one country doesn't somehow exempt you from laws.
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by gress 12y ago
'Wise' seems a bit over the top. Generous and positive spirited might be a better way to characterize it. I am curious what such a representative could offer that would not be better in a produced video distributed by Apple?
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by gress 12y ago
The alternative you suggest would be better for a tiny number of highly sophisticated users, and a lot worse for most people. Also, I see no reason both shouldn't exist. Why not make the thing you want?

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