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by gress 11y ago
The focus on costs indicates precisely the concern about the ongoing strength of the advertising business.
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by gress 11y ago
For this day, they can feel good, but this is a signal that Page is facing the fact that the search advertising business may have hit the limits of growth or even be in jeopardy well before they've managed to develop another business.
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by gress 11y ago
They could all be open sourced. Google chooses not to open source them in order to control the platform and develop leverage over their partners.
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by gress 11y ago
That would create a lot more jobs for copyright attorneys whose job it would be to create byzantine licensing schemes and aggressively bully people to stop valuable copyrights from being deemed to have become a cultural property.
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by gress 11y ago
Why do you bring this up? Do you think my comment involved taking a side?
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by gress 11y ago
You make it sound as though being easily manipulated by people with a lot of resources is a character flaw, rather than a characteristic of all humans throughout history. It is unlikely (and maybe even undesirable) that we are going to be a
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by gress 11y ago
They are pedantic if they don't affect usability significantly, and to determine that one needs to know whether users are impacted - not whether they conform to a principle.
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by gress 11y ago
it suggests that jail doesn't reduce crime.
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by gress 11y ago
This is basically clickbait designed to capitalize on the new service. With zero observation of what people want and how they experience it, he conducts a dry and pedantic assassination of the UI. I've talked to 4 regular users today a
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by gress 11y ago
True, but pointing out multiple interpretations adds nothing unless you can tell us about the other factors. What are they?
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by gress 11y ago
It has been rising in the U.S. and Europe. I imagine you're pretending you didn't know that, but it's not clear why.
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by gress 11y ago
> The Internet has already redistributed earth shattering quantities of wealth in record time. Given that inequality has been steeply rising, you must mean that it has redistributed wealth further from the poor to the rich.
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by gress 11y ago
Ok, I think it's reasonable to accept this. However one could equally well describe these open source browsers, as browsers funded by Google and Apple. Perhaps that's why they are outliers.
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by gress 11y ago
Today, no open source browser is clearly more featureful and functional than the closed source alternatives, so seems like a transient aberration rather than a canonical example.
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by gress 11y ago
Nobody is arguing that it's ok. Only that it is necessary. Edit: I'm referring to spying, not torture.
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by gress 11y ago
What is the example web browser?
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by gress 11y ago
Yes - and most people user UberX
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by gress 11y ago
Google announces me too...
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by gress 11y ago
Is this anything more than just a knee jerk 'us too' response to Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles?
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by gress 11y ago
An artist like Taylor swift, you mean, worth $300M?
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by gress 11y ago
Sure but that's easily fixed by stipulating that ad supported services are not eligible for the payout.
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by gress 11y ago
This is simply false. Apple's deal shares more revenue with the artists than any other service. Therefore if users adopt Apple Music, the artists will get more in aggregate. http://recode.net/2015/06/15&#x2F
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by gress 11y ago
By your logic, Apple should pay for the music and give it away free since they are the ones who will benefit. But that means that if revenues rise as a result of the new service, Apple should keep all the extra profit rather than sharing it
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by gress 11y ago
So you are asserting that Apple isn't facing serious competition in the music space.
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by gress 11y ago
Pay-per-use would be far better for developers making deep apps that people actually use regularly than those making trivial 99c apps that are discarded quickly. Currently, an app like Omnioutliner or Clear that improves a person's p
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by gress 11y ago
We aren't meant to have bosses, but we are social animals who are meant to work in groups. Groups often do need leaders who are able to synthesize a path that is mutually beneficial and help people to work in concert. The problem is
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by gress 11y ago
Can you explain why that wouldn't be a great deal for app developers? I develop iOS apps, and I'd love it if apple moved to a pay for use model. I care about a world where the most useful apps are rewarded.
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by gress 11y ago
This is false. The Apple money is invested in other companies.
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by gress 11y ago
Except that there is vigorous competition in this market. Amazon and Google, Spotify, RDIO are all hailed as innovating on how we buy music. Apple is simply updating its service to respond to consumer demand.
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by gress 11y ago
Ownership isn't measured by the ability to do what you want with something. It's the exclusive right to do what you want with something. Apple's music licenses do not prevent artists or labels from selling their music elsewh

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