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by gujk 15y ago
Sad but true. Keyboard or Market or Launcher or something crashes every day on my N1. These are core OS components on the reference device sold by the platform owner. The ridiculous thing is that these apps relaunch and work fine on the 2n
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by gujk 15y ago
I don't know about the middling phones, but flagship Nexus and iOS phones have been $540 - $600 unsubsidized. For a 2 vs 3 year lifespan (to be generous to Android), you would need a $400 Android to balance a $600 iPhone. You can't compare
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by gujk 15y ago
ICS makes preinstalled apps removable? Even one Google preinstalls, like Maps and Gallery and Twitter?
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by gujk 15y ago
Android has all the drivers it needs. The real difference is that Android systems are locked down in ways more annoying to circumvent than your average Windows OEM junkware install. It is easy to uninstall junkware on Windows, and to pop i
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by gujk 15y ago
What would you do with that 5%? Would you reinvest it if you don't have any consumption needs now? Amazon is reinvesting their earnings. P/E isn't a good metric for a growth stock.
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by gujk 15y ago
Strange, I have heard the opposite. My team at Amazon wrote services on AWS. It must vary a bit across the company.
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by gujk 15y ago
AWS was built in the same datacenters by the same IT engineering team that provided core hardware and networking to the retail website. The top level software APIs were (obviously?) not created before the Amazon retail website. Amazon IT an
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by gujk 15y ago
That's a natural consequence of the evolution from undeveloped territory to settled and densely populated.
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by gujk 15y ago
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
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by gujk 15y ago
I apologize for commenting on a downvote, but what I wrote was a simple and accurate answer to parent's question, with only a mild bit of opinion at the end.
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by gujk 15y ago
Yep. Since I have an MBP, it is engineered to survive more than 4 years (after warranty and class action mandated repairs). Mine is pre-unibody.
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by gujk 15y ago
But depreciation is an expense, yes? So Amazon gets to average their investments for a 7-year rolling window or whatever, not postpone them indefinitely. Unless there is a way to claim that the software/IP has some resale value remotely app
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by gujk 15y ago
You should look at what Wall St did to Amazon's stock price on the 364 days previous to today.
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by gujk 15y ago
It is a document released to the press by Amazon, but it isn't an ad, it is a copy/summary of their official earnings report, plus some ignorable color.
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by gujk 15y ago
You may be surprised. Amazon is expert at "ship now, pay vendors later". In many areas, Amazon maintains a negative layover from when they pay vendors to when customers pay Amazon.
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by gujk 15y ago
Amazon has never said no to paying a dollar of fixed overhead to generate $1.01 in lifetime marginal profit. Amazon is also willing to write down the first 5 years of a product's life as overhead. That is JeffB's genius (along with the abil
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by gujk 15y ago
You really think JeffB is walking around interviewing thousands of individual contributors and line managers, and firing the ones who are nice to each other? Senior management creates a culture for middle management. Middle management decid
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by gujk 15y ago
It can be hard to tease out from the fancy accounting, but marginal profit (that is presumably sustainable) should be distinguished from new investment (which can be stopped if needed) and not just added together to get a profit number. Tha
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by gujk 15y ago
Sony's problem there was that the PS had very expensive parts, so they had a harder choice to make on pricing to be competitive. Nintendo, meanwhile, couldn't keep Wii in stock for more than half a day until something like 2 years after lau
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by gujk 15y ago
Maybe for music, but is that still true for the App Store?
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by gujk 15y ago
HuffPo knows that the population smart enough to do this is a minority. It is interesting that HuffPo bucks the trend of Google-friendly keyword-stuffed headlines, and instead drives for linkbait title to win social media link juice.
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by gujk 15y ago
Tangent: there is a lot of evidence out there for Woz being a saint.
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by gujk 15y ago
A role model is someone who is a model for a role the follower wants to fill. The world doesn't really enter into it, unless the follower is looking to make the world better, as opposed to looking to become fabulously wealthy or inwardly p
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by gujk 15y ago
Isaacson's biography of Ben Franklin is much like you describe. I alternately revered and resented Franklin while I was reading, and took notes to apply to my own life. I would trust the Jobs book to be similar.
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by gujk 15y ago
It is not immediate, but compared to the average person with a matching health profile, it is soon.
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by gujk 15y ago
Don't go overboard there. Jobs had no compunction getting up on stage and making untrue or exaggerated claims to a gullible public. Maybe no more than the average CEO, but no saint. The term "Reality Distortion Field" was invented for Jobs
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by gujk 15y ago
At least 4 of the items on your satirical list have the power to literally save lives from infection, head-on collision, or swordfighting. So, yeah, even "merely incremental" improvements can be world-changing. All Einstein did was add a sm
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by gujk 15y ago
If everyone is evil, then evilness isn't a disqualifying factor from being a role model. A role model has to be emulable.
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by gujk 15y ago
If DDG went mainstream it would probably hit the paid tier for the Google API that generates most of its quality content.
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by gujk 15y ago
Google makes a fortune if you carry an Android phone in your pocket, so they will spend a fortune to create a phone you will put their.

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