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by hoi 14y ago
sounds good. would be happy to give it a crack
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by hoi 14y ago
Sounds cool, I used to play an PBM (Play By Mail) game called It's a crime... been waiting for a modern version of this since forever.. ( http://www.kjcgames.com/crime/index.php )
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by hoi 14y ago
Yeah, profits is what I meant. That;s what they are doing using the competitive tax structure of Ireland and recognizing all EU revenue in Ireland instead of the repective countries in which the product is bought. My assumption is that thes
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by hoi 14y ago
With the UK tax figures for several companies including apple, where they only paid approx 2.5% in tax because most of the revenue recognition occurs in Ireland where they pay cheaper corporation tax, I guess this will have an impact for re
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How the arbitage markets predicted the Presidential Race Result(uneasyempires.blogspot.co.uk)
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by hoi 14y ago
I got this on the ZX Spectrum, and it came with one of those plastic converters. There would be a code on the screen and you had to put the plastic thing in front of it to decode the image and type in the letters. To stop people from pirati
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Apple's Samsung statement reprimanded (guardian.co.uk)
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Can Logitech survive in a post PC World?(uneasyempires.blogspot.co.uk)
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20 Practical Soft Skills Everyone Should Learn(lifehack.org)
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How to Profit from Platform Risk(uneasyempires.blogspot.co.uk)
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Why it doesn't make sens for Google to be a Carrier(hoista.net)
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The Forgotten Mapmaker: Nokia Has Better Maps Than Apple and Maybe Even Google(theatlantic.com)
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by hoi 14y ago
Yep, it works, but not easily usable because for non chinese readers, you would have to type the search in English, and then leave the app to switch it to chinese for the taxi driver (and switch it back to English to do your next search).
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by hoi 14y ago
The fault isn;t tomtom's map data, it's all the layers on top that Apple have to add to it. Tom Tom's data (they acquired Teleatlas) is one of the two best resources (the other being Navteq) for map data. How you use the map data is the pro
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by hoi 14y ago
They made another mistake for Hong Kong.. The maps are in English only... many Taxi drivers won't be able to take you where you want because they only know it in Chinese and pointing it out on an English only map doesn't help.
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Apple's Innovators Dilemma(uneasyempires.blogspot.co.uk)
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by hoi 14y ago
Sure, for this guy, who is supposedly a tech guy. But if we consider the 'mass market' we're at the point where we have millions of 'dumb' smartphone users. The people who are used to feature phones are migrating to smartphones, and it's th
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by hoi 14y ago
If they move to the smartphone market they also have to reconfigure their distribution channels. PCs and Printers utilise different sales channels. In the western world, carriers hold the key to sales through subsidies, they can kill produc
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by hoi 14y ago
Maybe they are but they can't get the distribution to hardware or ecosystem to develop apps for it. Most PCs are sold with the OS pre-installed. As for mobile... there is still hopes for plenty of competition. Jolla Mobile being one of the
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by hoi 14y ago
The thing is, you are beginning to 'blame the user' because they 'don't get it'. Isn't the purpose is that there isn't anything to get? It should 'just work' with minimal thinking, with no frustration. It doesn;t matter that Kanji is enable
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by hoi 14y ago
There isn't an easy way to assess unless you put values on it. What's it worth? What's the difference in job satisfaction worth? What is the value of the extra time from not commuting worth? This can be broken down into the likely activitie
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Ask HN: Does Lean Start Up cause MVP inflation?
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by hoi 14y ago
Is it a case of HTML5 is a future disruptor, providing platforms don't try to subdue it in preference to Native? A good example is in mobile tech where a lot of apps that used data pre 3G performed poorly because the underlying technologica
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by hoi 14y ago
Usually a founder steps back when there's either disagreements about the roadmap/path or if they realize that the product/company will not become as successful as they though it would be.
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4 Ways That AT&T Screwed All Carriers with the iPhone(hoista.net)
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The General State Of E-Commerce Checkouts(uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com)
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How Not to Get Copied by China: 2 Important Tips for Developers(techinasia.com)
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Paypal, Reddit and The Power Of Fakin’ It(platformed.info)
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Student ‘Interns’ Forced to Build Apple iPhone 5 (techinasia.com)
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Chinese Knockoff Maker Reportedly Copies, Patents iPhone 5 Design(wired.com)
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