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by hop 16y ago
"Apple claims 30% just for being there." They created the iPad, they created the App Store. Where was the NYT et al when the canvas was blank? Also what is the cost for digital delivery versus print? And all publishers surely can have a web
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by hop 16y ago
It would be one thing if it was a book review. This is a product pitch page for $99/month SEO monitoring software. A post I would like to see is how a minimal amount of search engine knowledge + Google analytics can help you more than a $11
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by hop 16y ago
One difference is its all private equity. These companies are not IPOing yet. There isn't a mad dash by the masses to buy tech stocks (or buy and flip their houses for that matter.) All these gains and losses are pretty well contained by ve
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Gizmodo's complete redesign: A textbook example of how not to do it.(reddit.com)
3 points by hop 16y ago|2 comments
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by hop 16y ago
Interesting they are building the chip fab in Austin - maybe they will be moving more manufacturing to the US. Must be more convenient too since Apple is designing the silicon. Edit: Silicon, not livestrong bracelet material.
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by hop 16y ago
$500M spent to buy Danger in 2008 plus assumption of debt and the $260M write down they later took on discontinuing the Kin in 2008. So probably around $.75B - that is still a ton of phone licenses they would need to sell to recoup. And tha
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by hop 16y ago
At $8-$15 per license they are charging, thats $16-$30M. They still have some ground to make up on the $1B or so dropped on the Kin. Does not seem like this can ever be a profitable business for them - especially compared to the $149-$499 t
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by hop 16y ago
Can this play from a NAS or folders outside iTunes? And I'm pretty sure it will, but does it play a range of other filetypes - mkv, etc?
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by hop 16y ago
If the businesses were worried about cash flow, I think the 75% haircut would be the bigger issue. Also, they will likely be pre-paid for a large percentage of their Groupon patrons (I have many I haven't used from months ago) and not ever
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by hop 16y ago
He is supposedly collaborating with Walter Issacson for an autobiography.
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by hop 16y ago
Pilot only waited 12 minutes and could probably make some/all of that up in the air. But you are right, 2 hours waiting in line is bullshit.
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by hop 16y ago
HFT has a negligible effect on long term investors anyways, its all on the the underlying company.
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by hop 16y ago
Magnetic cards will surely be around for a long time, but the second NFC comes out on the iPhone 5 (or 6), which Apple has hired a lot of NFC engineers for, I think it will be the thing to have for all merchants. And many do already - my Bo
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by hop 16y ago
All smartphones will have NFC chips in the next year or two which will allow payments from your phone. I see a much bigger future in small merchants using that than a card swipe via audio port, but maybe Square will have an NFC solution as
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by hop 16y ago
They should have businesses accounts pay $100/year, honor system with a badge or something if you have paid (your company would look really bad if it didn't), and they could make a ton without having to do much.
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by hop 16y ago
Really wish Steve could expand beyond the soundbyte and go deeper into how they hire, manage, do product dev, etc. Very much looking forward to the biography he is supposedly working with Walter Isaacson on.
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by hop 16y ago
A good product design, those renderings are eye candy for tech blogs to repost, a great video, and people love rooting for the small guy. It's almost... why wouldn't it get a ton of press.
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by hop 16y ago
Some much better DIY bike chains: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/diy_bicycle_tire_ch... These could probably be improved further by ditching the zip ties for something reusable like velcro.
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by hop 16y ago
For a smaller company, divying it up per month can help with cash flow.
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by hop 16y ago
If they charged $65/month, rather than $795, I bet they would have 10x more customers for this. How many people would buy cable if it was $1000/year, ditto for cell phones, Basecamp, Salesforce, etc. A little pricing psychology can make a m
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by hop 16y ago
And compound interest.
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by hop 16y ago
Its a historical quote from Ernest Shackleton when he was recruiting the crew for infamous 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition with ads in London newspapers that read: MEN WANTED: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long
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by hop 16y ago
A tabbed browser handles this pretty well. I would certainly not want a co-mingled stream of friends updates mixed with personal and business emails in one super aggregator. Seems like they are huntinging for a solution to a non-problem. I
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by hop 16y ago
They need a better value prop than unlimited bandwidth or storage limits - those are near the bottom of the list of importance for a small-time eCommerce site.
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How hackers can help defeat Wall Street(marketwatch.com)
2 points by hop 16y ago|0 comments
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by hop 16y ago
2.5 years in jail for a DDoS attack seems disproportionately steep. He made a few websites temporarily inoperable, sounds more on the level of a bad prank than a felony with jail time on par with armed robbery.
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by hop 16y ago
A friend in college was accused of something worse, luckily witnesses (her friends) and a video camera proved otherwise and she finally admitted the truth to the police two months later. No jail time for her lying, but this guys whole life
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by hop 16y ago
Who was their PR agency and what is the ballpark fee to coordinate a launch like this?
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by hop 16y ago
Thats not true, customs agents, TSA and Air Marshalls are all definitely trained to look for anything suspicious and/or fits a rough potential terrorist profile. Coming back from the Pakistan/Afghanistan, having a live round you carried on
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by hop 16y ago
Wonder what the cut Groupon makes on these, doubt it can be 50ish percent like the deal of the days are. This company almost has a license to print money, I wonder how long it can last.

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