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by idspispopd 14y ago
The files have metadata to help find the source.(Digimarc used to be implemented also.) The meta data is easily removed as is editing out the watermark. However those aren't ever going to be paying customers anyway. When you license stock,
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by idspispopd 14y ago
I have never really understood why stock photo stores insist on aggressive watermarks. They don't help their business, rather the opposite. The number of people who can get by with a low resolution preview image are going to be private user
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by idspispopd 14y ago
Get the reply here: http://ia701206.us.archive.org/6/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.394... The reply is persuasive in sections as to present Apple fostering competition in the eBooks market. (Lots of comparisons to Amazon's dominant position, in
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by idspispopd 14y ago
I generally follow and agree with the gist of your point, it's bad business to shut down people who have invested money into your ecosystem or something that helps sell your product. Fortunately market forces correct this, which is why ther
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by idspispopd 14y ago
I agree they're being dicks(even though we have famously never received a straight-story from Rogue Amoeba), but this is not anti-trust/anti-competitive or monopolistic. To get into the hot water that Microsoft did, you need to have a monop
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by idspispopd 14y ago
Oracle are unlikely to appeal, especially because it was a jury case. >If the jury and judge had ruled that API's were copyrightable, who knows what that could have done to sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and any other site that
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by idspispopd 14y ago
I'm having difficulty digging up the recent data, but here is the 2009 NPD source that shows their 91% share of computers over $1000 http://arstechnica.com/apple/2009/07/apple-nabs-91-of-premiu...
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by idspispopd 14y ago
As you've noted the 'top 10' isn't a good weathervane on what's actually making up the bulk of sales, top 10 is the statistical mode, not the average. The revenue figures for each company paint a clear picture of what their average phone sa
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by idspispopd 14y ago
A note regarding the burial of the above because it's inconvenient: These are the facts, they speak for themselves. The data is the latest from May IDC, and the revenue results are the publicly announced data from the last quarter from both
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by idspispopd 14y ago
The market reality doesn't align with your personal observation, all producers have their high end smartphone, but a simple review of revenue reveals the bulk purchases are cheaper smart phones. Just because your personal view may see a lar
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by idspispopd 14y ago
>Actually, Google engineers are actively making it possible for users to liberate their data: This is already shown to be incomplete, and is basically identical to what Facebook allows the user to extract. The 'hostage' scenario describ
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by idspispopd 14y ago
Thanks for the correction, however I do stand by the original point. Google don't need Motorola as a premium handset producer, and they did try getting into the selling-phones business but it flopped quickly.
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by idspispopd 14y ago
Android isn't bad at all, but you need to understand why it's so popular - it lets just about every phone maker produce incredibly cheap handsets. Despite the iPhone having a 22% share of smart phones it commands a significantly larger perc
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by idspispopd 14y ago
I suspect you're on the money here. Android is open source because Google wants everyone using ad-served google services. Not because google suddenly wants to start making margin on the phone business. (That failed the first time, and they
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by idspispopd 14y ago
If you recall that's actually how Google started in the phone business. It didn't work so open sourcing happened instead. Closing the business to Motorola would simply make it trivial for Apple to walk all over them.
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by idspispopd 14y ago
While I am fully expecting this to be buried (as google is much fawned over.) I'll persist and point out the hypocrisy that I see between how Google paints their competitors and Google's own behaviour. The first hypocrisy is the idea of 'Op
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by idspispopd 14y ago
If you're going into market charging more than everyone else and making a massive profit - it's only possible to have a clear conscience when the consumer is indeed getting something better, and not merely an ordinary design with a higher p
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by idspispopd 14y ago
Although I am not a fan of the fashion, it is indeed possible to create this effect in real life by shooting directly face on from a distance while maintaining orthogonal edges on the sheet. Like any form of forced perspective there are cor
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by idspispopd 14y ago
Just for curiosity sake. What's HN's opinion on Minecraft keeping a regular level of sales into the long term. Noting that it's an ongoing development title (and that's a large part of the continuing appeal.) My observations on /r/minecraft
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by idspispopd 14y ago
Similar to the iOS app, it's a rewrite.
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by idspispopd 14y ago
There are a few historical graphs showing the sales (the wiki keeps track of the various price points too), however I'm yet to find a graph for the whole 3 year period. http://crafthub.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/purchaseandre... Remem
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by idspispopd 14y ago
While the graphics are unremarkable. The aesthetic is largely consistent and pleasing. It's a good example of lending the design to the technical limitations (i.e a cube world) rather than trying to disguise it. The result is a slightly car
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by idspispopd 14y ago
Especially when you consider that Notch split his $3M cash dividend across his staff - I don't know if it was staggered across the roles, but on average it would be roughly $125k a piece.
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by idspispopd 14y ago
Many sample book titles have harsher DRM than the actual purchased title, a little conniving way to entice a sale. Use your frustration to make a case to the publishers against DRM, instead of blaming a single eBook product which isn't even
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by idspispopd 14y ago
I can't help but think they're writing with the Yogventure! kickstarter in mind. The article mentions a "two-man team with a game prototype", an unproven studio, an example of a minecraft-related game costing over 1.2M and much discussion a
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by idspispopd 14y ago
It's a recognised business standard to not store data outside the realm of control. It protects trade secrets, intellectual property and upcoming business plans. Hiring a 3rd party cloud provider fits under this policy, in the same way that
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by idspispopd 15y ago
Roboto is Google's Arial. It's the result of intellectual property licensing. It's pointless comparing Google to Apple here. Apple has learnt that it's more important to license fonts from the legitimate IP holders instead of generating dup
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by idspispopd 15y ago
There are a number of reasons to have stock in a company, the dividend returns are often not a big factor, as the dividends are usually far less than the cost of purchasing the shares. Instead purchasing shares has other benefits, such as c
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by idspispopd 15y ago
With all due respect that bugs are frustrating to deal with. This user couldn't be any more of a prima-donna if they could sing F6. A page dedicated to a completely superficial bug, whose fix will go mostly unnoticed. How about some useful
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by idspispopd 15y ago
In these events they talk about the new features as they're the most recognisable for press, often examples of what some of the new APIs are capable. (Features, which could of course have been programmed to run atop 10.7 Lion.) E.g. growl d

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