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by incosta 15y ago
I am glad you brought Walmart as an example. We soon will have a country full of Walmarts where local stores have no place, which looks the same everywhere you go. Walmart after Walmart. It's all cheap there! Similarly we just may soon have
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by incosta 15y ago
Oh so Google is offering stuff free because it's being nice! Very funny. I guess MS was also then being nice by offering IE for free to everyone? They did it because they were nice, not because they wanted to have everyone who offered non-f
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by incosta 15y ago
You are being naive, by thinking that if Google says it's "open source" it has no leverage with it. "Open source" is a very misleading label Google also uses here. Google owns Android, they make Android - how can anyone break this by modify
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by incosta 15y ago
Google says so. Microsoft was also making a lot of money with its Windows OS back in 1990s, when it packaged a free IE in order to kill Netscape (which was not free). Microsoft was making money on the whole OS and packaged IE with all new d
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by incosta 15y ago
I know exact definition of dumping involves international trade and all that. I used this word not literally, but because it's the closest term to what's happening. Good example on newspapers: what is happening to them (they are dying) is o
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by incosta 15y ago
We can argue about what is fair forever. Some people at Sun (Oracle) can say it's unfair to take Java language they developed and offer it in Android without paying anything to them. And Steve Jobs can say it's unfair to use ideas from iPho
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by incosta 15y ago
With Dell you have a choice of buying a PC with Ubuntu, or Windows, or whatever. Other manufacturers can also do this. Will you be able to use Android phones without Android? No. I don't think your example fits well here. Android OS is the
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by incosta 15y ago
Dumping just means you sell something below the actual cost to kill competition. I don't know what Google plans are, as I said their source of revenue is ads. They want to become the largest player in the mobile market - because they will b
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by incosta 15y ago
Phones are not free, but Google offers Android licenses to phone makers for cheap. This leads to lower prices for phones. Yes, it's dumping because many of these phones are sold below what they actually cost to make if you take software dev
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by incosta 15y ago
So Apple and MS are anticompetitive? Isn't Google being anticompetitive by effectively dumping the Android phones to the world markets (and then boasting how many copies are activated each day?) Google has played this game of offering "free
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by incosta 15y ago
People in your team may not ask this question, but people who are in charge of them do. All the time. Let me ask you a specific question. Google navigation. It's web-based only, right? It requires Internet. It does not work in a rural area
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Russian Search Engine Yandex Surges to $11 Billion Valuation in IPO(mashable.com)
2 points by incosta 15y ago|0 comments
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by incosta 15y ago
I actually had a similar situation more recently (but with mobile apps, not games). Also asked a user to enter program-generated key when making a purchase. I don't think it's a huge problem if you explain where this key is shown inside the
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Tomorrow is 15000 days of UNIX era
2 points by incosta 16y ago|0 comments
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by incosta 16y ago
These predictions come since as long ago as 30 or 40 years ago (check 'The End of Oil' on Amazon: in 2004 when this book was printed, the 'end of oil' was predicted (once again) to happen... in just few years! Did it?) The thing is every ti
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by incosta 17y ago
Since you're (presumably) driving off the highway into an unknown town, my guess is that the first station or two will have more expensive gas, because these stations know there are people coming the same way from the highway who need gas a
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by incosta 17y ago
Not everyone is bursting with ideas all the time. Make enough contacts and meet people. Some travel may help, just like you said, it takes some effort. Don't get me wrong but a relationship can help to get rid of the 'nothing excites me' mo