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Google's Open Hand and Closed Fist(blog.byjoemoon.com)
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Ask HN: Soulver for Windows?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yes, exactly, but i'm not an IOS user. Even a Web client would be nice.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Honestly, even the sushi restaurants example is questionable to me. I think a better algorithm would check to see what/what kind of restaurants I liked in the past, compare that with other people with similar taste, and give me a suggestion
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It's obvious that FB would want to enter the search market, and the post doesn't even mention the biggest reason: search ads are more valuable than social ads. And I think the obvious reason for that is: Ads on a social network are basicall
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A Different Kind of GUI(blog.byjoemoon.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
And it hopefully also means that Google will feel some more urgency about iterating, too. And maybe even some incentive to figure out a better way to deal with pseudonyms. They seem to have lost plenty of good will and not a small number of
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I also disagree with Arrington on the Touchpad, but Gruber and other Apple acolytes' disregard for high-volume low-margin markets seems misplaced. Yes, Apple makes a lot of money by tailoring devices for high profit margin markets. That's c
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Microsoft asks for import ban on Motorola smartphones(techcrunch.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
But they did add the new top navigation bar. And I'm sure adding Google+ to that list of send to items is not as simple as it sounds. Because Circles is the best new feature of G+, so there's at least one more step to sending something to G
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by joebadmo 15y ago
The constant tense changes were very distracting. And he forgot the part where he writes an almost poignant blog post making fun of hipsters while (hopefully) ironically describing how you're not a hipster unless you make fun of hipsters. N
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yes, advice can indeed be "be disruptive", just as good advice includes "do it right" (which far too many don't and know it). If you're saying that there are people who know they're doing it wrong, but keep doing it wrong anyway, I don't
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by joebadmo 15y ago
And Innovator's Dilemma was written like fifteen years ago. I'm pretty sure anyone at any position of authority understands the concept. That's not what stops large companies from being disruptive. It's fear, bureaucracy, risk aversion, a
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by joebadmo 15y ago
John Siracusa explained on an episode of his podcast that part of the reason long-time Mac users experience so much schadenfreude about PCs and PC market share is that Mac users have felt like the persecuted minority despite being advocates
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by joebadmo 15y ago
If the charge is that Samsung hardware is so close to Apple's that it would fool a normal reasonable person, isn't doctoring images sort of a tacit admission that it's not? I mean, if you really believed it to be true, why would you bother
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I don't read Mueller or Groklaw that much, and never did until recently, but when I do, it comes off to me as Mueller trying to sound dispassionate and hide his biases against certain parties, while contributing mostly FUD. Whereas Grokla
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Intellectual Ventures started as a sort of patent pool for small inventors, at least purportedly. The idea was, as a small inventor, you could pay IV or, I think, contribute patents, or some combination of both, and IV would protect you fro
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Hm. I thought this was the most interesting part: The Journal said Rubin was a "central player" in the deal, though Google hasn't commented on the specifics of how the deal was done. Maybe it's not Larry Page who wants to be Steve Jobs. E
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Google, Motorola, and Patents(blog.byjoemoon.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'm an admitted Google fanboy, but I think Gruber (along with the other two, generally) is an excellent writer and analyst when he's writing about Apple unrelated to any other company. And since it's pretty undisputable that Apple is one of
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Wow, really? Which parts, exactly? I'm genuinely curious, as someone who's been a Windows user for basically his entire computing life.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
So the images Apple supplied to German courts showed the Samsung hardware altered in the following ways: 1. Aspect ratio changed to be identical to iPad. 2. Samsung logo removed. Also, they show the app drawer screen instead of the default
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MMI had $3.1B in cash. Better deal for Google.(seekingalpha.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think it's more the case that Google has to fight both sides of this: acquire patents for defense in the short term, lobby congress for patent reform in the long term. I think long long-term, the friction of the patent system goes against
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I have the same fears as you, but maybe a little less because I really don't think Google's interested in the hardware business as such. The reason they started down the android road in the first place was so they wouldn't get locked out of
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by joebadmo 15y ago
To make a broad point without going into details about patent quality: Nortel: $4.5B / 6,000 patents = $750k per patent. Motorola: $12.5B / 14,300 patents = $856,164.38 per patent. Plus 6,700 patents pending. Plus a hardware company. There
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Disclaimer: I am a Google fanboy. I am as unhappy about this development as anyone. I don't understand the insistence on real names, not just because I think it's wrong, but I just don't understand what the motivation is. What's the upside?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I disagree. By that logic, math should be just as patentable as hardware, or hardware should be just as nonpatentable as math. There are distinctions, just not clear or easy to define ones. If you're against software patents but ok with pat
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by joebadmo 15y ago
This is basically a semantic argument for how to classify software. It does a fair job of showing that the difference between software and hardware isn't necessarily distinct, quantitative instead of qualitative. But that's ultimately an ac
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I've also been following some of the discussion on Twitter, and the overrall theme for Nilay seems to be to ask for a citation for any claim he doesn't agree with, e.g. the fairly uncontroversial claim that any non-trivial piece of software

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