lawdawg

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by lawdawg 14y ago
From my xoogler and googler friends, its the best big company you could possibly work for, and better than 95% of the medium/small companies as well. Obviously its not a perfect fit for everyone, but for most it is.
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by lawdawg 14y ago
There was a huge (and costly) marketing campaign for the Lumia 800/900, and that resulted in very few sales. The problem isn't the amount of marketing (as WP and Apple can both attest to), its the product. Average users just aren't intere
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by lawdawg 14y ago
People seem to think its fine to walk out of an interview early ... but how do they feel if the interviewer ends the interview early, or your "full day" of interviews is cut to just 1 or 2 hours because they just didn't think it was a good
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by lawdawg 14y ago
i was referring more to the Samsung phones that run 2.2 or 2.3. The ones that run 4.0 and 4.1 cost the exact same as the iPhone, so people who buy phones like the SG3 (and 6 months ago, the SG2) are doing so because they CHOSE Android, not
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by lawdawg 14y ago
and people act like all Samsung did was copy. You realize they wouldn't be the most successful Android OEM if they didn't do their own innovation as well. And no, people aren't rushing out the buy Samsung phones because they look like iPh
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by lawdawg 14y ago
3 months? I think your math is a bit off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(original) - June, 2007 vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_i7500 - June, 2009
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by lawdawg 14y ago
When I see this image from the article: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/Windows-Live-Wr... I have to ask myself, how can anyone think this: 1. Looks good. 2. Is ideal usage of screen real estate. And even this: http://www.ha
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by lawdawg 14y ago
and all those phones have pinch to zoom. Just because Microsoft and Apple are colluding to avoid suing each other doesn't mean that an OS like WP is somehow the solution.
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by lawdawg 14y ago
I dunno man, stuff like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwwWqRV2RsI Makes me think its just a matter of the younger generation not having the money to buy a car. They spend it all on smaller, indulgent purchases and fail at saving
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by lawdawg 14y ago
I have one word for you, chromium. Feel free to build your own browser using Chromium as the base if you are worried about Google. You don't even have to market it, just use it for your own personal enjoyment!
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by lawdawg 14y ago
Sounds about right, and similar to what happened between Google's real-time search and Twitter. Guess no one should be surprised about this happening if work with Twitter ...
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by lawdawg 14y ago
considering the gmail results are hidden and require clicking on a link to show them, its not much different than opening up your friends email now is it?
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by lawdawg 14y ago
The $120/mo plan is incredible for what you get, considering 1TB on Google Drive is normally $50/mo. So jealous ...
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by lawdawg 14y ago
So your basis for "marketing share growing" is a Comscore report based on a survey in the United States ? The only way you would know how many WP are sold is you work on certain parts of WP at Microsoft. I know someone who does, and, alt
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by lawdawg 14y ago
Globally, WP isn't large enough yet to register on Statcounters global metrics, but: * In NA, 1.0% to 0.97% drop from May to June: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-na-monthly-201106-20120... * In Europe, 1.23% to 1.36% rise from May t
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by lawdawg 14y ago
My interpretation as to why they went with Windows Phone: 1. The $$$, it's hard to turn down more than $1 billion dollars in a year (and probably more per device sold). Just makes the stupid gamble harder to turn down. 2. Nokia can sti
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by lawdawg 14y ago
I get both an IM on Google Talk and notification on my phone ...
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by lawdawg 14y ago
Just saw this: "Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation will be available only on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later" Pretty disappointing. http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/maps/
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by lawdawg 14y ago
Actually, I find it somewhat concerning that advertisers can see the exact profile page of those clicking on their ads. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
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Zynga's stock drops 13% during Facebook IPO, trading halted(thenextweb.com)
4 points by lawdawg 14y ago|0 comments
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by lawdawg 14y ago
A couple of things: 1. The "marketshare" that is referenced by Kantar is new sales marketshare, not overall marketshare. Its an important difference to point out. 2. Even with these gains in WP, iOS and Android are seeing similar absolu
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by lawdawg 14y ago
I think people are also conveniently forgetting that the first Windows Mobile reboot was ACTUALLY the Kin. Its funny to look back at it now, but the Kin cost Microsoft 2 years as well as a ton of talented engineers. Just imagine what thing
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Introducing The New Bing: Spend Less Time Searching, More Time Doing (bing.com)
93 points by lawdawg 14y ago|46 comments
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by lawdawg 14y ago
you obviously didn't follow along during jury selection. Anyone with any software/engineering background was excused from the jury. The current jury has no technical knowledge whatsoever.
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by lawdawg 14y ago
apparently it is not question #4, which leads to a few possibilities: 1. Unanimous on question 1, and therefore question 4 as well. 2. question 1 is the one they are still debating, and therefore haven't even considered #4. Regardless,
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by lawdawg 15y ago
which free service (or service that pays you money, ala AdSense) has a better approach to customer service? Honestly curious because I hear a lot of complaints about Google, but I have a feeling that Facebook, Bing/Microsoft, etc aren't an
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by lawdawg 15y ago
More confirmation that what tech bloggers and the valley elite think is far removed from what the average consumer thinks. Except Facebook, everyone hates facebook.
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A rare look into one of Google's Search Quality meetings(youtube.com)
7 points by lawdawg 15y ago|0 comments
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by lawdawg 15y ago
Probably because WP7/7.5 phones will not be upgraded to WP8. Why waste money marketing a device that will effectively "go away" this October when WP8 is released? Microsoft has already decided to invest heavily in WP so it makes much more
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by lawdawg 15y ago
i agree with not feeding the troll, but its a good opportunity to make other clear statement regarding the privacy policy and the tools available to control your data on Google. The latter is really helpful to the consumer so they understa

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