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by msabalau 10y ago
There doesn't appear to be any justification given for the eight posts selected for analysis. Given that nearly everything fails, choosing seven well recognized successes and one started that scaled quickly but failed seems an interes
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"totally choked off from growth" among iPhone users--other smartphones exist.
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Virtual Reality Can Leave You with an Existential Hangover(theatlantic.com)
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Perhaps the elephant in the story is that with 35 million smartwatches sold, ever, compared to 1.4 billion smartphones sold globally this year, smartwatches simply don't matter.
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FDA orders Scanadu to end support for its Scout device and customers are mad(techcrunch.com)
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Google shipped me a replacement Nexus 5 for free after I broke the screen dropping it. I wouldn't have even called on an issue that so obviously my fault, but there had been reporting that Google was replacing phones in these instance
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Cops kill about 1000 people a year in America. But evidently the problem is that people don't always and at every moment keep them on a pedestal.
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Southern New Hampshire is within commuting distance of Boston, and has reasonable variety of the type of jobs you'd expect to see about a hour or two away from a major metropolitan area--also there are still some farmland being convert
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US defence spending as share of GDP is in broad terms stable, and lower than the 50s and 60s, so the basis of saying the policy can't be maintained indefinately is unclear. Of course, US spending could have been even lower still if we
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Unfortunately, it does seem likely that "Make America Athens losing the Peloponnesian War (again)" is the policy objective. If one wanted to look on the bright side, there's a chance that "I am a master businessman who c
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Traditionally designers have been Apple's strongest supporters. But there has been a fair bit of grumbling about Apple abandoning power users in favor of consumers and an iOS focus. If Apple isn't inclined to make investments in
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And, no doubt, there is a fixed overhead of dealing with with Swedish customers that is spread out over far fewer consumers than in the US.
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There 50 million domestic workers in the world: living, breathing, naturally intelligence, autonomous human beings that people welcome into their homes. Not surprising, given that during almost the entirety of our evolutionary experience e
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German officials reply to VW scandal FIO request with work of art:(blog.fragdenstaat.de)
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VR photographs can be both be captured and viewed on a smartphone. Big screen playback of YouTube and Netflix through a smartphone would offer a much better experience than watching a limited selection of titles on a postcard sized screen o
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To drive adoption, you need an app that people want to use over over, not just marvel at, or play for a couple of hours. It seems personal big screen video content has the chance to be that breakthrough app, and daydream seems a lot cozier
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To be fair, this is slightly less lame than Glass, where even the published developers were prohibited from making money by either charging for the app or advertising.
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"But if the behavior has addictive qualities, can drivers really be expected to police themselves?" the article asks, nearly at it's end. Not answering it, of course, because if drivers actually are responsible for their act
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Phone Makers Could Cut Off Drivers. So Why Don’t They?(nytimes.com)
12 points by msabalau 10y ago|61 comments
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They literally took the feature of glass that people found creepy and made a product out of it.
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If you think you can't use technology to innovate on the business model, you don't understand innovation.
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A good bit of news to dropped out just before the weekend, heading into the first presidential debate.
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A high-level editor at a top tech blog secretly worked for Apple for months(businessinsider.com)
6 points by msabalau 10y ago|2 comments
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Given that 46% of the population of Toronto are immigrants, presumably many, many people disagree with you about the attractiveness of the city as a place where you pack up and move to seek fame and fortune.
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Given that the column notes that only 0.6% of visitors comment, but that the costs can run to twice what is budgeted, they seem to explicitly and transparently acting on that you mistakenly claim are being hidden by "bogus" argume
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Oh, so there is free movement of foreign medical staff to the US, so that medical professionals have to compete on the same basis as a working class manufacturing employees?
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A weak pound makes british products more affordable to foreign consumers,which should partially mitigate the trade deficit.
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It is, of course, true that Apple has a perfect legal right to choose the content they make available through their platform. At the same time, if they chose to exercise that right to promote games about slaughter while excluding games abou
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Vagina Video Game Devs: Apple Asked Us to Change Everything for App Store(kotaku.com)
1 points by msabalau 10y ago|1 comments
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I do. It has enough users to be a good place to follow specialized communities and topics of interest. I think of it as a long form version of Twitter. Neither Twitter nor G+ have the ubiquity serve Facebook's purpose of collecting e

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