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by ok_craig 14y ago
I think the imaginary problem he meant was searching without being "tracked." The vast majority of users simply don't care. The ones who do can get around it.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
How is the email not a visible effort to communicate what's happening to the customers?
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by ok_craig 14y ago
This reminds me of a similar BBC article, The myth of the eight-hour sleep. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I understand. I'm just wondering if he put himself in that position or if someone else did.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
This makes me wonder - who at Apple decided it was necessary to make their own maps app? It's easy to blame Forstall for a crappy product. But if someone else was responsible for mandating the change, assigning him the project, and pushing
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I own a Galaxy Nexus, and I dislike the pentile display. The nexus 7, which has the same resolution but is 2" larger, appears sharper. The pentile display also causes noticeable grain (to me) on solid colors.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Android is Linux-based, so... yeah. It runs pretty well on touchscreen type devices.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I don't really think that's true at all. Google just generates the most newsworthy headlines. The same trend can be found on many other sites. I think TechCrunch once posted an analysis of their headlines that showed something like a 3:1
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Depends on the kind of pants you wear. My Nexus 7 fits in the pockets of my shorts and they're average size. (I tested just to see once. I don't carry it that way. :)
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Wouldn't it take a lot less effort to just disable notifications once, rather than make sure you're signed out of Google every time you use it?
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I think that what he means is, if you're on G+ and you go to Google, there's already a link to your G+ profile at the top for you. You just click it, instead of searching. And then if you want to find something specific maybe you do the s
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Still seems to be just a rather clear distinction between being in a movie or not being in a movie, regardless of significance of the part or role played. To me this doesn't seem like a flaw.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
There's one thing I don't understand about the mystery of dark matter. I don't understand why the simple explanation for it isn't just that it's regular matter that is not stars. Maybe there are just bajillions of planets and dust clouds
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by ok_craig 14y ago
And they wouldn't necessarily be wrong in doing so.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
"Don't be evil" doesn't mean sit back and get sued to oblivion by your competitors like a selfless martyr.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I'm pretty sure with Google you can link up to 10 accounts, and you can have as many Gmail windows open as you want for various accounts that are linked. So if you want five different Gmail tabs open at the same time, just link the account
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Alternatively, Gmail users potentially gain from the talent acquisition. Arguably, the win could be greater than the loss.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Unless Sparrow had a guarantee that future updates were coming, what you paid for was the software as it existed at purchase time. That's what you got.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
This is kind of a silly comment. Google is only crushing competitors where their services are actually superior. Dropbox still exists and I assume has many more users than Drive. Facebook still exists and is still by far the most success
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I once was a happy iTunes/App Store user, for my iPad. One day, late at night, I started getting receipts in my inbox for App Store purchases. Apparently I was purchasing the same $15 app once every 5 minutes. Except, I wasn't. It was onl
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by ok_craig 14y ago
People often say this. It seems defensive. Basically if the iPhone has higher sales or market share, you can say "Ha, this one phone is beating everything!" And if it's losing in either of those areas, you can say "But it's only one pho
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Imagine an advanced alien civilization many light years from Earth, where awesome and exciting technologies are everywhere. Many of them take the form of personal devices. Maybe there's one that teleports you to another physical location.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I don't disagree with these points, but my personal take is that the primary difference between software patents and other patents is that most things that end up getting patented in software are things that pretty much any programmer may i
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Okay, I thought you were making no distinction between your #2 and #3. But eh, I thought it was kind of cool. The jumping out of planes part didn't help sell the product to me, it was just fun to watch. Brin was so genuinely excited.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
What I mean is, you said these two things back to back: "Steve Jobs never needed to have someone jump out of a plane to get people excited about a product" "I was far more impressed with the Nexus 7 and Jelly Bean than any of the rest of th
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Doesn't that mean Google also didn't need to have someone jump out of a plane to get you excited about a product? It was just a bonus.
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It was cool because it was live streaming from four separate devices at the same time into a hangout, and they were switching views between them live. Impressive that they all somehow had a stable enough internet connection while flying th
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Google has stated very often and very clearly that they're trying to maintain a separation between them and Motorola. They don't want owning Motorola to mess up their relationships with other hardware companies.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Tablets still aren't generally thought of or used as productivity devices, they are viewed and used more as consumption devices. I'm not saying this can't or shouldn't change, I'm just saying this is how it is right now. It seems smart to
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Really? It seems like it made sense and maybe sounded funny for like... two days. Now I kinda like it. I'm surprised that the hate for this name is sticking for so long for that many people.

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