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by pb7 4y ago
Stadia was an incredibly impressive technical product. It failed because of terrible product and business vision, not its engineering.
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by pb7 4y ago
Apple has bought back roughly $75B per year since 2018, at least. https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/stock_buyback
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by pb7 4y ago
MSFT is worth about $700B more so should be expected.
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by pb7 4y ago
Apple has bought back roughly $75B per year since 2018, at least. https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/stock_buyback
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by pb7 4y ago
Cloud made money.
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by pb7 4y ago
>Your self-driving cars are stilll bad. Huh? We have Waymo and Cruise, both of which operate a taxi service with no driver in the car in a major city, on top of many other smaller players including Tesla. Waymo has a stellar safety recor
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by pb7 4y ago
>They didn't build an ecosystem more than others, they just made sure to kill any potential competitive ecosystem on the same hardware. How did that work out for Facebook phone or Amazon phone or Microsoft phone or the myriad of oth
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by pb7 4y ago
Pretty embarrassing to admit that the only way Europe can compete is if the US didn’t exist. That’s the whole point, Europe is a hostile place for innovation. Even China found its place in the global market and it was dirt poor just 50 year
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by pb7 4y ago
The US was born out of escaping what Europe was and then eclipsed it in a mere 300 years because Europe is stagnant and spends more time passing laws protecting “culture” than developing the future. What political similarity are you referri
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by pb7 4y ago
You must be a very important person. Better not go to any stores then because they have cameras everywhere that will invade your privacy too.
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by pb7 4y ago
We are living in the most peaceful time in history and one war doesn't change that. You are a victim of media. Try reading Factfulness by Hans Rosling and getting off the internet, it will do you some good.
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by pb7 4y ago
Considering Epic is one of the most exploitative companies that just got slapped with a massive judgment for their dark patterns involving children, of course it was never about consumer freedom for them.
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by pb7 4y ago
It's not abusive to build really good experiences for your customers and it's not a mystery why they don't waste their resources developing for the competition.
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by pb7 4y ago
Without the US there wouldn't be anything to regulate. Maybe we wouldn't be in this situation if Europe was capable of producing innovative companies that would compete with Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft. Instead, it&
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by pb7 4y ago
It was 30% from the beginning. By definition, it was the same cut throughout, not more.
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by pb7 4y ago
Clearly not. See: the results of this case.
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by pb7 4y ago
Who broke anti-trust law? Not Apple.
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by pb7 4y ago
Monopoly != anti-trust. Sounds like we have 12% more to go before we reach precedent.
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by pb7 4y ago
A duopoly isn't a monopoly. Uber and Lyft coexisting is extremely different than just Uber existing, for example. Luckily, it's not even a duopoly since there are other mobile gaming options like the extremely popular Nintendo Swi
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by pb7 4y ago
Kindly, it would help to familiarize yourself with the definition of monopoly: >the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service What is exclusive about 52%?
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by pb7 4y ago
Which are advertising agencies? Meta which owns WhatsApp that Europe is entirely dependent on? Or Google that owns Search, YouTube, and Android that Europe is entirely dependent on? The US could send Europe to the dark ages overnight by tur
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by pb7 4y ago
On top of getting slapped with a judgment for their own exploitative practices. Lots of poor decision making going on at Epic, well deserved decisions all around.
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by pb7 4y ago
It’s still a win to them to have their biggest market not allow side loading or competing app stores.
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by pb7 4y ago
I mentioned it at the end but yeah, probably on par with the others. It "unlocks" all of Latin America minus Brazil and few Dutch/French territories, but even Brazilians speak varying amount of Spanish.
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by pb7 4y ago
I am also originally from Moldova and speak the same 4 languages. If I had to guess, this is fairly common in Moldova -- at least in private schools. I would say there is a very mild advantage, even recognizing vaguely similar words in othe
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by pb7 4y ago
Stock "tanked" 35% from the top after running up for years. It doesn't make the stock component of the compensation zero. Median compensation is >$300K. You could have made your point without making up numbers that are eas
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by pb7 4y ago
>the lowest level of performance evaluation The level that's synonymous with "this was your notice that you should start looking elsewhere because you will be let go in 6 months or less". The bonuses are as guaranteed as y
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by pb7 4y ago
While I empathize, there's a big difference: Meta is a US company so it's going to follow the cultural rules of the US.
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by pb7 4y ago
I don't know, which one? >It's not China. >Any kind of sexually graphic content has long been illegal in China, whether it’s visual or literary.[0] [0] https://www.scmp.com/abacus/news-bites/article
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by pb7 4y ago
Very average? How do you figure that? If you're paying top dollar, which Lyft did for most of its existence, you're going to picking from a pool of the top few percent. Even 1% of all software developers is many times more than Ly

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