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by s3r3nity 8y ago
I'm curious: are there any supporters of the copyright regulations around HN that can provide some thoughts on the "pro" side of this? I'm trying to get my head around both sides of the argument, and I just can't se
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
Wow - Services grew 27% year-on-year to $10bn! For comparison, AWS made about $6.8bn in Q3. That's bananas. And it's more than just Apple Music / iCloud storage; it's the "ecosystem lock-in" and the glue that k
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
That, and the "Chief Diversity Officer" push, after Apple rejected a similar push from some shareholders / employees.
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
I'm really impressed that they made a number of environmental friendly additions, though they haven't been played up as much: - LED display is mercury-free - No arsenic - No BFR or PVC etc.
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Evernote has a new CEO(techcrunch.com)
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
I think you misunderstood my argument - apologies for not being clearer. There is a difference between a company's _incentives_ to do something that is permitted by law - for which I would agree that said company is worthy of criticism
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
I'm not sure I agree that it IS hypocrisy: if you want to operate in a place for business, and you have no choice (i.e. my point about Apple's Board + Shareholders,) you can rail against the policies in public as much as possible
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
I struggle with Apple's China situation as well, but the more I turn it over in my head, the more I think it's that Tim is pulled between two parties: 1) His team + Apple Directors that I firmly believe, both in words AND in their
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
Mapquest and Yahoo Maps were the dominant mapping platforms until Google Maps removed competitor links in the search results. [1] Google during this time was pushing for "universal search," which would break away from vertical sea
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
Yeah - having some problems myself. https://outage.report/youtube
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
Well that, AND prioritizing their Maps product above better offerings in the marketplace in search results early on in its lifecycle, when it was trying to get scale and data to improve while hurting competitors.
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
It's a reasonable question - but the price can never be truly "free," because there's a cost to investment / build that product - meaning costs are non-zero. Therefore the negative profit in the short-term due to pr
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
This. Samsung has already done deals with Microsoft and Dropbox previously to pre-load their services on some Samsung phones. Imagine if you could buy a "Windows" Android, with Office 365 + bing preloaded and optimized like a Wind
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
> Perhaps it is paid for by things like Maps and YouTube. This is why monopoly rules exist, and why it's not quite so simple. Leveraging strong market position in one market, say search/advertising, to undercut prices in a comp
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
The problem I have with this argument is that it sets up Amazon in a caricature that always makes them look evil and anti-labor: 1) Don't support lowering the minimum wage = Democrats + labor groups hate on you for not paying workers,
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
I'm not sure the data supports this conclusion that "America is losing its edge." VC funding continues to rise as a whole, and the declining share of US VC invested vs. rest of the world is just a trend of a broader portfolio
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
Adobe has a massive DMP ("Data Management Platform.") I recommend taking some time to research DMPs and their place ad-tech ecosystem, if you're not aware about them, and be prepared to shit your pants at what they know about
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
Speak with your wallet - stop buying Apple products. Tim + the shareholders would notice that.
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
Depends upon the software - you can pry Excel from my cold dead hands. G Suite has definitely come a long way, but the Office suite of apps are absolutely the gold standard.
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Microsoft announces new Surface devices(blogs.windows.com)
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
You could've discovered this way back in 1998 by reading Appendix A to Larry & Sergey's Stanford paper: >"The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users"
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
Yeah it's on-brand with Apple's approach for privacy and the like. Plus, the end-game to me seems like tighter integration with Siri and the AI ecosystem they're building.
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
I wouldn't leverage popularity of a service to correlate 100% with its competency - ESPECIALLY when it comes to tech. I think Bing has a marketing / brand problem, as it's been the punch-line of the joke for so long. I person
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
I don't think it's coincidental that this controversy arose at the same time Google is pushing their new "Signals" product in Google Analytics, which leverages customer sign-in data? (Just noticed this today.) https:&#x
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
But taking your logic for whether or not that's ok, then the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal with Facebook should also be considered "cut-and-dry," since the terms and conditions users were accepting meant that the user giv
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3/4 college students report extreme stress, many with 'suicidal thoughts.'(yahoo.com)
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
Ah interesting - I should try this! I'm a huge fan of Mail.app, but my biggest frustration is that the colored flags don't carry to my iPhone (the latter of which only has one color flag in the Mail app.) My other response is that
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
I might be a minority, but I actually like this feature, as it has saved my ass a few times already in terms of replying to emails from my boss / boss's boss, so I'd vote to have it be optional rather than have Gmail remove i
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
The #1 feature I've been looking for is just manual sorting of threads in the inbox and/or folders (via drag-n-drop or the like.) This was such a sneaky-good feature with Mailbox (before Dropbox shut it down) and solves a bulk of
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
My concern with this is that this will only accelerate the probability that Amazon Go merges with Whole Foods to have a cashier-free experience. >Shoppers, however, have saved millions as a result of the shake-up. This is why you're

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