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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Don't know why this is getting downvoted - it's a legitimate (albeit rhetorical) question highlighting that China has never allowed western companies to compete fairly in their market. See: Google, Facebook, etc. etc.
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
China doesn't allow western companies to operate freely in their country, so why should US shoulder the blame here?
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> They made money, they invested it in better mapping technology. That’s the part that is illegal and anticompetitive: they didn’t make money from Maps to reinvest to create a better product. Rather, they invested revenue from other diff
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Actually yes - if you look at articles at the time, Mapquest was leading the antitrust charge against Google because the latter had JUST launched and yet was surfacing above Mapquest in rankings. And when GMaps first started, it wasn’t the
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> Having said that, I still prefer GSuite to Office. Microsoft has set the bar very low indeed. Depends upon which pieces. You can pry Excel from my cold, dead hands; OneNote is still an amazing piece of software that is getting pretty s
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
how/why did this fall off the first page after barely an hour?
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Discord raises $100M at $3.5B valuation(theverge.com)
15 points by s3r3nity 6y ago|8 comments
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Just more proof that Google needs to acquire companies to compete: - Phones? Google buys Motorolla and HTC's smartphone division. - Watches? Google buys Fitbit and Fossil (the smartwatch side) - AR? Google buys North I don't know
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
I think it's the latter, but it is also an under-reported aspect of Tim Cook's regime: a focus on sustainability. They have a whole page on their site about their efforts [1], including how they had to invent new materials and pro
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
>How much of that is in US/EU users, though? I wouldn't be surprised if most of the growth is in other regions. I agree, but it's not that surprising given how strongly Facebook has dominated the North American market. In
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> The google home devices CANNOT get your calendar from your google calendar. My Alexa device can easily. This drove me nuts with my Nest Minis until I tried out Apple's Homepod. People hate on Apple for moving slow in the "co
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
This is why I've switched to Apple Maps for like 98% of my navigation needs. I might be biased, because I live in one of the cities with the updated maps data, sure, but I find that it handles most of my use cases just as well as Googl
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Where are the numbers on youth disengagement? Last I checked and from what they’ve said in investor calls, daily active users are still (!!) growing. If I were a streamer that gets $ from donations, I should really target 18+ anyway, who ar
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
You're making their main revenue stream more costly - why wouldn't they instead double down more investment to make it _more_ efficient to get your data so that they recoup those margins? They might diversify a bit (which they alr
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> would making it a bit more expensive lead to nobody bothering to collect all my information? No In all respect, this is a really naive view of the ad tech marketplace. The only thing that would do what you're saying is legislation
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> it’s also a cesspool or horrible people sharing horrible ideas. I tend to follow Voltaire's ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.' I agree with your assessment of the quality of i
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
So this is just Google Collections, which already existed? [1] Why did you need to create yet another new app for something you already do - just focus on improving the existing product. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> If Apple decides to raise the price of all the apps on its store tomorrow, what can you do? Funny enough, I was going to argue that you don't _have_ to use Apple, but you're absolutely right on the switching costs, and is a c
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> For all of Pinterest's faults, at least their branding is such that most people don't see it as a generic giant corporation. There's also a general faith that Pinterest will actually keep their service open in a few year
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> They didn't have a monopoly either - and you don't need one to run foul of anti-trust laws. Not quite true - there are many examples of a monopolistic market where smaller players will leverage anti-competitive tactics that a
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
As I read more articles about the situation, I'm starting to come around on the idea that it _is_ possible. Nevertheless DHH and the team are pretty experienced for me to immediately buy into that theory. Yet, let's say this were
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
>trillion dollar app monopolies that Google and Apple have setup. How does Apple have a monopoly? They only own 25% mobile market share globally.[1] [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwid
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Basecamp knew what they were doing here - there's no way they can be in the wrong by the community, which comes off as disingenuous to me. They either: 1) win, and are seen as "David beating Goliath" , or 2) lose, and Apple c
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
You're probably getting downvoted for discussing Project Veritas (which is a silly reason for downvoting IMO) but your point is still accurate: these companies are defnitely running models to create probabilistic identity models in the
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
>...the same IP address. In my experience in adtech, not only can Google do this pretty accurately, but other third parties as well (e.g. DMPs and the like.) Even if they couldn't make a deterministic association, they have enough d
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
>But we're in a slump to say the least. I don't know what this "we" is to which you refer, as Google's Q1 2020 revenue outpaced Wall Street estimates by 3-4%, and shares have increased 6% since their last earning
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Google now shows Play Store ads in Chromebook search bar(imgur.com)
3 points by s3r3nity 6y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Yes, because I'm sure you're the exact same person you were in high school / college, and that everything you did 15 years ago will be held as an unwavering standard of who you are as a person. /sarcasm (Nevertheless you
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
This isn't a vote of support for FB, but I've said it before and it bears repeating: you are naive if you think you _can't_ do this today. There are companies doing this pretty well (ex: DMP's, or "data management p
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MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions decisions(mitadmissions.org)
427 points by s3r3nity 7y ago|453 comments

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