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by sami36 14y ago
The price of Google autonomous car's tech : radar, lidars & the litany of sensors & computing power needed to process their data still has a long way to come down to a price that would be palatable to car buyers, say, a 5000 $ optio
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by sami36 14y ago
No
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by sami36 14y ago
if you're a decent game developer, in this age of digital distribution (Steam), you should forgo the whole venture thing & look at Kickstarter. Not only do you get to keep all your equity, you can crowdsource ideas & feature request
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by sami36 14y ago
>..every year is something consumers want... Consumers were pretty happy with PalmOS & Motorola Q until the iPhone came out. We, however, the populace of geeks who inhabit HN, should know better. There are many ways in which Androi
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by sami36 14y ago
Tim Cook's biggest problems so far: Maps,iCloud & iOS. We know he's aware of Maps & fixing it, albeit slowly. iCloud's idiosyncrasies are mostly a developer problem. iOS, though, is getting tired fast & it's highly visible to th
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by sami36 14y ago
The biggest hope for US manufacturing repatriation is robotics. Unfortunately, it's not going to help with our unemployment issues. Even Foxconn made some noise recently about replacing their employees with robots, & if the math works f
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by sami36 14y ago
I agree, but only partially. Many companies thrive on 10% or less operating margins. Amazon, Walmart come to mind. I'm not saying AAPL shouldn't make a profit, I'm saying it's going to have to come down a little. Now, as far as GOOG selling
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by sami36 14y ago
Undoubtedly, Apple will continue to grow & be profitable. The question is whether they'll be able to maintain those fat 40%+ gross margins on their flagship products. I'm a huge fan of Apple but even I would start to question the wisdom
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by sami36 14y ago
There is no longer such a thing as "Instagram," they belong to Facebook now. It's normal they try to distance themselves from Twitter, a competitor. Also, to be fair, Twitter hasn't exactly been an example of openness lately, the way they'r
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by sami36 14y ago
Is anybody seeing irony in the fact that McAfee has become an entity whose suspicious signature (Behavior) has made him a suspect in an event detrimental to his host system (murder) & he's now trying to elude the dragnet laid to catch
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by sami36 14y ago
Thanks, care to share a lil bit more with us .Was that a dead-tree printed publication ? Were you generalists or catering to a niche ?
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by sami36 14y ago
5 million / per year should (conservatively) pay for a staff of ~50. 30 in the newsroom, 10 in software/design, 5 sales, 5 mgmt). if they couldn't make a 100,000 iPad publication work for this kind of budget, they're bloated & should go
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by sami36 14y ago
Apple's stock trajectory over the last few years is nothing short of ridiculous, which is not the case of MSFT's stock.
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by sami36 14y ago
Surface Pro will sell even less than Surface RT. rumored price & battery life are already seriously hampering any lust people might have had for it. If I have 1k to spend, I'd rather get a proper ultra-book.
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by sami36 14y ago
Rest assured, they have a business model in place : Selection Bias, as evidenced by the rise of FoxNews, MSNBC & Glenn Beck's the blaze. With facts & news now getting commoditized, "opinion" & "Analysis" are proving to be lucrat
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by sami36 14y ago
He's been giving so many contradicting & misleading stories about his whereabouts, I would take these latest "news" with a mountain of (bath) salt.
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by sami36 14y ago
Sounds plausible.They couldn't get email to work on the playbook when it was first released. I still have a hard time wrapping my head about how rigid an architecture must be to tie email to a specific device but it seems to be the way they
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by sami36 14y ago
What BBM could & should have been if those geniuses at the helm RIMM had any foresight. Apple made an iTunes version for Windows, Microsoft made Office for Mac. if those two could work past their differences for the sake of serving thei
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by sami36 14y ago
These numbers are mind blowing. So much for the fuss the GOP made about Tesla or Solyndra during the campaign.
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by sami36 14y ago
Why should we ? Google+ does it, Apple does it, Dropbox does it. I've disabled this feature on all of them, but this is hardly new. It's obvious now that social networks have moved past micro-blogging & articles. Pictures are the new
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by sami36 14y ago
In civilian airports equipped with ILS navigation support. Modern commercial aircraft can literally land themselves without human input. As long as runways are properly equipped with the right beacons, automatic landings of drones are not f
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by sami36 14y ago
No, I just remember listening to the investor calls over a couple quarters & she was unable to give a straight answer on either issue ( WebOS, PSG)
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by sami36 14y ago
Not only did Jobs bring with him the trunk of what effectively would become OSX. Within months of his return , Jobs had slimmed down Apple's product portfolio to a handful of products then immediately started executing on that vision. As fl
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by sami36 14y ago
With how much % marketshare ? I don't mean to be snarky but that question is essential to drive home the point on WebOS's current irrelevancy however good or superior it is as a software platform in vacuum. Software is meant to be used &#38
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by sami36 14y ago
The Autonomy debacle aside, what has Meg Whitman accomplished since she took over HP ? After a long tortured process that needn't take so long, she enshrined WebOS's abandonment. And with her at the helm, HP continues to fail to innovate in
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by sami36 14y ago
It really depends on your location. I lived in Dallas, TX for 3 years & it worked just fine for me. I use my smartphone more as a portable computer than for voice, & to me data speeds matter more. AT&T edged out VZ in data throu
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by sami36 14y ago
Things changed dramatically after Tim Schaefer managed to raise 3 Mil $ for double fine adventure in Feb 2012. Since then, many games managed to raise above 1 Mil $, 9 actually per Kickstarter stats. Star Citizen, a flight sim, raised the m
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the dev cycle for a game is 12~24 months. The first Kickstarter breakthrough was Double Fine Adventure in Feb 2012. It's on track as most are per the article. It's too early to tell but I don't expect a higher failure rate than publisher ba
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in essence, the crowd-funding model is working just fine. Game publishing will never be the same.
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by sami36 14y ago
> ...then we can't rurn around and demand that it also isn't and that we should have right to infinitely ask for additional copies - however cheap it might be to create them. oh Yes, We can. The reason we're entitled to it is the fact t

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