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by scholia 11y ago
> another big pain point is battery (and battery consumption) True, but you could easily make it less of a pain point by making the device 1mm thicker ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
Windows 10 is probably on roughly 14%-15% of Windows PCs, which is some way short of "every". According to Microsoft, more than 270 million devices run Windows 10. However, Cortana voice isn't supported in all countries, and
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by scholia 11y ago
It's also a special case in being a Chinese enclave surrounded by much lager Muslim countries: Malaysia and Indonesia. How do you think it compares with those?
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by scholia 11y ago
He's probably not been to Singapore, or not very often. Like most people, he's probably not been to Singapore's close neighbors -- such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand -- and doesn't realize how much more corrupt thi
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by scholia 11y ago
> couple of people on reddit storing 300+ tb What do they have 300TB of, if it's not a rude question... ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
;-) No probs. Thanks for checking.
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by scholia 11y ago
> I'm aware of the shortcomings of the ARM-based Windows notebooks. But they mostly failed because there are no great "universal" apps. Smartbooks were not Windows notebooks. They still failed. Why the Surface RT failed
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by scholia 11y ago
Android always has a performance penalty because software runs in a JVM....
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by scholia 11y ago
There have been a few attempts to sell ARM-based laptops, including Smartbooks (1) and the Microsoft Surface. They've all flopped horribly. This doesn't mean they can never be successful, but it does make PC manufacturers less lik
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by scholia 11y ago
> In web products maybe Gmail is an example? When Gmail arrived, the market was already dominated by free services. The main ones were Hotmail (bought by Microsoft) and Yahoo Mail (Yahoo bought Rocketmail in 1997). Perhaps Google Andro
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by scholia 11y ago
> Its a quad opteron 6380 system for a total of 64 cores at 2.5ghz That sounds good. Unfortunately, in my experience, the real-world performance of the low-end chips in cheap laptops has been absolutely dire for about a decade. And tho
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by scholia 11y ago
> The term Android is not trademarked. Google quote: "Android™ should have a trademark symbol the first time it appears in a creative." Brand Guidelines http://developer.android.com/distribute/tools&#x2F
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by scholia 11y ago
Apple's approach is to pick favorites, like Walt Mossberg, and then to play its handful of favorites off against one another. (Time gives you a bad review, Newsweek gets the next exclusive interview; or it's NYT vs WSJ.) The rest
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by scholia 11y ago
Some of those reporters are contracted to write five or even 10 posts per day. It's not like a NYT or WSJ reporter spending three weeks or three months on one story. Also, because Google promotes blogspam without any regard for content
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by scholia 11y ago
Fair point! Only 3 years difference, not 6-7 years ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
> Android is that OS itself and just the OS. Actually, Android is a Google trademark and you have to do what Google says if you want to use it. Amazon uses AOSP but it can't call it Android. This makes sense. Anyone could take AOS
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by scholia 11y ago
Android is a Google trademark, and if Google licenses it to you, you have to follow Google's rules. One of the rules is that you have to use Google's Play store and pre-install its proprietary apps.
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by scholia 11y ago
I don't think the EU is too worried about that. It has already imposed very large fines on both Intel and Microsoft, for example. Like them, Google has lots of staff and offices throughout the EU.... although (not uniquely) it uses var
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by scholia 11y ago
While the documentation itself is available to you under the Apache 2.0 license, note that proprietary trademarks and brand features are not included in that license. Google's trademarks and other brand features (including the Android
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by scholia 11y ago
> MS made it very unclear to disable/remove IE Microsoft had already signed a consent decree with Janet Reno's DoJ. This specifically allowed Microsoft to add features to the operating system. In effect, it didn't have a
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by scholia 11y ago
> all the Amazon Fire products are Android based They are based on AOSP, but Amazon is expressly forbidden from using the Android name, and it can't use the Play store, so it's not really in the Android (TM) market.
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by scholia 11y ago
> either 64GB iPhone is overpriced or the 32GB is underpriced, or both The problem is that there isn't a 32GB iPhone 6s, though it would only cost Apple a few pennies per unit to offer one. Instead, it has a 16GB version (too litt
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by scholia 11y ago
You can do market segmentation without abusing your customers.
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by scholia 11y ago
One of the things mentioned in the story is that the "period of [staff] growth includes its two largest acquisitions, McAfee in 2011 and Altera last year". I'd assume these acquisitions added to revenues.....
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by scholia 11y ago
> Me as well, I built an i5-2500K system backend 2010(ish), it's still my main home desktop Good pick: it's still one of the faster chips around. However, it's TDP is 95W, which is fine for a desktop. Since then, Intel h
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by scholia 11y ago
Yeah, the 2009 version of Windows really should perform as well as the 2016-update Mac OS X ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
Well, obviously Apple has to keep driving up short-term profits because having only $200 billion stowed away in cash (mostly overseas, to avoid taxes) is not good enough. If only Apple had $300 billion, or $500 billion, it could really chan
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by scholia 11y ago
That's because it's more expensive for a Windows OEM to pre-install and ship Linux than it is to install Windows. You have extra hardware qualification and software testing costs, extra accounting, distribution and advertising cos
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by scholia 11y ago
The fact that you can buy Windows laptops for $150 to $199 surely ought to make you realize the absurdity of that claim. Even when Windows was at its marketing peak in the late 1990s, the largest OEMs were only paying $40-$45 for a pre-inst
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by scholia 11y ago
> That's because OEMs have to pay Microsoft for all devices sold That's not true, and it has never been true. Two decades or so ago, Microsoft offered a deal like that for DOS, but the US Justice Department stopped it almos

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