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by shingen 15y ago
If that approach had been followed - onus on the company - there could have been no such thing as search engines on the scale of Google or Bing. Unless you like your search engine with a few million pages instead of a trillion. Much of the
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by shingen 15y ago
Grove looks really interesting. The pricing strikes me as a bit odd though. You're actually charging more per user for more users ($2 per user for 5 users; $2.50 per user for 50 users), rather than giving larger accounts a discount. I imagi
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by shingen 15y ago
Who's arguing that Apple does not care about profits? I've argued the exact opposite across numerous posts. They care about profits and it's in the best interests of their customers that they do. Which is exactly what I said in the parent.
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by shingen 15y ago
Check my other posts, I'm in no way arguing that Apple ignores profits. I don't think they do. I'm arguing they pay attention to profits and that it's in the best interests of their customers that they continue to do so.
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by shingen 15y ago
I wouldn't want to have to ask them to do so, I'd seek out a bank that operates soundly. It's the difference between Wells Fargo (forced at gun point to take the TARP money), and insolvent vile blackholes like Citi and Bank of America. I wo
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by shingen 15y ago
Four year old article. Back then he was still just doing everything himself.
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by shingen 15y ago
Interestingly, Apple is placing the customer first by charging what they do. Why? Because you couldn't do what Apple does with a 5% profit margin. They can ignore Wall Street, creditors (which they don't have), sharks, hostile investors (Ca
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by shingen 15y ago
In his biography he talks about the importance of Apple generating a profit in order to re-invest into producing new products. That healthy profits were not only necessary but desirable to that end. I believe he has also said as much in int
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by shingen 15y ago
That makes for a great headline, but it's wrong. He absolutely did not ignore profit: he understood its proper place better than most. Jobs loved profit. He understood that the best products, marketed properly, can produce extraordinary pro
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by shingen 15y ago
And yet Walmart doesn't dominate haircuts at all, America is filled with a network of 20,000 hair salons that outsell the hair salons in Walmart. People usually have to schedule appointments with their hair salon - that is not maximum conve
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by shingen 15y ago
Comeon, they aren't losing e-commerce. They never had it to begin with. One massive problem is obvious: from the top down, Zuckerberg knows absolutely nothing about retail, fashion, and so on. They can't engineer their way out of not unders
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by shingen 15y ago
Analysts are amusing at times. So they speculated not that long ago that Facebook was going to challenge Amazon.com as a retail destination? On what planet was this going to happen? Sure, and Amazon.com was going to challenge Google (A9!),
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by shingen 15y ago
Change that name as soon as you can. I can imagine all the justifications you might have for triplicating the T, but it's not going to stick. Consumers have demonstrated for a very long stretch of time their dislike of difficult variations
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by shingen 15y ago
One of the best ways to overcome the chicken-or-the-egg problem the guy is hung up on, is by using the classic bowling pin strategy. You don't need to have huge advantages in your favor to make use of that. eBay had a severe chicken or the
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by shingen 15y ago
Or swim for the 'blue ocean'. There's no way Pinwheel is going to dominate the entire general category up and down. No reason SkyChalk shouldn't consider pivoting and looking for a niche to own within the area they're working in. Particular
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by shingen 15y ago
I spent years, from about age 15 or 16 (circa 1995) when I first stumbled onto the Internet, through 22 or 23, thinking that ideas are what mattered the most. I don't think that point can be emphasized enough: your idea is not a unique snow
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by shingen 15y ago
Methods of abuse never stop evolving so long as there's a free product available to attempt to hijack. The problem won't stop being persistent, and the government is only going to get more frequent in their take-downs. Switching from innoce
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by shingen 15y ago
It strikes me that one fallout from the US Government becoming aggressive in taking down legitimate sites (in one way or another), is that it's going to massively drive up the cost of what services charge. One way to deter phishing forms, f
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by shingen 15y ago
The US government in no way has a consistent policy. It's a $4 trillion beast, filled with millions of actors, and countless departments all running their show the way they see it. More often than not, one hand is not talking to the other.
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by shingen 15y ago
I agree. An invasion of Iran would be a real war, the likes of which we haven't seen since the Korean war. It would very likely involve a draft, and require at least 500,000 troops on the ground. We'd lose 20,000 soldiers in the first year
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by shingen 15y ago
Worth noting that this is a top 5,000 global site, roughly speaking. The fascist machine is definitely continuing to raise the bar on the commoners they're willing to take down (they were always willing to go after a site like MegaUpload, b
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by shingen 15y ago
The bottom line is simple: they can't do it, they won't be able to do it, and it makes the issue moot. Someone is desperate for attention. You would need to have complete control over the infrastructure of something equivalent to an Amazon,
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by shingen 15y ago
You're radically off the mark. It's $100k per year per construction worker to build a nuclear power plant. Their pay will be $50k just for the base for an average worker. The security issues (for various stages it requires a lot of backgrou
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by shingen 15y ago
Yep, that's exactly right. I remember at the time Dave Perry seemed to be everywhere 24/7 pumping Messiah as something that would change gaming forever. Back then the developer fights were common, with tech arguments between id Software (Pa
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by shingen 15y ago
I remember 15 years ago when plenty of graphics programmers thought the industry was within reach of all the polygons you'd ever need on the screen at one time. These are always a bit like the '640k should be enough memory for anyone' decla
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by shingen 15y ago
Facebook login provides the holy grail of that: a (likely) real user behind an anonymous nickname. You can also judge the user by how many friends they have on FB, in terms of whether they're likely to be a real person. That said, some deve
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by shingen 15y ago
Really depends on what you're doing and what you can afford. If you're Foursquare and you can afford to double the cost of your infrastructure because you want some of the benefits of the AWS platform (and there are plenty of benefits these
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by shingen 15y ago
The biggest mistake Google has made, is behaving in a way such that so few people really really like them as an organization or company. It almost guarantees they're going to get drilled by the Feds on anti-trust concerns, sooner rather tha
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by shingen 15y ago
This is just Google being a jerk. It's an extremely common behavior from them when it comes to their ad platforms. Most businesses prefer to actually work with their customers, listen, and have a dialogue. Google's insular behavior goes all
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by shingen 15y ago
I think it's just as fascinating that the blog author left out the full text. Must imply some various qualities about their character, eh.

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