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by sirkneeland 11y ago
2 years, really. It kicked off in late 1939 with the German invasion of Poland, subsequent declarations of war by Britain and France, and then an awkward months-long period of shuffling about known as the "Phony War". </pe
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Are you saying they should make a huge breadth of products because supply chain?
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Given the eye-watering disparity in gross revenue generated from iOS vs OS X, you really have to wonder which one is their "main OS" at this point...
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
IIRC the very first iPods actually had licensed much of the under the hood software. I could be confusing them with Palm OS, which did the same for the kernel of their first Pilots...
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Or ~1 Nokia for what it was worth before Stephen Elop ran it into the ground. (I don't buy the conspiracy theories that Elop was a Microsoft mole sent in to do exactly that. I never attribute to conspiracy what can be attributed to sta
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
It's okay, at least Microsoft still got their chance to burn money on Nokia. ...so much money...
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
That is an interesting idea but it would need to be refined to avoid some pitfalls. Nokia had competing internal smartphone groups, which led to much internecine corporate warfare but precious little in timely smartphone development
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
They are identifiable, I believe they say "promoted tweet" in close proximity to said promoted tweet
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
vocabularity
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
I think that was the idea behind the Tumblr acquisition. It's just really, really hard to buy something "hot" without killing it (by external reputation/customer satisfaction or internal employee exodus) Off the top of m
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Serious question: Can they, though? I'm not doubting if Yahoo could build (or buy) some cool tech products and put them in front of their large audience. But the real question is whether their audience is the sort who would bite and ea
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Clearly you've never experienced the joy and wonder of Yahoo Answers
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
good joke there!
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
or "streamlining" or "must be accomplished within an appropriate financial envelope" Or any other of Stephen Elop's greatest hits..
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
But is it "has" or is it already "had"?
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
I wonder what the ramifications of Force Touch (err, 3D Touch) are for users with certain physical handicaps who may not be able to execute that particular gesture. Apple has generally done a pretty good job for accessibility, so I'd b
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Where is "here"?
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
I agree they need to revamp their HOV situation. In my case, I have a car with an HOV sticker and I don't know if it's measuring HOV lane traffic separately from non-HOV traffic (huge difference in the Bay Area on the 101) @jonkne
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
I think you can do Google POI search from within Waze, no? IIRC you can select from sources like Yelp, Google, Waze's own db etc...
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
It will eventually break once they evolve the server-side APIs enough. Foe example, I doubt the Symbian client still works... The really annoying things is that even after Microsoft makes it painfully easy for Android apps to be brought int
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
It was indeed amazing in the end. Still the best phone Nokia ever made. Which of course made it all the more tragic when it was killed for the disaster that was Windows Phone.
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
PARC syndrome should definitely be a thing if it isn't already. That said I think it only covers a subset of what went wrong at Nokia, and that was only the first half, before a whole different set of things went wrong under Elop
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Gotta start somewhere! :)
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Qt actually originated in the early 1990s from a Scandinavian company called Trolltech. Nokia bought them in 2008.
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
That's not entirely true. The MeeGo org was a mess. Paradoxically, telling them they were no longer the future enabled the team to stop focusing on politics and make one more amazing product. (source: I work at Nokia. Yes, still) That
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Nokia Technologies still owns all the patents. Microsoft got neither the brand nor the IP (though they were granted a license to it)
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Microsoft tried. Samsung didn't really bite (never making more than 1 WP a year or so, basically seeing "we'll make a WP" as a bargaining chip in their real concern: negotiating over patent licensing for their Android de
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
And now the worst Office version is on Windows Phone. I'm sure Windows 10 will improve that...eventually.
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
And Jo Harlow is out too. As a Nokian, I've been waiting for this day for years. If you've never seen a Finn smile, today might be your lucky day.
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Former Nokia CEO Elop Leaving Microsoft(theverge.com)
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