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   by skc 13y ago

   They cynic in me assumes that even tech savvy people would much rather rationalize away NSA access to their Apple products than give them up. The easiest rebuttal is simply that every smartphone is equally at risk. A last resort will be to
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   by skc 13y ago

   I'm idly wondering how many of those protestors use Google or iPhones on a daily basis. If people really want to get some attention from these corporates, vote your displeasure with your wallet en masse.
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   by skc 13y ago

   Subliminal message perhaps? Would be chuckle worthy if it was deliberate.
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   by skc 13y ago

   They are very tacky, the same way I felt about Apples "Im a PC" ads.
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   by skc 13y ago

   Story title is patently false by the way. http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/25/microsoft-confirms-that-exc... Can't believe I'm linking to TechCrunch of all sites. Heh.
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   by skc 13y ago

   Because it's blog. He's not writing for the Times.
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   by skc 13y ago

   Nothing. But this is HN.
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   by skc 13y ago

   Seems like the fact they sold 1 million units in 24 hours in NA alone should put these DOA failures into perspective. It's a tiny, tiny number of consoles not working vs those that are.
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   by skc 13y ago

   So I guess next iPad revision will be the TouchID version. So we know Apple will still be printing money for the next 24 months at least
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    by skc 13y ago

    The overwhelming need to poo poo these results in here is pretty disgusting though expected I suppose. I'm interested in following those Surface numbers over the course of the next year. If they can get that revenue up to about a billi
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    by skc 13y ago

    Not sure why they went through all that hassle for a something that Apple will surely outlaw in a few weeks. Seems like an awful waste of time to me.
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    by skc 13y ago

    I actually suspect the joke is on "The Internet" By now the FBI should be pretty savvy about these things.
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    by skc 13y ago

    I'm just here to smirk at the old narrative - that the iOS customer doesn't balk at paying for stuff - being slowly whittled away as the march towards smartphone commoditization continues at pace.
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    by skc 13y ago

    As far as I know, "Reduce Motion" only turns off the parallax effect which as the article states, is NOT the problem. But I'll concede that it's possible that simply nobody at Apple experienced any sort of motion sicknes
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    by skc 13y ago

    I just get the feeling that someone at Apple probably should have spoken up but didn't. Who's going to tell Jony Ive that his UX might be causing motion sickness.
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    by skc 13y ago

    Not that it matters but, it wasn't public.
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    by skc 13y ago

    One wonders, pundits say mobile is the new hotness in gaming and console are slowly becoming obsolete. Does that mean games as immersive and expansive as GTA5 will cease to exist in a few years?
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    by skc 13y ago

    I used to suffer from this pretty consistently for years until I researched it on the web and understood what it actually was. From then on it reduced to maybe once a year. Funny how the mind works.
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    by skc 13y ago

    How can you determine that it has better UX from a screenshot?
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    by skc 13y ago

    This would seem to imply that Brazilian consumers read the burning platform memo. I highly doubt that. I have a huge problem with people flat out claiming that Symbian was an acceptably competitive phone offering in 2010. That's a bald
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    by skc 13y ago

    You think they have what it takes to run a "multi-billion dollar profit a quarter" company as diverse as Microsoft? Right.
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    by skc 13y ago

    Why not?
23. 683.▲
    by skc 13y ago

    I've dabbled with Buddy before. http://www.buddy.com/ I'd recommend them.
24. 684.▲
    by skc 13y ago

    Love Windows Phone, but Google's service, Google's rules.
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    by skc 13y ago

    For me, the easiest way to visualise that you have equal probability between the two sets of numbers is to simply visualise the balls, but without the numbers. Now, what are the odds of drawing blank set of balls A. Then, what are the odds
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    by skc 13y ago

    I think they'll be alright in the end, Microsoft tends to iterate their products in the classic if infuriating way. I expect v2 to be good and v3 to be pretty stellar. The question is time. Off topic, does anyone have Chromebook Pixel
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    by skc 13y ago

    At least one person thinks the Apple TV is a better deal. Two guesses as to who. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/07/25/chromecast-catch...
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    by skc 13y ago

    Bittersweet for me. I love hearing good news in the tech space out of Africa. Yay!. But then as a Windows Phone fan, I see that with this announcement they've promptly canned their support for the platform. Boo!
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    by skc 13y ago

    Horace Dediu's (asymco) graph of Googles rapidly declining margins probably illustrates why Google is now resorting to this sort of thing. http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot
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    by skc 13y ago

    I feel the people defending Linus are being a tad hypocritical. I feel as though because you like Linus or Linux, his behavior is effectively being excused. A thought experiment would be to replace "Linus" with someone you don&#x2