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by symesc 16y ago
Agreed. Just fired it up in Chrome on my Mac and got the notification that there is a new version of Silverlight available. Back Button.
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by symesc 17y ago
Agree. I did not expect to read this. Great article, Alex.
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by symesc 17y ago
"The only platform that really works is a platform with no platform vendor, and that’s the Internet." --Dave Winer http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/08/01/heyMikeIToldYouS... All vendors attempt to influence the relative positioning o
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by symesc 17y ago
What happens to the companies themselves? Nothing. What happens to perceptions? Probably something. There's always mistrust of the biggest player. If Apple become's the most valuable technology company in the world, their propensity to cont
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by symesc 17y ago
True, but services like Calendar and Reader bring Google TO you and thus raise the odds that you'll use their search engine again. Google's recent work, including Android, is all about reach and becoming part of various aspects of our onlin
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by symesc 17y ago
"What market?" The touchscreen mobile phone market.
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by symesc 17y ago
What's interesting to me is how big a shift mobile represents to Apple's strategy. Gruber was first to convince me that Apple didn't care about the business that Dell was in. Dell could have it. No margin. Apple believed they built computer
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by symesc 17y ago
I wonder which will grow faster over the next 5 years: Facebook or the rest of the Internet? If it's the rest of the Internet, then Google is better positioned. What's striking to me is how much Facebook's approach is not "of" the Internet;
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by symesc 17y ago
I own the app. It's pretty fun with a couple people contributing, but with more than 3 the little iPhone speaker gets drowned out by the laughter. Recommended.
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by symesc 17y ago
Agreed. I think we're going back to this for online "television." Some forward looking company is going to sponsor an entire run of premium content (something by Joss Whedon?) on a YouTube channel and even the major networks aren't going to
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by symesc 17y ago
Sorry if I've offended. My point was meant to be that regardless of how many iPhone users are attempting to download Flash, Apple is not going to change its stance unless Adobe addresses the performance issues within Flash. And even then Ap
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by symesc 17y ago
This could be 7 billion and it wouldn't change anything.
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by symesc 17y ago
It appears the only difference between this campaign and that for any other clothing company in Diesel's market is the use of the word stupid. Same models. Same situations. Ha ha ha, sex sells.
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by symesc 17y ago
So simple, and yet still so relevant. Back then, "57 Channels and Nothin On"; today, 10 mbps. I wish my company could return to such a clear message. Love them or hate them, Apple has its act together.
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by symesc 17y ago
I'd suggest it's both, and that they work together. I LIKE using my Mac and my iPhone. I DON'T like using my BlackBerry and Windows machine. All of those machines offer pretty good usability (I can use them all to get things done). But I'm
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by symesc 17y ago
The new web app is really sweet. However, as a Canadian who has a US-based Google Voice number (Montana, eh) functionality is actually reduced on the iPhone. Now the app initiates a call to a different US number (operated by Google) to then
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by symesc 17y ago
And down 4.5% in after-hours trading. I love the market. Every day is like George Costanza's do-the-opposite day.
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by symesc 17y ago
No kidding. I dropped WSJ.com last year and don't miss it. The Internet delivers a WORLD of news sites meaning the traditional publishers have less of a voice than they did when paper was the sole medium. Their proposed pay wall may ensnare
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by symesc 17y ago
I love the approach here: unsubsidized or subsidized, your choice.
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by symesc 17y ago
I've been a Mactard for years and a big fan of Safari, but Chrome has become my default browser on my Mac. Chrome became the default on my PC at work as soon as I could get it installed a year ago. The beauty of Chrome is its speed and eleg
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by symesc 17y ago
Near as I can tell: all that changed was the version number from .27 to .30. iStat Menus processor graph still goes nuts when scrolling compared to Safari. That said, Chromium/Chrome has been my default browser for about a month now.
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by symesc 17y ago
You know what, Rupert? Go for it. Don't bother writing about it and talking about it. Do it. Put up your pay wall and see who pays. Until then. . . .
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by symesc 17y ago
Yes. But as per the other response here, I'm not sure it's using the video so much as the location and orientation to deliver results. I'd like to see a version, like the still-photos, whereby the search engine is translating in real time a
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by symesc 17y ago
Google's relentless focus on speed within search is going to play perfectly in the realm of augmented reality. I anticipate a video version of this soon.
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by symesc 17y ago
Ramen.
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by symesc 17y ago
Brilliant! No one gets everything done that could be done. The difference between winners and losers is knowing what to leave undone.
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by symesc 17y ago
I can't decide if I'm interested in seeing these messages or not. Sad memories. Things have changed a LOT in the communications world since that day, however. If a 9/11 event happened today, twitter would make most of these messages public
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by symesc 17y ago
Agree completely. Jobs himself has said what Apple (and he) has compared to others is "taste." I believe that to be true. In relation to the human side (leading people), what Jobs has going for him is "judgement." The older I get, the thing
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by symesc 17y ago
Yes. But as a percentage of innovation worldwide, not as much as historically. The US has done a great job of teaching other nations how to execute, which is to say, how to set up an environment within which motivated people can be rewarded
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by symesc 17y ago
Agreed. I think the important thing to note is that Google is the only large company whose business model depends almost completely on the success of the Internet. This is why we see them at bat for Net Neutrality as well as efficiencies wi

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