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by taligent 14y ago
Wow. After all these decades and countless people we would have seen something like this before. Reminds me of this little change that Apple made and then quickly reverted: http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/04/29/inside_mac_os_x_10...
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by taligent 14y ago
What math and what system ? It is simpler and easier the way Apple does it now. Money originates in each country that a sale is made some of which flows into the regions e.g. Americas or APAC. It would be much harder to be constantly moving
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by taligent 14y ago
The amount of stupidity in this article is startling. There are plenty of legitimate and common sense reasons for why Apple would keep much of their overseas earnings overseas. There are financial reasons e.g. minimizing wasteful forex con
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by taligent 14y ago
This is the WORST advice for startups who statistically are more likely to fail before even getting to market. It's even terrible advice for large companies as well. Build what you want to build. Build something that you are proud of and th
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by taligent 14y ago
I've been hearing the same and apparently the most popular Samsung device is the model that looks identical to the iPhone 3GS. I am curious how much of an advantage Android has by allowing pirated apps. In price sensitive markets the cost o
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by taligent 14y ago
Weird. I found Android to be a nightmare. The emulator is atrociously slow and every manufacturer seems to have different implementations of UI controls meaning it is expensive and time consuming to test.
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by taligent 14y ago
Dwindling market based on what facts ? I haven't seen any evidence of Apple's App Store revenues dropping markedly. Pretty sure the market would be VERY concerned if that were the case.
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by taligent 14y ago
Except that Google is slowly but surely having its wings clipped. So this idea that it will be able to leverage Android at will is misguided. Its unified privacy policy is already under threat in the EU and it is facing multiple anti-trust
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by taligent 14y ago
So if it's the same as the status quo (only less flexible, usable, stable and secure) then which should I or anybody else care ? And this idea that governments couldn't control Bitcoin is just laughable. They could get into the mining busin
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by taligent 14y ago
You know what all you delusional conspiracy theorists keep forgetting. That roughly the same financial system model in the US exists in many other countries. So does that mean that there is a mini-conspiracy in each country or is it between
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by taligent 14y ago
Maybe you should Google it because it is pretty common knowledge that Nexus 7 is very hit/miss in terms of build quality. And I stupidly compared battery life against iPad Mini. So it is not half and not 90%. It's about 65% of the iPad acco
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by taligent 14y ago
Engadget and Anandtech. Engadget complained that the glass back easily cracked and that the camera was average. And we know from Anandtech benchmarks that the CPU/GPU is about half that of the iPhone 5.
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by taligent 14y ago
Almost all NoSQL databases are open source and free for multiple datacenter usage. And they are all just as easy to manage and backup as everything else. They all have their problems and issues.
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by taligent 14y ago
It's pretty clearly from reviews so far that Nexus 4 is just another mid range Android phone. No LTE, poor build quality, slow CPU/GPU, average camera.
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by taligent 14y ago
iPhone has much, much better CPU/GPU than Nexus 4. Nearly twice as fast in most cases. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6426/ipad-4-gpu-performance-an...
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by taligent 14y ago
Of course just comparing on price ignores some big differences. Nexus 4 has no LTE. Nexus 7 has terrible build quality. Nexus 10 has nearly half the battery life.
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually I think the correct statement is that iOS has such little fragmentation (in comparison to Android) that it is effectively zero. Every developer can safely target iOS 5. With Android it is still 2.3.
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually Android is closer to shared source than open source. A typical open source project has an open repository, allows third party contributors, open issue tracking etc. Last time I checked Android had none of these and only released so
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by taligent 14y ago
Server operating system definitely. But Java and .Net are both effectively proprietary.
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by taligent 14y ago
> But it's my only option, so I am going to have to pay it now aren't I. No it isn't your only option. Third party SSD have been available for a while now.
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by taligent 14y ago
Can we please stop with this post-Jobs "Apple isn't the same" nonsense. Jobs was ALIVE when almost all of these products were in the pipeline. He said so in his biography. Also your quotes about the Mini just shows your complete lack of und
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by taligent 14y ago
You are completely wrong about PowerPC. There wasn't an issue at all with keeping up with performance. The problem was that IBM was pushing PowerPC more and more into the server space and Apple needed a roadmap that factored in laptops.
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by taligent 14y ago
More rubbish designed to get page views. The fact is that Apple has a 2013/2014 roadmap of incremental updates that could all continue to sell very well. Retina iPad Mini. Retina MacBook Airs. New Mac Pro. NFC/Passbook iPhone. Not to mentio
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by taligent 14y ago
I think it would be comparable to most of their peers. Many companies e.g. Google, Samsung, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, HP are routinely involved in legal issues. Google will likely top that list over the next few years as they take over from M
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by taligent 14y ago
R&D at Apple can be summed up by the iPhone 5. They developed a new SoC in the A6, made the screen thinner incorporating the touch sensor which was novel and created new manufacturing processes for building the case. All of these obviou
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by taligent 14y ago
There is actually a lot of innovation in those spec upgrades. The A6 SoC is custom designed and pretty impressive considering it is faster than the competition whilst using less power. And the thinness of the screen (i.e. integration of tou
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by taligent 14y ago
Apple was doing 3D panoramas in 1993. It really isn't that impressive.
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by taligent 14y ago
Depends how you define "make money from". If you mean revenue then there probably isn't an example. If you mean profits then there I am sure there are plenty. You only have to look at the movie industry. Plenty of popular movies that weren'
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by taligent 14y ago
Even a simple code folding approach would be fine for showing the JSON.
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by taligent 14y ago
I am not opposed at all to children learning to program. Just that there are much better choices than Java/Android SDK.

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