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by tooltalk 8y ago
>CURRENT OWNERSHIP: 17 percent of medallions are owned by cab fleets; 54 percent are owned by leasing agents, who delegate management to fleets; and 29 percent are owned by independent drivers. I think 29%, 12,187 * .29 ~ 3500 cab driver
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Not sure why so many are pooh pooh'ng this. I consider the quality of display and the speed of modem two most important aspects of modern smartphones. Not everyone lives next to cell towers or in high density areas like NYC. I actua
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Welcome to the real world. This sort of gov't/regulatory actions, or bias, against foreign companies is nothing new and manifest in different shapes and colors. Do you remember when the Obama administration reversed a foreign co
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by tooltalk 8y ago
?? Apple paid $400+M for the e-book price-fixing scandal not too long ago. I do agree though that the US regulators and the court system are a tad bit lenient on domestic companies. It's even worse when it comes to patent cases in
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by tooltalk 8y ago
The difference here is that Apple doesn't sell or distribute their MacOS to other PC OEMs and dictate to them with how and what software packages they ought to ship their PCs. In another word, Apple is free to do whatever it feels like
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by tooltalk 8y ago
?? I thought the company was doing well and in no dire need for cash -- thx in part to the late crypto boom. The company's stock jumped x4 from 2016, two years ago.
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by tooltalk 8y ago
I totally agree. don't understand why you got downvoted so much.
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Sure, Samsung was nowhere close to going out of business -- too big too fail? too much cash to fail? In fact Samsung had enough cash stashed away to weather the whole crisis and the company did continue investing through the trough.
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by tooltalk 8y ago
What caused the glut was Samsung's massive expansion in the early 2010's. Samsung was trying to increase market share in DRAM and they pumped in billions in CAPEX to increase their manufacturing capacity. That not surprisingly dr
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by tooltalk 8y ago
You know I feel a bit funny about this. These hit-job news articles remind me of Samsung-Apple lawsuits which just ended last week. There were numerous anti-Samsung pieces (eg, the infamous Vanity Fair article comes to my mind which was ru
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Sure, but you are also forgetting the fact the DRAM industry was in glut and they suffered huge loss leading up to the point. Was it Cartels intend to drive the price so low that they would be almost out of business too?
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Well, Apple also employs millions of Chinese works indirectly through their suppliers. I think the last thing the Chinese gov't wants is a large number of unemployed young males.
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by tooltalk 8y ago
That's how the current patent/trade system works. If it turns out there are products made without proper IP licensing, the USITC can ban importation of infringing goods.
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by tooltalk 8y ago
>>Both the Samsung Galaxy S and the iPhone 3G have a rounded shiny border. That's necessary to have a working touch-based phone? Not only are you unfamiliar with the patent laws involved in these lawsuits, but you are also now pu
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by tooltalk 8y ago
You are wrong again. You still don't understand what can be protected under "trade mark" or trade dress. The infamous Coca cola bottle (16oz) is far from generic. Their bottle design is not driven by function (ie, maximum c
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Sure. I'm pretty sure you could also walk into any Bestbuy with just one piece of black masking tape and nobody would be able to tell flat panel TVs with thin bazel from one another once the brand gets masked. Further Apple's de
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by tooltalk 8y ago
There were preliminary injunctions on Samsung's tablets that were later overturned. Apple lost all design claims on tablets everywhere, due to the obviousness and prior arts. In the UK where Apple's EU-wide community design claim
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by tooltalk 8y ago
As a consequence of Apple's overwhelming victory, in spite of SCOTUS's recent opinion on design damage award, we are probably going to see a lot of outrageous design patent litigation by a new species of patent trolls in coming m
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Apple has 90+ other pending patent litigations. I hardly doubt this closure is going to help them focus on Qualcomm. Apple was forced to settle with pretty much every wireless patent holders and all in patent holders' favors (eg, Nokia
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Well, no. Samsung won the SCOTUS decision last year that cancelled out Apple's hometown jury's absurd design patent award. The case was sent back to the district court for damage-only re-trial where Apple's hometown jury aw
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by tooltalk 8y ago
not so much of accomplishments, but two take-aways that come to my mind are: 1) you can't mess around with a politically well connected American company. Of course, I'm talking about the Obama administration's reversal of Sa
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by tooltalk 8y ago
It must be a great day for patent trolls now.
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by tooltalk 8y ago
There is no study which supports your belief that democracy or dictatorship is good/bad for economic growth (or political stability).
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by tooltalk 8y ago
can't read through the paywall, but what's TSMC got to do with it? Intel, Micron, GlobFo and Samsung all have fab capacity in the US.
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Micron and other DRAM producers were losing money due to DRAM gluts two years ago. That discouraged capacity investment and, as many insiders had predicted, it led to eventually higher price today. Sure, you got bargain at their expense tw
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by tooltalk 8y ago
I think we are all forgetting the fact that there was a huge memory supply glut (and historic low memory prices) that starved memory manufacturer from investing in new capacity back in 2015 and 2016. Many industry observers predicted futu
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by tooltalk 8y ago
I also remember hearing about that Dell contract that prevented Samsung from selling Samsung branded laptop in the NA. I believe it was in part because Samsung designed and manufactured Dell's laptops in those days -- which now I beli
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by tooltalk 8y ago
not sure if the same applies in this case. Unlike in 2002 lawsuits where memory makers admitted to participating in meetings, conversations, and communications in the United States and elsewhere with competitors to discuss the prices of DRA
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by tooltalk 8y ago
If you are implying that Apple sued HTC for utility patents alone, you are definitely wrong there. Further contrary to your claims, the originality wasn't what iOS was going for. One main reason Apple's patents never gained tract
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Mac copied/cloned Xerox; Microsoft licensed Apple's UI. Apple sued Microsoft, but lost the lawsuit because Microsoft legitimately licensed Apple's UI patents; except for a few minor elements like "trash can" icon.

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