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by tpush 9y ago
Germany != the World. Besides, market share of iOS in Germany is ~32% [1], and Firefox ~17% [2], according to stat counter. And even those numbers are lower/higher(respectively) than those of countries like USA, UK, Australia, Japan et
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by tpush 9y ago
> [...] there’s more people using Firefox, or even more unusual browsers, which can’t use half the web, than there are people using Apple devices. Highly unlikely.
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by tpush 9y ago
"The suspect - identified by a hair found at the scene of the crime - refused to provide police with the PIN code to his phone so investigating officers turned to an unnamed cyber-forensics firm in Munich, which broke into the device.&
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by tpush 9y ago
I don't understand why you are downvoted. The relative openness of Android is the reason something like GNU's Replicant, LineageOS or CopperheadOS (all without Google software) is possible in the first place. To see proprietary an
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by tpush 9y ago
Third sentence from the artice: "They include a clause that both Apple and the Chinese firm will have access to all data stored on iCloud.". If the Chinese firm couldn't read the data access would be pretty pointless me think
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by tpush 9y ago
? Two of the three most popular DEs (Gnome and Unity) both don't look like Windows. I'd say only KDE does, and most major distros have Unity or Gnome as the default. So I think you're a bit off with your assessment.
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by tpush 9y ago
"They can't run their applications on Linux or MacOS (or they certainly would)" The vast majority of Windows users do not use Windows-only applications. They're using a browser, probably an office suit; both can be done
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by tpush 9y ago
What Sierra headaches did it solve?
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by tpush 9y ago
Given this it's really a shame that Apple does not allow other browser engines on iOS. Would be a prime opportunity for competition to raise the overall quality level.
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[pdf] Stephen Diehl – Reasoning about Program Behavior Algebraically(dev.stephendiehl.com)
4 points by tpush 9y ago|0 comments
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by tpush 9y ago
I was responding to this: "Given how bad most Android OEMs are at keeping their devices up to date, Google didn't have much of a choice, other than relying on iPhones, too, for its internal security." My question was why Goog
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by tpush 9y ago
Why wouldn't they use their Nexuses? They even push the updates out themselves.
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by tpush 9y ago
The difference between legal and ethical is irrelevant in this case. Both Apple and Ireland had an agreement regarding Apple's taxes which was deemed illegal by the EU. Apple and Ireland can count themselves lucky not to be additionall
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by tpush 9y ago
Can we just ban pointless snark like this? No matter if it's directed at Google or Apple or whatever. It just has no substance and is tiresome to read over and over again.
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by tpush 9y ago
Lots of Apple fanboys on this forum.
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iMac Pro to Feature A10 Fusion Coprocessor, Possibly for Always-On ‘Hey Siri’(9to5mac.com)
4 points by tpush 9y ago|0 comments
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An update on the Android problem(lwn.net)
4 points by tpush 9y ago|0 comments
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4coder Editor Free Alpha(4coder.itch.io)
1 points by tpush 9y ago|0 comments
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by tpush 9y ago
Funnily enough I switched from an iPhone 6 to a Nexus 6P, and found Android (now on Oreo) to have both the better UI and being more snappy in its handling. That snappiness was surprising to me since according to some people on twitter nobod
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by tpush 9y ago
You can't create an account without agreeing to this: "I authorize Movies Anywhere to share personal information regarding my Movies Anywhere account, together with my video titles, descriptions, and other video activity informati
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Flathub: Linux Desktop's Hub for Flatpack Applications(flathub.org)
2 points by tpush 9y ago|0 comments
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by tpush 9y ago
>> in the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale we may transfer any and all personal information we collect to the relevant third party. > This clause should be considered the antichrist of clauses, because it just makes the e
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by tpush 9y ago
So where does it fall down? Excluding the social ones I mentioned.
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by tpush 9y ago
> With haskell, for example, that comes at the expense of development velocity and performance (or at least, the ability to reason about performance). The (depending on perspective) weaker ability to reason about performance in Haskell s
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by tpush 9y ago
Because the books he wrote got bought by a lot of people, so there are many people who know the author.
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by tpush 9y ago
Because he is not random but influential, simple as that.
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by tpush 9y ago
Curiously, in the list of possible future tools for more reliability type systems are absent. Looking at the authors bio: "I love solving tough problems with Python and PHP". Type systems to me seem to be (I'm not exaggeratin
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by tpush 9y ago
That map probably includes all platforms. If you restrict it to desktop(as I mentioned in my comment) Firefox comes out ahead: http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/germa... .
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by tpush 9y ago
AFAIK it's also the only first-world country where Firefox has the (slight) majority market share over Chrome on desktop.
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German state gov plans to replace proprietary software with open source(translate.google.com)
1 points by tpush 9y ago|1 comments

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