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by v0cab 14y ago
Unfortunately Samsung began this fight by having the South Korean government block the iPhone from being sold in South Korea until Samsung could develop their competitor. Therefore Apple lost out in South Korea by being the first mover --
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by v0cab 14y ago
Your future business may also be damaged if your potential American customers do not have money to buy your apps, because their jobs working at Apple in the US disappeared. And what if you also found yourself unable to sell your apps in Asi
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by v0cab 14y ago
Samsung fired the first shot when they had the South Korean government delay the introduction of the iPhone to South Korea to give them time to develop a clone.
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by v0cab 14y ago
Samsung own the South Korean government. Samsung had the government delay the introduction of the iPhone to South Korea to give them time to clone it (the phone that Apple was paying them to manufacture!), so that they'd at least find it e
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by v0cab 14y ago
What? Apple's monopoly in Korea? What on earth are you talking about?
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by v0cab 14y ago
Samsung has a wider product range than Apple. If the same number of presently-sold products of both companies are banned, it will have a bigger effect on Apple. This is South Korea, owned by Samsung. Samsung are absolutely not going to be
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by v0cab 14y ago
The corrollary is, you need a way to force the kids to do stuff they don't want to do. That's what corporal punishment was for.
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by v0cab 14y ago
Problem is, other countries aren't necessarily as open as we are to outsourcing and foreign labour. For instance, Western universities have many Asian professors, especially in Math, Science, and Engineering. But South Korean universities
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by v0cab 14y ago
Samsung and the other Korean phone companies used many anti-competitive tactics against foreign phone companies in South Korea. The original iPhone's introduction to South Korea was delayed, for instance. See articles I've linked in my hi
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by v0cab 14y ago
Are you familiar with the 'hot coffee' case? I mean, have you actually looked into it, beyond "someone decided to sue for getting burned by coffee"?
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by v0cab 14y ago
Almost everyone who uses a spreadsheet wants to do basic arithmetic in it, though. Look at the demo video on the site. There's a list of expenses and dollar costs. But you can't automatically sum them? Anyone familiar with spreadsheets w
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by v0cab 14y ago
What's more, the South Korean government (owned by Samsung) has been blocking and putting up barriers to foreign phones for years, including delaying the introduction of the original iPhone to South Korea, to give Samsung and co. a chance t
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by v0cab 14y ago
> Apple was the initial aggressor against HTC, Motorola and Samsung. Samsung own the South Korean government, and they've been putting up obstacles to foreign phones in South Korea for years, even before the iPhone.
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by v0cab 14y ago
I mean that the phones were blocked for a while, before they were allowed. I'm not American, but still I wouldn't mind seeing these South Korean chaebols get a taste of their own medicine. Protectionism may reduce the overall efficiency of
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by v0cab 14y ago
The South Korean government (owned by Samsung) has been blocking and putting up barriers to foreign phones for years, including delaying the introduction of the iPhone to South Korea, to give Samsung and co. a chance to develop competitors.
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by v0cab 14y ago
When I was jobless and broke, I didn't have a computer. Difficult to start a web company.
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by v0cab 14y ago
Would be better phrased " try to find a better job."
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by v0cab 14y ago
Why does she want to learn C++? What does she want to achieve in the end?
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by v0cab 14y ago
Not everyone can upgrade to iOS 5.x for free. I had a first-gen iPod which couldn't upgrade to 4.x. The older devices have limitations on which iOS upgrades they can get.
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by v0cab 14y ago
That's one guy. There are millions of unemployed people. Anyway, this kind of business would have been possible in the past with local newspaper ads and the Yellow Pages.
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by v0cab 14y ago
Don't most kinds of business require some capital to start?
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by v0cab 14y ago
The question is jerky.
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by v0cab 14y ago
But I don't know that the quality of the estimate is important in the case of putting golf balls on bus without a reason.
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by v0cab 14y ago
So there's some kind of aim relating to transporting the golf balls. That really should have been stated.
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by v0cab 14y ago
There are just too many possibilities here. We don't even know if it is a double- or single-decker bus. If we worked for a company that actually did do this kind of thing (fill things with objects), we would not start making estimates and
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by v0cab 14y ago
I still don't get it.
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by v0cab 14y ago
I don't know how you got that out of what I said. I think welfare is quite good.
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by v0cab 14y ago
The polygons onscreen question is a far better one, as it gives me a clue about the reason for asking, the kind of assumptions I can make, and the level of accuracy needed. The golf balls on bus example does not.
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by v0cab 14y ago
> And the seats really don't matter, volume-wise. How do you know?
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by v0cab 14y ago
But in this case (golf balls on a bus), I don't know what kind of assumptions I can and cannot make. It isn't a real-world problem, so I can't use my 'common sense' to reason about its constraints.

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