wklauss

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by wklauss 13y ago
Those cracks where there with Steve Jobs as well. For some reason people tend to forget the bad business decisions he made. But he made plenty. Was the period between the iPod an the iPhone just also coasting on momentum? Because if that wa
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by wklauss 13y ago
> paying taxes on profit is the deal we signed up for by operating businesses in the US. What happens when you don't sold your product in the US? Why does the profit of Apple selling an iPad in UK have to result in them paying taxes in
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by wklauss 13y ago
That's basically it. They are trying to get some tax exemption. And its not only Apple (Google or Amazon are in the exact same position). My suspicion is that the current "we will manufacture in the US" has to do something with it (Both Goo
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by wklauss 13y ago
what should a for-profit company do, then, once its successful?
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by wklauss 13y ago
Is this the start of a decline? Apple too busy playing on the high-end market instead of focusing on the fast growing low-end? Is this the start of a decline? Apple loosing profit margins instead of focusing on high-margin products? Is thi
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by wklauss 13y ago
The problem with Apple is that updates are usually pushed out yearly (with each iOS introduction). With Siri the only new developments/exceptions that have been announced are new language compatibility and minor capability improvements (res
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by wklauss 14y ago
- "Interesting he feels so strongly about that... but then again, he always kinda does" Exactly. This is why his review on it doesn't tell me much. He's been a constant cheerleader for services and products that, once I had the opportunity
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by wklauss 14y ago
I see a lot of anger in the comments, some of them questioning the practicality of it or the actual approach you'd use if money was an issue in your household. The BBC didn't do this in order to educate people on how to eat cheap. This is j
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by wklauss 14y ago
It's easy to hate recruiters when the market works in your favor and demand for engineers is higher than availability. Everyone is trying to hire and now they seem redundant and unnecessary evil. If the market cools down I bet most would f
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by wklauss 14y ago
That doesn't mean its not a dick move. Especially considering the way it was phrased. Again. I'm not saying that this is not something Pocket shouldn't do, just that in this case, and considering Marco's dedication to this, it's rude. But b
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by wklauss 14y ago
We are not arguing that is a bad business tactic or that its not a good move if you want to attract customers. Just that it is a dick move. It can be both a dick move AND a good boost for Pocket.
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by wklauss 14y ago
No, it's a royal dick move to announce it right when the competitor just switch hands, especially in this case when your competitor happens to be -up to this moment- an independent guy that has done this project for years on his own. The se
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by wklauss 14y ago
I would have done the same as Marco. It was unasked for and unnecessary. Pocket is a great app but so its Instapaper and Marco has done a tremendous job over the years by keeping it in shape by himself (with exception of the Android app). T
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by wklauss 14y ago
"In real life, the range would be limited depending on the antennas used (if going directly for the plane), or global (if misusing one of the two big ACARS players such as SITA or ARINC)" It seems to me that the article has a lot of "in rea
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by wklauss 14y ago
Are you visiting the site from US, EU...? My experience is the opposite also. Youtube experience is good, but Vimeo doesn't show any buffering problems and bandwidth seems fine. The last think I'd want is for Google to buy them, honestly. I
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by wklauss 14y ago
Like you say: IF Google glasses seems to me like an ill fitted concept. It's expensive and you need to wear it constantly. A watch is more discreet and doesn't create that feeling of "I'm being filmed by that person" on those around you. I'
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by wklauss 14y ago
It would be even funnier if competitions tart working on it and suddenly create a market for the device, even if it's small.
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by wklauss 14y ago
So the old saying goes that correlation does not imply causation. Why are spaniards, but no portuguese or italians or irish seeing this spike in bitcoin-related app downloads? Theres a far more simple explanation that just sticking the "it
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by wklauss 14y ago
A lot of people would argue you that, yes, its still widely used. In my experience not so much and its disappearing so quickly that they could have got away with some kind of HDMI + an adapter included on the box. IMHO they should have made
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by wklauss 14y ago
I'm not the OP but I was in the show and was able to use them after it finished. Yes its a nice phone but in comparison with other phones out there (HTC One, Xperia Z, even the iPhone 5) the S4 looks cheap. Its the product of "lets see what
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by wklauss 14y ago
A lot of security falls into that "firehose" analogy. Your door lock is relatively trivial to brute-force. What is preventing thieves from entering your house is that you live surrounded by other targets. Problem with the Glass approach is
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by wklauss 14y ago
Because its the only use case that will make sense at the beginning. These videos look interesting but they are staged, no matter how casual de look is. As of this moment, Google Glass is just a glorified wireless webcam. It might turn into
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by wklauss 14y ago
I think in 2006 the answer would have been different.
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by wklauss 14y ago
I don't think that's true, especially in the last years. Quite the opposite. Every product launch is surrounded by a "Why this will fail" article and every single problem with a product gets magnified to extreme lengths. Apple doesn't get h
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by wklauss 14y ago
Read the update on the post. They are still DRM-free. Just a different file extension(.m4p instead of .m4a to distinguish them from tracks that can be sold individually).
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by wklauss 14y ago
Did your original Project (and the pop charger people pay for) contemplate the use of a lightning port? It didn't. Then why cancel the project when you cannot add it? Even if you are not allowed to use the 30 pin... Why don't you just use a
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by wklauss 14y ago
This is linkbaiting at its best. Groklaw is arguing that he cannot find the actual phrase that the media used over and over again in the documents but the jurors didn't decide on the case over that phrase (I'm not getting into the actual ve
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by wklauss 14y ago
Seems to be working OK for me.
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by wklauss 14y ago
They had to if they considered that what Google was asking was unreasonable. For all we now Google might have asked for things Apple was not comfortable giving them, starting with user data and all the way up to co-branding.

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