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by yanw 14y ago
No it isn't, none of Microsoft's competitors from the 90s were anything near its size.
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by yanw 14y ago
Difference is that Google lobbies for their own interests, Microsoft lobbies against Google. And one assumes that much of Google's lobbying is to counteract Microsoft's. Also Google's competitors are teaming with Microsoft to destroy Google
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by yanw 14y ago
I do hope regulators take into consideration the source of these complaints. Microsoft is investing a fortune on lobbying groups and PR campaigns attacking Google and this is just another cynical attempt to cripple their main competitor. (E
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New Look, New Purchase Flow in Google Play(android-developers.blogspot.com)
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Google Drive App Data Folders(googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com)
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Config/state dev folder in GDrive(googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com)
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More ways for apps to write to Drive(googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com)
2 points by yanw 14y ago|0 comments
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by yanw 14y ago
GAE had to become self-sustaining and now it's less of a risk for its customers. Google wants GCE to compete with AWS so pricing will be have to be competitive.
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by yanw 14y ago
Difference is you actually have to pay for this one.
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Well, err, that solves the WebKit monoculture problem(plus.google.com)
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What Blink means for Chrome Security(plus.google.com)
2 points by yanw 14y ago|0 comments
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by yanw 14y ago
Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture ... and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity ... we anticipate that we’ll be able to remove 7 build systems and delete more than 7,000 files—
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by yanw 14y ago
This was dusscissed here a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5476812 HN ought to weed duplicates better.
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by yanw 14y ago
That post is devoid of insight and full of inaccuracies such that it could easily be mistaken for shameless attention seeking or just astroturf.
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by yanw 14y ago
You shouldn't feed the trolls :)
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by yanw 14y ago
Unless you are engaged in the multinational legal goings on concerning smartphone patents you'd have to be delusional to think that this announcement has anything to do with you personally.
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by yanw 14y ago
As PR beatings go that one was pretty contained (mainly to the HN frontpage).
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Taking a stand on open source and patents(google-opensource.blogspot.com)
129 points by yanw 14y ago|67 comments
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by yanw 14y ago
You could also choose to make your plugins "click to play": chrome://settings/content#plug
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by yanw 14y ago
Cute. One "solution" of course is to set the 'On startup' setting to anything other than 'continue where I left off.'.
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by yanw 14y ago
No one is preventing the "general public" from using it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5442131
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by yanw 14y ago
[citation needed]
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by yanw 14y ago
It's not about what you can say - you can say whatever you like - but Sweden or whomever can't officially bestow a new meaning on a trademarked name. It's like enshrining in the dictionary that Coca-Cola means "sugary water".
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The Web We Want(plus.google.com)
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by yanw 14y ago
"RSS industry"?! I thought the whole point of RSS is that it's decentralized. Feeds don't have to come from a single source and no one client is needed to view them. One could argue that the demise of Reader is the best thing to happen to R
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by yanw 14y ago
I got the impression that he was talking in generalities.
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by yanw 14y ago
It's much too vague and subtle to warrant an official statement in my opinion.
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by yanw 14y ago
But Eric Schmidt did not say that the app was submitted: “You’ll need to discuss that with Apple” (at around 17:50). “Apple has a policy of approving or disapproving apps that are submitted into its store, and some of them they approve and
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by yanw 14y ago
Really, groveling? yeah if anyone mentions Reader in a month's time it will be an issue. It's not a main new story, and Google won't get anything back by reversing their decision, the damage is already done. Some people are being overly dra
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by yanw 14y ago
It's hardly a PR disaster or a mess needs cleaning. It's just some pissy folks that are taking a little longer to get over it. It'll pass I'm just tired of hearing about it.

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