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by amanne 13y ago
It was Apple that implemented Palladium in on iPads and iPhones and many technical folks even cheered it on.
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by amanne 13y ago
First, Windows 8 allows you to run whatever desktop apps you want, including third party antivirus software of your choice that have full access to the system. Second, I haven't seen your argument made for iOS and Chromebooks which are
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by amanne 13y ago
It's funny how Windows 8 is singled out as if other Windows versions are any better. Windows 7 can be securely used till 2020? That's the cut off date for updates from MS. The same MS that the article says " For the user ther
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by amanne 13y ago
>The Windows Phone YouTube app would be the first significant (1) phone OS to have a YouTube app not made by Google, there are no others to compare Google's behavior on for fairness. This is the first event of its kind. It's al
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by amanne 13y ago
It's curious to see Google pull this. From http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html "At Google we believe that open systems win. They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of cho
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by amanne 13y ago
Microsoft is considered evil by many tech folks. What you're saying is Google is evil as well and we shouldn't expect better from them.
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by amanne 13y ago
The following line by OP is not an opinion, it's a material statement of fact which is wrong. >Ars didn't mention that Microsoft didn't want to play by the rather simple rules of "put the video in a web frame" Ar
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by amanne 13y ago
>Google is under no obligation whatsoever to give preferential treatment to Microsoft, regardless of how much money it costs or earns them. And as Microsoft is still bullying Google's Android partners with patent threats, Google ref
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by amanne 13y ago
You're making a lot of unfounded assertions about Google's terms. Anyway this is a good read from Google's official blog. From http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html "At Go
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by amanne 13y ago
>If those Windows Phone users want to watch said content, they can do so in their web browser. >That assumes that those people will not watch that movie anyway (on a desktop, on a friend's phone, or on the WP using the browser) -
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by amanne 13y ago
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html Especially the section "Open Information". There's a lot of the world's information exclusively on Youtube, not just entertainment.
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by amanne 13y ago
>The only thing that's clear is that Microsoft is using its customers as pawns in a PR game against google. I know what my response to that would have been: No more MS products. Wait a minute, isn't Google using YouTube content
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by amanne 13y ago
>Google has obligations (both legal and moral) to both the content providers of YouTube and to the organisations who buy adverts on it. In order to 'not be evil' they have to take actions that respect these obligations. Aren&#x
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by amanne 13y ago
>because it's pretty obvious that you'll end up with a bigger market share if you sell 10 different flavors of the same thing compared to a company which only sells one. So Blackberry needs to make 20 different models and they
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by amanne 13y ago
Isn't it using Miracast internally? Will it work with Windows 8.1 which has Miracast support? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UXXNLlmz0A http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/06/windows-8-1-supports-m
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by amanne 13y ago
That's a lot of blanket statements states as if they were the truth. >Office 365 and Hosted Exchange are not competitors to Google Apps, they're poor competitors to Office and Exchange. Uhh, why not? >Azure is in no way a co
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by amanne 13y ago
To me it looks like most of the issue is with storing information in the cloud rather than natively running programs. Is there any indication that software running on the client is at risk? The article goes to great hyperbole but unless you