beatle

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by beatle 14y ago
apps empower MILLIONS of users. "OS-level capabilities" empower a handful of developers/hackers/etc..
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by beatle 14y ago
The only joke here is Google.
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by beatle 14y ago
doesn't change the fact that Android is an inferior product.
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by beatle 14y ago
Driverless cars. Google Glasses. The CEO's job is to allocate resources to initiatives that will make the company money. NOT to fool around with worthless projects like driver less cars and glasses that are just complete waste of money and
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by beatle 14y ago
>Android was purchased by Google two years prior to the release of iOS -Steve Jobs started planning the development of the iPhone in 2002. -Apple's collaboration with Motorola to produce the Rkr E1 started in 2004. - Official Developmen
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by beatle 14y ago
>The physical form of that involvement may have changed, but that doesn't qualify Android as a "knee-jerk reaction". Android copying the iPhone's user interface, touch screen, form factor, ecosystem, etc. is a knee-jerk reaction to iOS.
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by beatle 14y ago
Producing the best thing we possibly can for users is our paramount thing. I think we have demonstrated that over a very long period of time with a whole variety of different issues we’ve faced around the world. Hilarious. Lately, Google'
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Stanford, Open University surpass 50M downloads on iTunes U(appleinsider.com)
20 points by beatle 14y ago|0 comments
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by beatle 14y ago
Techies love to downplay the value of an MBA because they are insecure. Just because Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gates, Ellison, Page/Brin, etc. created world-class companies they think MBAs are worthless. MBAs are indeed worthless if you're Jobs, Zu
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by beatle 14y ago
here's a great comment from the original article: My take is that Android is an unmitigated disaster for Google. It could go down in history as an historic error as great or greater than IBM's failure to secure the IP of MSDos and the x86
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Google makes $1.70/year per Android device. Apple earned $575.(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
6 points by beatle 14y ago|4 comments
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by beatle 14y ago
ANOTHER knee-jerk reaction from Google. A product or service based on a reaction is driven by envy. not based on passion to innovate or the desire to provide a better service. it's just based on envy. all it cares about is what the other gu
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by beatle 14y ago
While Google's chief executive Larry Page recently described an $2.5 billion annual run rate for the company's mobile revenues, the company has testified that it has earned less than $550 million from Android across four years from 2008 to
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by beatle 14y ago
Had over a dozen friends and relatives who went through the same thing. You may be interested in this. Daily Aspirin May Help Prevent and Treat Cancer http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/health/research/studies-li... http://www.webmd.com/c
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Google proposes Android revenue for Oracle(reuters.com)
2 points by beatle 14y ago|2 comments
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by beatle 14y ago
it wouldn't even run on Android phones. from one of the comments. >i downloaded it 3 times, and it didn't even start at my lg p500 android 2.3.
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by beatle 14y ago
there is no way this is an accident. from the article: As it happens, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier in the day that the Securities Exchange Commission was investigating the high-frequency exchanges -- including BATS -- as part o
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"Human Error" in high-frequency trading temporarily causes AAPL to plummet 9.4% (tech.fortune.cnn.com)
2 points by beatle 14y ago|1 comments
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by beatle 14y ago
>And how exactly does having a microkernel fix the problem of having a stable driver API? Drivers must be written to some framework. at this stage i will refer you to, ironically, Andy's book: http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Operating-Sys
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by beatle 14y ago
If you love your phone set it free. If it comes back to you, it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
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by beatle 14y ago
Here's one for you genius. This would not be such a hard problem to solve on a Hybrid/microkernel OS. And you wonder why some Android devices don't get updates? The Android kernel code is more than just the few weird drivers that were in t
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by beatle 14y ago
>And they are, the future just hasn't arrived yet. But microkernels see more and more adoption every day. They offer a degree of reliability that is unprecedented. But they also come with a performance penalty that is for a lot of peopl
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by beatle 14y ago
of course there's value in hiring Linus that's why Steve tried to hire him.
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by beatle 14y ago
ROFL I remember this. BSD guys make fun of Linux on message boards and Web sites, the gist being that BSD guys are a lot like Linux guys, except they have kissed girls. Theo de Raadt is a pioneer of the open source software movement and a h
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by beatle 14y ago
Linus doesn't have any experience with microkernels and BSD. Jordan Hubbard was a better hire in retrospect.
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by beatle 15y ago
yeah. and they can always use part of that money to start another company.
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by beatle 15y ago
they can use part of the $210M to start another company.
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by beatle 15y ago
I apologize. Anyway, how about books/song/movie purchases?
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by beatle 15y ago
Agree. I apologize.
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by beatle 15y ago
pls. answer the question. it will give us perspective of where you're coming from (why you hate apps).

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