ergo98

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by ergo98 16y ago
10 years ago Apple had 5 billion in revenue. Now they're pushing 100 billion in revenue. They butting in on competitors who operate in the 5% margin range, and who are all desperately starting to claw back at Apple's gains. No, it isn't sus
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by ergo98 16y ago
Do you think there is a fixed "profit" out there for the taking? Apple's profit margin is an extreme aberration, and it isn't sustainable. Any comparison that relies upon profit numbers is...disturbed.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Having your APK in multiple markets is laughably trivial. But regardless, what a way to try to dig a negative out of a story like this.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Clearly it just works for a lot of people. I really tire of the "if it doesn't work for me it shouldn't work for anyone" attitude. These sorts of complaints are ridiculous. It's one thing to host some little family site on GoDaddy shared
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by ergo98 16y ago
There is no way that 15 people found it useful and/or interesting. It's someone giving a brief resume and then, in a nutshell, saying "Gonna be doing stuff with data". So my question stands. Do people just see 37 signals and data and imagin
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by ergo98 16y ago
I am deeply curious why 15 people up-arrowed this. Was there something in it that I missed?
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by ergo98 16y ago
The single and dual core thing is technically ignorant. It is exactly the sort of "detail" that people add to fabricated stories to lend legitimacy to them, but when they reach beyond their abilities it just sounds dumb. We all know that Go
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by ergo98 16y ago
Completely and totally agree. It's total manufactured bunk. Even technically...to make "dual-core" apps work on single-core processors? Weak.
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by ergo98 16y ago
These surveys pander to a certain audience. Just had to check, and sure enough it's on Apple Insider, just as it will be or already is on most Apple-related blogs. These survey companies skip the middle man and often target the Apple commun
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by ergo98 16y ago
Do you think I am? I find these surveys in all their forms to be garbage , whatever the purported outcome is. They're almost always online (because it's no-name, no-budget survey companies), self-selecting surveys, and they seldom have any
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by ergo98 16y ago
Another day, another survey by a company desperate to get attention by defensive Apple fans. Sad how well the tactic works. So I guess Android is done then. Lets shut her down! Or we could just wait and see how it pans out.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Dell has been seriously underwhelming. They put zero effort into software, and their hardware has been...mediocre. I'm not quite sure what they're going for, but they're failing absolutely miserably. Dell literally is bringing the whole And
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by ergo98 16y ago
I'm not quite sure why copyright infringement should make me concerned about the applications as a user. Though it's notable that there have been several noted cases of gross copyright infringement on the AppStore. However I actually think
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by ergo98 16y ago
I am not sure Android sandboxes that well. Android sandboxes far better than iOS. It has a more granular, integrated security system. The existence of "anti-virus" and task killers speaks more about customer ignorance and the placebo ef
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by ergo98 16y ago
Such an exploit could be in place on countless sites you visit daily, with no one the wiser. Further, aside from technical competence, why does anyone trust PoF? Why do they trust any site to not only technically handle their password cor
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by ergo98 16y ago
The real problem -- and the reason for most of the outrage -- is password reuse. Can we all agree yet that password reuse is the actual problem, and not the storing of passwords? We should reframe the discussion around that, because it is t
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by ergo98 16y ago
http://www.droidsector.com/blog/2010/12/02/android-and-ios-f... I'm not sure if the bump numbers are broadly relevant: who is the average user who will be running bump? It isn't a general iPhone user, but instead is a technologically savv
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by ergo98 16y ago
Lots and lots of users don't upgrade. I can't find it right now, but one iOS dev did a story on fragmentation in that camp based upon their own metrics, and it was scary. Perhaps this will resolve if they start doing OTA updates. User "erro
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by ergo98 16y ago
You're pretending I'm not pretending anything. Quit with the trollish tactics. The service adapts to the market. Sure, people can increase their cap by buying the "insurance" You realize that terminology was coined by Teksavvy right? Th
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by ergo98 16y ago
Looks great, and as someone with four young children I would say that it's a winner concept for the niche. Targeting a specific niche is a very worthwhile pursuit, especially given that advertisers focused on new and upcoming parents are so
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by ergo98 16y ago
Who is pretending anything? What a trollish comment. Yes, 25GB is an absurdly low cap. Most providers have a basic plan that provides 60GB, with a usually quite inexpensive way to dramatically increase the cap. People keep quoting the $2.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Revenue == funds to build capacity. If everyone really wants to stream Netflix 24 hours a day, the capacity will be built but it isn't free. This is how every single element of the economy works.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Your diagram there was unfortunately wrong. Swannie's variation was actually correct. The issue here is not about the last mile. I'll say it until I'm downvoted to oblivion, but people keep restating this incorrect statement.
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by ergo98 16y ago
They weren't particularly swift. Every other party had come out strongly against UBB while the conservatives would only say they would be "paying close attention" to the ruling. Opposition parties are always quick in reacting because ther
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by ergo98 16y ago
Not to mention that they were introduced at the same time as Netflix launched in Canada, and the providers' own TV-over-IP services were exempt. Caps were in place on the vast majority of Canadian connections (meaning direct customers of
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by ergo98 16y ago
Looks quite decent to me. They professionally didn't overdecorate it, which is a common amateur foible.
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by ergo98 16y ago
When debating the openness of platforms, an example oft mentioned is consoles: Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony each own their respective console market, taking a tithe from every transaction occurring on the device. Such an example has freque
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by ergo98 16y ago
This is how those sorts of tickets are sold here- http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archi... They slide out the little display holding the type you're interested in and you sit and mull over the aura of winnitude of e
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by ergo98 16y ago
For this sort of ticket the buyer selects from a display of, I would say, several dozen.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Apple didn't create the category. Archos did, even though they saw none of Apple's great success. Nor did Apple create the touchscreen mobile smartphone category, but again their success has seen a lot of historical revisionism. I guess it

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