melange

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by melange 13y ago
Barriers to market entry are a kind of vendor lock-in. We are locked in.
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by melange 13y ago
Gibberish. There is no alternative URL to click on because a competitive global search engine would cost billions of dollars to build, the space is deeply encumbered by Google's giant patent portfolio, and the information used to build
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by melange 13y ago
But why would such an expectation be reasonable? Surely once you have given the information away, it's their business what they do with it?
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by melange 13y ago
If there was a reference to support your claim, you would have provided one. As I said before - you're just making this stuff up.
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by melange 13y ago
Search is entirely locked in.
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by melange 13y ago
Given that Apple are nowhere near doing that and don't seem to be even going for that, why is that even a concern? We have far more of a problem with Google in that regard, who do absolutely dominate search, and have clearly stated t
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by melange 13y ago
Most people don't willingly give the information to Google or Facebook. They give it unwittingly . Also, by your logic, it's not your information anymore - you have given it to Google and Facebook, which makes it their informa
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by melange 13y ago
That is true. And is clearly true in the tablet space too (as well as PCs). It's just a lot more nuanced in both directions. Android can have higher unit share and 'inferior' products while Apple can have higher profit shar
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by melange 13y ago
Share is pretty much meaningless, and assumes a zero sum game of direct competition.
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by melange 13y ago
Surely Google and Facebook do this too. Why are we surprised that the government does it?
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by melange 13y ago
Please offer some kind of reference supporting your claim that the arm chip in the iPhone 5s is power inefficient.
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by melange 13y ago
This makes the front page whereas google being tried for wiretapping does not. No pro google bias here. Move along.
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by melange 13y ago
There is no such thing as an 'ARMv8' processor that can even be a 'power pig'. And you haven't given any reason why 1GB is not enough. You are just making this stuff up.
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by melange 13y ago
Are you seriously claiming that Apple kept the RAM below 1GB so that "Now has >1GB' could be their headline feature for next year?
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by melange 13y ago
Don't you remember the scandal around apple storing local data only on people's iphones ? That was explicitly opted in-to.
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by melange 13y ago
It's fair because it's the same for everyone, and it's justified because it prevents a giant class of tax evasion scams.
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Google to face trial for wiretapping(readwrite.com)
5 points by melange 13y ago|0 comments
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by melange 13y ago
A good marketing piece.
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by melange 13y ago
True but irrelevant to the parent's point.
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by melange 13y ago
Why does being first to put up a gas station matter? What stops other countries from putting up their own?
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by melange 13y ago
I'm sure that was done on purpose.
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by melange 13y ago
Where have I expressed outrage? Also you are clearly highly technology literate, so you understanding something is not representative of what regular users understand when they click through an agreement.
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by melange 13y ago
Because for years Google received unalloyed adoration from the tech community because they presented themselves as a genuinely better kind of company, but now that have shown themselves to be just another corporation that will say or do any
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by melange 13y ago
It's only explicit if the user understands what they are agreeing to.
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by melange 13y ago
So are you really saying that apple contributed nothing at all to the modern smartphone?
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by melange 13y ago
But google doesn't anonymize the data.
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by melange 13y ago
Fair enough.
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by melange 13y ago
Honest reporting earns fewer eyeballs.
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by melange 13y ago
Yeah - imagine apple did this - there would be a scandal. But this is Google, so 'move along'.
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by melange 13y ago
Actually the rent is rapidly going through the roof, so don't expect it to last long.

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