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freediverx wrote: » Perceived morality aside, there's a big difference between the two examples you cited. When you block web ads you are directly cutting off revenue from that site. When you mute or skip ads on TV, the advertiser has no way of …
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Ab blockers are no less moral than mute buttons on remotes or DVRs, both of which are used to ignore advertising. Sites will adapt and the industry will do fine...
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Yet another speculative, uninformed IDC report. The article fails to recognize the exploding middle-class in such 'price sensitive' markets such as China and India. The new class of consumers in those markets are just as interested, if not more so,…
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Oh really? Is Chevron liable for supporting terrorism because the Boston Marathon bombers filled up their tank at their station beforehand? Is Avis liable because they rented a truck to the 1993 World Trade Center Bomber? Is Home Depot liable becau…
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thewhitefalcon wrote: » Google Photos allows Google to use your photos for advertising. Read the TOS. This is a piece of garbage service from a terrible company. Consider yourselves informed. Correct. Nothing is free. Virtually everythin…
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My reaction to the Google I/O keynote was similar - lots of Apple copying. Google remains an advertising company and is clearly struggling with consumers shifting to mobile apps. And OEMs are tiring of Google leaving them with commodity scraps. It…
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Good Lord... Now we have Samsung Pay, Android Pay and Google Wallet... Soon we'll have Xiaomi Pay... The fragmention of Android continues...
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Awwww... Well, that explains it... GT Advanced was led by children... Last time I checked, contracts are signed by two parties... If GTAT signed a one-sided agreement, they only have themselves to blame...
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"Android's unrestricted ability to sideload apps (install software that is not signed, from outside of a secure App Store) may be part of the platform's appeal to Al-Qaeda,". Wow, ya think? LOL!
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For sure, Google can no longer claim with a straight face that Android is 'open'... That was Andy Rubin's vision, and Google went along to sign up new OEMs and grow adoption, but now that they have market share, Larry is clamping down... What a me…
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LOL! Yesteray's rumors are today rumored not to be correct, which is 'disappointing'! Oh my! It all adds up to zero actual information... Now we're left with the 'disappointing' speculation that 'Apple's smart home program is basically an effo…
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You're right about the 4S, I stand corrected... I wouldn't call it a photo, however, I would call it an obviously Photoshopped image...
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Oh my... Did it ever occur to the author that we're looking at an image of an iPhone 5 mold with an iPhone 5 photoshopped in next to it, reduced in scale? Looks like the smaller iPhone has magical anti-gravity properties! I mean, c'mon, Apple rum…
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Mueller arguments (and Samsung's actions) are self-contradicting... If the ideas covered by Apple's patents have so little value, then why didn't Samsung stop implementing them long ago? Samsung's actions are the best evidence that Apple's patents…
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It's pretty clear that there were many slide-to-unlock options, Samsung chose to ignore them and instead implemented something that Apple had patented... What was that infingement worth? Hard to know... One can reasonably argue if the USPTO shou…
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Let's see, this article speculates that Apple's margins might be doing down because of the China Mobile deal, and then speculates about various terms that Apple might have agreed to that caused the ostensible margin compression... This is a rabbit…
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Yes, there is a hidden agenda and/or point of view in these reports, and these companies are often fatally conflicted by reporting market data about companies who are also paying them for services to 'influence' consumers... There is no mystery w…
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The big problem with this report is not its 'fairness' - i.e., iPad vs. Android - but the fact that shipments do NOT equal actual usage... As we all saw with Surface V1.0, you can 'ship' lots of tablets that sit on shelves and get written off later…
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Hmmm... This smells of a report with an agenda... First, if you are going to measure adoption of iTunes Radio vs. Pandora on iOS devices, you would only survey iOS 7 users... Obviously, users of prior versions do not have access to iTunes Radio, …