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rotateleftbyte said: rcpone said: Both are great American companies doing great things. Wouldn't want to live without either of them. It is easy to live a productive without feeding google data about yourself whick in turn is sold t…
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Apple's emphasis on the Chinese market in the past 4 years might have been misguided. China has a history of slapping down dominant foreign companies to favor domestic one, especially in the tech sector. For example, Baidu became dominant after Chin…
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Skype might not have been the best fit for Apple - but calling it another Youtube and implying that Youtube isn't commercially successful is strange. Youtube was the standout performer in recent Google earning calls and is likely one of Alphabet's c…
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kamilton said: bigmushroom said: kamilton said: In the long run, all companies that depend on revenue from the collection and sale of personal data are doomed. We're simply in the earliest phase of the business model. The majo…
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kamilton said: In the long run, all companies that depend on revenue from the collection and sale of personal data are doomed. We're simply in the earliest phase of the business model. The majority of people have no idea of the exposure the…
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Rayz2016 said: charlesgres said: bobolicious said: Photos in Sierra auto tags all photos - no opt out, or in, and as I recall even had an arguably misleading statement on the photos web page suggesting the possibility, rather th…
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It's very nice but the global for in-ear headsets seems to be only about 8 billion dollars. https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/06/15/848646/0/en/Earphone-and-Headphone-Market-size-worth-18-2-Billion-by-2023-Global-Market-Insights-Inc.html …
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This whole Airpod business looks to me like a solution searching for a problem. When getting Airpods I am losing the cable but in exchange I have to (a) make sure I don't lose these pods, (b) deal with recharging them after 5 hours of usage (which …
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To Westcoaster: The Chinese government wants to selectively snoop in on any HTTPS session or secure messaging whenever it pleases. You cannot just tell your Chinese customers not to use HTTPS or download a special app for that - even in dictatorship…
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There is Rayz2016 said: Well this will be interesting. Cook was prepared to defy the FBI in the US to protect privacy. Let's see how far he'll go in China. No this will be boring and depressive: there is no way around this in China. T…
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dugbug said: rogifan_new said: This headline is stupid. You can't capture more than 100% of something. It means other players in this market lost money It's still not a very useful measure. Say that Apple makes 10 billion profit…
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bestkeptsecret said: radarthekat said: You should read more carefully the sections you bolded. You'll see that's there's a significant difference. operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones is exact…
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cpsro said: bigmushroom said: Google's terms of service for user-created content are here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ "When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give G…
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cpsro said: Users of Google Photos give the company a perpetual, world-wide, royalty-free license to use their photos for any purpose, including marketing. If/when users "delete" their photos from Google's cloud and discontinue using the serv…
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It wouldn't make sense for Google to put a fingerprint sensor on the front because Android since version 3 (2012) uses soft buttons instead of hardware hardware buttons. In Apple's case the fingerprint sensor is also the Home button but it would be …
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Quote: Originally Posted by lowededwookie Here's the thing. ALL search engines suck at the moment and have ZERO intelligence to them. A real AI search engine would use natural language queries to search. How come I can't do a search for …
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Quote: Originally Posted by williamlondon Sounds like this is a good job candidate filtering tool, meaning it's easier to do the job when you have more data to build models and "innovate" in this field, but it takes real genius to provide simila…
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jungmark wrote: » I know we've posted before, but I don't trust google. You can say they don't want to violate the law, but a $22MM fine is the cost of doing business for Googs. The real cost of violating such a promise of privacy is much highe…
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Fox owns the distribution rights of episodes 5/6 until May 2020 and the rights to episode 4 in perpetuity. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars
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Quote: Originally Posted by ECats Google pulled out of China because they couldn't get a foothold in the local search traffic where Baidu still leads considerably. Their office there also posed a security problem and was blamed for the widesp…