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philboogie wrote: » I wish I had one of those long TB cables! Buy one and you will.
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chris_ca wrote: » The apps may be the "same" but they have a bunch of different code. It's not the same app. And aren't ebooks formatted differently? So using your logic it's not the same ebook.
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winchester wrote: » While I've never been particularly fond of apple requiring developers to adopt their agency model for in-app purchases, it is Their prerogative. There's No misuse or unlawful activity involved with this action. -Despite apple…
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jragosta wrote: » Amazon used predatory pricing on some books to try to lock up their market position. Because of their size, they could get away with taking a loss on some items. That is illegal in the US Loss leaders are not illegal. Now if A…
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anantksundaram wrote: » One word: Napster (Groan. AI, do you have a let's-see-who's-the-most-stupid contest on somewhere?) Wrong, Napster helped but it wasn't around very long
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gatorguy wrote: » Closing unproductive stores doesn't automatically eliminate the expenses attached to them. There can still be significant on-going costs, particularly for parcel lease contracts. It drastically reduces the expenses though, plu…
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jragosta wrote: » Really? Maybe you should talk to Borders. How many people are in the Borders stores? And how many independents closed? One estimate says that over 20% closed in the past decade - and that may be low. The agency model TEMPORARILY…
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mikejones wrote: » And yet both Google and Amazon take 30% of app sales and in-app purchases as well. I'm not sure Amazon does but Google specifically forces you to use their in-app purchase system as well if you use Google Play to distribute your…
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politicalslug wrote: » Am I the only person here who realizes that Amazon's old pricing model single handedly destroyed the market for big box bookstores in the US? If anything Apple's pricing would have saved that entire industry by setting ebook…
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dunks wrote: » I love my Kindle paperwhite for reading. The screen is very much improved over earlier models which is what made me finally dip my toe in. The only thing better would have been if they kept the unlimited free internet browsing from …
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rogifan wrote: » What experience does he have running a company as large as Microsoft? And why would Microsoft hire as CEO someone who only a year ago was fired from Apple? He can't do much worse.
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rogifan wrote: » Sell off Xbox and focus on enterprise and cloud. Why sell Xbox when it's starting to become profitable?
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rogifan wrote: » I see that as a mistake. Trying to mimick the Apple model won't work. We've already seen with the write down of Surface inventory that the public isn't clamoring for Microsoft devices. Ok, so what will work?
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nikilok wrote: » Is this retirement forced retirement. Or Balmer just had enough ? He was volunteered.
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Time to pay the piper.
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flaneur wrote: » That was then, this is now. The bar has been raised by Apple's CNC metal sculpture. Now they're going to shape their plastic backs like they did their aluminum backs. And it was the glass back that set the new functional design…
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sog35 wrote: » Wrong. Using plastic on a $700 phone is the problem like what Samdung is doing. Using plastic on a $400 phone is expected. There is no way you can make a metal phone with a good OS, fast processor, decent margins, and nice screen…
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suddenly newton wrote: » China's demand for Buicks also kept GM from cutting the brand. So few people know that and even fewer believe it.
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theothergeoff wrote: » Yes, as consumer computing becomes closer to the human, it will be form, function and fashion. The fact that they hired a fitness person away from Nike also blends into this... Nike, YSL, Levis. All product a 'brand' …
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flaneur wrote: » I still ridicule Samsung for using plastic that looks like the carapace of a robot insect when you turn it over. Truly revolting gloss and layered crypto-textures. To top it off, they treat the camera module like some sort of excr…