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Quote: Originally Posted by AaronJ A reason I might want to stick with iOS is investment. But if, at ANY time, I felt that Android was -- for whatever reason -- far superior to iOS, I would switch in a second and never look back. I mean, t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by weejock Am I missing something obvious here? Are you talking about a swipe keyboard that's built into ios7? I was under the impression that, without jailbreak, there was no way to substitute the stock ios keyboard. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by weejock I used to use swiftkey on my S2 before making the switch to Apple and, honestly, it's the one thing I miss about android. The predictions become creepily accurate the longer you use it for, and you end up bei…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 like i said it won't be anymore. Google/Moto were selling those units at a loss, just like the Nexus line. I think that seems pretty unlikely really. We know Apple's margins would allow for a nearly cos…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 It was the right decision to make to sell Motorolla. But it was an AMAZING BAD decision to buy them in the first place. Perhaps. I'm glad they managed to make the Moto X and G though. Couple of friends …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 Yes they paid for it but it was on their balance sheet as an Asset last Quarter. Now it will get moved to a LOSS. It will smash their CURRENT EARNINGS not PAST EARNINGS. You are talking purely in cash flow t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 This is like saying its savy to pay $3,000,000,000 for a toilet since it can be a tax write-off. Google lost BILLIONS on this deal. Right but they paid those billions quite a while ago. What they have don…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TBell Yes, the source was from a company that AI has in a previous article pointed out slants the figures against Apple to favor its customers who are generally Android and PC hardware manufacturers. That accusa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil And some of the patents are invalid, so there goes that, minus the court fees they had to pay to learn that. The frustration at Google making a savvy move and being rewarded just oozes out of your…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tundraboy Your mixing up cash flow, earnings, and balance sheet items. Very creative accounting. How is it creative? I'm just adding up the numbers people have put out there. If you have a better source for how …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Those numbers are missing a lot of extraneous costs one can assume they are just magically moving under Google accounting's other R&D funds. Do you have a relevant example? I'm just going off wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 12.5 cost -2.3 sell set top business -3 sell phone business -1 value of patents 1.0 operational losses under google According to the HN thread it's more like this: 12.5 Cost 0.67 Losses (minus tax) -2.3 S…
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From reading the HN thread it looks like Google's total loss was about $1B and they retain control of a significant number of patents, who knows how valuable they could be: https://investor.google.com/releases/2014/0129.html A shame really, althou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rayz "Something you did may have caused …" Love the way they do that. That quote isn't in there. Making up a quote is kinda poor form.
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Quote: Originally Posted by AaronJ Preferring something is not being tied down. ... Like I said, if saw a reason to switch to Android, I would. I don't. In fact, I see a LOT of reasons to stay with iOS. From what I can tell, the hardware, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by AaronJ It's interesting to me that you interpreted what I said as my being "tied down." I'm not "tied down" by any means. If I wanted an Android phone, say a Samsung GS4 or whatever, I would go out tomorrow and …
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I think this is probably too early for any sort of speculation to be valid. The basic functionality is clearly still to be expanded. Lets face it, a car interface is never going to be revolutionary. It already looks smooth and relatively efficient a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil I said nothing about you; I was speaking in generalities. He also said nothing about you. He was speaking in generalities. Me thinks thou doth protest too much. You literally quoted me. I've lear…
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That's very cool, I guess those 'sensors' are just 4 conductive strips so the capacitance stays within acceptable boundaries. I would be a little worried about scratches perhaps but there could be a very thin protective layer too. Shame the screen…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Who’s insecure: the anti-Apple moron that comes onto a pro-Apple website to spew nonsense or the pro-Apple fans fed up with people doing that? Show me anywhere I've been anti-Apple? I disagree wit…