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ArianneFeldry said: Dying company lashes out. They'll make every claim they can to try and be relevant before they lose everything. What even is impressive about selling $20 phones to third world countries? Nevermind selling more $20 devices …
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Folio said: I'm surprised no one has mentioned latest CNBC piece on Google, collecting details from your purchase receipts sent via gmail. (While I assumed they still culled meta data, I thought they vowed to stop reading the internals.) If t…
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corrections said: franklinjackcon said: And then there are people like me with minimal needs - I just have a Chromecast plugged in. The OS on my Sony TV is a dog but fortunately I barely use it. I tell Google Home what to play…
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avon b7 said: I didn't read it either but all my Samsung TVs have Android TV Boxes plugged into them and therefore are not using the onboard Samsung OS. My non-Smart main TV (Kuro plasma) has a Shield TV (Android) connected to it. I suspect …
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Imagine if one of the world's big problems could be broken into pieces and gamified so instead of people zoning out playing candy crush, they could solve something together. No, I'm not a hippy, just thinking about all of the things I could have don…
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lkrupp said: IDC’s reports are taken as gospel by the industry. Reports from tech blogs rebutting IDC's findings, not so much. The real losers here are investors who base their portfolios on IDC’s and other’s negative narratives regarding App…
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SpamSandwich said: 100 million paid subscribers but still $158.3 million in losses? There’s no path to profitability here. Subs growing by a third and gorillas like Apple/Amazon/Google breathing down their necks. It makes perfect sense for…
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It's difficult to read these articles as they are written as if DED is personally offended by the fact that companies like Google and Microsoft even exist. They look at every company through an Apple lens, which they aren't. It has completely ignore…
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digitol said: Lidar is the wrong way to go. High cost, slow, high energy. Not a great application for automotive. Betting against Elon Musk is a bad idea. Landing a rocket is more of a better use for lidar. (Space X). This is not speculative.…
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I don't have a HomePod so I'm possibly saying what already exists but they'd probably need to combine both the voiceprint and the location of the phone for this to useful in a multi-person home. Several phones could be within range, possibly someone…
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Good news for Samsung is that at that price, they must have known no one would buy it so it can't be too expensive to bin the stock they have. They might even be able to split the thing into two phones and sell them at cost.
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There are two different business models that seem to be getting blended into one in this article. "Good-enough gear" could arguably apply to midrange phones or if you think they are below the bar set by Apple, then flagships of Samsung and Huawei. T…
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The lamp is kinda ugly but less ugly than the Sonos One at least. Wouldn't look bad in a student flat I suppose. I do like the concept of functional furniture though, if it's done right. The bookshelf speaker looks like it would do much better on a …
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chandra said: US companies invent new technology. French live off the ingenuity of US companies by taxing them. Isn't that how international commerce works? But you missed a step where US companies earn revenue in France - on which they pa…
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Cesar Battistini Maziero said: The experience on iOS is far superior. The lack of problems and freezing is what makes iPhone great. My mon has a seven, and it's still blazing fast! I can't speak for Huawei but flagship Samsung phones do…
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tipoo said: Damn, 99INR is only 1.91 Canadian dollars, if that's sustainable and profitable in India it just goes to show how high services margins are in the western world. It's hard to believe it's sustainable in the short term. It remi…
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davidmalcolm said: Ugh. Sports is a great scam. A bunch of wealthy people getting richer while people cheer for logos while the players are switched out. Often promised fame. But one injury and those players are sidelined and left with bills …
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Apple is becoming a victim of its own success. Having an iPhone in your pocket is one thing but when people are all walking around with the same watch and airpods sticking out of their ears, it does look a little like 1984. I'd hope that they'd have…
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ihatescreennames said: franklinjackcon said: AF_Hitt said: aaargh! said: To be fair, Spotify has little choice but to use the App Store, it's not as if you can distribute iOS apps to consumers in any other way. Apple woul…
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AF_Hitt said: aaargh! said: To be fair, Spotify has little choice but to use the App Store, it's not as if you can distribute iOS apps to consumers in any other way. Apple would have a point if Spotify could just put the IPA up on thei…