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  • Spotify posts another big operating loss, but growing subscribers

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    You know what they call it when you keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result…
    cgWerkswatto_cobra

  • Apple is engaged in a 'silent war' against Google, claim engineers

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    CheeseFreeze said:
    robin huber said:
    I strongly agree with others here that it’s not only old engineers that hold the grudge. Android is stolen property as Steve once said. I have hated them since that day. Irrational and immature? Sure, but they deserve it. 
    Stolen property the same way Apple stole the graphical UI and the mouse from Xerox?
    Or, Apple stealing the idea of a streaming music service from Spotify while they were selling individual tracks and albums?
    Or does the entire concept of “Sherlocking” ring a bell?

    Everyone does it. Grow up, man.
    It happened in 2007.

    Revolutionary as the iPhone was, you cannot (and should not) protect abstract concepts like a user interface or the idea of a touch screen. You can only parent specific methods and systems and usually not the software side, as it should be.

    Apple didn’t steal the gui idea  and mouse from Xerox.  Go read up on actually what happened.  Jobs was invited there to validate the idea.  
    designr

  • Apple is engaged in a 'silent war' against Google, claim engineers

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    I have a memo for these “former Apple engineers”.  Welcome to business.  Competition is kind of like a war. 

    Apple doesn’t do things because of a grudge.  Nothing. They do things because they think it will help their business.  If it happens to cause Google heartburn so much the better.  But the purpose for doing it is Kit to cause Google heartburn but to improve their own business and make their offerings better for their customers. 

    Apple still does a pretty business with Samsung AFAIK (in chips, screens, etc) despite the bad blood there.  Apple doesn’t let personal feelings greatly warp their business. 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • HBO Max hikes subscription price as it deletes content

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    hmlongco said:
    lkrupp said: Companies know they need a certain profit margin in order to keep the lights on and they will do what they have to to keep the lights on, end of story. As a customer you have absolutely no right to the price you find acceptable. Your only weapon is your power to not pay the price and go without the product. HBO is not a human right, not a life sustaining necessity, it’s entertainment, period. 

    Keeping the lights on? As opposed to record quarters of profitability? Too many companies are gouging their customers not because "they're keeping the lights on", but because they think they can get away with it just because someone else is doing it.

    And maybe they can. Or, maybe, they'll start losing subscribers to a once stellar property and sit around the conference table scratching their heads and wondering why.
    Not sure what “gouging”‘your customer is.  There is nothing essential about HBO (not like water or food or anything).  They set the price where they want it and you can choose to subscribe or not.  There is no gouging. You have a choice.  

    Personally I’m glad my dad “broke” the TV when I was a kid by taking out a tube.  I got out of the habit of watching all the time and still don’t care to watch.  We have Netflix because of T-Mobile and we had Disney+ for a year but no more.  No need.  Life is better without compulsive content consumption. 


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  • Apple Watch infringes Masimo pulse oximetry patent, rules judge

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    beowulfschmidt said:
    Applejacs said:
    Ok, so Apple cuts a check for how much?

    Ideally, it would be the amount of money they made from the infringement.  But for a long time, it's been well worth it for Apple to infringe and then pay some pittance to make the problem go away.  The only way to stop infringement is to impose penalties that actually matter.

    I know exactly how likely that is though, given how much corporations "contribute to" legislators.
    Pray, tell.  How do you calculate how much Apple made from the claimed infringement?  If such a simple matter you should be able to enlighten us on the method. 

    (I said “claimed” as the matter is not settled. This was just the next step). 
    lolliverwatto_cobra