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  • Qualcomm doesn't wield enough power to harm competition, says trial witness

    For a company to LOSE 50 points in three years, would generally be putting that said company in receivership... unless they had so much clout, margins or double charging, which is why we are here today. 
    chasm
  • GoPro debuts new line of Hero 7 action cameras ahead of holiday season

    hmlongco said:
    GoPro has a severe market saturation problem. Pretty much everyone who wants an action cam already has one. So the question then becomes who needs the new features, or did I break one and need a new one?

    Seems like they need new markets.

    How about propping up one or two and using them for event cams? (Birthday parties, Christmas, etc.?)

    How about being able to use one for home security (when it's not being used elsewhere)? How about using one for a dash cam? 

    You can sort of do some of those things today, but the software doesn't really work well for some of the others (need motion detection, ability to overwrite older clips).
    From an investors prospective, they have to diversify!  Between the cheap knockoffs on the market, serving the lowend (teens) to the DJI servicing the Drone market, GoPro has lost themselves in the middle...
    watto_cobra
  • How dual-SIM works with Apple's iPhone XS & XS Max

    Complicated as hell.Who needs this?
    Why can’t you just use a secondary dumb phone for abroad?
    I travel to China a lot and the reality is, if you want to call, message, and most importantly pay with WeChat in China you need to have a local sim... This either disables my US number/SIM or I have to carry around two phones, which in China status is important, so you best be carrying two of the latest iPhones! So I carry one iphone but have two sims, which is a pain! This would solve my problems... HOWEVER, being that the China version of the iPhone Max will allow 2 sim chips, I'm going to wait to buy that one, so while in EU, I just swap sims. Yes, multiple sims is a pain but it's better to have a local sim than paying $.25/min (or in my case, while in Andorra $1.25/min with no data!). So yes there are many use cases with this. For my "dual" number US situation I own my company and don't want to carry two phones, so I have a virtual number that if it's business it forward to my actual number but caller ID is my company name. So I answer in my company name. I do have to go online to get their caller ID if I need it... which is a pain, this would solve that! For that matter, I would be able to get 4 numbers!
    mike1watto_cobrasteveau
  • Hands On: uBar for the Mac shrinks your Dock and makes it work harder for you

    XMenu is a great free alternative to having an applications, Documents,etc in the menu bar. 

    https://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware.html
    sandor
  • Police are casting a wide net into the deep pool of Google user location data to solve cri...

    I like DuckDuckGo.
    I second DuckDuckGo!  The results are just as good as google most of the time and when you do use google go into Privacy mode and as for Maps on iOS, try HERE which actually has been great.
    SpamSandwich