neuroelectronic

I think you're just confused.

He was calling out notable exceptions...

| but it's infrequent to meet one whose wealth wasn't acquired through direct or indirect participation in the financial and banking industries.

I guess you're leaving the actual comparison as an exercise for the reader. IIRC, both involved people who had little business savvy and a missed opportunity presented as a regretful decision. no money is exchanged here however, and they never detail the cost occurred to them by the extra load.

Yes, but they still pay you as if they charged full price. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. The description thing is just odd though.

I'm pretty sure this is dramatized to fish for more sales.

He definitely is. The developers definitely should get paid 20% of their asking price for free downloads because some people think that's what happens. Amazon should definitely be responsible of their perception in the eyes of a few niave developers.

Nobody would buy an app from a developer who did this.

I don't know, but hear it is.

What a joke. No wonder this game is taking so long to release. Creating a global marketplace like this is a serious development effort. This isn't a game anymore.

obviously in such a small (in terms of computing in general) discipline, a general purpose language might not be the best. Now if you want to publish your results to AWS and a website and pull data from a website front-end, etc. You can probably do it quickest with ducttape.

Challenge accepted.

Interesting approach, but the problem here is Apple doesn't sell books on iPhone (or rather 3rd parties do and they don't do a very good job of it). This is more like a retroactive, me-to I want that market move. The Kindle app product is far superior for reading as I understand. If you're going to release a platform, you shouldn't be doing this kind of stuff. It's a similar situation as net-neutrality.

| If they have their own bookstore they're trying to run why should they enable a competitor's in their own home?

If Microsoft spent so much on R&D for Windows 95 and IE, why shouldn't they build it into the OS? Why shouldn't they lock down their APIs to make it difficult to make competing products inside their OS?

Really?

Did they hire Apple for this?

Did he ever manage to republish the articles? Doesn't look like it.

I also read the patents, and to me, it sounds like Apple has patented both the smart phone, and applications that use a network.

You can use the web player through safari.

I think it's generally accepted at this point that the WSJ has become the conservative mouthpiece of Murdoch since it's acqusition in 2007.

Circle jerk reddit posts on HN?

You are delusional. any data? Facebook doesn't sell any user data? Not only do they sell user metrics, they sell actuall user generated content.

There is a lot of things that Facebook won't do that Google+ can do. The reason managing friends lists in Facebook is so god-awfull is because Facebook wants it to be. There is also several other interface eccentricities put there to make the site harder to use in certain ways. The reason for this is to protect their user data and make it hard to corrupt or hide it and make it easy to expose it and add to it.

The bottom line is Google+ will probably serve ads programmatically, leveraging AdWords and other similar automated technolgies within the company. Facebook has nothing like this, it sells its user data to 3rd parties who could be doing anything with that data.

Ok, because the implied situation in the article is the LightSquared is pooping all over the GPS spectrum and then selling licences to manufactures for their spiffy new GPS service which happens to work much better than old GPS now.

All of the above, plus a couple of more. (Do SQL-ish caches count? no matter still a few more)

That's my entire point though! They seem to think that they are a "utility" that deserves a "natural monopoly" status, in the meantime, they continue to inovate and compete, often unfairly, to both taxpayers and buisnesses.

WebOS/Palm/HP did a very good job of this. WebOS was far more productive than iPhone at the time. Nobody would have known though because it wasn't Apple. It came on cheaply made devices and had a skunkworks feel to it.

That's not the whole point of an array, an array also has practical uses!

lol football

IMHO, they should just get out of the media game and focus on their network as a service. If they are going to play the "natural monopoly" card then they need to act like it and not be buying up media outlets. It's incredible that nobody call them on this (particular) bullshit.

I reciently had cable installed in my apartment just for internet. I previously did not need internet because WiFi is available almost everywhere in my city and I can teather to my cellphone when I can't connect otherhow. In fact, the only reason I got cable internet was for torrents, streaming (netflix and hulu) and gaming. I had no TV or internet in my residence prior.

Apple R&D: finding exactly what they're looking for since 1989

Building a datacenter doesn't make you a datacenter expert. I'm not saying that Apple can't do it, just that they're not going to be able to do it as well as Windows or Amazon.