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Comment · 4 years ago
They should have a separate tab for the two of them like YouTube has, I like being able to move quickly between the algorithmic recommended feed and the “subscribed to” one.
Comment · 5 years ago
The $77B didn't vanish, it went back to shareholders. Indeed Apple could have used it to fund fusion research, but this seems like a complete stretch of their expertise and capacity to execute on a project like that, the money could just have ended up being wasted on projects that went nowhere. Shareholders can cash out, the government tax the capital gains, and both entities can use the cash in the investments that seems worthy to them
Comment · 6 years ago
This doesn't work in practice, companies that aren't allowed to pay those ransoms usually use proxies (some other company that doesn't have to follow those restrictions) that will pay the hackers
Comment · 6 years ago
Apple Maps displaying stop signs and traffic lights is a killer feature for me. Made me switch from Gmaps.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
What I think he meant is that, most of the news website became slow and bad user experiences on mobile, pushing users to download wall-gardened native mobile news apps by established News Corporations to experience something fast and kind of pleasant. This is a problem for Google and for "freedom of speech", because you're not googling for news anymore, you go straight to your established news native application, preventing you to see other competing results (like blogs or smaller news websites for instance)

Pushing them to have cleaner and faster websites makes the user stay on the web. It is a clear benefit for Google, but to his point, to the user too. (At least that was the goal)

Comment · 7 years ago
I'm curious to know why and how you would enforce a patent like that if competition was using the same technique. Am I missing the point entirely? Is it just a mean to say "I got the idea first!"?
Comment · 9 years ago
I'd say Spotify, Skype and King (Candy Crush) are good examples. I'd count Mojang (Minecraft) too.
Comment · 9 years ago
If French cuisine is known as the best cuisine it's because of its gastronomy and its high-end restaurants! However when going to "regular" restaurants, Italy is simply the best.

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