There is no DRM in the hardware of the iPhone/iPad. It is absolutely no better than the worst Android device, and there are available cracks to rip Netflix streams on a jailbroken iOS device. However there is the…
I've spent somewhere in the range of $20 on various apps in the Android market. That includes one single game -- an okay racing game. Do I want to spend more? Absolutely (I spend an average $50 a month in Steam on the…
I personally used to use downvoting to sink comments that are of no particular interest to me, and to promote other branches of the thread that I'd like more people to look at and comment on. This is exactly what is…
QuickTime is terribly obsolete, joining the ranks of products like RealPlayer. It has no reason to exist in the modern platform. http://www.apple.com/ipad/guided-tours/ On h264/Ogg/webM capable browsers, I'm told to…
it's also worth remembering that for google you are the product (clicks) as well as the customer. There aren't many exceptions to this. It is certainly true of Apple, where you are a consumer of their platform, and a…
Especially in the case you've brought up here. Microsoft's financial might in the 90's was all about strategic relationships, three dimensional chess and out-maneuvering their competition, definitely not creating value…
I see you got downvoted. HN has descended into a pro-Apple prattle pit yet again, which is sad.
Apple makes massive profit margins by doing right by the customer (as they see it). Sure, and so does Microsoft. That argument works for any company. The problem is that many of Apple's transparent positions aren't held…
No silly holy wars or sanctimonious proclamations. I'm really torn trying to figure out which parts of your post is sarcasm. Because if you're really claiming that Apple hasn't pursued almost every initiative with…
? Not a fan of Flash, but video-playback is a very, very small part of the Flash platform (and even then it's often producer-friendly in the form of supporting extensive DRM for the illusion of content control), while…
I don't disagree with your observations about a pre-Gingerbread device, however it is remarkable how much 2.3 has improved. It is very competitive with the iPhone now from a spit and polish perspective, even on older…
In Sicily you fit perfectly in a category called "cowards" Weak. I read HN occasionally but haven't contributed in many months. I do pay attention to database theory / NoSQL stories, and I have noticed that you always…
While much is made about passwords being sent across the open net, almost every site short of banks allow you to reset a password with an email, which is a close to identical problem.
http://code.google.com/p/redis/ "Redis - A persistent key-value database" http://redis.io/ "Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store" I'm not sure what sort of extended commentary you expected about Redis - it…
There is no DRM in the hardware of the iPhone/iPad. It is absolutely no better than the worst Android device, and there are available cracks to rip Netflix streams on a jailbroken iOS device. However there is the…
I've spent somewhere in the range of $20 on various apps in the Android market. That includes one single game -- an okay racing game. Do I want to spend more? Absolutely (I spend an average $50 a month in Steam on the…
I personally used to use downvoting to sink comments that are of no particular interest to me, and to promote other branches of the thread that I'd like more people to look at and comment on. This is exactly what is…
QuickTime is terribly obsolete, joining the ranks of products like RealPlayer. It has no reason to exist in the modern platform. http://www.apple.com/ipad/guided-tours/ On h264/Ogg/webM capable browsers, I'm told to…
it's also worth remembering that for google you are the product (clicks) as well as the customer. There aren't many exceptions to this. It is certainly true of Apple, where you are a consumer of their platform, and a…
Especially in the case you've brought up here. Microsoft's financial might in the 90's was all about strategic relationships, three dimensional chess and out-maneuvering their competition, definitely not creating value…
I see you got downvoted. HN has descended into a pro-Apple prattle pit yet again, which is sad.
Apple makes massive profit margins by doing right by the customer (as they see it). Sure, and so does Microsoft. That argument works for any company. The problem is that many of Apple's transparent positions aren't held…
No silly holy wars or sanctimonious proclamations. I'm really torn trying to figure out which parts of your post is sarcasm. Because if you're really claiming that Apple hasn't pursued almost every initiative with…
? Not a fan of Flash, but video-playback is a very, very small part of the Flash platform (and even then it's often producer-friendly in the form of supporting extensive DRM for the illusion of content control), while…
I don't disagree with your observations about a pre-Gingerbread device, however it is remarkable how much 2.3 has improved. It is very competitive with the iPhone now from a spit and polish perspective, even on older…
In Sicily you fit perfectly in a category called "cowards" Weak. I read HN occasionally but haven't contributed in many months. I do pay attention to database theory / NoSQL stories, and I have noticed that you always…
While much is made about passwords being sent across the open net, almost every site short of banks allow you to reset a password with an email, which is a close to identical problem.
http://code.google.com/p/redis/ "Redis - A persistent key-value database" http://redis.io/ "Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store" I'm not sure what sort of extended commentary you expected about Redis - it…