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”The Mac has prospered because of quality. Both in terms of Apple themselves and 3rd-parties. The iPhone is at a dangerous point right now. It’s on the verge of becoming commoditized and so is the 3rd-party software on it. And the VCs are right there behind this and will probably drive it if the market lets them.
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Appeals court deals severe blow to business method patents
Choice quotes:
In a 9-3 decision, the court placed new limits on “business method” patents not tied to any particular machine or physical transformation of matter.
and:
The court’s newfound skepticism about business method patents will almost certainly translate into increased scrutiny of software patents as well.
Finally, a glimmer of sense returns to our broken patent system.
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Shareholders join Obama on CEO pay - CNN
A runner-up for this headline was “Praise the heavens, reason may come to capitalism.”
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”I wasn’t working during this, but one partner was asked to cut out the bottom of a traveler. After she did that, they asked her to wear it on her head while standing outside screaming about the promotion. Holy god, I couldn’t get over that. We’re really expected to deal with so many customers who treat us with zero respect, and now someone’s being asked to wear a cardboard coffee box on our head?
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Obama’s first interview since being elected. Also the first time I’ve seen less buzz-speak, more real questions and answers. One of my favorite quotes is part of Obama’s observation on our energy problems:
This has been our pattern: we go from shock to trance. Oil prices go up, gas prices at the pump go up, everybody goes into a flurry of activity. And then the prices go back down, and suddenly we act like it’s not important, we start filling up our SUVs again, and we never make any progress. […] Now is the time to break it.
Obama isn’t kidding. According to Autoblog, $4 per gallon gas prices caused truck sales to drop below 10 percent of US vehicle sales in May and June, and SUVs were down to 1.9 percent of sales. Now that gas prices are back down around an average of $2.78 per gallon, trucks went back up to 14.1 percent, and SUVs are at 2.5. This country’s vehicle buyers have the attention span of a 6 year-old on his first trip to Disney World.
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Dear economists getting 15 min of fame on TV: pessimism about what’s going on isn’t a contest. Stop recklessly extend your predictions.
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”Top executives agreed to a series of pay restrictions, including canceling bonuses, as the troubled insurer struggles to stay afloat.
AIG limits CEO salary to $1 through 2009 - CNN Nov. 25, 2008
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Another $100 Million for Palm - GigaOM
A better headline: “Walking dead stumble across another $100 million, mistake it for brains.”
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Stocking hardware when games are bought online: why? - Ars Technica
Ben touches on an intriguing problem that could arise as soon as the Wii 2 and Playstation 4. Right now, manufacturers build consoles at a loss and make it up in the sales and fees for games and accessories. Retailers sell said consoles on razor-thin margins, which explains the popular bundle packages.
As game sales increasingly go digital (Exhibit A: Steam, WiiWare, XBLA), how do you motivate retailers to sell the next generation of consoles?
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"VIMEO shall be entitled to unrestricted use of any Submission for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the submitter."
This really bums me out. Vimeo’s site and player are gorgeous, and its video quality has always beat YouTube’s hands down. But this clause in Vimeo’s TOS goes over my line of legal tiptoeing into user hostility, and I have sadly closed my account.
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I bet this is one of the most significant reasons why Hulu wants to keep you watching in a browser instead of on a traditional TV, at least for now: Complete site takeover ads.
I love Hulu’s takeover ads. Can’t really do that with TV, can you?
Can’t do it on Boxee, either. Again, at least, for now.
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”Simon, along with everyone else who thinks online subscription fees can save the newspaper industry, is effectively arguing that the world will change to support newspapers. The truth is that newspapers must change to adapt to the world.
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”Perhaps Microsoft would do better to measure the efficacy of their ads by their effect on sales, rather than by the number of phone calls they prompt from Apple lawyers.
Daring Fireball: Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline
This isn’t the most exemplary quote, but regardless: find me someone to kill so that I may write pieces like this.
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”I suspect that almost every complaint people have about the App Store is related to the fact that Apple set it up practically overnight by the standards of a large software project. They’re making it up as the go along, and it shows.
Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog, Buzz Anderson replying to Daniel Jalkut’s App Store Mercenaries piece
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Midgets, they have night vision.
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