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- "Interesting he feels so strongly about that... but then again, he always kinda does"

Exactly. This is why his review on it doesn't tell me much. He's been a constant cheerleader for services and products that, once I had the opportunity to try, left me at best unimpressed.

I think he just tries to love everything "new" for the sake of "new" and in hope that if something later catches on, he'll be seen as a pioneer and the force behind the adoption trend. Glass might be a great product, but from Scoble's experience is hard to tell.

I see a lot of anger in the comments, some of them questioning the practicality of it or the actual approach you'd use if money was an issue in your household.

The BBC didn't do this in order to educate people on how to eat cheap. This is just a flashy piece intended to provoke the "oh look how easy is to make something cheap look nice and healthy" reaction.

In that sense its similar to the "deconstructed McDonalds meals" by famous chefs or the "how to substitute x by y and make your children eat y" ones. No one who has to leave on £1 a day will look here for practical advice and discussing the practicality of it is, therefore, pointless.

It's easy to hate recruiters when the market works in your favor and demand for engineers is higher than availability. Everyone is trying to hire and now they seem redundant and unnecessary evil.

If the market cools down I bet most would feel lucky having a recruiter knocking on their door.

That doesn't mean its not a dick move. Especially considering the way it was phrased.

Again. I'm not saying that this is not something Pocket shouldn't do, just that in this case, and considering Marco's dedication to this, it's rude. But business is business, I get that.

Dick move and good-for-business moves aren't mutually exclusive.

We are not arguing that is a bad business tactic or that its not a good move if you want to attract customers. Just that it is a dick move.

It can be both a dick move AND a good boost for Pocket.

No, it's a royal dick move to announce it right when the competitor just switch hands, especially in this case when your competitor happens to be -up to this moment- an independent guy that has done this project for years on his own.

The service is not being terminated, that info has been posted for a long time... so again, unnecessary and unasked for. That's all.

I would have done the same as Marco. It was unasked for and unnecessary. Pocket is a great app but so its Instapaper and Marco has done a tremendous job over the years by keeping it in shape by himself (with exception of the Android app). This is a way on pissing all over the the efforts of a independent developer. Just because.

"In real life, the range would be limited depending on the antennas used (if going directly for the plane), or global (if misusing one of the two big ACARS players such as SITA or ARINC)"

It seems to me that the article has a lot of "in real life" caveats. Theres a lot of elements that have to be in place in order for an attack like this to work, beginning with the fact that the attacker would need a powerful, very specific transmitter for the ACARS frequencies.

The way I see it this look more of a publicity stunt than anything else.

Are you visiting the site from US, EU...? My experience is the opposite also. Youtube experience is good, but Vimeo doesn't show any buffering problems and bandwidth seems fine.

The last think I'd want is for Google to buy them, honestly. I think its good for everyone that theres an alternative platform to Youtube that revolves around a different style of videos.

Like you say: IF

Google glasses seems to me like an ill fitted concept. It's expensive and you need to wear it constantly. A watch is more discreet and doesn't create that feeling of "I'm being filmed by that person" on those around you.

I'm not sure the watch is a great device for everyone but I think it's a more realistic wearable companion for the phone than Google glasses.

Don't take me wrong. I think technically Google glasses are an interesting engineering endeavor. It's just that I see limited appeal to them.

A watch seems like a good logical step from the Nike Fuelband concept. Track my activity, sense what I'm doing and also display my texts or emails and incoming calls, maybe small maps or very targeted info.

It would be even funnier if competitions tart working on it and suddenly create a market for the device, even if it's small.

So the old saying goes that correlation does not imply causation. Why are spaniards, but no portuguese or italians or irish seeing this spike in bitcoin-related app downloads?

Theres a far more simple explanation that just sticking the "its Cyprus fault". Several popular spanish blogs and newspapers have run big stories about Bitcoin recently (Xataka, El Mundo...). That probably has sparked curiosity among spaniards on the Bitcoin phenomenon. Simple as that.

A lot of people would argue you that, yes, its still widely used. In my experience not so much and its disappearing so quickly that they could have got away with some kind of HDMI + an adapter included on the box. IMHO they should have made the sacrifice.

I'm not the OP but I was in the show and was able to use them after it finished. Yes its a nice phone but in comparison with other phones out there (HTC One, Xperia Z, even the iPhone 5) the S4 looks cheap. Its the product of "lets see what we can stuff in there, the more the better".

The testing conditions weren't ideal but half of the features (translation, scrolling without touch, etc...) are still half-baked, or they definitely look like they are. And Touchwiz as UI seems really bad now that stock Android has become so appealing in design.

So yeah, its a really powerful phone with good potential ideas but the package, looked as a whole, looks cheap.

A lot of security falls into that "firehose" analogy. Your door lock is relatively trivial to brute-force. What is preventing thieves from entering your house is that you live surrounded by other targets.

Problem with the Glass approach is that we now require police to sit through videos, but eventually it will be easier to mine all the data with algorithms, especially if we get better at facial recognition, etc...

Personally, i don't mind a glass-pervasive society. I worry about the fact that all the data goes around a single company's infrastructure and the fact that, for this specific company, hardware is a commodity and data is what they are after.

Because its the only use case that will make sense at the beginning. These videos look interesting but they are staged, no matter how casual de look is.

As of this moment, Google Glass is just a glorified wireless webcam. It might turn into something more than that in the future, no doubt, and I'm hopeful like you are that it will, but for the first generations what you are going to see is a lot of people using them in extreme sports to film POV activities and sharing them on Youtube. Nothing more.

Even if it's not only voice controlled theres no discreet-email-checking use case in social situations. Have you ever tried to talk to a person who is constantly looking away, even if his head still points to you?

I think in 2006 the answer would have been different.

I don't think that's true, especially in the last years. Quite the opposite. Every product launch is surrounded by a "Why this will fail" article and every single problem with a product gets magnified to extreme lengths. Apple doesn't get hype anymore or at least it doesn't get the positive hype people tend to associate with the company.

Regarding the topic. Hey, feel free to to comment what you you want about the article, thats what comments are for. This is a side topic on this case. I think it's a good observation. Of course this is not what the case is about but its a related item and therefore it seems logical to bring it up.

Read the update on the post. They are still DRM-free. Just a different file extension(.m4p instead of .m4a to distinguish them from tracks that can be sold individually).

Did your original Project (and the pop charger people pay for) contemplate the use of a lightning port? It didn't. Then why cancel the project when you cannot add it?

Even if you are not allowed to use the 30 pin... Why don't you just use an USB port on the device?

Or just avoid the "Made for iPhone" sticker. I have plenty if iPhone accessories that aren't certified but work nonetheless.

This is linkbaiting at its best.

Groklaw is arguing that he cannot find the actual phrase that the media used over and over again in the documents but the jurors didn't decide on the case over that phrase (I'm not getting into the actual verdict or my personal opinion on it), nor they decided according to what the media said on those days.

They did based on what Apple and Samsung attorneys argued on the trial, and they both presented a lot of evidence to make their own case.

Whats more, even Groklaw admits "I didn't grab all the exhibits, simply because it got incredibly expensive. But I have almost all of them, certainly the ones that seemed most interesting".

Id admire that he is willing to sit through the paperwork but this is beyond pointless. If something was said that was not on the evidence records and somehow misrepresent the situation I'd assume that Samsung lawyers would jump on it. Same for Apple.

If Groklaw is making the case that the media did a poor job and started using and reusing a phrase that was not on the records, well, thats a problem for the media but not, as CNET suggests, a problem with the veredict itself.

Seems to be working OK for me.

They had to if they considered that what Google was asking was unreasonable. For all we now Google might have asked for things Apple was not comfortable giving them, starting with user data and all the way up to co-branding.

Reminds me of CocoonJS (basically the same idea, also support for Android but closed source).

https://vimeo.com/45506217

Neat in any case. Looks like a nice implementation.

I don't want to end up being the one defending the quality of iOS maps. I've been using it since iOS6 beta 1. There's been a lot of progress and other than the fun mishaps we are reading now, they are functional.

Are they as good as Google? Not even close, especially when trying to search for something specific (I think the dataset is not the problem, the search engine is). But I also wouldn't say that the product is not on a reasonable shape. It's comparable in accuracy with other maps solutions out there.

And we seem to be forgetting that Google Maps come with errors and funny gaffes as well:

http://www.cio.com/article/686778/6_Memorable_Google_Maps_Mi...

They are just the standard, the bar we measure any other map service against. And thats good, because they are really fantastic, but I think it would be naive to expect Apple to launch something of that level of quality in the first attempt.

I will call it a patent war, not a jihad (I'm tired of reading religious analogies attached to technology, they are an easy trick to perform on the readers mind)

And, you know, there are PLENTY of companies involved in patent wars and we don't routinely position them on the "obsessed against their competition" category. They are just litigious. In some of the examples you mention the Android manufacturers are the ones suing Apple, not the other way around. Are they "obsessed" with Apple?. Are they carrying a jihad against Cupertino, as well?

Here we go again. Other than Jobs tantrum in his book and countless of headlines and blog post, where is this fantastic "jihad"? I see the same level of love/hate between Apple and Google than between Microsoft/Google or Google/Amazon. We just overanalyze it to disturbing extremes, but thats about it.

I'm afraid the obsession is not on Apple over Google but on the media and blogs over Apple and every single thing they do. Of course Apple will watch its competitor closely, especially since both are now headed in same direction. And of course they need competing services.

Likewise, I'm sure that Google is watching closely every move Apple makes. But nobody in their right mind would say Google has an "obsession" with Apple.

This map thing is a fun anecdote, but I'm not sure how big of a deal it really is. And yes, the maps are worse than the ones Google has develop for the past 7 years -it was to be expected- but Apple didn't have much room for movement here. If you cannot go forward on the current path, and standing still is not an option, the only possible move is take a step back and find a new route. Simple as that. Painful, sure, but it had to be done sooner or later.

I really like how you sickness on the subject leads to the most passive-aggressive and condescending statement in just one sentence. I'd love to see the patent system changed but I think it's about time we stop thinking Apple customers are fanboys (and that there are "millions" of them) or that everyone else's are not.

Regarding Washington, last time I check Apple was not even close to be the company that invest more money in lobbying. I don't know what is your base for "rather well connected" but if you have any evidence on this, it will be great to know.

Id argue that there is a difference of intent in these two cases. Nokia is deceiving customers about a specific function or capability (camera) while Apple is just showing a promotional video of the device as a whole. Both cases are reprehensible, no doubt, but maybe I'm the only one who think that Nokia has gone a little too far.

Lets think of these in terms of food. Its not the same to show a "perfect Big Mac" in and ad than it is to show a Big Mac thats made with completely different ingredients of the ones you'll find when you order one.