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beatle

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    Comment #3809038

    I’m kind of embarrassed to call myself a Venture Capitalist. In fact, most of us who call ourselves VCs should be too. Why? Because MOST of us are hypocrites, and have NO idea what…

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    Comment #3804955

    Not included in his update. 2010 GAAP 4th quarter Net income = $2.54 billion 2011 GAAP 4th quarter Net income = $2.71 billion or $170M growth in net income. But let's just forget a…

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    Comment #3803260

    a patent on homophobic encryption? patent lawyers are shameless!

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    Comment #3800241

    apps empower MILLIONS of users. "OS-level capabilities" empower a handful of developers/hackers/etc..

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    Comment #3799789

    The only joke here is Google.

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    Comment #3799752

    doesn't change the fact that Android is an inferior product.

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    Comment #3799685

    Driverless cars. Google Glasses. The CEO's job is to allocate resources to initiatives that will make the company money. NOT to fool around with worthless projects like driver less…

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    Comment #3799575

    >Android was purchased by Google two years prior to the release of iOS -Steve Jobs started planning the development of the iPhone in 2002. -Apple's collaboration with Motorola to p…

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    Comment #3799460

    >The physical form of that involvement may have changed, but that doesn't qualify Android as a "knee-jerk reaction". Android copying the iPhone's user interface, touch screen, form…

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    Comment #3798904

    Producing the best thing we possibly can for users is our paramount thing. I think we have demonstrated that over a very long period of time with a whole variety of different issue…

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    Comment #3794805

    Techies love to downplay the value of an MBA because they are insecure. Just because Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gates, Ellison, Page/Brin, etc. created world-class companies they think MBAs…

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    Comment #3793761

    here's a great comment from the original article: My take is that Android is an unmitigated disaster for Google. It could go down in history as an historic error as great or greate…

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    Comment #3774479

    ANOTHER knee-jerk reaction from Google. A product or service based on a reaction is driven by envy. not based on passion to innovate or the desire to provide a better service. it's…

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    Comment #3772389

    While Google's chief executive Larry Page recently described an $2.5 billion annual run rate for the company's mobile revenues, the company has testified that it has earned less th…

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    Comment #3771730

    Had over a dozen friends and relatives who went through the same thing. You may be interested in this. Daily Aspirin May Help Prevent and Treat Cancer http://www.nytimes.com/2012/0…

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    Comment #3757302

    it wouldn't even run on Android phones. from one of the comments. >i downloaded it 3 times, and it didn't even start at my lg p500 android 2.3.

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    Comment #3746439

    there is no way this is an accident. from the article: As it happens, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier in the day that the Securities Exchange Commission was investigating …

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    Comment #3745849

    >And how exactly does having a microkernel fix the problem of having a stable driver API? Drivers must be written to some framework. at this stage i will refer you to, ironically, …

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    Comment #3745762

    If you love your phone set it free. If it comes back to you, it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.

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    Comment #3745677

    Here's one for you genius. This would not be such a hard problem to solve on a Hybrid/microkernel OS. And you wonder why some Android devices don't get updates? The Android kernel …