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Comment #47227689
I think you need to check your math there. 40 million devices in 2 billion is 2%. Not 0.001%
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Comment #47215792
A quick search resulted in this: "Android malware saw a 67% increase in 2025, with over 40 million downloads of malicious apps targeting banking and stealing data, frequently hidin…
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Comment #47215424
Still a bold move considering the increased malware on android devices vs ios. My parents would have their banking information stolen within 6 months
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Comment #43741777
.. or that other people on their network/Shared public IP have installed
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Comment #42571521
So it's basically like submitting an iOS app to the app store.
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Comment #42183763
Seems like the kind of advice that was true up until about 10 years ago
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Comment #41911819
Exactly
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Comment #41717444
Why are we assuming that this isn't a quality/comfortable wheelchair?
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Comment #40748012
Was this a Nyotaimori situation or did you mean "with my wife"
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Comment #40614900
71% of the US population is white. 34-40% of Harvard students are white. 26% of Stanford students are white. Yeah, sounds like a really valid conspiracy you have there
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Comment #40111372
A commendable operation but sadly, this is a very small fraction of a percentage of the 8-10 million tons of plastic entering the ocean each year. The Ocean Cleanup themselves have…
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Comment #39298037
This is what happens when content is curated for Google and not human beings
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Comment #39257768
I can't imagine how good it must feel to be able to blame all the worlds problems on one political party. Must be nice
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Comment #39024494
People seem to think that the customer exists because of the iPhone app store, when it's often usually the other way around. Other than a small handful of apps being promoted for f…
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Comment #38927153
I wouldn't read into it too much, this is what some of the best paid lawyers in the world cooked up to protect their client and par for the course
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Comment #38875683
Just read a great book about this - Apocalypse Never. It's mostly just alarmism and white guilt mongering.
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Comment #38869307
Absolutely! But most ICE vehicles people drive don’t get anywhere near that type of mileage because we tend to be buying much larger heavier cars. Hybrids help a lot of people get …
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Comment #38868331
I feel the same way and after speaking with many EV people i've realised the main benefit is how cheap they are to run. This comes down to the increase in efficiency compared to an…
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Comment #38665524
For truly wealthy people their time is incredibly valuable so spending time learning about a field they are not expert in is going to be more costlier than just going out and buyin…
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Comment #38624841
Average subscription length for most apps varies but the average is 3 months. Most people cancel within the first month no matter what the product is
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Comment #38611301
It's 30%. It's only 15% after 12 months of a customer rebilling which is statistically insignificant number, and it was only done as a carefully orchestrated PR move to make people…
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Comment #38232516
This is the problem with skipping through things like this - you missed the part about real world chrome performance. It’s okay to be happy with 8gb, but it doesn’t mean you are ri…