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There's plenty of joking and 'it'll never work' here, but doesn't this worry anyone at all? A system that 'knows you better than you know yourself', means a system that is able to …

I don't see anyone saying it's not Google's right to do these things. People are simply saying that it looks as though Google is attacking Microsoft.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'keep the language in their own privileged domain' actually means, but I do agree that it is Apple's strategy to invest in Objective-C above other lan…

This seems like a long way of saying that you don't like Objective-C because it's not cross platform, and that you've decided instead to write all your mobile code in Lua and to ma…

It's not clear whether you are actually advocating this kind of interpretation of Ayn Rand's position or not. It seems to me that the principle of government being solely to protec…

Those are interesting pieces, and I feel as though my time was well spent reading them. I can't see what they have to do with this argument though. The first one is basically a spe…

I commend you for trying to offer an alternative, seriously! Google may not have hand curation, but they do use manual raters as one of their signals. It's also true that new conte…

I agree with you that Google should be free to have their own editorial voice, and it seems like a really bad idea for that to be interfered with directly by government. However, a…

Obviously people can argue for ever over the merits of one design decision over another but as someone who has programmed in Java for more than a decade, and has used Scala and Clo…

There obviously is a trade-off between the strength of the language and the number of people who will click through. Maybe, but I'm not arguing about the 'strength' of the language…

Presumably you don't judge my second suggestion 'mealy mouthed' otherwise you'd have quoted that instead. So even by your judgement of what is 'mealy mouthed', an effective and acc…

Nobody except you is suggesting a mealy-mouthed warning - that's a straw-man. An accurate and informative statement like: "Google's Scans detected malware , which is known to do ha…

The valid argument is that it's generally harder to convince people to pay for web content than it is for content on iOS where this product is already successful, presumably becaus…

Sorry, Android is controlled by a single company.

I doubt that would change things. iOS users are not price sensitive and Apple doesn't make any pretense that content is free. People who buy into the Apple world are choosing to bu…

It's not really my conclusion - it's the conclusion from the TWN piece. That said, even though it's not a controlled experiment, the fact that they didn't have feature parity doesn…

They offer an optional subscription through in-app purchase on iOS. I imagine they get a lot more support that way than they would if they put it on the web with a 'donate' button,…

They did put the effort in to overcome those issues, only to discover that for every 80 iOS users they had 1 Android user, so they concluded that continuing to do the work wasn't j…

Clearly you haven't thought this through. Security is sometimes a trade-off but in this case there is no trade-off involved. Google can just as easily block the malware without the…

I don't see how you reach that conclusion. Twitpic is part of the Twitter ecosystem and is such is certainly competitive with Google's social and photo sharing efforts (i.e. Google…

I doubt you'd consider it a "minor shortlived inconvenience" if Google informed millions of people that your business was a known distributor of malware. Google can perfectly well …

If that's what's happening here, then the warning seems good for everyone.. except that the wording is defamatory. Rather than accusing Twitpic of being "a known distributor of mal…

Google's "advice" in this case is a statement issued to millions of users accusing a competitor of a crime. If it turns out to be true, that's fine. If it's not true, don't you thi…

Have you actually looked a twitter page that uses Twitpic? The text Chrome produces reads: "Danger: Malware Ahead! Content from twitpic.com, a known malware distributor has been in…

It sounds as though you are now claiming that Google has already turned the Internet into a Walled Garden but are simply nicer in their policies than anyone else. This is the first…