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I would guess they have 95% of the 3D mobile games market now. And I didn't say they have additional responsibilities to the market at all. I was just making the case that to limit…

What I mean is that it is much more than "you may only use Objective C to develop on this device". You also haven't thought this through. It has many more long term implications th…

"I will use my operating system monopoly to put you out of business if you don't assist me in putting an unrelated competitor of ours out of business" is worse to you than "you may…

Isn't the radiation dangerous for small children? EDIT: whoa! I have been downvotted after asking if it is safe for children. So, here are some references. "Children have much thin…

People don't need to type the url. Wikipedia is already installed as a search engine on Firefox's search box (and maybe in IE?). Eventually users will learn to use it. Crome's omni…

Wikimedia is not only a non-profit, but also Google's more sucessful competitor in organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful, albeit with s…

"We've heard from lots of developers over the past two years who are excited to build on top of Kindle" So, why didn't they do nothing for two years? One week before Apple supposed…

Sorry. I thought the cheaper N1 was locked and under a contract. But apparently only the later is true.

That is why I said "would". I based my calculations on estimates. http://www.isuppli.com/News/Pages/New-iPhone-Carries-173-BOM...

"...Google looked... the way they were being sold (exclusive to specific carriers, and used to lock consumers in, just like all prior phones) and felt that it just wasn't doing the…

How do you go from a cost of $174 to an unsubsidized price of $529? How much does manufacturing cost?

And why don't they do the same with DNS queries? Quoting from the recently released public DNS service: "The temporary logs store the full IP address of the machine you're using...…

"Americans let the Patriot Act be passed into law, not Google. Stop blaming Google and start blaming your democratically elected government" Just like Google is putting their lobby…

Yes. When I write anything in Perl I frequently try to compact what would be several lines in just a few obscure expressions. But as the Freebsd security head, what do you do to un…

..until a big company acquires this new startup and kills their product again. This is one more problem with the cloud computing era. In the 90's, you could continue to use a produ…

It can be irrelevant after 8 years, but could be relevant for someone that could act on it at the moment it was captured. Maybe for some social engineering attack.

I see several YC startups in Google's collision path and for some time I have wondered if the advice of not competing with Google in things they are good at is valid. http://www.te…

YC is pretty recent and he did it in his forties. I was thinking about what he did when he was younger, just like the situation of someone that would apply to YC.

PG, please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.