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Can we expect you to come back on Jan 1, 2026 and provide an update?

The Tesla Robotaxi seems similar to the prototype car without steering wheel or brake pedals that Google announced (or demoed?) in 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/technolo…

WhatsApp uses the same growth hacks that Facebook (and Instagram) used to grow at all costs.

You don't need to personally know about the problems with Signal on Android -- just need to read the parent post thoroughly.

Knowing someone's phone number means you can reach them on WhatsApp. At least, that's true for 2B (out of 5B) of phone numbers, which is likely to be 1,000 times the number of RCS …

Can I opt out of all of these as well? Unfortunately, not very easily. With Google Photos, you can choose not to run the facial recognition tool on your own photos, but you can't c…

Is the expected outcome of these changes that most publishers migrate to Apple News instead of the web that's accessible via Mobile Safari?

Qualcomm has royalty caps for smartphones, tablets, and laptops: https://investor.qualcomm.com/static-files/f2a607b2-efed-424... [PDF] Quote: We broadly provide per unit royalty ca…

Qualcomm has royalty caps for smartphones, tablets, and laptops: https://investor.qualcomm.com/static-files/f2a607b2-efed-424... Quote: We broadly provide per unit royalty caps tha…

> If products and services from companies like Apple and Google are not available ... Products from Apple aren't available in China?! Hasn't Apple made billions of dollars in China…

I don't know about Play Store policies, but Apple's App Store definitely doesn't allow the app listing or the app itself to link to an external site for subscriptions or payment me…

Google Maps, Waze, and other third-party apps are finally coming to CarPlay: https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-carplay-ios-12-will-fina...

You can ask Alexa for a map to their house (as a follow up question after calling them)?

Is there any reason to believe that Apple would even have this setting, if Google stopped paying them billions? After all, there's no setting to use a different browser, maps app, …

I'd imagine that platform companies have greater obligations towards their developers.

Step 1: "the more consumers use a search engine" --> presumably because said consumers like the product (search engine) Step 2: "more attractive to advertisers" Step 3: "profits ge…

As the founder and CTO of Blekko search engine, one would imagine that you would be familiar with Google's personalized advertising policies: https://support.google.com/adwordspoli…

It's odd that you cut&pasted so many references to IAP, but totally missed the 2nd clause (immediately following the one about physical goods): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

Nope: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10429681

You left out the second clause: Developers offering products within another category of app downloaded from Google Play must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment…

Not the Asus Chromebox that uses Intel Core i7.

Have you tried creating a G+ Page?