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> how companies become corporations Aren't all companies corporations?
No, a corporation is a specific type of business arrangement. For example, you can have a limited liability company (LLC) that is wholly owned by an individual.
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And most consumers would much rather have either CarPlay or Android Auto than the crappy software that is made my the manufacturers.
Is that true? Not saying you are wrong but is it just an anecdote? I anecdotally know lots of people that just use their car GPS and don’t bother with CarPlay/AA
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And most consumers would much rather have either CarPlay or Android Auto than the crappy software that is made my the manufacturers.
... and yet car makers still feel obliged to provide turn-based navigation out of the box.
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> due to the amount of specialization I see high amount of specialization but only after onboarding and not asked of potential candidates. All we ask are capable software engineers, who we then train to be very specialized in what we do.
And out of the entire work force, what percentage do you consider to be capable software engineers? 5%? 1%?
But from my own observations, people who are genuinely interested usually become capable, anecdotally of course.
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There is an alternative to "wasting" money to give a second gold vein. You can just do the cash cow thing and then die. That's a totally reasonable. If TomTom don't think they can use the money better than other investment alternatives (that their investors have), then they shouldn't. Of course, politics and personal interests. But sometimes it's just better to allocate resources to something where they're better uti…
Has a CEO ever been hired to do this? I just don't see a business ever saying don't invest in us because there are better alternatives.
I used to work for TomTom maybe 10 years ago. I was there when Google started offering turn by turn navigation for free. Other issue was live traffic information. As you might imagine all this caused some concern among employees because that was, I think, the main source of revenue for the company. They were already doing some other stuff like fitness wearables but they didn't seem to be leaning into it. Main idea fo…
Interesting that going deeper integrated into cars was their game plan. I've never used our in-car GPS (other than playing with it once). If it was any good it has a ton of advantages over using Google, including display on the "speedometer" screen. Sadly, it's pants. It comically announces caution stationary traffic on the M25, generally after we've been stationary for 5 minutes. The navigation directions aren't as…
Maybe this is because I don't commute by car though. If I get stuck in traffic, it's the one time that month, and I've probably got a podcast on anyway.
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> For example ISP-level adblocking. Google could circumvent this if ISPs tried this. How would an ISP block ads coming in encrypted as normal content?
The same way as PiHole does. It's not hard to block Google adds on 3rd party sites with a DNS or IP-level block.
TomTom is such an interesting story in technology and finance. Went from zero to $ 10B+ between '05 - '07 [1]. Everyone you knew had one, used one, loved one. Then the sudden boom in mobile phones and mobile internet and the financial crisis. Total crash of the stock. Pretty much subsistence without any proper profits since '09-'10. Not enough IP to get bought, a few licensing deals here and there. Always falling rev…
As a marathon runner, I know TomTom mainly for its sports watches. But I feel they've been fading away slowly. Garmin is still the champion in that area, but both must be taking a hit with all the cheap chinese knock offs. At the end of the day, you don't even need a high end sports watch unless you're a high end athlete. Reliable location tracking and good battery life is all you need, every other information can be…
> Regrettably, this will have an intended impact This reads weird to me (non-native English speaker). How can you regrettably reach your intended impact? Is that some kind of an idiom?
1. If I could reverse time, I would decide differently getting a different outcome.
2. I am sad that this happens, but it is still the preferable outcome, compared to the alternative.
I think I 'default' to the first meaning. But in this case the second is probably more fitting.