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Comment Re:Comments on the browser itself? (Score 1) 415

It's like people have forgotten that they can actually poke around and figure things out for themselves. If it's not readily apparent, they assume it can't be done.

I think you got it wrong. The software should adjust to its users not the other way round. Even if you think that your users are lazy and not willing to invest few minutes of their time to learn the new great features you have for them then you should try to force yourself to listen to them. Because, well, otherwise they will just stop being interested in you at all. Well, in the end there will be an adjustment and Mozilla will have the sort of users it wants - somewhere around 5-10% market share would be my guess.

Comment Re:The problem is still "free trade", not regulati (Score 1) 138

It's ironic that a poster child of the right wing - free trade - has done more for re-distribution of wealth from rich to poor counties than all the socialist ideals put together.

It's not that much ironic as it redistributed wealth from the lower classes in the west. During the last 30 years real wages for middle and lower income workers stagnated. But the top 1% are making much more.

Comment Re:Sad, but interesting (Score 1) 227

Right, and it's much easier to do so when you control a huge percentage of the mobile space. Again, my post was wondering if Apple would be able to resist that temptation.

Well, in the past they did not accept into their store apps that offered alternative to they own products and services.

In the early days of its App Store, Apple rejected two Google applications - Voice and Latitude.

The company said that, in the case of Voice, it replicated one of the iPhone's core functions - something which broke the App Store's terms of use.

Apple's rules were later relaxed, following an investigation by the US Federal Communications Commission.

Source http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14027466

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