I assume he's referring to this

I think they went wrong blaming the price raise on DVDs, and giving a completely bizarre narrative of how the prices changed. They claimed that most people were getting DVDs for $2 and that wasn't enough money, but most of their longtime subscribers had instead had streaming tacked onto their account for $2 (after it had been tacked on for free just prior to that). If they had just said this it would have been better: "First we gave you streaming for free while we built our library. Then we bumped that up to $2 on DVD accounts to pay for the improvements that we made to the library. Now we're bumping it to $8 to pay for the improvements that we've made since then. We realize that some DVD subscribers aren't going to want to pay for both features, so we're making them separate charges so that you can sign up for either or both."

P.S. I'm pretty sure this is the first time that TFA linked to on Slashdot was a podcast with no transcript, and I'm hoping it's also the last time

At last we'll have these in the EBook format that George Lucas always intended

USA Network does a 30-day wait on every episode past the first 2 of the season. It makes it annoying for someone to watch a series exclusively on the web, because their windows for taking down content aren't nearly as long

That's the point. People assumed that she was using this outside email service to avoid having her conversations archived, so they are anticipating finding something in the emails that she didn't want made public. Still, since 4% of the emails weren't released, even if nothing is found in this 96% people will wonder about the rest.

It was also possible for people to be investigated by PI's and have their character assassinated by too-freely-shared pictures before Facebook

That doesn't have the list of apps either. The internet is broken.

Well, if they make it so that the penalty for giving the wrong answer to "What is your favorite color?" is being thrown off a bridge I imagine you wouldn't want to go around guessing other people's answers to get into their account

For the record Netflix had a Flash player first, and then they moved from there to Silverlight. So it's possible that they knew something that you don't

The 10 Windows Phone ads that I see on my TV every day as well as an advertising intro to seemingly every single Flash video player on the internet would disagree with your assessment that Windows Phones aren't being marketed. Apple advertises a ton as always (though more often for iPads these days), but the Windows Phone ad budget seems to dwarf the combined Android marketing of all the carriers and handset makers.

I think SOE did enough damage to the people who played SWG without also losing their credit cards 5 years later

Because they will make it so that if you already do use an iOS device that you CAN'T use the Amazon or Google products on them. There is no Amazon MP3 store app for the iPhone right now for instance. That didn't matter as much when they were just selling song downloads that you could then transfer to iTunes on your computer, but if we're talking about streaming features you'd really need the actual app installed on your device (technically they could make it a mobile web app, but those never seem to work as well). So now you've got an open music store, but you can't put it on your closed device that happens to have a huge install base. That's not entirely different than where we were at with iTunes DRM versus Microsoft's DRM "that can play on any device except iPods", though they don't have quite as much of a market lead as they did back then.

I think it's because they use the exact same marketing-speak when they add something that actually is new and interesting as they use when they add something that isn't novel at all, like cut-and-paste. No, I don't expect them to say "this is really boring, it's cut and paste", but maybe they could just say "we have cut and paste now" or add it in a bullet point somewhere and leave it at that (AND they use this same lavish praise to describe features that they previously described as worthless and unnecessary when they didn't have them). Most companies have lists of standard features that are beneath discussion and spend their time talking about the ones that are, but Apple seems to require 5 paragraphs of praise for each and every aspect of their products.

That external antenna that everyone was raving about on the iPhone 4 is a good example of this too. Maybe if they weren't talking about how amazing it was to have an external antenna when that fact looked completely meaningless, then people wouldn't have jumped all over them when it became clear that having an external antenna was a really bad idea.

Wasn't there actually a cap on the number of cars that could be imported to the US from Japan, whereas there was no cap on truck imports? I thought the rise of small SUVs like the Suzuki Samurai was partly because they could be shipped to the US without a back seat, and since that made them a "truck" they didn't count against the cap. They'd throw a seat in it when it got over here and sell it as a passenger vehicle, but it was imported as a truck

I would consider "I won't use an app with ads" an unreasonable requirement, but it's obviously something that you're passionate about so I'll say to each his own. The problem is that if 99% of the market doesn't feel the same way that you do, then it's likely that you might not be able to find a single app in a category that fits your needs. Angry Birds has about a billion competitors though, so I think that's something different than what I'm talking about.

My problem is when I see apps like this or this that are obviously over-reaching. I don't think that it's just the case that most people don't look at the permissions of apps they're installing, though I do think that is part of the problem. I think that permissions of apps that the maker knows will come pre-installed on phones quite often have these crazy permissions (since the user didn't do the first install they didn't read it), and I think that there are also categories of apps where there are few competitors where they've essentially all agreed to ask for too much because like I said the "nuclear option" of not installing any app from an entire category is rarely taken.